Not a good time for the Conservative government in the UK
So Sir Jacob, Nadine Dorres and others have been accused by the committee investigating Partygate of interfering in the investigation. There will be a parliamentary vote early July.
Meanwhile the government’s Ruanda deal has been pronounced illegal by the courts. I almost feel sorry for Rishi
Meanwhile the government’s Ruanda deal has been pronounced illegal by the courts. I almost feel sorry for Rishi
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How sad.
Never mind.
I don't. He can stop it any time he likes by going to the King and asking him for a dissolution.
Declaration of interest: I started the Thatcher era in 1979 as a £4,000 pa sums teacher and ended it in 1980 as a database analyst who could name my own fee. Riding the tide of the IT boom though, not a miner or a steelworker.
I doubt if that claim could be substantiated, although no doubt a sizeable number of racists, swivel-eyed loons, and the lackwits who read the Daily Wail, might approve of her plan.
As to Mad Nad, and Cur Jacob Greasy-Dog, it is devoutly to be hoped that they slither under the stones of history very soon.
Feel sorry for Rish!? I don't think so - he wanted the job, let him get on with it.
As for Smog and Mad Nad - the sooner we see the back of them the better.
* probably most of it well out of the reach of His Majesty's Revenue & Customs.
What is really disturbing is the government's apparent willingness to disregard law in the name of fulfilling its evil plans.
Judge: Your plan to send people to Rwanda is cruel, and wrong, and unlawful.
Cruella: Sod you, we'll withdraw from the European Court of Human Rights, and do as we fucking well please. Who is going to stop us? Who cares about human rights? It's the Will Of The People. Mwahahahaha...
European convention on human rights I meant...
After his being mentioned in the Privileges Committee report, it lets the PM off having to decide whether to sack him, and as he's a peer, there's no risk of his resigning from the Commons and stimulating a by-election.
From the Guardian:
Zac Goldsmith has resigned as a minister, accusing Rishi Sunak of being “simply uninterested” in the environment – less than 24 hours after he was criticised by the privileges committee for undermining its inquiry into Boris Johnson.
Rish! responds, in typical Yah Boo! fashion, that Goldsmith has resigned because he was criticised for being insulting about the Partygate committee.
*sigh*
Wouldn't be it nice to have some grown-ups running the country?
It would. Unfortunately the other option are a bunch of control freak cowards who last had an original thought between them in 1994. Better, but not by much.
Speak of the devil:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/30/compass-chief-says-labour-has-expelled-him-and-attacks-party-tyranny
Not just the left they're after now, it's anyone who expresses a different view, even when it's stating the bleeding obvious like supporting tactical voting.
Scroll down to the results for 'St Mary's' here and see why one person in particular may be highly sensitive about calls for an progressive alliance in Oxford.
Ha ha ha! Fucking Akehurst again.
I actually find it relatively easy to believe that Johnson was more interested in climate change than Sunak - even if only because of the influence on the former of his wife on the subject.
Sunak, on the other hand, is an out and out Treasury man, and the Treasury's man.
I mean, I wouldn't vote for either of them, but...
My old ward. As an actual working adult, not a student. Hahahahaha.
Is that the carroty-haired twit Luke Akehurst from Bristol University that I once met when both of us were seeking a hopeless Labour nomination in Clifton ward years ago? Who later turned up in London as the anti-anybody to the left of Attila the Hun enforcer for the Labour Party? I do believe it is. I wonder why he skulked off to Oxford? That was asking for trouble.
Sounds like the one. No idea what the fuck he is doing in the Labour Party to begin with.
a very cold fire engine?
I seem to recall his face goes a sort of gammony-red when he gets going.
I believe that's a canadianism? Coined by a political scientist named Gad Horowitz in the 1960s. The older British term is One Nation Conservatism, associated originally with Disraeli.
Though, sure, "Red Tory" might have sailed across the Atlantic and domesticated itself into UK terminology.
I've no issue with Braverman being tory leader, so long as it is after the next election.
Most people can see through this nonsense, apart from the swivel-eyed loons who are promoting it, along with the reader of the Daily Wail and the couple who watch GBNews...
AIUI there are a couple of dozen lackwitted fucktard MPs who have come up with this spiffing wheeze - not enough to have any real effect (one hopes) but yet another headache for poor little Wishi Rish!...
If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a nation shooting itself in the foot, forever.
Ah - OK.
I must admit that I hadn't realised this, so please accept my apologies (@KarlLB, too).
My bad.
This is the problem - any solution to the social care crisis is unacceptable to them.
People from abroad? We voted leave to keep them out - willovdapeeple.
Increase wages? Absurd. They should be grateful to have a job at all.
No doubt they will find some malevolent entity as their Leader, with Cruella being the favourite, I suspect.
(BTW, a writer in the Guardian recently observed that the only people to be flown to Rwanda so far have been Cruella and her bodyguards...
Pity they flew them back again.
Their proposed solution is generally to reduce unemployment benefits so that social care wages become more appealing in comparison.
Ah, "less eligibility", our old enemy.
Social care people will not. The unemployed will not. NHS workers will not. So he won't help them.
Because he is, undeniably, a piece of corrupt, foetid shit. Like the rest of his party.
There is a place in hell for them all.
They are not even proper Tories. I have worked alongside many Tories in days gone by, including politicians, and they were nothing like this lot. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that many of them were rational human beings with a genuine devotion to public service. Not the least like this bunch of corrupt, walking haemorrhoids.