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Draconian new policing act has resulted in journalists covering recent environmental protests arrested and their homes ransacked by police. https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/11/they-know-who-i-am-they-know-what-im-doing-arrested-journalists-speak-out-over-new-policing-act/

It’s now just a matter of how fast it collapses and how much it takes with it, rather than whether it collapses.

Remarkable that Labour, once the default governing party, got the bare minimum votes to re-enter the Knesset. The traditional Israeli secular left seems in terminal decline, which doesn’t bode well for the future of the state of Israel, IMO.

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.

Never go full Trump. But the Home Secretary has. Yet again.

19 degrees C in England today, in October. :(

Sunak’s already let the worst of the ultra-rightwing nutters back into government, I see.

The new reign of Tory terror starts today.

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.