UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

[Anonymous X]

Plaid Cymru by-election winner sworn in at Welsh Parliament after historic ousting of Labour

"We have put Caerphilly on the map," says Lindsay Whittle after beating Labour and Reform UK to represent the area.

www.bbc.co.uk

There was a by-election held in Caerphilly, Wales yesterday. A solidly Labour area for over a century, the Labour (and Tory) vote absolutely collapsed, and the contest became a two-horse race between far-right Reform party and Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. Thankfully Plaid beat the fash quite handily, beating polling expectations that it was going to be a narrow Reform win.

The Labour Party really is buggered if is polling <15% anywhere in Wales though. It’s going to get wiped out there next May unless a miracle happens.

 

[Anonymous X]

No plans to remove Andrew from line of succession after losing royal titles, government says

Andrew remains eighth in line to the throne and it would take an act of Parliament to formally remove him.

www.bbc.co.uk

******* LOL!

 

[Fullstrength Motleypuss]

See, this is the bare minimum of how you deal with friends of Epstein.

 

[Anonymous X]

I mean, it’s as harsh a punishment as the monarch is most likely allowed to enact. Short of bringing back beheadings.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I mean, it’s as harsh a punishment as the monarch is most likely allowed to enact. Short of bringing back beheadings.

Given the era we live in; is anyone against bringing back beheadings?

 

[KidTDragon]

Given the era we live in; is anyone against bringing back beheadings?

I didn't buy this guillotine just because it looks cool.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I mean... mine has RGB, so I did in fact buy cause it looked cool.

Feel kinda ripped off though.

 

[Anonymous X]

Starmer stands by McSweeney and says he has been ‘assured no briefings against ministers done from No 10’ – as it happened

PM says he has ‘full confidence’ in his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney amid calls for him to be sacked

www.theguardian.com

Huh, our hapless PM could be about to be overthrown by his own party, barely 18 months after getting Labour’s biggest ever election victory.

 

[MrBlud]

The UK head of Palantir is Louis Mosley.

If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the grandson of the late British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley.

Totes the kind of man you’d want to head up a military surveillance apparatus.

hug.

 

[Anonymous X]

Labour to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR

Home secretary will attempt to change way ECHR is interpreted by UK judges – as critics hit out over proposals

www.independent.co.uk

Labour’s going Full Trump on mass deportations, which is going to involve junking European human rights laws.

 

[KidTDragon]

Has Shabana Mahmood looked in a mirror lately?

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Fascists don't care about hypocrisy, just authority.

 

[KidTDragon]

She'll care when Labour turns their deportation-hungry eyes towards her.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

No way, clearly the leopards won't eat her face.

 

[Anonymous X]

Zarah Sultana is now boycotting her own party’s conference

She's refusing to enter the venue over claims of a 'witch-hunt'

leftfootforward.org

So this new Corbyn Party (official name pending) can’t even survive its founding conference without a split between the party leadership.

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dropped as Your Party leaders

Members vote in favour of 'collective leadership' option, with a ‘lay’ chair – who cannot be an MP

www.independent.co.uk

Edit: so Corbyn failed to become leader of his own political party. Amazing.

 

[Anonymous X]

Badenoch calls on people 'from cultures that don't respect women' to 'get out of our country'

The Conservative leader was responding to the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls.

news.sky.com

What is it with non-white politicians being the ones most likely to use racist dog whistles?

 

[KidTDragon]

"They won't deport me if I show them I'm one of the good ones!"

 

[wonko the sane?]

Exactly!

And it never works.

 

[Anonymous X]

White supremacist dating site profiles linked to Tory and...

Conservative councillor suspended after her account is included on a leaked user list from WhiteDate site

observer.co.uk

To nobody’s great surprise, given how right-right those sort of parties are these days…

 

[Anonymous X]

Jenrick tells BBC his defection to Reform not about personal ambition and will 'unite the right'

In an exclusive interview with Laura Kuenssberg, he says he made the final decision to defect over Christmas.

www.bbc.co.uk

A senior Tory got sacked and his whip removed for… planning to defect to the Reform Party (aka the retirement home for Tory MPs).