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General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

Andy_Ross said:
Ed Sheeran's agent, "That was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now."

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And where do you live, Mr Yaxley-Lennon?

And can you tell us a bit about your actual, real background, rather than the fictional one?

And are you going to have an argument with Robert Kraft?
 
Lee and Richard don't seem aware that it's always been a Union position sinc at least Thatcher's time.
Paul Nowak is replacing Frances O'Grady, his predecessor at the TUC, who was appointed a Bank of England director in 2019 under a Tory government.
She in turn replaced Unison chief Dave Prentis, also appointed under a Tory govt. He replaced Brendan Barber (TUC), who replaced Bill Morris (TGWU), who replaced Gavin Laird (appointed under Thatcher) etc etc.

This is not new!

Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧
@TiceRichard
Turns out Bank of England has sold it’s independence to socialist Chancellor handing out jobs to his union mates.

Lee Anderson MP
@LeeAndersonMP_
No Words !

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Jack Elsom
@JackElsom
NEW: Chancellor John Healey has appointed trade union boss Paul Nowak as a director of the Bank of England
 
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Another defector.

Cllr Andrew Southall 🇬🇧
@cllr_andrew_s

Today I am announcing that I have parted company with Reform UK and joined Restore Britain. Thank you to @RupertLowe10 and the team for the warm welcome.

I will continue in my role as councillor for Wollaston and Stourbridge Town with exactly the same commitment to representing residents, dealing with casework and fighting our corner in Dudley Borough.

My involvement with Reform UK spanned several years, and I have not taken this decision lightly. I entered politics because I believe strongly in defending our national sovereignty, culture and individual liberties, while promoting entrepreneurialism, economic freedom and our national identity.

Those principles have not changed.

I have joined Restore Britain because I believe it now offers the clearest political home for those principles.

Over time, Reform UK has taken positions and changed direction on important issues in ways that I have found increasingly difficult to reconcile with the reasons I became involved in the movement in the first place. I respect that others will reach different conclusions, including friends and colleagues who remain in Reform.
For me, however, staying put simply because leaving might be difficult would have been the wrong thing to do.

What particularly attracts me to Restore Britain is its willingness to put substantial policy proposals behind its arguments. Its detailed policy documents set out what it believes needs to change, how it proposes to achieve it and the difficult decisions that will be required.

I would particularly encourage people to read The Wealth of Our Nation and the party's other policy documents and make up their own minds.

This move also means reuniting with people with whom I have previously campaigned and worked.

Although it is difficult to leave behind colleagues and party members whom I greatly admire, I hope we can continue working constructively together where our interests coincide.

Party politics should never prevent us from doing what is right for Dudley Borough.

Most importantly, I want to address the people of Wollaston and Stourbridge Town directly.

You elected me to represent you, and that responsibility remains paramount. Whether it is individual casework, supporting our communities, standing up for local businesses or challenging decisions that I believe are wrong, my commitment to the ward is not conditional upon the party name next to mine.

I know some residents will support this decision and others will disagree with it. I respect both.

What I can promise is that I will continue to exercise my own judgement, listen to the people I represent and work in the interests of Wollaston, Stourbridge and the wider borough.

I look forward to working with my new colleagues in Restore Britain and to the challenges ahead.

We have much to do to
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Some may wonder how my previous post is relevant to anything other than my mother's eager faceplant into cosy facism, and my resistance to, and criticism/highlighting of that (which is largely based on the values that she instilled in me as a child).

That was all made clear in the previous version of that post that I managed to fat-fingeredly obliterate. That draft was good, I used the example of my Mother's political shift to illustrate some idea I had about shifting windows and the impermanence of experience, and such.
It was quite clever.
It may have been quite clever.
I thought it was quite clever at the time.

All of which is moot, because then i accidentally erased it, and now the fickle touch of inspiration has moved on, and I am far too sleepy and drunk and lazy to remake it.

So it goes.
 
junkshop said:
Some may wonder how my previous post is relevant to anything other than my mother's eager faceplant into cosy facism, and my resistance to, and criticism/highlighting of that (which is largely based on the values that she instilled in me as a child).

That was all made clear in the previous version of that post that I managed to fat-fingeredly obliterate. That draft was good, I used the example of my Mother's political shift to illustrate some idea I had about shifting windows and the impermanence of experience, and such.
It was quite clever.
It may have been quite clever.
I thought it was quite clever at the time.

All of which is moot, because then i accidentally erased it, and now the fickle touch of inspiration has moved on, and I am far too sleepy and drunk and lazy to remake it.

So it goes.
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Been there, done that.
 
junkshop said:
Some may wonder how my previous post is relevant to anything other than my mother's eager faceplant into cosy facism, and my resistance to, and criticism/highlighting of that (which is largely based on the values that she instilled in me as a child).

That was all made clear in the previous version of that post that I managed to fat-fingeredly obliterate. That draft was good, I used the example of my Mother's political shift to illustrate some idea I had about shifting windows and the impermanence of experience, and such.
It was quite clever.
It may have been quite clever.
I thought it was quite clever at the time.

All of which is moot, because then i accidentally erased it, and now the fickle touch of inspiration has moved on, and I am far too sleepy and drunk and lazy to remake it.

So it goes.
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My brother reads the Mail, and some of his social media feed is levened with stuff that's at best, misinterpretation (and some disinformation - he repeated to me the Keir Starmer rumour that we now know was started by Russia for example).

It doesn't help that he does have a contrarian streak. His wife isn't, nor was our dad.

It's the misinterpretation that's the worst to deal with as far as I can see, because the basic facts are often not exactly wrong, it's just the implications.
 
Of course they haven't


Reform not suspending former leader arrested on suspicion of assault, says chief whip.

A politician who quit as Reform UK's Wales leader after he was arrested for assault over the weekend will continue to represent the party in the Senedd, its chief whip Llŷr Powell has said.

Powell said Reform had not considered suspending the whip - which would effectively leave him as an independent MS - and said he "had a right" to be at the meeting.

www.bbc.co.uk

Reform not suspending former leader arrested at weekend, says chief whip

Llŷr Powell says whip will not be removed from Dan Thomas, who continues as a Reform MS.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Andy_Ross said:
Of course they haven't


Reform not suspending former leader arrested on suspicion of assault, says chief whip.

A politician who quit as Reform UK's Wales leader after he was arrested for assault over the weekend will continue to represent the party in the Senedd, its chief whip Llŷr Powell has said.

Powell said Reform had not considered suspending the whip - which would effectively leave him as an independent MS - and said he "had a right" to be at the meeting.

www.bbc.co.uk

Reform not suspending former leader arrested at weekend, says chief whip

Llŷr Powell says whip will not be removed from Dan Thomas, who continues as a Reform MS.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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"Protecting are wimmin"
 
Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage

Representing Zambia, Dapo Akande fought for Mauritius and against Britain in the International Court of Justice.

So why is Burnham backing him to be our nominee to the International Court of Justice?

And why did the Tories put him on the International Law Commission?

We're led by people who seem to hate Britain.

Nigel's GB News show Video in link
 
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