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

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

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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.

Minister for Common Sense ffs burn it all down

(xp) He did rather well on "I'm A Celebrity".

Esther McVey in as "anti-woke" "commonsense tsar" ffs

oh nv already alluded to that

Hancock also did well on some Celeb SAS thing that Gareth Gates won recently

this moment truly spoke for the nation though:

I really need the Covid Inquiry to call Hancock a “weasel-faced cunt”. pic.twitter.com/KDAjxJlRbT

— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) October 31, 2023

*eating popcorn gif*

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/14/starmer-under-pressure-to-back-labour-amendment-on-gaza-ceasefire

Channel 4's Cathy Newman reports that 17 Labour frontbenchers expect to be sacked on Wednesday for voting in favour of a Gaza ceasefire.

so I'd presume that would be only Lammy and Reeves of the frontbench who are backing Kieth's Pentagon subservience here, that's what he calls leadership.

finally a chance for Kieth to purge the hard left firebrands from his shadow cabinet

wish I were still able to wring some small joy from the latest sagas in the tory civil war

My letter to the Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/7OBzaZnxr2

— Suella Braverman MP (@SuellaBraverman) November 14, 2023

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my letter to the prime minister

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just concerned that she's going to start a leadership challenge now and the desperate tories might actually pick her, it doesn't sound any more unlikely than a number of other things which have happened recently

I would really like her to do that

Another 40 days. I'm down for it

I would remind my honourable friend that this is main

not much chance of 54 letters to Brady this time, alas.

there might not be 54 of them still planning to stand next time

James Butler is as ever good on all of this, "repetition compulsion" sums things up well
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/repetition-compulsion

She hasn't a hope in hell of being Tory leader... ever. She's completely blown whatever chance she might have had. While she's been ranting and raving and annoying 70% of the British public, Kemi Badenoch has been waiting in the wings, keeping shtum, to hoover up votes from the Tory right.

that would also be bad

(Rwanda plan deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court, by the way).

I don't want to describe it as hopeful, but it is at least funny that there's the Conservative Democratic Organisation, the New Conservatives, the Common Sense Group, the Conservative Growth Group all claiming to represent the Tory Right

🧵1/? MEGATHREAD: How landlord lobbying works.

It was Day 1 of the Renters Reform Bill Committee today in Parliament

One of the highlights was Shadow Housing Minister @mtpennycook throwing the words of one of the chief landlord lobbyists - Ben Beadle - back at him. pic.twitter.com/F6Rd2tjNt3

— Tom Darling (@a_darling_tom) November 14, 2023

Rwanda policy would still be unlawful even if UK were not party to European convention on human rights, says supreme court

LOL

Get our underfunded armed forces to sort this mess out.

Sienna Rodgers
@siennamarla
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NEW: I hear the ceasefire amendment has 50+ Labour rebels – including more than a dozen frontbenchers

if you've lost jess phillips then maybe you should take the hint kieth

Among expected resignations - names circulating incl. Jess Phillips and Kim Leadbeater https://t.co/sLPNUy6cUi

— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) November 15, 2023

The advisors are such weirdos I'd be amazed if this ends up as a free vote

dont want to credit jess with taking a moral stand though - guessing her constituency being 20% muslim may be a factor

Yup, don't know whether that would affect her majority but it's purely transactional.

Keir’s constituency must have at least that many (if not more) Muslim voters.

But you don’t have to be Muslim to find the leadership’s fudges to be appalling.

sorry about the source, this is from the 2011 census anyway

https://www.conservativemuslimforum.org/can-we-help/resources/muslim-demographics-by-constituency/

Here are the results on SNP’s motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

125 ayes, 293 noes.
The defeat is to be expected, details on which Labour MPs defied Starmer will be coming soon.

At least three shadow mins have quit from The Guardian blog:

In the last few minutes, Afzal Khan has resigned as shadow minister for exports, Paula Barker has quit as shadow minister for devolution and the English regions, and Yasmin Qureshi has stepped down as shadow women and equalities minister.

Fleas deserting the flea circus

Jess Phillips resigned!

Message to MPs:
We are watching. We will not forget.#CeasefireForGazaNOW pic.twitter.com/iLAM4PVr2x

— Chris Nineham (@ChrisNineham) November 15, 2023

Mikey Walsh
@thatbloodyMikey
I actually cannot believe this.. Layla Moran shut down while speaking about family dying in Gaza, Lammy stands up, offers condolences, then goes on to urge people not to support a ceasefire.. Margaret Beckett interjects, & states she wont even use the word "Ceasefire". Monsters