[Yug]

Sky News have started doing this. I don't normally pay much attention to the telly, but twice this week when I got to work around seven o'clock the Kay Burley show has had Pat McFadden and Rachel Reeves instead of the usual Tory twat of the day. I can only hope that other channels follow suit.

[Samanfur]

Thread. I wish I was shocked:

[Crabcakes]

Sky News have started doing this. I don't normally pay much attention to the telly, but twice this week when I got to work around seven o'clock the Kay Burley show has had Pat McFadden and Rachel Reeves instead of the usual Tory twat of the day. I can only hope that other channels follow suit.

I think this is a huge unforced error by Sunak. Did he really think tv news would just have dead air? And did he not notice how huffily ignoring the media worked out for Jezza?

[Andy McDandy]

I am a busy man with big plans, who cannot afford to be at the mercy of the capricious and short term obsessed media.

He is a rude berk who doesn't understand how this stuff works.

[mattomac]

By not appearing to be around his approval ratings have slightly improved.

It’s a hard one to work in the long term.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[kreuzberger]

I do get why the courts have green lit Braverman's Rwanda wheeze, the question being whether it is legal or not.

Fair enough, it is legal. Somewhat more long-windedly; no parliamentarian, ever since law became A Thing felt compelled to table a bill outlawing the forcible deportation of innocent people.

Yes, crims were deported in days of yore but that was booted off the statute in the Victorian era. For fuck's fucking sake, this is abhorrent.

[davidjay]

I do get why the courts have green lit Braverman's Rwanda wheeze, the question being whether it is legal or not.

Fair enough, it is legal. Somewhat more long-windedly; no parliamentarian, ever since law became A Thing felt compelled to table a bill outlawing the forcible deportation of innocent people.

Yes, crims were deported in days of yore but that was booted off the statute in the Victorian era. For fuck's fucking sake, this is abhorrent.

It does make you wonder whether deporting criminals to some Guantanamo-like enclave in a country faraway might be on their agenda.

[Andy McDandy]

As said before, in their utopia nobody has rights, just privileges. And those have to be earned, inherited, or gifted.

[Abernathy]

As it is almost Christmas, I’d just like to send this seasonal message to Ms. Braverman :

I hope your next shite’s a hedgehog, Cruella. .

[Watchman]

Looks like she’s feeling left out

Suella Braverman plans to ditch key Windrush pledges
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... SApp_Other

[kreuzberger]

Sack the nurses, jail the teachers, bash the PoC - not destroying Channel 4 looks to have been the highlight of the week.

[davidjay]

How did it come to this?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Straight from the National Socialist playbook.

How has this country come to this?*


*Rhetorical question.

[Abernathy]

Here is the new Spitting Image puppet of Suella Braverman. I don't think it looks quite evil enough.

[davidjay]

Straight from the National Socialist playbook.

How has this country come to this?*


*Rhetorical question.

A few years ago I wondered how far along from 1933 a survivor from the Nazis would think we'd travelled if they looked at a Daily Mail headline. Now the same things are being said by the Home Secretary. I don't think it's hyperbolic now to wonder where it will end.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I agree.

See also 'The Truth - where has it gone?'

[davidjay]

I agree.

See also 'The Truth - where has it gone?'

"Fake news" and "Boris being Boris" had a lot to do with it.

[kreuzberger]

It is on said by Freedom from Torture on Twitter that the Home Office has requested that they take down the damning evidence of their boss being a relentlessly unpleasant individual.

"Erm, go fuck yersels", or words to that effect, was the answer.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Wait - that's the official Home Office account, making comments on a political story from a political event.

That's not allowed. Breach of ministerial code and that.

Also- reads very much like the work of 55 Tufty.

Whatever happened to the neutral civil service*





*Don't tell me, I know...