| A real Government scandal from last night… 06:40 - Apr 28 with 1197 views | ElderGrizzly |
Take ‘control’ of the Electoral Commission. The body that investigates electoral fraud and wrongdoing now in Tory hands.
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 06:49 - Apr 28 with 1158 views | solomon |
Think it’s about time we all took control back and dumped these charlatans asap. |  | | |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 06:51 - Apr 28 with 1145 views | Churchman |
That’s shocking. Do these cretins have no limits? |  | | |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 06:53 - Apr 28 with 1140 views | ElderGrizzly |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 06:51 - Apr 28 by Churchman |
That’s shocking. Do these cretins have no limits? |
When you dig into the list of what passed it gets worse
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 06:54 - Apr 28 with 1134 views | footers |
Boring! I like Boris' hair :D |  |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 07:34 - Apr 28 with 1073 views | Plums |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 06:53 - Apr 28 by ElderGrizzly |
When you dig into the list of what passed it gets worse
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Has this been through the Lords?
I know it’s a stretch expecting the least democratic part of our system to save our democracy but that’s the weird world we live in. |  |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 07:46 - Apr 28 with 1052 views | Plums |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 07:34 - Apr 28 by Plums |
Has this been through the Lords?
I know it’s a stretch expecting the least democratic part of our system to save our democracy but that’s the weird world we live in. |
Just realised it was the Lords. We’re absolutely screwed as a functioning democracy. The heist is complete. | |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:09 - Apr 28 with 984 views | BlueBadger |
Chico will be along in a minute to tell us that no-one cares. |  |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:18 - Apr 28 with 939 views | JakeITFC |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:09 - Apr 28 by BlueBadger |
Chico will be along in a minute to tell us that no-one cares. |
Well it’s true, isn’t it?
This lot have trashed the economy, broken their own laws and also killed ten of thousands of their own populace through incompetence in this term alone, but sit there with a huge majority relatively unchecked (whilst the opposition think a move to be more like these guys for a chance at winning seems to be the best plan rather than trying to change anything).
The public gets what the public wants. [Post edited 28 Apr 2022 8:58]
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:29 - Apr 28 with 894 views | BlueRaider |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 07:34 - Apr 28 by Plums |
Has this been through the Lords?
I know it’s a stretch expecting the least democratic part of our system to save our democracy but that’s the weird world we live in. |
Apparently the vote was scheduled late at night, and then about 50% of the Labour lords didn't show so the Tories had a majority, pretty poor all round |  |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:50 - Apr 28 with 853 views | SomethingBlue |
And the apathetic, ill-educated British will do nothing except gratefully take what is coming to them. [Post edited 28 Apr 2022 8:50]
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:56 - Apr 28 with 829 views | Dubtractor |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:18 - Apr 28 by JakeITFC |
Well it’s true, isn’t it?
This lot have trashed the economy, broken their own laws and also killed ten of thousands of their own populace through incompetence in this term alone, but sit there with a huge majority relatively unchecked (whilst the opposition think a move to be more like these guys for a chance at winning seems to be the best plan rather than trying to change anything).
The public gets what the public wants. [Post edited 28 Apr 2022 8:58]
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Was gonna say similar.
I know chico can be a bit edgy at times, but he is right on this point. Of course some people care, but the vast majority clearly don't, and plenty actively cheer it on.
Princess Amidala was right about how democracy dies. |  |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 09:11 - Apr 28 with 795 views | BlueBadger |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:50 - Apr 28 by SomethingBlue |
And the apathetic, ill-educated British will do nothing except gratefully take what is coming to them. [Post edited 28 Apr 2022 8:50]
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DaveU's up and about early to beat the drum for bigotry, corruption, incompetence, criminality and sex pesting I see. | |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 09:12 - Apr 28 with 792 views | BlueBadger |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 08:18 - Apr 28 by JakeITFC |
Well it’s true, isn’t it?
This lot have trashed the economy, broken their own laws and also killed ten of thousands of their own populace through incompetence in this term alone, but sit there with a huge majority relatively unchecked (whilst the opposition think a move to be more like these guys for a chance at winning seems to be the best plan rather than trying to change anything).
The public gets what the public wants. [Post edited 28 Apr 2022 8:58]
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Open bigotry, corruption, incompetence, criminality and sexually inappropriate behaviour is definitely what DaveU wants. | |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 09:31 - Apr 28 with 733 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 06:53 - Apr 28 by ElderGrizzly |
When you dig into the list of what passed it gets worse
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I have been banging on about the descent into fascism for months. Nobody does care. People look right through me when I say it to their face, and on here it registers with the same posters again and again, but the vast majority read it and say nothing.
These two measures are part of a much bigger picture which consists of undermining what were known as "the checks and balances of UK democracy" which underpin and guarantee our rights under our "unwritten Constitution" when I did my Economics and Public Affairs O Level.
The checks and balances were:
Freedom of the Press
Regular, fair, democratic Elections
The Right to Protest
Judiciary independent of Political control
Parliament overseeing the Executive
All being equal under the Law
A non-Politicised Police Force
A Constitutional Monarchy as Guarantor of these checks and balances
I can't be bothered to go into all the ways that each of these have been systematically undermined during the Tory rule of the last decade plus. But they all have. Repeatedly.
