Brenda from Bristol for PM.

christ no. not again. there will have been 4 elections in a little over 5 years. wtf are we, Israel? ITALY?!?!

 

 

What would be the purpose of another election? I can’t envisage that in any way, it makes zero sense.

What would be the purpose of another election? I can’t envisage that in any way, it makes zero sense.

 

The logic is that it would be the only way to ensure that Boris' re-jigged Withdrawal Agreement gets through the House of Lords - The Salisbury Convention is the convention that the House of Lords won't oppose any second or third readings of bills that are in a government's election manifesto. As Johnson is looking to change the Brexit deal to something not promised in the Tories' manifesto, it is likely to be shot down in the Lords. Therefore a new General Election with a new commitment in the Tory manifesto in line with what Johnson wants would be able to sail through without issue.

 

Of course this is based on mere speculation that this is what Johnson is intending to do, but I think the meeting will be a little more dull.

A general election cannot override international law any more than parliament can. With luck, if they were stupid enough to go for an election less than a year after they won a comfortable majority and in the middle of a pandemic, they would be absolutely slaughtered.

Given the recent opinions polls and the rather large mess ups, I very much doubt he would call another election and risk the Tory's rather large majority. If he calls an election, I expect a repeat of the 2017 election, perhaps even worse.

This leader should read "Johnson- A threat to the integrity of the UK". The moron didn't read his own 'oven ready' deal before he signed it.

 

Robert Buckland, the Lord Chancellor, has said he would resign if the government broke the law "in a way which I find unacceptable". It would appear that the BBC interviewer did not ask the Cabinet minister whose job it is to oversee the justice system how the government could break the law in an acceptable way.

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The corruption people would be screaming about if this was another country...

Very convenient that. Wonder when exactly they were wiped. Day after the fire maybe?

Wasn't sure where to put this.

 

 

 

The first day of the Tory conference descended in to farce as it crashed offline as Gove was speaking. Gove reportedly was not happy.

 

Wasn't sure where to put this.

The first day of the Tory conference descended in to farce as it crashed offline as Gove was speaking. Gove reportedly was not happy.

But surely they were using world-beating technology :unsure:

been seeing it around a bit today and yesterday but Patel's speech on asylum seekers is chilling me:

 

No doubt those who are well-rehearsed in how to play and profit from the broken system will lecture us on their grand theories about human rights. And yet they seem to care little about the rights of the most vulnerable who are fleeing persecution, oppression and tyranny. Those defending the broken system, the traffickers, the do-gooders, the lefty lawyers, the Labour Party are defending the indefensible

 

making left-leaning people and DO-GOODERS out to be the enemy, grouping them with traffickers, mockingly talking of 'grand theories about human rights', when she's unveiling a system that will promote immediate removal of those her government doesn't deem to have a claim to stay in the UK... back to the place they were fleeing from, some remote island on the other side of the world, who knows really.

 

whatever 'compassion' she's aiming for sure looks like it's going to be applied selectively the way she talks about those SELECT groups the Conservative party is interested in helping - as people who don't happen to fit that continue to risk their lives crossing the Channel

We've seen some truly abysmal Home Secretaries over the last 25-30 years or so - Labour as well as Tory. Pritti Patel seems determined to outdo every one of them. She talked about how Tories don't measure compassion by what they can fit into a Tweet. In her cade, it's simply a case of not measuring something that doesn't exist.

 

Patel, of course, is the daughter of two Ugandan refugees who came here in the 1970s when Idi Amin expelled Asians from the country. Lots of Tories at the time fiercely opposed allowing any of them into the UK.

Ugandan Asians is unsurprisingly one of a few desirables she mentioned as being part of the Conservatives' proud history of migrant helping, as with Syrian refugees and Hong Kong protesters

 

pull the ladder up behind you why don't you

 

The larger issue is that while victims of world events may legitimately require asylum, there are many other reasons why immigrants might require asylum and it sounds like only those, that are able to provide the Tories with compassion points because of UK awareness of their issues, are going to be legitimised.

Honestly her stunning levels of hypocrisy and callousness are the reasons she is the one politician I cannot stand the most. She is only here in this position because once upon a time we were a semi welcoming country to the persecuted and vulnerable. For her of all people to sit and spin this is disgusting. Has she no shame. Her parents wouldn’t be allowed here under her rules. Her own parents.

 

I’m not saying that every asylum seeker or immigrant should be grateful to be here, not in the slightest. But that someone with that background you’d expect to have a little more compassion for the people who find themselves in these impossible situations because her own parents have been there. It’s not several generations removed. I’m proud that as a country we have a first generation immigrant as a Home Secretary, it is just a shame that’s it’s a heartless hypocrite determined to burn the ladder behind her as she climbs it

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yeah this can speak for itself, getting mercilessly quote tweeted v. fast

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yeah this can speak for itself, getting mercilessly quote tweeted v. fast

 

Funnily enough, that would be my suggestion for this whole government!

Already deleted after being ratioed to death after a complaint from Sunak.

I'm not sure if the corrected version of the article, that his comments about retraining applied to employment generally, not just the arts sector, is any better and in actual fact is a whole lot worse. RETRAIN INTO WHAT JOBS RISHI?

 

always hate to see government influence force a media institution's hand as well but we're getting used to that with this government, they control the media very well