I also keep wondering if Raab knows what Kafkaesque actually means. I think I probably know the answer. I’d put my house on the fact that he’s never read a word of it.
This is the man who thought reading the 32 pages og the Good Friday Agreement was too much effort
https://twitter.com/damian_barr/status/1649371914371047424?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
it's a horror movie called "the Blob" where faceless bureaucrats make you read important documents in comic sans
lets face it everyone know yer a wrong un' if Littlejohn and Farage are in your corner.
Let's not forget he also had an injunction against him for harassing a woman (allegedly)
https://twitter.com/mi6rogue/status/1545869633135300609?t=bkrxFh3vKZ3B0QsBQA9MZA&s=19
Really ****ing angry at the usual suspects in tne Press running with the civil service undermining the democratic will of the people and making the country "ungovernable"
The tone deaf arrogance of Raab and further fuelling the culture war is sickening.
I've also had a bit of a chance to read some of the report and one thing that immediately stands out is a quote from the Ministerial Code
Harassing, bullying or other inappropriate or discriminating behaviour wherever it takes place is not consistent with the Ministerial Code and will not be tolerated.
Reiterated further when reissued in 2019
There must be no bullying and no harassment …
So whether he and his supporters feel the threshold for bullying is getting too low, the code is harassment, and from what I've read that is pretty clear. Indeed - when he has a reputation and/or you have seen that manifest in the types of behaviours that are reported (but in some cases not proven / still hearsay) then whether you personally are subjected to that behaviour or not - having and to an extent cultivating that image to keep people scared of him is in my mind a form of harassment and bullying anyway.
Really **** angry at the usual suspects in tne Press running with the civil service undermining the democratic will of the people and making the country “ungovernable”
And repeated on radio and tv media.
Really **** angry at the usual suspects in tne Press running with the civil service undermining the democratic will of the people and making the country “ungovernable”
Yep, the BBC headlines are focusing more on Rab's attack lines on the "militant civil service" rather than the fact he has been found guilty of bullying. You would think he was the victim in all this.
Thats a classic BBC taking its "neutrality" from the midpoint of the press. If the right wing papers talk about how he was forced out unfairly then the bbc will use that line.
I had no idea that Dominic Raab had turned a safe Tory seat with huge majority of almost 20k in 2010 into a marginal seat with a majority of only 2,743 in 2019.
I don't think there is any doubt that he won't be re-elected in 18 months time.
You would think he was the victim in all this.
From his own resignation letter, his subsequent Torygraph piece (which was published suspiciously quickly after the resignation) to all the further press coverage, there was clearly a pre-ordained and Co-ordinated campaign to make that the narrative
I would not be remotely surprised to see this ‘Enemies of the People’ bollocks lead to a government campaign of attrition against senior civil servants and I fully expect that Raabs exile to the backbenches will last about as long as Suella Bravermans.
It’s about as credible as Mad Lizzies recent insane ‘deep state’ whiterings, but they’ve obviously got a receptive audience amongst Daily Mail readers who somehow believe that the civil service, the BBC etc are all run by communists
It’s about as credible as Mad Lizzies recent insane ‘deep state’ whiterings, but they’ve obviously got a receptive audience amongst Daily Mail readers
It should perhaps not be forgotten that Liz Truss's premiership only lasted 49 days precisely because she was so deeply unpopular with Tory voters, not because the Guardian newspaper didn't approve of her.
The last opinion poll before Rishi Sunak became Tory leader gave Labour a 33% lead over the Tories. More than half the electorate said that they would vote Labour.
Yes, but in the deranged world view of Truss, produced by the yawning chasm between her ears, nothing is her fault, EVER!
It obviously must have been a conspiracy by the ‘deep state’ and ‘the economic orthodoxy’ that brought her down, not her own limitless stupidity
Don’t forget that all the esteemed organs of the popular press now defending Raab with ridiculous conspiracy theories also hailed Liz Truss as an economic genius when she revealed her unhinged tax cutting agenda
Yeah but it didn't work. Liz Truss was gone in 49 days. Quite a remarkable achievement for someone fully backed by populist tabloids.
