Land of Hope & Glory? - UK Politics and other stuff

Oh so now all the stories of how cool Truss was are coming out, after she had been kicked out of the premiership? How convenient

Traces of a suspected class A drug were found at a government grace-and-favour home after parties attended by political allies of Liz Truss, the Guardian has been told.

The white powder was discovered at the Chevening estate last summer in the days before Truss won the Tory leadership contest and became prime minister, according to sources.

A member of staff claimed they tested the powder using a swab which changes colour when it comes into contact with cocaine, and it indicated the drug was present

https://twitter.com/henrywismayer/status/1612531409339711488

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Carol Vorderman is a queen.
On radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show just now she absolutely ripped Rishi Sunak and Nadhim Zahawi over the tax-dodging bullshit.

She’s a useful grifter who used to do populist right wing talking points but more recently has jumped onto the anti-Tory bandwagon.

All I know is I liked what she said on a very popular radio show the other day. A lot more than others have done.

Can someone explain to an American what makes Lincolnshire different?

https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1619973831212544000

Rural Midlands white agricultural community that voted Brexit because it couldn’t adapt to Eastern Europeans coming to do hard work in the fields that the locals thought was beneath their dignity.

Also birthplace of Mrs Thatcher.

Fuck them. Send them back to the 17th century where they belong.

Be careful following this person - he was political editor of far right wing Murdoch rag The Sun for a decade - though if he’s posting news like this on the third anniversary of Brexit it’s a good sign.

Wasn’t following this person. It was retweeted by a center-left American journalist.

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In the end they lost 1/3 of their 3.3k seats and 60% of their 81 councils . Biggest winners were the Greens who doubled their seats to nearly 500 and took over their first ever council. Lib Dems also did well. Given Tory losses Labour gains slightly underwhelmed. They’ve still got 550 more councillors and run 22 more councils though.

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The Conservatives got badly beaten and spoils were spread around.

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Weird symmetry with Trump. Unfortunately this particular shitstain is definitely not going to prison and will never see any actual consequences (I still don’t expect Trump to either, though at least he’ll be arrested and charged)

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Evening Standard

It’s particularly dispiriting to find that this virtue-signalling turned woke-bullying has captured TfL and therefore the entire Underground network, so proudly symbolic of this country’s resistance to totalitarianism during the war

The woke bullying in question

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https://x.com/USAinUK/status/1750136728034169147?s=20

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As bad as US politics is the UK’s sounds worse

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