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Die epische Inkompetenz und bösartige Gedankenlosigkeit von Dominic Cummings und der BoJo Regierung muss mit einem eigenen Thread gewürdigt werden:
It is 4 days since the last one, and here's another 69 items.
But as it’s the weekend, let’s start #TheWeekInTory with a frivolous and jolly story about our own govt deliberately starving hundreds of thousands of children...
1. In May, Boris Johnson promised “nobody will go hungry as a result of Coronavirus”
2. He then denied school meals to the 600,000 poorest children
3. So Marcus Rashford ran a campaign to get the govt to feed children, which - just think about that: he had to *campaign* for it
4. Then Boris Johnson congratulated Rashford on his campaign to overturn the cruel policies of, erm, Boris Johnson
5. And then 3 days later, Boris Johnson refused to feed those kids during school holidays
6. So this week Labour organised a parliamentary vote about it
7. And 322 Tories voted against feeding hungry children
8. Vicky Ford, the Children’s Minister (who you’ll be surprised to hear neither looks nor sounds like a ludicrous Dickensian villain) went ahead and voted against feeding children
9. Tory MP Jo Gideon voted against feeding children. Jo Gideon, in case you didn't think things could get any more unbelievable, is also the chair of "Feeding Britain", a charity that campaigns to end food poverty and hunger in the UK.
10. Tory MP Paul Scully waved away the grumbling parents of kids with grumbling tummies, and said “children have been going hungry under Labour for years”, seemingly forgetting Tories have been in power for a decade
11. Tory MP Ben Bradley, who once had to apologise for suggesting sterilising the poor, said feeding children will simply “increase their dependency”. On food. Yeah, wean the little bastards off it. It’ll do them good in the end, which will be around 3 agonising weeks.
12. At this point, pause to consider that MPs get their food and drink subsidised. A £31 meal in a parliamentary restaurant costs MPs £3.45. In 2018 this subsidy cost the taxpayer £4.4m. I can’t find any record of Tories like Ben Bradley voting against this.
13. Pressing on: Ben Bradley also said “Some parents prioritise other things ahead of their kids. Small minority, yes... but some do”. Yes, and a small minority of Tory MPs have been arrested for rape. Should we send them all to prison?
14. Also, Mark Francois voted (by proxy) to keep kids hungry. Not related to the previous item. Why would you think that?
15. Tory MP Nicky Morgan said the govt voted to starve 600,000 children cos a Labour MP called a Tory MP scum. And that’s not a scummy thing to do at all.
16. Tory MP David Simmonds said Marcus Rashford’s experience of poverty in secondary school “took place entirely under a Labour government”. Rashford was 11 when Tories came into power, making David Simmonds are rare example of an ad hominem attack on yourself
17. Simmonds then said Labour’s parliamentary vote was “all about currying favour with wealth and power and celebrity status”. He might be right – the govt managed to unify Gary Linaker and Nigel Farage in condemnation of their denial of food to kids
18. Brandan Clark-Smith (who voted to starve kids) demanded “more action to tackle the real causes of child poverty”
19. So at once, the govt cut minimum wage for furloughed people. They now get 2/3 of the money the govt says is the absolute minimum it is possible to survive on
20. And then it was revealed that low-paid workers who have to isolate due to Covid can claim £500. Yay!
21. But if they’re told to isolate by the govt’s contact tracing app, they can’t claim anything. Un-yay.
22. Long story short: the govt cannot spend £120m feeding children. But it can spend £522 on the Eat Out Scheme, which its own report said contributed “negligible amounts” to the hospitality economy, and Boris Johnson admitted drove up infection rates – especially in the North
23. Those infection rates caused the govt to move Manchester into Tier 3
24. So the Mayor of Manchester asked for a £90m support package (1/6th of the money the govt spent causing the problem in the first place)
25. The govt said no, £60m
26. The Mayor said, how about £65m?
27. The govt said no, £60m
28. The Mayor said ok, fine, we’ll take the £60m
29. And then govt offered Manchester £22m, and then went to the press and said the Mayor was "being unreasonable"
30. The negotiations were led by Robert Jenrick, who recently set up a fund for the poorest 101 towns, then awarded his town £25m even though it is the 270th poorest, and therefore not even eligible
31. £25m is £237 per person
32. Manchester gets £7.85 per person
33. Robert Jenrick gave Manchester (2.8 million people) £22m
34. Robert Jenrick gave Richard Desmond (1 person) £45m
35. The talks broke down when the govt wouldn’t spend an extra £5m
36. The govt plans to spend £7m vitally rebranding "Highways England" to "National Highways"
37. Manchester Young Conservatives tweeted “Boris has lied about helping us in the North. It’s time for him to go". Don't look - they deleted it. Suspect somebody had a word.
38. Meanwhile the govt said Manchester will get the £60m after all, and chaos continue to reign supreme
39. But that £60m is brief reprieve for the Tories of Manchester, as a govt report said Tory seats in the North of England (the so-called "Red Wall" seats) can expect to lose at least 4000 jobs *each* as a result of Brexit, even if we do get a deal. More if we don't.
40. The govt rushed to begin its first airport Coronavirus testing, a mere 211 days after mandatory airport testing was begun in South Korea
41. South Korea has had 8 deaths per million
42. The UK has had 665 deaths per million
43. More airport news, as the govt finally accepted Brexit will cause “up to 8-hour delays at passport checks” and asked the EU to allow UK citizens to queue at EU-only lanes. Like we did when we were in the EU. But we aren’t now. So tough.
44. A senior diplomat said, “Having grown up in Brussels, Boris Johnson values the ability to travel freely to the continent”. You’d think Boris Johnson would foresee this problem when he led the campaign to stop that freedom.
45. The independent reviewer of Terrorism Legislation said the UK “will be increasingly unable to cope” after Brexit, as we lose access to EU data-sharing agreements
46. And a No-Deal end to UK/EU scientific collaboration will leave London with a £3bn annual deficit
47. In the space of 38 days, the govt announced the £100bn "Operation Moonshot" to solve Covid; then cancelled it; and then re-launched it again after it was found they’d accidentally continued to pay over 200 private consultants up to £7000 a day to work on it.
48. So this week, Boris Johnson said Moonshot would continue, but it’s goals “would take time”, which is the literal opposite of what he said it would do when it first announced it, and makes the entire thing absolutely pointless
49. And now it’s been admitted that Operation Moonshot would be quietly folded into the existing £12bn Test and Trace programme, and the £100bn has vanished. Apart from the bits the Serco consultants took for doing… nothing.
50. But Boris Johnson said the Test and Trace programme was “helping a bit”, and “a bit” is the least you’d expect if you’d spent £12bn
51. And then the £12bn Test and Trace programme fell to its lowest success rate so far, identifying only 60% of at-risk people
52. Local councils, with no additional funding, are tracing 98% of cases
53. A quick sweep though other epic successes you may have missed (or deliberately blocked out): Equalities minister Kemi Badenoch declared that it should be illegal to teach about inequality
54. The Cabinet Secretary said the report into “vicious and orchestrated” bullying by Home Secretary and Dementor Priti Patel “may never see the light of day”, cos if you have a report that vindicates you, you definitely sit on it as long as possible
55. And the appeals court unanimously overturned Priti Patel’s policy of removing people from the UK without giving them access to legal process or justice because – and I’m paraphrasing the judges here – what the fuck, Patel? What the actual fuck?
56. Undeterred, she announced plans to make rough-sleeping “grounds for removal of permission to be in the UK” and "denial of legal aid". So if you’re too poor to have a home, you must pay for a lawyer or she’ll shove you in the sea
57. After an unnamed Tory MP said it “looks bad to be handing top jobs to your friend and old boss”, Charles Moore, Boris Johnson’s friend and old boss, withdrew as next BBC chair.
58. The new favourite is Richard Sharp, the - yep - friend and old boss of Rishi Sunak
59. You’ll be amazed to hear this: Richard Sharp is a major donor to the Tory party. These little coincidences keep on happening
60. The govt decided to prevent EU citizens from having physical proof of their right to live in their own home
61. Grant Shapps threatened to “seize control of Transport for London” to save it from financial ruin at the hands of Sadiq Khan, who – the bastard - achieved a mere 71% reduction in the debts caused by his noble predecessor, Boris Johnson
62. Matt Hancock, facts at his fingertips, told MPs from Yorkshire their constituents could go on holiday abroad
63. But not in the UK
64. And then that they CAN go on holiday in the UK
65. But can't leave Yorkshire
66. He then said “I'll get back to you” about the details
67. A cross-party report found “the UK’s foreign policy is adrift”, that it lacks “clarity, confidence and vision” and that Britain is “absent from the world stage”. All of which is very soothing, as we move into the govt's proclaimed goal of a post-Brexit Global Britain.
68. And we can all relax: the govt is finally supporting culture in the UK, specifically the Nevill Holt Opera, which performs private operas, and is owned by Boris Johnson’s friend (and - jaw on floor! - Tory donor) David Ross, who is worth £700m so really needs the money
69. The Nevill Holt Opera only functions in the summer, so thank god it has been prioritised with £85,000 to “maintain operations” in October. And now, in honour of the opera, the fat lady can sing, cos I’m off to drink myself into oblivion. Join me.
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Amazingly, this is my third #TheWeekInTory in 7 days, and if anybody wants to pay for me to go somewhere comparatively sane and relaxing for a week, I’m up for it.
I hear Mogadishu is nice.
Anyway, buckle up, here we go...
