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 economy over the next 4/5 years will be decided by two things imo
1) will labour get the PE investment they are banking on to get the growth. They plan to leverage the public sector investment. I suspect it's in the bag but it may depend on 2).
2) world growth, particularly the usa. Who knows?
PFI part Deux: The Revenge
Clarkson and the appalling Kirstie Allsop up in arms about having to pay more tax and having their land buy loophole removed, pretending; to give a monkey **** about farmers.
Beat me to it, saw that yesterday, normal farmers will be fine, it's the giant farmers who've bought up their neighbours farms over the years, and so called "gentlemen farmers" who will have to pay. Get me a very small violin
No, the average British farm is family-owned and is worth about £2.5 million, so it will be liable. The bigger corporate owners will have financial and legal instruments in place to ensure they don't have to pay, so this tax measure looks like a misfire.
Badenoch it is.
tories putting a black woman in charge of their party is really something. looking forward to five years of middle class and upper middle class white guys scolding her over race issues
Class comes before race always. Married into the banking class. All the racists will pretend they like her as long as she does their work for them.
But she is bonkers and thoroughly obnoxious. Should be fun.
times continue to get more interesting
tories putting a black woman in charge of their party is really something. looking forward to five years of middle class and upper middle class white guys scolding her over race issues
'Proud moment for our country' according to the PM. It is a bit striking that the Conservatives have just replaced the first Indian party leader with the first black party leader, and a woman at that, whereas Labour... She is the Opposition leader that Sir Keir least wanted, because she's articulate and she complicates the dynamic by undermining Labour's historic claim to represent 'minorities', with the possible electoral consequences that that might imply. She may make the PM's job easier by coming up with wacky policies and quotes, but we'll find out.
She opposes the minimum wage and maternity pay, so that'll be interesting.
These ****ing parasites
The race-baiting far-left are taking it predictably well.
Both posts are true. It’s a tactic of the Tories to employ a brown skinned person to do its racism for it in the belief that it grants them immunity from accusations of racism.
It’s a bit like people on forums claiming they have an immigrant partner so they can post lots of racist vitriol about immigrants.
Do you think Badenoch is nasty?
Do you think all cultures are equally valid?
They dont have to be things I would say or think for it to be fine.
fwiw I'm definitely far more more in the Sultana camp than the Badenough one when it comes to the substance
The point is that we don’t want to go down the US path - Sulkana is just wrong for her first line of attack to be personal insults.
What substance are you referring to? Fwiw I don’t agree with either of them on several issues, but on cultural issues I’m closer to Badenochs views.
