[Nigredo]

Jesus was the original woke beardie yogurt knitter.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I'm a fan of his ideas, not of his fans.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This one may be for the religious nutters thread
I’ve always found the phrase “the Tory party at prayer” an interesting one; I get the middle England, Christian thing, and turbulent priests aside, none too challenging for said demographic and allows them to feel good about themselves. However, cursory glance at how a good proportion of those who follow the Church of Rome in Britain think and what they believe in, will reveal thinking much in line with current Tory views on how they want society to react. JRM is a very much a thin end of the wedge, there are some quite extreme views out there, which don’t necessarily fit with a fair and just society

I don't know if the Rees Mogg stuff works here. It does, for conservatives anyway, work in America, where a Rees Mogg would fit straight in on abortion. Compare that with Johnson trying to stop abortion pills and having 72 of his own MPs tell him to fuck off.

[Bones McCoy]

This one may be for the religious nutters thread
I’ve always found the phrase “the Tory party at prayer” an interesting one; I get the middle England, Christian thing, and turbulent priests aside, none too challenging for said demographic and allows them to feel good about themselves. However, cursory glance at how a good proportion of those who follow the Church of Rome in Britain think and what they believe in, will reveal thinking much in line with current Tory views on how they want society to react. JRM is a very much a thin end of the wedge, there are some quite extreme views out there, which don’t necessarily fit with a fair and just society

Odd, isn't it.
The Tory ranks in the C of E haemorrhaged devotees to Catholicism in the wake of something liberal that they disapproved of.
Now they find themselves at even greater odds with the Pope.

The Tory Party at Prayerwas an old idea, in recent generations it served the Turnip Taliban types to get their offspring into the nice school.

[Boiler]

Just when you'd forgotten about her

[Youngian]

Why did these people have to fall into the clutches of Mr Big to buy a rubber dinghy? The British state is now the chief people trafficker.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yep.

If you're interested in how bad this was, see here.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2 ... nChallenge

[Andy McDandy]

It was straight out of Years and Years. Object to her, question her, and you're a racist who wants kids to drown.

[Nigredo]

Wasn't she literally trying to change the law a couple of months ago so the coast guard wouldn't be liable for murder if they sank a refugee raft in the channel?

[Boiler]

I've just read Hansard.

I need to bathe in bleach now.

[Nigredo]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 62471.html

It's gone down well with the troops

[davidjay]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 62471.html

It's gone down well with the troops

She and her supporters will see that as further proof that the swamp has to be drained.

[satnav]

It looks like the people of Linton on Ouse are not to thrilled with Priti Patel

[url][https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2022- ... QZRJFY/url]

[Youngian]

What any of that means in practice I have no idea

Another added: "I moved here six months ago for a quiet family life. I’ve got a four year old boy and a baby. Why do I have to feel like my family is a prisoner in their own home while everyone who comes here can do anything they want."

[davidjay]

as well as fears that their house prices could suffer.

[Samanfur]

Those pesky activist lawyers and judges're frustrating the government and The Will of the People (TM) again:

Priti Patel abandons ‘pushbacks’ in Channel days before legal challenge

Priti Patel has abandoned her plan to use pushbacks in the Channel days before the policy was set to be challenged in the High Court.

Correspondence from the government legal department on Sunday night states that the Home Office had withdrawn the policy due to the fact that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was taking over operations in the Channel.

The judicial review claims, lodged by the PCS Union, Care4Calais, Freedom from Torture and Channel Rescue, have now been withdrawn, with the Home Office having agreed to pay the claimants costs.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The legal case must have been really shit. They passed up on a day in court with an "activist judge" who could no doubt have been tied to Tony Blair or Sir Keir in an ingenious way.

[Boiler]

I heard that yet again, Pritler was refusing to accept interventions from Yvette Cooper yesterday...

[Crabcakes]

I’m certain she is too ignorant and too stupid to see what’s happening here, but Priti Patel could do a lot worse to note that she is just as likely to be on the unpleasant end of the consequences of her policies as any other non-member of the middle aged white boys ex-Eton club.

[mattomac]

Only people who win in this race to the bottom is white straight males