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Post by gazz on Jun 22, 2022 21:21:47 GMT
I love your political tirades, Yorks, they are always right on the money.
'Stockholm syndrome' is the perfect way of summing up how the electorate have been taken in by this lot, mate - 'Turkeys voting for Christmas' also springs to mind.
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Jun 23, 2022 8:22:18 GMT
I love your political tirades, Yorks, they are always right on the money. 'Stockholm syndrome' is the perfect way of summing up how the electorate have been taken in by this lot, mate - 'Turkeys voting for Christmas' also springs to mind. It's not merely a tirade mate, it gives me no pleasure to point to the Government's descent into authoritarianism because we know where that leads, history provides plenty of examples of it of the end point. We have a Government that, Was found to have attempted to gag Parliament by unlawfully proroguing it; To have appointed one of Johnson's/Hancock's cronies and Tory sycophant (Tory life peer and wife of a Tory MP) Dido Harding, to a leading role in the Department of Health during the Covid crisis; To have fast tracked selected businesses, frequently associated with leading Tories and/or their supporters for preferential treatment when highly lucrative contracts were dished out during covid. For preferential treatment read untendered contracts involving the paying of amounts substantially more than the value of the goods and/or services provided; A failure to disclose the details of the contracts awarded and the vast amounts of public money spent on them; A simple but crucial omission to those effected by the failure, that of providing signing during televised covid briefings; The genuinely appalling covid care homes "policy" which led directly to the deaths of thousands. It would be tedious to go on but anyone who is even remotely paying attention knows that this Government's regard for the law is virtually zero and anyone wanting to know more can find out via the Good Law Project. And then we can get onto the subject of holding the Tories to account for Brexit. We know for an absolute certainty that the economy has shrunk as a result, the only discussion worth having is by how much and yet the report into the extent of Russian interference has yet to be acted upon. There has been no effort by the Government to identify the extent to which Russian interference (and there is no argument as to whether it happened, it did) influenced the vote, how it might manifest itself in the future and what we may do to prevent it. This from a Government that claims that it is so concerned about maintaining the legitimacy of our electoral process it requires voters to provide photographic proof of who they are in order to exercise their democratic vote. During the 2019 election, there were 595 reports of electoral fraud of which 4 led to convictions, including two Police cautions. Electoral fraud in Britain is so small as be non-existent. The only fraud being perpetrated on this country is that of the Tories who claim it is a problem. Curiously for a party so dedicated to upholding the highest standards of electoral process their other and more recent response, has been to remove the independence of the Electoral Commission which will now act upon political instruction. The journalist Chris Mullin recently relied on the ECHR in his defence of the right to keep his journalistic sources secret. Lest we forget, the case brought against him under, irony of ironies, anti-terrorism legislation was about his exposure of one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in British history when he highlighted in full hideous detail, Police failings and cover ups surrounding the Birmingham pub bombings. Just in case anybody may want to run off with the idea that that kind of incompetence and cover up couldn't happen again read up on the Hillsborough disaster or the so-called Battle of Orgreave when even the press colluded with the lies or, more recently, the Met's refusal to investigate all the parties at which the Prime Minister is known to have attended. Without the ECHR, Mullin may well have lost and where do we think that may have left investigative journalism? Key to the ECHR is the idea of positive obligation. In other words, these are the obligations that apply to public authorities that make it incumbent on them to take positive steps to protect people’s rights rather than merely restrain themselves from violating them. It's the kind of legislation that will force a public enquiry into the shocking mis-handling of the Covid pandemic. Given this Government's appalling record can there be any surprise that it wants to remove positive obligation from its Bill of Rights? So blatant is the lie perpetrated by Raab yesterday when he announced that it would strengthen human rights legislation, and so transparent the attempt to protect dishonest, dishonourable, incompetent and corrupt politicians, the president of the Law Society has already stated that the legislation will “create an acceptable class of human rights abuses in the United Kingdom”. Not a tirade mate, utter disgust at the slide towards authoritarianism, lets call a spade a spade and call it Fascism, aided and abetted by Tory supporters who are paying so little attention that they either haven't noticed or don't care that the contemporary party they continue to support is not the party it once was.
