Off Topic Politics Thread

That's so bad that's hilarious. I mean, what a complete twat.

 

I can’t help but think that they are perceived at being better than their male counterparts by those with confirmation bias / a desperation for that to be the case

Sure they are doing good jobs in the eyes of many. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t poor female leaders - either down to what sort of policies they enact or just being ineffective. The kinds of people who cling to these claims are very unimpressed when women are seen to take more conservative / insufficiently progressive positions for example. And try to discount them from discussions

The Macbeth’s witches comment made me chuckle. I wonder who the other two are in that analogy?!

 

Johnson is ****ed.

 

Proper ****ed

 

Once Brexit hard-man Steve Baker, chair of the ERG, turns against you, your days are numbered.

 

He will face the full force of the Parliamentary Standards Committee (Composition 4 Con / 1 Lab / 1 SNP), accountability at its finest.

 

2 Lab members including the chair.

 

The chair has recused himself from the investigation.

 

I thought he’d just recused himself from the vote?

 

BBC: However, the committee chair - Labour's Chris Bryant - has recused himself from the investigation as he had already commented publicly on the matter.

 

Well to be fair, Boris should step aside. As absolute embarrassment to the country.

Oh, and a total tosser, to boot.

 

Ok, hadn’t heard that, thanks. There are also lay members (non-MP’s) on the committee, academics, business people etc. The point is they are investigating a breach of parliamentary standards, so the committee has to be objective and impartial.

 

I haven’t checked this out, but if it’s true, WTF.

 

I would imagine it is true. I also imagine that it barely even scratches the surface of the cronyism

 

Daily Mail is the source for the first two:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9904243/Two-firms-Rishi-Sunaks-wife-shares-bust.html

 

The partygate scandal is all very good and I can appreciate that lying before parliament is sufficient for Boris to get the political equivalent of the early bath but I think this will prove to be insignificant when the report in to the Covid pandemic reviews the government's performance in early 2020. The problem for me is that there will still be people out there who think Boris has done good job! The fact that Starmer and Raynor are clueness and unable to deliver Johnson's coup de grace does not help either.

 

There's a need for all of the Government's lies and deceit to be aired.
https://boris-johnson-lies.com/

 

I’m not confident a proper report will be allowed to be honest

 

How do you clock up 44m debt on a gym?!

Good to know the government has strict related Party and conflict of interest rules /s