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which is that kind of thing, day after day after day.
Not necessarily.
Man of the people Johnson stayed way away from any people who werent carefully selected.
It depends on whether the media decide to call it out or not.
A Brownian motion no less.
A Brown moment no less.
At least he waited until he was back in the car rather than laugh in her face!
Man of the people Johnson stayed way away from any people who werent carefully selected.
It depends on whether the media decide to call it out or not.
If the opposition parties have any sense, popping some more polite questioners like this lady into his vicinity would produce some absolute gold. The bloke is phenomenally tetchy, clearly dislikes the public and has a short fuse.
He's a little prince. He doesn't think anyone has the right to challenge him and he regards any questioning of his right to do whatever he likes as a personal affront
The most worrying aspect of his obvious Napoleon Complex is that he thinks this extends to ruling by decree, as we saw at yesterdays press conference. I genuinely don't think he really gets this whole democracy lark.
Like Johnson before him, he regards himself as 'World King'
The bloke is phenomenally tetchy, clearly dislikes the public and has a short fuse.
Short-arse bloke syndrome
Having said that, the full video shows him rejoining conversation and then ending with a handshake rather than him just turning his back and stalking off. Still laughed in her face though!
This whole thing was never meant to actually work. Its just some dog whistle, culture war nonsense to try and win voters back from Reform. It’d probably the best thing for the Lords to just wave it through and say ‘crack on then’
It can't work, and if you listen to some pundits, even Cruella didn't expect it to happen, let alone Sunak. By all accounts no private airline will touch these flights with a bargepole for fear of poor publicity. The RAF have said they need £x million pounds to secure any airfield they'd use for these flights (as there are likely to be protesters) which Cruella when she was Home Sec could have easily found down the sofa but didn't.
They are just hoping those 'woke' commie Lords can be blamed for it. Failing them, the UN if they kick up a fuss.
All the more reason to pull out of the European Court of Human Rights so we can remove UK citizens rights so they can make more of a profit out of us ship a few dozen people there.
And… when did “the people” vote for anyone proposing this “stop people applying for asylum in the UK” policy anyway? Remember, this isn’t about off shoring the application process, or deporting people whose application has failed, it is about denying people who have made it to the UK the chance to apply for asylum in the UK at all. And, none of us voted for it. Not a single member of “the people”, only Conservative MPs.
Wales Government have published a thread of all the ignored letters they've sent to Kemi Badenoch / UK biz dept requesting meeting to discuss Port Talbot
https://twitter.com/WGEconomy/status/1748352678567039298?t=bvkQqu1H13eW0ZnerQxY8Q&s=19
Klunk I find the “will of the people” rhetoric quite worrying it has the exceedingly smelly whiff of fascism about it (given that it’s so patently not the will of the people in the slightest).
They've got form for this. I posted this on FB in December 2019...
Running with "will of the people" when you're the 3rd prime minister since the last election and your entire supposed mandate comes from a disgraced leader and a manifesto which has been completely abandoned at least twice and you were elected into your position by literally nobody because you got beaten by a cabbage the time before and so they set it up so you were unopposed and didn't even have to get a majority of the .3% of the electorate that got to choose the last one...
Well it's bold, at least.
The lords have blocked the Rwanda bill with cross party support. Thats it dead now
The lords have blocked the Rwanda bill with cross party support. Thats it dead now
You sure? they can kick it back to the commons to vote again/amend, but once the bill has been ping-ponged between the houses a few times, ultimatley the commons can still vote it through, I'm sure it happened with one of the brexit bills IIRC.
It's been '...delayed to allow more scrutiny' so definitely not dead.
As for future progress, I think mr fez is correct; after bouncing between the two chambers, it will finish up in the commons for a final vote.
That's where it will either stand or fall before the legal challenges start.
I understand the delay motion means it cannot be enacted for a year at least. It has to go back to the commons, the amendments voted down, back to the lords. Sunak has to find parliamentary time to do this IIRC this can be done 3 times? Anyone a student of commons proceedure? Ernie?
for all practical purposes its dead as there is not enough time left in this government to do it is my understanding
IIRC this can be done 3 times?
