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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Nigel Parsons Date: 12 Nov 23 - 01:07 PM "Both he (the Prime Minister) and Starmer are refusing to call for a ceasefire" Meanwhile, in other news in Wales: The (Labour led) Senedd has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. The motion tabled in the Welsh parliament by Plaid Cymru urged for an end to "the appalling attacks on innocent civilians". Welsh government ministers abstained from the vote - but Labour backbenchers were given a free vote on the motion and on an amendment tabled by the Conservatives. From: Here |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 12 Nov 23 - 02:12 PM Thanks for that, Nigel. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 12 Nov 23 - 03:37 PM Nice to know that the land of my Fathers (Well, Mother's Mother) hasn't succumbed to the downward slide! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 12 Nov 23 - 05:10 PM I see that Cruella has praised the police for "their professionalism in the face of violence and aggression from protesters and counter-protesters". She really is a piece of work isn't she. There are no words strong enough to describe the disdain I have for the shower of shits that are supposed to be running the country. How anyone can continue to support them is beyond me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 12 Nov 23 - 07:29 PM It's the fake equivalence between 'protesters and counter-protesters" that gets me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 13 Nov 23 - 02:44 AM Exactly. And now praising the police because she realised that slagging them off was a bad career move. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 13 Nov 23 - 04:16 AM Ding dong the witch is dead... :-) Mind you, we cannot celebrate yet as we don't yet know who will replace her. Cameron, the man who screwed up over Brexit, has been seen entering number 10! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 13 Nov 23 - 04:18 AM Source BBC news BTW. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Backwoodsman Date: 13 Nov 23 - 04:43 AM The inappropriately-named James Cleverly also seen darkening the doorstep of No. 10 this morning. More barrel-bottom scraping, methinks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 13 Nov 23 - 06:31 AM Cameron, a man who should never have been allowed anywhere near Downing Street ever again, fer chrissake... Put him in that big barge all on his own and float the bloody thing off to Rwanda. Anyone got a spare ball and chain? Anyone contemplating that he could well be the next Tory leader? :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Donuel Date: 13 Nov 23 - 06:44 AM Cameron is back in Government. It bodes ill for conservatives in the future. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 13 Nov 23 - 07:03 AM How would you know? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Donuel Date: 13 Nov 23 - 09:30 AM Cameron's post is minor but it reflects poorly to his opponents. Perhaps your conservatives are smarter than ours but I doubt it. What you call the wrong side of the Atlantic, over here the conservatives went too far and have splintered their base. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 13 Nov 23 - 09:45 AM Conservative with a big C is different to conservative with a little c Don. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Donuel Date: 13 Nov 23 - 10:01 AM I reckon ah jus reflects the opinion of MSNBC. Jus sayin. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Donuel Date: 13 Nov 23 - 10:08 AM Over here we have a big D and a little d. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Doug Chadwick Date: 13 Nov 23 - 10:20 AM Cameron's post is minor The Foreign Secretary is a senior position in the UK government. Along with the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Home Secretary, it is one of the four Great Offices of State. DC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Donuel Date: 13 Nov 23 - 10:35 AM Thanks, I thought the Prime Minister was the only 'big boss'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Rain Dog Date: 13 Nov 23 - 11:10 AM Our Prime Minister is not the same as your President. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 13 Nov 23 - 11:27 AM This has been brewing for nearly a week: it seems it was the "tents" issue that pushed Rishi over the top, not Cruella being, erm, economical with the diplomacy about the marches (which just added the cherry). I await the front-page picture on this week's New European with interest, but it should feature Cruella's head poking out of a tent on the doorstep of Number Ten. For the record, at the time of typoing: * Cruella -> back benches * Cleverley -> Home Office * the boy Cameron -> Foreign Office * Theresa Coffey (sp?) -> back benches* ..... and more to follow. * Despite paying her respects to Larry the Cat on the way in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Donuel Date: 13 Nov 23 - 07:02 PM We have what is now called an Imperial President. "Beware the demon pomposity". Bob Woodward. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 14 Nov 23 - 08:22 AM We are allowed just one UK political thread. Keep your politics out of it, please. I hate Cameron. Hubris led to brexit, a terrible misjudgement. The architect of austerity ("we're all in it together"). Very dodgy lobbying. NHS starting to implode on his watch. Hardly any growth. Explosion of zero-hours contracts. Shat on the public sector via pay freeze after pay freeze. He did one excellent thing: he completely nobbled that shabby bunch of naive opportunists, the Lib Dems. However, he's a big hitter. He scrubs up well. He's not far right. From a Tory point of view, this isn't at all a bad move. Stodgy Starmer beware. And, after her showing on the Today programme this morning, for God's sake keep Rachel Reeves out of the spotlight. Could do worse than shutting Yvette up while he's at it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 14 Nov 23 - 09:09 AM It's Thérèse f'Coffey, Filk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 15 Nov 23 - 09:41 AM I poste dthis yesterday but it seems to have been lost in the latest cat litter cleanup. Apologies if it does appear twice Cruella is now telling Fishy that his policies are not working Funny. I'm sure she supported them until she was binned. Why on earth would she support something that she knew was not working? Not a career move surely ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Nov 23 - 09:52 AM I watched the whole of the Supreme Court ruling this morning. What struck me was the fact that Rwanda's blatant failings to abide by previous agreed understandings on how asylum seekers should be treated, particularly with Israel, as well as a mass of solid evidence on this from the UN refugee agency, seem to have been ignored by this government. They were pursuing a doomed policy that has already cost taxpayers many millions of pounds. I feel like suing them to get my bloody money back. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 15 Nov 23 - 10:14 AM Herself's comment this morning: "That's typical of the Tories: no Plan B." My response: "Plan B is Plan A, shouted louder." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: DMcG Date: 15 Nov 23 - 01:00 PM I have posted this elsewhere, but it bears repeating: So the new brilliant scheme is to get Parliament to say Rwanda is safe. Not to address the Supreme Court's judgement it is not, nor to ensure it is, nor to press Rwanda to be safer, but simply to call it so. Very Humpty Dumpty. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Donuel Date: 15 Nov 23 - 03:32 PM I can also say we are allowed just one US political thread so keep your politics out of it please but I agree with free speech with all its curses and benefits. Let's keep your personal animosities out of it. Comparing US reports to UK reports is sometimes different. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 15 Nov 23 - 05:04 PM Passing a law stating that Rwanda is safe forcibly reminds me of the Indiana Pi Bill. I commend the Wikipedia page to you, but can't resist:
Happily, a real mathematician was in the building on other business, he educated members of the Indiana Senate, the bill was duly blocked, and the newspapers in other States ceased heaping ridicule on the Indiana State Legislature. Sadly, in our case, the grownups seem to have deserted the House of Commons. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Nov 23 - 05:48 PM Sunak is entering a minefield. His daft tough talk today reeks of his need to react sharply to the idiot Braverman, which he doesn't need to do. He ignored a mass of evidence from Israel and UNHCR that Rwanda does not comply with agreements as to how asylum seekers should be treated, and it's clear that "safe country" does not apply to Rwanda. That's one thing. But Starmer. As an opposition leader, as the leader of a party that's supposed to put ordinary people first, in contrast to self-serving Tories, why can't he call for a ceasefire? It's just a call. It's not a demand. It won't happen just because he calls for it. It would be a symbolic call only. It would, though, put clear blue water between Labour and the Tories. Instead, he clings to Sunak's coat tails. He runs scared of Biden should he beat Sunak in the election. He is not a leader. He's a follower. And his stance on the conflict is splitting the party. As any fule no, split parties always lose elections. So the next election is going to come down to who's more split, Labour or Tories. Sir K, it really doesn't need to be that way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Nov 23 - 05:52 PM "I can also say we are allowed just one US political thread so keep your politics out of it please but I agree with free speech with all its curses and benefits. Let's keep your personal animosities out of it. Comparing US reports to UK reports is sometimes different." But the trouble is that you wade in but have absolutely no desire to discuss our politics. The simple reason for that is that you have not studied our politics and your posts show no understanding of it. By all means join in. By which I mean, join in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Nov 23 - 06:40 PM Some Labour spokespeople I've heard today: Pat McFadden Yvette Cooper Keir Starmer Peter Kyle Rachel Reeves David Lammy Barry Gardiner (and others) All calling for no ceasefire. In other words, carry on the slaughter but do listen to our very mild cautions. All members of Labour Friends Of Israel. Then Jess Phillips. Feminist, anti-Corbynite. She left the front bench today in protest against the anti-ceasefire stance. She's also a member of Labour Friends of Israel. My opinion of her has soared. A real humanitarian. Kudos, Jess. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: DMcG Date: 18 Nov 23 - 04:14 AM BBC Four recently transmitted a programme made in 1998 called The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs. It is well worth watching for the background to these events. