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[Hiberno-Britannic Politics] - This Place Is Not A Place Of Honour
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I've long since given up on legislation being stupid and illegal being a good enough reason not to do it.
Which, y'know, feels absolutely fucking ghoulish. Yeah, everyone's just frittering away their money, it's not like a huge number of sectors have seen a substantial pay drop in real terms over the last ten years or anything.
Wars are about dehumanising the other side in order to kill them. Duh. Everybody does it, but this is a propaganda win for the Taliban since it makes the British Army look bad for admitting it, so is an issue.
Meh. Spare just feels like public therapy and selfishly good for Harry but fuck you everybody else. And also it's all very contradictory - he says he's upset by the lack of privacy and then goes on a billion talk shows. Blames the press for his mother's death but wants them to promote his book. Says he doesn't want titles, but is pressuring for his kids to have them. He says he wants to be back together again with William and his dad, but if he wrote that about me in public I'd burn him. I don't know what he's trying to achieve except money. Sad really.
But yeah - he's not wrong about war - militaries literally train their soldiers to overcome the builtin 'don't kill your own species' programming nature. There's a reason actual cold-blooded murder is pretty rare relatively and it's not the legal system (deterrants don't work - see the death penalty).
Acknowledging that you killed people in combat situations isnt notching your rifle or glorifying it, and neither is it admitting to war crimes.
I also think talking about the exact number adds some context that he was actually running missions and not just put in a bunker in the background.
MWO: Adamski
Thats the thing that gets me too. I can believe that these things happened (though, I'm sure he did an equal share of shitty things too, because most of them sound pretty close to standard family issues level of shittiness. Sibling Rivalry, Dad can't deal with mums death, older parent can't help young child process grief, step mother finds issues integrating into family, etc) but you can't out those things to the world and say you dream of reconciliation and want privacy. You have to pick. You can say, "Fuck it, I just want to have lots of cash, not be a royal, and sell my story" and thats fine, but, privacy and tell all books are mutually exclusive.
To the specific point, as I've said, is just people pretending to get the vapors at the sausage making in order to score political points. It does bear mentioning though.
Now I don't think this is all some grand marketing masterplan, but a little brother vs brother is probably the best that could happen to the British monarchy, PR wise.
No sweat off his back
First up, Sunak looks to add another fixed penalty notice to his collection. This time it's for not wearing a seatbelt while in a moving car - the evidence being that he filmed it and put it on instagram.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/19/sunak-apologises-for-failing-to-wear-seatbelt-while-filming-in-car
It also comes as no surprise that the tories are also directing substantially more 'levelling up' money at their own seats. After all, Sunak boasted about diverting money away from deprived areas when campaigning for leader, now it's being made abundantly clear that the tories are only interested in pork-barrel spending.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/19/tory-seats-gain-more-4bn-levelling-up-fund-finds-analysis
What strikes me about Sunak is that he's just really, really bad at all of this. John Crace had an opinion piece that covered it pretty well: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/18/the-incredible-shrinking-man-rishi-sunaks-gut-reaction-is-always-wrong
I am darkly amused by the blatant level-up money going south. All those idiots that voted for Tories in the North over Labour because Brexit/Corbyn get to find out how stupid they were. Don't like Corbyn? Well newsflash at least he didn't hate you and laugh at you. Expecting the scorpion not to sting them was fucking stupid and I hope they have learned their lesson. Meanwhile, their fellow voters continue to suffer. RRggghh stupid voting makes me so angry - real people suffer because idiots vote without thinking.
Can't believe we are stuck with Sunak for 2 years. Althought it's making Boris Bouncing Back more likely. *sigh* recent politics really has worn me down.
There's a good video from Matt Green (who is funny but also sadly very accurate) about the current situation:
Now he just needs to get a speeding ticket and he'll have a trio of fines to his name!
What if the country was run by the Deloitte graduate scheme kid
Not even close to a good option, but all the others seemed worse.
(Assuming that silly ideas like a general election weren't actually options)
Good and talented are two different adjectives. I'd say Johnson was talented in some respects. It's not easy to spend that much time in a walk-in wearing normal clothes, for one.
The Times are reporting that Richard Sharp, the BBC chairmain appointed by Johnson, helped to arrange a guarantee on a £800k loan for Johnson (to cover his 'living expenses') a few weeks before the appointment was made. It's pretty open corruption and if there was any justice at all most of Johnson's cabinet would be facing criminal investigation by now. The BBC itself has been entirely captured by the tories and cannot be considered impartial anymore. Sharp should be forced to resign immediately as a result of this revelation, but he won't. I predict zero consequences for anyone involved. The article is paywalled unfortuantely, but can be found here:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-bbc-chairman-the-prime-minister-and-the-800-000-loan-guarantee-f7nt5kfml
If you're not familiar with Sharp, may I present the remarks he made late last year where he criticized Emily Maitlis (who had left by this point), declared that the BBC had "a liberal bias" and insisted that they were "fighting against it".
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/03/bbc-chairman-criticises-emily-maitlis-newsnight-comments-on-dominic-cummings
There really is just too much shit coming from these cretins to keep up with. We've yet to even mention Zahawi's tax affairs after all...
Rishi Sunak orders ethics probe into Nadhim Zahawi tax row Well, glad that's all sorted out. I'm sure there will be consequences at an unspecified point in the future when everyone has forgotten about this.
(no, I didn't copy paste the same response by accident)
The merit being, of course, that he had 800k with Boris' name on it.
Steam | XBL
I think you'll find that if you actually read their editorials, they would all have been sent to Corbyn's allotment gulags before something like this could have come out, so there would be no one left to report on...anything.
Pretty sure this was covered in the prospective "first 100 days of Corbyn" articles.
Gallerman?
Brasserman?
Cheekerman?
Racisterman?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/revealed-scores-of-child-asylum-seekers-kidnapped-from-home-office-hotel
Nice little circle of buck passing
Also that Rwanda policy could contribute
Pretty shocking all round.
A shame it probably won't happen, and his bill will most likely be blocked.
The Tories would/could never accept any kind of recall mechanism, that would make too much democratic sense for their facist-shitbag-addled brains.
They'll hold onto power until the last second; even as the country collapses from years of incompetent/corrupt Tory rule.
But yes, I wish we could force a general election. I am just sickened each day by the news of further corruption and incompetence.
Hence Tory efforts to make us all poor and unable to get out of work or risk losing our homes or heating and the act of protesting itself illegal.
The Lib Dems are a political party. The tweet is timestamped at 12:11pm, 26 Jan 2023.
Attached image, spoilered for big.
Steam | XBL
We're in the advanced stage of collapsing government now. The Tories know they're not winning the next election so they're just going to speedrun evil with little to no consideration of the optics.
The priority now is looting and pillaging along with burning everything down and salting the earth for the next Labour government.
Works for our bunch over here.
Investigations aren't supposed to find extremely clear evidence and come to obvious conclusions quickly, what's going on?
Stories started coming out that Sunak knew back in October about potential issues.
So if you’re wondering how this investigation was over so quickly, then it’s because they already did it 3 months ago and thought nobody would call them up on it.