1. Previously on The Week In Tory: the govt campaigned for Brexit so we can “look after our own”, and then immediately voted not to
2. Instead they opted to let up to 900,000 children go hungry during school holidays, including – bless you Santa Johnson – Christmas
3. In July, when the govt lifted the original lockdown, Rishi Sunak, the nicest Tory, tweeted “I can’t wait to get back to the pub”
4. This week he voted to let thousands of kids starve, and as a result was barred for life from his local
5. Ben Bradley, a Tory MP and Al Murray character made of Lego, spent last week appealing for justice and opportunity for “working class white boys who have been left behind”
6. He then voted to deprive them of food
7. Then this stout defender of the working class said food vouchers for poor kids will just end up being used in brothels and crack dens
8. He said he knows kids living in these conditions, and yet, like a true humanitarian, he appears to have done absolutely nothing about it
9. He also overlooks the fact that the vouchers can only be used to buy food, and I’ve yet to find evidence that crack dens commonly set up a tuck shop
10. He then invited his critics to visit “one of the country’s most deprived schools, who’s Head agrees with me”
11. The school’s governors replied to say neither they, nor the Head, agreed with him
12. It’s Monday, and most experts estimate that by Wednesday afternoon, Ben Bradley will have dug himself a hole deep enough to see kangeroos
13. Tory MP Gary Sambrook said it was OK for kids to go hungry during holidays, because they’ve “been benefiting from free school meals during term time”. It will come as a shock to Sambrook to discover humans require food on quite a regular basis
14. Tory peer Baroness Barran went on radio and said Tories had done other things to help poor children, such as extra money for emergency Universal Credit
15. So the govt announced it was reducing emergency Universal Credit by £20 a week
16. Tory MP Selaine Saxby said if businesses help starving kids she “very much hopes they will not be seeking any further govt support”
17. Selaine Saxby consistently votes against measures to reduce tax avoidance, cos avoiding tax is the sort of govt support she’s fine with
18. McDonalds offered 1m free meals over half term, proving to the govt that it is possible for clowns to make moral decisions
19. At a Downing St press conference, the govt repeatedly declined invitations from the media to praise businesses providing meals to hungry children
20. Matt Hancock said local councils had been provided with “a huge amount of extra investment” to feed kids
21. Since 2010, Tories cut funding to local councils by 60%
22. The Tory council in Boris Johnson’s own constituency joined the campaign to give free school meals
23. Matt Hancock, a sentient teaspoon and ever-dependable master of detail, went on radio and said there had been “lines of communication” between Boris Johnson and Marcus Rashford
24. Marcus Rashford said there hadn’t
25. 2000 paediatricians condemned the govt
26. The Children’s Commissioner it was “like something out of the pages of Oliver Twist”
27. An anonymous Tory MP said it was a “political disaster” and he had “never known so many Conservative MPs and council leaders so angry”
28. Senior Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said the govt had “misunderstood the mood of the country”
29. Tobias Ellwood, Tory MP and spine-donor, voted with the govt, but is now openly calling for the policy to change
30. Multiple Tory MPs have predicted a U-turn, which means at least the govt won’t go hungry over the holidays: it’ll have all those lovely words to eat
31. And then, cos they don’t know when to stop, the govt cut the laptop allocation for England’s most deprived schools by 80%
32. In a not-at-all-obvious attempt to distract attention, 112 Tory MPs (98% of whom had just voted to let children starve at Christmas) wrote to Keir Starmer to complain of the “widespread abuse” they received as a result of Angela Rayner calling one of them “scum”
33. They must have been unable to find a pen and paper when there was a 375% increase in Islamophobic incidents after Boris Johnson referred to Muslim women as “letterboxes” and "bank robbers"
34. They were probably having difficulty with a gummed-up biro when Boris Johnson called gay men “bum boys”. or said black people were “picaninnies with watermelon smiles”, or said in parliament that proven death threats against female Labour MPs were "humbug"
35. And perhaps they didn’t have an address for Home Secretary and Thor’s sister Priti Patel after she made an incendiary speech attacking "lefty" immigration lawyers, one of who was stabbed 4 days later by a far-right activist
36. Speaking of witch – tsk, me and my spelling – more than 800 lawyers and judges wrote to the govt demanding an apology from Priti Patel, and saying her “rhetoric and hostility” risks “undermining the rule of law”
37. After demanding local councils “build build build”, Michael Gove personally stepped in the oppose building in his constituency
38. There’s a fine line between spin and outright lies, and that is just one of many lines Michael Gove has caused to disappear
39. The govt confirmed it was going to start charging 20% VAT on PPE. In a pandemic
40. The govt said it would be fine, cos care homes can claim back the VAT
41. But the govt’s own advice says “Care homes … are unlikely to be able to recover any VAT on PPE”
42. Rishi Sunak said he would provide the NHS with “whatever resources it needs” to cope with the pandemic, which is why the NHS is £1bn short of funds needed to pay wages to the end of the year
43. SAGE said Test and Trace, the centrepiece of our Covid strategy, was “having only a marginal impact”
44. Test and Trace system achieved new heroic heights, as it was revealed of 268m records, just 104 cases had been pursued
45. Labour’s NHS IT System was described by Tories as “one of the worse scandals ever in terms of waste of public money”, costing £12bn over 6 years
46. By contrast, the Test and Trace system has spent £12bn in just 4 months and failed to meet a single target set for it
47. Tory MP Bernard Jenkin called for Dido Harding to be sacked
48. Matt Hancock said he had (finally) published the highly critical 2016 report into the UK’s lack of preparedness for a pandemic, which his dept had seen and then done nothing at all to act upon
49. Due to some terrible and entirely unpredictable oversight, the version he published was incomplete and heavily redacted, cos that’s exactly what you’d do if it wasn’t massively embarrassing
50. Only 211 days since South Korea started mandatory test and quarantine at its airports, the UK govt announced plans to do the same
51. Except unlike South Korea we’ll charge people for tests
53. Deaths per million in South Korea: 8
54. Deaths per million in UK: 665
54. It was then reported that Bankers and Hedge Fund Managers would be exempt from quarantine because obviously the virus, a non-living sub-microscopic entity with no brain or nervous system, will figure out how rich you are before deciding whether to infect you
55. Boris Johnson held a meeting with UK business leaders, and urged them to follow the govt’s guidance in preparing for Brexit
56. The govt hasn’t agreed a deal, so has not yet issued final guidance for preparing for Brexit
57. Then it was reported Boris Johnson won’t make a decision about whether to accept a Brexit deal until he finds out if Trump has won the election, because an important part of Taking Back Control is not being able to decide a thing until we find out what Donald is up to
58. Assuming the election happens cleanly (and Trump is involved, so god knows) this leaves businesses just 31 working days to implement a plan for the end of a 41 year period of stability, in the middle of a pandemic that most believe will be at the peak of its second wave
59. But huzzah! the govt announced a deal with Japan that was “even better than the one Japan has with the EU”
60. But whoops! the EU/Japan deal prevents either side from offering better terms to anybody else, and our deal with Japan is 5% of the one we lose with the EU
61. The former ambassador to USA (under both Tory and Labour govts) said the UK’s plans for handling a Joe Biden presidency are “profoundly clumsy and stupid” and that “Number 10 is absolutely clueless” about how to manage a post-Brexit relationship with the USA
62. Between them, the EU and USA account for around 60% of the UK’s total trade, so deliberately losing one, and then accidentally losing another is definitely a reason to be intensely relaxed about the whole thing
63. And that's why, spurred by their stunning victory over UK trade, a group of Tory MPs led by Steve Baker, a scale model of C3P0 made entirely out of ham, is urging the formation of a “European Research Group for the pandemic”
Gas and air, please. In heroic quantities
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Einschub:
Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn over reaction to anti-Semitism report
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Einschub:
Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn over reaction to anti-Semitism report
Corbyn ist sicherlich ein Arschloch erster Kajüte.
Dass Labour aber so gar nicht von den auch hier (fast schon verzweifelt) publizierten Untaten BoJos und den Tories profitiert...tststs.
Die Briten müssen mehrheitlich grenzdebil sein oder wollen - frevelhafterweise -einfach nicht hören auf die Ratschläge und Unkenrufe kontinentaler Klugscheißer, wo soll das nur enden?
Der Brexit geht ihnen auch komplett am Arsch vorbei, das muss das Ende des perfiden Albion sein.
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Einschub:
Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn over reaction to anti-Semitism report
Corbyn ist sicherlich ein Arschloch erster Kajüte.
Dass Labour aber so gar nicht von den auch hier (fast schon verzweifelt) publizierten Untaten BoJos und den Tories profitiert...tststs.
Wahlen stehen natürlich nicht ins Haus, aber soweit man relativ gute Umfragen unter Profitieren verbuchen kann, profitiert Labour. Wobei es schwer auseinander zu klamüsern ist, ob es eher an der Performance Cummings und Johnsons liegt oder daran, dass Keir Starmer einen normalen Mitte-Links-Kurs fährt.
https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/
Nebenbei denke ich nicht, dass SB verzweifelt ist.
Die Briten müssen mehrheitlich grenzdebil sein oder wollen - frevelhafterweise -einfach nicht hören auf die Ratschläge und Unkenrufe kontinentaler Klugscheißer, wo soll das nur enden?
Wenn, dann sind aus meiner Sicht englische Nationalisten / "Konservative" grenzdebil.* Das bezieht sich nicht nur auf die Ideologie, sondern auch auf die handwerklich-politische Leistung nach dem Brexit. Sie können froh sein, dass sie auf der Gegenseite einen Jeremy Corbyn hatten, dem der Brexit echt am Arsch vorbei ging.
Gegenüber Labour unter Corbyn hob und hebt sich sogar noch die schlecht performende deutsche Sozialdemokratie positiv ab.
* Es ist zwar eine Binse, aber seis drum: Nicht nur Linke jagen Einhörnern nach.
Der Brexit geht ihnen auch komplett am Arsch vorbei, das muss das Ende des perfiden Albion sein.
Wenn Jochen Buchsteiner schreibt, dass der Brexit in Großbritannien (realiter bezieht er sich mehr auf England) öffentlich momentan kein großes Thema ist, dann ist das weitgehend nachvollziehbar, schließlich besteht das Land nicht allein aus Hardcore-Brexiteers und Hardcore-Remainern. Und zumal ist darüber hinaus GB durch Corona vergleichsweise mehr gerupft, als Deutschland. Daraus folgt gleichwohl nicht, dass er ihnen bzw. allen am Arsch vorbei geht. Schon gar keinen Schotten.
Abgesehen davon kann ich deinen Widerwillen gegen das Thema Brexit nicht nachvollziehen, es verhält sich ja ganz offensichtlich so, dass es dich nicht nur nicht interessiert, sondern dass du es für bizarr hältst, wenn sich politisch interessierte Personen weiter dafür interessieren oder sagen wir: die Sache weiter verfolgen.
Vor allem: Technisch gesehen hat der Brexit noch überhaupt nicht richtig angefangen.
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Conservatives used to pretend to be realists. Within weeks their Brexit fantasy will be mugged by reality - the rest of us will be collateral damage
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https://twitter.com/NickCohen4/status/1320831047219793921
Der Video-Kommentar von Adam Posen im Link ist eine der besten und nüchternsten Zusammenfassungen der Unternehmung.
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Hinweis für Alex, noch von Hitch empfohlen:
https://www.amazon.de/Whats-Left-Liberals-Their-English-ebook/dp/B00ZODU16G
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Einschub:
Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn over reaction to anti-Semitism report
Corbyn ist sicherlich ein Arschloch erster Kajüte.
Dass Labour aber so gar nicht von den auch hier (fast schon verzweifelt) publizierten Untaten BoJos und den Tories profitiert...tststs.
Wahlen stehen natürlich nicht ins Haus, aber soweit man relativ gute Umfragen unter Profitieren verbuchen kann, profitiert Labour. Wobei es schwer auseinander zu klamüsern ist, ob es eher an der Performance Cummings und Johnsons liegt oder daran, dass Keir Starmer einen normalen Mitte-Links-Kurs fährt.https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/
Nebenbei denke ich nicht, dass SB verzweifelt ist.
Nun ja, ich schrieb „fast schon verzweifelt“ und ja, es hat schon fast was hysterisches, dieses Sammeln von Untaten der angelsächsischen Gallionsfiguren.
Dass Wahlen, respektive Volksentscheide, nicht so ausgehen, wie man es gerne hätte, geschenkt.
Aber was sich Trump-Gegner und Brexit-Gegner seit dem Tage X an Geplärr und Gejammer geleistet haben, zeugte nicht gerade von Akzeptanz einer Mehrheitsentscheidung, so dünn diese Mehrheit auch immer gewesen sein mag.
Vielleicht kannst Du Dich noch erinnern, dass wir am Vorabend der letzen US-Wahl über Trump diskutierten und ich schon damals meinte, dass die amerikanische Demokratie auch diesen Wilden überstehen würde?
