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Budget in 4 weeks; Sunak likely to be new chancellor; god help us.
So the Chancellor is basically Dominic Cummings sock puppet?
The whole government are Cummings sock puppets
Yep. Looks like all government ministers are now essentially just spokesmen for Dom. All policy is being written by him in number 10
Sajid clearly forgot to remove remainer speach from his website, resign? my arse...
it's a bit rich from Ken Clarke, he voted for/with Boris even after being ejected from the party. This is just as much on you, ****ing hypocritical cancer stick apologist.
It's a parody account.
Roflmao
Enjoying watching boris **** this up - pissing off brexiteers, America, the EU, Senior Tory politicians.
It’s like Trump all over again, but more pathetic.
Kelvin - thanks for posting the Andrew Neil clip which perfectly illustrates why johnson was running scared of Neil before the GE.
What I read into this is that Sajid was being advised by his team about how much money he could realistically allow Boris to spend in the upcoming budget. Boris obviously didn't like the number he was given as he's been making promises left, right and centre that it was now obvious he couldn't deliver. Sajid refused to override his advisor's recommendations but Boris didn't want to be seen to be sacking a man he had recently thrown all his support behind so came up with the wheeze to persuade him to sack is advisory team and replace them with one that was more in line with the thinking of Boris. Sajid didn't like this so tendered his resignation, thus also removing his team of advisors. Boris could then parachute in a more friendly Chancellor and team that will allow him to spend what he has promised without being seen to be nasty and sack Sajid.
Basically Boris is engineering it so that he's surrounded by 'Yes' men that will bow to his superior position. When things go tits-up he can then hide behind them by saying he was advised incorrectly and that it's not his fault. IF your advisors and team never question your motives then what you have is uncontrolled power, which never ends well.
I think we may need to sit this all out and hope Boris is the architect of his own downfall quickly as fighting any of this will be very, very hard to do. With no real opposition the sooner he reveals his true self to everyone the better I fear.
I think you give too much credit to Boris, he's just doing what weaselface Cummings wants. Unfortunately Cummings is marginally more intelligent so the dictatorship will last longer than if it was just Boris.
I reckon it really just boils down to Joris wanting to spunk borrowed cash as much as possible to distract from the real structural damage that Brexit will cause.
Thick as mince Duncan Smith was saying as much the other day.
What I read into this is that Sajid was being advised by his team about how much money he could realistically allow Boris to spend in the upcoming budget. Boris obviously didn’t like the number he was given as he’s been making promises left, right and centre that it was now obvious he couldn’t deliver.
That's certainly a big part of it.
I think we may need to sit this all out and hope Boris is the architect of his own downfall quickly as fighting any of this will be very, very hard to do.
Yes, but then we'll all have to start paying back the money Boris has spent. 🙁
I reckon it really just boils down to Joris wanting to spunk borrowed cash as much as possible
This. 🙁
Boris is an expert at cashing cheques he didnt write...
so borrowing umpteen billions of someone elses money and getting someone else to pay it back to underwrite his ambition to stay in power holds no fear for Bojo
Might buy the mirror todwy...
And another new low.
Boris Johnson’s spokesman has refused to say whether the prime minister thinks black people have lower IQs on average
The fact he has to asked...
I'll see your new low, and raise/lower you the advisor apparently suggesting compulsory contraception/forced sterilisation for the lower orders - if I learnt to do links I'd take you there.
50p says Dominic has been kicked out by the Summer
I’ll see your new low, and raise/lower you the advisor apparently suggesting compulsory contraception/forced sterilisation for the lower orders – if I learnt to do links I’d take you there.
Same guy
Ah, couldn't open that link, did wonder how they'd found two such maniacs, but it is the Tory party 🤷♂️
if I learnt to do links I’d take you there.
Copy what's in your address bar, and paste it into your reply. Forum will do the rest.
Correct link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/17/no-10-refuses-to-comment-on-pms-views-of-racial-iq
Dr Adam Rutherford on Twitter (genius scientist/geneticist/author) has ripped Andrew Sabinsky and his cod psychology apart on twitter, quite amusing to read his take down on johnsons/cummings newly employed gobshite.
