:tories: Tories in trouble?

Andrew Rawnsley writes “Even its authors agree this is an appalling scandal. So why has no one resigned?”

The main thing I learnt from that article is a new word - ‘banjax’

Good word. I learnt that Rawnsley is another “friend of Israel”. Why list all the ministers that were forced to quit and why, except for one(unrelated reasons)?

Pie is on form today.

“Good slogan for the local elections”

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I think he was describing my northern relatives - several of them actually work in Greggs.

A good vid, but very disappointed he didn’t mention banjaxing.

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That is excellent

It would make a very good advert for the local elections(maybe have to lose the swearing) and timely reminder of the hate and division that the present government rely on.

They really fucked up picking on these people. It can’t be forgotten and i doubt it will. A lot of older people will know someone in this situation and for younger people, it’s their own friends parents and grandparents. That’s going to stick.

Maybe…the only issue with that is that this isnt new news but it’s only just coming to the public eye. Maybe people don’t care? Maybe they’d be glad to get rid of some blacks?

I got to that stage when we voted for Brexit.

The country is broken, and full of cunts.

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Nice summing up of PMQs

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There’s a Tory in trouble on QT tonight. Some prick called Matt Hancock talking utter shit and doing it whilst looking rather shifty with Qs about Windrush.

Just for Cherts :lou_wink_2::

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lol. Did he miss anything?

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Something that hasn’t been mentioned much in the coverage of the Home Office debacle and Amber Rudd’s handling of the situation is that she’s sitting on a wafer thin majority in Hastings. She currently has a majority of 346 over Labour. I know the election is still some distance away, but I would imagine all this furore will come back to haunt her…

this guy is my hero

So Rudd lies to parliament to protect herself and May, who has already lied to Parliament about her role in this nasty fascist policy. Both have tendered their resignation by now i assume?

But it gets worse when you consider the choice of the word vaken. They do seem to be going out of their way to silence anyone that objects to term nazi, when describing the government of the last 8 years.

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To be honest, 52% of the population probably agree with Windrush, so that probably helps.

Oh, and an ineffective opposition.

Did the tories(+ukip) get that percentage of the vote in any election from 2010? Bit of a push to blame people that didn’t vote for them.

Oh, and an ineffective opposition.

A compliant media is the problem there, as the last election showed. How did it end up like this?

Well, it’s crunch time for Amber Rudd tomorrow in the Commons. The dripfeed of revelation over the weekend has not been helpful, whether it was the former immigration minister revealing that the Tories spent millions trying to get a ten percent increase in “removals” (how disgustingly Orwellian, making it sound like a change of house), their term for enforced deportation.

However uncomfortable it might make the government, this crisis has not worn well on the Home Secretary, and there’s no reason it should. Her real crime in all of this is not living up to her liberal tagline, gleefully going about extending Theresa May’s agenda, then pretending that she knew fuck all about any of it.

The Tories’ latest ploy is to try and break the issue into two separate issues, Windrush, which they’re really sorry for, and the pursuit of illegal immigrants, which they’re really not sorry about. It’s a complete nonsense; the two are completely related especially when you spot the glue of typical Tory simplification and underfunding, leaving Home Office reports to damningly use terms like “low hanging fruit”.

The Windrush generation were that low hanging fruit, their rights brought low when the Tory government of 2010 destroyed any record of whether they were British citizens in the first place, shaken from the lofty canopy of being a full British citizen to someone fighting for survival, someone that cannot get NHS treatment, or return home after a holiday to Jamaica or St. Lucia.

It’s a fucking disgrace, and the only question in my mind is which party has disgraced themselves the most.

The government, for implementing the policy and attempting to explain it in this way; Michael Gove’s notion that this is just a Labour plot to deflect attention from antisemitism allegations is perhaps the most laughable, especially as the Conservatives are politically aligned with parties that openly express antisemitic views in the European Parliament.

Or the media, for not knocking the obvious underarm bowl, and this government, out for six.

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