She was gone in 49 days because she cost the comfortable, middle class Tory voters actual money.
Her debt-fuelled, tax-cutting, Uber-neoliberal economic suicide vest detonated in the leafy Home Counties suburbs. ‘Natural’ Tory voters watched their pension pots shrink as their mortgage payments went up
There’s no coming back from that. Ask John Major.
I’m convinced that all those more affluent southern constituencies that ALWAYS deliver Tory MPs will let ‘The Natural Party of Government’ do what the hell it likes politically, the expectation (rightly) being that they will ALWAYS be the beneficiaries of any policy
Once that is clearly no longer the case, you’re done
I doubt being compared to a lettuce helped much, but it wasn’t that that sunk her. She did that all by herself.
Liz was gone because she hit the Tory core vote in their bank balances with her economic lunacy. Simple as that.
Rishi is where he is now because he clearly articulated throughout the entire protracted leadership campaign exactly what would happen if she went ahead with her insane agenda and he was proved calamitously correct
nothing is her fault, EVER!
It's quite Stalinist. Nothing can be the fault of the idea, of the centre. It must either be weaklings not doing it properly, or traitors deliberately to sabotage it. so by default you become the victim. It's quite a narcissism.
I missed this from.a few days ago but it's worth linking...
https://twitter.com/Ryanair/status/1647942981607997448?t=A1OUu2CCwG6mMrmuXIJzCg&s=19
They've stuck their oar in with the whole Raab thing as well.
It’s quite Stalinist. Nothing can be the fault of the idea, of the centre. It must either be weaklings not doing it properly, or traitors deliberately to sabotage it. so by default you become the victim. It’s quite a narcissism.
Its a cult I find absolutely inexplicable. It chooses to ignore the absolutely enormous weight of evidence against their bizarre economic ideology, despite having a front row seat to witness its catastrophic implosion, and seeks to lay the blame anywhere and everywhere other than where it obviously belongs.
There are still a rump of Tory MPs who would do the whole thing again tomorrow, as this time it would definitely work, if only if it weren't for those pesky traitors and saboteurs
When it comes to alternative universes though, check out GeeBeebies. They've actually come out and said that its Raab himself who is definitely the victim of bullying 😳
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1649646832778375169?s=20
So now we've got the spectacle of the new deputy PM Dowden defending the appointment of Richard Sharp while he was culture minister
Deputy PM seems a bit of a non role, not sure why Sunak bothered?
He comes across as someone who went for an audition for a bit part in an am dram performance of a musical, accidentaly went in the wrong room and got appointed as a government minister by mistake
Rayner will absolutely destroy him!
In other news, Raab has apparently got his next gig already as a presenter on GeeBeebies, to which the only response is ‘of course he has’ 🙄
The state of that Conservative Home editor. Although he looks exactly as you'd expect, TBH.
Also, this seems somewhat excessive.
https://twitter.com/CharlotteEmmaUK/status/1650440314400669699
I see that they've drawn the conclusion that you somehow just knew they'd draw from the Raab debacle, so at least we now what the narrative they've been so aggressively pushing was in support of...
Radical plans to bring in more “politicisation” of Whitehall by allowing ministers greater powers to appoint their own civil servants – including some with overt political affiliations – are being considered by the government’s own adviser on the civil service.
Given that we've had 73 Prime Ministers, 97 Home Secretaries and 126 Education Secretaries in the last year, can you imagine the chaos if on getting the job they all then booted out the existing civil servants in the department and appointed their own gang of nodding dogs, cronies and donors instead?
on getting the job they all then booted out the existing civil servants in the department and appointed their own gang of nodding dogs, cronies and donors instead
It is known as State Capture in South Africa and it occurred most egregiously under Jacob Zuma. I can see some Tory ministers' little grey cells starting to pulse at the implications of this if they can pull it off. Another opportunity if your world view is basically one where the system exists solely to get you and yours ahead in life.