Is it Rutherford with the new book "How to argue with a racist"?. Sounds an excellent read
Yeah, that's him.^
Just shared the BBC story on this on my Facebook feed, just to see which of my Tory voting associates would bite.
Only one to come back so far feels that this is still a much better option than Diane Abbott as Home Secretary.
I've asked him to publicly clarify his own position re racist and sexist remarks, and eugenics. His employer might be interested in any public comments.
The Sabinsky is spot on, he just needs to flip the model and only apply it to the Tory party...
Simples.
Sabisky doesn't exactly look like a prime example of the master race either. Weird how the people most keen on eugenics always seem to look like they are more towards the shallow end of the gene pool.
Ooofff steady i have only paddled in the shallow end myself.
Weird how the people most keen on eugenics always seem to look like they are more towards the shallow end of the gene pool.
I find it remarkable that, given the aryan ideal they were promoting, how no one said to Goebbels or Himmler "er hang on a minute lads". Or perhaps they did and ended up dead.
Cod psychology mixed with a selective reading of some of history's 'edgier' philosophers is a dangerous thing. And we have a population where a large proportion think Joris Bohnson is a genius because he knows a bit of Latin. Scary combination.
Jesus H Christ.
It's the 21st century and eugenics is being discussed in a way other than pointing out the huge damage and deaths such believes caused.
Not on here I mean but by our elected politicians and advisors. Chilling.
That story is amazing, it actually made me side with Grant Shapps.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51538493
Sabisky resigns too much of a nightmare even for the nasty party
Is that a new record?
He may well have been put up by Dom to test the elastic limit of the Tory faithful? Cummings has always used this type of approach for example he established that Farage was just far enough off centre for the Tory faithful by monitoring reaction to him and the Brexit party as well as running facebook campaigns to confirm this.
Expect more of this.
Is Spaffs eyeing up a replacement for Chequers with what appears to be the much grander Chevening estate. Handy for Biggin Hill, isn't it private airport of choice for people wanting to get in and out of the UK without excess coverage?
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BBC being torn up, already undermined by cabinet refusing to do r4 or newsnight, Johnson avoiding Andrew Neil.
Murdoch launching Times radio as an alternative to R4
Htf that Sabisky idiot was hired, let alone allowed to resign & not fired , is beyond me .
Cummings may have a good grasp of populist triggers, but the psuedo intellectuals using science to justify their hard right views is taking us to a crappy place.
By turning everything into a culture war they've conned millions into voting for all this to happen, believing it's in their interests.
Chickens will come home to roost.
It's just a question of when and just how bad and what form the backlash will take.
We aren't even close to how bad this will all get first though.
Oh, things will get much much worse Poopscoop, but don’t bet on the backlash… the anger will be directed elsewhere (amongst those who voted for/with him in 2016 and 2019 at least) and as long as they look to have a plan to keep the Tories in power, the Vote Leave team will keep control of the Conservative party… and assuming that plan works (who’d bet against them?), they will control the government for a long long time.
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Anyone heard whats happening to the russian report?
all gone very quiet about that....
Anyone heard whats happening to the russian report?
The Prime Minister has told us that there is nothing of interest in it.
Why would you possibly want more info than that?
Why are the press not pushing them on the Russian report - or Corbyn? PMQs this week he's got the Nazi adviser and the Russia report, if he can't score a decent goal with those he really is a waste of space
Last week johnson said the russian report would be released when a security review of it's contents was complete.
Before the GE it, apparently, was complete and ready for release but GE rules prevented that.
Excuses, clear reluctance to release si something to hide.
I just signed the petition “Save Our BBC” and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.
Is there one for getting rid of the BBC - or at least making it (non-compulsory)subscription only?
PMQs this week he’s got the Nazi adviser and the Russia report, if he can’t score a decent goal with those he really is a waste of space
Are you somehow unfamiliar with his previous 'work'? No man, when faced with a yawning open goal and acres of space, is more certain to boing it straight into Row Z.
He's barely even phoning-in his shouty 10 second YouTube clip nowadays. Why he's still here is anybody's guess
Last week johnson said the russian report would be released when a security review of it’s contents was complete.
Before the GE it, apparently, was complete and ready for release but GE rules prevented that.
