Apparently 93 Tory constituencies are outraged that a "snap election" has been called leaving them with their (short) trousers around their ankles, not yet having selected their prospective parliamentary candidate.
Boo hoo. Poor them...
Unless they were expecting our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister Mr Tetchy to cancel all future general elections, we all knew that one would have to be called by January 2025.
Urgent (doit être partie cette semaine 20-27 mai)
Salut les gensses, alors #jeDonne sur #Paris (sud) une commode décorée (par grand-tonton pour Junior il y a un bail), 4 tiroirs (manque un bouton de tirage sur tiroir du bas).
Dimensions :
Long. 87 cm - Haut. 77,5 cm - Prof.40 cm. Le décor du dessus est un peu abîmé à un endroit (voir photo).
À récupérér ici (limite 92/94, lieu en DM) sinon ça va être bazardé. #annonce#LBC#LeBonCoin#don#donner
RT donne l'haleine saveur bière 🖖🏽
The Fixed Term Parliament Act of 2011 was of course, like much else exported from the Westminster Village, a misnomer.
The problem outlined below (the Tories ruling on stolen time) would disappear if we made a simple reform along US electoral (Presidential & Congressional) lines rather than bleating about 'a Parliamentary System is different.'
Simply fix all dates for future General Elections and stick to them +
It's been almost two years since Rishi Sunak became our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister and he's still too frit to secure his own mandate for things like his Rwanda Transportation policy by calling a #GeneralElectionNow but don't worry, be happy - today most of us get to vote in local, mayoral and/or PCC elections.
Perhaps public health officials should issue a new triple-3-word slogan to Conservative voters:
Nick Ferrari cites the European People's Party as his authority for justifying his right-wing views on the Rwanda Transportation policy of the Nastiz.
The EPP is "the largest group in the European Parliament," claims Nick, "and they're not right wing" Ferrari tells a caller.
'Fatso' as one chap calls him, is so ignorant. The EPP is the group the Tories belonged to before they became the Nastiz and joined the far-righters in the EP.
#R4Today is talking about the proposed free vote in the Commons today on a rolling minimum age for smoking which would mean those aged 15 or younger will never be legally entitled to buy cigarettes.
Apparently "former Prime Ministers" are agin it.
Well, Miss Trusst called it "un-Conservative" and Boris Sasha Johnson said something garrulous, erudite and nonsensical to the same effect.
'Nuff said. Can there be any stronger argument for voting in favour?
The Nastiz' Foreign Secretary David Cameron (that's Baron Cameron of Huggahoodie to plebs like me and you) has just said that Israel does not have the "unconditional" support of H.M.'s Government.
What's surprising is that Lord Cameron of Greensill needed to make this explicit.
Israel is a sovereign country, just as is (and was before Brexit) the Untied Kingdom. No country deserves our "unconditional" support.
Fascinating discussion on #LBC during the final hour of James O'Brien's show about Tory MP William Wragg (ironically one of the 'Common Sense' family among the Tories) and his apology for sending RichardImages (as we now probably have to refer to Dickpics to save politicians' blushes).
Left me wondering if Wragg's photograph has been added to the Commons Library's photo-gallery of Members of Parliament...
My apologies to you all. While I was being sarcastic about PM Netanyahu being "so apologetic", listening to his soundbite again I twigged that Netanyahu's words were not even a pseudo-apology.
It was an excuse.
It was 'It's war; shit happens; get over it.'
Even 'friend of Israel', #LBC's Nick Ferrari today distanced himself, saying he's a 'friend of Jewish people', now painting himself a 'critical friend' of the Israeli govt.
While I laud Nick Ferrari for admitting his pro-Israel stance over the last six months of conflict in Gaza, it was news to me he's a member of a pro-Jewish organisation and that he regularly declared such on-air. It's the first time I've heard Ferrari admit it explicitly at 7am when his diatribe starts.
A Damascene conversion is welcome (tho one has to be careful of being "unintentionally" targeted on the Road to Damascus) but why did it take the deaths of three Brits not 30,000 Gazans?
Benjamin Netanyahu is so apologetic about the Israeli air-strike that killed seven international aid workers for World Central Kitchen: "they were unintentionally targeted."
Thee vehicles were unintentionally struck by PGMs at three separate locations over a notified route 2km in length.
As Churchill said 'once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is 'unintentional'.'
If anyone should be criminalised for causing a public pong it should not be the homeless - it should be the bosses of the privatised water companies who are filling the Untied Kingdom's rivers, lakes and coastal waters with our shit...
I wasn't expecting an Easter Honours List from our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister but I wasn't the only one, it seems.
Rishi Sunak has been squatting in No.10 Downing Street for over a year now after an acceptance speech in which he promised to restore 'professionalism', 'integrity' and 'accountability.'
Wondering under which of the above Sunak categorises bunging a Tory party donor a K after Parliament had risen for the break?
As today our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister Rishi Sunak acts out the next scene in his performative tragi-comic melodrama entitled 'Stop The Boats', I am still seething at last night's #C4News report.
Our Home Office is currently granting asylum to Rwandan nationals fleeing President Kagame's repressive regime while Sunak is legislating to assert, ipse dixit, Rwanda is a 'safe country' to which we should transport our own asylum seekers.
On #LBC Nick Ferrari is wringing his hands (after washing his hands) at the number of 'illegal immigrants' who are drowning in the English Channel as he supports Second-Past-The-Post PM Sunak's 'Stop The Boats' performance.
Poor Nick has quaffed the #Nastiz' Kool-Aid: they're only 'illegal' cos the #Tories have defined them so. And the traffickers' business would be undercut and the boats stopped if HMG chose to process asylum claims before claimants cross the water.
Nick Ferrari has just admitted on #LBC that he knows nothing about the people crossing the Channel in small boats.
But that doesn't stop him pontificating on the fate of other human beings after admitting, even flaunting, his own ignorance.
I think I know why people prefer their own 'echo chamber' to opening their minds to the viewpoints of the Right-wingers. It's because the Right spout evil nonsense...
The one person right now who you might have expect to be called to speak in a debate of racism in the House of Commons would be Diane Abbott who, subject of a high profile incidence of racist language from a Tory donor... yet the Speaker said that despite Abbott rising over 40 times to speak during the debate, he ran out of time to call her.
If you wanted to confirm to the average voter that the political system is racist, this would be a good way to do it.
James O'Brien is incensed that Hoyle called Mark Francois instead of giving Diane Abbott a sort of 'Right of Reply' so I rechecked the Order Paper for 13/03:
Is it morally wrong to offer £3000 to failed asylum seekers to be transported to Rwanda instead of being a continuing burden on the public purse? asks this failed government and #LBC's Tom Swarbrick.
Yet another false dichotomy from Rishi Sunak's Nastiz: if refugees cannot be returned home because their safety would be at risk, why not allow them to work here, filling long-standing vacancies and paying taxes.