Westminster Politics

Thought he got plenty of digs in myself. He usually does at PMQs.
problem is you think he (starmer) has done ok, even though its a low bar, and then Flynn gets up (whether you agree with his politics, his rhetorical flourishes are far better) and makes starmer look pretty poor every singe week.
 
Sunak can't put all the blame on Braverman because he fully supported the scheme too. It was their flagship policy.

If he had one fecking atom of integrity he'd call a GE.
That's like those posters who say any football manager should admit it's not working out and resign and 'do the right thing by the club'.
 
Starmer asks the questions and Sunak is meant to answer them. Starmer doesn't get a right of reply to each one. Sunak is so desperate he has to bring up Corbyn who isn't even a Labour Party member.

Well, he is a labour party member.

Just not a labour party MP.
 
Starmer asks the questions and Sunak is meant to answer them. Starmer doesn't get a right of reply to each one. Sunak is so desperate he has to bring up Corbyn who isn't even a Labour Party member.

This is the dumbest thing about the PMQs. So many of them would fluff under the pressure of having to be quick witted.
 
Sunak might have been better off waiting a couple of days until after the courts decision before sacking Braverman. He could have tried to shift the blame for it to her.

My worry is that there's going to be a huge campaign by the tories to to step out of the ECHR now and they'll use this as an excuse (although not true) to do so. They're a completely vile party at the moment.
 
good lord, starmer is a bit crap at PMQs isnt he. just doesnt have any oratory skills. he shouldve demolished suank. when sunak brings up corbyn / hamas, that should be the cue for starmer to bring any number of tory scandals...but he just cant go off script...

Yes indeed.
Someone like the always impressive Yvette Cooper, with her superior intellect would destroy Sunak.
And in my view would have made a significantly better leader.
 
Oh feck off.


So we've progressed from 'get Brexit done' to 'get Rwanda done'.

A party that clearly has no tangible vision for the country, not in manifesto nor any sort of policy based vision. Just vacuous soundbites, sprinkled with the odd dog whistle and culture war nonsense. All so they can hop on and off the gravy train, sorting themselves and their friends out at the expense of the public.

Also its high time we fire Boris into the sun. Sick of the sight of him and his mouth-frothing supporters.
 
Looks like Jess Phillips is about to resign amongst other front benchers. Quite like her, and I'd like think shell be back should labour win next election.
 
So. What now happens to be hundred plus millions the UK has paid to Rwanda?

Probably after the decision today (I mean, who could possibly have expected that result ? ;)) a decent percentage of it is on its way to an overseas bank somewhere, probably the Cayman islands, to be divided-up some time after the next GE. It was always a 'pig-in-a-poke' deal.

The natural party of power eh!
 
The Tories will campaign on breaking the law.
This country is fecked and I fear we are not far off Yankeeland.
 
We’re on the precipice. These guys will go to any lengths to whip up their crowd. Tories have nothing to talk about apart from immigration. I have never seen a country consume itself with a non issue as much as this country.
 
We’re on the precipice. These guys will go to any lengths to whip up their crowd. Tories have nothing to talk about apart from immigration. I have never seen a country consume itself with a non issue as much as this country.

The USA, but we’re doing all we can to catch them up.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-67418363

So Sunak is going to pass a law saying that Rwanda is a safe country.

Of course. Our wonderful PM believes he can magically make Rwanda a safe country simply by passing a law.
Don't know why he hasn't let everyone else in on his latest bit of magic.
No more wars. Just pass a law and instantly we have world peace.

Dim twat is a total embarrassment.
 
Labour bid for humanitarian pauses, loses (majority of 107)
 
We’re on the precipice. These guys will go to any lengths to whip up their crowd. Tories have nothing to talk about apart from immigration. I have never seen a country consume itself with a non issue as much as this country.
My mind always goes back to the term of ‘hypernormalisation’ when thinking of the UK and US government in modern times:

which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4] He says that everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.

(Kudos to @Sweet Square for actually making me learn of the term).
 
I always ignored the Rwanda thingy because i assumed that it was an agreement between assylum seekers from Rwanda to be sent back (that is very sad). But did i read right that it was to send to Rwanda any assylum seakers regardless of the nationality?
 
I always ignored the Rwanda thingy because i assumed that it was an agreement between assylum seekers from Rwanda to be sent back (that is very sad). But did i read right that it was to send to Rwanda any assylum seakers regardless of the nationality?
Yes, the latter.