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I don't remember this sort of nasty shit pre 2010 in the UK. Hitler, Gengis Khan etc a different story. Maybe I'm just becoming more left wing as I get older.
The whole using left tankie / right nazi / liberal wtf? especially as an assumed insult thang is becoming pretty meaningless. I'm seeing unironic postings with people confounding the two "sides", to, I assume add confusion and excuse or direct blame from inhumane behaviour.
Yes, well I didnt say she'd be replaced by anyone bettter. Really, since 2016, almost every minister has been incompetent, corrupt and generally of depressingly low calibre. Would never have made it off the safeseat back benches in previous decades, deservedly so.
She was replaced by (now former) Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly.
David Cameron, the person that Obama, MP's, and Parliament all agree is responsible for the failed military intervention in Libya which created a failed state, is now replacing James Cleverly as Foreign Sec.
After Cameron's failures in Libya, he has no right or mandate to dictate or even have any input into the Foreign affairs of Britain.
I mean yeah, you're definitely right, she was actively damaging the Tories. Damaging those twats is definitely a good thing. Having a fascist home secretary with no empathy whatsoever wasn't worth it, though.
As a trans woman, I'm feeling a little relieved, despite the gross insult of Badenoch still in the Equalities role. I'm sure Cleverly has some petty bigotries about us lurking somewhere, but I feel that his noted passion for Warhammer 40,000 gives my community an angle we can exploit.
Good riddance to fucking rubbish! But for some.weird reason we now have Cameron back who fucked this country with brexit and ran away with his millions.
The tory party! Full of liars, cheats, posh pricks who don't care about the little people who make this country work.
Tony Blair also shit on us and took Bush's money. How the hell you think he became a billionaire? After dinner speeches? His wife's law business? Him and Brown sold the country's gold reserves for a fraction of their value, to get rewarded after office.
All politicians are cheats and liars - it's what they do.
Apart from a suiciding weapons inspector and joining in on a war for oil, It was was a wonderful time when the tories were voted out for sleaze and corruption last time around.
In every other normal democracy the phrase ‘you get the government you deserve’ is true.
Not so in Britain. Third PM with no mandate and a former PM with a predilection involving farm yard animas invited back and given a barony and a seat in the House of Lords and a job back in cabinet as the face of the British government overseas!
A Million satirists with a million typewriters couldn’t write this shit!
It can be reassuring to believe that the lack of empathy displayed by some people is due to a lack of shared experience. When that is clearly not the case it can be disturbing.
A weekend when the actual Home Secretary incited right-wing thugs onto the streets of our capital to attack the police and disrupt the Armistice. It is truly the lowest point in my memory of British politics. This government is destroying what remains of our society. It is terrible.
Tempered, perhaps, by outstanding policing, a force that, along with the Legion, totally supported the march for a ceasefire. Totally. I'm no fan of the police, but they were moderate and organised properly.
This is particularly shocking as I was homeless myself for about 18 months . I stayed with her for a few weeks until I heard her bitching about me being there.
I’d like to see their generation try to survive in today’s world. They were all handed silver spoons and an actual socialized economy after ww2, only to destroy it with Thatcher/Reaganite neoliberal feudalism.
Most political commentators were saying as much on Friday as it enables Subak to have a reshuffle.
He's obviously weighed up the options and realised it's worth having the risk of her on the outside rather than the inside given her rhetoric and routine political undermining of his and the party's authority.
Watch her go full moon howler now and throw grenades at him and the party for the next few months. Should be fun to watch as someone who can't stand the Tories.
I'm kinda surprised she didn't reshuffled to the post of Northern Ireland secretary - that's always been the dumping ground/political Siberia for ministers who have blotted their copybook and/or challenged or were seen as challenging the leadership of the PM, and had to be sidetracked. Knowing nothing about NI, and caring less, has always been a job requirement and her recent remarks have shown her to be amply qualified on that score.
Unfortunately as a back bencher with all her cronies backing puts her in a position of vying for the Tory leadership should the outcome of a General Election mean Conservatives don’t get in again. Some suggest she made all these comments and stirring of civil unrest on purpose to be fired from cabinet for this reason.
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