I think someone claimed that he was an "honest, decent, honourable man." Could anything be further from the truth?

Jones, Galloway, Farage, Robinson, the other ones.
They're a separate group, could be any party just so long as it's a platform for them.

'Mobile exoparasites' as someone on twitter called them.

'Carpetbaggers' is what they used to be called in the 'old days'

Or just plain twats...

Sarah Vine "I ask people to respect my privacy"
Why? She said Meghan and Harry weren’t entitled to privacy because they ‘were public figures’.

Marina Hyde on the odious hat-wearing twat. https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...pen-byelection

'Carpetbagger' was the phrase used by David Lammy to describe Galloway :)

https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/statu...64851061194755

lol. "Each time he turns up, it’s as if he’s answered some invisible twat signal." Beautiful.

So the reference to Sarah Vine's recent article was prescient. All sorts of rumours flying that Gove has either set up with a male special advisor or the male tv presenter doctor who presented 'Embarrassing Bodies', so if he, he will have seen worse than Gove's. If a superinjunction has been issued to suppress this news, then there is also inherent in the issuing of a superinjunction that the superinjunction is secret. Therefore, I cannot possibly know anything about one and the rumours should be treated simply as that.

Sarah Vine won't mind as - hey! - she is a gossip writer herself, who loves to stick her nose into the private lives of others and stir up right wing bigots into a frenzy by use of innuendo and double-entendre wording.

Whilst the end of any long-term relationship is sad, and the pair have my sympathy, it is difficult to avoid schadenfreude. Some 'rich exotic stuff' being introduced into her family.

GUARDIAN

So now we know why she was buttering up Sam Cam the day before. Gotta have a shoulder to cry on.

Boo-hoo.

Isn't life a bitch? Hey, now there's a coincidence.

A few weeks ago Priti attacked the England team for 'taking the knee'.
She said fans were right to boo them for dong it.
Boris too wouldn't condemn fans for booing them.

Tonight they think they are great and the team are heroes


Priti tweeted

@pritipatel
Ok
What a performance.
What a team.
#ItsComingHome!

Johnson. You left off Johnson. His greatest regret about being PM is that he doesn't have time to appear on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here".

As I recall Boris was all for taking the knee and was said to have given Patel a dressing down for her comments. Perhaps you are thinking of Rees-Mogg, who agreed with Priti.

One down side to England winning is it'll encourage the Brexiteers to be more unbearable than ever.

No, Boris also said he wouldn't condemn fans for booing the England team

Boris Johnson refuses to condemn fans booing England taking the knee

I'm not sure, the team is a bit 'multicultural' for their tastes.

Yeah, Yorkshiremen AND Mackems...

I'm worried that they'll be more hateful than ever if England loses. :(

Money-grabbing Rishi Sunak is set to kick retired miners and their families in the teeth by holding on to billions of pounds that is rightfully theirs.
The Chancellor is on Monday expected to block the return of £1.2billion from the Miners’ Pension Fund reserve, as demanded by MPs.

And the Treasury will continue with plans to take another £1.6billion on top of the £4.4billion it has already pocketed from the fund’s surplus.
That means 124,000 miners will not get the £14 weekly rise they hoped for. Their average pension is £84 a week.
The row dates back to 1994, when British Coal was privatised and ministers agreed the Government would be guarantor for its pension payouts.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...iners-24454613

Levelling up.

Well done to all the new Tory voters in the old mining communities.

A relative who retired in 1991 aged 59 was getting about £340 pcm from his occupational pension (over and above the state pension) so an average for miners of £84 pw = £364 pcm thirty years on, is pretty poor for such a heavy duty job, from which many have to retire early with lung problems. Having said that, pensions pre-2008 were so much better all round anyway, thanks to the economy, so might not be a good comparison.

From that link:

"The three most prominent hat-wearing guys in public life are George Galloway, weirdo anatomist Gunther von Hagens, and that rapist who used to own Blackpool football club. Sorry, but case closed."

:D

I'm hesitant to mention Ian Bailey.....

But I like Gunter von Hagens.

I was just thinking the comparison seems a bit harsh on him.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...analysis-shows

I feel very conflicted about this one.

On the one hand it is just ******* typical of how Tories **** up the NHS and MH services especially (I'm counting the 2010-15 gubbmint as Tory as the Lib Dems did nothing meaningful to prevent it- I mean look at the Orange Book...), despite a whole load of lies about "spending extra money" and "parity".

