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Straws, clutching.
You are the weakest link, goodbye.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
@majorrage said in British Politics:
This really got me thinking.
I'm firmly in the fuck off forever, you made your bed now lie in it, brigade. However, if the leopard has changed her spots, then she's got quite a good point.
Her journey from supporting ISIS and beheading people to becoming a passionate advocate of preventing people becoming terrorists seems to parallel the collapse of ISIS, her journey to the refugee camp and her attempts to return to the UK. Quite remarkable, really.
No need for her to return. if needs be, just send someone over to her camp to interview her and find out why she turned to ISIS,
She has a point though that she must have some serious knowledge which could help with the war on terror.
Yep, after all that was the argument used to rehome all those Nazis at the end of WW2
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Putting party politics aside, I can't think of a better example of the worst in British politics - hypocrisy, lies and money-grubbing mendacity.
https://order-order.com/2022/01/27/ed-daveys-high-flying-hypocrisy-over-trusss-aussie-flight/
"As Ed Davey joins the ranks on Twitter attacking Liz Truss for flying on a private (actually government) plane – apparently she’s “woefully out of touch” – Guido reminds eco-Davey to check his own baggage before getting too excited. As Guido reported back in 2020, Davey has pocketed thousands from a couple who make their money from renting out 23,000 private jet flights a year. In 2020 alone, Chris and Tina Leach, owners of the private jet rental company Air Charter, put £16,500 into Davey’s coffers ahead of his leadership campaign."
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Analysis of Conservative factions
Telegraph is very "bipolar" recently on Johnson, full of mood swings - but this was a decent analysis on the internal factions behind the scenes
Hint: disable Javascript on your browser to read behind the paywall 😉 (or there are add-ons which do this per domain)
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@l_n_p said in British Politics:
Analysis of Conservative factions
Telegraph is very "bipolar" recently on Johnson, full of mood swings - but this was a decent analysis on the internal factions behind the scenes
Hint: disable Javascript on your browser to read behind the paywall 😉 (or there are add-ons which do this per domain)
They nicked my post of 3-4 days ago. Bastards.
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@majorrage said in British Politics:
On the plus side of Labour, they voted today 23-14 against Corbyn being allowed to rejoin the Labour party.
Starmer might be smarter than we think ... (doubt it though)
I think Starmer is smart and a decent man, just very remarkably uncharismatic and very technocratic. He wouldn't be the worst UK PM ever but is very, very difficult to get excited about. Sooner or later he is going to have enormous problems with the Labour left who remain loony but he will need their votes.
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@no-quarter Tim Shipman has quite the story in the Sunday Times. Officials stopped letting Johnson take intelligence-sensitive documents back up to the 10 Downing Street flat because they knew Carrie's other male pals had a key code and atmosphere was all a bit frat house up there. (Nudge, nudge)
Johnson survives as PM but the stories about the Downing Street parties and who Mr and Mrs Johnson were seeing in lockdown will run and run and run.................
The good news for Johnson is that the Grey Report is mostly a bubble/media story now, out of SW1 the rising cost of living, the imminent National Insurance and Corporation Tax, illegal immigration and getting public services back to normal are all a much bigger deal.
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@sparky said in British Politics:
I think Starmer is smart and a decent man,
He started off well (but that was in comparison to Corbyn) but for me he's progressively shown he's a bit clueless and out of his depth and comes across as slippery and dishonest - e.g. his Brexit policy.
And for someone who tells us he's a passionate fighter against anti-Semitism, he sure kept his head below the parapet when Corbyn was in charge - unlike other front-benchers.
Sooner or later he is going to have enormous problems with the Labour left who remain loony but he will need their votes.
Actually think he's done OK so far with his party. The loons seem be less prevalent and under control. His big problem may be what his economic policy is going to be. Fiscally, the country is in the shitter and he wants to increase public spending while cutting income tax and NI for the vast majority of taxpayers. The idea you can do this by just increasing tax on business, pension funds and landlords (which the Labour Left love) just isn't going to work.
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@sparky said in British Politics:
Tim Shipman has quite the story in the Sunday Times. Officials stopped letting Johnson take intelligence-sensitive documents back up to the 10 Downing Street flat because they knew Carrie's other male pals had a key code and atmosphere was all a bit frat house up there. (Nudge, nudge)
If I had a £1.00 for every Times/media story about Johnson.....
