Racial equality and transgender rights are funny, because you just know a fair portion of the ones who claim they are worse are racists and transphobes.
Maybe funny isn't the right word.
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Racial equality and transgender rights are funny, because you just know a fair portion of the ones who claim they are worse are racists and transphobes.
Maybe funny isn't the right word.
There was only a Remain or Leave outcome, all the rest was an invention of the politicians in the HoC and the British press.
You're in or you're out.
Starmer's still got his menu out but despite being the Shadow Brexit Secretary , never understood the EU or what Brexit or Leave means - think he reads the Express and the Sun too much.
With Brexit only just really starting to have a larger impact it will be apt if Farage was in the HoC to face the consequences and awkward questions.
With all three of the leading parties being pro-Brexit - one is amazed that they're not shouting from the rooftops how successful it is but instead are saying it's not been implemented properly. Ridiculous, they got exactly what they voted for and so much more to come.
Yes. I can appreciate all of that. Especially at this time.
I was thinking more about the general public and those I speak with. It was about 50/50 their decision in 2016.
Hardly anyone mentions it, although no one believes it was a good idea now.
And no one thinks it has been good for the country; certainly not me.
David Cameron has a huge amount to answer for. He was pressured into calling the referendum.
But he pretended that he could just waltz into Brussels and the rest of the EU would cave in to his demands, what ever they actually were... did anyone know?
Such a silly man.
And now he thinks he can do the same as Foreign Secretary. Don't think so...
New Frank Hester race claims pile pressure on Tories over £15m donations
Exclusive: Hester allegedly used term ‘token Muslim’, imitated people of Chinese descent and said a person was attractive for a black woman
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ms-pile-pressure-on-tories-over-15m-donations
The Conservative party is facing questions over its decision to keep more than £15m given by its biggest ever donor, Frank Hester, after former employees made a series of fresh allegations.
Hester is alleged to have referred to a staff member as the “token Muslim”, imitated people of Chinese descent and remarked that one individual was attractive for a black woman, according to former employees who spoke to the Guardian.
More than a dozen former staffers told the Guardian of claims that Hester repeatedly made comments about race or religion in the workplace or on a work trip, including in recent years.
The claims will pile pressure on Rishi Sunak after it was confirmed on Thursday that Hester had given a further £5m to the Tories through his healthcare tech company, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP). It brings the total donated by Hester to more than £15m in a year, equating to more than 40% of the total national spending limit for each party in the general election.
Exclusive: Hester allegedly used term ‘token Muslim’, imitated people of Chinese descent and said a person was attractive for a black woman
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ms-pile-pressure-on-tories-over-15m-donations
The Conservative party is facing questions over its decision to keep more than £15m given by its biggest ever donor, Frank Hester, after former employees made a series of fresh allegations.
Hester is alleged to have referred to a staff member as the “token Muslim”, imitated people of Chinese descent and remarked that one individual was attractive for a black woman, according to former employees who spoke to the Guardian.
More than a dozen former staffers told the Guardian of claims that Hester repeatedly made comments about race or religion in the workplace or on a work trip, including in recent years.
The claims will pile pressure on Rishi Sunak after it was confirmed on Thursday that Hester had given a further £5m to the Tories through his healthcare tech company, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP). It brings the total donated by Hester to more than £15m in a year, equating to more than 40% of the total national spending limit for each party in the general election.
Oh FFS, they are genuinely taking the piss now.
The Guardian: Keir Starmer expected to push for Palestinian state in Labour manifesto
Labour policy likely to irritate Israel, whose prime minister reacted angrily when Ireland, Spain and Norway officially recognised Palestine in May
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ected-push-palestinian-state-labour-manifesto
Genuinely don't know whether this is just a briefing, floating an idea, an attempt to shore up the base or a long planned move. Who knows.
Labour policy likely to irritate Israel, whose prime minister reacted angrily when Ireland, Spain and Norway officially recognised Palestine in May
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ected-push-palestinian-state-labour-manifesto
Genuinely don't know whether this is just a briefing, floating an idea, an attempt to shore up the base or a long planned move. Who knows.
Massive difference between recognising Palestine and commitment to the two state solution.
Recognizing Palestine has been Labour policy since Miliband, he put it in the 2015 manifesto, and it was in both 2017 and 2019 manifestos too. As ever, starmer is pretending to do something new by doing nothing.
