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Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:30 pm She may actually be a psychopath.

Her appointment as AG, like Nads to DCMS, reeked of "You thought you saw the last of me!" energy. Here's the one you mocked, back and now in charge.

If I were feeling charitable I'd guess that she was driven from an early age to succeed, but didn't have either the aptitude or the will to do so. That she slumped into "getting by", while convinced that she should be further ahead. And contentment turned into resentment and conviction that her limited experience was in fact some sort of amazing insight. "Passing off their limitations as pious platitudes", as Richard Harris put it.

Watchman wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:44 am That's all the likes of Anderson have got left, and that's to a shrinking audience

Loyalty now might earn a transfer to a safe southern seat, or a place in the lords.

Not sure if anyone else here is watching Andor on Disney+ (highly recommended by the way, even for non sci-fi or Star Wars fans), but there are a LOT of parallels between the budding fascist bureaucrats of the early Empire and the current cabinet. Braverman in particular could fit right in.

It really shows the true villains aren’t the obvious evil dudes, but the emotionless pen-pushers and sociopaths who follow in their wake.

Often the case in the 70s and 80s Doctor Who

If a civil servant had done this they would at least have been fired.

Ann Widdecombe got the brushback from the Tory faithful for suggesting similar 22 years ago. Who’s Braverman’s target demographic for this policy in 2022? Perhaps its a racist dog whistle I’m not hearing. As it won’t be white boys stopped and searched.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:50 pm Ann Widdecombe got the brushback from the Tory faithful for suggesting similar 22 years ago. Who’s Braverman’s target demographic for this policy in 2022? Perhaps its a racist dog whistle I’m not hearing. As it won’t be white boys stopped and searched.

Playing well with the usual suspects on the phone-ins.

It's all "throw the book at 'em" until little Hugo gets busted at his university halls.

A law to punish those who can't afford an expensive brief.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:20 pm

Playing well with the usual suspects on the phone-ins.

It's all "throw the book at 'em" until little Hugo gets busted at his university halls.

A law to punish those who can't afford an expensive brief.

I would think that's a shift that may have happened already, though they might nonetheless want the "pusher" chucked in the Tower.

I've no idea who this is supposed to appeal to.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:31 pm

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:20 pm

Playing well with the usual suspects on the phone-ins.

It's all "throw the book at 'em" until little Hugo gets busted at his university halls.

A law to punish those who can't afford an expensive brief.

I would think that's a shift that may have happened already, though they might nonetheless want the "pusher" chucked in the Tower.

I've no idea who this is supposed to appeal to.

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Let's start random drug tests on MPs and see how long any of this nonsense lasts.

Great work here.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sun Oct 09, 2022 4:50 pm Who’s Braverman’s target demographic for this policy in 2022?

I’m not sure she even has one outside of simply wanting to make something illegal so she can have a crackdown.

Oh I think she will “encourage” the Met to pick its own target groups

Watchman wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 7:53 am Oh I think she will “encourage” the Met to pick its own target groups

That may be harder now that the Met is Dickless.

Saying the quiet part aloud again:

Suella's been running a leadership campaign from before the mini-budget. Is it just me, or is she cranking it up? This doesn't sound to me like somebody who'll step aside for Sunak or whoever.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:29 pm Suella's been running a leadership campaign from before the mini-budget. Is it just me, or is she cranking it up? This doesn't sound to me like somebody who'll step aside for Sunak or whoever.

It really is time for grown-ups to take charge at Westminster.

Just imagine any MP, let alone a Home Secretary, saying that in the Commons pre-2016.

"Forces of anarchy: wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters....."