I really, really wish I could be proud of the diversity currently in our government but alas they're Tories & so irrespective of their ethnicity they are utterly craven, cruel, callous, corrupt cockwombles. Our last two Home Secretarys are just openly evil & sadistic. They derive obvious pleasure from human suffering. Anyway at least one evil plan has been thwarted by that pesky European Convention on Human Rights.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/suella-braverman-devastated-appeal?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1vg1ff

#FuckTheTories #UKPol #AsylumSeekersWelcome

Oh! I'd assumed that my rubbish Tory MP would've not voted last night. But it turns out that yes, he did indeed vote in favour of the report. So now, happy to say that he's 0.1% less rubbish.

I'm still desperately hoping that he'll be removed at the election, of course (which is unlikely, it's a safe Tory seat, but we can still try).

#UKPol #politics

Seven people voted against the report. Seven! Oh, that's delightfully humiliating.

(354 in favour.)

#politics #UKPol

Jolly good, there is going to be a division. Somebody was very enthusiastically saying NO! to ensure we'd get one (possibly Nick Fletcher of Don Valley, who is a very strange man).

#politics #UKPol

If anyone's interested, this is the schedule for the Commons today. The work and pensions questions should last about an hour, so expect the Privileges Committee motion somewhere around half three.

Lots of time set aside for the debate on the motion, hypothetically until 10pm, but seeing as most Tories are expected to abstain, it'll likely be nowhere near that long. Vote within the Chamber could be as early as five, maybe earlier - impossible to tell, there is no 'normal' for something like this as it's never happened before - and if there's a division, results would be not long afterwards.

#politics #UKPol

What an absolute pillock. He really does bring all this shit onto himself, doesn't he?

"214. The procedure adopted by the Committee stated that “If the Committee intends to criticise Mr Johnson or any other individual or body it will first send a warning letter,” and that “if an allegation is determined against Mr Johnson, [the letter will] state the Committee’s recommendation as to sanction, if any, and invite his submission on the sanction recommended.”

On Thursday 8 June 2023 we sent by email to Mr Johnson’s solicitors the Chair’s warning letter, and immediately despatched by hand a single hard-copy document containing extracts from the Committee’s provisionally agreed draft report, for inspection by Mr Johnson and his nominated legal advisers under secure invigilated conditions. Each page of this document was marked as follows:

PRIVILEGED AND IN STRICT CONFIDENCE–FOR THE USE OF MR JOHNSON AND HIS NOMINATED LEGAL ADVISERS ONLY

It is a contempt of the House to reveal the contents of this document. There are no other physical copies of the document in existence and the document is only made available for inspection under invigilated conditions. It must not be copied. The Committee of Privileges will consider final submissions about the content of the document before it publishes its final report to the House.

215. Within 24 hours of receiving our warning letter, on Friday 9 June 2023, Mr Johnson announced his intention to resign as an MP with immediate effect, broke the confidentiality of the process by revealing the contents of the warning letter and linked material, and attacked the Committee."

#UKPol #politics

I feel something is getting missed in the excitement around the Tories losing a thousand council seats.

These were seats contested in 2019, when the Tories also had a terrible night, in the dismal end days of May's reign. They lost over a thousand seats then too.

Consequently, the thousand seats lost this week were all seats that were too safe to lose in 2019. They've lost heavily in places where even Theresa May was doing okay.

#UKPol #LocalElections

So far, what the results are saying to me is that, if the Tories are going to be properly beaten next year then tactical voting will be *absolutely essential* in almost all of England.

And whatever your views on the specific policies of this-or-that party, in the overwhelming majority of English constituencies (plus many in Wales and a few in Scotland), you will only really have two choices: Tory or anti-Tory.

I hope everyone can find out what the most viable anti-Tory choice is for where they live. Bear in mind, in Tory-held seats, it's not necessarily the party that finished second last time, it can be the one with the greatest capacity to grow.

#UKPol #elections

https://youtu.be/zyKIJCHZfD8 George Monbiot on form as always. Make no mistake this is the rise of fascism & authoritarianism in this country.

#UKPol #PolicingBill #Fascism

I am really tired of living in a country where the major news story of the day is encouraging everyone to 'pledge allegiance' to an elderly, greedy, decidedly unpleasant billionaire.