If I was a betting man, the actual change is that it won't be in th emanifesto, and he'll claim that he listened tot he party.
That guy has obviously never heard of the maxim:
If you are in a hole, stop digging.
And well done to Fiona Bruce and Shabana Mahmood for calling him out. And most importantly calling the PM a liar. Excellent.
Like I say Brown took many good policies and squeezed them until they blew. Lamont's dividend tax reduction to 20% (?) was OK in isolation and had no effect on the UK markets. Brown went and removed the entire tax credit on everything. The estimated cost to the economy has been £250 billion.
Anyway, as I said before none of this has anything to do with the election.
Your boring.
By the time he's PM there won't be any Palestinians left.
a Palestinian state will be at the bottom of his priority list.
For some reason, I've returned from holiday and stuck on the debate. My God it's fecking depressing. They are both so fecking wank. It's painful to watch.
Starmer needs urgent media training before future debates.It shouldn't be possible to come across even more of a cnut than Sunak.
Sunak coming back early from the D day commemoration, to do an interview with ITV (in which he lies about not lying). The flagshaggers in the tories just had their brains exploded.
Didn't take long for Boris Sunak to show his true colours did it. He has become characterised as a liar. And shit sticks.
What goes around comes around. Couldn't happen to a bigger group of pricks.
It's funny, because what the Tories did wasn't even that extreme in political gamesmanship, so hilarious to see them being burnt heavily by it after they betrayed the kinship of politics by exploiting the treasury note joke so they could push through austerity.
It's funny, because what the Tories did wasn't even that extreme in political gamesmanship, so hilarious to see them being burnt heavily by it after they betrayed the kinship of politics by exploiting the treasury note joke so they could push through austerity.
How the hell are you so blind to the political optics of this?
Are they really though? The Sun and other right wing titles are all still parroting the £2k tax hike figure, which was the intention, and there's minimal coverage of the lying claims in the biggest media outlets. Labour should be fighting back with the Spectator's £3k calculation for what Tory policies would cost and the £13k figure from Sky. Just denying the £2k is making them sound weak, possibly lying and on the backfoot.
The problem that Sunak and anyone from the Tories has now is that the first question they are being asked is whether Sunak is a liar. And can they justify the £2k claim. And incidentally what about their plans which will increase taxes by £3k....
You can't tell everyone when you become the PM, unelected PM by the way, that you are different from Boris Johnson and you are going to operate with Honesty and Integrity, only to be shown to be the same as Boris. A liar.
Saying that, Sunak's fecked up leaving the D-Day memorial early. He's getting loads of shit online.
It was terrible judgment and it is revealing of his character in a manner that will cut through to his base (you would have thought).
Given the demographic of voters who would be likely to sway towards voting for Farage, the optics of what he did will bite him. Yet another Tory feck up.
The Gammons taking it well.
Hell hath no fury like a flag shagger scorned.
Disaster for Sunak really. It’s exactly the sort of thing he will have wanted to avoid as it ties into the average conservative’s suspicion that he’s out of touch and the gammon racist suspicion that he’s definitely “not one of us” and doesn’t get it at all.
The thing is, he isn't one of us.
Not because he has brown skin obviously, but because he is worth 3/4 of a billion quid and up until he was made chancellor, and even during it, held a green card because he wants to live in his massive home in California.
No one will ever convince me he is not trying to lose this election. They had lost anyway, but standing in the rain to announce the election, going to the Titanic district, walking away from D Day celebrations, these are things he absolutely knew would tank his support or lead to ridicule and still did them.
Bizarre decision from Sunak / those avoiding him. It's cut through more than anything else so far this campaign from what I'm seeing on my own social media which is usually relatively non political. Existential indeed...
Let's be honest, he's not really a proper white Englishman, and so how can understand things like D Day, after all it was back in the days when it was proper white englishmen who won the war.
As dispiriting as it is seeing the undertone of some of the right wing loons losing their minds over this from sunak. There's some karma in dog whistles bringing him down.
As dispiriting as it is seeing the undertone of some of the right wing loons losing their minds over this from sunak. There's some karma in dog whistles bringing him down.
You wouldn’t want to be Penny Mordaunt tonight facing Rayner and that fecking Cnut Farage tonight.
He fecking thinks he’s so clever doing those stupid Instagram videos. Many see him as an open joke.
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