Off Topic Politics Thread

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This whole business about sending the navy out to supervise fishing, might give the right wing media a hard on, but it just makes me chuckle.
I was recently looking to see how big our navy was and, in terms of firepower there are 4 EU navies that are greater than ours, and another 2 that are marginally smaller.
Add them all together and our navy is nothing in comparison.
I wonder what the front pages of the Mail, Express, Sun and Telegraph would look like if a combined flotilla of EU naval ships took a slow cruise through the channel as a show of EU unity and as a **** off to Johnson.
I think I would like to see it, just for the reaction.
 
Out walking today I saw June Mummery getting out of her car. ( google her) The car in question. Black Mercedes 220CDi!
 
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I don’t think the Tories need advice on telling lies, as it is there starting point in most interviews, but it seems that they want to make sure that everyone connected to the party get the message that lying is okay. Must make Tory voters so proud, unless they actually have principles.


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Trump was actively promoting a herd immunity policy, sound familiar?

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He even called it "herd mentality" in one interview..<doh>..something his supporters know all about.
 
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I don’t think the Tories need advice on telling lies, as it is there starting point in most interviews, but it seems that they want to make sure that everyone connected to the party get the message that lying is okay. Must make Tory voters so proud, unless they actually have principles.


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We've had fake news from The Express, The Fail, The Torygraph and The Scum and Sky News for years.
 
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We've had fake news from The Express, The Fail, The Torygraph and The Scum and Sky News for years.

Yes we have, but the way forward now seems to be to embrace the lies and be proud of them.
A Tory MP was trying to explain Cummings getting a £40 grand payrise because he was important to keeping the civil service “independent” of politics, despite the fact that he was well and truly in Johnson’s camp and in no way neutral.
The only reason they get away with it is because their own voters are not telling them to stop, which I find disturbing.
 
So, Jacob Rees Mogg thinks that UNICEF should be ashamed of itself for stepping in to help feed British children. He is also lying about there being fewer children in poverty now than when the Tories came into power, which is another outrageous lie.

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That is just despicable. Playing on people’s fears and financial concerns, during a crisis is such a low thing to do.
I have said it before, and I will say it again, but the only people who can stop these blatant lies are the people who vote for them.
By not challenging it, their supporters are basically accepting it as being okay, and if there really are millions of people, in this country, who are happy with their MPs (or party representatives) lying on this scale, then this country is finished as a decent place to live.
 
Isn't that actionable? Must break a law somehow. Tony Soprano had ways of dealing with such behaviour.

Problem is there doesn’t appear to be any legal route to adequately punish individuals or parties that distribute this kind of material, so there is no deterrent.

Falsely impersonating official communication should be a disqualification offence imo.

Plenty of elderly people or people with learning disabilities will take that literally and it will cause genuine distress, no doubt a lot of abuse towards council workers as well.
 
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Problem is there doesn’t appear to be any legal route to adequately punish individuals or parties that distribute this kind of material, so there is no deterrent.

Falsely impersonating official communication should be a disqualification offence imo.
So it's over to Tony then.