UK Politics Thread 🇬🇧

[Heimdall]

Pure money heist

Commons authorities have blanked out the recommended spending level per MP, arguing it could jeopardise the procurement process.

Yeah. I have no doubt it will be an obscene amount

 

[jj23]

Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to stand down as MP at next election – UK politics live

Liz Truss’s short-lived chancellor is the 54th Tory MP to say they are standing down at the next election

www.theguardian.com

Tea leaves ain't reading well for the tories

 

[jj23]

Mone in the middle

Leak reveals Michelle Mone told government she would not benefit financially from PPE firm

Exclusive: Tory peer said she had ‘no conflicts whatsoever’, five months before trust received £29m of profits

www.theguardian.com

Leaked emails between Mone and the Cabinet Office reveal that a civil servant asked her to make a declaration that she had no conflict of interest in relation to the company, PPE Medpro, which she had recommended to ministers in May 2020.

Mone stated that she had “no conflicts whatsoever” and that she was not “entitled to any financial remuneration or financial benefit whatsoever”.

The civil servant then asked for clarification about the involvement of Mone’s husband, the Isle of Man-based financial services businessman Doug Barrowman. She replied that “Doug is a very philanthropic individual” who “wanted to help the NHS” and was negotiating to lower the prices the government was paying for PPE.

 

[jj23]

People found in back of lorry at East Sussex port

Large emergency services presence reported after discovery at Newhaven ferry port

www.theguardian.com

 

[SCORCH]

UK is finished.

 

[jj23]

UK is finished.

This is the Tories legacy and Brexit. Absolute decimation.

 

[SCORCH]

This is the Tories legacy and Brexit. Absolute decimation.

Second biggest city in the country going out this sad is insane.

 

[LuuqMaan]

UK is finished.

Nah man this is sad


Waste collection every two weeks, will have Small health smelling like a madness
I can’t imagine driving through that after two weeks

 

[Heimdall]

UK is finished.

Trident missile test fails for second time in a row

The UK's nuclear deterrent failed to fire a test missile reportedly landing close to the launch site.

www.bbc.co.uk

Some deterrent.

Waste collection every two weeks, will have Small health smelling like a madness
I can’t imagine driving through that after two weeks

ffs

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

UK is finished.

Live like Oscar the grouch bruvs

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

UK is finished.

Austerity.

 

[jj23]

More than half of Tory members in poll say Islam a threat to British way of life

Figure is double that for overall population and comes amid row over Lee Anderson comments about Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

The true economic consequences of Liz Truss

During a brief, chaotic stint as UK prime minister, her incompetence undermined the case for economic radicalism

www.ft.com

 

[FAH1223]

George blocked me on Twitter. I don’t know what I did to him

 

[jj23]

George blocked me on Twitter. I don’t know what I did to him

Amazing that Labour and the Tories refuse to do the right thing then have the temerity to denounce an opportunist like George when he takes advantage of it.