Mal davon abgesehen, dass Trump und seine Leistungen unterschätzt werden, was bei seinen Gegnern nur noch infantiles Wutgeheul auslöst, muss ich davon nichts, aber auch garnichts zurücknehmen.
Aber zurück zum Brexit.
Die Briten müssen mehrheitlich grenzdebil sein oder wollen - frevelhafterweise -einfach nicht hören auf die Ratschläge und Unkenrufe kontinentaler Klugscheißer, wo soll das nur enden?
Wenn, dann sind aus meiner Sicht englische Nationalisten / "Konservative" grenzdebil.* Das bezieht sich nicht nur auf die Ideologie, sondern auch auf die handwerklich-politische Leistung nach dem Brexit. Sie können froh sein, dass sie auf der Gegenseite einen Jeremy Corbyn hatten, dem der Brexit echt am Arsch vorbei ging.
Als Sympathisant der Philosophie von Leopold Kohr, E.F.Schumacher hat sie in seinem Buch „Small is beautiful“ angemessen beschrieben, empfinde ich die aktuelle EU als Fehlkonstruktion, da sie politisch zentralistisch gedacht ist.
Als Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft und mit der NATO als Verteidigungsgemeinschaft hätte man das Europa der Regionen verwirklichen können.
Die Briten fanden ebenfalls alles, was darüber hinausgeht, schon immer zweifelhaft und damit ist jetzt Schluss.
Wer den Hickhack auf dem Weg beobachtet und sich den Spaß gegönnt hat, die Diskussionen im britischen Parlament zu verfolgen, der ahnte etwas von den Kräften, die für dieses Unterfangen nötig sein werden.
Insofern waren für mich handwerkliche Fehler vorprogrammiert, so wäre es allen politisch Verantwortlichen gegangen.
Und sie hatten nun mal, in einem Parlament voller unterschiedlicher Strömungen, den Wählerauftrag, den Brexit umzusetzen.
Sie mussten das Vorgehen auch mit einer erneuten Wahl bestätigen lassen.
Politik machen bedeutet in einer Demokratie oft dicke Bretter bohren und in diesem Kontext war/ist der Brexit ein extrem dickes Brett.
Es wird schon ein paar Jährchen dauern, bis die Briten wieder in ruhigeres Fahrwasser gelangen.
Aber ein Anfang ist gemacht und einer Trennung der Schotten stehe ich gelassen gegenüber, wäre ja in meinem Sinne.
Viel spannender wird die Weiterentwicklung der EU.
Gegenüber Labour unter Corbyn hob und hebt sich sogar noch die schlecht performende deutsche Sozialdemokratie positiv ab.
* Es ist zwar eine Binse, aber seis drum: Nicht nur Linke jagen Einhörnern nach.
Das ist der Grund, warum mir beide Weltsichten nicht sonderlich sympathisch sind.
Abgesehen davon kann ich deinen Widerwillen gegen das Thema Brexit nicht nachvollziehen, es verhält sich ja ganz offensichtlich so, dass es dich nicht nur nicht interessiert, sondern dass du es für bizarr hältst, wenn sich politisch interessierte Personen weiter dafür interessieren oder sagen wir: die Sache weiter verfolgen.
Politisch interessiert sein ist löblich. Wer aber, wie im Fussball, wo jeder Bundestrainer sein möchte und sich im Wissen um die bessere Lösung wähnend, nichts anzubieten hat, als den (politischen) Gegner als dumm oder bösartig abzuwerten, der z.B. vorsätzlich Kinder verhungern lässt, pardon, der ödet mich nur noch an.
Vor allem: Technisch gesehen hat der Brexit noch überhaupt nicht richtig angefangen.
Siehe oben. Die Briten werden das auf mittlere Sicht meistern.
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Dass Wahlen, respektive Volksentscheide, nicht so ausgehen, wie man es gerne hätte, geschenkt.
Aber was sich Trump-Gegner und Brexit-Gegner seit dem Tage X an Geplärr und Gejammer geleistet haben, zeugte nicht gerade von Akzeptanz einer Mehrheitsentscheidung, so dünn diese Mehrheit auch immer gewesen sein mag.
Genau das ist es Alex. Der Brexit ist dann das Parade Beispiel. Es gab eine Volksabstimmung
und es gab eine Mehrheit, die wurde quasi negiert. Klar, das dumme Volk hat anders abgestimmt
- dafür muss und sollte man den britischen Wähler lieben.
Was gab es für eine Gejammer, nur die Wahlbeteiligung entlarvte diese Kanthölzer. Ja der
jugendliche hedonistische Mob ging anstatt zur Wahlurne lieber ins Weekend. Und was war
dann die Antwort der Linken darauf.... Neue Abstimmung und das solange das Ergebnis passt.
Ja die Linke und die Demokratie. Das es zu einer Demokratie dazu gehört, demokratische Ent-scheidungen zu akzeptieren. das übersteigt wohl die kognitiven Fähigkeiten des Linken.
BoJo ist kein Populist, der ist Anhänger der für mich irrsinnigen Spiele-und Chaos Theorie.
Gibt es eigentlich Hoffnung für die Linke, hmm da setzte ich auf Darwin. In laufe der
Ecolution werden wohl auch Linke ein größeres Stammhirn bekommen.
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Dass Wahlen, respektive Volksentscheide, nicht so ausgehen, wie man es gerne hätte, geschenkt.
Aber was sich Trump-Gegner und Brexit-Gegner seit dem Tage X an Geplärr und Gejammer geleistet haben, zeugte nicht gerade von Akzeptanz einer Mehrheitsentscheidung, so dünn diese Mehrheit auch immer gewesen sein mag.
Genau das ist es Alex. Der Brexit ist dann das Parade Beispiel. Es gab eine Volksabstimmung
und es gab eine Mehrheit, die wurde quasi negiert. Klar, das dumme Volk hat anders abgestimmt
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In beiden Fällen war Kritik am Wahlergebnis nicht nur vorherzusehen, sondern vorgesehen. Beide Kampagnen arbeiteten tatsächlich ohne auch nur die geringste Vorstellung politischer Gestaltung und ausschließlich auf Spaltung bauend. Wenn also owning the libs Wahlen gewinnt, tut man sich keinen gefallen, auf Zuspruch durch die libs zu hoffen, das ist eigentlich selbsterklärend.
Ich will damit nicht sagen, das wäre per se keine mögliche Handlungsoption, sind beides freie Länder. Nur sollte man dann nicht überrascht sein, wenn die Adressaten dieser Botschaft deren Inhalt nicht goutieren. Oder deshalb mimosenhaft reagieren*.
Daneben geht es auch und v. A. um konkrete Politiken, und skurrilerweise zeichnen sich beide Kampagnen durch völlige Ratlosigkeit aus. Und darin besteht auch eine Gefahr, denn wer solche weitreichende Ämter/Entscheide verantworten möchte, der hat dies, den Verfassungen beider Länder gemäß, vor der gesamten Bevölkerung zu tun und eben nicht nur vor dem eigenen Bikerclub.
*Was auch insofern schwierig wäre als das man dann konsequenterweise eigenes Verhalten evaluieren müsste; diese unselige Teabagger-Parade startete 2009 und mutierte über Nacht von einer wie auch immer zu wertenden Kritik an der Finanzkrisenstrategie zu einer glasklar gegen libtards im Allgemeinen und die Frechheit eines schwarzen Präsidenten im Speziellen.
- dafür muss und sollte man den britischen Wähler lieben.
Was gab es für eine Gejammer, nur die Wahlbeteiligung entlarvte diese Kanthölzer. Ja der
jugendliche hedonistische Mob ging anstatt zur Wahlurne lieber ins Weekend. Und was war
dann die Antwort der Linken darauf.... Neue Abstimmung und das solange das Ergebnis passt.
Es wurde kein Brexit negiert. Die späte Einreichung von Artikel 50 lag einzig und allein an der technischen Nichtumsetzbarkeit des Brexit relativ zur EU und nicht an irgendwelchen Protesten oder internen Sabotageakten. Und es gab auch keine 2. Abstimmung, tatsächlich hat sich auch die seinerzeitige Opposition eher lauwarm dafür eingesetzt. Am 01.01. erfolgte der Austritt und am 01.01. nächsten Jahres endet die Transition Period, alles genau wie durch das Ref vorgesehen. Das Chaos darum haben sich brexiteers selbst zuzuschreiben, denen wurde auch glaubhaft erklärt, worauf das hinausläuft.
Ja die Linke und die Demokratie. Das es zu einer Demokratie dazu gehört, demokratische Ent-scheidungen zu akzeptieren. das übersteigt wohl die kognitiven Fähigkeiten des Linken.
Ich kann nun nicht für alle Linken sprechen, maximal für ein kleines Spektrum von mäßig grumpy und mittlerweile etwas old Linkszentristen. Aber ein demokratischer Entscheid verlangt ganz allgemein von keinem Akteur, diesen dann auch gut zu heißen. Im Speziellen möchte man sich dies nicht vorhalten lassen, wenn sämtliche told-you-so's nicht nur aus dem eigenen Camp heraus, sondern auch denen der führenden Köpfen des anderen Camp mit 120% metaphysischer Gewissheit eintreten. Cameron hat als PM gegen den Brexit Kampagne gemacht, und auch Trump musste die GOP erst gewaltsam unterwerfen, für weitere Infos einfach Lindsey Graham befragen.
Die Akteure bleiben auch nach Wahlentscheid in der Verantwortung für ihre Politiken.
BoJo ist kein Populist, der ist Anhänger der für mich irrsinnigen Spiele-und Chaos Theorie.
Gibt es eigentlich Hoffnung für die Linke, hmm da setzte ich auf Darwin. In laufe der
Ecolution werden wohl auch Linke ein größeres Stammhirn bekommen.
Ich denke, für Details welcher Strategien auch immer hat BoJo keinen Sinn, und es scheint mir offensichtlich, was seinerzeit auch breit diskutiert wurde: Das BoJo auf den Brexitzug aufgesprungen ist, weil er hier korrekterweise eine Gelegenheit verortete, sich als Heimatschützer aufzuspielen und nebenher die äußere Rechte einzubinden.
Er war für 2 Tage nach dem Ref verschwunden. Das ein Brexit gewinnen würde, dafür hat er selbst die britische Öffentlichkeit nicht doof genug eingeschätzt.
Ecolution ist aber eine coole Wortschöpfung.
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Genau das ist es Alex. Der Brexit ist dann das Parade Beispiel. Es gab eine Volksabstimmung
und es gab eine Mehrheit, die wurde quasi negiert. Klar, das dumme Volk hat anders abgestimmt
- dafür muss und sollte man den britischen Wähler lieben.
Hier vergesst ihr leider, dass damals a) Nie die Rede vom No-Deal Brexit war und b) maßgebliche Protagonisten, die derzeit größtenteils in Regierungsverantwortung stehen, eben diesen jahrelang kategorisch ausgeschlossen haben. Bedenken darob verbuchte man unter dem Stichwort: Project Fear.
Ich wüsste auch nicht, dass der Volksentscheid besagt hätte, sofort Artikel 50 zu triggern, ohne vorher noch ein Abkommen ausgehandelt* zu haben.
Spielt auch keine Rolle mehr sich über Remainer aufzuregen. Es gibt überhaupt keine Remainer mehr, der Brexit ist gelaufen und das letzte Kapitel wird am 31.12.2020 um 23:00 Uhr geschrieben.
