"We need enormous government subsidies to the energy and fuel markets AND we pay too much tax!" are contradictory statements and I'm sick of humouring people who hold them and ESPECIALLY sick of MPs who espouse them. Davey, there's a small chance you could be LotO. Do better FFS. #ThePolitics
Fuel duty being cut by 10p means your diesel will cost £2.20/l in three-six months time rather than £2.30.
I'm getting rather sick of any fuel price rise being pegged on fuel duty when the duty has barely changed in decades. #ThePolitics
Oh I see it's happened again.
Again.
Again.
#ThePolitics
Have we covered the Badenoch 'Rather than chairing yet another COBRA meeting, the Prime Minister should get Britain drilling' tweet from last night? I went to bed early so might have missed it. #ThePolitics
There will never be another leader like her (derogatory)
Merge OFSTED into the Home Office, and abolish them both. Same "what the fuck are you looking at" culture in both. #ThePolitics
I've long thought part of the problem is people can't comprehend large numbers.
One election focused on £6bn of proposed spending.
That's a lot if it's in your bank account (setting aside the madness it seems to cause) - but it's a rounding error in government budget.
#ThePolitics
Just heard the Fifa president described as 'Gianni Sycofantini' #TheFootball #ThePolitics
Listening to PMQs, because masochism. My word Badenoch is a thick, nasty, awful dose. #ThePolitics
You know the old comedians gag that finishes "The Aristocrats!"
Works as well with "Reform UK!"
#ThePolitics
There's no bottom to the barrel of appalling Reform people. It's just a portal to the fiery depths of hell. #ThePolitics
Listening to a podcast about Canada. Every Canadian I've met has been delightful. It seems that I've never met anyone from Alberta, which sounds like where they keep their bastards. #ThePolitics
Bravo France, showing how it's done again. #ThePolitics
"How can we save money on HS2?"
"Hmm... do the trains really need to be high speed?"
#ThePolitics
The UK government has published an emergency plan for fuel.
Cue dickheads queuing to panic buy at petrol station forecourts like it's the pathetic fuel protests of 2000 in 3, 2, 1...
#ThePolitics
I learned something new today - if you need to do a quick sanity check on the authenticity of a Truth social post by you know who this site keeps a rolling update of them without dipping your <redacted> into <redacted, but worryingly descriptive> #ThePolitics
She's running #ThePolitics
Now I've got that joke out of the way I will want to check this pod out.
A lot of these Cameos came from when Farage had no plans to get back into politics, so I'm assuming at last one and probably nearer 20 people have a video of Farage shouting "Up the RA" or similar. If you do, it's rude not to share. #ThePolitics
Ah feck it, I'm really annoyed now (not by Duncan). We (the UK) live in a society that operates on the knife edge and demands government support to protect it from shocks, but doesn't appreciate where the money for that protection comes from. #ThePolitics
One for @rich-bryant.uk - I read that @henrymance.ft.com lunch with Farage piece this morning over my fancy middle class breakfast and dear old God Bless Our Troops Nige repeated his boast about how the Taliban agreed with him to take Afghani asylum seekers back in it. #ThePolitics
Apologies for the #ThePolitics misery posting but this thread about Lowe reminds me of how, on seeing a multiperson kayak on a charidee thing, managed to raise a mob off of Facebook to protect the beach from small boat migrants. IN GREAT YARMOUTH.
Listening to @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social discussing Kemi being "able to start a fight in a lift, alone" and having a self-defined "tough guy persona" - oh no, she's Dennis Wise. #ThePolitics
If Kemi Badenoch, who reflexively opposes anything suggested by the government, makes an exception for your god-awful immigration proposals, you are definitely on the wrong track. #ThePolitics #AbolishTheHomeOffice #AbolishTheHomeSecretary
Ed Davey's gone mad(der) then? #ThePolitics
Shitting hell, why did nobody think of this first? #ThePolitics
Even these fuckers' corruption and money-making scams are copied from abroad. Patriots, my arse. #ThePolitics
The inevitable Reform/Conservative double dipping of "Why aren't you joining in fully?" and "Why is fuel so expensive?" in about two months time is what may well tip me right over the edge. #ThePolitics
For a president, who's supposed to be across everything, he asks a hell of a lot of questions. How thick is he? #ThePolitics
I try not to bang on about these things but this cunt represents a constitiuency that is two towns a 35 minute drive apart and includes all the villages inbetween, and his entire shtick is that the country is too fucking crowded?! #ThePolitics
And because I'm full of hayfever and holding grudges, I also remember a certain type of lefty jumping on anyone saying 'you don't REALLY mean that do you?' as being racist against brown skinned people and only wanting white skinned european immigration. #ThePolitics
I'm old enough to remember your actual Farage talking up circa 2015/16 that jobs vacancies would be filled by workers from the Commonwealth #ThePolitics
