UK Politics Thread (Part 2)

Read the article, this is lunacy. The EU is doing something similar as well.

Perhaps the ones better versed in this like @Arminius can correct me, but from articles I’ve read like this, it mainly affects older facilities, and would impede their ability to invest on maintenance/upgrades?

That’s why I said earlier that this party, or at least the part represented by that asshole, shouldn’t be called conservative anymore. They are anything but conservative.

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I would guess its been tradional since devolution for PM to makes those calls upon taking up the role.

https://twitter.com/GillibrandPeter/status/1578399121278488577?t=AIiQNdSyQygg-yOF8M8oOA&s=19

Instead since leadership campaign Truss has been talking negatively about Sturgeon and her Welsh equivalent and has continued doing so since taking office.

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I wonder if neo libertarian wiffle waffle is apt (perhaps a little kind?).

At least she’s talking about them,she hasn’t even mentioned Michelle O’Neill.

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How many PMs must the Tories let down, before they take a good look at themselves?
I mean they elected her weeks ago…sorry, but I find this baffling.

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Quite amusing in some ways. They’ve spent years selling “their stuff” to their supporters only to find that those supporters have continued on that same path to vote for Truss while they were hoping for something a tad more sensible perhaps.

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There are two fundamental problems here:

  1. The First Past The Post system, which is an anachronism

  2. The fact that, for several decades, people have been taught to repeat and not to think.

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Vote for us, we’re great, we just keep electing the wrong leaders. :man_shrugging:

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Someone mentioned above (we all know the drill of the media etc) that the Tories will wait for things to pick up in say a year before the scheduled election, and then start looking for things to attack labour, if al Jazeera has this going about starmers labour, you can guarantee the British press probably have this and more just waiting to be printed in the coming year

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I’m not 100% sure about this whole kerfuffle.

Firstly, I skimmed through the article, and it was conspicuously lacking in any form of perspective from anyone who didn’t have an axe to grind after being sidelined.

Secondly, that website just reads like conspiracy nutcase central.

There might be merit to some of the claims, but to claim that they are authoritative is a huge stretch.

Plus the supposed content of the article would probably endear Labour to the Tory voters anyway.

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Indeed. If you are going to call Keir Starmer ‘Keith’ and the very start, you can’t claim any kind of credibility.

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Our next PM?

jimmy fallon celebs GIF

Or is it

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Cheggers is dead.

Still a better choice than Truss.

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I did not know that.

I shall file in the useless info box in my head for future use.

:+1:

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Cheggers went pop.

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