UK politics thread – it just keeps on getting worse

abates

unfortunate shark issues
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Boris Johnson has thankfully opted out of the leadership race. Not that the rest of the options are fantastic, but still.
 

NovaSaber

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Ironbite4

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She's going to be sacked again but she might take your new PM out with her. Apparently they're already drafting up letters of no confidence.

Ironbite-HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE THIS BAD AT THIS!?
 

wonko the sane?

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When everything is going well: it's REALLY ******* easy to be a bad politician. Thanks to covid: nothing is going well, so now we're seeing all the bad politicians struggle to actually do their ******* jobs.
 

abates

unfortunate shark issues
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It's amazing that someone from the party that has been in power for decades can claim that the asylum system is broken and only they can fix it.
 

wonko the sane?

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No it's not. They think voters have the recall and critical thinking skills of three ******ed goldfish duct taped together: and they aren't ******* wrong. The vast majority couldn't tell you the name of their own representative, never mind who was in power during the last mandate. Lie and deflect works for a reason.
 

Anonymous X

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Used to be they could just sit around and blame the EU. That doesn't exactly work any more.
I mean, they still blame the EU, but with the caveat that they believe Brexit hasn’t been hard enough, and that Remainers and the EU use the “deep state” to continually undermine the Tory government.
 

Pocket

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I'm just shocked it took this long to get to this point. Was anyone even in the pool for it taking more than a year? Everyone I know was making it sound like the whole country would collapse overnight.
 
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Anonymous X

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Well, it did help the government that they kept on extending the transition period (where the same rules and regulations were in effect) up until 9-10 months into the pandemic, to help disguise the impacts. And the invasion of Ukraine happened just over a year after that.
 

abates

unfortunate shark issues
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I think like most developed countries, the UK had a large amount of systems and checks in place that just took a long time to unravel to the point where the issues started impacting everyone.

It's like how Elon has fired 90% of the people working at Twitter, but the site's still going right now, because the systems and checks haven't broken down to the point where everything has failed and the site no longer works.
 

Anonymous X

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Basically, yes. Perfect analogy, really.

In other news, the government is introducing ID requirements to vote, and 'coincidentally' most of the IDs accepted are ones held by older people:
 

MrBlud

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It’s amazing that Brexit is *still* the knife stuck in Britain’s chest and the opposition isn’t even talking about taking it out.

You aren’t going to inspire voters to throw out shit when your pitch is “ever so mildly less smelly shit”.
 


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