UK Politics Thread

[Jimbuna]

Labour leadership: Who are the party's affiliate groups backing?

Jewish Labour Movement
Established: 1903 (known as Poale Zion until 2004)
Estimated membership: 4,000

Aims: The group lists among its goals promoting Labour or "socialist Zionism" as the movement for self-determination of the Jewish people within the state of Israel, working for democratic socialism in the UK and Israel, maintaining Jewish identity and supporting the rights of Jews everywhere, and applying "Jewish ethical principles to create a society based on social justices".

It also says it aims "to fight anti-Semitism, racism and all forms of discrimination and racial hatred, to oppose the activities of fascist, racist and anti-Semitic groups," and "to promote the centrality of Israel in Jewish life." Recently, the movement has been critical of the Labour leadership's handling of anti-Semitism under Jeremy Corbyn. They balloted their membership on which candidates to back.

Which candidates are they backing?

Leader: Lisa Nandy

Deputy: Ian Murray

[STEED]

Labour leadership: Emily Thornberry eliminated from race

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51505547

Rebecca is one step closser today.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

Now this is a good read if you're interested in finding out what makes Dominic Cummings tick.

Dominic Cummings and the battle for Downing Street.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/09j...downing_street

[Catfish]

Interesting, yes. Not convinced of his overwhelming intelligence though, more like a spoilt child.
If his "beliefs" expressed in this article are correct he is in the wrong party.

"Take (back) control" seems to fit also for himself. It somehow looks as if he has not found a real belief yet.

[Jimbuna]

A bit more about Mr Cummings.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49101464

[Catfish]

Whatever - the english people have been thorougly un-political, and i guess this will now change after they saw which consequences a second of disinterest can have. England and the UK are divided as never before.

edit: just read this article above, and some others. Cummings probably even means well (at least what he thinks is "well"), he is also a crazy egomanic and a stick-in-the-mud nationalist. What does he think a strictly english ARPA could provide that would not work tenfold better together with the european union.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/0...-british-arpa/

England is out now (or in a year ok..) and maybe the scientific international community will go on exchanging like before, but after this toxic brexit show and people like Johnson and Cummings there might be a bit of reservation.
This is all so backwards.

[Moonlight]

Dominic Cummings is making too many enemies in high places to stay as a Downing Street special adviser for too long. What concerns me most however is how much damage will he do while he still has this svengali like power over Bozo Johnson.
Spend, spend, spend Bozo must not be allowed to squander the nation’s wealth on vainglorious projects that will be obsolete before they are even built and, just who is going to benefit from this HS2 debacle I ask? ah yes the London commuters that's who.
£106 billion just so some commuters can save 20 minutes on their bleeding train journey, I have a radical idea for you Bozo and that's scrap this white elephant and tell those bloody commuters to catch an earlier train, there you go, I've just saved you all that cash which can be used for regenerating the North.
Can I have a job Bozo? I have lots of ideas on how to save money, cut waste and even to increase the chancellors revenue as well, that Cummings pillock is just playing at being a useful idiot whereas I'm the real deal old boy.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

‘Fighting like ferrets in a bag’ as EU tries to plug Brexit cash hole

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...id=mailsignout

Sky, have you read this?

[Moonlight]

However these talks are finally decided between “the Frugals” and the “Friends of Cohesion” its going to have long lasting repercussions for both sides.
There should have been a framework of 15 to 20 years put in place for each country who joined the EU to get their houses financially organised and that way every member would have reaped the benefits. As it stands now the few are paying for the many which is unsustainable and it will lead to division and strife and may even cause the breakup of the union.

[STEED]

I have no faith in the UK & EU talks which as I see it as it stands no deal. The EU will have it hands full plugging the money hole, today's politicians are just a shower unfit to shovel poop in a zoo which they will screw up.

[Moonlight]

The UK now has a former Goldman Sachs man as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I don't want a former hedge fund manager as a Chancellor as those bankers have caused enough damage in the UK, any notion that this will end well for the man in the street is deeply misplaced.

Let's have a quick look behind that smug gits mush shall we.
Rishi Sunak.
Educated at Winchester Private boys school, then on to Oxford University and then Stanford University, former hedge fund manager at Morgan Stanley and married to a billionairess.

Ooooooh Bozo, he ticks all the right boxes doesn't he, privileged, entitled, ethnic minority and now a fully paid up member of the establishment, how can he convince the working class people of the UK that he cares about them whilst he's making plans to bleed them dry?

Bozo Johnson has frozen controversial plans to slap expensive homes with a 'mansion tax' amid fears of a Tory backbench revolt. The tax on high-value properties was due to be rolled out in next month's Budget to help fund the Prime Minister's promise to 'level-up' parts of the country starved of investment.

So once again the rich exert their influence. How the hell does Johnson plan to finance all these mega-infrastructure plans he's promised the electorate? Surely he doesn't intend making the working class pay with higher taxes or simply break his election promises, we'll know after the budget.

Same old Tory bollocks as usual....

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Sky, have you read this?

Well, now I have. Nothing really new.



There is another conflict: CO" emission cuts. Britian has positively contributed to the total net balance of EU's wanna-be-grerener-than-green ambitions. With it now leaving, the EU balance on thse tings is ruined, and the climate goals just bitterly fought over and formulated, cannot be reached. And this while Super-Uschi wants her new green-socialist planned economy deal!



When you Brits decide to spoil the EU's brew, you're really going after it, eh?

[Jimbuna]

The UK "must have the ability to set laws that suit us," the PM's chief Brexit negotiator will say in a speech in Brussels.

David Frost is expected to set out the UK's stance ahead of post-Brexit trade negotiations, due to start next month.

He will dismiss the idea an EU court would have a role in future trade disputes, saying: "We only want what other independent countries have."

It comes as France warns Britain to expect a bruising battle during talks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51538491

Battle lines are being drawn up and Macron will relish the opportunity to divert his peoples attention away from his own failed policies.