Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis...
Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis, Scandals, Cover ups.
Judges act to thwart #Tory attempts to have a defacto ban on protest in the UK…
‘The High Court has ruled that the Government acted unlawfully in creating legislation which gave the police ‘almost unlimited’ powers to restrict protests.
Following a landmark legal challenge from human rights organisation Liberty, the Court has ordered the law to be quashed.’
“the British state – medical professionals, civil servants, politicians – all of whom felt their job was to protect their own reputation rather than to serve and look after the public who they were there to serve”
•These are mostly #tory governments
•The State just lost its duty of care to greed and corruption (Covid for ex. made a lot of tories very rich and gave them parties to enjoy) It is what they are and will ever be: very rich guys who milk the State to enrich themselves&f*ck the people‼️
I've been listening to the second half of The Rest Is Politics interview with #Kwarteng, and my take away is what TRIVIAL people everyone involved is. Kwarteng is supposed to be one of the intellects of the #Tory party, but they can none of them – not Kwarteng, not Campbell, not even Stewart – string two concepts together.
Leading: 74. Kwasi Kwarteng: Liz Truss, becoming Chancellor, and Britain on the brink (Part 2)
'For years this has been described by water companies and politicians as a problem of “Victorian” sewers.' 'In fact, modern sewers are the problem. Very little of the British sewer system – less than 1 per cent, in some areas – is Victorian, and it is not the Victorian sections that are responsible for the most spills.'
"The [European] Convention [on Human Rights] was drafted [...] in the aftermath of the horror of the Second World War, but over 70 years ago. And it's now clearly been overtaken by events"
— Conservative and Unionist Party MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, House of Commons, 2024-05-14
#TLDRNews is often shallow, and one drinking game that can be played is waiting to see how far into the video we get until there is an utterly boneheaded factual, proofreading, or captioning error.
But this video, in spite of its faults, does bring home the sheer scale of the resignations, withdrawals of the whip, suspensions, and defections that have happened to the Conservative and Unionist Party in this Parliament.
The Inflated ego of Norfolk #Tory County Council leader Kay "Will of the People" Mason Brillig (and the Slithey Goves) reckons she's Foreign Secretary now, signing meaningless bits of paper, but it's clear which local airhead put such grandiose notions into her head.
They blather about hoping to boost business, having burned our Single Market links to existing twin towns Rouen (that's France, Kay) & Koblenz (Germany).
Another #Tory former chancellor decides they don’t want the electorate to have the opportunity to pass judgment on their poor record in government…and hey there’s a revolving door to pastures more lucrative.
All these stories about certain racist, hate-filled people crossing the floor and defecting to the Labour party, and no one has picked up the real story yet.
The Labour party has defected to the Tory party. They are now one.
I'm incensed to see #Starmer say ”Winning the trust of people across past divides, such as leave and remain, or yes and no in Scotland, is vital.”
#Brexit and #Scottish independence are not past divides, they're current. Leaving the #EU has been a disaster which in no way resembles the promises of the Leave campaign. #Scotland deserves to be able to reassess the union as so much has changed since the #independence vote a decade ago.
While #SadiqKhan won the #election for #LondonMayor, beating #Tory candidate #SusanHall, after a very fractious campaign, the quote of the day belongs to one of the minor candidates standing, #CountBinface (no relation to #LordBuckethead), who still beat the #BritainFirst's #NickScanlon and said,
"It looks like I have defeated Britain First in an election.
“Come on, you have to cheer about that…down with fascism, up with Ceefax, what can I say?”
Direction of travel of English Nationalist #Tory policy is the abolition of the State Pension altogether. The richest man in Parliament #Sunak refused to rule out retirement age increase by 8 years, from 67 to 75 to pay for his Government's moral & economic bankruptcy. Pitifully inadequate as it is, you can have paid National Insurance all your working life & expect zippo back at the end of it. An outrageous repudiation of the social contract. Tory philosophy is they can tax, & give none back.
Grant #Shapps, formerly Energy Minister, signed off on policy without considering evidence, finds High Court. He "assumed" targets "would be met".
Now Grant Shapps is #Tory Defence Minister. Every day, we must assume he now signs off on defence policy, without evidence, assuming Britannia rules the waves, and that there's nothing that can compare to the British Grenadiers.
He's a former "get rich quick" web marketer who traded under the pseudonym "Michael Green".
Meanwhile, a resentful minority, including 2 of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom, suffered the confiscation of their EU citizenship rights against their will.
#Tory policy is to appease the Right Wing headbangers. Weak & unstable.