General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

[Jack by the hedge]

What do Britons think of Nigel Farage?
A you.gov poll, James O'Brien alluded to it, so I looked it up.
Magnificent!

"One in ten Britons (10%) include at least one swearword or insult in their three-word description of Farage"

Wonderful. It gives one hope.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Cold War Steve

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

A former Conservative MP has announced she is joining Reform UK, saying she wants to pursue "more radical solutions to our country's problems".

Jane Stevenson, who represented Wolverhampton North East for the Conservatives between 2019 and 2024, made the announcement after Reform's conference in Birmingham

Former Wolverhampton Conservative MP Jane Stevenson joins Reform UK

Jane Stevenson, who represented Wolverhampton NE, made the announcement after Reform's conference.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ie she was never getting selected again for the tories.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Suella Braverman
@SuellaBraverman
Back in Parliament I told the Minister what people in Fareham, Waterlooville and Portsmouth are feeling. And I asked for important reassurances.

Lee Anderson MP
@LeeAndersonMP_
I was actually in the Chamber today speaking out for the protesters. Not filling out worthless bits of paper. Only 4 MPs spoke out in support of the protesters. All 4 were @reformparty_uk MPs

Yes there were only four of ye willing to speak in favour of traitors.

 

[jimbob]

Seems to be a non-British post. Also, that's an A-10 Warthog that has supposedly sunk that British boat. The RAF doesn't field that type. All round AI ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ slop.

I was going to comment on the aircraft.

I guess it'd be a bit too on the nose to have a stuka dive bombing the lifeboat

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Seems to be a non-British post. Also, that's an A-10 Warthog that has supposedly sunk that British boat. The RAF doesn't field that type. All round AI ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ slop.

Mainly because the A10 is pish.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Maybe the problem you are experiencing isn't with everyone else, Dicky...

Rupe.. Dicky is the other group of arseholes. Well, one of the other groups of arseholes.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Brought to you by multimillionaire, ultra-conservative, dark money investments champion, Zia Yusuf.

He doesn't realise that if those Balaklava clad thugs get their way, they, unlike their backers, won't say "Oh, we don't mean the rich ones".

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Todays Gammon outrage, a police officer in Portsmouth

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Tell them he's a ghurka.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I was going to comment on the aircraft.

I guess it'd be a bit too on the nose to have a stuka dive bombing the lifeboat

Once again I point to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four and the scene when an audience cheers footage of a boat full of refugees being bombed. They've taken the warning and made it a roadmap.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Tell them he's a ghurka.

Very well might have been before he joined the police.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

My parliamentary motion on the 'right to peaceful protest against illegal immigration' was officially tabled last night.

So far, it has no support from any other MP - all have been invited to sign it.

The disconnect between this parliament and the British people is staggering.

We already have the right to peaceful protest, you performative idiot!

Why do you think no-one played along with your execrable publicity stunt, you utter stunt?

 

[Andy_Ross]

Do I smell a whiff of bollocks here?

GB Politics
@GBPolitcs
NEW: Southampton Port and Portsmouth Harbour both refused to allow RNLI lifeboats carrying illegal migrants to dock on Sunday

They both threatened RNLI crews with prosecution if they approached their ports, forcing the lifeboats to head to the smaller port at Eastney instead.

Link

The entire comments on this could just be copy pasted as a Gammon Outrage post.

 

[Andy_Ross]

The Argentine government has said that it would file criminal charges against oil company Navitas Petroleum for operating in seas off the Falkland Islands.

The Argentine government has said that it would file criminal charges against oil company Navitas Petroleum for operating in seas off the Falkland Islands.

The move came just days after Argentine President Javier Milei said he would sanction oil companies drilling in the British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean

Argentina to file criminal case against oil company operating in Falklands

The move comes days after President Javier Milei stepped up Argentina's claims of sovereignty over the Falklands.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Andy_Ross]

A council leader is stepping down from the role less than four months after taking up the position.

Reform UK's Graham Harrison was selected as Hartlepool Borough Council's leader in May, after the party secured more seats than anyone else in the local election.

In a statement on Monday, he said he had made the "very difficult decision" to stand down as a recent change in his personal circumstances meant he was "no longer able" to commit the required time.

A new leader will be appointed at an extraordinary meeting of the council on 15 September, with Harrison set to continue representing the Burn Valley ward as a councillor...

Hartlepool council leader stands down after four months

Reform UK's Graham Harrison will still represent Hartlepool's Burn Valley ward as a councillor.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Darat]

Do I smell a whiff of bollocks here?

GB Politics
@GBPolitcs
NEW: Southampton Port and Portsmouth Harbour both refused to allow RNLI lifeboats carrying illegal migrants to dock on Sunday

They both threatened RNLI crews with prosecution if they approached their ports, forcing the lifeboats to head to the smaller port at Eastney instead.

Link

Lies and more lies.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Do I smell a whiff of bollocks here?

GB Politics
@GBPolitcs
NEW: Southampton Port and Portsmouth Harbour both refused to allow RNLI lifeboats carrying illegal migrants to dock on Sunday

They both threatened RNLI crews with prosecution if they approached their ports, forcing the lifeboats to head to the smaller port at Eastney instead.

Link

The entire comments on this could just be copy pasted as a Gammon Outrage post.

Looks like flat out lies to me. Vranyo.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

The Argentine government has said that it would file criminal charges against oil company Navitas Petroleum for operating in seas off the Falkland Islands.

The Argentine government has said that it would file criminal charges against oil company Navitas Petroleum for operating in seas off the Falkland Islands.

The move came just days after Argentine President Javier Milei said he would sanction oil companies drilling in the British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean

Argentina to file criminal case against oil company operating in Falklands

The move comes days after President Javier Milei stepped up Argentina's claims of sovereignty over the Falklands.

www.bbc.co.uk

We get all this bull ◊◊◊◊ because Trump said something disobliging about the UK claim to the Falklands, purely because he wanted to twist our arm about something else.

He also said something similarly disobliging about the cost of military exercises to defend South Korea, because he wanted to needle the Koreans too.

He's playing with matches and he's going to get people killed. What a ◊◊◊◊.

 

[zooterkin]

Jaguar aren't making any cars right now. They stopped all non-EV production, but then stopped entirely last year and their forthcoming EV won't be ready until next year.

Along with a totally bizarre ad campaign. Or was that satire (or a fever dream)?

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Police were told night before Dover unrest that far-right agitators had converged on village

Details passed to Kent police after far-right activists heard in pub boasting about going to to Dover to ‘attack Muslims’

www.theguardian.com

Completely "spontaneous" all those paramilitary clad types just happening to turn up in Dover all together and just happening to leave all together after having stood around blocking roads all together...

Good work, Kent Police!