The British Politics Thread - The Bear and Badger

monkey

This bloke is a mess.

LivDiv

It's Angela Rayner who is the real villain though.

LivDiv

handsofblue

They could have used a better colour set. I can't identify who the different blues are and I'm sure that Truss is a yellow line that quickly falls off a cliff... Could just be my eyes though. But, y'know, the main point of Rishi = shitter is clear.

poprock

Wait, so that Menzies bloke was Sunak’s special envoy to … can you guess which country?

Spoiler:

LivDiv

Volunteer role, all expenses paid no doubt.
Even the ransom payments.

davyK

The Menzies thing is fucking hilarious - simply because I imagine Rishi's face while getting briefed on it.

monkey

That thing about getting a dog drunk keeps making me think of this.

GooberTheHat

I for one am blown away by this story. It's a real rip-snorter.

LivDiv

No wrath like a campaigner scorned. Good on her.
These people need to realise their party has been hijacked and transformed since 2016.
You might not like the Tories, I dont either but this lot aren't so much conservatives as con-artists.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68851004

b0r1s

Pop-con-artists you mean.

acemuzzy

Three days left to get a free voter id card if you don't already have suitable photo id

https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

Spread the word...

b0r1s

Fucking ridiculous. Clear Tory attempt to exclude non-Tory voters.

ZMM

Scary times indeed for all of us. Wonder how far this government will push us until we are rioting?

b0r1s

Exactly what Brexit was for.

ZMM

An attack on the human rights of asylum seekers is an attack on all of our human rights. Just like the murdering of Palestinians is an attack on us all. Innocent men women and children being slaughtered. That could be us in the future as it sets a dangerous precedent.

LivDiv

Its political suicide. Sunak has hitched the bandwagon to a policy that simply wont work.

Likelihood is that there wont be more than 1-2% of people coming in on small boats actually sent to Rwanda, that's just this year's probable crossings, not counting the backlog. That is no deterrent to people who have already travelled through many risky situations even to get to the coast of France. Anyone lined up for deportation will just disappear, the Home Office cant even keep track of children.

Come the GE this will be a massive failure and the numbers will be there to prove it. They'll flail, they'll blame judges and lefty lawyers and probably put leaving the ECHR into their manifesto but the people are done with it. They don't like Rish!, they don't believe this government are capable of achieving anything whether they agree with the policy or not.

Add this to the inevitable monthly scandals that seem to run like clockwork and a potential market crash when Hunt promises an unfunded tax cut. Labour attack lines over unpaid compensation for Post Office, Blood, Windrush, (there is a 4th Ive forgotten). The BoE base rate that at best will have dropped a quarter of a percent. Then whatever other disaster we dont know about.

They'll be polling sub 20%, maybe below Reform by autumn and wishing they'd gone for a May GE.

Rev

This is why Scotland needs independence from these bastards. Its the calculated cruelty and maliciousness that comes with every action. Welfare fraud is tiny compared to Corporate fraud. They want to bring in the SEZ and Freeports and carve up the UK to the highest bidder.

Gremill

The fact that only 7% of the total number of asylum seekers actually arrived on these shores in small boats shows this policy for what it is - pointless and pure political theatre.

I also really object to Sunak stating as a fact that the majority of voters agree with the policy and not being challenged in any meaningful way on that. No we don't, you cunt.

LivDiv

"Will of the people" just seems to be something they say to fluff out a sentence these days, I don't think they even consider the meaning, its like business speak to them, of no more meaning than "moving forward".

Johnson said it so it must be good, he was good at that speaking stuff.

acemuzzy

Lads the Rwanda policy is full of compassion don'tyaknow

davyK

Amusing that Rishi blamed Labour members in the Lords for blocking it when there's a conservative majority in that house.

ZMM

Don't think people truly understand the implications of a government shattering the balance of powers in this so called democracy. They won't stop here if they are allowed to succeed.

davyK

Warping reality by getting a lawyer to say a country is safe when it isn't is Orwellian

poprock

“Can’t we just change the legal definition of ‘safe’?”

Politics by loophole.

Rev

If he does withdraw from the ECHR then surely Labour can just reverse any of his bullshit?

ZMM

If they even get anywhere near succeeding in that aim, putting us on par with Hungary and Russia for fuck's sake, then I will take to the streets

MyNameIsKrisG

Rev wrote:

If he does withdraw from the ECHR then surely Labour can just reverse any of his bullshit?

This is going to be the big dividing line for the next 10-20 years. The Woke left destroying our country, vs the Nasty Right, destroying our country.

MyNameIsKrisG

Oh wait. That's been the last 50 years already.

Rev

If Sunak does that he better find a planet that supports life because if he takes away my kids rights then I'm going to get really angry on social media about it.

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