Amüsant nur, dass niemand mehr von den vielen Vorteilen des Brexit spricht.
Aus ‚take back control‘ wurde ‚lass uns mal warten, was die USA demnächst sagen‘ und ‚wir unterschreiben alles, was uns ein Nicht-EU-Staat vorlegt.‘
Aus ‚Take back Calais‘ wurde ‚Cede Kent to France‘ und den ‚oven-ready deal‘,mit dem BoJo die letzte general election gewonnen hat, möchte er nun am liebsten brechen. Hat er ja der ERG versprochen. Dumm nur, dass ihm dieses kleine Detail mit Irland entfallen war. Was sich nun als zweifaches Problem entpuppt: Er kann den überlebenswichtigen Handelsvertrag mit den USA vergessen, wenn er das Austrittsabkommen mit der EU, samt dem Karfreitagsabkommen, bricht. Das ist übrigens parteiübergreifender Konsens im US-Kongress. Spielt in dieser Hinsicht also gar keine Rolle wer ab Januar im Weißen Haus sitzt. Wenn die IMB durchgeht, wonach es nicht aussieht, weil das House of Lords parteiübergreifend entsetzt ist, pisst er der EU und den USA ans Bein. Und findet sich womöglich bald vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof wieder...
Was gab es für eine Gejammer, nur die Wahlbeteiligung entlarvte diese Kanthölzer. Ja der
jugendliche hedonistische Mob ging anstatt zur Wahlurne lieber ins Weekend. Und was war
dann die Antwort der Linken darauf.... Neue Abstimmung und das solange das Ergebnis passt.
Ja die Linke und die Demokratie. Das es zu einer Demokratie dazu gehört, demokratische Ent-scheidungen zu akzeptieren. das übersteigt wohl die kognitiven Fähigkeiten des Linken.
Wie demokratisch ist es denn eigentlich aus einer simplen Ja/Nein Frage einen Blanko-Scheck für den größtmöglichen wirtschaftlichen Schaden abzuleiten, obwohl man sich in den Jahren seit dem Referendum nach und nach von allen Einhörnern verabschieden musste?
Gut, wir reden ja auch von einer Regierung die das Parlament dazu gebracht hat Einsicht und Mitspracherecht bei den Verhandlungen mit den USA aus der Hand zu geben und für 5 Jahre den Mantel der Verschwiegenheit darüber auszubreiten.
Eine Regierung, die Notfallkompetenzen dazu nutzt, Parteifreunden hunderte von Millionen Pfund zuzuschustern, ohne jemals den angekündigten Gegenwert, geschweige denn überhaupt einen Gegenwert, zu erhalten, aber zeitgleich Hunderttausende über Weihnachten hungern lassen möchte.
Diese Regierung ist so inkompetent, dass sie noch nichtmal aus Fehlern lernt! Zwei Mal mit derselben Politik anzutreten und beim zweiten Mal ein anderes Ergebnis zu erwarten, nachdem man schon beim ersten Mal einen Rückzieher machen musste, ist vollkommen hirnlos!
BoJo ist kein Populist, der ist Anhänger der für mich irrsinnigen Spiele-und Chaos Theorie.
Gibt es eigentlich Hoffnung für die Linke, hmm da setzte ich auf Darwin. In laufe der
Ecolution werden wohl auch Linke ein größeres Stammhirn bekommen.
Stimmt, BoJo ist schlicht und ergreifend strunzdumm! Er ist nur deshalb noch im Amt, weil niemand doof genug ist, ihn vor dem Ende der Übergangsphase abzusägen. Rishi und Priti stehen offenbar schon in den Startlöchern.
Hierzulande pocht der Konservative auf den soliden Umgang mit Steuergeld (Ausnahme: Andreas B. Scheuer). Im Angelsächsischen Raum ist das anders, Trump und BoJo verpulvern sinnlos Steuergelder und verzichten zugunsten von Slogans auf politische Visionen. Ganz in der Tradition von bekannten Volksfreunden der Geschichte und Gegenwart.
BoJos politische Vision ist der Austritt des UK aus der EU. Hat er geschafft. Bei allem anderen versagt er auf ganzer Linie. Selbst die konservative Presse
Trump geht es eigentlich nur darum, bewundert zu werden und seinen Gläubigern zu entkommen bzw. Steuergelder in seine Taschen fließen zu lassen. Der Rest tangiert ihn höchstens peripher.
Bismarck würde wohl keinen von beiden ernst nehmen.
Noch so ein Toldyouso-Moment: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/31/europe/uk-lockdown-coronavirus-europe-intl/index.html
Ist das jetzt die 14. oder 15. 180-Grad-Wende Johnsons trotz einer Parlamentsmehrheit von 79 Sitzen? Hab aufgehört mitzuzählen.
* Müßig darauf hinzuweisen, dass z.B. die Schotten sehr informiert über den Austritt aus dem UK abgestimmt hatten. Das Pro/Contra Dokument soll 1.000 Seiten stark gewesen sein und bildete daher eine angemessen solide Basis einer folgenschweren Entscheidung.
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Captain U-Turn strikes again:
Keir Starmer: "The science suggests we extend the furlough and have a lockdown"
Boris Johnson: "no, don't be ridiculous, what an irresponsible demand"
2 weeks and a couple of thousand dead Britons later ....
The Corbyn ultras who claim Keir Starmer is just a Tory might have a point, given that Boris Johnson ends up doing everything Starmer says, >just a bit too late.
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* Müßig darauf hinzuweisen, dass z.B. die Schotten sehr informiert über den Austritt aus dem UK abgestimmt hatten. Das Pro/Contra Dokument soll 1.000 Seiten stark gewesen sein und bildete daher eine angemessen solide Basis einer folgenschweren Entscheidung.
Da lässt sich gut mit der Erinnerung daran anschließen, dass auch rechtslastige Befürworter von "mehr" oder direkter Demokratie hier grundsätzlich nie davon gehört haben, dass die Schweizer ein Abstimmungsbüchli und ein sehr genaues Prozedere für ihre Ref's haben (ganz abgesehen von einem hohen Maß an gesellschaftlicher Erfahrung mit diesem Tool), dass das Verfahren in hohen Maße unempfindlich für den Kampagnenschrott macht, den die genannten eigentlich darunter verstehen: Power to die Doofen.
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Power to die Doofen.
Darauf läuft es in der Tat zwangsläufig hinaus.
Zudem sind etliche ‚Red Wall‘ Wahlkreise im Norden Englands, sowie der Sieg Donald Trumps im Electoral College 2016 sehr knapp ausgefallen.
Trump vereinte eben nicht die Mehrheit der Stimmen auf sich.
Bei einem ‚First-past-the-post‘-Wahlsystem können bereits kleine Differenzen große Auswirkungen haben.
Hier möchte ich an den Datendiebstahl von Aggregate IQ und Cambridge Analytica bei Facebook und die daraus resultierenden Kampagnen erinnern.
Hier wurde aktiv versucht demokratische Prozesse zu verzerren. Möglicherweise mit Erfolg. Vielleicht ist es im UK an der Zeit ein Verhältniswahlrecht einzuführen und für die Zusammensetzung des Electoral College auf der anderen Seite des Teichs wäre das sicherlich auch richtig.
https://archive.org/details/ca-docs-with-redactions-sept-23-2020-4pm/page/n231/mode/2up
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Hier wurde aktiv versucht demokratische Prozesse zu verzerren. Möglicherweise mit Erfolg. Vielleicht ist es im UK an der Zeit ein Verhältniswahlrecht einzuführen und für die Zusammensetzung des Electoral College auf der anderen Seite des Teichs wäre das sicherlich auch richtig.
Ein Verhältniswahlrecht wäre auf der Insel evtl. tatsächlich machbar, aber in den USA wohl ausgeschlossen. Selbst wenn die alle Richter stellen würden, dafür bräuchte es beide Parteien. Und so lange es beim Mehrheitswahlrecht bleibt, ist die GOP de facto unkaputtbar.
Darin liegt ja das Dilemma: Das es in den USA tatsächlich eine rechte Intelligentsia gibt, die ihren originalistischen Schwurbel tatsächlich für eine höhere Form der Verfassungstreue hält und dabei den Schwerpunkt von Demokratie hin zur eigenen Vorstellung von Republik zu verschieben, wo selbstredend eine den Normen der Originalisten gemäße Elite einen frohgemuten Paternalismus rund um Gott, Ehre und Vaterland austoben kann.
Wir hatten das verschiedentlich auf dem Laublog, und es erklärt, warum Schweinereien wie die folgende in den USA niemanden mehr hinter dem Ofen hervorlockt.
Hörst Du: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/us-wahlen-die-defekte-demokratie.3720.de.html?dram...
Skurrilerweise haben die das Feature schon 2016 gesendet, letztens dann mit entsprechendem Hinweis noch mal. Hat an Aktualität nichts eingebüßt.
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Corbyn ist ein Astloch!
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Corbyn ist das Beispiel für den Salon Linken Typ 80ziger Jahre. Das jetzt erst Antisemi-
tismus als Grund für seinen Parteiverst0ß kommt, das ist dann der wirkliche Witz.
In seiner ganzen Karriere gab es seine antisemitischen Bonmots, aber wirklich stören
tat das Niemand in der Partei.
Ja die ewige Mähr das Pali Freundes, Zeichen des Internationalismus...alles Quark.
Ja Er war mal die Hoffnung von Labour, und sogar das Partei Establishment verzieh Ihm
seine linken Attitüden, nur die Etablierung von BoJo bei den Torys; nö das ging dann
doch so weit.
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Ein Verhältniswahlrecht wäre auf der Insel evtl. tatsächlich machbar,
Warum? Wenigstens bleibt UK eine ewige Groko erspart und die Geschichte gibt den
britischen System recht.BoJo ist Kind dieser Tradition, unfähig zur Zusammenarbeit
mit den politischen Gegner.
Wie gesagt... the winner takes it all
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Bezeichnenderweise nimmt sich Corbyn die selben Freiheiten heraus, wie Dominic Cummings und Boris Johnson.
Er ließ Keir Starmer keine Wahl. MMn ist das auch gut so.
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Ein Verhältniswahlrecht wäre auf der Insel evtl. tatsächlich machbar,
Warum? Wenigstens bleibt UK eine ewige Groko erspart und die Geschichte gibt den
britischen System recht.BoJo ist Kind dieser Tradition, unfähig zur Zusammenarbeit
mit den politischen Gegner.
Wie gesagt... the winner takes it all
Ein Wahlsystem, das einen Gewinner generiert, der dann seine Vorstellungen im Rahmen der Möglichkeiten für einen festgelegten Zeitraum ohne Rücksicht auf Koalitionspartner umsetzen kann, wäre mir auch hier genehmer als das Verhältniswahlrecht.
Damit wäre auch weitgehend Schluss damit, dass Parteien entscheiden, wer ins Parlament kommt.
Das haben die Briten schon ganz gut geregelt.
Ich denke auch, dass uns die modernen Technologien in Zukunft erleichtern könnten, Programme zu wählen statt Parteien, die einem, zumindest in Deutschland, entweder gesellschaftspolitisch zusagen und wirtschaftspolitisch nicht, oder vice versa...
