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This is a perfect microcosm of Tory Britain. An absolutely revolting individual gets to influence our laws for the rest of his life, even after doing this.

Burn the fucking place down.

 

 

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Oh, ffs.

Two weeks ago: Starmer urged not to U-turn on new North Sea oil and gas ban

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Keir Starmer’s promise to block new North Sea oil and gas exploration has received the backing of an eclectic range of high-profile groups, including environmental campaigners, trade unions and even the Women’s Institute.

The Labour leader is set to unveil his net zero energy policies during a speech in Scotland this month, including a radical pledge to ban all North Sea oil and gas licences.

The promise is a key plank of Labour’s environmental platform, but has sparked anger among business and political leaders in the north-east of Scotland, where the industry is concentrated.

The Labour leader is being urged to stick to the plan in a letter signed by 139 organisations, including the Campaign to Protect Rural England, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the National Federation of Women’s Institutes.

Today: Keir Starmer in retreat from North Sea oil pledge

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The Rosebank oil and gas field west of Shetland is expected to get the go-ahead within weeks, following reassurances from Sir Keir Starmer that he would not block the development if a Labour government comes into power at the next general election.

In the latest shift in the party’s green policy, Starmer is understood to have given the commitment to Equinor, the Norwegian state-owned energy company which has the licence for Rosebank.

 

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Sunak looks a total coward. He should have learned what Brown should have; be decisive to survive politics even if its the wrong decision. 
 

Less than four years ago, Johnson won a massive 80 seat majority as PM. Since then he’s been the only PM to be punished for a crime (thr fixed penalty for breaching his own covid restrictions), been ousted by his own party, quit as an MP bcause of the damning report, now damned as a liar and forbidden a pass into parliament. And his first Daily Mail article was about diet pills…

Not so much a fall from grace as a pile drive into the earth’s crust.

https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-vote-sunak-privileges-committee-report-on-lied-to-parliament-12593360?postid=6074298#liveblog-body

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9 hours ago, polishgenius said:

 

 

Ah, it's the young staffers and advisers, that's how they can square the condemnation with their world view. Just a culture problem with leaders failing to discipline their employees. That will work with any cognitive dissonance!

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Today, no doubt succumbing to shady external pressures, Glastonbury Festival banned a film about Jeremy Corbyn. This film is narrated by a Jewish man, and features interviews with several Jewish people talking about Jeremy Corbyn's 'antisemitism'.

Just what are they so frightened of? 

 

 

 

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55 minutes ago, Derfel Cadarn said:

I wish we had a Speaker who would chqllenge Sunak on his bullshit and make him answer thr fucking questions

That's not the Speaker's job.

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20 minutes ago, Rippounet said:

The Tories have been in power since  *checks notes*  2010, haven't they?

Indeed.  Remind me, how did the last Tory government before 2010 crash and burn? Was it...umm mortgage rates and negative homeowner equity? 

The case for Sunak as PM is sound economics.  He's not at fault for the tidal waves rocking the British economy, or its endemic weaknesses, but as PM he'll pay the price.  

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2 hours ago, Gaston de Foix said:

Indeed.  Remind me, how did the last Tory government before 2010 crash and burn? Was it...umm mortgage rates and negative homeowner equity? 

The case for Sunak as PM is sound economics.  He's not at fault for the tidal waves rocking the British economy, or its endemic weaknesses, but as PM he'll pay the price.  

He does bear some responsibility as he was Chancellor until last summer.

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