You’ll defend anything negative about Corbyn led Labour won’t you.
It’s cute, but does make you look a little silly.
Even if that’s true, at least it’s cute.
As it goes, there was quite a bit of disappointment among Corbyn’s supporters over the SNP’s Blair motion this week. I defended him there too, saying there is a better place and time to have that fight, not least when it’s not an SNP trap to capitalise on the visible divisions in the Labour Party.
Calmed a lot of people down. It was cute.
Hmmm, while I may agree with the senitment, I’m not sure our Foreign Secretary should be quite so undiplomatic.
Boris Johnson accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘playing proxy wars’
Boris Johnson has accused Britain’s ally, Saudi Arabia, of engaging in “proxy wars” in the Middle East.
The Guardian newspaper has published footage in which the foreign secretary talks of politicians “twisting and abusing religion” for political gain.
He said Saudi Arabia and Iran were “puppeteering” because of a lack of strong leadership in the region.
The Foreign Office said Saudi Arabia was an ally and the UK supported its efforts to secure its borders.
Originally posted by @Bathsaint
Hmmm, while I may agree with the senitment, I’m not sure our Foreign Secretary should be quite so undiplomatic.
Boris Johnson accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘playing proxy wars’
Boris Johnson has accused Britain’s ally, Saudi Arabia, of engaging in “proxy wars” in the Middle East.
The Guardian newspaper has published footage in which the foreign secretary talks of politicians “twisting and abusing religion” for political gain.
He said Saudi Arabia and Iran were “puppeteering” because of a lack of strong leadership in the region.
The Foreign Office said Saudi Arabia was an ally and the UK supported its efforts to secure its borders.
I don’t know, we’ve seen enough criticism about politicians getting into bed with the Saudi’s even though they abuse human rights, wage illegal wars etc. Surely it’s time someone called them out?
Originally posted by @Bathsaint
Hmmm, while I may agree with the senitment, I’m not sure our Foreign Secretary should be quite so undiplomatic.
Boris Johnson accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘playing proxy wars’
Boris Johnson has accused Britain’s ally, Saudi Arabia, of engaging in “proxy wars” in the Middle East.
The Guardian newspaper has published footage in which the foreign secretary talks of politicians “twisting and abusing religion” for political gain.
He said Saudi Arabia and Iran were “puppeteering” because of a lack of strong leadership in the region.
The Foreign Office said Saudi Arabia was an ally and the UK supported its efforts to secure its borders.
He’s not wrong to be fair. Quite why we have to outright pretend that the Saudi regime is anything but a litany of human rights abuses and totalitarianism I don’t know. I understand the sway that they have in the region in terms of oil and military control but it does seem a little subservient that we can’t call them out on it at all.
Yeah, gotta say, of all the trouble the Tories have caused, Boris having a pop at the Saudis wouldn’t be top of my list to complain about. Worthy of praise if there’s anything more than bluster behind it.
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Whether he is right or wrong has never bothered him before.
He’s a fucking liability and was only appointed so he could sort out the Brexit which he demanded.
It’s not REALLY a Brexit role though…thats gone to David Davis.
Rather than getting to run away from the car crash he was invited straight into that role so he could try and take some responsibility.
It has certainly been interesting watching his political career. When he was Mayor of London, he seemed to be dogged with dodgy Deputy Mayors, frequently lost his rag during meetings and/or altercations with political opponents.
A real case of familiarity breeding contempt. I don’t mind admitting that I didn’t mind him when he was just a Conservative buffoon that appeared on HIGNFY. As he has grown in power and office, he looks ever less impressive.
Also reckon we can safely forget any notion of him becoming PM. Gove of all people was able to sink him in hours. What the fuck did he have on him?
Originally posted by @pap
Gove of all people was able to sink him in hours. What the fuck did he have on him?
Bit ITK on this. Gove appealed to his sense of honour, integrity, and selfless desire to serve his country with grace and humility.
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Darius Guppy?
Yipe. 90bn less from income tax receipts over the next five years.
How does that square with our better employed economy? I know we’ve taken a lot of people out of tax, but that’s 90bil. It’s a lot to lose.
It’d be good to see the breakdown between the poor being taken out of tax, and the 45% top rate, and what each has cost the government.
Amazing to see that unemployment rates are still falling. I wonder whether this is due to the decrease/difficulty in obtaining benefits that we’ve seen, the number of zero hours contracts or a mixture. Be good to see a breakdown so that we can actually see whether the data is showing a good thing, or a worrying trend:
What an opening question 
Dumb PM destroyed again!
i watched the first bit of that. First up was a fat bro doing a gd joke about how Foreign Office is same initials as Fuck Off, and everyone was lols. Then HATE MY ARSE was like ffs, and saying how that stood for Fine Foreign Secretary, and everyone was not quite so lols, but I thought it was quite gd to come up with that on the fly. Then some blonde bird stood up, I don’t know what she was going on about. Then it was Jeremy Corbyn turn. I was rub my hands. Now we would see some fireworks! Prime Minister in for grilling now srs! Hundreds of sticks you can beat a sitting PM with, wonder which one he will go for?
But all he wanted to ask was if Prime Minister was gonna download Jo Cox’s charity single from iTunes. So I turned off.
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Brilliant first question, decent response from May.
Corbyn is just weak. He needs to grill her properly (not the Diane Abbott way). He looks like a retiring Geography teacher, who’s just going through the motions. Hardly inspiring when he needs to inspire 50% of the Labour vote to not go elsewhere.
To be fair though, it’s not as if PMQs are any indication as to how someone will do. Hague et al used to destroy Blair week after week, and he still did alright.
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i dunno maybe the rest of it was theresa may getting owned, but i am always suspicion when pap says anything that is credit to Corbyn, because pap sees the world through corduroy glasses srs
Edit: I quite like that, bout pap seeing the world through corduroy glasses. He should make that his bio line on twitter.
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This is the May vs Corbyn bit.
It’s social care again. It works on every level. A good angle of attack; people will be affected or know someone affected by the cuts. He’s continuing to make the case that it is underfunded (4.6 billion in cuts last Parliament) and got to lance some other canards too.
The idea to raise social care funds from council tax is a bad one, something that Corbyn pointed out today. All being equal, it would be an excellent idea, but we live in a country with vast regional inequalities. It’s not just Northern towns with high unemployment rates. Places with a large proportion of students relative to their overall populaton have less spending power too.
This is an underlying problem with the localism agenda, which believe it or not, I conceptually agree with. The problem is the Tories don’t see it the way I do. They’ll see it as an opportunity to pass the buck to badly performing councils. If everyone started with decent budgets and relatively equal tax takes, I wouldn’t even have a problem with that. Sadly not the case, though.
It’s a double whammy for the towns that were ideological victims of Thatcher’s crusade. Jobs removed from the area back in the day, no jobs to pay for social care in contemporary times.