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Ein Wahlsystem, das einen Gewinner generiert, der dann seine Vorstellungen im Rahmen der Möglichkeiten für einen festgelegten Zeitraum ohne Rücksicht auf Koalitionspartner umsetzen kann, wäre mir auch hier genehmer als das Verhältniswahlrecht.
In den Fällen BoJo/Trump wird das ja nicht ohne Rücksicht auf die die Oppo (sondern ganz im Gegenteil, die eigene Positionierung relativ zur Oppo ersetzt ja sämtlichen politischen Gestaltungswillen), sondern ohne Rücksicht auf die eigene Verfassungen gemacht. Und dafür bieten Mehrheitswahlrechte keine/wenig Korrektive.
Um das auf Trump/Constitution runterzukochen: Die Verfassung hat zwar einige Tools gegen Tyrannen, aber nicht gegen Doofheit in petto.
Damit wäre auch weitgehend Schluss damit, dass Parteien entscheiden, wer ins Parlament kommt.
Das haben die Briten schon ganz gut geregelt.
Es ist seltsam, dass weder die britische noch die amerikanische Verfassung ein Parteienrecht gleich welcher Art gar nicht kennen, in beiden Fällen wohl zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Bildung auch strikt abgelehnt hätten, und dennoch in beiden Fällen sich sehr mächtige Parteiapparate bildeten. BoJo wird wie auch Trump nur geduldet, und die Vorstellung, eine Primary würde seine Kandidaten weniger schleifen als eine hundsgewöhnliche Ochsentour scheint mir relativ naiv. Drum haben BoJo wie auch Trump seit ihren jeweiligen Amtsantritten auch wirklich gar nichts anderes gemacht als Wahlkampf und nebenher Sugardaddy gespielt für die Milieus, an die sie sich eben gefesselt haben.
Die Dynamik ist auch bei der AfD sichtbar mit ihrer Parteienverachtung und dem Auftritt als "Bewegung": Jeder, der Augen hatte, wusste spätestens 2015, wohin die Reise geht und wer da das sagen haben würde. Das liegt u. A. daran, dass das Parteienwesen von denen nur als äußere Hülle getragen wird. Sowas geht nur, wenn sich hinter dem Scheinriesen eine lachhaft geringe Zahl tatsächlicher Parteimitglieder verbirgt.
Ich denke auch, dass uns die modernen Technologien in Zukunft erleichtern könnten, Programme zu wählen statt Parteien, die einem, zumindest in Deutschland, entweder gesellschaftspolitisch zusagen und wirtschaftspolitisch nicht, oder vice versa...
Die Piraten müssen ja nicht der letzte Versuch gewesen sein. Aber all in all würde ich sagen, dass Technologie einen erheblichen Anteil an diesem Schlamassel hat, kennt man schon vom Volksempfänger. Wichtiger wäre wohl ein halbwegs garer gesellschaftlicher Konsens über Debattenformate* bzw. Technologienutzung: Mit etwas Erfahrung ließ sich auch das Radio ganz gut gebrauchen.
* Wenn sich dann Brieftauben als bestes Kommunikationsmittel erweisen, geht das OK für mich.
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Chumocrat Matt Hancock wird von Piers Morgan gegrillt:
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Kissing Putin‘s behind again...
Arise, Lord Lebedev of Moscow! (All he needs now is for the Kremlin to sign off the title)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8826809/Lord-Lebedev-Moscow-needs-Kremlin-si...
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Brexit ist so großartig, dass der Impfstoff mit Militärmaschinen ins Land gebracht werden muss...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/05/military-planes-to-fly-vaccines-in-to-...
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Thread:
Leaked official govt document outlining expected scenarios for #NoDealBrexit
It's not good. Here are the 12 headlines -
1
60-80% drop in availability of medicines and medical products
2
Protests and counter-protests will absorb significant police resources
3
Clashes between UK and EU fishing vessels and a significant increase in illegal fishing
4
Extra demand on maritime agencies will put UK security ar risk
5
Reduced availability of food, especially fresh food. Critical supply dependencies in food supply chains will be broken
6
Low income groups and regions will be disproportionately affected by food and fuel shortages / cost increases
7
Border issues will lead to disruption of water, energy, food and fuel services, and lead to some vital chemical suppliers reducing operations or closing
8
Border delays will lead to local fuel shortages
9
Reduced access to veterinary medicine will affect our ability to prevent outbreaks of animal disease, directly impacting human health
10
40-70% of trucks will not be ready for border controls, leading to 2-day queues at ports
11
Loss of access to international data will cause a reduced ability to tackle crime and terrorism
12
Around 1 in 20 local authorities will financially collapse as a result of higher demand and lower income caused by Brexit transition - leading to major social services crisis
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1335662564655632390
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Nordirlands Fleischindustrie ist ziemlich angefressen:
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Durchaus interessant, wer von den prominenten Brexiteers seine Schäfchen ins Trockene gebracht hat...
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It's been a while, but for the masochists amongst you, here's the return of #TheWeekInTory
1. The PM said he’d done nothing wrong, and had therefore apologised to the Queen for doing it
2. He claimed he hadn’t broken rules because nobody had told him the rules, which he wrote
3. He said he’d have to wait for Sue Gray to tell him whether the gathering of people drinking booze from a suitcase and playing on his swing during a DJ set was a party
4. He claimed it had taken him 25 minutes to realise this might not be a business meeting
5. Dominic Cummings said he’d "swear under oath" Boris Johnson green-lit parties
6. Dominic Raab said there hadn’t been a party, and he should know, cos the party was in his honour
7. And then Johnson hid in the back of a car, a fridge presumably not being readily available
8. Downing St said it was untrue the PM was warned ahead of the party
9. Reports said Sue Gray had the email warning the PM ahead of the party
10. And Downing St staff told newspapers it was “inconceivable” a party could have happened without Johnson’s approval
11. In no way to change the topic, the govt launched Operation Red Meat, a dazzlingly successful exercise in limited and specific failure, which I present to you in the following sub-thread.
(Hey, you try writing this shit without it getting complicated!)
a. the govt tweeted it was talking to Ghana about making our migrants go there for processing
b. Ghana said this was complete bollocks, and called Johnson's Operation Red Meat "Operation Dead Meat"
c. The govt deleted their Ghana tweet and pretended it didn't just happen
d. The govt said it was now entirely safe to lift Covid restrictions
e. Then the govt said we should excuse Johnson’s behaviour – he was distracted because his child was very ill with that "entirely safe" Covid, which your kids must now risk without masks, because FREEDOM
f. Boris Johnson's emotional comfort turbot, Michael Gove, said he would continue “levelling up the country”
g. Then the levelling-up fund for public transport was cut by 50%
h. So it’s all going terrifically well, but enough Red Meat - back to the main thread...
12. Playdoh nonentity Dominic Raab, said the Tory party was behind Johnson
13. Behind Johnson, David Davis stood up and told him to resign
14. And Christian Wakefield defected to Labour
15. And 5 other Tories are reported to be considering defecting
16. Govt whips were accused of blackmailing MPs into supporting Johnson
17. In a bold challenge to logic, the govt said they wouldn’t look for evidence of this unless they found evidence
18. 12 Tory MPs said it had happened to them
19. No, not that kind of evidence
20. MP Nusrat Ghani said she’d been sacked as a minister because she was told “Muslim women [made her] colleagues feel uncomfortable”
21. Chief Whip Mark Spencer tweeted he never used the words attributed to him
22. They hadn’t been attributed to him
23. He then deleted the tweet
24. Then he had what seemed to be a bit of a breakdown, and wrote the tweet again, this time denying any such event had ever happened
25. Then No10 said they had discussed the thing that didn’t happen with Nusrat Ghani in July
26. It was reported chief whip Mark Spencer spends most of his days inventing dazzlingly clever new insults for his colleagues-
27. The most Wildean examples include:
- Anthony Mangnall = Anthony Wanknall
- Tom Tugendhat = Tom Tugentwat
28. Mark Spencer is 52 years old
29. It was suggested the Chief Whip might not be very good, compared to the previous occupant of the role
30. To put this into context, the previous guy was Gavin Williamson, a supernaturally incompetent lurching tower of wrong wearing the teeth of a starved horse
31. Even so, PMs suggested bringing Williamson back, which means a Staffordshire village will soon need to advertise for a new idiot, but at least we’d have a non-blackmailing Chief Whip
32. It was immediately reported Williamson had also engaged in blackmailing colleagues
33. As part of her ploy to replace Johnson, Liz Truss, ITV4 made flesh, claimed she’d resolve Brexit in a month, a prediction previously made by
- David Davis (2016)
- Theresa May (2017)
- Liam Fox (2018)
- Jacob Rees-Mogg (2019)
- Boris Johnson (2020)
- and Lord Frost (2021)
34. As part of Rishi Sunak’s ploy to replace Johnson, he said he would look after the finances and had "low tax dreams"
35. He then decided not to even bother chasing £4.3 billion of fraudulent Covid claims
36. And he introduced the highest taxes for 28 years
37. And AAAARGH!!
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1485270421251444741
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Downing Street admits No.10 staff gathered to celebrate Boris Johnson’s birthday during England’s first lockdown. Here’s 4 minutes on 6 days where the pressure on the Prime Minister has grown and grown. Produced by Michael Cox.
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Newt Gingrich said this morning that people serving on the J6 Committee are going to go to jail if Republicans take over Congress after the next election.
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My office is now getting calls from folks who say they watch Tucker Carlson and are upset that we're not siding with Russia in its threats to invade Ukraine, and who want me to support Russia's "reasonable" positions.
https://twitter.com/Malinowski/status/1485682928709423107
“Our military has become the woke military, not the lethal military.” — Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)
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https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1485331400748408838
A Florida history professor was supposed to give a civil rights presentation to teachers
But the school district worried about “critical race theory” as state lawmakers seek to ban it
So his Saturday lecture was canceled, even though it wasn’t about CRT
https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1485568315443535874
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Schon ein Klassiker:
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lol
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1486018082296549390
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All die Millionen für RT English & Co. können das kaum aufwiegen:
Tuckyo Rose is in full bloom on #Russia's state TV. Multiple clips of Tucker Carlson's rants are being used to corroborate the pro-Kremlin talking points, simultaneously attacking America, Biden, NATO and Ukraine.
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https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1486012859897331715
The Week in Fascism
[Muffled, from center of enormous pile of stray dogs] "WHERE DID THESE FLEAS COME FROM?"
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1486045247033516032
The Week in Fascism
Ob Flynn für seinen Verrat wenigstens einen schönen Posten vom Vlad bekommt?
The Week in Space Laser
JD Vance, Ehrenmann:
Honored to have Marjorie’s endorsement. We’re going to win this thing and take the country back from the scumbags.
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https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1485989782475919371
QAnon Marge says Biden wants to go to war with Russia because Ukraine “has the dirt on Hunter Biden.”
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https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1486106203080073219
The Week in Fascism
Ob Flynn für seinen Verrat wenigstens einen schönen Posten vom Vlad bekommt?