Excuses, clear reluctance to release si something to hide.
I still have my money on Russia leaking it first
Last week johnson said the russian report would be released when a security review of it’s contents was complete.
Before the GE it, apparently, was complete and ready for release but GE rules prevented that.
Excuses, clear reluctance to release si something to hide.
TBH what’s going to happen even if it states that the Tory party was bankrolled by the Russians 🙂
TBH what’s going to happen even if it states that the Tory party was bankrolled by the Russians
"You lost, we won, get over it!" etc.
Pointing out any corruption of British Democracy is now just sore losing apparently.
Pointing out any corruption of British Democracy is now just sore losing apparently.
I think you'll find its actually subversive anti-British behaviour. What are you? Some kind of enemy of the people?
I just signed the petition “Save Our BBC” and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.
It's almost as if the penny has just started to drop that the last 3 years of giving a platform to Farage and Johnson has not actually bought the BBC any friends in govt., whilst simultaneously alienating their potential supporters.
They seek him here, they seek him there......so where is the blond buffoon?
so where is the blond buffoon?
it was part of ‘Team Johnson’s’ leadership and election campaigns to keep him out of the spotlight and minimise the chances of him torpedoing himself by saying something stupid.
Seems to be a strategy that succeeds and fails for the same reason. It’s not ok for him to say anything stupid now that he’s in power. There’s more at stake than a job now. So they have to keep hiding him.
He's hiding
He/cummings see no point in putting his face to.anything, big majority, full term, the electorate have the memory of goldfish, so just keep him hidden away until it's election time.
If he pops up to handle questions about floods, austerity, inequality, he just blusters & looks foolish.
During the election he his in a fridge to avoid Morgan, was pwnd by Varadakar, his from Neil
His cowardice is strangely a strength in the world of the brexit culture war.
you'd think he'd want to cement his churchillian image by standing on Shrewsbury town bridge waving his cycling helmet wbove his head on his walking still shouting at the assembled throng "We can take it!"
Amazing times eh?
Brexit, flooding, Covid.... no PM.
They’re terrified. They now own Brexit, lock, stock and barrel
And because they've painted themselves into a ‘no surrender’ corner it’s going to be an absolute ****ing disaster.they know this full well, so they’re getting their hiding under the table practice in early.
The next 9 months are going to be hiding while phoning in excuses before the inevitable economic catastrophe detonates like an H bomb
That’s going to be fun to watch. Well it would be. If I didn’t have to rely on the UK Economy being a bit better than the Greek economy during the Euro crisis it’d actually be pretty funny
Its a Victorian farce, but the Tory heartlands have a sweat on - Fruit and Veg Farmers are quietly saying "what the **** are you doing" Hospitality, Care Homes, Food Producers/packers all run by middle England Tories and they are shitting them selves. They expect the Tory party to look after and protect their interests - they really dont like Priti telling them to pay more wages and automate.they dont like Boris pandering to Northern working poor... middle England is getting shafted.
If Starmer gets his "proposition" right Boris may well have a very big problem come next election... we might see a blue wall turn red.
we might see a blue wall turn red.
That sounds worryingly like a call to arms for a mass march on westminster to drag the ****ers out from their holes and give the crowds a pound of flesh.
Hmm?........yeah ok - given what brexit has done to my health regarding cancelation of a medical genetic trial to halt my secondary progressive ms ...i'm fine wi that, although i can't stand up these days so i'll go for their legs/ankles.
Edit : just spoke to my bro and he's offered us his spare 5 archery bows and as many easton shaft arrows as we can carry, he's keeping his best hoyt bow for himself as he says he could take down a fleeing boris at 150yards+, sometime in september would suit me fine but i'm open to suggestions.
(i'm kidding ffsake....... do you lot not recognise humour?, bows would be pointless with my teenage knowledge of the anarchists cookbook and living on a farm)
Had another middle englander moan the other day that the immigration policy will allow clever young people to come in and take jobs from local not quite as clever young people...
Starting to look like Dominics thoughts are getting rolled out as policy based upon his previous success (dont question "Obe ****ynobby").. and maybe the backbenchers are not quite as sure. Its noticeable that the vocal masses of the Tory party are saying nowt.
