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jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@statsguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>statsguy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@newlouisallaway" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>newlouisallaway</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@djstreethawk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>djstreethawk</span></a></span> </p><p>I think that was after the event - so making the most of the situation in which she had to govern</p><p>More despicable were the vans sent round poor areas to scare unauthorised migrants into leaving - but compared to what the Tories have done since that now seems mild</p><p>But these are human actions of normal people (OK, excepting the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/frogEyedGrifter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frogEyedGrifter</span></a> ) - you are unrealistic about human behaviour</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@statsguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>statsguy</span></a></span> </p><p>"I think it's worrying that it's only today that COBRA is going to meet"</p><p>This from a man who first joined the Cabinet under the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> who failed to attend the first 3 COBRA meetings at the start of the pandemic because he was too busy finishing his mediocre biography of Churchill ....</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@statsguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>statsguy</span></a></span> </p><p>...Keeping sentient human beings basically kicking their heeels for years at taxpayer expense is a form of expensive cruelty that served nobody except Tories' own very short-term political interests...</p><p>We may have rid ourselves of the lying scumbag <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> in September 2022 but the injection of delusional populist nonsense he orchestrated ever since he was Mayor of London remains to poison our politics....</p><p>Rant over..... for now!</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@JorisBohnsonPM" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JorisBohnsonPM</span></a></span> </p><p>The word is "toupée"</p><p>And I beleive what the Orange One has is a comb-over, most likely enabled by a weave or hair implants</p><p>Remember Berlesconi? There is somethng about egocentric right-wing populists that makes them obsess about their hair</p><p>See also - Johnson, the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a>, who musses his hair up deliberately before going into a public space....</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@LRBristol" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LRBristol</span></a></span> </p><p>I particularly like the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> use of "humble" ..... I am not sure whether he realises this word is humourous when he uses it about himself.... or not</p><p>In fact., am never sure whether this man knows what he is or not..... the fact he keeps coming back for more suggests not. But it might be an elaborate joke - at our expense</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://muenchen.social/@frankingermany" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>frankingermany</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@mistakenotmy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mistakenotmy</span></a></span> </p><p>But that's not the fault of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>starmer</span></a> - that lies squarely at the feet of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/frogEyedGrifter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frogEyedGrifter</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> &amp; the populist Right who led an army of prejudiced nativists who won the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/leaveEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leaveEU</span></a> vote in 2016 - &amp; the subsequent catastrophic maladministration of the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/toriesOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toriesOut</span></a> govts - re-elected several times - in smaching our EYU membership</p><p>All Starmer is doing is pointing out it is not possible to reverse that destruction anytime soon. And he's correct</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@SubtleBlade" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SubtleBlade</span></a></span> </p><p>... <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/votesAt16" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>votesAt16</span></a> ARE in the 2024 manifesto - as is some reform to the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Lords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lords</span></a></p><p>That and improved controls on behviour in govt to prevent the BS the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> inflicted on us all will be good</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@richmondchambers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>richmondchambers</span></a></span> </p><p>But less than would be wasted on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/rwanda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rwanda</span></a> nonsense if the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/toriesOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toriesOut</span></a> WON the election</p><p>Fortunately that appears unlikely, and this heamorrhaging of money on a stupid idea the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> made up when he was not dreaming of another impossibvle bridge can come to a halt.....</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cstross</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@CrypticMirror" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CrypticMirror</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@skjeggtroll" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>skjeggtroll</span></a></span> </p><p>If you say so - others claim it was the image of the leader himself who repelled many voters</p><p>Either way, events conspired to enable the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> to do his worst - and that would not have obtained had the membership been more sensible in their choice of leader in 2015...</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@richmondchambers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>richmondchambers</span></a></span> </p><p>I think calling the richest PM we have had in over a century a "pound shop" anything is a bit..... rich (!)</p><p>He is certainly a glutton for punishment - we did not see the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> volunteering for such exposure to the public</p><p>I'd rather call him "ersatz" - the real full fat right-wing populist a la Mussolini is the frog-eyed grifter - this one seeks to harvest some of his tarnished glitter....to no effect - he is toast</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@blabberlicious" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>blabberlicious</span></a></span> </p><p>...according to the booming-voiced specialist in advising tax havens for large fees, Geoffrey Cox....</p><p>Actually <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> in power is a much better respector of our UK constitution than the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> - you do remember the illegal prorogation of Parliament by the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> and all the abuse of power in the last 14 years?