Off Topic Politics Thread

Appalling, but no more than I would expect from this government of liars, charlatans, and racists.

 

Turnout is an incredibly important part of elections in the US, and I'm not sure that Bloomberg really excites any faction enough to drive people to vote. It's well and good peeling off a few ex-Republicans, but if people are sitting out the election, it isn't a net win.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ice-detention-reshawn-davis-a9324496.html?amp

 

From the article, "hostile environment" sums it up. What a horrible place the UK has become.

 

It's having an ugly moment. So is most of the world by the looks of things.

Everything goes in cycles.

 

Even illegal immigrants want to get out, because they fear for their human rights after Brexit.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gang-illegal-immigrants-caught-trying-21458944

 

Rupert Murdoch’s daughter a contender to be the new Director General of the BBC. Hopefully she will not be influenced by her father or the BBC will never become more neutral.

https://inews.co.uk/news/elisabeth-...er-to-become-new-bbc-director-general-1394245

 

Yes, I heard something about that while I was busying about probably doing nothing yesterday.

 

The BBC stopped being neutral a long time ago and if this woman gets the job we can kiss goodbye completely to having any decent media reporting in this country. I find I get a more balanced view from overseas so I’ve stopped watching the news on the Beeb

 

Who do you get your news from? I’m always looking for good journalists.

 

Interesting election result in the Irish Republic. If Johnson is half the politician that he is projecting himself to be, he would congratulate SF on a great performance, and sit down with the EU to get the best possible trade deal that is good for everyone instead of spouting his confrontational rubbish.

 

The spaffmeister jizzes more up the wall.

 

If it wasn't for James Murdoch's evolutionary change of attitude to distance himself from his father's companies, I would say an absolute NO. However, I'd say a guarded NO anyway. Especially as she might ask Dad for advice, and that I would not want. Don't want that crim anywhere near the BBC.

 

A petition to sign and share. Tomorrow a "Windrush" style flight is returning Jamaicans, some of whom have been in the UK since they were children. This is related to the petition from the weekend. Now it has expanded. Obviously read before you sign or not:

http://chng.it/HRpJ8kBShc

 

HS2 go-ahead, windrush deportation, confirmation of EU border checks and abandonment of frictionless trade and that random NI bridge discussion all announced at the same time all.

This government does like its distractions

 

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That could prove to be a very expensive leaving present for both Northern Ireland and Scotland, the way things are shaping up.
Probably will never happen but by then Johnson will have given one of his mates millions in consultancy fees.

 

So the members of the House of Lords are getting a 3.1% pay rise, increasing their income to £323 per day, for doing nothing more than turning up.
Not only is it abhorrent that they are given more for one day’s attendance, no matter how brief, than many earn in a week, they don’t have to pay tax on it.
WHY THE FECK NOT?

https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/house-of-lords/