Thread 18 Starmer: All sides of the House agree apart from the Trump bootlickers

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Don't be so mean to toads. They are an essential part of the marshland ecosystem and fulfil their function there very well. Whereas the Leader of the Opposition.... doesn't.

I love these threads for the dry sarcasm like this 😂😂😂

Absolutely brilliant reply 👏

WTaF 😱

They just get worse and worse and have no boundaries to what they'll say and do.

I don't think the Tory's think for me minute they have any chance of getting back in government soon so are going for complete destruction of government rather than reforming their own party to something recognisable and votable .

Yes well they knew they'd lose the GE, so set about making sure life would very difficult for Labour, now in opposition, they are continuing this...

But in reality, the people they are making life hard for is the British people.

The Conservative and Unionist party!

They're just flicking bogies at this point, aren't they?

She has finished herself off. Stupid woman. Thank god she will never achieve any real responsibility;

Kemi "I will die for my country" Badenoch

But in reality, the people they are making life hard for is the British people.

The old adage about not thinking about you as much as you think people do applies.

Spectator news; I see that Lloyd Evans has been told to write something nice about Kemi Badenoch at PMQs instead of his usual assessment that she is terrible.

Come on Lloyd, how much did Gove pay you to write that? You don't believe it and neither do the readership. They surmise correctly she is a dud.

It would be a cruel trick to make her think everyone thinks she is wonderful until she is deposed.

It's absurd. He's been saying how crap she is for months. Really ridiculous

😂😂😂 brilliant anaolgy

It comes to something when you are watching PMqs and wondering wtf Badenoch is actually doing there. She wastes her time and ours with the pointless, repetitive nonsense, can't they make Ed leader of the opposition?

Ed Davey has really impressed me of late

Lib Dems are doing well in the polls too

Politics is so interesting. After the coalition of 2010 disaster the LD were held responsible and negatively by many and the Tory's used it as fodder.

But after another 10 years of Tory rule they destroyed themselves form the inside out and the LD have played a blinder in making sure they've come to the fore again through their actions and not through talking or trying to persuade people through words rather than actions.

Right now they are riding the wave of all the LD winning seats through by elections and becoming an extremely credible alternative to those who don't want to vote Labour and find the current Tory's too RW and reform rejects!

I would certainly bite for them again in their current form.

Starmer on his way to the US at the same time Andrew Tate.
I would assume that Trump will be happier to host the latter as they have so much more in common.

ThEy KnOw WhAt A wOmAn Is

Don’t they just? And her place - barefoot and pregnant in front of the sink.

At this rate we may get small boats from the US. They can expect a warm welcome

Edit to add - Sorry link not working

This was a Torygraph link shared on Bluesky.

Stella Braverman: I will never be truly English: here is why.

<a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/2025.02.26-173102/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/26/i-will-never-be-truly-english-here-is-why-suella-braverman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.is/2025.02.26-173102/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/26/i-will-never-be-truly-english-here-is-why-suella-braverman/

Best comment on BSky:
More to the point is - I’ll never be truly human.

This might work 🤞🏻

archive.is/2025.02.26-173102/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/26/i-will-never-be-truly-english-here-is-why-suella-braverman/

What is she really trying to say?

No idea. She appears to be arguing with herself. Quelle surprise.

Her point seems extremely muddled. And why she is saying it is another matter.

Still it neatly exposes that old issue of identity. Being British is a political identity, which was formed out of a union of several countries, and then became a worldwide empire. No one ever discusses the English Empire because it never existed.

Britishness is an administrative idea; a political identity. I don't think it has very much to do with tradition or where you were born or indeed where your parents came from. It is ultra flexible.

Englishness, or indeed Scottishness is probably a very different thing conditioned by a way of life, history, and very old attitudes.

That doesn't mean we have to play soy racist games with articles like this.

She's just courting attention and possibly hoping to be ejected from the Conservatives.

That's what I asked myself!
Then I just thought "ah, it's Suella being Suella".
Impenetrable 'pious' claptrap.