Today (Monday, July 3, 2023), it is raining. Cheer yourself up:
Feel better?
I hope so, because this week’s going to be a long one.
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This arises from the BBC’s Question Time on November 3, when a member of the public pointed out that Tory MPs can change their minds on any subject including their choice of prime minister, but the same MPs absolutely refuse to allow the people of the UK to change their minds about the most harmful decision ever made here: Brexit.
The economic harm caused by Brexit is already enormous and growing all the time – but the Tories insist on keeping it in place and perpetuating the damage it causes. Why?
Here’s the clip:
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Rishi Sunak will be crowned as the next Conservative leader and prime minister after Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the leadership contest at the last minute – and This Site predicted it last week.
1922 Committee chairman Graham Brady said: “We have received one valid nomination. Rishi Sunak is therefore elected as leader of the Conservative Party.”
There was thunderous applause:
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The Conservative Party is on its last legs because it is trying to accommodate too many factions, according to Russ Jones, author of popular Twitter item The Week In Tory (TWIT).
He writes:
The Tories are
1. One Nation Conservatives, who would be recognisable to Ken Clark, and are – at the margins – interchangeable with some Lib Dems. Mercer. Wallace
2. Xenophobic English nationalists, basically UKIP, obsessed with immigration and sovereignty, eg Braverman, Patel
5. Machine politicians attempting to hold all this together for no reason better than: they have nothing else in their lives, except for a psychotic belief that they alone deserve to rule. Gove or May, essentially
But every one of them has blown up the dreams of one of those 5 cohorts. Out of self-preservation they'll try to find a new leader 3/5 can just about live with until an election
Tories have been the longest-lasting and most successful political party in the world cos they're shape-shifters, and it's possible they'll try to do it again.
But my gut says: no. I suspect whoever is next will go down as the final PM of the UK Conservative Party.
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Money: Liz Truss had half a million pounds in funding for her Tory leadership campaign – almost twice the permitted amount. It came from hedge fund bosses, bankers and business leaders – the “status quo” that she warned against in her two-faced Conservative Party conference speech.
Remember this, from Liz Truss’s keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference, only yesterday?
Today we discover that, not only is it an option for her, but it was her first option when seeking funding for her campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party – and prime minister by default:
Liz Truss was given more than £500,000 for her leadership campaign, with about half of it coming from donors linked to hedge fund bosses, venture capitalists and other City financiers. https://t.co/W6FgZACee3
These are people who will now consider it their right to make demands of the UK’s prime minister, ensuring that she does what they tell her – because she owes them her job.
When Liz Truss suggests she's "challenging the status quo", it's worth remembering the super-rich donors who funded her leadership campaign, including: a billionaire (£25k donation), a city banker (£50k) and an ex-BP executive partner (£100k).
The prime minister, who has made a virtue of being pro-business and cutting taxes, saw a further round of donations declared on the register of MPs’ interests on Wednesday.
The second tranche of donations takes the amount she has received to more than £500,000 – way above the campaign spending limit of £300,000.
So she broke the campaign’s rules.
Doesn’t that make her candidacy invalid? Shouldn’t she be resigning right about now, rather than jetsetting around the world on a prime ministerial jolly?
Boris Johnson: could this be the last time Vox Political uses this image to signify Boris Johnson’s contempt for us all?
This Writer was going to put together a video compilation of Boris Johnson’s prime ministerial career – but Led By Donkeys has done it already.
I would query whether it is wise to have said that Johnson repeatedly lied about whether lockdown rules were broken at the now-infamous Downing Street parties, as this is something that is currently being determined in an inquiry by the Commons Privileges Committee.
Other than that, with so many of his blunders and corruptions linked together in this short film, it’s a shocking revelation of what can happen when an unprincipled thug is given ultimate power in the UK by a deceived electorate.
Here’s the clip:
How can we stop this from happening again?
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Liz Truss: being prime minister is a big job – but she looks smaller than the podium where she accepted it.
Reactions to the election of Liz Truss as the Conservative prime minister are rolling in – and they appear universally negative (although sometimes you have to read/listen between the lines.
Admittedly, the first clip is from before the result was announced: Joe Lycett’s appearance on former BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg’s new Sunday morning show.
