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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/jewish-groups-criticise-nigel-farage-for-calling-grant-shapps-globalist The most influential and dangerous far-right politician in the history of postwar Britain uses antisemitic tropes, because of course.

Boris Johnson’s standing in the leadership contest. As is Braverman. It just keeps on getting worse.

The new Tory leadership election/coronation is going to been decided next week. So Truss will have been PM for a shorter period of time than the leadership campaign that actually elected her.

She’s still technically PM in caretaker capacity until the Tories vote for a new leader.

Home Secretary Suella “Cruella” Braverman has just been fired from the government, but after passing draconian legislation that almost entirely bans protests.

We have proportional voting for the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland parliaments,* but not the House of Commons. Unfortunately, neither of the two big parties will support electoral reform for UK-wide elections as it suits them for the status quo to continue. * plus for European Union...

I don’t believe for a second that an actual general election would yield such results, and usual caveats about polling methodology, but it’s very telling how quickly opinions have changed – even earlier this year it looked like we were going to be stuck with eternal Tory governments.

That’s one problem I have specifically with the Westminster style of parliamentary system, the incumbent leader can call snap elections if it favours their party, even if they maintain a majority of confidence. (The Tory/LibDem coalition did enact the Fixed Term Parliaments Act to ‘fix’ that...

Technically, changing a prime minister / premier / leader of the governing party during a parliamentary term in the Westminster system is acceptable, as you’re voting for a party (or coalition of parties), not a specific leader. However, I can see why people are calling for an early general...

I think the plotters (as in most Tory MPs, by now) can’t yet agree on a single “unity” leader. Also… Replacing a party leader/prime minister that quickly after another, they’ll find it hard to justify not holding an early general election in those circumstances.

Well, well.

That’s basically what Sinn Féin’s would-be MPs do, refuse to swear allegiance to the British crown. So they don’t technically take up the seats in the House of Commons that they’ve won in general elections.

This is why we’re doomed. The British government just legalised fracking, and is also now trying to ban “woke” solar farm projects. (Yes, after electricity and heating bills have doubled or tripled compared to this time last year.)

This is hilarious. Basically, as a former prime minister, Boris Johnson gets to nominate sitting MPs to get kicked upstairs to the House of Lords (Britain’s unelected equivalent of a senate). Those MPs will have to vacate their seats in the House of Commons, which means by-elections – when the...

The insane thing is that a minister (and one who is a right-wing Tory) had set aside money for a public information campaign encouraging the public to save energy this winter, but the prime minister refused on “ideological” grounds...

What a well-run country this is.

So, the Home Secretary says her personal obsession is getting a plane full of immigrants deported to a processing centre in Rwanda. Nice priorities there, given the current state of the UK…

The world economy as we know it would implode if Putin used but one ‘tactical’ nuke in Ukraine, and it never escalated further. All the economic disruption caused since February would be nothing compared to the stock markets around the world crashing simultaneously… Then there’s environmental...