Ist zwar von einem SPD-Mitglied auf die Linke gemünzt, aber sei's drum, man kann hier natürlich auch Flynn einsetzen:
https://twitter.com/jxn_simp/status/1485377075456274432
Tucker Carlson wiederum müsste zwar von Putin eine hohe zweistellige Millionensumme bekommen, die kriegt er aber wenigstens annähernd auch von den Murdochs.
The Week in Kompromat
Lee Smith dreht jetzt komplett ab.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-does-vladimir-putin-have-on-joe-b...
The Week in Kompromat
Lee Smith dreht jetzt komplett ab.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-does-vladimir-putin-have-on-joe-b...
Genau genommen ist er schon seit Jahren komplett durch.
Yair Rosenberg ist übrigens zum Atlantic gegangen.
The Week in Fuhreryouth
not surprising but hoo boy: the NY Republican Club's endorsement of Orban cites how he "engineered the eviction of the George Soros-funded Central European University from Hungary, eliminating a toxic entity that fomented hatred of Western Civilization among Hungarian youth."
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https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1486379926043439106
The Week in Kill your viewers
Alex Berenson tells Fox viewers: "The mRNA COVID vaccines need to be withdrawn from the market. No one should get them. No one should get boosted. No one should get double boosted. They are a dangerous and ineffective product at this point."
The Week in concerns about Critical Race Theory
The Mcminn County School board in Tennessee just voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust
The vote was 10-0
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https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1486473231871717380
The Week in Kill your followers
Spotify removes Neil Young music in feud over Joe Rogan’s false Covid claims
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/26/spotify-neil-young-joe-rogan-covid-m...
The Week in Tory
So, we had to send out Liz Truss. Someone so dense, she has her own event horizon.
https://twitter.com/larryandpaul/status/1486379313805115403?cxt=HHwWloC-jYuH16ApAAAA
The Week in Tory
I'm rushing out an interim #TheWeekInTory cos... damn
1. The sleaze watchdog said Johnson escaping the sack for his earlier £142k decorating corruption was "bonkers"
2. During that week's ludicrous scandal, he’d told parliament he'd never even met the wallpaper lady
3. He'd met wallpaper lady during the cause of this week's ludicrous scandal: his birthday party during lockdown
4. On the day of that shindig, the PM wrote a letter a 7-year-old telling her she was right not to have a birthday party, but still claims he didn't know the rules
5. Johnson said his bash wasn’t a even party, just 30 pals, singing happy birthday, drinking, breaking all the guidelines, and being ambushed by cakes
6. Anyway, he said only his essential work-bubble had attended
7. "Work-bubbles" never existed. That’s not a thing
8. And that “work-bubble” seemed to include his wife, his favourite interior designer, and a passing make-up artist. And Rishi Sunak
9. Sadly, for the 2938th time, his barber couldn’t make it
10. Yet another former Tory minister breached rules over lobbying and Covid contracts
11. A report found after 12 years and £14 billion of implementation costs, Universal Credit still isn’t fit for purpose
12. Another report found the govt’s Help to Buy scheme to fix the housing crisis wasted £29 billion and made the housing crisis even worse
13. Playmobil chancellor Rishi Sunak wrote off £4.3 billion in fraud
14. So Nadine Dorries, a beef-witted, one-woman riot of idiocy, scrapped funding for kids TV cos we don’t have any money left. Nnng!
15. And the minister for tackling fraud resigned cos there's too much fraud
16. Dominic Raab confirmed to journalists that ministers - including the PM - must resign if they break the law or lie to parliament
17. Journalists asked him if that meant Johnson should resign if he was found to have done those things
18. Raab said no, of course not
19. Johnson confirmed the govt would publish all of Sue Gray’s report
20. Raab said they wouldn’t
21. Downing St said they would
22. Johnson said it would just be highlights
23. Downing St said it would be most of it
24. Raab said it might be redacted
25. No 10 said it might just be an executive summary of all their misconduct, because the full report might be too long
26. Yeah mate, I know the feeling.
27. Johnson said publication would be "on the basis previously stated", which by now could mean literally anything
28. And then the police rocked up
29. So the UK had now reached the stage where our govt was grateful to be facing criminal investigations, cos it gave Johnson an excuse to delay Sue Gray
30. Police said there was no reason to delay Sue Gray
31. The govt said Oh fuck
32. Feral gonad Sajid Javid told Radio4 that Tory inconsistencies were damaging democracy
33. Radio4 asked him if he’d just admitted Tory inconsistencies were damaging democracy
34. He immediately denied he’d said it. Literally the next sentence
35. Then the Tories had to launch an official investigation into their own Islamophobia
36. And, look, I hate to break this to you, but this thread has still only reached TUESDAY
[Crack a bottle or do some primal screaming, and then let's press on]
37. On Wed Johnson told parliament he hadn’t lied, and we have the fastest growing economy in G7
38. Half the G7 is growing faster than us
39. So that was a lie to parliament about a lie to parliament, to detract from another lie to parliament. The famed bullshit turducken!
40. In December Johnson said it was "absolute nonsense" that he’d intervened to prioritise the evacuation of dogs from Afghanistan over the rescue of humans
41. This week an email showed he’d personally intervened
42. Raab said the email didn't exist, while reading from it
43. Jacob Rees-Mogg, who looks like somebody made the Microsoft Paperclip stand to attention, said "My experience is very few people lie in public life"
44. In-house Tory jazz-mag The Spectator called JRM "laughable" and the Tory Reform Group called him "irresponsible"
45. But only 3 days into the week, the only ministers still prepared to defend the PM are laughable bassoon JRM, and the exuberantly stupid flapdoodle Nadine Dorries
46. And this week's really big bag of insane bollocks is still to come
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1486687216520867848
The Week in Fascism
It never stops. Not one day on #Russia's state TV without Tucker Carlson. This clip is one of their favorites, playing over and over again (and featuring Tucker's "Russia expert" who's been groomed in Moscow).
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1486796832902725639
Behind the scenes: Carlson has had a profound effect on how Republican candidates talk about the Russia-Ukraine issue, according to GOP operatives working on primary races.
https://www.axios.com/activist-republicans-oppose-helping-ukraine-7311d46f-49fc-47b5-af...
The Week in Kill your fellow citizens
“It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot. I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either,” she said at a conservative event in December 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/27/sarah-palin-dined-at-multiple-new-york-...
The Week in Labern wie bekifft
good lord. worth listening to this for a second. this is like something you hear from a stoned sophomore one night in college and everyone’s mind is blown because they’re also stoned
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https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1486132592193806339
“It’s a giant convoy of trucks . Some insane amount of people..like 50 thousand"
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https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1486835181034123267
Did 50,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Trucks Set Guinness World Record?
The Week in Kill your fellow citizens
“It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot. I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either,” she said at a conservative event in December 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/27/sarah-palin-dined-at-multiple-new-york-...
Die fällige Belobigung auf FOX:
Michele Bachmann says Sarah Palin should be commended for eating at a restaurant while having COVID
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1487224599431499778
Nicht mehr auf FOX dagegen:
Robert LaMay, the anti-vaccine state trooper who recently died of COVID, was praised as "a celebrity" by Fox's Laura Ingraham on 10/19/21. She also said she "hoped" they'd awoken "a sleeping giant." (LaMay also used that term previously in the interview.)
https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1487450030847971332
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Derweil führt die passionierte Homeschoolerin (ja, genau!) Bethany Mandel ihren Kampf gegen Masken in der Schule weiter:
“I have a weekly standing date where I just go on Zoom and yell at the Montgomery County Council and they groan now when they see my face. They just slump in their seats and look at their cell phones”
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The Week in Labern wie bekifft, Reaktionen
good lord. worth listening to this for a second. this is like something you hear from a stoned sophomore one night in college and everyone’s mind is blown because they’re also stoned
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https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1486132592193806339
“It’s a giant convoy of trucks . Some insane amount of people..like 50 thousand"------------->
https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1486835181034123267
Did 50,000 ‘Freedom Convoy’ Trucks Set Guinness World Record?
Right on time.
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The Week in Tory
#SueGrey is imminent, so I'll do a quick #TheWeekInTory for the stuff that will be drowned out
1. The Tories celebrated 2nd anniversary of Brexit, which costs us £800m a week
2. The Tories then celebrated a huge new trade deal with Greenland, which makes us £6m a year
3. Startled haddock Michael Gove asked for "Christian forgiveness" over Johnson running a frat-house in 10 Downing Street
4. This was the latest in a series of excuses, which I will now remind you of in a sub-thread
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a. No party happened
b. It happened but wasn’t a party
c. It was a party but wasn’t organised
d. It was organised by nobody told me it broke rules
e. It broke rules but I didn’t know the rules
f. OK fine, I wrote those rules, but I thought it was a business meeting
g. After 25 minutes watching people drink from a suitcase, play on swings, and do a DJ did a set, I worked out it might not be a business meeting
h. I didn’t kill the stripper [OK, I made that up, but would it shock you?]
i. I’ve done nothing wrong
j. I have apologised to the Queen for "doing nothing wrong"
k. I have also apologised to parliament for "doing nothing wrong"
l. This is disproportionate
m. I am a big dog who dominates his party
n. Quick, everybody shout a stupid policy, cos I need saving
o. My child was poorly with Covid, now take your fucking mask off in school, it’s safe
p. My wife made me do it
q. WAR WAR WAR
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5. Anyway, Brave Sir Boris is NOT running away, simply flying to Ukraine so he can [checks notes] make a phone call to Putin
6. Liz Truss, Maggie Thatcher from Elizabeth Duke, announced sanctions hitting Kremlin money in UK companies
7. Sanctions will not hit Kremlin money in the Tory Party
8. US officials expressed "dismay and frustration" at Russian money still "entrenched" in our governing party
9. So that’s this year's (first) embarrassing foreign disaster dealt with – now onto last year’s embarrassing foreign disaster: Afghanistan
10. A report found the PM's chief of staff skipped tackling the withdrawal from Kabul cos he wanted to go and watch the cricket
11. Johnson insisted he hadn’t authorised saving pets instead of humans from Kabul
12. Emails showed he had
13. So now the govt says officials often write the PMs instructions for him, while the PM has no idea what’s going on
14. Is it bad that I find that slightly reassuring?
15. Stoned halibut Michael Gove announced a new £1.5 bn "levelling up" fund, which amounts to £3 per person per week. We're rich!
16. Except it’s not new money, so actually amounts to £0
17. 2m "red wall" households expecting to level up will be the worst hit by Tory tax rises
18. Tories announced a multimillion £ cut of all the "Brexit red tape" they had promised would never happen
19. 4 months ago they spent £335 million to fund red tape Brexit caused in Northern Ireland, which they are now cancelling
20. But they can't cancel it, cos it's EU rules
21. Tories wasted £2.7 billion ordering PPE that didn’t work and got a warning for "extreme negligence on an industrial scale"
22. 20% of govt Covid contracts in 2020/21 raised a "red flag" for corruption using internationally recognized standards
23. Bewitched trellis Theresa May said "nobody is above the law". Sure
24. The Met dropped corruption charges against Johnson, a one-man game of shag, marry, avoid, for lack of evidence over Jennifer Arcuri
25. Arcuri then released 100 pages of evidence police didn’t look for
26. The Met division where Sajid Javid’s brother is a senior officer told Sue Gray her report into parties could **not mention parties**
27. Rishi Sunak told the UK’s National Crime Agency to “butt out” of investigating Covid fraud
28. And researchers found the Johnson administration "more corrupt than any UK govt" since the study began in 1945
29. So that’s nobody being above the law, is it?
30. Plague update: last week the govt cancelled masks in schools to get Johnson out of trouble for 15 minutes
31. Infections soared, and now 415,000 kids are off sick with Covid
32. So a week later, masks are back in schools and Johnson is still in trouble
33. Only 3 months after its vaccine policy drove 40,000 workers out of care homes, the govt did a U-turn on vaccines
34. It then changed Universal Credit rules to force people to go and work, ideally in care homes
35. And MI5 were asked to investigate "security risk" Boris Johnson after it was found he often left top secret papers "lying around his flat" during his illegal parties
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1488114841571278848
The Week in Kill your fellow citizens
Zu schön um plausibel zu sein...da treffen mal alle Vorurteile
gegenüber Amerikaner zu.
