The Politics Thread

Not necessarily... When you have someone as mendacious and conniving as this one, you can't help but wonder whether it's exaggerated.
However, as others have said, hope he improves soon because its seems wrong to call someone a cnut when they're ill...

 

Wot, no jobs for Jess Phillips or David Lammy ?? < disgraceful >

 

He hasn't announced the full shadow cabinet yet, and there's plenty dreading the news that Phillips got in while the likes of Barry Gardiner get drummed out

But sticking to Nandy for a moment, can any "centrist" explain how having someone who, back in January, suggested that the Spanish method of dealing with Catalan separatists is how we should deal with Scottish nationalists at a time when the Spanish were "dealing" with the Catalans using batons and tear gas is going to win Labour any seats in Scotland? Because for some reason I've seen no mention of that...

 

I think he nailed it there with every sentence.

 

Such is the fate of political parties that fall prey to the pandering
to "identity politics" rather than competence (although Barry
Gardiner is hardly setting the bar high regarding the latter) .

 

The Tories have spent a decade demonstrating the opposite: it doesn't matter if it's Cameron's inner circle, Cummings' chosen few, or whoever Theresa May could cobble together, there's an ever-increasing number of interchangeable parts to shuffle around to maintain the illusion of Doing Something

Anyway, when are the Lib Dems going to start their leadership contest?

 

<Looks at Trump> <Looks at Johnson> <Leaves>

 

< Preferred to ascent solely due to "identity politics" >

 

Killing people with incompetence and immorality is preferred to identity politics? Controversial, but you do you.

 

Killing people due to identity politics is preferred to killing people due to incompetence ??
The 20th century is calling, and saying the numbers are in on that one ...

 

People should know if Dominic Raab is de facto Prime Minister.
That is bad.

 

Labour and the Democrats are Nazis and Communists?

 

No, Boris is still running the country, apparently:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52180223

 

Apparently de Pfeffel is still in charge from his hospital bed

This may be related to Raab taking twenty seconds of his only presser as de facto leader to demonstrate he can't understand the basic instructions for avoiding the risk of infection, specifically the one about not licking your fingers before touching each new page of a document...

 

Dr. Catherine Calderwood's apology for visting her holiday home in breach of her own guidance was the most insincere imaginable.
She "made a mistake".
Consciously deciding to drive 50 miles to a holiday home on consecutive weekends isn't a mistake. They were deliberate acts she intended to get away with.
A mistake "is an omission,blunder, slip or inaccuracy", usually due to carelessness.
No wonder so many others don't want to follow the government's guidance on leaving their home.

 

Of course, she's getting more stick than Kirstie Allsopp did when driving her entire family several hundred miles to her second home in Devon even though on of her family had tested positive for Covid-19...

 

Probably because the levels of arrogance and hypocrisy stick in the craw a little more.......