The funniest thing for me is how they now regard Cummings as the absolute arbiter of truth, when a year and a half ago, they were saying exactly the opposite.
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@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
@sparky said in British Politics:
Tim Shipman has quite the story in the Sunday Times. Officials stopped letting Johnson take intelligence-sensitive documents back up to the 10 Downing Street flat because they knew Carrie's other male pals had a key code and atmosphere was all a bit frat house up there. (Nudge, nudge)
If I had a £1.00 for every Times/media story about Johnson.....
The funniest thing for me is how they now regard Cummings as the absolute arbiter of truth, when a year and a half ago, they were saying exactly the opposite.
Why that shitweasel is even relevant beggars belief.
He has as much credibility as Begum.
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@victor-meldrew Labour will have unveiled some sort of wealth tax by next election for sure.
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@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
@sparky said in British Politics:
Tim Shipman has quite the story in the Sunday Times. Officials stopped letting Johnson take intelligence-sensitive documents back up to the 10 Downing Street flat because they knew Carrie's other male pals had a key code and atmosphere was all a bit frat house up there. (Nudge, nudge)
If I had a £1.00 for every Times/media story about Johnson.....
The funniest thing for me is how they now regard Cummings as the absolute arbiter of truth, when a year and a half ago, they were saying exactly the opposite.
Why that shitweasel is even relevant beggars belief.
He has as much credibility as Begum.
I had a lot of sympathy for him when he headed north after Covid swept thru No.10 as the attacks on him, his wife, kids and family home were pretty appalling and I'd have done pretty much the same in his shoes.
But he's now coming across as a bit of a sad character - bitter, twisted and intensely dislikeable. Kinda like a cockwomble, fluffybunny & pistonwristedgibbon all rolled into one. A CockBunnyGibbon even
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@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
@sparky said in British Politics:
I think Starmer is smart and a decent man,
He started off well (but that was in comparison to Corbyn) but for me he's progressively shown he's a bit clueless and out of his depth and comes across as slippery and dishonest - e.g. his Brexit policy.
And for someone who tells us he's a passionate fighter against anti-Semitism, he sure kept his head below the parapet when Corbyn was in charge - unlike other front-benchers.
Sooner or later he is going to have enormous problems with the Labour left who remain loony but he will need their votes.
Actually think he's done OK so far with his party. The loons seem be less prevalent and under control. His big problem may be what his economic policy is going to be. Fiscally, the country is in the shitter
That last bit is going to be a bigger problem for Johnson and Sunak.
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@sparky said in British Politics:
That last bit is going to be a bigger problem for Johnson and Sunak.
It's going to be a bigger problem for whoever is in power, that's for sure.
Labour's Rachel Reeve thinks she can give big tax cuts to "hard working families" financed by taxing "unearned income" and oil companies, which appeals to the Labour Left. I suspect she and Starmer know that's bollocks - and know that Sunak knows that's bollock too.
Meanwhile, the taxpayer keeps pouring money into lunatic projects like the black-hole that is £108Bn HS2...... more than tens times over-budget
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@sparky said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew Labour will have unveiled some sort of wealth tax by next election for sure.
Would stand scrutiny? I'm not sure and I think they know it. Bashing the rich is what the Left loves - but they loved Chavez too...
I'm no economist but... the top 1% of the country have assets of £3.6m each. You could tax that wealth at 10% a year and it would cover, for 6-7 years, about what the government has borrowed on average since 2011. After that, the wealth of our 1% is all gone and you either cut government spending by 10-15%, roughly double income tax, or borrow at increasingly unsustainable interest rates.
Then what?
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@victor-meldrew It will keep the Left happy but the detail will be everything.
The accounting industry will be looking for loopholes as ever. Tax wealth too much and you are killing the possibility of future economic growth.
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@sparky said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew It will keep the Left happy but the detail will be everything.
The accounting industry will be looking for loopholes as ever. Tax wealth too much and you are killing the possibility of future economic growth.
The national debt is about £42k per person and has trebled since c. 2002. And public sector pension liabilities which are higher than that amount, making the debt per capita about £90K - and growing.
The elephant in the room neither Starmer nor Sunak will talk about.
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