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Steve Shaw Date: 18 Nov 23 - 06:51 PM Gosh, didn't think that last post of mine had taken. I meant to add this comment from Jess's letter, with which I couldn't agree more. "I can see no route where the current military action does anything but put at risk the hope of peace and security for anyone in the region now and in the future." Absolutely. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Donuel Date: 19 Nov 23 - 08:16 AM Thank you Steve, I do have far more questions than opinion. I am monitoring British history from the Tudors to the Stuarts and as always listen to BBC. American history is a cinch compared to a thousand years of British history. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 19 Nov 23 - 09:00 AM UK's Online Safety Bill has become the Online Safety Act, complete with the section which states that the Forces of Law and Order shall be able to intercept any and all communications (the CSAM measure). The language carefully states that end-to-end encryption is not banned, but that intercepts shall be permitted once the technology exists to permit it. Since it's mathematically impossible for said technology to work as advertised, the Act has deemed (again) that black is white by legislative fiat. More at the The Shapeshifting Crypto Wars at the Lawfare site. Once I find the earlier article I've been paraphrasing, I'll post a link to that too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: MaJoC the Filk Date: 20 Nov 23 - 10:49 PM As aforethreatened, analysis of clause 122 of the Online Safety Act: UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible' UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Captain Swing Date: 05 Oct 23 - 03:44 PM I remember going on two school visits aged 15 in 5th yr (Y11 in today's money). One was to the Lincolnshire Show and the other was to see a production of Hamlet. We managed to get served with pints of brown ale on both occasions. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Oct 23 - 02:24 AM So how do we translate that to UK politics? The far right groups we had here never had serious high poll ratings but they frightened the mainstream parties enough to move them further right than they have been in my voting lifetime. We now have a Labour Party that are vaguely pink, Liberals that align themselves with Tories and Tories that want to implement NF policies. How can we hope to recentre things? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Oct 23 - 07:40 AM 100! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Oct 23 - 04:10 AM This one tickles me. Just shows how out of touch they are with the North Tories promise Manchester a tram extension that already exists! My son #1, daughter in law #2 and grandson #2 were there protesting on Sunday. Proud of them all! :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Oct 23 - 10:48 AM You're not leaving Labour Steve. I am not sure what it is but it sure ain't the party we joined! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Dave the Gnome Date: 20 Oct 23 - 05:08 PM In Sir Keith's own words, Steve. Talking about the by-election "I know there are people who probably voted Tory in the past who vote for a changed Labour Party this time because they despair at the state of their own party" Code for the Labour Party has become the Party that pissed off tories vote for :-( You are better off out of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: DMcG Date: 05 Oct 23 - 12:35 PM If you are raiaing the legal age to buy cigarettes one year per year then in say 15 years you will need to be challenging people to prove they are 30 and not 29. I don't see how you are going to do that without some form of national ID system. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: DMcG Date: 07 Oct 23 - 02:13 PM The is a ry irritating form of punditry about. The first sentence warns you cannot read too much into a single by election result. Then every following sentence makes exactly that assumption. What I would say is the result is morale-boosting for Labour and morale-sapping for the SNP. I don't think I would go much further. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: DMcG Date: 09 Oct 23 - 01:23 PM Something a bit intriguing happening. I can post messages to mudcat from my phone, but not from my PC. Obviously something antiviral is blocking me... Ehat I was going to say is the Labour Policy document makes interesting reading as far as setting the direction is concerned. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: DMcG Date: 18 Oct 23 - 11:08 AM Starmer's letter to the councillors who have or are thinking of resigning over this |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Nigel Parsons Date: 04 Oct 23 - 09:26 AM Steve: If you're 14 today you'll never legally be able to buy fags. Spot the hidden caveat in that sentence. I'm guessing the 'caveat' you mean is that word 'legally'. I'd rather spot the inaccuracy. If you're 14 now, but haven't yet had a birthday this year you were born before 1 Jan 2009, so can continue to buy cigarettes (once you're 18). The new law doesn't catch you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Backwoodsman Date: 02 Oct 23 - 06:42 AM Populism is alive and well at the Tory conference, judging by Coutinho’s and Harper’s speeches - in particular, lots of Labour-slagging and Harper declaring the Conservative Party to be ‘The pro-car Party’. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 3 From: Backwoodsman Date: 02 Oct 23 - 07:45 AM Bugger! ;-) |
