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

Pathetic isn't it?

Braverman sacked...

You beat me to it.

Struggling to think who’s worse they could appoint. 3p Lee maybe?

in 2023 we just have to enjoy the small victories as they happen

idk, is this where she launches her leadership bid?

Yeah maybe but NV otm

The ironically-named James Cleverly is the new home secretary apparently, which means a whole reshuffle I suppose.

Sunak grows a pair or, more likely, they've been hearing from Tory MPs in nice peaceful Tory constituencies who are shitting themselves over losing their seats to the Lib Dems.

We are lucky that leaning this heavily into fascism is not yet a proven vote-winning strategy in the UK.

> Struggling to think who’s worse they could appoint.

jenrick?

Yeah notably Sunak announced a list of five areas for crackdown, including on "from the rivers to the sea" - but he announced them rather than Braverman or them both together suggests he's comfortable with cracking down on pro-Palestinian marches (while being a lot less fond of the Football Lads Aliiance, sorry I mean the Democratic Football Lads Alliance)

https://web.archive.org/web/20231113090234/https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24714273/rishi-sunak-protest-clampdown-armistice-day-palestine-march/

sadlol Cameron. Sure let's get people used to non-MPs in a Tory Cabinet...

Yes, I'm fairly sure Sunak agrees with Braverman on most things.

the base her rhetoric was playing to are more likely to be Patriotic Alternative members than tory voters and it seems there are some limits to how fascist your speech can be within the UK govt, who'd have thought that was possible!

Does sacking her now mean they expect to lose the Supreme Court appeal on Rwanda?

Lord David Cameron is the new Foreign Secretary. You couldn't make it up.

I think she'd be gone by the end of the week anyway, but the timing has some relevance - there's a ruling on the Rwanda scheme due this week; if the ruling came down against the scheme, then there's the opportunity for her to demand pulling out of the European Court of Human Rights, and leave on a point of principle.

I mean also as a pint of timing, no-one wants to accidentally win a Tory leadership contest before the election!

jesus wept, I thought youse were joking about Cameron

I wouldn't see this as being about policy differences really, much more about Braverman openly ridiculing Sunak's authority

Hahahaha fucking hell, didn’t Sunak slag him off at conference last year

I guess this takes some media attention away from Braverman.

I guess as a side note he wants to appeal to the polite racists of the liberal commentariat rather than actual boot boys but I think that's the lesser issue for him

good to see them leaning back to a more civil and centrist-leaning brand of tory fascism

i guess Cameron felt he’d left some small part of his legacy untarnished so has taken action to correct that

yes it's all about optics, Sunak and Braverman have the same ideology but he's a nice polished man while she's an angry woman*, tories want their fascism served politely

* nb this in no way means you should champion her as a victim of sexism

I can’t believe I’m defending Sunak but while he’s awful, I really don’t think he’s on her level at all

good to see them leaning back to a more civil and centrist-leaning brand of tory fascism

i guess Sunak probably comes from a more globalist ideology if we must be fair to the lad

anyway i'm psyched for Foreign Secretary Cameroon meets Special Ambassador for Genocide T Blair

it would be so hilarious if they beat Starmer in the next GE by matching some of their least shit policies and running a fake one-nation reboot campaign, that 6/1 being quoted might start looking very generous by 2024

Analysis pic.twitter.com/UFsrUbProI

— Peter (@pickyouredge) November 13, 2023

good to see Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan still getting work

my bad, it was Spartacus Mills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pr8xnNi7OM

Massive and Seismic?

Three people?

salad of all the big beasts

big beast more like ROUGH BEAST (its hour come round at last)

https://i.imgur.com/uHFWMDL.jpg

Owen Jones
@OwenJones84
One thing I will say in David Cameron's favour is that, in 2010, he correctly described Gaza as a "prison camp".

He should be asked if he still believes this, because we won't win peace if we erase the historical context of the current horror.

OJ openly calling Ed Balls a sneering prick (paraphrase) cos of that shit podcast he has with George Osborne & this - man’s all out of fucks

Ed Balls best be careful who he’s calling ‘intellectually second-rate’.

lmao the clip with Jones saying "so childish" to Balls as the camera is on gormless Streeting

Ed Balls is a total pos but he’s not stupid

https://i.postimg.cc/BQyNsChY/20231113-123226.png

I haven't had a tv license for years so I am mystified by the media resurrection of charisma-vacuum Ed Balls. Do the public actually like him? And if so, why?

He has powerful friends, such as Gideon.

brb reporting glumdalclitch to the authorities

my sister's a big Strictly fan and I don't think she gives a shit about him

They like Matt Hancock so anything is possible.

xxp for the tv license or not liking ed balls? cos in Der Starmer's UK I guess both might be mandatory.
It's cool though I don't watch tv. I just illegally download

after Hancock's recent media forays Farage is being paid £1.5mil to go eat a kangaroo's balls in the jungle, they all know fine well what a bit of "charm and charisma" can do with the easily-led idiots in this country, c.f the guy on Big Brother who looks like a contender for the win saying he's a Tory because "he'd like to go for martinis with Boris"

Really doubt the public likes Matt Hancock, think it's more that ppl in charge of programming think it'll get eyeballs.