General British politics discussion thread

hahaha

Good riddance

Just reading his resignation letter

What a nasty piece of work

I knew a few people who done international studies in SOAS and they all said that the class would have a small few very right wing, pro colonial xenophobes. I always felt they were there to play the long game and rack up some nice looking degrees for the political career.

Cant see Raab caring enough about anyone else to care about human rights.

The report on Raab can be summarised as follows: "He is a pr*ck."

The British National Party (BNP) was popular in the north of England, especially in Lancashire and Yorkshire. I'm afraid our good old friends "racism" and "bigotry" would be a key element in the Red Wall phenomenon.

Funny enough "fear if immigrants" exists more in the places that seem least likely to experience it.

Usually migrants don't even want to move to deprived or neglected places. But if you're on the scrapheap and have zero prospects in life, I guess you need scapegoats to blame.

Until all the Corbyn supporters and sneaking regarders of Anti Semitism, the momentum type trash heads are out of Labour, it will not be a credible party or one that deserves electoral success.

She threw in a bit of anti Irish, anti traveller stuff as well, not for the first or last time.

Do you apply the same criteria to the other parties in the UK? Are the Conservatives 'a credible party or one that deserves electoral success'? Or perhaps the crass and vile things which Tory backbenchers come out with are different in some way?

I think most who would have already left or been expelled. Presumably though they can all come back in a couple of years like Mandleson, Campbell etc. etc. who campaigned against Labour then rejoined.

Breathtaking stupidity from Diane Abbot but not surprising.

Starmer needs to rid Labour of these amateur stupid racist politicians.

For a women who talks about racism in England, she has been an MP for 36 years and has been elected and re elected 9 times by my count. That doesn't seem so bad.

She's perpetuating the black victim complex that they are the only ones victimised by racism and their story is the worst and is the only one worth talking about.

Many black people are disgusted with this ongoing victim complex people like Diane Abbot want to perpetuate.

@Danzy "She should be followed up on this, does she accepts the Holocaust happened, does she accept its scale and does she accept it was wrong. Make her squirm under the light and truth, the best disinfectant."

Did you read her letter?

As a Irish person, I have to agree with every word she says. Jewish and Irish people are not subject to the same prejudice continuously as black people were and are still. Jewish and Irish people were not made ride at the back of the bus. Or enslaved. Which is all she said.

Whether se was right to say it or not is a different matter.

Diane Abbot and the like feed off division with cries of racism. The irony is that she has been quite successful in her political career. And has made a very wealthy living from it. I recall the revelation that she sent her son to private schools in London, away from the rif raf.

People like her offer nothing to their constituents and have no achievements.

Her bigoted comments on Jews, Irish and Travellers might finally put her political career out of its long misery.