</p><p>Not to mention the failed attempt at voter suppression via the unnecessary imposition of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/idCards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idCards</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jun/12/general-election-rishi-sunak-sky-news-keir-starmer-tories-labour-green-party-manifesto-uk-politics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/live/</span><span class="invisible">2024/jun/12/general-election-rishi-sunak-sky-news-keir-starmer-tories-labour-green-party-manifesto-uk-politics</span></a></p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@kDelta" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kDelta</span></a></span> </p><p>Well, that is how the world is - most people are not paying attention or distracted by grifters like Farage &amp; the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> ...</p><p>Not unique to the UK - its everywhere. I mean, how can anyone claiming to be "christian" vote for <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> ?</p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bbcnewsfeed</span></a></span> </p><p>No doubt <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/sunak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sunak</span></a> would like those additional 4 TV debates to be hosted by GBNews.....</p><p>The favourite to win never wants these TV appearences - I recall C4 empty-chaired the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> in 2019....</p><p>Demanding 6 in 6 weeks is definitely over the top - the UK does not have a presidency</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2jjvpxxgr5o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2jjvp</span><span class="invisible">xxgr5o</span></a></p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@LillyHerself" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LillyHerself</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>PaulaToThePeople</span></a></span> </p><p>It is a common slur - here in the UK the former PM the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> routinely miss-named the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@SNP" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SNP</span></a></span> as the "Scottish NationalIST Party" to slur them</p><p>Nationalism in my book is a term that elevates the state, and those who control the state, to a position of absolute power over the actuvities and citizens of that state. ...</p>
jackLondon<p>and another one....</p><p>Boris Johnson broke rules over <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> talks</p><p>The former PM failed to clarify his relationship with a hedge fund that set up talks with <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Maduro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maduro</span></a></p><p>Ex-ministers must not take new jobs for two years after leaving office without Acoba's advice (which the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> did not seek)</p><p>No surprise, really - a chaotic but enormous ego like his is never going to ask permission for anything</p><p>What a parcel of rogues has governed since 2010</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/toriesOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toriesOut</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68855382" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-688</span><span class="invisible">55382</span></a></p>
jackLondon<p>The right wing press are again trying to get <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Rayner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rayner</span></a> removed from the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> front bench</p><p>Her statement: "If I committed a criminal offence, I would of course do the right thing and step down. The British public deserves politicians who know the rules apply to them" is careful </p><p>The only way it is clear she committed a criminal offence is if prosecuted &amp; found guilty - which happened with <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Sunak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunak</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> in the recent past, but IMO unlikely here</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-68803660" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-paper</span><span class="invisible">s-68803660</span></a></p>
jackLondon<p>Shameful to call for <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> to end arms sales to <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> says <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> </p><p>Any still harbouring a delusion this pile of excrement is on the side of the angels might finally realise the error of their ways reading this</p><p>Equally anyone with any ambivalence about the morality of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Netenyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netenyahu</span></a> govt might find the scales fall from their eyes seeing that same sack of ordure supports israeli brutality against children as they exterminate those they regard as less than human<br><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68748251" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-687</span><span class="invisible">48251</span></a></p>
jackLondon<p>Boat Race: Oxford rowers criticise sewage levels in River Thames </p><p>Now some posh boys from their own social class have criticised the shit state of the Thames, maybe the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/toriesOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toriesOut</span></a> will regret not doing enough about it sooner...</p><p>Rather as the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> showboated on the 2012 olympics <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/livingstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livingstone</span></a> won for <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/london" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>london</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> will be creditted when the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/superSewer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>superSewer</span></a> cleans up our river</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68701486" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68701486</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
jackLondon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@Probertd8" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Probertd8</span></a></span> </p><p>Dunno - but then our <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a> did something similar at a party in an Italian Villa hosted by a Russian KGB oligarch..... if there is enough money...</p><p>The worst thing about <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is he is driven by emotion &amp; ego and a paranoid extremist with no understanding of science</p><p>He is both more likely to leave Europe to its fate and start a nuclear war</p>
jackLondon<p>Blackpool South by-election to take place in May</p><p>May 2nd - when the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/toriesOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toriesOut</span></a> will get a real pasting in the local elections - is a good day to bury bad news </p><p>My money is on hilarious <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/susanHall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>susanHall</span></a> doing even worse than hopeless <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/shaunBailey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shaunBailey</span></a> in 2021</p><p>I do think Saddiq as an early post-election act should declare he will not stand for a 4th term.....let someone else take over for <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> in 2029 - after the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/vacuumOfIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vacuumOfIntegrity</span></a>, no <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/toriesOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toriesOut</span></a> stands a chance as London mayor</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68656477" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-686</span><span class="invisible">56477</span></a></p>