General British politics discussion thread

Not that much different from what he was saying at the joint select committee back in May 2021.

The only time Covid became more important then the economy is when he was sweating rivers in hospital.

A very possible narcissist / sociopath I would suggest. His relationships with women seem disastrous for example.

That really is all one needs to know about the man.

Oh god, saw that in the FT yesterday. Vindictive even by her standards.

Reminds me of a circa-2009 Newsbiscuit (or possibly TheOnion - cannot relocate) article titled "leader of the opposition arrested for plotting to overthrow the government", complete with picture of David Cameron behind bars..

The sooner these creeps are out of government the better. Starmer and his Tory Lite Labour are mostly wankers to be sure, but this current lot in power are just a bloody danger to the entire country. What an utter shambles the last decade has been for the UK.

She also seems to be playing at culture war stuff over the pro-Palestinian demonstrations, describing them as "hate marches".

Edit - Didn't realise she has such close links to Israel:

Muslims are 6.5% of the population. Half of that lives in nailed on Labour seats in London and most of the rest in strongly labour urban areas. Add to that the ones who don't vote or care about Palestine and the numbers are not good for Labour giving a shte about their vote.

For non vote counting reasons though every doy brings another reason why Labour need to tell Israel to stop.

Every day also brings more reasons why the "Labour are the same as Tories" crowd can go and fuk off.

Labour just lost control of their second local authority after Oxford. I think Oxford is still in effect a Labour council as those who resigned stated they will vote with Labour anyway.

Burnley Labour party just had a mass resignation and independents are now the largest group.

I was thinking the same thing about Braverman, so I was a bit surprised to see her so far behind Badenoch and Morduant in Conservative Home’s latest Ministerial league table

She maybe saying all the right things to appeal to the party members, but the small boats are still coming and net migration is at record levels under her watch. Perhaps rhetoric is not going to be enough.

Great seeing a young black woman being so popular in the Tory Party.

Badenoch's senior ministerial career is quite a new thing; just over a year old, I think and, as others have pointed out, it's in a not very prominent role. In a party that has been in power for thirteen years now there are many, many more senior and more experienced ministers than Badenoch. So I think it's an achievement in itself for her to have attracted the degree of positive attention that she has.

She did this at least in part by standing in the last leadership election (the one that Truss won). Given her inexperience she had no real hope of winning, but for a no-hoper she did better than expected in the MPs' votes stage of the contest. Given her recent promotion to Cabinet and her lack of conspicuous achievements in the short time since then, it's possible — I put it no higher than that — that she attracted votes because she is seen as a competent ant talented minister; a rarity in a party in which neither competence nor talent have been a prerequisite for promotion in recent years. She may have attracted the votes of MPs who are tired of the dysfunction of the party and who saw in her a Minister who did not embody that dysfunction. So, long term, she might be someone to watch once the party sets itself on the road to recovery.

The Conservative Home net satisfaction ratings come from surveying party members about the performance of Ministers in the office they are currently in. This doesn't necessarily translate into support for the same Ministers as party leaders. As we know, the Tory leader is ultimately chosen by the party members and the culture currently seems to be that the party members will prefer the candidate who tells them the lies they want to hear, however transparent those lies may be, rather than the candidate who is competent, or has leadership skills, or — Heaven forbid! — is honest or reliable.