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latestnews-now · 2 months ago
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Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss sparks debate with her call for a 'British Trump' to drive revolutionary change. Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Truss discusses bold leadership, economic policies, and the global ripple effects of Donald Trump's ideology. Discover her vision for Britain's political future in this detailed report.
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jewreallythinkthat · 5 months ago
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The UK riots are far right fascist extremists (and a few people who are just violent fuckers who'd riot at any excuse and don't care about politics in terms of left v right as long as they have the opportunity to cause problems). It has nothing to do with Israel, Palestine and the middle east.
The UK riots literally have nothing to do with the Israel Hamas war and anyone who says otherwise is just trying to hijack a horrific event and twist it to fit their political narrative. Don't downplay the islamophobic racists in the UK and pretend it's Israel's fault. Idiots.
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scavengedluxury · 7 months ago
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It’s just occurred to me that if the Tories are reduced to 100 seats, as several polls are predicting, they will only need 15 MPs to trigger a vote of no confidence. It’s going to be a perpetual circular firing squad isn’t it?
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lost-carcosa · 6 months ago
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Too right wing for her own party, any bets on when she joins Reform?
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explomb · 3 months ago
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Am I American? no. But as someone who's into western politics the first week of November is going to be so stressful for me
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vox-anglosphere · 1 year ago
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When we have to barricade our heroes, something in life is wrong.
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britishtophatwithlondon · 2 months ago
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Do you want edit with tbgb pairing?
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changing-my-username · 7 months ago
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Rishi Sunak may be unelected, but remember that Nigel Farage appointed himself leader of Reform/Brexit party twice
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darkeyedghost · 4 months ago
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KEMI BADENOCH PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP
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tweetingukpolitics · 2 years ago
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Rishi Sunak faces backbench discontent a year into his time in No 10 | Rishi Sunak | The Guardian
Sunak is going to increasingly be trying to appease the far right of his already far right party to keep his leadership role, and that's dangerous for all of us.
They're already talking about ditching the ban on S21s and the ban on conversion therapy.
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tmcphotoblog · 2 months ago
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Political Soulmates
Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former US President Ronald Reagan.
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andysouldancer · 1 year ago
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Starmer praises Thatcher!!!
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lost-carcosa · 6 months ago
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nando161mando · 1 year ago
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The whole gravy train needs to be derailed. MPs should never receive payments from vested interests.
#greed #Labour #ukpolitics
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forgot-how-catflap-works · 4 months ago
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Meet the ghouls squabbling for power in the race to rule the Tories
Tory MPs are donning their robes and sharpening their sacrificial blades this week as they prepare to ritualistically cull a second candidate from the Conservative Party leadership race. 
Priti Patel was eliminated last week after securing just 11.9% of the vote, which already sounds quite embarrassing, then you do the maths and realise that’s a total of 14 votes. Considering the sheer number of controversies that litter her political career like dog shit in a play park, I’m amazed she didn’t perform better.  
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(Formerly of the tobacco industry, Patel voted in favour of overturning the smoking ban because she recognises that mainly poor people use public spaces so, y’know, fuck ‘em.) 
Patel resigned as Home Secretary in 2017 after attending up to a dozen private, unsanctioned meetings with Israeli officials where departmental business was discussed while she was on holiday.
This gross breach of the ministerial code wasn’t enough to prevent her from being reinstated to the position under Boris Johnson’s government, where she dedicated herself to ruthlessly targeting asylum seekers, lobbying for pharmaceutical companies during the height of COVID, and bullying her staff. 
Next up on the chopping block appears to be Mel Stride MP who narrowly escaped elimination last round with a whopping 16 votes. 
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(Launching his campaign, Stride said the Tories need to “build trust with the electorate again", presumably so they can get right back to abusing it.)  
Mr Stride served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury in Theresa May’s cabinet, when he spearheaded the controversial loan charge policy which – as of January 2024 – has been linked to ten suicides. He was then elected as chair of the Treasury select committee, effectively securing himself a position where he was the one responsible for scrutinising his own dastardly deeds and, unsurprisingly, finding nothing to be concerned about. 
Former Minister of State for Security Tom Tugendhat limped a single vote ahead of Stride in the first round. Tugendhat is notable only in how boring he is, and hasn’t even breached the ministerial code once (that we know of). Total amateur. His strategy appears to be to fly below the radar, presumably in the hope the other candidates will destroy each other and he can rule over the ashes. 
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(Having already lost one leadership race to Liz Truss of all people, Tugendhat looks like a surefire bet to lose another.) 
A former soldier, Tugendhat holds some classically conservative positions like increased military spending, opposition to the European Court of Human Rights and wanting a cap on immigration but these days that’s a mild salsa. He appears moderate compared to the others, and lacks the brain rot and crypto-fascist brainworms that UK conservatives have been steadily importing from America over the last decade. The most interesting thing about him is that he had to change his campaign slogan because the acronym spelled TURD. 
