Off Topic Politics Thread

Peppa Pig is 7-4 on to be the next PM.

 

As I've been saying to anyone that would care to listen (and learn), please read Michael Holding's book Why We Kneel, How We Rise.

It's not accusatory or inflammatory. It's educational. It really made me stop and think hard about my own behaviours (and I wouldn't consider myself at all to have any racist feelings), and moreover to start to really get an idea of how it feels for people who have experienced oppression through the colour of their skin.

It really is so well worth it.

 

Absolutely endorse that recommendation.

 

Good post!
A question that often crosses my mind is what percentage of the adult population can, hand on heart, say that they have never made a racist, homophobic or other overtly discriminatory comment, or held such a discriminatory opinion or thought ?

 

Never mind Peppa Pig who is going to save Spaffer Johnson's bacon now? Letters of no confidence in his leadership are flowing into the Chair of the 1922 Committee.

Johnson is responsible for many Tories with multiple "jobs" having their snouts unceremoniously yanked out of the trough with his ineptitude.

They wont forgive him for that.

 

He's "hanging by a little thread".

 

Hours after Boris Johnson had come off stage following a 'difficult' speech to the CBI, a 'senior Downing Street source' went on the attack.

'There is a lot of concern inside the building about the PM,' the source told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

Who was the squealer?

 

Embarrassing.

 

This really rankles, with me.
The government has already spent a lot of taxpayers money, losing their case, yet they are now throwing even more taxpayers money at an appeal.
Maybe it’s time for those who lose these cases/appeals to settle all punitive and legal costs from their own pockets, instead of being granted what is, in anything but name, an exorbitant amount of money in Legal Aid.

please log in to view this image

View in browser

Dear Badger --

Tomorrow, we’re in Court. The Government is appealing the High Court's ruling that it acted unlawfully - that there was apparent bias - in its award of a contract to associates of Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove.

Our lawyers have been working round the clock to defend this appeal. If we do lose, Good Law Project will be on the line for all of Government’s costs (and our own) from the first hearing and the costs of the appeal. It’s a huge sum of money and more than we have raised.

Back in June, when the High Court ruled that the Government had acted unlawfully by handing a contract to a company owned by associates of Cummings and Gove, it vindicated what Good Law Project had been saying all along: there is institutionalised cronyism at the heart of Government.

We think the real reason for the Government’s decision to appeal the Court’s ruling is because they want to delay another case we are bringing regarding the award of another contract to allies of Michael Gove, this time to a company called Hanbury. That case cannot be heard until this appeal is over. We think they want to delay another embarrassing loss.

But we’re not going away. We will use the appeal to make the point yet again that handing taxpayers’ money to your mates is no way to run the country.

It’s unfair and it’s unlawful.

Thank you,

Gemma Abbott - Good Law Project

please log in to view this image

please log in to view this image

 

One thing that has been noticeable, as conservativism in the English-speaking countries increasingly takes a turn toward the weird, is the serious decline in the quality of staffers in the offices of MPs/members of Congress. Having total ****wits in positions of authority is sadly nothing new, but it used to be that you minimized problems because their every move and utterance was scripted by smart people.

When the Secretary of Culture asks a question, it's a safe bet that the question was written by or at least screened by their staffers, and clearly the staffers didn't know something that ought to be obvious given their purview, and couldn't even be bothered to Google it. The fish may have started rotting from the head down, but the whole body is now just a fermented puddle of fish goo now.

 

WTAF?

 

When I was young Dr Who was played by a man.



Unfortunately, I chose the wrong time to pick him as my role model.

 

If you still needed proof that the government was taking the piss.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...xkRt3HYNT3x7FJkBTQWTSAgD_w#Echobox=1637839009

 

A good read about how this country is being run by an “elective dictatorship”.

https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/ou...v5WMiWLoz2ium0oSaxKEgEDT6VbPMe8CR1QauHgvbMvFY

 

Not sure why anyone is surprised by this.

It’s been going on for decades - since Rupert murdoch weaponised the media and probably before that.

But it’s been blatant since then.