“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

Yes, she can pull the old Russell Brand switcheroo.

The Blob got her.

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tag yourself

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Her book's called 'Ten Years To Save The Whit-I mean, West'. Don't threaten us with a good time etc.

Members of the government were in fairly short supply at Truss's speech earlier - David Frost was about it, and he's not been in cabinet since they wound up DExEU. A few years ago you'd see cabinet members popup to any old coup, but either Sunak has a tighter grip on them or no-one really fancies the idea of accidentally getting into office just in time for a wipeout. I think occam's razor says that the traits that got her into this are the same ones that means she can't read the room. She's got a book out and Tory party conference is coming up - see if anyone gives her the time of day after that.

Really sad.

Private affluence, public squalor. Britain is becoming an ever more privatised, unequal, and impoverished country with crumbling and disappearing infrastructure and a shrunken culture and public realm—all so that the super rich can engage in dull lives of acquisitive banality. https://t.co/yCiL88fSzS

— Joe Guinan (@joecguinan) September 18, 2023

Compensations paid, now this.

It's hard to overstate the significance of a police officer being charged with murder for a killing they committed on duty. Look at the notes at the end of this press release for details of how rare it is.https://t.co/LArVKFtiOj

— Dave (@MediocreDave) September 20, 2023

Good stuff

The president of Guyana swats away Richard Madeleys stupid question #GMB pic.twitter.com/dPCOukB702

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) September 20, 2023

LOL @ Madeley trying desperately to keep up with the right wing arsehole zeitgeist.

Really funny attempts at a Paxman impression.

My God, this Sunak statement on Net Zero is utter garbage. And all because they didn't lose the Uxbridge by-election! UK = comedy country.

kicking the can up the street again, proper leadership that

What he actually said was that he was putting the long term interests of the country before short term politics - which is the exact opposite of what he's doing! It's completely absurd.

looking forward to the next general election being a bidding war for the votes of the nastiest, most short-sighted and ill-informed voters in the country

nah, those are all on the commons benches already afaict

I think only the last of these is actual national government policy right now? https://t.co/TQkEFlSKmJ

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) September 20, 2023

...and you probably don't need reminding that the last one will create thousands of jobs, grants can be given to those less able to afford it, and it'll actually save people money in the longterm and keep poorer families warmer

honestly can't wait for this prick to die in a plane crash

Just missing 'or whatever it is now and the bins must only be male or female we will check' after 'seven different bins'

lol i hadn't even read that Sunak tweet until you said that

amazing stuff

I wish I had seven different bins to sort my rubbish into tbh.

First I've heard of the compulsory car sharing, good policy though! Expect Labour to denounce it forthwith, even though it doesn't exist.

I used to have a glass bin collection (well to be more accurate it was a box), it was great until the LA cut it because otherwise they'd have to close 4 disability centres ... tough decisions etc.. fuck all these people.

Lads I need the car tomorrow OK? Good.

This will be go down really well if there is the south east/west floods in the next year.

The way the rain is coming down at the moment those floods might arrive sooner than you think.

the thought did cross my mind that the miserable pissy rain might've had something to do with the timimg of this statement

All of this is so fucking evil

I lie awake literally every night worrying about the planet my kids are going to grow up on and then shit like this happens.

The way the rain is coming down at the moment those floods might arrive sooner than you think.

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Imagine the lack of investment in infrastructure and a climate event combining to decimate SE England and crashing house prices?

It's all such extremely short-termist, penny-wise pound-foolish stuff, utterly transparent to anyone

Some of this could ostensibly be rowed back by a different government but pushing 100% EV sales back to 2035 probably could not be; you can't tell global car makers one date, then give them 5 years' breathing room, and then pull it back up to the original date

xpost I live in Stratford near the marshes so I'll be one of the first images on the 10 'clock news, waving down a helicopter from my roof

They're so convinced that this is what the general hard working family public want too. Not exactly sure why. It's probably going to please the hardcore Tory headbangers in 5ge electorate but they're not going to win them an election

Well the Daily Mail hailed it as FINALLY COMMON SENSE so that's someone pleased.

A summer full of catastrophic fires and floods all over the world seems to have resonated with people, just from the conversations I have with people at work. Plus anyone under 30? Forget it!

(xp) Yes, the Telegraph love it... Sunak has gone from (net) zero to hero overnight.

What the UK does or doesn't do isn't a huge issue, to me. It's too small. China is adding huge amounts of renewables this year and some targets are being met. You can see other cities around Europe doing things too.

It's not enough but I suspect things will accelerate globally.

There is a kernel of underlying reality to all debates about climate policy - who shoulders the costs? And UK politics is built on two parties both happy to disproportionately lumber the poorest with this. Of course that doesn't mean that any chat from the parties about hard working families is done in good faith, quite the opposite. But any form of flat tax is regressive and it's ok to call it as such

xp Yeah the manufacturers are furious about this, not least because Labour immediately said "no, that won't happen, we'll reverse that" (though we'll wait to see whether they'll stand on it)

sunak was on radio 4 this morning talking about it, but as soon as i realised who it was i turned it off so i've no real idea if he said anything even vaguely convincing.

did find this though:
https://transact.westminster.gov.uk/env/streetreport.aspx?Street=Downing%20Street&USRN=8400071

it's quite obvious to me that he has people who put his bins out for him

the four words i did hear him say was that the uk is doing more than anyone else already. british exceptionalism again...

UK is the second biggest carbon emitter in Europe iirc

the pure daftness of allocating quanta of responsibility for global catastrophe to individual nation states should discount those arguments at source but people like to wrinkle their brows I guess

really surprising to see all those good apples in the Met trying to subvert a murder trial

Not being able to legally execute young black men in broad daylight is the thin end of the wedge for them, where would it end?!

the MoD have offered military support tho so the streets will stay safe

this all feels very liberal democracy

Imagine the lack of investment in infrastructure and a climate event combining to decimate SE England and crashing house prices?,

Storm Agnes about to hit but it's missing the South East so who cares, trebles all round etc.

Jack Straw, home sec, in 2000 and Phil Woolas, immig min, in 2009 also called for changes to Geneva convention https://t.co/87PtCJk6pe

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) September 26, 2023

See also Tony Blair, A Journey pic.twitter.com/xHmmUrxAHJ

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) September 26, 2023

Rentoul pointing out that the Braverman comments that provoked such outrage are not that different from things prominent New Labour figures used to say. I don't know if this is encouraging (the discourse has changed and there is now more pushback against these ideas?) or if it just indicates that a lot of the people currently denouncing Braverman will shrug it off when Starmer and Cooper make the same arguments in 18 months time, probably the latter

it was bad then and it's bad now john you undead cunt

you'd think he'd be all in favour of fresh blood