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UK Politics Omnishambles

Tam

Mirth wrote:
Could have just called it 'Secretary for EU Affairs

Done

Not sure if his wife would like that title given his past.

innervisionscm

Burnwinter

Corbyn still hanging on at this point. Could've sworn all that cloak and dagger secret ballot stuff was intended to get rid of him, but they somehow didn't get over the line.

Eminence grease Tom Watson comes out of it looking like a Machiavellian faker.

goon

Govey has been sacked 😆

Not backing Boris was a bit of a miscalculation.

Mirth

Nicky Morgan - who backed Gove - has also been sacked. May's ruthless.

Gurgen

Is this whole UK politics thing just a big candid camera show?

Qwiss

Villiers sacked as well.

Burnwinter

It's funny, all that reporting about Gove prior to the main event—looks like he went for the leadership because he knew that with the people who hated him, his goose was cooked if he didn't get it.

Burnwinter

Osborne on his own counter-sensical austerity regime:

Osborne’s response is recorded by David Laws, Clegg’s ally in government negotiations. It ranks as among the most revealing things ever said about the Conservatives’ austerity strategy.

The multi-million-pound spending spree wasn’t justifiable, admitted Osborne, according to Laws’ recent memoir, Coalition. “It will only really be of help to stupid, affluent and lazy people, who can’t be bothered to put their savings away into tax-efficient vehicles!” said Osborne. “But it will still be very popular – we have polled it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/15/george-osborne-austerity-choked-recovery-brexit-legacy-referendum-revolt

Meatwad

i've never seen the american press corps so vicious abroad.

Biggus

Were those quotes not accurate?
Where was the viciousness?

Bold Tone

When those precision guided missiles were landing, boris johnson's embarrassment was a joy to behold.
Even Kerry felt for him and didn't know where to look and tried to buy him time by pretending not to have heard his question.
Fair play to him he came back with his usual bluster but i think he would have been better advised to politely refuse that job and continue sniping from the outside but, heigh-ho, this soap opera is so much better for the rest of us.
Masterstroke by teresa may.

y va marquer

Could end up with Teresa May, Angela, Hilary and Marine le Pen running their respective countries by this time next year.
I'd be interested to see how the dynamics of those relationships would work, how it would be perceived and if it would actually change the current poisonous climate in any way.

Bold Tone

Tories are milking it for all it's worth and i thought this was funny.

e: https://twitter.com/kitmalthouse

Biggus

Don't know which was more irresponsible. 😆

y va marquer wrote:
Could end up with Teresa May, Angela, Hilary and Marine le Pen running their respective countries by this time next year.
I'd be interested to see how the dynamics of those relationships would work, how it would be perceived and if it would actually change the current poisonous climate in any way.

Nobody will be able to get a word in edgeways.

Qwiss

y va marquer wrote:
Could end up with Teresa May, Angela, Hilary and Marine le Pen running their respective countries by this time next year.
I'd be interested to see how the dynamics of those relationships would work, how it would be perceived and if it would actually change the current poisonous climate in any way.

Looks like more poison than usual to me.

Tam

Qwiss! wrote:
y va marquer wrote:
Could end up with Teresa May, Angela, Hilary and Marine le Pen running their respective countries by this time next year.
I'd be interested to see how the dynamics of those relationships would work, how it would be perceived and if it would actually change the current poisonous climate in any way.

Looks like more poison than usual to me.

I wasn't impressed by her performance in her first PMQs. I had hoped for a bit more class and debate but she's gone even harsher than Cameron and his digs.

Burnwinter

Looks like the EU is going to keep doubling down on the "free trade equals free movement" thing—so basically Brexit-lite or economic isolation.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/21/may-gets-hollande-ultimatum-free-trade-depends-on-free-movement

jones

y va marquer wrote:
Could end up with Teresa May, Angela, Hilary and Marine le Pen running their respective countries by this time next year.
I'd be interested to see how the dynamics of those relationships would work, how it would be perceived and if it would actually change the current poisonous climate in any way.

Don't know enough about May to give a reasonable assessment there but Hillary and Marine are infinitely more venomous and reprehensible than their already unlikable predecessors if God forbid they were voted into office.

y va marquer

I don't disagree that Hilary, and particularly Marine, are unpalatable characters but I was looking at it in terms of the dynamics of the relationships within that group and how they would influence each other.

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