The disgraced corrupt racist liar thread:British PM edition

[Benjm]

So, without knowing the details, it looks like the Church has found some technicality to allow Johnson to have a "secret wedding" in Westminster Cathedral. The exact justification or mechanism doesn't really matter. What sticks in the throat is the eternal openness of this organisation to facilitating the wishes of the rich and powerful compared to the unyielding cruelty that it metes out to ordinary members of the faith who, often through no fault of their own, find themselves on the wrong end of its spiteful and inhumane doctrine.

From a business with a sideline in exorcism, one might have expected a little more awareness of Johnson's necrotic effect upon everything he touches, but sucking up to right-wing authoritarians does have the weight of tradition behind it.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1379895030077394950?s=20

The way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality as i made plain to my friend Darius Guppy when he asked me to help beat up a journalist

[Sean of the Shed]

https://twitter.com/NicholasPegg/status/1298647435829563393?s=11

[ursus arctos]

But wait, there's more

[URL="https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1228944905441103878?s=21"]https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1228944905441103878[/URL]

One way to get around problems of unplanned pregnances creating a permanent underclass would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty," he wrote.

"Vaccination laws give it a predecent, I would argue."

The paper also reported that in a second post to the website, Mr Sabisky dismissed the Home Affairs Select Committee's description of female genital mutilation as a scandal.

"It is still unclear to what extent FGM represents a serious risk to young girls, raised in the UK, of certain minority group origins," he wrote.

"Much of the hue and cry looks more like a moral panic."

[Lurgee]

https://twitter.com/dmk1793/status/1228637758912114690?s=20

Nothing to see here, just move along. Didn't you hear the latest about Jeremy Corbyn?

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/dmk1793/status/1228637758912114690?s=20

[Various Artist]

Thanks Nef, just been reading that thread with interest.

Here's Julian Smith dealing with life after being sacked as NI Secretary:

https://twitter.com/JulianSmithUK/status/1228288517266120704

[Nefertiti2]

A long thread on why Lewis was sacked

[URL]https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1228083610617622528?s=21[/URL]

[Duncan Gardner]

Might as well be Jamal Lewis

[Diable Rouge]

Let's see how whichever cipher is appointed in his place gets on...

Brandon Lewis is the rumoured choice.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer doesn't even have an economics degree and is younger than my Natwest Savings Piggy Bank.

[Nefertiti2]

Suella Braverman is attorney general.

here she is last year

https://twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1227968862697775104?s=20

[Snake Plissken]

INTERIOR: Cummings is sat on velvet throne, draped in the finest ermine. He wears an extravagant crown and the sign behind him reads "Lord of all he surveys". He is reading aloud from a list entitled "All those who have ever wronged me shall be beheaded"

[Cut to EXTERIOR, where LauraK, Peston and assorted hacks are peering through the window]: "We are only getting hints of what his strategy is"

[Snake Plissken]

INTERIOR: Cummings is in the front room of the house, attacking the furniture, setting fire to the curtains, pissing on the carpet and vomiting on the sofa

[Cut to EXTERIOR, where LauraK, Peston and assorted hacks are peering through the window]: "We must attempt to interpret this, for he truly is the foremost exponent of subtle 4D politics"

[KGR]

Well, Dom's managed to reshuffle Dom's Cabinet to the point where Dom's Chancellor just resigned.

Corrected for you.

[Duncan Gardner]

Let's see how whichever cipher is appointed in his place gets on...

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Replaced by Rishi Sunak. Don't see the point of sacking Julian Smith, arguably the first Northern Secretary since Mo Mowlam who was genuinely popular.

The RTE news report on this more or less said that apart from mo mowlam, he was one of the few Northern Ireland secretaries who managed to not make things worse. The things that made him a vaguely useful northern Irish secretary are the things that got him fired (Remain, likely to point out the problems that brexit is causing Northern Ireland. and not on board with giving an amnesty to murderers just because they were employed by the state)

[Duncan Gardner]

Don't see the point of sacking Julian Smith, arguably the first Northern Secretary since Mo Mowlam who was genuinely popular

Mowlam wasn't that popular, particularly with Unionists. They and Nationalists only tend to agree about a Grand Vizier when it's someone as spectacularly useless as Bradley.

Even if anyone now cared what Unionists think, given Smith's sniping at Johnson last year this is hardly a surprise

There's no room for ability and actually getting things done in a Boris Johnson cabinet

In so far as reopening Stormont counts as getting something done, the credit is mainly to Johnson personally

[jwdd27]

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer was born in May 1980.

[ad hoc]

Replaced by Rishi Sunak. Don't see the point of sacking Julian Smith, arguably the first Northern Secretary since Mo Mowlam who was genuinely popular.

There's no room for ability and actually getting things done in a Boris Johnson cabinet

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/oliverbullough/status/1227936601021566977?s=21[/URL]

maybe after the Irish election results he wants a hardliner back in Northern Iteland. Can’t have SinnFein PowerShare north and south

[Diable Rouge]

Well, he's managed to reshuffle his Cabinet to the point where his Chancellor just resigned.

Replaced by Rishi Sunak. Don't see the point of sacking Julian Smith, arguably the first Northern Secretary since Mo Mowlam who was genuinely popular.

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/mikeysmith/status/1227723493502070786?s=21[/URL]

[Snake Plissken]

Well, he's managed to reshuffle his Cabinet to the point where his Chancellor just resigned.

[Gangster Octopus]

Urgh, please don't...