UK Politics Thread

[Jimbuna]

Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy has been appointed shadow foreign secretary in Keir Starmer's new shadow cabinet.

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Markus, the loony left ruined the party years ago and Corbyn was only the last straw.

I'm afraid we are stuck with the Tories for at least ten years but that imho is better than the current alternative on offer.

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

As the Labour is now out of the game, is there anyone else who could challenge Tories? What about LibDems? Do they have any chances ?

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by STEED

Keir (hair salon) Starmer's comment about another decade of austerity I find hard to believe. This situation is like nothing else we have faced since the 1918 pandemic and the world has changed a lot since then. I don't think anyone truly knows the economic outcome here and the rest of the world.

I would hint at this, the government has written off the NHS debt. I would say one possible situation start from scratch write off the world's debt. It's going to be a long bumpy road until the first thing is found the cure to the virus.

Agreed mate !

[skidman]

Originally Posted by STEED

I would say one possible situation start from scratch write off the world's debt.

One man's debt is another man's wealth:

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

Sir Keir Starmer has appointed former Labour leader Ed Miliband to his new shadow cabinet.

Mr Miliband, who led the party between 2010 and 2015, will now hold the role of shadow business secretary.

Sir Keir won the contest to lead the party on Saturday, after beating Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy.

He named Ms Nandy as his shadow foreign secretary on Sunday, and has now appointed Ms Long-Bailey as shadow education secretary.

Emily Thornberry, who failed to make it onto the final ballot in the leadership contest, will now become shadow international trade secretary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52187354

[Jimbuna]

A town mayor has apologised for saying Prime Minister Boris Johnson "completely deserves this" after he was admitted to intensive care.

Sheila Oakes, who is the mayor of Heanor in Derbyshire, made the comments below a Facebook post about the news.

The Amber Valley Labour Group said it had withdrawn the whip, meaning she is no longer a Labour councillor.

Ms Oakes has since apologised and accepted she "made a mistake".

In response to a post asking people to say a "little prayer" for the prime minister on Monday night, Ms Oakes had written: "Sorry, he completely deserves this and he is one of the worst PMs we've ever had."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-52198488

WHAT A TOTAL AND UTTER PRAT!

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

WHAT A TOTAL AND UTTER PRAT!

True, but he'll probably get better.

Just kidding, we'll see how all of this washes out next year.
Maybe the term "pandemic austerity" will be a thing.

[Jimbuna]

Boris Johnson is "responding to treatment" for coronavirus as he spends his third day in hospital.

The prime minister was being kept in St Thomas' Hospital in London "for close monitoring" and remained clinically stable, Downing Street said.

Downing Street said he was not working but could contact those he needed to.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52208156

[Catfish]

I could understand that some peope are a bit concerned.
We do not exactly know how many patients were infected by Boris Johnson when he shook all those hands everywhere, and in the hospital.
It was not the most clever thing to do, and there is a lot of hubris and boasting in his speech/video.

[Jimbuna]

There are other world leaders who acted similarly, the Dutch PM to name just one.

God only knows what they were thinking of and hopefully they are better at remembering their respective policies.

[Skybird]

Johnson lost me when in the earlier stage of Corona Rising he willed to let the pandemic just burn through the population at all cost. Granted, they later corrected that, but back then I compared that earlier attempt to mass murder, didn't I, and I still think of it as that, and I do not easily forget nor forgive Johnson's attitude back then. That now he gets the taste of what he initially was willing to hand a signficant share of the population over to, is nothing that sends even a single tear to my eyes. They say pain is the best of teachers. Maybe he learns something from the experience. People are no lab rats.

[JU_88]

Hardly SB, The virus will burn through the worlds population no matter what anyone can realstically do.

You cant lock everyone down for 2 years until it dies or debt burdened economies die (and that will kill many more people than the virus) the Lock down messures only slow it down /delay the spread, to make it more managable, they do not prevent it from existing.
You can lock down all your borders and put everyone in isolation, as soon as you lift them you will still have a pandemic.
Borris's intial 'let it burn' was stupid because it the NHS that would 'burn' in this case, not the amount of people who will go on to die from the virus which proabably wont change too much, you just maybe buy some of them a bit more time.
Lock down or not -you go to ICU on ventilation, there's a 4 out 5 chance you are not coming out alive.

[Jimbuna]

Boris Johnson’s health continues to improve in hospital, Downing Street has said after the PM spent his third night in intensive care.

A No 10 spokesman describe the prime minister as being in “good spirits” as he continues to receive care in St Thomas’ Hospital, London.