General British politics discussion thread

I agree with hotmail's opinion on Angela Raynor. I consider her limited and a boring speaker. Not very bright. Obviously Stamer tried to get rid of her that time but was caught out tactically. A female version of Richard Burgon.

While there is nothing wrong with singling out people like Angela Raynor or Diane Abbot for criticism, in a vacuum, quite often it's an indicator that the critic is mainly getting their news from right-wing tabloids or their online equivalent (eg Guido Fawkes).

I mean you have to squint pretty hard to single out someone like Raynor when you have an actual Minister, Nadine Dorries, disgracing herself and the people who deemed her fit for office, at every available opportunity.

Well everything they do is Labours fault don't you know.

First it was their fault for not being good enough in opposition and now sure the PM can't do his job because the labour front bench is too sxy lookin.

Fair enough. Which current ministers do you think are not performing well?

Some posters here do actually vote in the UK. Both in NI and Britain.

"I will await their findings"

The absolute state of this....the Tories are a shambles....who would vote for any of them!

It's laughable. Why didn't the reporter ask the obvious follow up questions?

Without a free press democracy cannot function

This bullsh1t about 'I will wait for the enquiry findings before answering any questions' is straight out of the Donald Trump play book 'I can't release my taxes cause they're under audit'

Hijacking 'due process' to undermine democracy

I don't go around looking for Angela Raynor interviews or anything but from what I've seen of her and from her performances covering for Starmer at PMQs I think she's been very impressive

The Labour Party need someone like her in positions of power to keep them grounded in the realities of living in working class Britain. The consequences of losing touch completely will be that they will lose their base.

Labour need the working classes, they cannot rely on swing voters, especially now that the Tories are corrupting the electoral process

Doesn’t Britain have one of the most diverse cabinets in Western Europe ?

It's certainly much more diverse than ours.

I think she is of a high standard from what I've seen of her.

But then I'm of the sort who thinks she shouldn't have apologised for calling the Tories scum given what they're doing right now, dismantling UK democratic institutions piece by piece while poverty and division are skyrocketing.

A lot of the Tory rhetoric is much much more offensive than the word scum, and its backed up by their activities

The Conservative Party has produced the most diverse cabinet in British history and possibly the most diverse in Europe.

When the UK left the EU, the percentage of ethnic minorities in the EU Parliament dropped!

The picture people from Ireland paint of Britain just doesn't stack up.

Given our complete lack of diversity among our politicians, judiciary, media, our teachers etc etc, what must people think of our culture!

Ah I suppose the Irish attitude of Britain since Brexit begins to jar with people after a while. Ireland is superior is the mentality now.

It's bordering on anti English at this stage. Thankfully the English allow the Irish to bash them constantly, due to their polite culture.

The uk had a referendum to leave the EU which was their right to do and they voted to leave. That was their choice but it’s the complaining when the realities of leaving hit that I’m starting to find annoying. They made a choice and there are consequences and there’s many clips of business people complaining about how brexit has hurt their business, yet if given the choice again they’d still vote to leave. There’s no talking to that mindset.