It’s summed up nicely by Maximilien Robespierre here:
Mr Lycett then turned up on Times Radio to explain the meaning of his outburst (presumably for the hard-of-thinking, so he was in exactly the right place):
Following her election, Russell Kane’s comment will be hard to beat. Brace yourself, though, because the language on display here isn’t just near the knuckle; it’s knuckle-shredding:
Among politicians, the Labour Party’s response has focused on Truss’s attitude to working people – and it’s not good:
This seems supported by Truss’s apparent keenness to support the rich. Her solution to the cost of living crisis is not to help the people who are actually facing serious difficulty, but to give huge amounts of money to those who are already extremely rich! This is from Robespierre again:
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said if Truss governs in the same way she has campaigned, she’ll be a disaster for the United Kingdom. Here’s more analysis from Robespierre:
You can see how this has been going.
Fortunately, James O’Brien has a reason for it – he thinks Liz Truss is an android:
Possibly the nastiest comment on Liz Truss becoming prime minister relates to Home Secretary Priti Patel, who has announced that she is quitting, and going to the backbenches, before Truss sacks her anyway.
Patel insisted that leaving government was “her choice” – but it’s clear that she’s leaving ahead of Truss’s boot.
Nevertheless, Patel demanded that Truss must back “all aspects” of the policies she had put in place on illegal migration – which makes no sense at all; if Truss wanted rid of Patel then it’s because she doesn’t like Patel’s work – right?
Well, that would be the case normally. But it could just be that Truss doesn’t like Patel. So the nasty comment could refer to either Patel or Truss herself, for potentially putting personal distaste over professional respect.
(Even though Patel doesn’t deserve any respect at all.)
All in all – well, you can draw your own conclusions, can’t you?
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Liz Truss is the new leader of the Conservative Party – and prime minister of the country.
Tory members have replaced a liar with a fool. Prepare for a barrage of daft policy announcements – with nothing for you.
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The offending article: it isn’t a shadow – it’s a device. Was somebody feeding Boris Johnson answers via this earphone [Image from the eagle-eyed Skwawkbox]?
Was Boris Johnson wearing an earphone in his right ear during Prime Minister’s Questions today (June 3)?
If so, who was on the other end and what were they saying to him?
Mechanical aids are forbidden to the PM when he is taking his questions from other members of Parliament. He is expected to be fully briefed before he enters the Commons Chamber – not while proceedings are taking place.
The people of the UK should certainly expect the Speaker’s Office to carry out an investigation into the nature of the device and the purpose to which it was put.
If Johnson needed help, then it shows he isn’t even capable of carrying out the most basic duties of a prime minister.
In that case, it will be time for a vote of ‘no confidence’.
UPDATE: Skwawkbox is now showing video evidence which suggests Johnson was not wearing a device in his ear. It seems the appearance of a dark object in his right ear, in the image above, is only indicative of the void between it and his left ear after all. But what do you think?
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How can Boris Johnson show his face on the election trail when he may face criminal charges as part of the Vote Leave campaign?
That is the big question. Some may deny it – but they’ll be the ones who say Labour is a disgrace for being investigated by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission over trumped-up allegations of anti-Semitism. Hypocrisy?
It is true that Mr Johnson will be among those implicated in the criminal evidence that has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service by the Metropolitan Police after a 16-month investigation.
Vote Leave has denied any wrongdoing but the formal referral by the police means they are seeking advice on how to build the case against that organisation, and where they need further evidence to advance the prospect of charges being brought.
In practise, this means any actual prosecution is still a long way away.
But the timing could not be worse for Mr Johnson.
It links his – and chief adviser Dominic Cummings – to possible criminal charges at a time when he is trying to pretend he is trustworthy enough to lead the United Kingdom.
And of course, this is also a time when he has failed to achieve Brexit on the date he said he would.
Worse still, it comes after the Met dropped an investigation into rival Leave campaign Leave.EU, fronted by Arron Banks, due to a lack of evidence. The fact that an investigation against Mr Johnson’s team is still ongoing is even more damning in contrast with that.
Most damning of all is the fact that Mr Johnson is trying to fight a Brexit election based on a campaign won through potentially criminal activity. He is harming the integrity of the electoral system by continuing to stand as a candidate.
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