Discussion: UK Politics

[DarthSkywalker]

Rishi Sunak leads PM race as Boris Johnson flies back to London

Would be hilarious in Sunak got it after what happened last month.

 

[Iceman]

Would be hilarious in Sunak got it after what happened last month.

He must have been laughing the last few weeks after all his predictions came true. Everyone who fails to get the job ends up looking better because whoever gets in does so amazingly badly.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

inews - Thousands of protesters march in central London to call for UK to rejoin the EU

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership race

 

[Iceman]

Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership race

Oh wow, some (unexpected) good news at last!

 

[HBarnill]

LBC host left stunned as caller says ‘Rishi Sunak isn’t even British’

Disgusting but not surprising. It's England, after all.

 

[Sithborg]

Oh he's dropping because they wouldn't fall in line behind him, lol

Oh, my 102 nominators, they're Canadian, you wouldn't know them.

 

[Iceman]

Rishi Sunak to be next prime minister after Penny Mordaunt quits race | Evening Standard

 

[Prison Mike]

Kind of fitting to have an Indian be the Prime Minister…on Diwali no less.

 

[Dark Raven]

Rishi Sunak to be next prime minister after Penny Mordaunt quits race | Evening Standard

It would've been a more daunting task for Penny.

 

[Sithborg]

Kind of curious to see how this plays out. When, the US elected Obama, the racists when effing insanse. The fact that he is part of the deplorable party is an interesting twist. Though, of course, one can argue you already hit your insanity with Brexit, there is always lower to go.

 

[chamber-music]

LBC host left stunned as caller says ‘Rishi Sunak isn’t even British’

Disgusting but not surprising. It's England, after all.

He isn't inbred enough for the racists.

All your ancestors coming from the same small geographical region and inbreeding for centuries isn't exactly something to be proud of in my opinion but racists seem to be really into that kind of stuff.

 

[Iceman]

Sunak keeps Jeremy Hunt as chancellor.

 

[Dark Raven]

Sunak keeps Jeremy Hunt as chancellor.

He didn't want to hunt for anyone else at this time.

 

[Iceman]

Rishi Sunak appoints new cabinet - here's who's in and who's out

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guardian - Government urged to investigate report Liz Truss’s phone was hacked [by Russia]

 

[Iceman]

Suella Braverman challenges critics to oust her in asylum row

 

[Dark Raven]

Suella Braverman challenges critics to oust her in asylum row

What's she doing in Arkham Asylum?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Pink News - Rishi Sunak 'wants to gut trans rights from Equality Act [of 2010]'

When you have no solution to global and domestic economic problems you scapegoat and distract.

 

[Iceman]

Matt Hancock suspended as Tory MP for joining I'm a Celeb cast

Looks like he’s got other priorities.

 

[Dark Raven]

Matt Hancock suspended as Tory MP for joining I'm a Celeb cast

Looks like he’s got other priorities.

Well they got him out of there.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Euronews - Growing majority of Britons think Brexit was a mistake, new poll shows

According to a new poll, only 43% of the British population consider that the UK's departure from the European Union was a good decision, while 57% believe it was a mistake.

The numbers, revealed on Wednesday by John Curtice, president of the British Polling Council, represent a significant shift from the 2016 results, when almost 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the EU, sending shockwaves across the globe.

"Brexit is probably today at its lowest level of popularity since June 2016," Curtice said during a meeting with journalists on Wednesday.

The Guardian - One in six people living in England and Wales born outside UK, census reveals

Boston, the local authority with the highest leave vote in the 2016 Brexit referendum, witnessed the highest growth in EU nationals in the period between 2011 and 2021, from 12.4% to 20%.

Across England and Wales, the number of EU-born residents has increased by 25% in the past 10 years, from 5.1 million to 6.4 million, driven mainly by the growth in the number of Romanian migrants.

The same phenomenon of bigotry that powered Brexit powered Trump and the insurrection in the United States.

 

[Iceman]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Washington Post - U.K. Supreme Court rules that Scotland cannot hold independence referendum