#boris fucking johnson everyone

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the one thing I'll miss is how boris and trump appeared to have the same otherwise unemployable hairdresser. hashtags end of an era

#oh no wait. there is in fact NOTHING about this era that i shall recall with even the most vague of nostalgia #boris fucking johnson everyone #it's like the titanic in parliament today except even the establishment is rooting for the iceberg #good for them #politics

[that-thing-in-the-closet]

England is on fire after our power hungry, sorry excuse of an ex prime minister cut funding for firestations which resulted in 10 closing down in the london area alone.

Throughout his career he has claimed to have always been "right with the big calls" yet now those calls, his decisions, have led to the country being incapacitated and over run on multiple fronts.

Wether it was relaxing lockdown restrictions at a key point in the pandemic, forcing children to attend school during the pandemic or cutting funding for key services such as the NHS and the Fire Departments, he was said to have been right in those decisions.

Look where it fucking got us

Now if you'll excuse me, its 34°c, i have one 2ft tall fan thats the same age as me and i need a fucking break :)

#wales #england #uk #united kingdom #boris johnson #uk politics #london is burning #climate chaos #climate change #global warming #fuck the tories #fuck boris #fuck everyone who had the chance to make meaningful change and didnt

[honestlywhyamibackhere]

liz trust? more like loose trust

rishi sunak? more like rich you'll soon be not

#boris johnson more like fuckface manchild #uk politics #i hate the tory party #in case you couldn't tell #fuck tories #also nothing is being done about climate change because they're all too focused on making everyone's lives a living hell #i am full of hatred

[medievalwoundman]

heard that johnson resigned during online training, took off my headphones, announced it as loudly as I could and then sat back and watched the sparks fly it was poetic honestly

#i am so happy #and I fucking love sewing the seeds of discord it’s so much fun #everyone was arguing soooo much #british politics #boris johnson

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

please tell us more about your mad theory about the tories getting rid of Sunak?

So the Tories currently have two (2) major problems.

Problem the first: they are about to lose power as soon as the GE rolls around, which it must do by January 2025 at the absolute latest. And the country is baying for one sooner.

This is very much preoccupying their minds at the minute. The rich and powerful will never willingly let you vote away their wealth and power, and to put this into perspective, the Tory party has ruled this country either jointly or alone for over a decade at this point. One of David Cameron's strategies as leader was to focus on recruitment of young and exciting diverse Tories into the party, which is how we got such stellar entries as Liz Truss and Priti Patel and Suella Braverman. These are MPs, therefore, who have never known political life outside of being on the winning side. They are seeing the end of the gravy train in sight, and they are taking it as well as you'd expect.

This is why the infighting is so rife (partly; bear with). The main thing they care about right now is making the party electable again, and fast.

But...

Problem the second: like all good fascist dictators, when Boris Johnson came to power, he fired everyone who said anything bad about him for disloyalty, and promoted all his personal friends. This is how we got such stellar entries as Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees Mogg and Michael Fabricant. But THAT'S an issue because saying bad things about BJ is basically what intelligent people did, because the man was a useless blundering oaf who killed horrifying numbers of his own electorate via the world's second worst mismanagement of a global pandemic. So removing anyone who criticised him meant, in very real terms, removing the only Tories with half a brain who were even a fraction capable of doing joined up thinking required to run a country. Like, fuck every Tory with a cactus, obviously, but they did at least used to have competent, high calibre politicians, however evil and grotesque they were. David Cameron should die in a cesspit, but he was capable of remembering to put the bins out (before wage cutting the refuse collectors).

And therein lies the real problem: okay, BJ is gone, the party is in ruin, they're staring down the barrel of the most humiliating election defeat in history. They need someone competent that they all like who can take the reins and make people like them again.

But who's left?

There's no one. There's no one left. Not just because the remaining Tories are too low calibre to lead; they're too low calibre to even be able to pick someone without shrieking like cliquey little harridans on the playground about how the wrong in-group got in. Half of them are still BJ loyalists who hate anyone who criticise The Great Brexit Leader. The other half hate BJ for managing to make everyone hate the Tories so much that they're in this mess. Both halves are willing to sabotage the chosen leader of the other, locked in a battle of mutually assured destruction.

So how does Sunak fit into this?

He's unpopular in the party to a truly staggering degree, and not much better in the eyes of the public. He's tried to take a centrist stance on BJ, but that's actually just pissed off both sides. He did manage to stabilise the economy somewhat after the appalling mess Liz Truss threw it into, but he hasn't actually fixed it - we're still mid-cost of living crisis, we're still inexplicably not rich after Brexit like Boris prommied, inflation is still at an all time high as public services crash. The public hates him.

And he hasn't made the public stop hating the Tories. That petition calling for a GE is great, because it won't happen - BUT, it does force the issue to be debated in Parliament with opposition parties getting to stick the boot in, which means the humiliation continues. The Tories are starting to get desperate again.

And because this lot of Tories are, as mentioned, utterly terrible low-calibre political idiots, their response to this pressure has for the last four years been to oust the leader and get another.

And the first letters of no confidence have been sent into the 1922 Committee already. The devil moves fast, but knuckle dragging Tories with a fifth of a braincell each move faster.

And thanks to the absolute fucking state of them all... I cannot believe I'm saying these words, but genuinely the best person they have left who could possibly do the job is, of all fucking people, Michael Fucking Gove, and it won't even be him because he was mean to Boris once.

So yeah. I reckon Sunak may be out in six months. Fuck knows who we get instead. Probably Penny Mordaunt.

