Didn’t Cameron introduce that? May has basically said to ignore everything that he promised. I’m sure they already have a get out clause worked out if they decide to call an election.
I almost feel like i’m defending her. A strange and rather dirty feeling.
I’ve just had a little dive into the Fixed Term Parliaments act.
There are three circumstances under which an election can be called.
This Indy piece reckons that option 2), along with calling Labour chickens, is the likeliest route to an earlier election.
I think they might go with the one cluase bill. Possibly the least damaging as far as the public are concerned.
Personally i have always felt the tories would be quite happy to lose power once they have invoked article 50 and changed all those nasty laws the EU holds them too(usual cycle. Fuck up everything, then let the other lot clean up the mess). They’ll be far too busy exploiting people to have time to run the country any further into the ground(we could call it governmental fracking. Force the poor into the ground under extreme pressures). Think of all the directorships that’ll be waiting for them when they take us out of the ECHR and all the other abbreviations i can’t remember.
Cross posting because it’s equally applicable here
More ridiculous policy gets scrapped thankfully. Now i know I’m very anti tory, but i don’t think i will ever get over how they have treated the disabled and terminally ill. Their media war on the disabled was reminiscent of the Nazi partys “useless eaters” campaign and telling people that have less than a couple of months to live, that you are stopping their benefits as you view them as “fit to work” is fucking evil beyond belief. Shameful times from a supposedly civilised nation that revealed a hideous lack of empathy for our fellow man/woman /child(yes even children).
Are we not civilised enough to understand that some people will need lifelong care and it’s our duty(in an obscenely wealthy country)to supply that care, not take it away at a time you are giving the rich not one, but two tax breaks. Greedy evil cunts, one and all.
So well done to those that have been fighting for a little bit of dignity.
Cannot remember if this has been mentioned or not. Quite likely.
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I’ve seen a few leaflets for some demos a while back but haven’t heard much else (could be me living in a bubble). But at work we have had a few briefings and we are all pretty annoyed about this act. The Council where I work will have to pay a levy of 200mil to the government. Whether or not they’ve sold their high value council properties. The money then will help right to buy in housing associations. They really are trying to get rid of all council housing. There won’t be any affordable housing at this rate. There is talk of each house sold they’d build 2 more but it’s not like for like. I am starting to think there will be poor houses or maybe shanty towns in the future.
There was a story about people living in shipping containers near Brighton.
It’s a fucking scandal. People trying to make out like this is an acceptable option, predicated entirely on the unreality of the establishment’s financial system.
But that’s where they want people. Literally and figuratively contained.
And here’s what they’re proposing to do to poor pensioners
These things can not be mentioned enough. As you say, the future looks bleak for far too many people. Who wants to live in a country that’s so rich but only offers hope to a select few?
You should really read that book I suggested;)
At least they’re single story.
The fucking state of them up North 
A Conservative Club in Bolton is planning its very own ‘Gentlemen’s Evening’ featuring a comedian, strippers, waitresses and food in a bid to raise much needed funds.
The Horwich Conservative Club, which is about five miles from Bolton, is facing serious local outrage over the planned £15-a-ticket event.
Come on Pap, dont be bitter about not being sent an invite.
I expect they’re so desperate they’ll take anyone. The Conservatives have a little club in West Derby. It must be really hard being a Tory in the North.
Africa is a country, according to our new Foreign Secretary.
His speech to the party faithful in Birmingham was meant to say: “For all its problems, life expectancy in Africa has risen astonishingly as that continent has entered the global economic system.”
Rex Features Boris Johnson was doing so well until that bitInstead, he said: “For all its problems, life expectancy in Africa has risen astonishingly as that country has entered the global economic system.”
May’s starting to put her plans in place.
And to go with that news they announce this as well. Coincidence?
How long before it’s the rest of us that lose our human rights?
Jeremy “Toxic” Hunt plans to fine anyone not taking advantage of his imposed contract.
We will have no NHS. We’ll be spending all the money on international legal fees trying to fine people we should never have imposed a contract on in the first place.
It just keeps on coming. Amber Rudd, a woman that I had an inkling of respect for, largely because she appeared capable of showing shame when faced down by Amanda Dorries on Question Time, is somewhat hopeless at business.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd was involved in a string of firms that went bust with debts totalling millions of pounds.
Critics claimed our probe showed she is not up to the job. One said: “It wouldn’t look good on anyone’s CV.”
Mrs Rudd ’s judgement has been called into question after the Mirror uncovered her “dubious” track record in business.
The Tory Home Secretary, in control of an £11billion annual budget, ran a string of firms that went bust owing millions of pounds.
Losers included shareholders and the taxman.
It’s fine. It’s _only _eleven billion a year she’s in control of.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-home-secretary-amber-rudds-8972936
Originally posted by @pap
It just keeps on coming. Amber Rudd, a woman that I had an inkling of respect for, largely because she appeared capable of showing shame when faced down by Amanda Dorries on Question Time, is somewhat hopeless at business.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd was involved in a string of firms that went bust with debts totalling millions of pounds.
Critics claimed our probe showed she is not up to the job. One said: “It wouldn’t look good on anyone’s CV.”
Mrs Rudd ’s judgement has been called into question after the Mirror uncovered her “dubious” track record in business.
The Tory Home Secretary, in control of an £11billion annual budget, ran a string of firms that went bust owing millions of pounds.
Losers included shareholders and the taxman.
It’s fine. It’s _only _eleven billion a year she’s in control of.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-home-secretary-amber-rudds-8972936
So she’s good at making a lot of money for herself and friends by dubious means whilst leaving other people to clean up the mess. Sounds like a perfect tory minister.
Bet that £11b has already been allocated to her friends.
Rudd sounds perfect for Penny the diving fridge’s constituency.
