UK Political Thread, part the second

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Let’s not forget that Braverman has shown us exactly who she is.

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Everyone who is shocked, shocked I tell you, that the children of immigrants from colonies could behave like that prove with one satiric touch that they need to study colonialism very much.

Colonialism, everywhere, works by dividing the colonised in the subjected country, by making winners and losers, by exploiting fault lines in the country and choosing one group, and individuals from that group to be winners. That group can despise the losers and the wealthy class can exploit “their” people to an extent that may not have been possible without colonialism.

Unrelated: is this the most racist against Muslims cabinet ever? People are asking.

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But the cabinet is so culturally diverse!

I don’t understand these self-hating children of immigrants who get a bit of power and enact the most cruel policies on children of immigrants. Yet the press just crows on and on about how culturally diverse the cabinet is.

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Positive words, but with Braverman and Badenoch having the power and desire to make the lives of trans people a living hell it may be meaningless.

Badenoch has already made a carefully worded statement which excluded trans people from groups deserving protection and respect. She has a history of that

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Rosie Duffield is the MTG of the Labour Party. Bigoted as fuck, and that’s all she does. No wonder she won in a Conservative safe seat.

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Looks like things are going great over there:

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Quite hard to determine, nobody ever asked the Thatcher era shitheads what their opinions on Islam was, while lying that the mics weren’t on (because they were actually taken to task for egregious shit in those days).

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You know, I genuinely thought that things couldn’t get much worse. I mean, I had sort of accepted that Braverman would be back because Sunak really, really wants those Rwanda flights on the front of the Daily Mail asap even though she is clearly a ridiculous security risk.
But to find out that (a) Truss’ phone was hacked whilst she was Foreign Secretary and (b) that Johnson knew about it and covered it up is not so much taking the piss as bottling it and selling it back to us.

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No one is prosecuting them for this, why should they care?

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Wouldn’t he have to pay some sort of licensing fee to Jeffrey Archer?

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I do have some issues with the Good Law Project but they are doing a fine job of pushing cases like this up to the Supreme Court asap. Sure, they are often pushed back on grounds of “standing” (because they are getting close to being seen as vexatious litigants, which is one of my issues with them) but the cases they pursue are things exactly like this, which helps to force evidence into the open. And until we fix the transparency problem in government, these things will carry on.

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A few years back, i could fairly accurately predict the Tories actions on “the worst thing they think they could get away with is their policy”

Then it got a magnitude worse.
Then it got a magnitude worse.
Then it got a magnitude worse.
Then it got a magnitude worse.

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Far right terrorist attack leaves one dead in England. Daily Heil says “hurrah for the Blackshirts!”

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My source has this though: “ The site remained open but around 700 suspected migrants were moved to Manston asylum processing centre for their safety”

England is disappearing so far up its own narrative that “suspected migrants” is a phrase the BBC can write without pulling themselves up.

Just as an example, Britain took in proportionately the third or fourth least Ukrainian refugees out of the EU and UK. That’s about a twentieth of the rate that Poland has.

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Perhaps, but when you’re dealing with the sheer negligent criminality of this government you can’t have half measures.

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