How would any of us govern that? Unless your first act of government "I have found a way to dismantle this entire network of malevolent, ignorant, destructive shits"

"the public" and their preferences are only involved in any of this in so far as enough of them can be shepherded into the relevant political pens by the continuous screeching of political/media class.

and that every decision must must MUST be somehow squared with the bond markets or we shall all plummet to our doom, and all the bond markets thirst for is the same "seriousness" (cuts to fundamentally uncuttable things)

that all of this MUST be wedded to fossil fuels forever and ever amen, and the continued presence of one minor cabinet minister saying otherwise is a matter of grave grave concern.

the same class that treats seems to think that we should seriously consider some radical future of free market Thatcherism with rock hard borders and autarky, for reasons. The only viable future worth considering, more or less.

we have a whole political and media class that has basically made policy making of any import impossible for nearly two decades by treating anything other than spending cuts and authoritarianism as "unserious" and/or "reckless"

Johnson's demise was a product of a right-wing media complex that deigns to notice things when they can make political capital out of it.

His rise was the product of a centrist state media that doesn't think pointing out obviously corrupt political dangers is really their job.

the Mandelson scandal would not now be happening if the media had done their job and properly scrutinised him resuming involvement with top-level politics several years ago.

It wouldn't be happening if his influence didn't extend deep into the structurally dominant clique in 1 of 2 main parties

What if... what really makes Britain "ungovernable" is... the nature of its political media and of its political class?

It's so fucking funny how the starmer defenders have completely bought the idea that if this Robbins character had just spoken up, Mandelson wouldn't have been the golden boy the PM wasn't looking to foist into a plum job as a reward.

reckon "famous civil servants" is a category on Pointless where probably any answer at all gets you the maximum!

The concept ‘Western civilisation’ is superficial enough to include both the most noble thinking ranging from the Ancient Greeks to Enlightenment philosophers, while also including what is condemned by these very thinkers, e.g. fascism. It is only when the concept is unpacked we see the absurdity

Relative to the prime minister? Certainly a nobody in terms of barely 1 person in 1000 would've known who he was this time last week?

"the buck stops with whichever underling I can pin it on" is a sentiment everyone really admires in a leader

No, really, everyone loves it when the leader of the government finds a technical reason why actually it's some relatively powerless nobody who is responsible for a decision the actual bloody Prime Minister made

This reads like just another babbling manifesto by a mass shooter which, of course, is exactly what it is.

Yes, it is

Also, though Israel supporters have historically taken considerable offence at the South African apartheid comparisons, the violence of the Israeli state is considerably more extensive.

Do you have a folder of these?

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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quite the career

😂 as soon as I learned who this Farage/Mandelson guy was I was shocked

This is brand new information to me, believe me, as soon as I heard, I was as furious as you are!

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my god, how did I miss this one?

Not allowed to say it, condemned to periodically interrupt whatever they're doing to put out risible lines like "oh, the foreign office didn't pass along the message that he was dodgy". Funny.

"Everyone, the party hierarchy, the civil service, the security services, the media, the opposition, knew the deal with Mandy ever since we brought him back in HALF A DECADE ago. None of them said shit about it and wouldn't have done at all if the Yanks hadn't started aggressively noticing him"

They're stuck needing to come up with ever more far fetched and discrediting explanations for this story that keeps resurfacing because they're unable to say out loud why they actually appointed him (he was a key political ally they wanted to keep sweet) is bleakly funny.

Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

The Labour Right don't really believe that any substantial section of the electorate is left wing or liberal, so they don't think there's any trade off here and think if they just find more convincing ways to bash out groups and launch crackdowns, whatever spell holding *their* voters will dissolve