It is the secret lens that makes sense of everything. Whenever anything Tory is mentioned, ever, just ask "How does this undermine one of the checks and balances on Executive Powerthat were central to the British Democratic system?" and all will become clear.
The Mail running a story planted by an unnamed Tory about Angela Rayner's legs?
A story about an unnamed Tory looking at porn?
Both examples of Boris and Cummings favourite tool- the "Dead Cat Bounce" - which have ensured that NOBODY knew that these two votes were happening last night, including Opposition Peers.
In parallel to the above, Gove has been the ideologue masterminding the complete dismantling of the secondary tier of British Government, from Local Education Authorities (in the name of "Parental Choice") to the NHS (in the name of "Patient Choice").
The evil genius of all of this is that what takes a few months to tear down takes many years to rebuild, so even if the Labour Party is able to win at the next General Election* then they won't be able to re-establish even a fraction of what has been undone during Johnson's Premiership. And most of what they do re-establish will be checks and balances and scrutiny on them, which the Oligarch-owned Press will replay and amplify in lurid Technicolor.
And it "saves" money to shut down Education Authorities, but to re-build them will cost Billions and take years, for very little tangible short-term benefit.
I've said it before, but we have truly entered the Post-Democratic, Post-Truth Age. Whoever has the biggest megaphone wins.
Now, why on earth would anyone pay $44 Billion for Twitter?
*if there is a "next General Election. I read a Twitter post by a retired senior Whitehall Civil Servant last year in which he predicted that there won't be a General Election in 2024, that the logical conclusion of the undermining of the democratic system is that Elections will be superfluous, and a reason will be found to delay and postpone the next one. It would have been unthinkable that anyone could have written that even 5 years ago and not been considered unhinged. | | | |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 09:52 - Apr 28 with 700 views | Swansea_Blue |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 06:54 - Apr 28 by footers |
Boring! I like Boris' hair :D |
At least he knows how to eat a bacon sandwich!! Hurray for Boris. He's a good egg*.
(By that I mean a sociopathic authoritarian with no regard for the rule of law, moral standards or people he sees beneath him, which is everyone). |  |
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| A real Government scandal from last night… on 09:54 - Apr 28 with 695 views | Swansea_Blue |
| A real Government scandal from last night… on 09:31 - Apr 28 by ArnoldMoorhen |
I have been banging on about the descent into fascism for months. Nobody does care. People look right through me when I say it to their face, and on here it registers with the same posters again and again, but the vast majority read it and say nothing.
These two measures are part of a much bigger picture which consists of undermining what were known as "the checks and balances of UK democracy" which underpin and guarantee our rights under our "unwritten Constitution" when I did my Economics and Public Affairs O Level.
The checks and balances were:
Freedom of the Press
Regular, fair, democratic Elections
The Right to Protest
Judiciary independent of Political control
Parliament overseeing the Executive
All being equal under the Law
A non-Politicised Police Force
A Constitutional Monarchy as Guarantor of these checks and balances
I can't be bothered to go into all the ways that each of these have been systematically undermined during the Tory rule of the last decade plus. But they all have. Repeatedly.
It is the secret lens that makes sense of everything. Whenever anything Tory is mentioned, ever, just ask "How does this undermine one of the checks and balances on Executive Powerthat were central to the British Democratic system?" and all will become clear.
The Mail running a story planted by an unnamed Tory about Angela Rayner's legs?
A story about an unnamed Tory looking at porn?
Both examples of Boris and Cummings favourite tool- the "Dead Cat Bounce" - which have ensured that NOBODY knew that these two votes were happening last night, including Opposition Peers.
In parallel to the above, Gove has been the ideologue masterminding the complete dismantling of the secondary tier of British Government, from Local Education Authorities (in the name of "Parental Choice") to the NHS (in the name of "Patient Choice").
The evil genius of all of this is that what takes a few months to tear down takes many years to rebuild, so even if the Labour Party is able to win at the next General Election* then they won't be able to re-establish even a fraction of what has been undone during Johnson's Premiership. And most of what they do re-establish will be checks and balances and scrutiny on them, which the Oligarch-owned Press will replay and amplify in lurid Technicolor.
And it "saves" money to shut down Education Authorities, but to re-build them will cost Billions and take years, for very little tangible short-term benefit.
I've said it before, but we have truly entered the Post-Democratic, Post-Truth Age. Whoever has the biggest megaphone wins.
Now, why on earth would anyone pay $44 Billion for Twitter?
*if there is a "next General Election. I read a Twitter post by a retired senior Whitehall Civil Servant last year in which he predicted that there won't be a General Election in 2024, that the logical conclusion of the undermining of the democratic system is that Elections will be superfluous, and a reason will be found to delay and postpone the next one. It would have been unthinkable that anyone could have written that even 5 years ago and not been considered unhinged. |
Some of us care, but you're right that a shockingly large number of people don't seem to understand what they're doing or care.
It's no exaggeration to say they're trashing the place. | |
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