British Politics
Been on holiday for a few weeks, surprised to find no general discussion of British politics so though I'd kick one off.
Tory leadership contest is quickly turning into farce. Trump has backed Boris, which should be reason enough for anyone with half a brain to exclude him.
Of the other candidates Rory Stewart looks the best of the outsiders. Surprised to see Cleverly and Javid not further up the betting, but not sure the Tory membership are ready for a brown PM.
https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/bri...
Regarding the LD leadership contest, Jo Swinson is miles ahead of any other candidate (and indeed any of the Tory lot). Should be a shoe in.
Finally, it's Groundhog Day in Labour - the more serious the anti-Semitism claims get, the more Corbyn's cronies write their own obituary by blaming it on outlandish conspiracy theories - this week, it's apparently the Jewish Embassy's fault...
The vast majority of asylum seekers are genuine and are granted asylum.
It's obvious what should happen - the EU and UK have to agree a fair and sensible plan for taking refugees in, but as Brexit (which the Tory government is responsible for) has poisoned relations between the EU and UK so badly, it isn't going to happen until a change of government, if at all.
uh? the refusal rate is going down fast just because ukrainians are all accepted (as they should be), but ukrainians aside refusal rates have always been over 50, sometimes over 80%, in most EU countries and in the UK, every year (again Germany another exception the 2 years they let in all sirians almost automatically).
Basically outside of clear "country of origin" war, more than 50% of asylum requests are routinely refused, and sometimes, depending on the country, it has been more than 80%.
more than 50% of asylum requests are routinely refused, and sometimes, depending on the country, it has been more than 80%.
Surprised at this, but it checks out.
~40% of initial decision refusals are overturned on appeal.
So with Humza having to stand down it looks like the SNP parliamentarians are hoping to go with Swinney, someone who previously held the leadership and was booted out 20 years ago. He also said last year that he was standing down from front line politics. So it looks like the Sturgeonite wing of the party are trying to get another continuity candidate in, one who is well past his sell by date. They haven't learnt a thing from Humza's failure which was in part down to him continuing with Sturgeon's failed legacy, as well as his own obvious lack of talent.
If Forbes stands against him she will yet again have most of the party machine against her but given the support she received the last time from members there's every chance she could win this time and then the real fun will start.
My missus, who doesn't follow politics at all, said "was that the guy who asked a group of Ukrainian women refugees why there were no men?"
Some legacy he's leaving.
Why was his nickname 'Useless' again?
galloway attempting to get the far left to coalesce around him
a couple of mps supposedly in talks to defect to the george galloway party of george galloway ("for the george galloway not the few"). one current and one former labour mp, the one who was booted out for harassment
Good positive messaging from the SNP on the possible leadership contestants...
Ah, yes, Kirsty Blackman. The MP and mother of two who claimed, in a debate on the definition of sex in the Equality Act, "I have no idea what my chromosomes are. I have an assumption that they are probably XY but I don't know," causing Joanna Cherry QC MP to roll her eyes and facepalm.
galloway attempting to get the far left to coalesce around him
a couple of mps supposedly in talks to defect to the george galloway party of george galloway ("for the george galloway not the few"). one current and one former labour mp, the one who was booted out for harassment
And also Monty Panesar apparently.
Well, that's all quite weird.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6...
And Jeremy Corbyn still hasn't decided whether to stand as an independent. He might succeed, if his personal vote is strong enough, but if he doesn't... I'm not sure he wants to face that possibility.
Not a fan of galloway. Except the way he treats the 'media' - treating them with the contempt they deserve is spot on and desperately needed
Galloway is twat-central
With a creepy cat fetish
The first migrants set to be deported to Rwanda have been detained.
The Home Office said a series of operations took place across the country this week, with more activity due to be carried out in the coming weeks.
Officials have not yet said how many people have been detained, or where they were taken into custody.
It comes ahead of the Government’s bid to get flights to send migrants to the east African nation off the ground by July, after the Safety of Rwanda Act became law last week.
Sickening
Time for some good news...
Ireland not UK, but obviously created by ...
Ireland not UK, but obviously created by ...
No offence to my ancestral homeland, but it looks like the Irish ruling class were only in favour of 'open borders' when they thought it wouldn't affect them the way it does the rest of us.
Unless your immediate ancestors were Irish your ancestral homeland is Africa and any other claims you hear people make are poor genetic science bullshit.
I'm not sure that going on Celebrity Big Brother for a large fee was treating the media with contempt.
News media
Much of it needs to be treated with contempt. That doesn't in any way imply that he also doens't need to be treated with contempt. If he leads the way to far better politcians treating the seriously shite parts of the media with contempt then that would be a very good thing.
No offence to my ancestral homeland, but it looks like the Irish ruling class were only in favour of 'open borders' when they thought it wouldn't affect them the way it does the rest of us.
Unless your immediate ancestors were Irish your ancestral homeland is Africa and any other claims you hear people make are poor genetic science bullshit.
The sad reality is that on top of the usal problems some have with refugees this will become far more about inter european deisputes. The refugees with be political victims (on top of everything else) of the need not to let neighbours gain some percieved advantage.
This sort of thing is the real brexit diaster. Only the far right across europe benefit fom this.
