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

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I'm honestly not sure if I knew some of that stuff. The Nightingale hospital never treated a single patient? What?!

Christ, all Labour ought to have to do to win the next election is just read that thread out, verbatim, along with links to fact checks displayed on the screen. But that's not going to happen, is it, because seemingly nobody wants to hold that bin fire of a man and the party who gladly kept him as leader to account.

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[eny]

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Imagine the press response if that had been Corbyn.

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Really enjoyed that, cheers.

[eny]

For your cogitation:





Johnson is a diabolical mess of a human.

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God I detest this Nigel Farage / Coutts story. It ought to have been a complete non-issue - banks can and do close accounts (or refuse to open them) based on their ethical standards, and with a high net-worth service like Coutts, their reputation matters. Banks *are* obliged to offer basic banking services to anyone not using them for criminal activity, but other than that I frankly don't see what the fuss is all about. They can manage their own reputational risk.

But because the bloody boss of Natwest somehow managed to go on record with a BBC reporter that Farage even *had* an account with Coutts, this is blowing up into yet another sodding soapbox for Farage to stand atop and act the victim. I left HSBC at the end of last year, but even now I'd feel distinctly uncomfortable saying I knew a customer through that professional relationship - I've seen people fired for even admitting that a customer *had* an account with the bank without authorisation. It does reinforce a long-held opinion of mine; the ground-floor staff go through rigorous anti-money laundering, anti-bribery, anti-corruption training multiple times per year, but it's the people at the top who most need this training and I bet they never do it. Seriously, it was really galling to be told that I couldn't accept opera tickets from a customer to give them preferential treatment 26 times in my career when the most expensive gift I was ever bought was a box of M&S biscuits... that I still had to record on our gifts and entertainment register.

But here we are. Farage is being given god knows how much free publicity when he's someone that we ought to have buried (figuratively, wouldn't say no to literally) bloody years ago.

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Ben Wallace was one of the few competent cabinet members as far as I could tell, bringing stability to an increasingly important role.

And now our new defence secretary is... Grant Shapps.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-66668968

Good fucking god. We're all dead.

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Ben Wallace was one of the few competent cabinet members as far as I could tell, bringing stability to an increasingly important role.

And now our new defence secretary is... Grant Shapps.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-66668968

Good fucking god. We're all dead.

https://x.com/mrjamesob/status/16971617 ... qYnaxJcJKA

Yeah, not great is it?

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Ooh, good call, I can listen to O'Brien tearing the human sock-puppet to shreds.

[eny]

Makes me wonder...Infosys need some grease for their machinations? I can't see '4-names' being anything other than a yes-man for certain 'deals'.

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The quote in the photo says it all really

https://x.com/thepoke/status/1697492090 ... qYnaxJcJKA

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https://x.com/secrettory12/status/16994 ... qYnaxJcJKA

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I'm posting this Facebook post from NewsThump verbatim because I couldn't really say it better. I'm surprised that the audience in the room didn't suffer ruptured eyeballs from the force of the irony. Braverman is one of the most hateful, genuinely evil people that the Tories have managed to scrape from the bottom of the barrel, and it's quite astonishing how possibly the most stupid thing she's ever managed to say is only three words long.