Thread 28 Sunak : Lords, Ladies and Lame Ducks

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I think the Owen is probably just a co incidence. I lean more towards he shagged her rather than him being her father.

She is talking life sentences

And with that snippet, my belief that she's absolutely off her sodding rocker is restored.

Details about the Truss honours list coming out - 'funny' timing given much party business is on hold, Sunak is away & Parliament is in recess. However, the names are still being vetted.

Brexit donor Sir Jon Moynihan who donated £20,000 to her leadership campaign, Mark Littlewood, head of Institute of Economic Affairs and who had input on her budget, Matthew Elliot who ran the Vote Leave campaign & founded Taxpayers Alliance, and her deputy chief of staff Ruth Porter to get life peerages.

Two people turned down the chance to be on her list - one because it would be 'humiliating' and the other because they did not feel that they deserved it.

Times also reporting she's received tens of thousands of pounds from the investment banker who is also behind the right wing Reclaim Party.

But you know the Fire Brigade Union donates to Labour.

How she has the brass neck to produce a list is beyond me. It’s time the system was amended so they have to be PM for an entire parliamentary term as a minimum to have an honours list.

I suspect, for some, that would mean they'd never resign!

Brace yourselves for 'stop the boats' week

Ascension Island has been trotted out already this morning

You’re right, I didn’t think that one through, did I?

Do we know if Labour's plans to abolish HoLs will also impact on other honours?

Are we supposed to believe that building migrants camps - and flying all the necessary staff and materials 4,000 miles there in the first place - will be cheaper and more efficient than speeding up Home Office procedures and setting up an office in France.
What will they do there? Work at the military base?

I know it's just another grab for headlines but it's shame on any media outlet repeating this nonsense. No point casting shame on the Government, we are long past that point.

It’s never going to happen. Nor do they expect it to. Might be better if some of their pet outlets had just pointed that out. Better still just refused the story.

They really are making themselves look like lunatics now. What's next? Send asylum seekers to the moon for processing?

Don’t give them ideas.

I've heard that Antartica doesn't take its fair share of immigrants.

Incidentally the foreign media have understandably picked up on the athletes getting sick at the world triathlon champs. In the unlikely event that getting sick was unrelated to swimming near an E-coli sewage outflow it isn’t really going to matter now. It’s being reported as fact around the world. some of them are pointing out that this is another Brexit benefit.

Its hardly our fault that foreigners aren't capable of swimming in our sewage without getting ill.

There was a cat crash interview (in terms of Tory propaganda) on BBC R4 this morning at about 8.30 (maybe 9? - I did 2 trips and it was on one of them!).

They were focussing on the Rwanda plan and refused to discuss if they'd used their new powers under the Illegal migration bill. They did manage to get "lefty lawyers" in there. And then mentioned they were a barrister.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think that might have been Sarah Dines on R4. She’s been on Sky news this morning saying we are offering ‘theoretical aid’ to women in Afghanistan.

https://www.sas.org.uk/water-quality/sewage-pollution-alerts/

This is a good map if you need to check if a beach has a good chance of being full of shit. Basically, if it has been raining, we don’t bother going, because the water companies just shrug their shoulders and say they can’t do anything about the overflow. Must not make enough profit to invest in improvements or infrastructure
Iron Man North participants got a lovely dose of gastritis from Pennington Flash last month, too. Hundreds of them. It’s an absolute fucking disgrace that our shores, rivers and lakes are pumped full of sewage and agricultural run-off.

Not looking too bad down here today. Usually the SW peninsula is just surrounded by a sea of shit on the SAS map.

Is this like them being theoretically competent or them being theoretically fascists?

I doubt she knew what she meant. She’s having quite the morning on the media round. Here she is on asylum seekers being allowed off the barge.

Not that it’s a prison ship, obviously.

Some freedom of movement but with parameters is a bit of an oxymoron.

I wonder how long it would take for the shit to hit the fan if you planned a ks3-4 scheme of work on British values and the extent to which the government has demonstrated them over the past 5 years.

Democracy
Rule of law
Respect and tolerance
individual liberty

difficult to see how this policy alone is going to meet at least 3 of those.