The Politics Thread

To step back, it really is interesting that the Republican party, who many used to object to for advocating truth, justice and the American way too stridently, now seem settled, as a group, to get behind lies, injustice and the Russian way.

I've been asking myself the question you asked me, and note that polls on Trump's popularity, which used to be a weekly staple on the news, seem to have disappeared. However that may be, I would guess Trump retains the 40% approval rating he's always had, give or take a few percentage points. The lord of the flies seems to inspire a steady faith.

On the other hand, many if not most Republican leaders managed to protest at Trump blaming the US for the cooling in the relationship with Russia. It strikes me as being too little, too late. I was just thinking the other day how much smarter it would have been for them to impeach Trump rather than reveal themselves as being as fully morally bankrupt as their leader. Putin and Trump can justify what they do on the basis of consistency. Neither one would ever have recognized a moral principle if one walked up and slapped him in the face. The Republican leaders, on the other hand, used to make a great deal of having some version of right on their side. Trump ought to be the end of either the Republic or the Republicans.

 

Is this "cuddling up with Putin" Trump's way of getting this mysterious "Moscow Trump Tower" built and paid for by Russia in return for...…..?

 

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Ok boy. We'll give you a drink out of Stormy's bowl shortly!

 

There's been a lot of talk today about the possibility that Carter Page was mixed up with Russian spies before the 2016 election.
Here's one example:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44918133

Lots of weasel words and attempts to avoid saying the obvious.
**** knows why though, as he already got caught as part of a Russian spy ring in 2013:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/03/carter-page-nunes-memo-216934

How is this a surprise now, exactly?

 

I'd not been here long when he made his "i could shoot someone on 5th avenue and still retain 35% of the vote" (recalling from memory, something like that) and i just thought it was ridiculous. The longer i'm here the more i realise that was one of the things he was actually correct about.

 

Every nation with an N political party regime has similar.

There is a core % of the electorate who will vote for a
given party regardless of the seeming PR disasters
committed by its senior people.

For Labour, it was estimated to be around 28% after the
Trousers Brown "bigot-gate" event.

Political parties like to know the size of that core, as they can
calculate how many voters from elsewhere (non-voters. swing
voters etc) they have to acquire in order to achieve victory.

 

And that's the end of one political career and the start of one for a new, right-wing pundit.

 

Channel 4 News tonight (@ 7.30) promises to be interesting.......
https://www.channel4.com/news/arron-banks-denies-allegation-of-bribery-over-mining-interest

Aaron Banks has been leading a charmed life. Maybe the spell will be broken? Hopefully!!

 

Looks like he's tried to get ahead of the story and run to some sympathetic journalists, again:


The Tories are totally wrecking the BBC's political content. They can't lose by doing it, either.
While it's still well regarded in the main and looked on favourably, they get free propaganda.
When people turn on it and start complaining heavily, then they'll have a reason to sell it off to their mates on the cheap. The ****s.

 

And all the while, the average Brit will just meekly sit there and accept it, refusing to say anything against it as they don't want to cause a fuss and meekly surrender as they always do.

 

The average dumbass Brit will also apparently ignore all the weather warnings and sit for hours around midday in the sun without cover

Why are we surprised when they buy into fake **** and sit meekly while a corrupt elite strip their lives bare.....

 

This is classic Dumpf......

Trump targets Obama-era critics' security clearances - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44930955

Threatens to remove the security clearances from former officials....... Most of whom have already long since lost those credentials!!

But if it makes him feel better ......

 

I couldn't help notice that barely-sentient testicle Toby Young's crawled out from the woodwork to post a self-serving, self-pitying diatribe about how terrible it is that his mate Boris Johnson's Brother Jo couldn't weasel him into a cushy job he was terrifyingly unsuited for due to being a complete ****.

 

You'd like to picture him laughing as he posted that but you just know he actually believes this.

 

And in shock news closer to home, an MP is found to have had his head in the trough! Who would’ve thought it?
Ian Paisley: MPs vote to suspend North Antrim MP for 30 days http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44932312

Easy mistake to make - got two free luxury holidays to Sri Lanka by their government and then lobbied Cameron on their behalf - and didnt declare the interest......

Oh well, on the plus side, the loss of a DUP MP will put Mays engineered majority under even more pressure.

 

Public sector pay awards: if this had been a Labour move the press would be foaming at the mouth with comments about HOW WILL THIS BE PAID FOR?

Sadly the Tories do not appear to have allocated any extra money to the various departments concerned for this extra pay, so they will presumably be covering increases by savings and other cuts (because that's always possible, right?). Either way the announcement has had a pretty free ride from the hacks.