The Week in Tory
Oh, I should point out, this is just since 9am Monday. Perhaps #TheWeekInTory is a misnomer
1. Our PM, Sir Plankton Churchill, cancelled a call to Putin so he could go to parliament and tell them he must focus on phoning Putin
2. Theresa May, a tin seabird that’s swallowed a kazoo, asked Johnson whether he was too thick to understand the rules, or too corrupt to care
3. Andrew Mitchell became the 2nd long-term Johnson supporter to tell him to go and spend more time with his family. Or somebody else’s. Boris isn’t picky.
4. Because Johnson had quite obviously lied to parliament, he covered up by [checks notes] lying to parliament some more
5. Johnson said he’d got “all the big calls right”. Oh, is that right pal?
6. An Imperial College study says his delayed first lockdown cost 20,000 lives
7. It found he prioritised 2020 Christmas over public safety, and as a result 80,000 more people died by Feb 2021
8. Johnson accused Labour frontbenchers of having a drug problem, seemingly forgetting he works with shite in sheep’s clothing Michael Gove
9. He accused Starmer of letting off Jimmy Savile, which is a lie so big even the speaker rebuked Johnson – albeit 24 hours too late
10. Johnson claimed we had the fastest growing economy in G7: we’re 6th
11. He said crime was down 14%: it’s up 14%
12. He said he’d “got Brexit done”, just before the constitutionally slack-brained Liz Truss headed off to continue negotiating the supposedly "done" Brexit
13. Truss promised Brexit will all be sorted in a month
14. She had also promised that in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021
15. Truss was given a direct quote from the Sue Gray report, and refused to discuss it because “I won’t comment on hypotheticals”
16. Truss also sat unmasked for an hour next to the entire cabinet in parliament, and then told them she had Covid
17. She was sat immediately next to Priti Patel, Miss Trunchbull in larval form, and I don’t fancy Truss’s chances if “Razors” Patel gets poorly cos of this
18. Straight after that, Johnson piled into a room with 365 Tories and a few trillion Covid particles, to tell maskless MPs he takes the pandemic seriously
19. He reassured MPs his old campaigner Lynton Crosby was coming back to fix shit
20. Crosby said he’s not taking the job
21. And then up rocked the ethereally gormless Nadine Dorries, seemingly dragged in front of the cameras fresh from a fight outside a flat-roofed pub, and bizarrely claiming “The PM does not tell lies”
22. She said a quote directly from the Gray report was “pure conjecture”
23. 2/3 of voters want Johnson to resign
24. 83% think he broke rules
25. 75% think he’s a liar
26. Presumably Tory MPs think this is all just fine and dandy, cos they still haven’t ousted him
27. Not all though: Angela Richardson, aide to Michael Gove, resigned in disgust
28. Tory MP Peter Aldous called on the PM to resign
29. Tory MP Tom Hunt said Johnson's story is not “acceptable, excusable or defensible”
30. Other Tory MP quotes:
31. The entire party "is fucking deluded”
32. “Boris still things this is all a game”
33. Johnson is “a bastard [who will] do anything to wriggle off the hook”
34. “I have to say, isn’t the PM just fucking awful?”
35. “He’s dead, we’re just waiting for the coroner”
36. “I am currently in Europe and can report the PM is turning our country into a laughingstock”
37. Sue Gray said there was a culture of excessive drinking in Downing St
38. Oliver Dowden, Tory Chairman and adenoidal Morph cosplayer, said the PM is “committed to tacking the underlying culture” of everybody getting pissed whilst driving a country
39. Johnson is on record saying “I drink an awful lot at lunch”
40. Gavin Barwell said drinking didn’t happen under Cameron or May, so the "underlying culture" is basically Johnson
41. So an whole new govt dept is being formed to try to stop the PM getting pissed and fucking up
42. Other news: Michael Gove’s forthcoming epoch-making “Levelling Up” policy promises less money than Tories have cut *just since 2020*
43. His other main idea - and I use that word quite wrongly - is that people from poor areas should not to move to London to find better jobs
44.You have to get 200 pages into the Dept of Health annual report before you find where they hid the fact they’d wasted £8.7 bn of their £12 bn PPE orders
45.That’s the same as a stack of £10 notes 60 miles high, maths fans
46. And they published a 100-page booklet on the benefits of Brexit
47. It says we can now create freeports, which we could before Brexit
48. It says we can now cut plastic bags, which we could before Brexit
49. It says we can now add crown marks to pint glasses, which we could before Brexit
50. And it says we can have blue passports, which we could before Brexit
51. And that’s it. For £800 million a week.
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1488560827569475592
Boris Johnson is going to fight!
For his right to party!
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1488174679764439041?cxt=HHwWgsC48ZG_h6cpAAAA
Boris Johnson is going ...down
The sheer tawdry Trumpian shabbiness of the whole thing - it is difficult to see how much more of this the party or our political system can survive.
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https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1488403829712379904
Die Zusammenfassung von Ros Atkins / Reaktionen:
https://twitter.com/BBCRosAtkins/status/1489324216000425989
Tory insider - 'Munira was Boris’ brain and longest serving adviser. For her to depart at such a difficult time and in such a publicly critical way is simply devastating for the PM. It sends a strong signal to the Tory party that even those closest to the PM have now lost faith
Boris Johnson is going ...down
Wenn wir bis jetzt nur Boris mit Unterstützung seines 'externen Gehirns' erlebt haben, wollen wir womöglich gar nicht rausfinden was nun kommt.
Nadine Paladine
Wenn wir bis jetzt nur Boris mit Unterstützung seines 'externen Gehirns' erlebt haben, wollen wir womöglich gar nicht rausfinden was nun kommt.
Um das zu überprüfen, müssen wir uns unbedingt dieses sehr bemerkenswerte Interview mit Nadine Dorries ansehen:
Nadine Paladine
BoJo wird nicht sang- und klanglos gehen, das wird noch richtig lustig.
Space Lasers souped up
The Week in Kill your viewers
The Week in Tory
I would hate to ruin your weekend, so let's do #TheWeekInTory now, and get it over with.
Events since Tues
1. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the haunting end-product of The Child Catcher having hate-sex with a pendulum, was made “Minister for Brexit Opportunities”
2. It is 10,388 days since UKIP began the Leave campaign, so Brexit mastermind Rees-Mogg’s first move was to ask people who read The Sun to tell him what the hell any of it meant
3. The Public Accounts Committee found the only effect of Brexit was severe damage to UK trade
Schlechteste Diplomatin aller Zeiten
“I’m honestly disappointed that our conversation turned out like the mute with the deaf. We appear to be listening but we’re not hearing anything. Our detailed explanations fell on unprepared ground,” Lavrov said.
[…]
Away from the cameras, Truss allegedly confused the Russian regions of Voronezh and Rostov with Ukrainian territory when Lavrov asked her whether she recognised Russia’s sovereignty over them. She repeatedly told Lavrov that the UK would never recognise Moscow’s claim, until the British ambassador was forced to step in to correct her, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported.
[…]
The episode follows a previous taunt by Russia last week when the foreign secretary was taken to task over her comment that “we are supplying and offering extra support to our Baltic allies across the Black Sea”. The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea – where Ukraine sits on the coast – are on opposite sides of Europe.
The remark led Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, to observe: “Ms Truss, your knowledge of history is nothing compared to your knowledge of geography. If anyone needs saving from anything, it’s the world, from the stupidity and ignorance of British politicians.” The Foreign Office said that Truss’s remarks had been misinterpreted.
The British sanctions package remained under government review on Thursday, somewhat undermining Truss’s threat as she led a British diplomatic effort to head off a potential Russian offensive in Ukraine.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/10/russia-must-respect-ukraine-sovereignt...
Schlechteste Diplomatin aller Zeiten
“I’m honestly disappointed that our conversation turned out like the mute with the deaf. We appear to be listening but we’re not hearing anything. Our detailed explanations fell on unprepared ground,” Lavrov said.
[…]
Away from the cameras, Truss allegedly confused the Russian regions of Voronezh and Rostov with Ukrainian territory when Lavrov asked her whether she recognised Russia’s sovereignty over them. She repeatedly told Lavrov that the UK would never recognise Moscow’s claim, until the British ambassador was forced to step in to correct her, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported.
[…]
The episode follows a previous taunt by Russia last week when the foreign secretary was taken to task over her comment that “we are supplying and offering extra support to our Baltic allies across the Black Sea”. The Baltic Sea and the Black Sea – where Ukraine sits on the coast – are on opposite sides of Europe.
The remark led Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, to observe: “Ms Truss, your knowledge of history is nothing compared to your knowledge of geography. If anyone needs saving from anything, it’s the world, from the stupidity and ignorance of British politicians.” The Foreign Office said that Truss’s remarks had been misinterpreted.
The British sanctions package remained under government review on Thursday, somewhat undermining Truss’s threat as she led a British diplomatic effort to head off a potential Russian offensive in Ukraine.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/10/russia-must-respect-ukraine-sovereignt...
Die Überschrift ist falsch gewählt, die schlechteste Diplomatin aller Zeiten würde von sich aus ein kompromiss- und verhandlungsbereites Gegenüber verprellen, irgendeinen Elfer verschießen.
Das ist hier mit Blick auf Lavrov nicht der Fall. Baltic Sea und Black Sea zu verwechseln ist dämlich von ihr; dass sie die Regionen verwechselt hat, geht hingegen wohl auf ein kleines Gotcha-Spielchen Lavrovs zurück.
Wenn ich gekonnt hätte, hätte ich Nadine Dorries zu Lavrov geschickt.
Why the West’s Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing
American and European leaders’ profound lack of imagination has brought the world to the brink of war.
By Anne Applebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/lavrov-russia-diplomacy-ukraine/622075/
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Fast ironischerweise hat Frank Walter Steinmeier heute eine klare Rede gehalten, besser spät als nie.
Schlechtest vorbereitete Diplomatin aller Zeiten
Besser?
Die Sanktionsdrohungen der Tories nimmt Lawrov nicht ernst, denn ein großer Teil der Regierungspartei möchte garantiert nicht auf russisches Geld verzichten.
Dass Truss einfach hätte zurücktrollen müssen, ist klar. Aber sie war einfach schlecht vorbereitet. Ostsee und Schwarzes Meer zu verwechseln war ein Elfer für Russland. Absolut unnötig.