I mean, don't get me wrong, it's nice that the overwhelming majority response seems to have been 'oh, do fuck off'. But still, can we just not bother doing this at all?

#UKPol #NotMyKing #OhDoFuckOff

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/24/i-refuse-to-ask-voters-for-id-so-ive-quit-polling-station-work-after-40-years Can anyone else smell fascism?

#UKElections2023 #UKPol #FuckTheTories

https://tactical.vote/ OK I know it seems hopeless & that we'll forever be bound by Tory scum until the end of time but it's the local elections in the UK on May 4th so please check how to vote tactically in your area & wherever possible help younger voters access ID as the far right government recently imposed voter ID (but only on those unlikely to vote for them).

Is the current Labour party who I want to support, not really, but our priority is getting #GetTheToriesOut then we'll work from the.

#UKElections2023 #UKPol #FuckTheTories

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/03/voter-photo-id-plan-attacked-as-uk-data-shows-no-cases-of-impersonation#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16805676148735&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2Fapr%2F03%2Fvoter-photo-id-plan-attacked-as-uk-data-shows-no-cases-of-impersonation

Not content with stealing billions of pounds, letting tens of thousands of people die, stripping us of our rights & freedoms, crashing the economy & flooding our waterways with shite. Those Tory fuckers are attempting to remove the vote from as many young people as possible, so they can't remove the #ToryScum from power. Maybe if you know someone without ID to get some this month?

#UKPol #Voting #FuckTheTories

Thank fuck for that. I'd hardly call myself a big fan of Yousaf, but given how utterly appalling his opponents were, it's definitely a relief.

Well done SNP, now hopefully Scotland can go back to setting an example for the rest of the UK.

https://news.sky.com/story/humza-yousaf-announced-as-new-scottish-national-party-leader-replacing-nicola-sturgeon-12843363

#UKPol #ScotPol #Scotland #SNP #politics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-65086830

Thank fuck for that. I'd hardly call myself a big fan of Yousaf, but given how utterly appalling his opponents were, it's definitely a relief.

Well done SNP, now hopefully Scotland can go back to setting an example for the rest of the UK.

#UKPol #ScotPol #Scotland #SNP #politics

Utterly unsurprising, but still depressing.

I can't help wondering, though, how many similar disgraces in other forces are being ignored by the media and Westminster just because they're not in London.

All of us in the rest of the country know full well that our local police forces are hardly models of public-spirited decency.

#UKPol #politics #police #acab

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65015479

FFS. The state of this (yougov daily poll).

There really ought to be some meaningful education in this country. Actions by the Nazis *were actions by a legitimately elected government*.

How can you ever expect to spot Nazism if you think it never exists?

(Having said that, it might be too late for education: 75% of Conservative respondents said 'never appropriate', 68% of leave voters, 67% of over-65s. So... I think we can see the problem here.)

#UKpol #politics

There's this scene in the film Quiz Show, Charles van Doren is giving evidence before an Oversight Committee about the rigged TV gameshow scandal.

And he admits to cheating, in a very well-mannered statement. The wealthy, expensively-educated senators thank him for such a heartfelt and poignant testimony.

Then a senator from a working class New York background speaks up, and says that he doesn't see why he should commend van Doren for simply doing what any decent person should've done from the very beginning.

When I read this praise for Sunak finally deciding to end the antagonistic bullshit attitude the Government has had towards the EU, I feel exactly like the New York senator.

He deserves no praise at all for simply doing the most basic thing that should've happened years ago.

#UKPol #EU #WindsorAgreement

Just imagine, if you will, a country where a person who became (if temporarily) the *actual Prime Minister* genuinely believes that global finance is a left-wing conspiracy.

#politics #UKPol #Tories #UnintentionalSatire

So the UK Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland isn't allowed to have another independence referendum, without permission from the parliament at Westminster.

I support Scottish independence because I believe in democracy.

The UK is a hopelessly undemocratic state, with no accountability for corrupt, inept and/or brutal misrule, and no functioning opposition - no hope for one, even, as things stand. I want out.

I also think it's transparently, grossly undemocratic for the UK parliament to attempt to block another referendum when Scotland keeps overwhelmingly electing parties that want one. I'm disappointed, but unsurprised, that Labour won't say so.
#indyref2 #scotPol #UKpol #Scotland