Even if he did somehow come back from the dead, how does the rest follow? Is there something in the US constitution that allows zombies to pick the President?
Corrupt scum. Leadsom was on C4, saying that she would go to her grave insisting that the actions were in the interests of natural justice. So many comments on that remark come to mind...
Haven't done for a while...pretty much been business as usual for this Gov for last 2 years, possibly a lot longer.
One thing doing the rounds right now is the 28 Labour MPs who didn't vote ...without bothering to look up the reasons why Keir Starmer - isolating due to Covid Rebecca Long-Bailey - isolating due to Covid Rosie TERFfield - isolating due to Covid Hillary Benn - isolating due to Covid Ed Milliband - dispatched to Glasgow for COP26 Kevin Brennan - has stated he was paired with a Tory who was in a select committee meeting Jon Trickett - claims he was was paired with a Tory missing the vote for health reasons Rosena Allin-Khan - has claimed she was unable to attend due to a childcare commitment (thought has said she was paired regardless)
To anyone who thinks this poisonous, corrupt bunch of ****ers aren't rotten to the core... Conservative Owen Paterson has avoided punishment for now as the government ordered its MPs to back a review of standards investigations. The result of the vote was met with cries of "shame" from opposition MPs. Mr Paterson was found to have misused his position as an MP to benefit two companies he worked for. But he said the probe into his conduct had been unfair - and the government backed plans by his allies to overhaul the system. Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems voted against the plans, along with 13 Conservative MPs, but it was carried by 18 votes after a heated Commons debate. Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner accused the Conservatives of being "rotten to the core" and called the move an "absolute disgrace". She said Labour would "not be taking any part in this sham process or any corrupt committee", with the SNP and Lib Dems also saying they would boycott the overhaul. The controversy comes after a committee of MPs recommended Mr Paterson be suspended from the Commons for 30 days, following a damning report into his conduct by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone. The report said the former Northern Ireland secretary had breached Commons rules by lobbying government bodies about Randox and Lynn's Country Foods, which employed him as a paid consultant. At Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson said MPs found to have broken the rules should get a right of appeal, as would happen with doctors and teachers found guilty of misconduct. But the SNP's Pete Wishart accused the government of "attempting to turn back the clock to the worst examples of 1990s Tory sleaze". There could be serious consequences in Parliament if the opposition parties decide to use this moment to withdraw cooperation on other committees or ways of working. Some ministers already fear this is an episode that Downing Street may come to regret. The Commons standards committee found that the North Shropshire MP had used his parliamentary office on 16 occasions for meetings relating to his outside business interests and sent two letters relating to business interests on House of Commons-headed notepaper. It described the MP's actions as "an egregious case of paid advocacy". If you don't like the rules and think they don't apply to you once you've been found guilty of breaking them... simply change them. This is the Britain we live in. Like a tinpot fcking backwater state.
Last week the Tories voted through allowing **** to be dumped in rivers. They voted to cut benefits while cutting the tax on champagne. They still refuse to make masks mandatory in enclosed spaces, even though covid cases are rising. This is purely to keep their rightwingers onside. Yet on Saturday they went up 2% in opinion polls. They believe they can do as they want with impunity and clearly clearly plan to do so. Unfortunately Labour are run by a clueless Blairite moron so they can keep on getting away with it.
They get away with it because they are deliberately appealing to bigots who make up more than 35% of voters. The other 5% who vote for them are doing it out of self interest or stupidity. No Labour leader could possibly appeal to them. What we need is an electoral pact so that 40% of the votes doesn't give them a huge majority of seats. Note this is a relatively new development on the back of Brexit. Prior to that the bigots were more or less evenly split between the parties as the Conservatives were too principled to go all out for their vote and Labour pandered to them enough to keep them.
They got away with it under Corbyn, too. Was he a clueless Blairite moron? The Labour leader is irrelevant. Whoever it is will be besieged by both the media and internal fights.
