Now this is an overreach of the terrorism law that I can get behind!

Good luck with getting permission for a referendum on anything through parliament. You saw what happened last time. 🥲

I’d be very surprised if the government doesn’t fight tooth and nail against this amendment. Instead preferring a now is not the time style approach.

Or they could say… this wasn’t in our manifesto so we don’t feel comfortable bringing it forward 🥲.

Can’t wait for Lammy to shake hands with Trump on his next state visit.

Urrrgh. I’m never voting Lib Dems again.

I’ve literally never been stopped for not wearing a poppy. People wearing them don’t say anything to me about not wearing one and I don’t say anything to them about wearing one. It’s like me commenting on someone’s jewellery. Why the fuck would I? People want to wear what they want to wear.

Is this really such a newsworthy issue?

Friend, I have news for you. The Home Office has been utterly shit for decades. Not simply under the Conservatives.

I think this gives too much credit to how badly run the Home Office is. Regardless of political party it is, and will remain, an utter shit show. There’s only so much incompetence throwing money at a department can cover up.

Dawn Butler has since deleted the post,

Why am I not surprised it was Dawn Butler 🧐.

The post described the former business secretary as a member of the “black collaborator class”.

Fucking hell. Does she even read what she retweets? Imagine, for a second, Trump doing this. Would we be defending his actions? Jaysus what is she thinking?

“The best thing will be when we get to a point where the colour of your skin is no more remarkable than the colour of your eyes or the colour of your hair,” she told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

I find it interesting that both Sunak and now Badenoch have said similar things about the colour of their skin and the fact they have been leaders of their party not being a big deal. For them they are are British and that’s how they identify. Whilst in both cases Labour has congratulated them as being the first Hindu to be PM and now the first Black person to be leader of a party. Don’t get me wrong these are important milestones, but I find it fascinating that the people who broke these barriers don’t consider it a core identity point and the party that hasn’t yet does.

I never saw the article as anything more than a sarcastic opinion piece. They’re not calling on the chancellor to reverse the budget. They’re not pointing to business opposition. They’re not saying anything but haven’t an armchair moan in, what looks like to me, a light-hearted opinion piece.

But fair enough if others see it differently. I certainly didn’t.

I feel… and hear me out… you’re taking this opinion piece too seriously. Read it like you’d read a Spectator article (and I very much appreciate you might read the Spectator). These are meant to be tongue in cheek. They’re not meant to be taken seriously or over analysed.

Could you imagine being this put out about the guardian opinion pieces?

I thought it was an AI at first 🤖

Easy to sell clicks though.

Russia’s useful idiots.

We shouldn’t be surprised. Lammy is a cabinet minister in a UK government. You’re not going to get a different answer on this topic. Deselect him if you feel strongly otherwise. These people don’t listen to anything else.

He’s also a hardcore Christian. Listen to his views on assisted dying for example. Whilst still in opposition he was asked about this on Question Time not that long ago. When the topic via Esther Rantzen first came up. He said he would seek council from his constituency and then made it clear that it was his church constituency that he was referring to. Forget about the electorate. His head and heart is firmly aligned with what his congregation wants. I suspect on this matter it is much the same.

I’d hope he sends the Tories further down in parliament such that the strong opposition is the Lib Dems. The Tories can language in Green or SNP territory.

Maybe within the Tory party, for sure. I can believe that. But does he not want the Conservatives to be electable in a general election scenario.

I’m not trying to be funny, but isn’t this exactly what Labour did with the Corbyn years? Appealed to what looked like a large majority of their membership that turned out to be spectacularly unpopular at a general election level.

I cannot believe the Tories want to repeat this lesson. I mean, if they want to be out of office for a decade then that’s cool with me.

Ancient flag shagging Tories… Hard Left Labour unions… With these powers combined they become:

CAPTAIN BREXIT! He’s their hero. Gonna bring the UK down to zero. Did a skid. Killed a kid. And crashed his balls on a dustbin lid.

To a certain extent I understand courting the fringes of your party every now and then. But for the life of me I don’t understand making that cohort the main goal of your increasingly nuttier and nuttier rhetoric.

What is this electoral calculus?

🤣 fucking keyboards. 👍