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[orly]

Michael Gove just proving that even when you think politicians can't be any stupider, well you're wrong, they definitely can.

Not sure.

It's a reprehensible joke , completely unsuitable at the best of times and he's rightly being torn apart for it.

But what's worse is he isn't stupid - he's done that deliberately. As public as possible on one of the most listened to radio shows on the big anniversary. And he can't claim to have been misquoted or out of context; it's recorded.

May will either have to sack him, and risk him causing mayhem back on the back benches as Murdoch's man or, not sack him, and get the entire house rightly accusing her of cowardice and weakness.

It's sneaky, sinister and anything but stupid

 

[orchard]

Proof that most of them should give up their day-job and get on the stand-up circuit in Wales or Turkey. It's for the best.

 

[orchard]

Part of a Guardian article:
"...
Then again, the bulk of the cabinet are so grey that when Theresa meets them she must feel like Dorothy before the twister hit. May herself cuts a comparatively rakish figure in makeup that looks like it was applied by a colour-blind embalmer and that big shiny neck chain that makes her look like the worst prize on a hoopla stall run by the Wu-Tang Clan."

 

[orchard]

The end's fairly good too, on a more serious note:
"
Most things a corporatist government does involve transferring assets from public to private ownership, so its decisions are eagerly delivered by the private sector. Since New Labour, private interests are often involved with government at every stage; from lobbying for a reform in the first place, to drafting of the bill, to implementation.

This is another reason governments like wars – there’s very little for them to do: delivery is entirely performed by someone else. Also, consequences usually have a kind of time-lapse. PFI contracts, or even the destabilisation of Iraq, might take a decade or more to become truly toxic, by which time the politicians involved will hope to have moved into the private sector.

With Brexit, the whole country might implode within about nine months. This is why the Tories are behaving like a besieged rat colony: they actually have to doing something and are being confronted with the novelty of immediate consequences. It’s stating the obvious, but the conflict in negotiations is not a clash of national temperaments, but the atmosphere created when gung-ho carpetbaggers come up against patrician bureaucrats."

 

[Huyton Layne]

Hahaha just found out who Mark Garnier is. What a guy!

 

[summerisle]

Nice site retelling some observations from Alan Bennett.

 

[jaycee]

See they do care about people going hungry

 

[Bruce Wayne]

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She's not wrong though. We have a bag of porridge and it makes us breakfasts for the whole week.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Mays tenure is now looking much like Majors, shackled by divisions on Europe, weak and now drowning in sleaze of its ministers and MPs...

 

[Del-boy]

A number of Tory MP’s involved in incidents of sexual harassment within Westminister. I’m sure there will be people involved from all political parties.

In any other place of work they would have been suspended and sacked but not in Westminister.

It’s wrong also that MP’s investigate each other for misconduct. About time we have an independent complaints procedure for misconduct with MP’s that’s fully transparent and the hearings open to the public.

Also I find it somewhat laughable that all MP’s are coming out of the woodwork saying how wrong this is and should be fully investigated. Recently a former prime minster was investigated for incidents of historic sexual offences by the police only for members of parliament to say the police should never have investigated the matter.

 

[PITA]

I’m reasonably ok with Theresa May. If she has to go soon, then Boris as he scares the crap out of the EU. I’ve said before though that in a few years that the Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, could make an excellent leader. I want someone that will stand up for the U.K. and show a bit of passion for our country and compassion for its people......

I sense that you might not get what you want.

 

[tsubaki]

Nice site retelling some observations from Alan Bennett.

William being probably the original Tory, given his behaviour, his treatment of the north and especially how his nickname was changed to make him sound more impressive.

 

[tsubaki]

I like how the media are running this shocking development that a man touched a woman's knee fifteen years ago, and apologised when he was told she didn't like it.

 

[chrissyjack]

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A pound ? A WHOLE pound ? Only the rich can afford that .


75p . Bargain

 

[tsubaki]

An unredacted version of the list is doing the rounds on twitter - I won't link to it for obvious reasons.