A superb, ground-breaking set of Local Election results for the Lib Dems. Over 400 seats won, overall control won in 12 more Councils and Tory control removed in dozens more.
Evidence that this Government’s time is up. Their “priorities” are going nowhere, the cost of living crisis is affecting us all whilst oil and energy companies make obscene profits. They are completely out of touch and still trying to blame anyone except the party that has been in power for over a decade - themselves. I know some will say that it’s different in a GE and it is, but some things are changing. In my cavassing and in these elections I’m hearing that people want Councillors and MPs who work hard for the community and care about ordinary people rather than being invisible and working only to line their own pockets.
I’m under no illusions of telling the LibDems to “prepare for government”. But I think Labour will struggle to get an overall majority which will put us in an interesting place with LD, SNL and others. Two things are certain: no party will get in bed with this discredited Tory party and the LibDems won’t walk into the coalition trap again. If they’re in a position to support Starmer it’ll be on a supply and confidence, policy by policy basis with tough compromises.
The big issue will be scrapping FPTP for PR - something Con and Lab will resist desperately, but if Labour can’t get a majority now, they never will: the current voting system vastly favours the Tories and the only way to break the cycle of them coming back for another decade of self-serving greed and destruction of public services and the NHS is to bite the bullet.
Tbh I’m with the Met on the Rape Alarm thingy
Agree with their cause, just their timing was unwise.
Just needed 1 to be thrown at those mounted Troops/Bands.
I will defend freedom all day long. But not stupidity and that was stupid, good cause, stupid timing
Funnily enough there is breaking news regarding Braverman’s undisclosed links to Rwanda. She’s facing fresh allegations of ministerial code breaches over her failure to disclose years of previous work with the Rwandan government. She founded a ‘Charity’ with Cherie Blair which trained Rwandan government lawyers between 2010 and 2015. Several people the ‘Charity’ worked with are now key members of President Kagame’s government and are involved in the UK’s £140 million deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
I always thought the policy was morally reprehensible, evil even, but it turns out it’s bent as a nine bob note too.
Vile woman.
Boris referred to the police by the Cabinet Office for hosting friends at Chequers during lockdown
His own govt funded lawyers engaged to prepare his defence in the public inquiry grassed him up when they discovered diary entries confirmed the shindig
It’s a massive cover up, an overwhelming stench of corruption at the highest level. It’s all about protecting Sunak now, he’s desperately trying to protect his corrupt arse. Johnson is hell bent on revenge for Slippery’s role in his down fall, knows that revelations from his Whatsapp and notebook will expose him for the corrupt little cunt that he is.
A simple question.
Who gets to decide what is relevant in an investigation?
A. Those being investigated?
B. The investigators?
I suspect hardened criminals would prefer option A.
Suing their own inquiry to with hold and cover up evidence is the ultimate insult to anyone who lost loved ones to covid.
Why not just piss on the graves of the Covid deceased and be done with it.
This is a tough one - on one hand you want full disclosure, on the other you can guarantee that all those texts will leak and if there is something personally embarrassing but absolutely unrelated to the inquiry then I can understand a reluctance to release them.
I sort of get that, but if there is anything personally embarrassing you have to ask what the hell is it doing in those WhatsApp msgs and notes?
I know we’re ruled via WhatsApp these days so you’d expect politicians to use the relevant groups responsibly knowing that personally embarrassing stuff is likely to get exposed at some point.
If you live your life in public you shouldn’t cry when embarrassing things become public due to an arrogant but misguided view that they are teflon
