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"These are our party's principles. And if you don't like them, well, we have others…"
@Geri
'the Conservative Party in 2019 "occupied the centre ground of British politics"'
@Geri
I can only think that behind that paywall Sunak is going full fash and advocating capital punishment for his political opponents.
The big problem for the Tories is the electoral toxicity of their combination of impotence and performative cruelty. The Rabid Right that laps up the cruelty will be angry the government isn't kicking the other people they hate because they can fight back. And a lot of other Tory voters will be turned off that "We're doing this because we can" is so obviously "We're doing this because we can't do anything else."
@fkamiah17
It's barely believable that they could sit around a table and agree that this was a good idea. #TheNastyParty
"Hey guys! We're going to be voting on sending vulnerable people to an unsafe country in defiance of international law at a cost that's so high it would be cheaper to buy each one a house in central London so we'll have a piss-up before the vote, yah!"
#RwandaBill
#TheNastyParty
#ToryIncompetence
#ToriesOut
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-mps-rwanda-vote-office_uk_662690bbe4b04378c08b01a6
Two points:
"The prime minister announced fresh curbs on disability benefits on Friday, saying he wanted to explore whether some cash payments to claimants with mental health conditions could be replaced by treatment or access to services" is an admission that treatment and access to services are dangerously inadequate after a decade and a half of Tory mismanagement.
#DisabilityRights
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
#TheNastyParty
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/19/sunak-disability-benefit-curbs-sicknote-culture-pip
Liz Truss' interviews with the press are, essentially, Linkedin posts aimed at the trustees of opaquely-funded think-tanks and the "Christian" right rubber chicken circuit.
"If you refuse to engage with those who are seeking change, it doesn’t make the causes of their actions go away. We can still see the floods, feel the heatwaves, read the research, watch the news and recognise that our government is not moving in the direction that we need."
#ClimateEmergency
#RightToProtest
#TheNastyParty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/13/climate-crisis-protest-activism-repression
At least we know which side the Archbishop would have been on at the Episcopal Conference of Fulda.
@Geri
If the Conservative Party were capable of any degree of self-reflection it would have a long hard think about how its behaviour over the past fourteen years measures against that definition.
Sadly, Tory politicians' capacity for self-reflection is hindered by their not showing up in mirrors.
“Refusing to engage with groups it disagrees with is becoming a pattern of behaviour from this government,” said Akiko Hart, director of Liberty.
"It is important to distinguish between strongly felt debate on the one hand, and unacceptable acts of abuse, intimidation and violence on the other,” said a spokesperson for the party of institutionalised Islamophobia, 'the war on woke,' crackdown on protests, capricious sanctioning of benefits and Go Home vans on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike.
The government will, of course, be the sole arbiter of what is — and isn't — "British values."
'Where was Rish! when the Daily Mail and the Telegraph called judges and remainer MPs “traitors” and “enemies of the people”? Cheering the newspapers on. That’s where.'
'Then the prolonged attacks on refugees and minorities. The othering of people who couldn’t defend themselves. Just because he imagined it would go down well with the right wing of the Tory party. He practically introduced a daily 15 minute hate.'
"he is confined by the narrowing of his party’s credibility and popularity – and by the limits of hard-right Conservatism itself: a creed with diverse proponents but an electoral dependency on angry old white men, and social and economic ideas that have hardly changed since the 1980s, when he joined the party"