The Politics Thread

Brings new meaning to the phrase "That's Asda price"

 

As Community Notes go, that's an all-timer

 

For an in depth treatment of the subject, may I recommend a BBC radio documentary "The Great Post Office Trial". This began before the recent TV drama. Episode 14 aired today. You can find it on BBC Sounds:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j

My main take on the subject is how many people knew this wasn't going to work before it was signed off, and how it could possibly have got to the stage of so many prosecutions without someone from the inside coming forward before the persecuted people started putting it together. The only solution is criminal prosecution of those that allowed this to happen, from Fujitsu (who should be paying part of the compensation too) and The Post Office.

 

Fujitsu just announced that they're so very, truly sorry for their role in the affair and are willing to contribute to the compensation fund

For those wondering, no, Gillian Keegan's husband was not the one issuing the statement

 

Tory deputy chairman and all round piece of ****e 30p Lee Anderson resigns over government Rwanda bill, another nail in Sunaks coffin , this clowns car of a government can't have long now

 

Brendan Clarke-Smith has jumped ship, too.
They've only quit as deputy chairs, though.

 

The Party of political heavyweights Balfour, Baldwin, Heath, Thatcher, Heseltine and......30p Lee, Gullis & Clarke-Smith!

 

Deputy chair? I thought 30p Lee was a fulltime waste paper basket

 

Functional Society Watch

 

Normal Country Watch

 

Tricky Dickhead is rumoured to be offering the two of them a spot in The Farage Party

Ofcom really are the Lindsay Hoyle of regulators, aren't they?

 

Succinct

 

The fact the Rwanda plan has become this eldritch being which eats Tories and Red Tories alive is so utterly bizarre

It was never meant to be a policy, it was something announced the day after the Sue Grey report so the Daily Wail could have a headline to keep the faithful distracted so they would be brimming with rage at The Other and not directing that rage at their Lords & Masters in spite said Lords & Masters pissing in their faces and laughing while they did so

Instead we've seen hundreds of millions of pounds given to Rwanda and an untold amount of political capital burned at the altar of a dead cat, a dead cat which was never supposed to actually happen because the idea is wholly unworkable and it was never supposed to be anything other than a couple of lines in a speech once in spite the fact nobody in this country wants it other than a tiny minority whose Twitter accounts were banned until six months ago

 

Good news: About time she was dragged into court
Bad news: The odds are we're indirectly paying her legal fees, either via a think tank or Braverman loaned her the cash

 

Good news? Really. How about practising satanic rights in school is that ok? Religion of any kind should have no place in school except in the history lessons. Schools are not there to take part and encourage the indoctrination of children into dubious religious practices of ANY religion. I had to put up with the Christian nonsense everyday when I was at school. If they allow this then all the other cults will want their stuff too.

 

That is one of the purposes of The Satanic Temple: as various senators found a loophole to get around the block on mandatory prayer in schools by allowing students to read "inspirational messages" before school assemblies and sporting events ("inspirational messages" that tend to sound exactly like the Lord's Prayer) so they countered by pointing out that as there is remarkably wooly language in this loophole, then students should be allowed to read inspirational messages about their love of Satan

Anyway, back to Bumblefuck...

This policy of her ****ty little academy is specifically designed to single out the Muslim pupils, as Muslim pupils were having to pray on the playground using their blazers as prayer mats before she introduced the prayer ban, something which doesn't affect the Christian pupils of said ****ty little academy and was clearly brought in so she could act like the victim when it blew up in her face...only she did not expect to be dragged into court, because that stops her whining to the usual papers once a month about what a victim he is because people won't let her bully kids without commenting on it

 

The problem is that British schools are explicitly religious and Christian.
There's an actual requirement for a daily act of worship, believe it or not.
Schools shouldn't be there to indoctrinate children into faiths, but they are.

 

They still do it

 

They still have to do it. It's one of the problems of having an official church.