Rishi has absolutely lost it, hasn't he?

[noblegiraffe]

What with his random shite this week about scrapping a non-existent meat tax and an imaginary 7 bins, actually scrapping his own home insulation workforce that was only set up a few months ago, scrapping any useful bits of HS2 and now scrapping A-levels (which is so far removed from what is actually possible in schools right now that it's not even funny), what the fuck is he on?

He's just flailing around madly scrapping everything in case someone, somewhere might vote Tory over it.

And he was supposed to be the sensible replacement to Liz Truss.

I think you are suggesting that the coastguard turn around other coastguard boats that are turning around boats, since turning around boats at sea is illegal, and then who would turn around the 2nd coastguard boat, a third one, who woudl turn that one around?

So many questions.

They need to do hs2. They have spent so much money! I know it’s sunk cost fallacy but the entire point of the project was to connect the north. We didn’t need to spend that much money to shave 20 mins of a Birmingham journey!

All the way back to Syria, Afghanistan or Iran?

it is not illegal to claim asylum

I think @DuncinToffee you have misunderstood the problem. The question is what to do with illegal boats - for example boats that cause a hazard to others at sea, or those not displaying the appropriate lights at night.

Did you actually part the sea again or just announce an already existing parting like the Metrolink to Manchester Airport?

Why are you leftys always so rude?

Yes let's all be polite. Let's not mention anything awkward or bad in case it makes right wingers feel attacked🙄
Why are you righties always morally bankrupt?

Embarrassing that there is a ditty about Britain ruling the waves, really. Although I imagine some tosspot Tories will be along to tell us that we've been misunderstanding the song the whole song, and it really goes "Rule, Britannia ! Britannia waives the rules"

He seems to have forgotten he is not the president. All these references to “l have decided” etc. ln the UK we are supposed to have Cabinet Government, not a one man show!

And what a show it is, and what a man.

Well, we all know what happened to Caesar.

Not much noise yet about the Labour win in Rutherglen and the total collapse of the Tory vote.

Apparently it is a rotten borough, so doesn't count?

SerendipityJane
Not much noise yet about the Labour win in Rutherglen

Labour won Rutherglen and Hamilton in 2010 and 2017 - but not the outcome they wanted overall.

Not the outcome who wanted?
And what outcome did whoever that is want?

https://twitter.com/LesleyRiddoch/status/1710197397018578983
This explains it all if you can bothered to read

jgw1
Not the outcome who wanted?

The Labour Party - quite obvious from my post.

Ouch ! WTF did I do to deserve that ?

You mean they wanted to come second ?

Are you appearing on the news quiz or something ? What with your jokes and all.

Funny how the Tories holding on to Uxbridge with less than 500 votes was a major win

I don’t understand why they find it so hard to understand what we care about. 7% of kids are privately educated - 93% are in state schools.
yet he’s more concerned about telling that 7 % he protect them from losing charity status and paying VAT than he is about re-assuring the 93% of us that they’ll stop school buildings from crumbling and rotting.

The Tories have been manoeuvred into having to expend resources into chasing their core vote. It's incredibly inefficient and would only be possible in a landscape where their media water runs downhill.

The legacy of Farage - who is as welcome in the Tory party as a fart in a spacesuit - is to force them to recapture their right wing supporters who were never going to vote Labour anyway. And that means they can't appeal to the "mondeo man" they need to win.

Our FPTP not only distorts, it disrupts representation. And over time people learn it's quirks and work with them.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-tory-party-leader-b2425184.html

The Labour party didnt want a massive swing to them, at the expense of the SNP and Tory parties?

You are going to have to explain how you worked that out.

SerendipityJane
You mean they wanted to come second?

They clearly didn't want to come second in the general elections of 2010 and 2017 - which they did, despite the "seismic" wins of Rutherglen and Hamilton on those occasions.