Not a call to Arms more a Blairite opportunity may be presenting itself.
I think Boris has made multiple bad calls...
1. HS2 (pissed offmost people)
2. Huawei (pissed off ex cabinet ministers)
3. immigration (see above)
4. Sajid resignation (viewed as a safe pair of hands - so why did he leave)
5. Not visiting flood victims (Tory Heartlands)
6. Being told to suck upthe new world order
7. Potential bad calls to come for the Tory faithful-
Pension contributions tax relief
Removal of entrepreneurs tax allowance
Wage inflation
Cost of investing in automation
8. Reduction in Farm subsidies
Reduction in Farm subsidies
Surely farmers knew that this was going to happen? Everyone who voted for Brexit knew what they were voting for.
Well many Farmers believe they will be looked after regardless of the economic situation....
oldmanmtb2
Well many Farmers believe they will be looked after regardless of the economic situation….
Poor buggers didn't realise that to the estate owning toffs who run the country, real farmers are just slightly better off peasants...
Any one enjoying the Boris party political broadcast on itv now 🙂
Gotta keep the brainwashing going.
Farmers were specifically told that they would not lose out from Brexit.
At some point, people are going to be very angry at the lies they were told and promises that are being broken. Probably wise to upset all the ones most likely to hold firearms licences early on in the process 🤔
Missed it. Couldn't watch it anyway. Gives me acid reflux.
Blue wall red wall.... Boris is building a problem.... the "Dom" magic works both ways.... the Tory faithful really dont like Dom or his Trotsky approach to things, middle England has no desire to dismantle the Civil Service.
Bojos problem is the enemy within.
Just watch this unfold.
Any one enjoying the Boris party political broadcast on itv now 🙂
Gotta keep the brainwashing going.
Is it another classic from Spaffs and Cumms?
At some point, people are going to be very angry at the lies they were told and promises that are being broken.
I doubt it. Judging by the bresiteers I know who are now saying " no deal is what we were told and wanted, there will be some short term pain for long term game" and refuse to listen to anything different - and their favourite sources of news do not report the downsides anyway.
Any ill effects will be blamed on the EU
I'm not so sure TJ - one of the resident Brexiteers in the office was looking rather embarrassed as one of my colleagues pointed out the obvious flaw in one of his Brexit arguments today, the penny is dropping for some of them. Even my Dad appears to have understood the additional problems it will cause his grandchildren - my mum continues to move to the far right of Attila the Hun though
Farmers were specifically told that they would not lose out from Brexit.
There are about 150k farmers in the uk. Sounds like a lot but it roughly translates as 20 - 25 per constituency - although in reality theres probably 100 odd constituency where theres no farmers at all. But I doubt in even the most rural seats famers would swing the vote 🙂
We genuinely are Lost In Space Brexit.
No one genuinely knows how this will end. It's unprecedented.
Obviously it's very unlikely you have a good outcome but it's going to have other side effects we can't even begin to calculate.
I wish I had the wealth to distance myself from it so I could just look on with fascination and regret. I haven't though so I'm just being washed along with the tide like most of us are.
Oh, and the conovirus outbreak now gives the Torys the perfect excuse for a poor economy for a few years. Basically they can't blame everything on Labour (or Brexit) after all these years so conovirus has happened along at the perfect time.👍
Recent CLP meeting I attended in Lincolnshire discussed how to better connect with farmers as they would be amongst the first to feel Brexit pain; I'm not referring to 'gentleman' farmers or major landowners.
There was a clear recognition by those who attend party conference and are true activists that labour have become an urban party but also a view that party leadership doesn't seem to have a coherent plan for rural areas.
It's not just farmers, it's everyone employed in the rural economy; that includes the complete agricultural supply chain and food producers/processors amongst many others.
Clearly, an opportunity for Labour but they need a comprehensive and clear plan which must be clearly targeted.
As for johnson & co, they completely own this to the Nth degree; EU are making their red lines clear; some brexiters will recognise how the gov are stuffing this up; others will insist the UK is being impeded by the EU - no hope for them.
This will be a long and painful lesson for the UK; painful, that is, for those who cannot afford to insulate themselves from the financial and economic consequences so.....most of the population.