UK General Discussion:The Rt. Hon Alex Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Populist Hero

[Blair]

In a more boring expansion this crisis has shown the general woefulness of whitehall/Parliament; the emergency legislation written for this sort of event was apparantly not used because it was not fit for purpose, there still isn't a central Parliamentary body to scruntise the Governments response to covid & the public procurement process is such a joke that it's taken 4-5 months for relatively powerful public bodies like the Public Accounts Committee & NAO to actually lift the hood on it (and that's all it's done; lifted the hood)

I'm not at all an expert in good goverance/transparency etc but some of the stories in the last week seem to show for me that we're moving towards having dodgy public contracts/spending being added to the wonderful pot of our political failures as a nation.

[KaiserDave]

Spitting Image is back

Their Starmer and Sunak content was hilarious

Is Rishi that popular?

[CumbrianLefty]

Spitting Image is back

Their Starmer and Sunak content was hilarious

Is Rishi that popular?

Sorry, but this simply does not compute

[Zinneke]

Spitting Image is back

Their Starmer and Sunak content was hilarious

Is Rishi that popular?

Sorry, but this simply does not compute

It seems far superior to the original.

[KaiserDave]

Spitting Image is back

Their Starmer and Sunak content was hilarious

Is Rishi that popular?

Sorry, but this simply does not compute

It was! Especially when he accidentally opened the Corbynite in the mail.

[CumbrianLefty]

Well, my point of view on that could hardly be more diametrically opposed

[KaiserDave]

Well, my point of view on that could hardly be more diametrically opposed

And I like Starmer! But I found it funny. Boris's seance was hilarious!

[Mike88]

Spitting Image is back

Their Starmer and Sunak content was hilarious

Is Rishi that popular?

[KaiserDave]

Spitting Image is back

Their Starmer and Sunak content was hilarious

Is Rishi that popular?

The Borrower!

The Joke!

Foxman will stop them all with the Crime and Courts Act of 2006

ahahahaha

[CumbrianLefty]

Significant rebellion by Tory MPs on the new virus restrictions last night.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Joe Anderson, the Mayor of Liverpool, has been arrested on charges of bribery and intimidation in connection with a local corruption scandal involving building contracts. Also arrested - oh dear God - is a seventy two year old man from the Aigburth district of the city. It just so happens that a well-known property developer and former leading local government figure in the city happens to live in Aigburth and is, well, seventy two years old.

[Alcibiades]

Joe Anderson, the Mayor of Liverpool, has been arrested on charges of bribery and intimidation in connection with a local corruption scandal involving building contracts. Also arrested - oh dear God - is a seventy two year old man from the Aigburth district of the city. It just so happens that a well-known property developer and former leading local government figure in the city happens to live in Aigburth and is, well, seventy two years old.

Hatton?

[Blair]

Ironically he was getting praised at the dispatch box last week as the 'sensible' metro Mayor...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Joe Anderson, the Mayor of Liverpool, has been arrested on charges of bribery and intimidation in connection with a local corruption scandal involving building contracts. Also arrested - oh dear God - is a seventy two year old man from the Aigburth district of the city. It just so happens that a well-known property developer and former leading local government figure in the city happens to live in Aigburth and is, well, seventy two years old.

Hatton?

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1334919063710158850

[Blair]

Ha I love how the press (at least via twitter) appear to be taking quite a well brave approach.

All I will say is that the flaw in the Labour Party is that people don't seem to ever actually leave it's orbit

[Hnv1]

Ironically he was getting praised at the dispatch box last week as the 'sensible' metro Mayor...

He’s not the metro mayor, he’s the mayor of Liverpool, there’s a (new)mayor for the Liverpool metro.

Part for Burnham. None of the new mayors make any noise whatsoever

[Silent Hunter]

Hatton was never allowed back in, was he?

[CumbrianLefty]

He was not, indeed has never been a party member since his ejection in 1986.

[Blair]

Hatton was never allowed back in, was he?

he came very close

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47312006

[afleitch]

Labour Liverpool gonna Labour Liverpool. I almost love this.

[Angel of Death]

The general election polls are more stable than Donald Trump's approval rating.

[CumbrianLefty]

Hatton was never allowed back in, was he?

he came very close

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47312006

But not close enough. To the satisfaction of most of us.

[Pericles]

I don't see how Labour can credibly support a Brexit deal after having abstained on the Covid tiers. It's the same basic "vote for the lesser evil to avoid disaster?" choice. Indeed, their objections about insufficient financial support with the tiers are a lot more minor than what they'd object to in a Brexit deal. Boris is obviously trying to goad Starmer into making a big mistake by voting for the Brexit deal with his 'General Indecision' taunts. Voting yes would needlessly divide Labour and would make it harder for them to then exploit dissatisfaction with the outcome of Brexit (this might be relatively minor since people will know that Labour opposed Brexit either way but still), while abstaining to avoid no deal is a sensible compromise imo.

[CumbrianLefty]

Yeah, hard to disagree there.

And at the time of writing there still isn't a deal to vote on anyway.......

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/Brexit/status/1336998485955055616?s=20