UK Politics Thread (Part 3)

Part One: Rishi is a useless shite.

The logical Part Two: Boris is equal parts Jesus, Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela.

Part Three will be about the book.

Corrupt sex offenders making ā€˜aptā€™ comments really is taking the though isnā€™t it?

Indeed.

When the Met rightly has the moral high ground in a debate, you have already lost.

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FMD

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I remember when our esteemed friend was looking forward to ā€˜Dishy Rishiā€™ getting everything under control.

He has absolutely fucked it. He canā€™t sack her because it would look like a terrible error of judgement to reappoint her (six days after being sacked for breaching the ministerial code), and because heā€™s scared of opposing the ERG. He canā€™t keep her because sheā€™s clearly a fucking nutcase, sheā€™s openly and actively defying his leadership, and it looks incredibly weak not to.

We might end up with a Spring GE after all. There are probably now a lot of Toryā€™s just want it over with.

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Letā€™s face it his cabinet was made up by a president not a prime minister (so not Fishy).
Who in their craziest nightmares would have Nasty Mad Woman and Big Fā€¦ H(cunt) in their cabinet if it was not forced on them from some ā€˜biggerā€™ entity.
Reminds me of Bourne (or what ever her damn name is) and Darmanin, it just clarified how weak she is and her eagerness to be a yes sir stooge.

Doubt it.

Theyā€™ll want to cling on as long as possible in order to hope that the economy shows some signs of recovery and to allow the rightwing media more time to do its hatchet job on Labour.

And to maximise their time to line their own pockets, of course.

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Their leader is managing that all by himself lately.

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Compared to his predecessors, he has. Very well too. The fact heā€™s shit scared of sacking this weekā€™s utter blert because a, sheā€™s a woman and b, sheā€™s not white is surely in keeping with the Labour playbook. A proper tory would have sacked her instantly.

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What do you find amusing? That heā€™s better than the recent muppets? That heā€™s scared of sacking her for lefty reasons?

If you think heā€™s scared of sacking her for ā€˜leftyā€™ reasons, thatā€™s she is a woman of colour, you have taken leave of your sense.

He is scared of sacking her because she is the Darling of the right of the party, and Sunak has to keep them onboard.

On Sunak, Iā€™ll give you that he is better than Truss or Johnson. In that he isnā€™t a narcissistic, inveterate liar, or a fucking cabbage. Thatā€™s how low the bar is. But he is vastly out of his depth. Horribly so. Just like when he was chancellor, and encouraged people to go out for dinner and accidentally ended up killing thousands of people. The fact that Braverman can throw her weight around and act to the very opposite of her brief (ie keeping public order), risking the lives of the police, stoking tensions and inflaming far right knuckle heads is very much because he is a frightening weak PM. He isnā€™t even in charge, is he. Suella de Ville is obviously calling the shots.

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Well I guess having a woman in charge (and one who isnā€™t white) would again be utterly against the left.

Day one, within the first few minutesā€¦ā€¦.

It feels a bit like race and gender cards are being played, and I donā€™t think thatā€™s what it is for the Prime Minister. Braverman represents an extremist part of the Tory voters, and he is afraid of sacking her for those reasons, not because she is a woman of color.

My take is that it is a more genteel version of politicians here in America being scared of Trumpā€™s base. The politicians can see that Trump is a wrong un, much as Iā€™m sure the Prime Minister can see Suella is plumbing the depths, but he is scared to touch her because of who she represents, and even if he doesnā€™t especially like them, he needs them, and he needs to try to keep the party together to give them any sort of chance in a GE. I donā€™t think they have a chance of winning that, at this stage, but with enough smearing of Labour along the way they may get more seats than many might expect.

As for Sunak being better than Johnson or Truss, thatā€™s not much of an endorsement!

To my mind he is a weak leader. Good leaders do the right thing. Bad leaders look around to see which way the wind is blowing and lack conviction.

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Canā€™t wait to see you making a fool of yourself again.

Suella sacked!

Just reported by Chris Mason on Radio 4.

Good fucking riddance.

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On Sky now

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Canā€™t wait for you threatening to ban me for stating facts. Once the boot is on the other foot, how long till it kicks?

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I think Sunak has wimped out by doing this as part of a reshuffle. He really should have singled her out and made an example of her. A Home Secretary that tries to incite violence against the police? Itā€™s beyond satire.

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