She was probably the least worst of the TERs in the NEC election. I thought she could do good if she was kept away from trans issues. Her replacement is also a TER, so things will get worse with the NEC.
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This is really something, especially when some of them try to justify the obviously-corrupt practices.
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Yeah, thatās a remarkable watch, especially so when they start calling out the nice gifts certain members have received from businesses - they looked like they would have been quite happy if a yawning abyss had opened up beneath them. The main thing i thought of when watching this is the Upton Sinclair quote - āIt is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!ā
It feels like Private Eye is the last source of true investigative journalism.
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Do they actually have power, or are their actions automatic? It seems an awfully small group of outcasts to wield discretionary power.
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Welcome to the old-boy network.
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You canāt be the power behind the throne, if youāre sitting on it?
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Well itās certainly power in the hands of a privileged few and thatās how they want to keep it and theyād rather run roughshod over democracy if it means quelling the backbench rebellion.
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Praise be unto the researchers of the Parliamentary library:
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OK, I thought there were a lot more than 90 frontbenchers. That stiill leaves (at least) 269 tory MPs who donāt recieve extra pay from the PMā¦
Seriously, Iāve had call to contact them on some research and they are great.
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PE have a podcast that is pretty serious. The satire magazine has become a front, like the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Hislop is in the wonderful position of being both completely independent and very high profile. I love how that one tory asshole trues to impugn him by non-sequitorially slipping in the fact that he gets sued a lot, completely not understanding that that is a positive credential in a political muckraker.
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That was particularly passive aggressively sneering and like Hislop i was also wondering where that analogy was going - it turns out nowhere of great interest or merit. What a windbag.
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Itās not currently running, but FutureLearn used to have a course on how Parliament works - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/introduction-uk-parliament
The number of ministers is limited by law, all are chosen by the PM, who must also be a minister, and one must be the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Thereās no requirement for them to be MPs, except that collective responsibility means itās free votes.
Edit to add: theyāre almost always MPs or Lords, since they need to give statements in one house or the other, and the Speaker of the Commons would prefer to only hear Members.
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Snouts are still in troughs and the gravy train still runs, and there are always second jobs (that have absolutely no connection to lobbying /s)
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The work they did on the Post Office scandal, amongst many other, was remarkable. It would never have ended as it did if they hadnāt kept the pressure up.
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They donāt always get it right (like the Andrew Fucking Wakefield thing), but when theyāre good theyāre better than the broadsheets.
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To be fair though they have given credit to Computer Weekly that did a lot of the original reporting to bring this absolute travesty to light. Which is still ongoing given there are hundreds of victims moving through the court system that havenāt yet been acquitted.
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