UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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Surprise, all opinion polling taken during the last week not only puts Labour in the lead, but puts the Tories in Kim Campbell type absolute wipeout territory.
December 2024 is the latest it can be held. So a while off. Unless enough rebellious Tories collapse their own government. Hopefully staring oblivion in the face so long before a scheduled election will convince enough Tories to sharply change direction or replace the leadership (again) with someone who isn’t completely insane.
I don't think the western world has sane conservatives anymore. Just fascists desperately trying to hide their branding.
Fascists with libertarian economic policies, basically. And massive levels of corruption:
Brace yourself, because you're about to agree with Nadine Dorries:
Trying to work out if she actually realizes that a general election held right now would put her party into opposition.
Trying to work out if she actually realizes that a general election held right now would put her party into opposition.
So, the Home Secretary says her personal obsession is getting a plane full of immigrants deported to a processing centre in Rwanda. Nice priorities there, given the current state of the UK…
Well, she'd probably be one of the last ones they deport. Probably.
Panthers, eating faces, blah blah blah. Because at the EXACT same time that there's no exceptions to the rule, everybody is the exception to the rule. Hypocrisy apparently uses a stealthboy.
What a well-run country this is.
The insane thing is that a minister (and one who is a right-wing Tory) had set aside money for a public information campaign encouraging the public to save energy this winter, but the prime minister refused on “ideological” grounds:
Liz Truss blocks energy saving campaign ‘on ideological grounds’
Minister says government views public information campaign as ‘nanny state’
www.independent.co.uk
She meant religious grounds: she can only pray when people are openly suffering around her.
This is hilarious. Basically, as a former prime minister, Boris Johnson gets to nominate sitting MPs to get kicked upstairs to the House of Lords (Britain’s unelected equivalent of a senate). Those MPs will have to vacate their seats in the House of Commons, which means by-elections – when the Conservative Party is polling dreadfully, and very likely to lose all those seats.
Especially if the media covers the by-elections as extensively as ours covered all those special elections we had back in 2017. I still think we learned a valuable lesson from that, which is that downticket elections should be staggered rather than taking place on a single day every two years so they can always get that kind of attention.
Ah yes, conservatives: sack the patsy and flop like a fish out of water.
