UK Politics Thread

I do love all the sensationalist headlines for nothing stories. Todays favourite from whatever bot account posts "stories" from the Express. "Germany could quit EU with bloc 'falling apart at the seams' as illegal immigration soars"

In fairness they do backtrack in the first sentence with "a UK-based Brexiteer has suggested."

Two-tier Keir at work again.

Lads I think I've cracked it.

Cut the winter fuel allowance, kill off some pensioners, significantly reduce pool of Tory voters.

Labour for life.

Or something.

Turns out he sold all his Space Wolves to main Tau

www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/13/james-cleverly-targeted-by-dirt-digging-firms-dossier-in-tory-leadership-race

Those you like food ads might have massively backfired on him.

Getting grumpy with James O'Brien this morning and uncertain whether it is just my biases showing. He has done the whole first hour on Starmer accepting money for clothes for him and his wife, and letting callers say stupid things like "how dare he take this money and then take money away from pensioners."

These are completely different pots of money! The donations are party donations that are put towards their election campaign. You can argue whether it was well spent, but it was always going to be spent on the campaign and nothing else (and the results of the election suggest they were doing something right with how they allocated money).

The issue is one about declaration and basically boils down to an admin error. A stupid mistake that you can perhaps argue is a sign of poor judgement, but that is about as far as you can go with the story.

Just ask yourself ‘would a Tory do this’ and do the opposite. It’s not hard.

If you campaign purely on being ‘change’ then you can’t be letting donors give you money for clothes, ffs. What next? Laura Ashley wallpaper?

I fully expect we'll have 4 years of not much happening then the Tories or someone worse will get in and then we'll be well and truly fucked, but at least the flag shaggers and simple minded dickheads will be happy.

At the moment it seems like we might get 4 years of sound government policy (that's also a bit too timid, but a long shot better than what went before) but such poor messaging that at the next election everyone is none the wiser.

A Tory wouldn't have done this. They would have chucked the £20k back and told the donor to stick a zero on the end.

This was funds to buy clothes for the campaign trail. Unfortunately, people put a lot of stock in appearance when deciding who to vote for.

Seems like he just didn't want to avoid it. I hope everyone is enjoying the 'moderate change' we shrugged our shoulders and accepted.

I know Arsenal tickets are expensive but I didn't realise you needed a millionaire sweatshop owner to be able to afford one.

I assume the Albania system is actual processing while Rwanda was just dumping people there and that was that.

I struggle to see the issue here. We have a system that says "if you receive gifts, it's OK as long as you declare it". Someone receives a gift and declares it (eventually) but now it's apparently not OK?

If this is such a concern, tell them they can't accept anything that could be viewed as an attempt to buy favour - just like many of us.