Re: Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister
 

Sunak (and the Tory Party) have really missed an opportunity to have a chance at the next GE. He could have moved the Party back towards the centre ground, reaching out to the One Nation Conservatives (what is left of them) and consciously repositioned the trajectory of the next two years so he could have something to fight Starmer with.

Instead, he is just trolling us, continuing the right-wing journey that preceded him. By appointing:

- Badenoch, anti-trans and anti-equal marriage "culture war" hero as Minister for Women and Equalities
- Braverman, a facist-wannabe who is proud of her mission to remove our freedoms
- Coffey, in charge of the environment ... just think what damage this witless idiot can cause here
- Hunt, who is actively designing Austerity 2.0 as we speak

The list goes on ..

Just to be clear, by far the worst appointment is Braverman. She will go first I suspect. It is also remarkable how people who you may have thought were rationale, objective thinkers stand up an applaud such a person. It shows how much this country has changed regards its politics and what people are comfortable in now saying out loud.

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After the last 6 months I don't trust any of this particular newish set of faces to actually do anything different to the ways they have slipped into over the last 10-12 years.It's going to be business as usual to grab as much lolly as possible before possibly tory light Starmer possibly gets a chance.

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Absolute Tosh.

What has she said that is anti-trans?
Presuming you actually know what the word fascist means, which I doubt. Explain to me how she is a fascist and what freedoms she is removing?
I can't think of anything, what damage do you think she can do?
Well someone has to.

Typical baseless rant, this isn't twitter you know.

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She didn't ring local council leaders in England either

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8z...n-leaked-audio

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It was an honest mistake to copy in the wrong person from her personal email account.

But it was clearly a deliberate action to email the document to her personal Gmail account and then use that account to circulate the document.

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Re: Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister
 

If you want to be generous - and I’m not really but to be the devil’s advocate - he has no real mandate from the country or membership. A couple of MPs with a dozen or so friends each could collapse his Premiership sooner rather than later.

Essentially the problem is the Conservative party as a whole.

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Rishi Sunak delays fiscal statement until 17 November.


https://www.theguardian.com/politics...il-17-november

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Agreed but the fact he has no mandate, from anyone, is self-evident. The point I was making is the missed opportunity which now will make Starmer's life easier.

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For the sake of a balanced discussion … he has a mandate from the one place he actually needs one. From the King, acting on advice, that he’s the one most likely to enjoy the confidence etc etc etc.

At the risk of taking this off on a tangent, I’m curious to hear other posters’ ideas for how this system should be reformed. Because it seems to me that simply holding another general election doesn’t actually address the claimed problem (we don’t elect a prime minister and it’s clear from detailed polling and regional variations in people’s reasons for voting for various candidates that most people understand that’s not what they’re doing).

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Calm down dear, just because the truth is uncomfortable, it does not mean it is wrong.

Regarding the new (again) Home Secretary, here is her recent signature piece that would not be out of place in Putins's Russia or North Korea:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/pub...-anti-protest/

So true:

The fact that Sunak has re-appointed her means he is complicit in this (continuing) lurch to the right.

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All of those grounds are things a judge would have to review before deciding whether to grant an injunction. The bill empowers the Home Secretary to ask, not to act.

Presumably there’s some addendum to Godwin’s Law aimed at people who have totally devalued the word ‘fascism’ by using it against anyone minded to believe the police should have the power to ensure public safety rather than simply carrying a bottle of Loctite De-Bonder on their belt loops.

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Which, ironically, is what makes it so flimsy.

Even if we accept there is no better system (which I doubt, but that’s an aside) it doesn’t change the challenges he faces sitting behind him in the chamber due to the circumstances of his appointment, rather than election. His party membership voted for someone else a mere seven weeks ago.

Just as well he’s not leading a left wing socialist Government in South America or an oil rich one in the Middle East. It’d be grounds for US intervention.

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I’m no Sunak fan, I still think a GE should have happened. But we are, where we are. I do think in PMQs he gave Starmer a pasting, Starmer tried to attack him on the Nom-dom issue, but Sunak just threw it back regarding Starmer being the guy propping up Putin apologist, Jeremy Corbyn.