UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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The new reign of Tory terror starts today.
Never heard of him before today and my first impression is
Sunak’s already let the worst of the ultra-rightwing nutters back into government, I see.
I assume by "fascinating" she means "completely expected".
Never go full Trump. But the Home Secretary has. Yet again.
When everything is going well: it's REALLY ******* easy to be a bad politician. Thanks to covid: nothing is going well, so now we're seeing all the bad politicians struggle to actually do their ******* jobs.
No it's not. They think voters have the recall and critical thinking skills of three ******ed goldfish duct taped together: and they aren't ******* wrong. The vast majority couldn't tell you the name of their own representative, never mind who was in power during the last mandate. Lie and deflect works for a reason.
Used to be they could just sit around and blame the EU. That doesn't exactly work any more.
I mean, they still blame the EU, but with the caveat that they believe Brexit hasn’t been hard enough, and that Remainers and the EU use the “deep state” to continually undermine the Tory government.
Collapsing living standards for the foreseeable future. All due to the B-word.
Well, it did help the government that they kept on extending the transition period (where the same rules and regulations were in effect) up until 9-10 months into the pandemic, to help disguise the impacts. And the invasion of Ukraine happened just over a year after that.
I think like most developed countries, the UK had a large amount of systems and checks in place that just took a long time to unravel to the point where the issues started impacting everyone.
It's like how Elon has fired 90% of the people working at Twitter, but the site's still going right now, because the systems and checks haven't broken down to the point where everything has failed and the site no longer works.
It's like how Elon has fired 90% of the people working at Twitter, but the site's still going right now, because the systems and checks haven't broken down to the point where everything has failed and the site no longer works.
Basically, yes. Perfect analogy, really.
In other news, the government is introducing ID requirements to vote, and 'coincidentally' most of the IDs accepted are ones held by older people:
www.electoral-reform.org.uk
In other news, the government is introducing ID requirements to vote, and 'coincidentally' most of the IDs accepted are ones held by older people:
Voter ID list gives few options for younger voters
Long-awaited details of the government’s voter ID scheme have now finally been released including details of which IDs will be accepted at the polling station.With no alternatives for
www.electoral-reform.org.uk