Sunak and unicorn kingdom
Please tell me this is a spoof. Please!
https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1650454016659267585?s=20
Please tell me this is a spoof. Please!
Yes it is.
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I lied about that but since you asked so nicely.
I can see the way their brains worked.
Unicorn companies are the aim in Silicon valley start ups (privately held start up with value of a billion dollars or more).
Unicorn is sort of like United.
Unicorn is also on the royal coat of arms/one of the animals of the UK (this might be pushing it).
Definitely seemed to be working well since he couldnt remember it himself.
I lied about that but since you asked so nicely.
Lolz!
The best bit about that video is the fat lad at the back who's clearly thought '•••• this! Run after your own ****ing car!', gives up and just walks
That would definitely be me 😂
But it does look like a sort of crap version of a presidential motorcade and also confirms that theres definitely a certain type of person who favours Range Rovers
This isn’t normal is it?
No.
Either a rather enthusiastic response by the police to the Extinction rebellion protesters or them using it as a training exercise for a time if there are a large number of protesters.
John Crace on form as usual.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/26/rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-pmqs-sloganeering
When all is fury, the soundbite is king. But it comes at a cost to the national psyche. It degrades us.
Quite.
I read that earlier. Bang on, as ever
Its right what he's saying that Sunak wasn't just indulging the headbangers by reappointing Braverman as Home Secretary, he's a fully paid up member of their number and he appointed her because he fully agrees with and endorses what she's doing.
Behind the big, stupid stuck on grin and the 'chilled tech bro' exterior, he's as nasty and unhinged as any of them
To be fair, I'm more likely to pronounce it correctly with the English version rather than mangle the proper Welsh name and inadvertently call someones mother the local bicycle.
Member of English Nationalist Party in Acting Like English Nationalist Shocka!
That is pretty good news for Labour imo as Opinium tends to be significantly more generous towards the Tories than most other pollsters. And 18% is a very healthy lead.
So Tory expectation management was that they might lose up to 1000 seats (when in reality they were hoping it would be less than 700)
BBC projecting they will lose 1100
Sunak is safe for now, simply because another leadership election would be a sh!tshow - some of the fruitloop Tories already back on the Boris Bus 😉
Where does Sunak go now? Rwanda policy is doomed to fail, inflation may slow but a lot of people have racked up debt, & Russia's war will keep fuel prices high, strikes show no sign of ending, economy on shaky ground- even if we avoid recession.
I suspect the voter ID thing will have to be reversed as well.
Double down on the culture war crap or just go on a massive spending splurge?
Double down on the culture war crap or just go on a massive spending splurge?
I would guess a bit of both plus get the media help on Starmer with loads of evidence of him contradicting himself so obviously you can't trust him.
Did the Guardian deliberately choose a photo of Starkey which makes him look remarkably like Edward Tattsyrup? Although to be fair I have always thought that there is an uncanny similarity
Local politicians for local people. We do not approve of non-local outsiders who do not understand our local customs and local ways.
Spectator have published Starkey's defence...
......Uber drivers love him 😳
https://twitter.com/sunny_hundal/status/1654464800938754050?t=QkmrBYZsP7r9KLnVn__KqQ&s=19
Looks like the flimsy coalition of headbangers that constitutes the Tory party are about to set about each other
Priti Patel and the Boris supporting fruitloops are having their own conference
Meanwhile Suella Braverman leads the ERG ‘National Conservatives looney tunes
The one thing they both have in common? Everything is apparently Rishi’s fault! Nothing to do with themselves, obviously. The cognitive dissonance really is quiet something
You know that you’re well through the bottom of the barrel when the only person you can wheel out for Question Time is the spectacularly dim witted and insipid Helen Whately
https://twitter.com/gainward4/status/1656945573927309314?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