The Absolute State Of It - It's The UK Politics Thread!

[Wrathbone]

I was fixated on Sunak’s wife stood behind him with an umbrella at the ready.

[Animalmother]

In good news the French didn't go full right wing, which is nice.

[eny]

The best comment I saw on it this morning was something like: "They voted with their hearts first, then their heads second."

[Raid]

Yes, thank god. I wonder if the multiple ballots system is a fix for voter apathy - you get a better view on what the result will be than you do with polls, and it shocks those who didn't vote into action. I bet the Brexit referendum would have had a different result if we'd voted twice for it.

Still, it's concerning that much of Europe, where you'd think we'd remember what electing far-right governments does, is headed more in that direction. Like in the UK last week, right-wing voters are coming out in droves, and it doesn't feel like the left or centrists are putting up much of a fight. Labour only slipped into power because the Tories and UKIP2 were busy brawling with one another, and it wouldn't surprise me if America went back to Convicted Criminal Donald Trump because the alternative is a man who can only govern for 6 hours a day.

[eny]

Divorced Dad is taking us kicking his arse out as expected...

[Mantis]

He was on the Sky coverage for a little bit on election night before he found out he'd lost his seat. Absolute insufferable prick.

[Wrathbone]

Some heroes don’t wear capes.

[Raid]

Led by Donkeys really do have a knack for this sort of thing don't they? The type of guerrilla campaigning that's clearly intended to go viral (and often does). It's a shame really that their efforts don't tend to have any effect other than making people like myself feel a bit smug for a little while.

[Raid]

Truss' response is, of course, everything that's wrong with the right.

If the worst the "far left" do is unfurl a picture of a lettuce, then they're clearly more acceptable than the far right, who would have set fire to the stage and thrown bricks at Truss.

Incidentally, the best comment I've seen so far is that "this is the second time Truss has been outlasted by a lettuce".

[Wrathbone]

This is done to intimidate people

It's a picture of a lettuce with googly eyes.

[Sly Boots]

Maybe we should give Truss the benefit of the doubt here, perhaps she suffers from a serious medical condition...

[Raid]

This is done to intimidate people

It's a picture of a lettuce with googly eyes.

In fairness, the lettuce may have had e-coli from all of the shit in our waterways getting onto crops. And those googly eyes? Glaring in all different directions like someone that has clearly lost their mind and could do literally anything. That lettuce should be silenced, because anything else would be a threat to free speech.

I've never quite been able to work out whether Truss is someone's useful idiot, or just monumentally stupid. Given she's immediately gone over to work with the US right-wingers suggests the former, but I've never seen even a hint of intelligence from her. I genuinely think I would have been a better Prime Minister than she was, despite my having absolutely zero economic acumen or leadership training or desire to do the job, because I would have maybe seen those failings and actually listened to the people around me that knew better.

[Snowy]

The worst of it for me is that she almost gave the camera, and absolutely gave whatever passed for an audience, her own version of the Sharon Stone/Basic Instinct move.

[Wrathbone]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdq2944d2no

BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg's scheduled interview with Boris Johnson has been cancelled, after she accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes.

"Accidentally" ¬____¬

How is she still at the forefront of political journalism? The fact that Johnson was going to be there promoting his memoir is bad enough, but this Kuenssberg gaffe is either gross incompetence if accidental or gross misconduct if not.

[Raid]

Honestly she should have been fired the instant Labour won the election and didn't have to appease the Tories under threat of the license fee being ditched. She's broken impartiality rules, she's broken election reporting rules, and she's come across as a Tory shill for a decade now.