UK Politics Thread 🇬🇧

[jj23]

Johnson prepares fightback as allies admit confidence vote now likely

PM will launch last-ditch attempt this week to win over critics in Tory ranks with health and housing policy announcements

www.theguardian.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

To be fair. Pretty close. Folks have this weird idea that this is what taking your country back looks like.

Decades of the Mirror, the Sun and the Mail take their toll.

This is what social media does in months though.

The same thing is happening in the US, but at least you have a shyt ton of resources and wealth to draw on. When it crashes it will be ugly.

Looks like a destructive self-fulfilling prophecy feedback loop from the outside

People have to notice right?

 

[jj23]

Looks like a destructive self-fulfilling prophecy feedback loop from the outside

People have to notice right?

Heh...not when you can point at a black or Asian, or heck an EU member state, as the enemy.

People don't understand policy, but they fully understand that feeling that makes them want to hate another human being, and that will always get tapped by people like Boris Johnson.

 

[jj23]

The storm clouds of Brexit and Covid have moved on – but Britain just isn’t working any more | Simon Jenkins

From childcare to the courts, public service failures are causing chaos, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

The jubilee holiday period saw Britain’s airports collapse into chaos. Thousands of flights cancelled and tens of thousands of holidays wrecked, with the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, at a loss as to what to do. We hear daily that the NHS is in distress. It has “lost” 25,000 beds, and a staggering 14 million patients face delayed surgery, 300,000 for heart treatment.

Madness.

 

[88m3]

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[jj23]

No confidence vote triggered.



Happening this evening

Tory MPs to hold no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson this evening, Graham Brady says – live

Chairman of 1922 committee says vote will take place between 6pm and 8pm today after he received over 54 letters

www.theguardian.com

 

[jj23]

Disregard

 

[the next guy]

GET RID OF THE FOOL

 

[88m3]

In Britain, a New Test of an Old Dream: The 4-Day Workweek

A six-month program involving thousands of workers across 70 companies in Britain will be the latest effort to assess the effects of a shorter workweek.

www.nytimes.com

 

[merklman]

GET RID OF THE FOOL

Probably better for him to stay. Tories won't trigger any snap election after last time. Better for the opposition boris is still sitting until 2024 GE, rather than a credible tory MP.

 

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10 mins to go

Spoiler: ....

 

[jj23]

10 mins to go

Spoiler: ....

fukker survived.

 

[jj23]

Still ...nearly 40% of the party voted against him. Beginning of the end

 

[OscarAcosta]

Over 40% against, I think. He is an electoral liability to his party now.

The Tories used to be ruthless when that happened - they would always chop off the head. It will be amazing if he is able to weasel on for much longer. He really does seem to be the human embodiment of a greased piglet, though.

Dreadful PM. Dreadful human being.

 

[Peak]

It will be amazing if he is able to weasel on for much longer.

I'm always interested when I here people say this. How would the rebels in the party get him out? He has been very adamant he will not resign despite all the scandal he has brought to the party...