Now we’re done with the dregs, let's take a look at the front runners starting with weed smoking, Warhammer playing, porn enjoyer James Cleverly. That makes him sound much more interesting than he is. Having previously filled both the Home and Foreign secretary positions, Cleverly has long had leadership aspirations.  
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(Cleverly once had to apologise for an “ironic joke” about spiking his wife’s drink with rohypnol during a Westminster reception, apparently being both a weird creep and not understanding the definition of irony.) 
Another paint-by-numbers Tory, he stirred up a fuss a few years ago by saying that gay football fans should show "a little bit of flex and compromise" when visiting Qatar for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. He added that it was "important when you're a visitor to a country that you respect the culture of your host nation." Cleverly it seems considers a seven year prison sentence for being gay little more than a cultural quirk rather than something queer football fans might have legitimate concerns over. Basically saying reign it in lads, no need to be homo in public. 
Landing in second place during the last vote is former Minister for Women and Equalities Kemi Badenoch who claimed in a speech last year that transgender people could transition “too easily”. This is supported by the fact that waiting times for an initial assessment are as high as seven years in some parts of the country, so that definitely tracks. Badenoch clearly knows what she is talking about. 
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(Speaking on the Spectator podcast, Badenoch said the Tories need to “stop acting like Labour”. I can only assume she misinterpreted the narrowing ideological gap between Labour and Tories as a softening in her party’s ranks rather than a calcification of right wing leanings in Westminster.) 
Characterised as an “anti-woke” politician, she has also supported conversion therapy for trans people. Speaking like someone who has never actually heard themselves talk, she also claimed that providing gender affirming care for trans kids was a “form of conversion therapy” intended to turn gay kids trans. It’s ironclad reasoning and, as a trans dyke, I value above all else the perspective of a cisgender, hetrosexual woman in all matters relating to queer issues. If anyone is going to lay down the law on who gets to be gay and in what way, it should be her. 
Badenoch bravely announced during a recent campaign video that she was unafraid of fictional character Doctor Who. Furthermore, as a woman of colour, she believes that Britain is not institutionally racist, so we can all stop worrying about that now. What a relief, I was starting to get really concerned about it. You know, what with all the institutional racism that’s been going around. But turns out that was a false alarm, which is probably why she also said “I don’t care about colonialism”. 
Badenoch came out swinging on the subject, making claims broader than my fat ass in order to minimise the brutality of Britain's well-documented colonial history. 
"There was never any concept of 'rights', so [the] people who lost out were old elites not everyday people,” she said in some leaked WhatsApp messages. It’s a relief to know that the three million people who died in the 1943 Bengal Famine were all elites. 
Lego figure cosplayer Robert Jenrick is the current frontrunner, having secured 28 votes in the first round. Jenrick served as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government under Boris Johnson where he dedicated himself to pulling political favours for luxury property developer and Tory party donor Richard Desmond. The move allowed Desmond to avoid paying a community council levy of £40 million which could have been used to fund schools and health clinics. 
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(Courting the far right voters who flocked to Reform in the last election, Jenick resigned from his position as immigration minister, saying the policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda didn’t go far enough.)
Grenfell United, the pressure group dedicated to securing justice for the victims of the Grenfell fire refused to meet with Jenrick in 2020, saying: "Your perceived focus on the interests of property developers over the needs of an impoverished local community has soured our opinion of you.” 
Jenrick also served as Minister of State for Immigration where he took aim at the greatest threat to our nation: unaccompanied asylum seeking children. During a visit to an intake centre in Kent last year he reportedly told staff to paint over a mural depicting cartoons and animals, saying it was a “law enforcement environment” and “not a welcome centre”. 
Finally, someone had the courage to put those kids in their place. If they wanted to experience even a single moment where they felt safe, or like they weren’t completely alone in this terrifying and hostile world, they shouldn’t have crossed the bloody channel should they? They need to learn that actions have consequences, unless of course you’re a Tory politician then you can basically just get away with whatever and certainly not have your political ambition stymied in the slightest. That would be unfair.  
With such political titans in the running, Labour should be quaking in its boots. This gaggle of ghouls is among the finest we could hope for, and the fact that they each crave power enough to run the highest office in the land should in no way concern anyone. As the old adage goes: Power corrupts, but only if you’re a little bitch. 
Which of these unscrupulous, foreigner hating, homophobes will proceed to the next round? Tory MPs will be casting their vote today in order to separate the wheat from the chaff, and trim the eligible candidates down to four. 
This three month slog is only just beginning, so buckle your pants because we have to put up with this fucking circus until November.
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