UK Politics Thread

They have kidnapped that poor white woman, I can't imagine what they will do to her.

Yeah, but they were groomed by that shifty looking foreign rat. And they have foreign names.
Probably fake birth certificates too, now I think about it.

Illegal immigrants can come from anywhere Geefe, stop reading the mail and get some real news sources like Facebook.

He is kind of accidentally right, though. Our current government is littered with people who are either an MP as a necessary step to a seat on board of directors or are an MP as a second job to enrich their primary source of income as either a landlord or a wealth fun manager. None of them seem to actually want to be there to serve the public.

That dude has no idea what people have to pay in rent in London on much lower salaries.

£800pcm for a mortgage to own the friggin house is peanuts (in London). My first place in London for my first job, a one bed, back in 2008, was 1300pcm, split between two. My after tax income was around 1700 quid.

My team has it much worse now - they are pretty worried about finding new digs if they get kicked out by their landlord.

Most MPs are on higher salaries than more experienced civil servants than me at a fair level of seniority (top folk will of course be paid more).

Going to an expensive school then doing PPE at Oxford is easily the best way to prepare for governing the country, actual experience of the real world? Well that's just weird.

Some UKIP sleaze/drama from Ben Turner (whoever that is) and Rebecca Jane (whoever that is):

On Freeman, this important piece of information was in the FT:

"Although critics questioned how Freeman could be struggling to afford a £2,000 mortgage on a salary of nearly £120,000, the Tory MP told The New Statesman on Monday that his finances were “not what they were” after “a very painful divorce”."

What kind of shit tory has their monthly rate go from £800 to £2000??

If he was on a 1.5% fixed rate, now on 6% that seems about right...

Without even a hint of self awareness, Badenoch is apparently in an "Evil Plotters" WhatsApp group along with Gove and fuck knows who else.

They are all just so deeply unserious in every sense of the word. My kingdom for a government who don't think running the country into the ground is funny.

After 2 years of feckless posturing while on full pay, the DUP picked their toys back into the pram and agree to go back to government. But only if the UK government fully agrees to the terms the DUP laid out and is faithfully enacted in full so I have no reason to doubt they'll pull back out again when the UK government doesnt do that as they're not gonna be dictated on what trade negotiations can be done with the EU by Unionist dinosaurs across the pond. DUP had no choice really, the talk of direct rule from UK and Ireland was looming and with Sein Fein going to be the elected party down South, then they'd have rule over N Ireland and the DUP couldn't do anything. 2 years of no government for nothing basically, we're back to square one.

Still, during the meeting last night, someone in the DUP, supposedly a senior, was secretly leaking what was being said to an outside source as it happens, who then started putting this all out on Twitter. Cue panic inside the building as enforcers were searching for the leaker, even wanting to get the police to come in and block phone signals (they cant)