Westminster Politics
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
This is brilliant!
When Sunak and Braverman get congratulated on their far-right policies by other far-right politicians throughout the world like Zemmour and Salvini they know they have well and truly joined the racist and xenophobe far-right club.
Wasn't it this lot who changed the Human Rights Act to combat cancel culture?
Nice retort there
Find it so frustrating how a stupid 3 word slogan finds its way into the public consciousness and gets legitimised by the media. Yvette Cooper was asked today "what will you do to stop the boats", just embarassing, we let these idiots set the agenda again and again.
They need to stick to smash the people smugglers line. Just shows the state of the country when they ignore all of the problems like the NHS and the cost of living but yet focus on this.
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Says his initial list was around 100!
Daily Mail chief? feck right off, hideous 'paper'. Piss off Boris.
Kenneth Clarke speaking very well on Question Time tonight. Not often I find myself agreeing with a Conservative.
British democratic accountability at work again.
Dominic Raab bullying inquiry will defer to Rishi Sunak for final verdict
Dominic Raab bullying inquiry will defer to Rishi Sunak for final verdict
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...er-to-rishi-sunak-for-final-verdict-6gttpp78l
This government really are scumbags. Angela Raynor was spot on. Most of the criticism of her comments were probably driven by those on Boris Johnson's knighthood list!
Is left wing striker a sly dig at our boy Rashford?
Give this man a beer.
You could not make this up if you tried.
The man who has yet to publish his tax forms sitting as judge and jury over his deputy.
Go for it Rushi. Can't wait for the outcome.
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Who wrote that line for her, John Mulaney?
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I guess they found that magic money tree again!
But no money to pay for pay rises.
Fun Fact - The UK has spent more money on housing asylum seekers in 2023 than they are giving to France here.
Just to put the spending into perspective.
And it's completely a political choice. These people(sorry, 'immigrants') could be working and paying taxes while their long term status is decided. Or they could simply be processed much more quickly.
The self-proclaimed party of low taxes and fiscal responsibility, is DELIBERATELY wasting money time after time. It's not even up for debate, the facts are right in front of anyone who's not in complete denial.
Avoiding inflation in the UK. Obviously
Never understood why asylum seekers are not able to work while they wait. It is surely a win-win for everyone?
IIRC Germany issues temporary VISAs to allow asylum seekers to work whilst awaiting their decision.
You'd think so. Would surely help with integration too, as another benefit to everyone.
The Tory faithful would be accusing them of “coming over here to take our jobs.”
Because the entire system is designed to dehumanise them and make it an absolute ordeal. It's all about "deterrence".
Obviously short sighted as feck, but then to the point that bloke on QT made the government are purely making this a political issue in order to have something to actually chat about when the election rolls round in a year's time.
What's hilarious/really unbelievably depressing is that they constantly contradict themselves by making a point that it's a "global" problem (so they can't be blamed for the massive rise in channel crossings), but act completely unilaterally by refusing to cooperate with - or at least deliberating making out like they aren't cooperating with - Europe. Because we're mega Brexit and all that.
Oh yeah, another depressing thing (it's never ending) - Labour can't even attack the policy properly, because they probably back the whole thing only wouldn't use the same language.
A sensible country might even use the money to provide extra housing and infrastructure so as not to inconvenience the locals too much.
But that would require a desire to fix the problem.
And on and on it goes...
Ex-Tory minister who tried to sell off forests is given Natural England role
Appointment of Dame Caroline Spelman to nature watchdog’s board sparks cronyism allegations
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...forests-natural-england-role-caroline-spelman
Ex-Tory minister who tried to sell off forests is given Natural England role
Appointment of Dame Caroline Spelman to nature watchdog’s board sparks cronyism allegations
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...forests-natural-england-role-caroline-spelman
absolutely wild stuff.
"If we were nuked, where would you go James?"
"I'd go to Greece"
"Yeah, Greece is a nice place"
What on Earth was the point the caller was trying to make there!?
Like most idiots that think about calling in to radio shows....think they have a bulletproof argument no one has thought of "it's not racist if I call it culturalist" and when challenged with even the simplest retort, go into panic mode because you realise you're on radio and then the nuke stuff comes flying out their mouths."If we were nuked, where would you go James?"
"I'd go to Greece"
"Yeah, Greece is a nice place"
What on Earth was the point the caller was trying to make there!?
But in all seriousness, what he was trying to say, without actually saying it, was "you know i'm right, you'd only migrate to white christian countries if you were forced to leave."
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Thread on the budget - possibly good news?
He wanted to spend fifteen minutes trying to pretend to not to be a racist and not doing a very good job."If we were nuked, where would you go James?"
"I'd go to Greece"
"Yeah, Greece is a nice place"
What on Earth was the point the caller was trying to make there!?
It's crazy that these people actually exist and they're not just plants for views. People we are living around really are this thick.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64930944
Looks like the UK which has no money for pay rises for working people or for the nhs will suddenly grow a few new branches on the money tree soon.
Looks like the UK which has no money for pay rises for working people or for the nhs will suddenly grow a few new branches on the money tree soon.
Capitalists want market forces to decide everything until they're wanting a bail out from governments.
As always, privatise profits and socialise losses. Always money available to bail out companies even if they fecked themselves up. Nothing to bail out citizens who get shafted without doing anything wrong though.