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Another deal for Kemi to oppose here.

I saw this labelled as "Brexit betrayal" by the usual newspaper suspects this morning.

That would be the Gibraltar that overwhelmingly voted to remain in the EU back in 2016.

Overwhelming is almost an understatement.

95.9% Remain on an 84% turnout

Amazing what you can get done when posturing nationalists on all sides are out of power. Well not really, what is amazing is that people vote for Faragists and Francoists who go to the wire over a bowl of nothing.

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 5:48 pm Amazing what you can get done when posturing nationalists on all sides are out of power. Well not really, what is amazing is that people vote for Faragists and Francoists who go to the wire over a bowel of nothing.

Hopefully an empty bowel.

Speaking of which - excuse me a moment...

I see Kemi starred at PMQs again by denying there were two hospitals in her constituency, and then claiming one didn't count because it was a community hospital. That's the sort of straight talking common sense you always get from her. Why on earth would you do this, on one of the few occasions you as LOTO get noticed?

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:34 pm I see Kemi starred at PMQs again by denying there were two hospitals in her constituency, and then claiming one didn't count because it was a community hospital. That's the sort of straight talking common sense you always get from her. Why on earth would you do this, on one of the few occasions you as LOTO get noticed?

Doesn't count.
It's a community hospital.
For poor people.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 6:53 pm

Her previous leader "Forcing an issue".

Sixty million pounds being spaffed up the wall on, you know, some investigation into historic child abuse.

Genius Badenoch has got herself reprimanded by Louise Casey for the way she responded to her report.

I mean, sure, politicians are going to take credit for calling for an inquiry first. But the Casey Report will feed into the bigger inquiry, so it's not like the time has been wasted. And what's a few months compared to 14 years?

Flipped on the BBC at 11:30.

They#re reporting Kemi leading a press conference about Grooming gangs.
Parents of victims were present.
They reported harrowing stories all between 2014 and 2017.
Nobody did anything.....

The supine press fail to join the dots to the government of the day.
What were members of the Justice committee doing.

It's a shame she sees the need to promote this as a partisan issue.
It seems foolish when so many instances point back toward her party's time in government.

No wonder Kemi's flailing around. 17.8% in the poll of polls, significantly down on the position at the time of the local elections.

I don't really get polls.

If you think Farage is good for the country, what's changed? Ditto the inverse.

Just feels like 'vibes' from people who don't think about it very much.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:20 pm
The supine press refuse to join the dots to the government of the day.

"Fixed that for you", as they say.

Might just reflect that Reform are less visible than they were when there were elections happening. Like any party, there will be people who are luke warm about Reform, and might vote for them, might not. So they’ll lose some votes to “none of the above”.

I’ve laughed at some of Ed Davy’s attempts to get himself in the news, but you can see why he does it. The Lib Dem score there is decent.

Also polls react for some reason to election results.

Though the majority of the country wasn't polled and I believe the predictive poll reflected much of the situation at the election, news headlines reflect these shifts and then a month later it all reverts back to how it was pre election.

I see Kemi telling Tory MPs to vote against, in the spirit of a free vote, went as well as her stuff usually does.

Congratulations to Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, Oliver Dowden and the other 17 who helped it win.

Kemi, here. Oi, Starmer, stoop avoiding my forensic PMQs genius by... attending the NATO summit. Starmer is there now facing here, one day later than normal.

Also pathetic elision of the welfare rebellion and the Israel-Iran conflict. She's been in government. She should know very well that governments don't give commentaries on what they're saying to other governments in crises.

Well, if Starmer has been "evading" PMQs, then so has Badenoch. Sending in useless twats like Philp & Stride instead of leading the session herself. The convention that if the Deputy PM has to sub for the PM when (s)he is unavailable - because they're away actually being the Prime Minister on some international stage - is merely that - a convention. It need not necessarily be observed. Badenoch should maybe think about whether continuing to do PMQs as the opposition leader regardless of whether Starmer is absent or not might just be more effective, and make her "evading" point more legit, than sending in no-mark subs, and politically more beneficial for Badenoch personally (though she is so piss-poor she may be beyond redemption).