The Politics Thread

A 5 year stalking ban? Surely it is illegal for all of us all the time. At the end of 5 years he's allowed to start stalking her?

 

Thats the Daily Diana

 

They don't really care what happens in the UK as long as they report on the weather

 

Of course...

 

So I just found out there's an easy way to make Croydon a city

Anyone know where Gavin Barwell or Richard Ottaway are right now...?

 

Nigel farage has killed his name

 

XTC rumoured to be concerned

 

Have been racking my brain trying to remember who sang that

 

The Tories are trying to push through all kinds of **** and blaming the death of David Amess for it.
The thing is, absolutely none of it has anything to do with how he died.
He appears to have been assassinated by an Islamic extremist who'd never been arrested.
How does online anonymity or human rights legislation have any relation to that?

 

Let's see...
They rant about internet anonymity, yet the guy posted online under his real name
They rant about illegal immigrants, yet his father was a legal migrant and he was born in the UK
They rant about the social media, yet Amess was murdered in this place called "real life"
They rant about a "gentler, kinder politics", yet the person doing most of it is Mark Francois (see above)

The fact that in the three days since it's happened we've seen the Mail on Sunday use it as both an excuse to attack Angela Rayner and publish a completely fabricated story to push their culture war bollocks, while the Tories are using it to push at least two completely unrelated agendas, I have to ask one question: am I now allowed to joke that Czech Cake barons ordered a hit on Amess?

And don't get me started on the BBC's take on these agendas, where their piece on internet misogyny in relation to this (Amess wasn't a woman, last time I checked...) had them interview Ruth Davidson at length, in other words pretending that Diana Abbott doesn't exist in spite the fact she gets more online hate in a week than Davidson, Priti Patel, Nadine Dorries, Liz Truss, Theresa May and Carrie Symonds combined

 

In other news, the whole Carrie Symonds/Nimco Ali story seems to be opening Pandora's Box with a rather hefty amount of dynamite, because what's since come out is

i.) Ali was a mover and shaker in the (failed) attempt to appoint Matt Hancock to the UN, introducing him to secretary general Vera Songwe (source: The Grauniad)
ii.) Ali pretended to be a Labour activist for an anti-Corbyn hit piece in 2018, when in reality she was never a member of the Labour party and also stood as a Women's Equality Party candidate in the 2017 election (screengrab)
iii.) The current attempt at bullshitting their way out of it is to claim Ali was part of Carrie's childcare support bubble, yet that only makes sense if both were working on Christmas Day (and, if they were, which job was she doing?) while also begging the obvious question why neither Carrie's nor De Pfeffel's mother was drafted in considering immediate family were permitted in child support bubbles instead of some rando

 

...oh yeah, that's why his name is dead in this country

 

Now, why would Farage be trying to get Ireland to leave the EU?
Could it be because he's working for someone that would like that to happen?

Maybe it's like his work for the Calexit campaign, which tried to get California to spilt into two?
Turned out that the bloke behind that was backed by Russian cash and later fled to Russia.
Who was out there promoting it? Farage and Aaron Banks. Funny that.

 

The real surprise is he hasn't popped up in Poland to give his tuppence worth

Nothing to do with the Polish far right apparently skipped the history lesson regarding the bit of their history between 1939-45...

 

Saw this elsewhere and just wanted to highlight this psychopath:

This is the mentality that some people in powerful positions have. Frightening.
This is the man in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brabeck-Letmathe

 

https://www.nestle.com/ask-nestle/h...beck-letmathe-believes-water-is-a-human-right

Interesting that they feel they need to put that on their website. Shocking if true