UK Politics Thread

I have seen them pretty much say as much to be fair and that the solution to the problem is to deal with them before they even get here but some chinless drone will then start shouting 'YOU DONT EVEN WANT TO STOP THE BOATS' at them

I've been fascinated by the Tory obsession with the Rwanda policy as if it's some kind of key cornerstone for them that will save the party. Have they really convinced themselves that some red meat for fringe whackjobs is going to magically make normal people forget about the pillaging they've been doing the last decade or so?

Kigali cancelling it would be the end of Sunak, he's staked so much on a terrible policy he knows is terrible because he's a coward and an awful politician.

It would be fucking funny though.

It was supposed to be a quick and dirty PR win that cost them a few million. You can even see it by the minuscule amount of people they intended to be sent there. Just something they could write on a pamphlet. I don't think it was ever even intended to operate.


The actual baffling thing is they have had literally dozens of opportunities to back down on it and maybe save some face but have fuckheadedly stuck with it at the expense of massive amounts of credibility. They could easily have gone 'well, we tried. If it wasn't for these enemies of the people, our streets would be free of crime' after any of the court defeats and pivoted to trying to make themselves the victims.

I remember an interview with Jenrick.

Same interview he was asked about £8m a week to house Asylum Seekers. He was then asked about clearing the backlog, which he said we couldn't do because that would 'encourage' more to come. The interviewer (think it was Sophie Ridge) didn't link the two at all.

So basically what he said was that £8m a week was the price of a 'deterrent' to Asylum Seekers.

I think it's weird that the UK public generally don't understand the Asylum system in the UK, so expecting Asylum seekers to know the ins and outs of our system doesn't seem that likely.

That's where it started but not sure that's where it ended up. It might still be the policy detail but seems to have morphed into this criminal gang nonsense

Come to Britain. We fucking dare you.

Bring your own books, we’ve shut all the libraries

The UK forces are in shambles due to tories, recruitment numbers are way down to outsourcing to some crappy company called Capita aka Crapita. No doubt some shitbag tory is getting some money for this outsourcing contracts. With the rise of problems like Putin and Houthi terrorist attacks in the read sea, really bad time for tory version of dad's army

Yeah, real shame they're not all pleasant, open minded, enlightened, non-judgemental individuals like yourself.

I went to a British Forces school in the 90s (majority of pupils were kids of soldiers/RAF) and we had a school 'election' once, must've been around 1995/6ish. We didn't have candidates as such, just voted for party.
It was a Tory landslide.

I remember finding it very depressing.

Pretty much every submarine commander I've met has voted Tory.

It's interesting to see my ex-RAF father-in-law become quite the pinko lefty since leaving the services. Still serving brother-in-law still a raging fascist though

Got a friend who is of a reasonable rank in the navy and he is a massive leftie. He does feel in the minority though.