SanguinePar

Can the mind vomit?

https://www.dyson.co.uk/vacuum-cleaners

I’d be shocked if that were the case. Shocked. The man who openly called for vigilante justice against those identified as drug dealers actually turning out to be involved in the drug trade himself, while holding official power to quash competitors?

Shocked.

In wake of but not actually connected to in any way.

These fucking morons marching around burning things, smashing things, stealing things, scaring and injuring people are just that, morons.

Not only would their behaviour be appalling and unacceptable even if the arrested suspect in the 3 murders was a Muslim immigrant, he wasn’t. He was born in Cardiff FFS and his parents are Christians. Exploiting his heinous acts to promote their own hateful ideology is beneath contempt.

This is what happens though when you have years and years of politicians stoking the fires of anti-immigration sentiment. No surprise that these far right fuckwits were chanting Stop the Boats.

Thanks a bunch May, Johnson, Sunak, Braverman, Patel, et al. You seeing now what your methods have led to? We already knew that Farage and Yaxley-Lennon were evil opportunistic cunts, but it’s your adoption of their attitudes and language that sees towns across England and beyond in fear and in flames. I hope you’re fucking proud of yourselves.

Fucking scumbags. Imagine trying to exploit the horrific murder of 3 children for your own twisted political ends.

Not that unexpected - from the article:

David Lammy, the foreign secretary, told the Commons in May: “Labour’s position is that the ICC chief prosecutor’s decision to apply for arrest warrants is an independent matter for the court and the prosecutor.”

They bring that up regularly, but it’s a false equivalence. At the time of the independence vote it was absolutely true to claim that voting No was true best way to stay in the EU. There was no expectation, none, from anyone that Brexit was on the way. So, at the time, if Europe was the issue then voting to stay in the UK was the logical choice to make.

As for now - well, Swinney (and before him Sturgeon herself) was talking in terms of winning a majority of seats being a mandate for opening independence talks. That’s clearly nonsense, since a majority of seats is possible with a fairly small plurality of votes. And, it’s looking like it’s a moot point anyway, since the SNP seems to have taken a right good kicking this time round.

So Sturgeon is probably not bringing this up tonight because she’d look ridiculous to do so given the (apparent) results in Scotland tonight. If this was a referendum on independence as she and Swinney have suggested, then the result would appear to be a solid No.

Two Tories defected to them, and neither of them were standing for election this time, it was just a gesture against Sunak (although I do wish Labour had told them to fuck off).

And as for the S*n, they just put their weight behind whoever is going to win.

Labour and Starmer are far from perfect, but I think they will be far better, even if just from a competence and basic human decency standpoint.

It’s a tricky one, I want the Tories annihilated, but less so if it brings Reform in, shudder.

Not a website, but here’s a (low res, sorry) bingo card:

Peter Mandelson? I think he had a point in that Starmer has changed the party from unelectable with Corbyn (which sadly, they were) to a more than realistic prospect for a sensible alternative to the Tories.

You’re right of course that the Conservatives have utterly fucked the pooch (not to mention the country) but Starmer has nonetheless made a massive change in making the party palatable to many, many more people (not that I personally agree with quite a lot of his policies and policy reversals)

“humans - such as I am”

PMSL :-)

A party like Reform getting even a single seat is bad for the long-term prospects of this country.

Yeah, puts a real damper on seeing the Tories get the electoral shit kicked out of them to see those fucking Reform loons given access to the Commons.

130 too many, but I’ll take it!

France, have you lost your minds?

Something something, “break a leg”, something something.

Seriously though, I hope he’s ok.

Possible attempts here to undo some of the damage: Keir Starmer expected to push for Palestinian state in Labour manifesto [Guardian]

If they do, that’d be a pretty bold step, not what I was expecting tbh.

What an absolute muppet.

Even the BBC’s Chris Mason is having a pop at him for this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnz0w41kvo

Yes, that’s right - the prime minister left D-Day events early in order not to apologise for misleading claims about his opponents, only to apologise for leaving early in the first place.