UK Politics Thread (Part 3)

You mean like the Glazers’ supposed lack of money to pay ten Hag off to sack him?

Depends if there’s snot stains on it or not.

Properly evil.

I find it hard that she’s acting outside of instruction here.

You don’t appoint a character like Braverman in full knowledge of what comes with her unless you’re ready to go with it.

I’m posting this here instead of the Middle East thread :palestinian_territories:

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I’m not sure about Murdoch so much as the actual UK government trying to instigate violence.

I don’t think they need to try these days as there is usually a rent-a-mob of hooligans that are attracted to these sort of things. I suspect that’s what the police are concerned about.

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Sunak would absolutely love to get rid of her, and there is some suggestion that her recent behaviour is to try and goad him into sacking her, so she can position herself for a leadership bid next year.

She is the ERGs stooge at the big table. Sunak isn’t so shit he wouldn’t willingly appoint a Home Secretary who was sacked a week earlier for breaching the Ministerial Code. I suspect it was a bit of a test to see how far they could push him.

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It’s a fairly open secret that Sunak was told that he would be reappointing Cruella if he wanted an unopposed procession to number ten

(from PolicyMogul)

Personally I blame Emily Thornberry for this disastrous state of affairs.

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In all seriousness she does share some of the blame. Instead of opposing war crimes in Gaza she stood with the government and supported them from the outset. Now Israel are out of control and Labour can’t restrict their initial position

It seems like it is not out of the realm of possibility that this could rip the Labour Party apart, holing Starmer below the waterline. There are rumours of a significant number of frontbenchers considering stepping away.

If that does happen, the blame will lie squarely with Starmer. He should have spoken out against the Israeli atrocities from the start, while also denouncing Hamas.

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I said that here the day after he gave that radio interview. There must be a lot of people feeling really conflicted, not wanting to vote for a party supporting war crimes, but the alternative of more years of the Tories is unthinkable

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I think this must also parallel the Corbyn split which has been festering, but this time that element of Labour is on far better grounds to fight over the issue than it was.

It is the kind of thing that loses elections - those voters won’t vote for Sunak, but they won’t be motivated either.

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https://twitter.com/AndrewMarr9/status/1722655805265076407?t=o-6Aupc-hsFG2karZs2XOQ&s=19

Ah so that’s her angle.

So it looks like H(c)unt vs Cruella next year after Fishy Rishi gets the boot.

What about Lizz the Lettuce :leafy_green:

Nah, Liz Untrusted is old news. I can’t see the tories making that level of mistake again, especially so soon.

I think he was asking about the lettuce

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was the lettuce called Lizz as well?