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Post by gazz on Jun 23, 2022 11:37:24 GMT
I love your political tirades, Yorks, they are always right on the money. 'Stockholm syndrome' is the perfect way of summing up how the electorate have been taken in by this lot, mate - 'Turkeys voting for Christmas' also springs to mind. It's not merely a tirade mate, it gives me no pleasure to point to the Government's descent into authoritarianism because we know where that leads, history provides plenty of examples of it of the end point. We have a Government that Was found to have attempted to gag Parliament by unlawfully proroguing it; To have appointed one of Johnson's/Hancock's cronies and Tory sycophant (Tory life peer and wife of a Tory MP) Dido Harding, to a leading role in the Department of Health during the Covid crisis; To have fast tracked selected businesses, frequently associated to leading Tories and/or their supporters for preferential treatment when highly lucrative contracts were dished out during covid. For preferential treatment read untendered contracts involving the paying of amounts substantially more than the value of the goods and/or services provided; A failure to disclose the details of the contracts awarded and the vast amounts of public money spent on them; Simple but crucial omissions to those effected the failure, to provide signing during televised covid briefings; The genuinely appalling covid care homes "policy" which led directly to the deaths of thousands. It would be tedious to go on but anyone who is even remotely paying attention knows that this Government's regard for the law is virtually zero and anyone wanting to know more can find out via the Good Law Project. And then we can get onto the subject of holding the Tories to account for Brexit. We know for an absolute certainty that the economy has shrunk as a result, the only discussion worth having is by how much and yet the report into the extent of Russian interference has yet to be acted upon. There has been no effort by the Government to identify the extent to which Russian interference (and there is no argument as to whether it happened, it did) influenced the vote, how it might manifest itself in the future and what we may do to prevent it. This from a Government that claims that it is so concerned about maintaining the legitimacy of our electoral process it requires voters to provide photographic proof of who they are in order to exercise their democratic vote. During the 2019 election, there were 595 reports of electoral fraud of which 4 led to convictions including two Police cautions. Electoral fraud in Britain is so small as be non-existent. The only fraud being perpetrated on this country is that of the Tories who claim it is a problem. Curiously for a party so dedicated to upholding the highest standards of electoral process their other, and more recent response, has been to remove the independence of the Electoral Commission which will now act upon political instruction. The journalist Chris Mullin recently relied on the ECHR in his defence of the right to keep his journalistic sources secret. Lest we forget, the case brought against him, under irony of ironies, anti-terrorism legislation was about his exposure of one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in British history when he highlighted in full hideous detail, Police failings and cover ups surrounding the Birmingham pub bombings. Just in case anybody may want to run off with the idea that that kind of incompetence and cover up couldn't happen again read up on the Hillsborough disaster or the so-called Battle of Orgreave when even the press colluded with the lies. Without the ECHR, Mullin may well have lost and where do we think that may have left investigative journalism? Key to the ECHR is the positive obligation. In other words, these are the obligations that apply to public authorities that make it incumbent on them to take positive steps to protect people’s rights rather than merely restrain themselves from violating them. It's the kind of legislation that will force a public enquiry into the shocking mis-handling of the Covid pandemic. Given this Government's appalling record can there be any surprise that it wants to remove positive obligation from its Bill of Rights? So blatant is the lie, and so transparent the attempt to protect dishonest, dishonourable, incompetent and corrupt politicians, the president of the Law Society has already stated that the legislation will “create an acceptable class of human rights abuses in the United Kingdom”. Not a tirade mate, utter disgust at the slide towards authoritarianism, lets call a spade a spade and call it Fascism, aided and abetted by Tory supporters who are paying so little attention that they either haven't noticed or don't care that the contemporary party they continue to support is not the party it once was. A tirade is a long, angry speech and, unless I'm mistaken, that was a long, angry speech! If it was the wrong choice of word, my apologies, but for what it's worth, I couldn't agree more.