On the other hand, I've taken much flak in various parts of the internet over the years for citing internal trust documents (so obviously I can't supply full documentary proof) which I saw back in 2010-11 at work (senior nurse in a large MH trust, so I was on the mailing lists for most things and at a load of meetings where such things were discussed) which told us to expect cuts to clinical services of up to 25% over the next decade. And folk wouldn't believe me as I couldn't provide the documents...Well, told you so, didn't I?

Why folk vote for these despicable ******* is beyond me.

Morecambe Tory MP David Morris has called local head teachers and GP's who talked of hungry and impoverished children as "Lefty Troublemakers".


Do you think any of the northern constituencies that went Tory at the least election will start to see the light?

The new Nationality and Borders Bill allows for asylum claims to be declared inadmissible if an asylum applicant is an EU citizen.
Also differential treatment and accommodation of asylum seekers will be allowed depending on their mode of entry and stage of their claim.

There is a power for the Secretary of State to delay or even suspend visa processing for citizens of countries which she believes uncooperative with removals.

The offence of illegal entry is being re-written and will attract a maximum sentence of up to four years in prison rather than the 6 months max at the moment. Any asylum seeker knowingly arriving without entry clearance or entering the UK without permission (“leave”) to enter will have committed an offence and be subject to prosecution and prison.

Helping an asylum seeker enter the UK will no longer need to be “for gain” to attract criminal liability.

It now says
A person commits an offence if—
(a) he knowingly facilitates the arrival or attempted arrival in, or the entry or attempted entry into, the United Kingdom of an individual, and
(b) he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the individual is an asylum-seeker.

The maximum sentence for the general assisting unlawful immigration offence is raised to life in prison.
This is obviously aimed at 'boat traffickers' but it means that anyone rescuing a drowning person and bringing them ashore is committing an offence.

At the Moment the RNLI lifeboats are rescuing people from sinking boats and bringing them ashore. If the bill passes they will be committing an offence as they are not a government organisation or a charity dedicated to assisting asylum seekers.

Maritime law says you have an obligation to assist those in danger at sea.

If the bill passes as it is anyone you rescue would have to be taken to somewhere outside the UK if you thought they might be asylum seekers.

Surely either you or the Home Secretary is confusing 'illegal immigrants' with 'asylum seekers'. Asylum seekers are recognised under international law. It cannot be a crime to seek asylum.

Heh. It's a long way to Rwanda on a plastic dinghy.

It's not my Bill.

It's up to the UK parliament to decide what is a crime or not.

To the surprise of absolutely noone, the House of Commons Standards committee has cleared Johnson over his lack of candour over who paid for his vacation to Mustique in December 2019 (it was eventually made clear it was David Ross, the millionaire Tory donor).

Remarkably however, the committee rejected the finding by the parliamentary commissioner for standards, that Johnson had broken the rules, arguing that it was eventually rooted out who had paid for it anyway. They even note that Johnson had previously (twice in the space of four months) been dinged for the exact same thing, but chose to merely label it "regrettable".

All via the Guardian's live politics commentary.

Edit: The parliamentary commissioner for standards report is quite damning, it's included as an appendix to the formal report clearing him:
https://committees.parliament.uk/pub...71459/default/

BBC on the subject

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57761943

It is absolutely pathetic. Any fule no that even a Benefit In Kind has to be accounted for. You try telling the tax man you don't pay any tax on the swanky sports car your boss gave you as a present as 'it wasn't cash, honest, squire'.


As if Musticque Villa the company who own the holiday resort would pay for Johnson's holiday home (which it OWNS so it doesn't have to, hello?) and then Ross reimburse them by letting them use his villa. <fx Brummie accent: Yes, mate>

Jacob Rees-Mogg tweeted

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
The bands of blighters bringing illegal entrants to Blighty will be broken up by this brilliant borders bill.

Under Patel's bill, people who sent money overseas to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis in the 1930s would be criminals.

let's face it, if false statements being made were grounds for overturning an election, just about every election in recorded history in every country would be overturned. Lying about your opponent is pretty much SOP in elections.
Galloway proves once again he is an idiot. Not that he had not proven that beyond any reasonable doubt long,long, ago.

I guess you Brits had t come up with own kneeling controversy .....

Priti Patel’s laws to crack down on asylum seekers crossing the Channel were dealt a blow yesterday when the Crown Prosecution Service said that it would no longer prosecute migrants.

An agreement struck between police, prosecutors, the National Crime Agency, Border Force and the Home Office over cases involving “illegal entry” will also apply to those arriving by lorry.

The CPS said that asylum seekers not involved in any criminal activity other than illegal entry should not be prosecuted because they could “usually be better dealt with by removal”.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...bill-8lggcmj5b