Westminster Politics


Here we go with the normalisation of madness again:

A lockdown implemented in Wales is not a socio-economic principle. Marx's Pandemic Management for the masses is regrettably a work lost to time.

Meanwhile, insane consultancy fees paid to Tory donors, friends and family members rather than to our nation's infrastructure is largely ignored (and, indeed, on this website largely defended) whilst our track and trace capability is run by someone who had either never heard of, or had no budget to build ETL processes or a data warehouse (something the most junior member of my team could sort in a couple of days tops).

Thankfully, we have an opposition who are working hard to be marginally better than this in order to appease the increasingly and consistently right wing voting patterns of England.
 


This is also what you get when your supposedly liberal leaning media normalises the view of basic soft left social democracy as “hard left crankery” and theres no fecking push back.

Wallow in it, and rejoice. For they are legion, and we are fecked.
 
This is also what you get when your supposedly liberal leaning media normalises the view of basic soft left social democracy as “hard left crankery” and theres no fecking push back.

Wallow in it, and rejoice. For they are legion, and we are fecked.

Socialists famously in favour of national borders.

I don't know what is says about the British psyche that Rees-Mogg is considered intelligent because he has a posh accent.
 


The Government will only bail out TFL in exchange for an increase to the costs of fares AND an extension to the congestion charge zone :lol:

This country is done.
 


The Government will only bail out TFL in exchange for an increase to the costs of fares AND an extension to the congestion charge zone :lol:

This country is done.


I imagine they'll do the same in New York. When the losses are so colossal, what else would you expect?
 
Sadly unlike the US, we don't have their natural checks and balances.
 
I imagine they'll do the same in New York. When the losses are so colossal, what else would you expect?

“Everyone has less money and fewer people are using it, let’s encourage them to do so by putting the price up”

It’s ass-backwards.

It’s complicated. But pressing the ‘More money button’ is so silly.
 
The Hancock mask thing seems like a "Look, a squirrel!" compared to the whole "Tories once again steal millions of taxpayer's pounds to give to their buddies for no reason whatsoever." story.
 
Fury as Tory millionaire says poor parents 'actually prefer' to pay for kids' meals

Nadhim Zahawi said parents didn't like the 'label' of meals being free and prefer to pay a 'modest sum' - as he refused Marcus Rashford's call to extend free school meals over half-term.

"Although they valued the meals, they didn't like the labelling of them being free.

"They actually prefer to pay a modest amount, £1 or £2."

The bungling former oil executive – who once billed taxpayers for heating his horses' stables – blundered into the latest row over whether the Government should fund food for the poorest children.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/polit...qhS8dENV_GP9YcGeXmTcKQSzS_kGCgaFa0Py6J4E4heog

Missed this yesterday.

I’ve seen the damage Islamophobia does – the Conservative Party must have zero tolerance
Islamophobia is not exclusive to a small fringe element on the far-right
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/damage-islamophobia-the-conservative-party-have-zero-tolerance-716260
It's still amazing that after all this time Islamophobia in the Tory party is still being ignored.
 
It’s hard to choose a politician I dislike the most but Hancock is right up there.

Ill see your hancock and raise you a
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I'm not sure Starmer succeeded in his pitch today. Needs to stress the point that a circuit breaker is less effective the longer you wait and how it could avoid the harshest restrictions ever being needed in places currently low. At the moment they're very likely to face them.

Unless you hit that point home then the strategy of not putting certain areas into lockdown makes sense.
 
Twitter surprised me there, i thought the comments would be their usual horrendous self but most are pointing out that Tories have been in power for so long the excuse doesn't work.
It might not work on twitter but else where I'm not so sure. During the last election there were stories from Labour activists who went door knocking only to be meet with claims about how awful the record of the current Labour government!

Which imo shows

1. Just how awful Labour councils are.

2. Some set of conservative minded voters views the dominate liberal social order(More equality through rights, better representation etc etc)as the same as state power.

It's a very bizarre mindset.