UK Politics

[kaosmark2]

7 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

They obviously want to show they're doing something.

Yeah. I think closing this loophole is really good politics. It shows they're willing to change standards in advance where it'll affect themselves more, but it also highlights media hypocrisy around the initial reporting of this "scandal".

[Neil]

the country is f**ked cos of maternity pay.....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c781m9v4255o

 

love this part!!!

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Kemi Badenoch said: “We need to have more personal responsibility - there was a time when there wasn’t any maternity pay and people were having more babies."

 

[kaosmark2]

56 minutes ago, Neil said:

the country is f**ked cos of maternity pay.....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c781m9v4255o

 

love this part!!!

 

It's funny how right wingers are all supportive of market economics and the idea that paying is the best solution to encourage something, until people say "maybe we'll have kids if we can afford them".

[steviewevie]

[Ryan1984]

15 hours ago, steviewevie said:

I thought the vast majority of this country was fully against people heading to a new country in pursuit of a better life?

[steviewevie]

Out of these 4 tory leader candidates I guess my preferred would be Cleverly...but kind of interested in what Badenoch would be like...and she seems to be the only one who can do the whole pragmatic uncomfortable truth thing but from the right,,and maybe would be the one who would do the whole reality check thing and say we need to start paying more tax not just at the top end but in the middle if we're going to raise the sums required.. talking income taxes again...I'm starting to think Labour will never be able to do that...but the tories could. If she does that I might even vote for her.

[pink_triangle]

59 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Out of these 4 tory leader candidates I guess my preferred would be Cleverly...but kind of interested in what Badenoch would be like...and she seems to be the only one who can do the whole pragmatic uncomfortable truth thing but from the right,,and maybe would be the one who would do the whole reality check thing and say we need to start paying more tax not just at the top end but in the middle if we're going to raise the sums required.. talking income taxes again...I'm starting to think Labour will never be able to do that...but the tories could. If she does that I might even vote for her.

I think Kemi is the most genuine in terms of her right wing views. Cleverly and Major Tom come across as centrists trying to be a bit more right wing to appeal to the base, while Jenrick looks like a centrist who has sold his soul to the right winger and a bit of a puppet.

[steviewevie]

Labour conference was all tense with worries about tough decisions and spending cuts and whether the state can deliver and public trust and Gaza etc etc...and the Tory conference they're all party party and champers and batshit nonsense.

[steviewevie]

Simon Case is going. I bet Sue Gray will be gutted.

 

[Crazyfool01]

39 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Simon Case is going. I bet Sue Gray will be gutted.

 

amazed he stayed around so long .well 3 months too long 

[steviewevie]

Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UK

[lost]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UK

 

that pension 👌

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

Badenoch gets in final two and she wins.

 

[steviewevie]

Jenrick just seems like an unpleasant idiot. So he'll probably win.

[Crazyfool01]

So we are going with the racist that wants to remove maternity pay …. Such choices 

[steviewevie]

Jenrick wowing them with pledging to leave the ECHR and get net migration down to the thousands.

Simple.

[steviewevie]

If jenrick wins and keeps going with this shite he may get some voters back from Reform but they won't be winning an election anytime soon. I guess they have to go through it.

[Crazyfool01]

funded by a dodgy 75k donation from a company who hes spoken to but that  doesnt have an employees in a sh*t load of debt and based in the Cayman Islands ..... 

[steviewevie]

His daughter's middle name is Thatcher!

Surely in the bag now. 

[kaosmark2]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/01/some-civil-servants-should-be-in-prison-says-kemi-badenoch

 

Tories advocating for prison sentences for political incompetence feels like Turkeys voting for Xmas.

Edited October 1 by kaosmark2

[steviewevie]

 

[pink_triangle]

4 hours ago, steviewevie said:

His daughter's middle name is Thatcher!

Surely in the bag now. 

Just when I thought he couldn’t get more opportunistic, he is even willing to use his kids name to try and win votes!

[pink_triangle]

Interesting Cleverly now second favourite. Supports the idea that the 2 more moderate candidates will combine and push above Kemi.

[steviewevie]

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