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

[Blair]

Something that was commonly forgotten was that Alan Johnson did pretty much have the dagger given  to him in 2014 to get rid of Ed M; That is really for me the only situation in which I can see Labour doing better than they would have in 2015.

[CumbrianLefty]

When talking Blairite fantasies, I tend to drift towards Liz Kendall LOTO. And laugh.

Well a few people (by no means all Blairites) have "fantasies" about Liz Kendall tbf.

Maybe of a slightly different kind, though

[dead0man]

Gonorrhoea cases in England hit record high

I'm sure this isn't a problem for any of our posters.

[CumbrianLefty]

In that we all practise safe sex, you mean?

[Silent Hunter]

I'm not sure what Boris hopes to achieve with the latest Brexit bill; he's managed to make the same mistake as Theresa May did by annoying everyone.

[CumbrianLefty]

BoJo now promising to beat the virus with something that has not been invented yet, apparently.

[Zinneke]

Why are the DUP silent over the whole thing? Is it true that there is a lot of internal factions drawing themselves up within the party?

[Silent Hunter]

The DUP are now back in government at Stormont with Sinn Fein; the last thing they want to do is annoy either their voters or cause another Executive collapse.

[Cassius]

BoJo now promising to beat the virus with something that has not been invented yet, apparently.

Don’t forget the COVID Freikorps Marshals!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

BoJo now promising to beat the virus with something that has not been invented yet, apparently.

Don’t forget the COVID Freikorps Marshals!

God, just imagine if they actually go through with that. There's a certain number of people in every town in the country who just long to be given a badge, a tin hat, and a right to shoult PUT THAT LIGHT OUT every thirty seconds.

[Serenity Now]

BoJo now promising to beat the virus with something that has not been invented yet, apparently.

Don’t forget the COVID Freikorps Marshals!

God, just imagine if they actually go through with that. There's a certain number of people in every town in the country who just long to be given a badge, a tin hat, and a right to should PUT THAT LIGHT OUT every thirty seconds.

I'm also picturing a whistle like Benson the groundskeeper in Father Ted.

[CumbrianLefty]

And they are going to have no funding from central government (already financially compromised local councils will have to pick up the tab, somehow) and no actual powers to do anything.

Can't possibly see this going wrong

[DaWN]

https://news.sky.com/story/shetland-islands-vote-to-explore-independence-from-scotland-12068826?fbclid=IwAR3LvvsjJ_Pvoos8819n13RK7M0SLU5mezY3-G0NG1fWfTBoNJOoYG_v-Os

Anyone else immensely looking forward to the Cybernat attempts to rationalise this one?

[afleitch]

https://news.sky.com/story/shetland-islands-vote-to-explore-independence-from-scotland-12068826?fbclid=IwAR3LvvsjJ_Pvoos8819n13RK7M0SLU5mezY3-G0NG1fWfTBoNJOoYG_v-Os

Anyone else immensely looking forward to the Cybernat attempts to rationalise this one?

It's a vote to seek different arrangements suited to the Shetland Isles which I support. At it's most extreme, it's also not independence from Scotland, it's independence from the UK which unionist seals appear to have forgotten. If getting independence from the UK somehow sticks it to those wanting independence from the UK let me hear it. If it's good for Shetland but bad for Scotland let me hear it.

[Silent Hunter]

It's becoming a tax haven Crown Dependency.

[Blair]

It might be a sign of the times but wasn't this moonsh**t test already discussed?

Every month this Government (well specifically Matt Hancock & his love for publicity) seem to come out with some great hope; first the app, then that test that would give you anti-gen results, then the test that would deliver results in 20 minutes, then Dido Hardings new cold-calling hotline & now back to another test.

It's remarkable how when the Government find some hairbrain scheme it's briefed & praised- yet when a non-government backed scheme appears (such as Heathrows offer of airport testing) the Government ignore it & say the science doesn't back it up.

Indeed the remarkable success story of the pandemic has been Local Government; who in many cases have done remarkable well. They've housed rough sleepers, given out brand new business grants, put in major road changes & now have had to pick up test & trace.

It was a disgrace that successive Governments (including my namesake) have spent so long cutting, sidelining & weakening local Government who are the very people who know how to run these sort of things.

BoJo now promising to beat the virus with something that has not been invented yet, apparently.

Don’t forget the COVID Freikorps Marshals!

God, just imagine if they actually go through with that. There's a certain number of people in every town in the country who just long to be given a badge, a tin hat, and a right to shoult PUT THAT LIGHT OUT every thirty seconds.

A lot of british society can be summed up by the Dads Army episode where the town loses power and Captain Mainwaring enforces martial law & threatens to measure the amount of bath water being used.

[Silent Hunter]

The app is already out in NI and Scotland, with England and Wales getting theirs on 24 September.

Also, with all the airport testing out there, it's not exactly stopped rises in other parts of Europe.

However, local government has been under-resourced for decades and that is something that needs fixing.

[Blair]

The app is already out in NI and Scotland, with England and Wales getting theirs on 24 September.

Also, with all the airport testing out there, it's not exactly stopped rises in other parts of Europe.

However, local government has been under-resourced for decades and that is something that needs fixing.

Well the argument was never that it would stop cases rising alone; but rather it would allow for a much greater tracking of the coronavirus & while also giving more certainity for people returning from travel.

Besides with the challenges in getting a test it's unclear whether those arriving back who do get symptons will actually be able to get tested- so any increase alone should be welcomed.

[CumbrianLefty]

Johnson blustering about how "a foreign power wants to break up the UK". Oh, the irony.

[Silent Hunter]

Germany seems to have stopped rising in overall case numbers... or is at least not going up that much.

[CumbrianLefty]

PM's personal mouthpiece the Borisograph now briefing that he wants to scrap all human rights laws.

[brucejoel99]

PM's personal mouthpiece the Borisograph now briefing that he wants to scrap all human rights laws.

They've been planning to do that since Cameron was PM circa 300+ years ago: repeal the HRA, leave the ECHR, & adopt a pared-down "British Bill of Rights" that the government won't find constricting. Don't worry, though, at least there'll surely be half of half-a-dozen Tory rebels when it passes the HoC.

[parochial boy]

PM's personal mouthpiece the Borisograph now briefing that he wants to scrap all human rights laws.

Doubling down on the culture wars in an attempt to cloak the otherwise glaring deficiencies of his government's performance.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/indian-origin-london-mayor-candidate-geeta-sidhu-robb-dropped-over-antisemitism-remarks-2295342

An Indian-origin entrepreneur-activist was on Monday dropped as a prospective London mayoral candidate to contest against Sadiq Khan next year after her past antisemitic comments came to light.

Geeta Sidhu Robb, the founder of organic food and juice products firm Nosh Detox, had been shortlisted as the Liberal Democrat candidate to take on Labour's Khan but was instead suspended from the party after a 1997 General Election footage revealed her making anti-Jewish remarks.

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As a Conservative Party General Election candidate in Blackburn 23 years ago when she was contesting against incumbent Labour MP Jack Straw, Sidhu Robb was filmed saying: "Don't vote for a Jew, Jack Straw is a Jew."

The London-based health food promoter, who came second behind Straw in that election, said she was "deeply ashamed" of the language she had used, which she is seen admitting in the footage was done in anger.

[The Dowager Mod]

lol 
https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1305548261126795264