UK Politics Thread

[Jimbuna]

The grassroots group Momentum - set up to support Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party - looks set to begin a consultation of its members on its Brexit stance, ahead of the party's conference in Liverpool next month.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45300521

This could prove 'interesting'

[Jimbuna]

A newspaper has published details of one of the complaints of sexual harassment made against Alex Salmond.

The Daily Record claims to have seen the wording of an allegation by a Scottish government staff member.

She alleges the former first minister touched her bottom and breasts through her clothing while she was alone with him at Bute House, the paper reports.

Mr Salmond strenuously denies the claims and insists he has never sexually harassed anyone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-45307158

Could this slippery fish have been finally caught out of the water?

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45300521

This could prove 'interesting'

Momentum is slowly taking control, question is will they have more power than the days of the unions controlling labour?

[Jimbuna]

I very much doubt it because they will never be able to match the numbers of people with that of trade union membership.

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The Liberal Democrat's Sir Vince Cable is to announce a shake-up of the party's rules, in a move that could see someone who is not an MP become leader.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45313399


What is this fruitcake on? Lets say the LibDems win the next general election are they going to tell the voters your next PM is unelected?


Yes i know the chance is good as zero but lets just say this did happen. I for one would be saying no you don't.

[Jimbuna]

A party leader is not an automatic MP or vice versa.

Nigel Farage is an earlier example.

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The People's Vote campaign, which wants a new referendum on Brexit, is attempting to change Labour Party policy, according to a leaked memo.

It wants MPs and activists to submit a motion at the Labour conference next month, committing the party to backing a new referendum on the final deal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45316697

Roll on next March I'm bored with Brexit. Everyone is jumping on this one, only today i was reading the BBC News the Grand National could be hit by Brexit! What bloody next the British weather could suffer from Brexit!

[Jimbuna]

Jeremy will not be pleased.

[Jimbuna]

Nicola Sturgeon has said there is "no legal basis" to suspend Alex Salmond from the SNP amid allegations of sexual harassment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-45315001

Can't say I'm surprised by her statement.

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Electric shock collars for cats and dogs will be banned in England, the government has announced.
The training devices deliver up to 6,000 volts of electricity or spray noxious chemicals to control animals' behaviour.
Environment secretary Michael Gove said this causes unacceptable "harm and suffering".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45320038


And about bloody time, bloody barbaric thing should never had been allowed in the first place.

[Jimbuna]

Agree with the ban but I'd be thinking about using them on human offenders (insert type of crime here).

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Theresa May pledges Africa investment boost after Brexit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45325701



And we get to buy spears and shields, i got my order in ready for the riots to come next year.

[Jimbuna]

A former chief rabbi says Jeremy Corbyn's comments about British Zionists are the "most offensive statement" by a politician since Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech.

In an interview with the New Statesman, Lord Sacks accused the Labour leader of being an "anti-Semite".

A video from 2013 of Mr Corbyn accusing British Zionists of having "no sense of English irony" emerged last week.

A Labour Party spokesman called Lord Sacks's comment "absurd and offensive".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45333268

On the contrary, I would say it is Corbyns comments that are "absurd and offensive".

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There was a time MP's would step down knowing their career was over for making offensive comments. Clearly those days are over, this has been dragging on for months and still Jezzer sits on the Labour throne.

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FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON UNITED KINGDOM!

Scallop war: French and British boats clash in Channel

French and British fishermen have clashed in the English Channel in an escalating battle over scallops.

About 40 French boats tried to stop five larger British boats from fishing 12 nautical miles (22km) off the Normandy coast, in the Bay of Seine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45337091

Where is our PM, this is a crises and she's dancing in Africa!