Ganz so einerlei scheinen westliche Sanktionsdrohungen aber dann doch nicht zu sein. Der Vlad hat drei Jachten aus europäischen Häfen abgezogen.
Warum haben wir den Gasgerd noch nicht auf die Sanktionsliste gesetzt? Wird Zeit für die Daumenschrauben!
Unterschiedliche Ostpolitiken
Besser?
Ja.
Die Sanktionsdrohungen der Tories nimmt Lawrov nicht ernst, denn ein großer Teil der Regierungspartei möchte garantiert nicht auf russisches Geld verzichten.
Da wäre ich mir nicht sicher, weil der London Laundromat ein öffentliches Thema in GB ist, die Wählerschaft der Tories nicht ganz so verrottet ist wie Trumps Base und sie sich im Zweifelsfall einen Verzicht auf Sanktionen ungefähr genauso wenig leisten könn(t)en wie die SPD ein weiter so bei ihrer maximal weltfremden Version von Ostpolitik. Zudem hat GB Ukraine ein paar brauchbare Waffen geliefert.
Auf Twitter habe ich neulich versucht, Toomas Hendrik Ilves und anderen zu erklären, dass nicht alle führenden und geführt habenden deutschen Sozialdemokraten so zynische Egomanen wie Kreml-Gerd sind, sondern Ostpolitik bzw. die irre Version davon für einige darunter so etwas wie ein superstarkes Kraut ist, mit dem sie sich 30 Jahre lang selber hypnotisiert haben. Allein, ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich damit völlig durchgedrungen bin, weil es nicht-deutschen Beobachtern schwer fällt, zu glauben, dass zumindest ein Teil der sozialdemokratischen Ostpolitik wirklich auf so schwere ideologische Doofheit zurückgeht.
Immerhin heißt das auch: Deutsche Politiker werden generell nicht für total bescheuert gehalten.
Dass Truss einfach hätte zurücktrollen müssen, ist klar.
Deshalb hätte ich gleich Nadine Dorries geschickt, mit sowas hätte Lavrov nicht gerechnet. Wahrscheinlich wäre es auch so peinlich geworden, aber er hätte sich dafür rein gar nichts zurechtlegen können.
Aber sie war einfach schlecht vorbereitet. Ostsee und Schwarzes Meer zu verwechseln war ein Elfer für Russland. Absolut unnötig.
Ganz so einerlei scheinen westliche Sanktionsdrohungen aber dann doch nicht zu sein. Der Vlad hat drei Jachten aus europäischen Häfen abgezogen.
Warum haben wir den Gasgerd noch nicht auf die Sanktionsliste gesetzt? Wird Zeit für die Daumenschrauben!
Gute Frage. Teilantwort:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/gerhard-schroeder-was-passiert-mit-bundesmit...
Kurzform: Es ist gesetzlich nicht klar geregelt, was eine Bundeskanzler a.D. in seinem Büro veranstalten darf und was nicht, es gibt nur ein paar dürre Passagen in der "Hausordnung" des Bundestages.
Unterschiedliche Ostpolitiken
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Unterschiedliche Ostpolitiken
Head of RT Margarita Simonyan pleads on state TV for Putin to finally let “wonderful Tucker Carlson” interview him.
The top Kremlin mouthpieces think that now is the perfect time for Putin to be interviewed on Fox News.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1494388011093663748
Russia fight shows off tensions between McConnell, pro-Trump wing
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/594646-russia-fight-shows-off-tensions-between-mcco...
The Week in Tory
The UK faces 5 crises: Brexit, Covid, Economy, Ukraine, and the PM’s belief that all business meetings should involve a glitterball.
Let's dive into #TheWeekInTory
The Week in Tory
#TheWeekInTory
1. It’s been a busy 3 weeks, during which we’d denied entry for refugees, allowed refugees if they'd pick fruit, turn back over 600 refugees in Calais, hung posters in France saying, “no visas here”, and taken 0.015% the number refugees taken by Ireland
2. This week the Home Office followed up on their *excellent* start by sending emails to displaced people in Ukraine, asking them to head INTO THE WAR ZONE to attend a visa application appointment at a UK centre 500 miles from their home
3. And that visa centre is shut
4. Michael Gove, with the soul of a hyena, said the UK had “granted 300,000 visas”
5. Sky News asked if he was sure about that number
6. Michael Gove, with the mind of a goldfish, said the UK had “granted 3000 visas”
7. And only 300 people have actually been allowed in yet
8. Poland has taken over 1.8 million
9. So Boris Johnson, an internationally recognised lodestone for bullshit, said “we have taken more refugees than any other country in Europe”
10. And then he halted Home Office plans to expand the refugee offer
11. Meanwhile Daniel Kawczynski, the gobshite’s gobshite, tweeted it would be “immoral” and “left wing” for Britain to take refugees
12. Instead he said kids, pensioners and pregnant women fleeing Russian bombardments should “remain on the front line” for “their own good”
13. Having bravely volunteered Ukrainians to the front line, he bravely deleted his Twitter account because people mocked him for being as thick as a boxing day turd
14. But the govt has eventually done the right thing, having finally exhausted all the alternatives
15. The Tories created a website where you can register to house a refugee
16. The website crashed
17. When it did occasionally work, it was discovered you need to know the individual names of any refugees you wanted to help, and the govt wouldn’t assist with that in any way
18. Michael Gove suggested the best way for Ukrainian refugees to let volunteers know their names was to “set up an Instagram account” (presumably while being shot at in a freezing crater that used to be their bombed-out home), quickly learn English, and “advertise”
19. Gove said he’d “had it up to here” with people saying his govt was dishonest about its commitment to refugees, and that “Labour introduced the Hostile Environment”
20. It was 2012 when Tories announced their policy to “create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment”
21. Trundling horcrux Priti Patel said incredibly slow visa applications were necessary because of Windrush, which ended in people being unable to access benefits
22. Windrush only happened because of the Hostile Environment the Tories created, and are still running
23. Sajid Javid said he had considered taking in a refugee, but decided not to because “he wouldn’t be a good host”
24. He’s worth over £8m, and owns 3 homes in the UK
25. One has 5 double bedrooms, a Star Wars themed cinema, and a self-contained guest barn
26. But he can’t put up a refugee, cos he's not around to offer canapes
27. Patel tweeted it was “appalling misinformation” to suggest Ukrainians still needed a visa to enter the UK
28. Same day, Boris Johnson announced details of the visas Ukrainians needed to enter the UK
29. Tory MPs accused Patel of misleading the House of Commons (again) over visas
30. Patel told MPs “I have made it clear, the visa application centre has now been set up and we have staff in Calais”
31. That Calais visa centre is in Lille, which is 70 miles from Calais
32. And it didn’t exist when she told parliament it “has how been set up”
33. But she did tell MPs refugees could take “a free Eurostar” to the quantum fluctuating visa centre in Calais/Lille, so that must be a relief to them
34. Or maybe not, since no such train route exists
35. This week Boris Johnson wrote a Telegraph article blaming the EU for not using its influence to prevent Putin’s expansionism
36. In 2014 Boris Johnson wrote a Telegraph article blaming EU influence in Ukraine for Putin’s expansionism
37. Warming to his theme of Bullshit Tsunami, Johnson denounced our dependence on oil from a brutal undemocratic dictatorship that has invaded neighbouring lands
38. So instead, he went to ask for more oil from Saudi Arabia, a brutal undemocratic dictatorship that invaded Yemen
39. And Jacob Rees-Mogg, a cross between a cursed dildo and the concept of gout, claimed UK “leads the way” in removing corrupt Russian money from our system, thus proving the UK had previously led the way in allowing corrupt Russian money in our system
40. Bearing that in mind, grant me the balls of Nadine Dorries, who launched a “crackdown on people telling lies, using the internet to exploit innocent people”
41. She then asked Microsoft “when are you going to get rid of algorithms”, which are the basis of computer science
42. Meanwhile Facebook deleted quotes by Dorries and Boris Johnson for breaching their decency standards
43. Dorries then announced “400 new jobs” in culture
44. This consisted of her firing 600 people, moving 400 of their roles to Manchester, and cutting the remaining 200 jobs
45. Covid: and the former Corruption Minister (who earlier resigned cos there was too much corruption) said Tory Covid policy was “happy days if you were a crook”
46. As cases soared and scientists globally warned “the pandemic is not over” the Tories leaped into inaction
47. They cancelled funding for Covid tracking apps
48. And cancelled funding for Covid transmission studies
49. And cancelled all travel restrictions
50. And abolished the Covid declaration form on entry into UK, so we have no clue about new infections
51. Sajid Javid, apparently the health minister and a child’s drawing of infinite irresponsibility superimposed onto a competitively evil gonad, said Britain is “in a very good position” as 12,000 people ended up in hospital with Covid
52. Then he cut NHS training for new staff
53. The NHS already has 94,000 full time vacancies
54. And because of cuts a record 791 medical graduates were refused training places this week
55. Unsurprisingly Javid said we should “prepare ourselves” for many deaths. I'm gonna do 10 press-ups and bleed my radiators
56. Grant Shapps celebrated this great health news for people who somehow make it through alive, saying “you can now travel, like in the good old days”
57. And Greg Hands tweeted his delight at the memory of his 1985 move to Germany, where he went to live and work
58. They’re both members of a govt that ended the right to do any of that
59. Boris Johnson said the NI Protocol (which he negotiated, said was “brilliant”, and pushed through parliament without scrutiny) now needed “significant changes” because he said it might break the law
60. Courts ruled the Protocol is “not simple, but it is lawful” so we're stuck with it
61. MPs said the Festival of Brexit is a £120m “recipe for failure”, “vague”, “shape-shifting” and “an irresponsible use of public money”. Therefore a perfect celebration of Brexit
62. Rises in prices for energy, heating, oil, water, council tax, broadband, food and National Insurance all happened before Russia invaded Ukraine
63. But they all happened since Brexit
64. So after their last stunning success, the ERG transformed into a pro-fracking group
65. COP26 chair, climate super-champion, and the world’s first spine-donor Kwasi Kwarteng suggested fracking should go ahead in 138 English constituencies
66. Of those 138 MPs found only 5 would allow fracking under their OWN homes, but were all for it under anybody else’s
67. And speaking of COP26, this week it was revealed a Tory peer - no, not Evgeniy Lebedev, a different one - had attended that conference as a **Russian delegate**
68. Needles to say, the govt denied Russia was too embedded in the Downing St operation
69. And then it emerged Russia had fitted all the electronics, computers, recording and broadcast equipment for the ghastly £2.6 million Downing St briefing room that was only used for Allegra Stratton to admit to illegal parties, and for Johnson to watch Bond movies.
70. Minor stories you may have missed, or may wish you had: only 29% of students with disabilities were approved for govt disability grants
71. We suddenly face a multibillion-pound bill from China, because we forgot to collect customs duties on Chinese imports for SIX YEARS
72. Having left the Charity Commission without a chair for a year, the Tories finally found a former Tory candidate (what a coincidence) to take over, just in time for the review of whether private schools should still be charities
73. And finally, some much-needed good news: the law banning the import of dead wild animals from trophy hunters was axed after “lobbying from a small group of wealthy Tory peers”. And I bet that’s a huge relief to voters in those Red Wall seats