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Youngian wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:50 pm How’s Johnson viewed by the National Conservatives like Kruger and Cates? Fuck anything that moves when the wife’s not looking but is reprocreating the white race.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:46 pm I have a barely controllable urge to smack Andrew Bowie, the Tory MP popping up on the telly to discuss the by-election results, squarely in the teeth. Please help.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 5:04 pm Parliament votes for case law?

The man is a gibbering cretin.

Zac Goldsmith and Nadine Dorries urge voters to desert Tories: ‘The PM simply could not care less’

Zac Goldsmith and Nadine Dorries have launched a fresh attack on Rishi Sunak, urging anyone who cares about animal welfare to vote against the Conservatives at the next election.

Lord Goldsmith, a Tory peer and former environment minister, said anybody who “cares even one jot” about the issue should choose another party, claiming the prime minister “could not care less”.

He was backed by Ms Dorries, the former culture secretary and Boris Johnson ally, who echoed his call for animal welfare supporters to ditch the Tories.

Lord Goldsmith’s latest broadside against Mr Sunak comes months after he quit as a minister over the PM’s “apathy” toward climate change.

The influential Tory donors behind the JCB digger empire could be hit with a bill for more than £500m to settle a longrunning investigation by HM Revenue and Customs, the Guardian can reveal.

The investigation into Anthony Bamford, a Tory peer, and his brother Mark, the director of a subsidiary of the Conservative party, is understood to span a complex network of offshore tax havens and companies.

The inquiry is understood to be targeting efforts by the Bamford dynasty to aggressively minimise the payment of UK taxes and covers two decades...

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ax-inquiry

A Government minister has expressed regret that the Brexit referendum did not require a supermajority to pass.

Northern Ireland Office minister and leading Brexiteer Steve Baker made the comments as he suggested a “50 per cent plus one” majority would not be advisable for a vote on Irish unification.

The 2016 vote on leaving the European Union passed with a roughly 52 per cent-48 per cent split.

On Monday, Mr Baker told the 65th plenary of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (BIPA) that the referendum “probably should have been a supermajority” of at least 60 per cent.

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:40 pm Well... you utter, utter cunt.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/polit ... ty-361512/

A Government minister has expressed regret that the Brexit referendum did not require a supermajority to pass.

Northern Ireland Office minister and leading Brexiteer Steve Baker made the comments as he suggested a “50 per cent plus one” majority would not be advisable for a vote on Irish unification.

The 2016 vote on leaving the European Union passed with a roughly 52 per cent-48 per cent split.

On Monday, Mr Baker told the 65th plenary of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (BIPA) that the referendum “probably should have been a supermajority” of at least 60 per cent.

The Tories have created a new poverty – one so deep and vicious it requires Victorian vocabulary

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... y-politics