General UK Politics VI It's A (Honey) Trap!

[jimbob]

Continued from here.

Posted By: Agatha

Are we talking about Truss' book again?

It's the literary equivalent of Sunak's charisma.

 

[zooterkin]

It's the literary equivalent of Sunak's charisma.

I can't help feeling you're being a bit hard on one of them, but for the life of me I can't work out which one...

 

[P.J. Denyer]

It's the literary equivalent of Sunak's charisma.

Reported: You've been here long enough to know that any discussion of Sunak's charisma belongs in General Skepticism and the Paranormal next to the Bigfoot threads.

 

[Nessie]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/10/complaints-police-scotland-hate-crime-law

"Only 3.8% of hate crime law complaints authentic so far, says Police Scotland
Official data for first week shows 7,152 reports received though nearly half of those were made on 1 April"

Basically all the complaints about JK Rowling and Humza Yousaf, that predate the law, have been binned and the police have clearly set a high bar as to what counts as hate, based on what counted as hate under old legislation, which had not been applied to Rowling and the First Minister. The doom mongers have been thwarted by a common sense approach.

 

[Darat]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/10/complaints-police-scotland-hate-crime-law

"Only 3.8% of hate crime law complaints authentic so far, says Police Scotland
Official data for first week shows 7,152 reports received though nearly half of those were made on 1 April"

Basically all the complaints about JK Rowling and Humza Yousaf, that predate the law, have been binned and the police have clearly set a high bar as to what counts as hate, based on what counted as hate under old legislation, which had not been applied to Rowling and the First Minister. The doom mongers have been thwarted by a common sense approach.

Not by common sense, but by settled law, the police and prosecutors are well aware of what will stand up. Our courts have made it very clear over about a decade now how high the bar is.

 

[Nessie]

The majority of reports about hate have been online and anonymous, so just mischief-makers then and they can be dismissed.

 

[jimbob]

Guess what Wragg uses as his WiFi password?


https://x.com/AvaSantina/status/1778059406141263880

Parliament2015

 

[Vixen]

Ouch - that would be a Ring Albert!



(Regular pub quizzer here - Albert is Arkwright's first name.)

Billhooks and four candles...? Oh, you mean Bill Wragg and his fork hands.

"I saw you in the Commons bar and thought you looked really fit! Now send me your entire address book." Charles WhatsApp Message

Now who could those two prominent (oo-er missus) Right Honourable Members of Parliament be who sent Billy Rag the dick pics accordingly...?

Enquiring minds need to know.

 

[Vixen]

https://x.com/AvaSantina/status/1778059406141263880

Guess what his WiFi password is?

Parliament2015

Oh wow, that is so similar to my work password. Must be a thing.

 

[Vixen]

Amazon blurb [extract] on Liz Truss' book (an outrageous £10.99 on kindle):

Over the course of a decade as a minister, Liz Truss sought to champion limited government and individual freedom in the face of the left-wing political agenda that frames the debate in so many institutions. Ousted by the establishment but still fighting for conservatism, Truss argues here that the rise of authoritarianism and the adoption of fashionable ideas propagated by the global left give us barely a decade to preserve the economic and cultural freedoms and institutions that the West holds so dear.

cont. p96 (link not included as we don't want to encourage her).

TL;DR: "Bloody democratic bastards. Balls to the governor of the Bank of England. Damn the bond markets & pension funds!" ~ Liz 'All I want for Christmas are my two bottom teeth' Truss

 

[Darat]

Just a bit more of the “The monarch is only a figurehead, with no political power, and would never interfere in the government’s business” powers malarkey: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...g-could-not-be-prosecuted-under-new-welsh-law

 

[Norman Alexander]

Just a bit more of the “The monarch is only a figurehead, with no political power, and would never interfere in the government’s business” powers malarkey: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...g-could-not-be-prosecuted-under-new-welsh-law

Australia, November 1975 waves back.

 

[KDLarsen]

Remember the libel suit involving Michelle Donelan? Turns out the taxpayers paid out a wee bit more than first admitted:

UK taxpayers have paid out more than £34,000 to cover the cost of the science secretary Michelle Donelan’s libel case, the Guardian can reveal, more than double the sum the government had previously admitted.

The legal fees racked up by the cabinet minister after wrongly accusing an academic of supporting or sympathising with Hamas cost the public an additional £19,000, on top of the £15,000 libel settlement.

The Guardian: Michelle Donelan used £34,000 of taxpayer funds to cover libel costs

 

[jimbob]

Reported: You've been here long enough to know that any discussion of Sunak's charisma belongs in General Skepticism and the Paranormal next to the Bigfoot threads.

I disagree.
It's amusing that some commentators were complaining about Starmer's lack of charisma, especially compared to Johnson. And then the Tories got Truss which, "Was. A. Disgrace." And followed it with someone with a massive negative charisma. Like noise cancelling speakers, his charisma is in antiphase and reduces the overall charisma in the locality.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I disagree.
It's amusing that some commentators were complaining about Starmer's lack of charisma, especially compared to Johnson. And then the Tories got Truss which, "Was. A. Disgrace." And followed it with someone with a massive negative charisma. Like noise cancelling speakers, his charisma is in antiphase and reduces the overall charisma in the locality.

That was kind of my point.

 

[arthwollipot]

Australia, November 1975 waves back.

November 1975 was all the doing of the Governor-General, as the letters proved.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

According to Times Radio Johnson is 'teasing' a comeback. Presumably they're using the word in the sense of "The Mafioso teased me that if I didn't pay him the protection money he'd break my legs and burn down my shop".

 

[Andy_Ross]

Greater Manchester Police has launched an investigation into Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner after she was accused of breaking electoral law.

The Conservative Party's deputy chair claims she may have given false information about her main residence.

A police spokesman said the force was looking at "whether any offences have been committed".

Ms Rayner denies any wrongdoing and Sir Keir Starmer said he was "fully confident" she complied with the rules.

The police investigation has been prompted by a complaint from Tory deputy chairman James Daly.

Mr Daly, the MP for Bury North, is understood to have made police aware of neighbours contradicting Ms Rayner's statement that a property, separate from her husband's, was her main residency.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68797258

 

[Andy_Ross]

Tufton Street shouting heads have already decided the investigation won't be fair as Greater Manchester Police are somehow in Labour's pocket. After all they found that Starmer hadn't broken lockdown laws when they investigated 'Beergate'

 

[Andy_Ross]

"It's all ******* fixed ,the old bill are all woke lefty tossers"

Misplaced comma as originally written.