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Jun 24, 2022 10:47:16 GMT
Johnson's response to what might charitably be described as a bad day at the office yesterday is that he will listen to the voters, so perhaps he'll listen to this one - "f*** off Johnson". I'm not hopeful.
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Post by gazz on Jun 26, 2022 15:05:16 GMT
f***ing staggering...
Boris Johnson: A man so consumed by his determination to keep his job, he's forgotten what that job actually is - he just knows it pays him a s**t ton of money.
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Jun 29, 2022 15:09:54 GMT
Poor old Dominic Raab, bless him. Too f***ing stupid to realise that he really is too dim to get smart with a genuinely good politician like Angela Rayner who slapped the ignorant little crook down with the following after his attempt to have a go at her
"My advice to the deputy prime minister is to cut out the snobbery and brush up on his opera. The Marriage of Figaro is the story of a working-class woman who gets the better of a privileged but dim-witted villain. Judging by his own performance today, Dominic Raab could learn a lesson about opening up the arts to everyone, whatever their background".
Priceless.
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Jul 6, 2022 17:54:09 GMT
It looks as though it may have finally happened. It's a great shame that it took plunging popularity in recent polls and the loss of a couple of safe seats thereby highlighting the possibility to even the thickest Tory MP's that they are in danger of losing their own seats but hey ho! It seems that so many ministers have now resigned that the government of this country has effectively ceased to function and it's likely that Johnson will be out on his ear this evening. What a shower of self-serving shite the Tory Party has become.
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Post by dudleyhatter on Jul 6, 2022 21:13:38 GMT
As much as I dislike the pain this is causing the nation. The hurt to the tories is somewhat pleasing…
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Post by dudleyhatter on Jul 6, 2022 21:15:49 GMT
This also made me laugh a lot!
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Post by gazz on Jul 6, 2022 21:26:42 GMT
This also made me laugh a lot! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Jul 7, 2022 8:20:36 GMT
53 ministers gone and counting.
People refusing to take up vacancies in their place.
I believe he has now decided to go but stay on until the Autumn !!!!!!! Sod off Boris, now.
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Post by woznorthyorksexile on Jul 7, 2022 9:16:41 GMT
Some brazen electioneering from Zahawi
"My number one priority has and always will be this great country. When asked to become chancellor, I did it out of loyalty. Not to a man, but loyalty to this country and all it has given me".
This is the shameless bastard that even as late as last night was suggesting that Johnson could go on. This is the shameless bastard who, along with the rest of the corrupt arse-licking crew Johnson appointed to his cabinet have done so much damage to this "great" country.
Damage to the rule of law, the curtailing of the right to freely express one's opinion via public protest, influencing the independence of the national broadcaster, supporting colleagues denigrating the legal profession and its independence, presiding over the corrupt handling of covid related contracts, etc, etc, etc. How about you f*** off with your political hero Zahawi, were not all gullible Tories ya gobshite!
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Post by archie on Jul 7, 2022 9:49:32 GMT
Apparently, Sam Allardyce seen loitering in Downing Street.
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Post by gazz on Jul 7, 2022 10:36:20 GMT
Some brazen electioneering from Zahawi "My number one priority has and always will be this great country. When asked to become chancellor, I did it out of loyalty. Not to a man, but loyalty to this country and all it has given me". This is the shameless bastard that even as late as last night was suggesting that Johnson could go on. This is the shameless bastard who, along with the rest of the corrupt arse-licking crew Johnson appointed to his cabinet have done so much damage to this "great" country. Damage to the rule of law, the curtailing of the right to freely express one's opinion via public protest, influencing the independence of the national broadcaster, supporting colleagues denigrating the legal profession and its independence, presiding over the corrupt handling of covid related contracts, etc, etc, etc. How about you f*** off with your political hero Zahawi, were not all gullible Tories ya gobshite! This.
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Post by gazz on Jul 7, 2022 10:39:42 GMT
Great post from the user 'hedleyverity' regarding Zahawi over on YB...
"He’s also prepared to sit at a cabinet table knowing that the rest of them wouldn’t have let him into the country when he arrived as a refugee."
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