I belives that's correct.
for all practical purposes its dead as there is not enough time left in this government to do it is my understanding
I didn't consider this, but yes I think that's a tactic thats been used before, causing so much delay that eventually it's out of time to do anythng about it... presumably if it's delayed long enough for the tories loose thier majority in a GE, Labour can squash it, or amend the crap out if it to make it meaningless before voting it through.
Not going to happen with the current tory majority in the commons though, so delay is the name of the game?
This is exactly what he wants though
He can now blame ‘Enemies of The People’ and go full fascist! The worlds most pathetic, dweebiest little wannabe fascist
As he gets more and more desperate I fully expect to see him put pulling out of the ECHR front and centre of the Tory manifesto
I fully expect to see him put pulling out of the ECHR front and centre of the Tory manifesto
Highly likely as I expect that to be the price Reform demands for stepping down in tory constituencies
The Mash absolutely bang on about the ‘will of the people’ issue…
When I say 'will of the people' I mean about 60 ****s sitting behind me, explains Sunak
This is exactly what he wants though
He can now blame ‘Enemies of The People’ and go full fascist!
He has a very short memory!
The Mash absolutely bang on about the ‘will of the people’ issue…
Your link was mangled by the swear filter... this should take people there...
http://tinyurl.com/dailymashwillofthepeople
If the Commons decide to ram this through by deciding to over-rule the Lords (something they can do) then Labour will push to make this a vote of confidence/ no confidence in this Government. That will back a lot of Tory MPs into a corner as they'd have to either back their rhetoric and risk job loss (loss of say 6 months more gravy train) with an election, or show their shameful self preserving yellow streak and back the Gov.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Rishi, clueless as ever, chose to run the clock down by making Rwanda a massive issue. He’ll choose this hill to die on.
It’s not like he’s got owt else interesting to pursue, is it? Other than bombing Yemen.
It’d be so totemic to bring this shambles of a government to a sorry end with both wings of the party hating the policy equally, just for very different reasons and Rishi stuck in the middle like the spineless, hapless referee who everyone hates anyway, who’s lost control of the match in the opening 5 minutes
Another faction for Rishi to contend with. Does this make it the 6 Families?
Mad Lizzie has gone full Peoples Front of Judea. Great name though. Splitter! 😂
If we're talking about "the will of the people" where are the 40 new hospitals promised in the 2019 Tory manifesto?
And don't even get me started on their promises about "Northern Powerhouse Rail".
Yes, I am sad enough to re-read it looking for references to Rwanda. No, I didn't find anything about it. So as usual from the Tories, it's all bullshit and lies.
The whole Rwanda thing was only ever intended as a dead cat to distract from their multiple failings.
Ironic that’s it’s now added to the ever-lengthening list of multiple failings it was meant to be a distraction from
“restoring democratic accountability to Britain”
So that will be abolition of the lords and PR for the commons and councils?
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1699112749832229196
'Healthcare entrepreneur'
Nothing to see here then.
This bombing of the Yemen will help sort Sunak out after the election. Have you noticed how Johnson went from 'borrowing' £800k from a 'distant relly', having JCB pay for his curtains and the taxpayer picking up his bar tab to having now bought a house for £3.8m? Funny that.
Restoring democratic accountability?
That's one of those phrases that is completely meaningless but sounds good to the gammons.
It's not meaningless... it's just the opposite of what they are about, what they have a track record of doing, and what they propose to do in future. Classic Tory Doublespeak. Claim the language as a cover for doing the opposite. See "levelling up", "build back better" etc, etc.
Did anyone catch Rishi's latest intellectual powerhouse appointment - Liz Fraser - in action yesterday on the media rounds?
You'd think it'd be difficult to make your predecessor Nadine Dorres look like an effective, intelligent politician, but she's somehow managed it. Its quite something. She's a KC apparently, but doesn't seem to understand the difference between evidence and speculation...
BBC: Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer tells Kay Burley 'on occasion the BBC has been biased'
Not to be outdone, weapons-grade dimwit and Minister for Rail, Huw Merriman, seems not to understand the the News Quiz on Radio 4 is actually a satirical comedy feature and not actually a news programme. Kay Burley mustn't be able to believe her luck that the Tory Party keep trotting out these utter morons for interview/slaughter...
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1749697943148384767?s=20