#asks #politik

[qqueenofhades]

i do genuinely hesitate to ask, as i am sure i will find out more than i meant to in time, but atm my various feeds and an uninformed google are not telling me what most recently exploded about the british government, so if you have the time and the inclination i'm agog for your summary/take

HOO BOY. It has been a Things Exploding In the British Government day to the extent that in the hour-odd between my previous post and this one, I had to go back and check if anything ELSE had exploded while I wasn't looking. Everything that they are currently denying will probably be confirmed within the next 12 hours or less, though, so nobody get too comfortable.

Anyway, we all remember how Liz Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, met the Queen, the Queen immediately fucking croaked which honestly was the funniest time she could possibly have done it, the country ground to a total halt for ten days, and then when it got going again, Truss and her chancellor (aka finance minister, for those of you happily ignorant of British politics), Kwasi Kwarteng, proposed a Thatcherite wet-dream economic plan of unfunded massive tax cuts for rich people, because something something Stimulate Growth. We are also generally aware that this crashed the pound through the floor, blew up people's mortgages and other mildly important bills, and did nothing to deal with the actual energy bills/cost of living crisis currently engulfing the UK. Oops.

After absolutely everybody, including the commie socialists at the Bank of England, screamed OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU MORONS DOING???, and the day after Kwarteng insisted he would absolutely remain in post and he had 100% confidence in the Plan, he... got sacked for creating this, the Plan that Truss had asked him to deliver and which had won her the Tory party members' election. This made him officially the second-shortest serving chancellor in UK history aside from the guy who literally died in office. Womp womp. That will be a pub quiz answer for you. You're welcome.

Having spent all this time hiding from the press, then giving eight-minute press conferences during which you could literally track the pound crashing in real time, and performing more U-turns than a dancing dashboard hood ornament, Liz Truss took a break from her busy schedule of conducting the Economic Disaster Waltz in the key of B Fucked to appoint Jeremy Hunt as the new chancellor. Jeremy Hunt is mostly notable for being a Tory who can put his pants on without assistance and being a genteel failure at all the previous cabinet posts he's held, which is why he is now regarded as a "safe pair of hands" in a party that has dissolved into a lot of shit-flinging coked-up gibbons who can only scream BREXIT BREXIT BREXIT and IMMIGRATION IS BAD!!! (Side note: they recently had to cancel a festival designed to "celebrate the freedoms of Brexit" due to logistics issues associated with, you guessed it, Brexit. That is not directly relevant to the current clusterfuck, but it is too funny not to include.)

To nobody's surprise, Jeremy Hunt then ripped up the entire economic plan and offered a new one, which was not measurably better than the last one but at least reversed some of the most egregious cuts, and which made everyone ask if Liz Truss had been tied up and duct-taped in the boot of a Range Rover and/or if Hunt had secretly staged a coup with the help of Larry the Downing Street Cat and taken over the government. Probably nobody in the Tory party would mind very much if he had, because they were all busy either planning how to oust Truss or publicly denying that they were indeed planning to oust Truss. One of the popular names for her successor? Boris Johnson! No, I am not making this up. Maybe this has all been a horrible dream and we're going to wake up and find that BoZo is back in charge, after massive public scandal for being a serial liar, which he had been from Day 1, finally made him resign. I repeat, what even the hell is going on here. Nobody knows. Meanwhile, Hunt is warning about even more budget austerity and "eye-watering" cuts to public services that can least afford it, because the last decade didn't result in quite enough preventable deaths for the Tories' tastes, and because they have been forced into this by a car crash completely of their own making.

....anyway. This brings us, more or less, to today. Yesterday, Truss refused to commit to protecting something called the pensions triple lock, which guarantees that old-age pensions (the UK form of social security) will rise in line with inflation, costs, or earnings. A) Inflation in the UK is now at a whopping 10.1%, and B) given as old people are literally the only demographic still willing to vote for the Tories, this miiiiiight seem like an even more unnecessarily stupid and self-sabotaging idea. Sure enough, U-Turn Number Eight Million was duly performed this morning, and Truss insisted she had always intended for the triple lock to be protected. But would Universal Credit and other welfare/benefits programs also be adjusted upward for inflation? HELL NAH! THOSE ARE FOR POOR PEOPLE! GROSS!

This, however, was only the beginning of the unpeeling of the latest idiot banana. Keir Starmer, riding high on the back of recent polls that have given Labour a 36-point lead and predicted that the Tories could be left with as few as 22 seats in Parliament if a general election was called tomorrow (leaving the SNP as the official opposition), appeared at Prime Minister's Questions and got to shoot fish in a barrel. Truss did not dissolve into a pile of goo on the floor and/or have a bucket of water thrown on her and melt into Margaret Thatcher, so that was taken as a win. Well, at least for two hours or so. Then Suella Braverman, the ex-Attorney General who had briefly run for the leadership when BoZo resigned, and who exists along with Priti Patel in order to prove that in the modern Tory party, women of color can heroically be just as much as awful xenophobic monsters as crusty old white dudes, resigned as Home Secretary. Did you even know she was Home Secretary? Neither did she. She took over Patel's job in a bid to apparently make Patel look cute and cuddly by comparison, as she is even more determined to do horrible things to migrants as much as possible. The official reason given for her resignation was that she sent an official document from her personal email account, and this had something to do with immigration and/or the Office of Budget Responsibility forecast that the Tories have, in the valiant spirit of freedom, resisted actually publishing for any of their current economic plans. CONSERVATIVES ARE GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY!! yell people on both sides of the Atlantic. Oh-kay.

Anyway, Braverman used her resignation letter to blast Truss for pretending that everything was fine and dandy, which means the BUT HER EEEEEEMAILS was absolutely just an excuse and even she wanted off this sinking ship as fast as possible. Grant Shapps is now the Home Secretary. It's not important. The point is, if more ministers start resigning, the government will probably implode just as it did when they deserted BoZo en masse. What the hell happens then? Fuck if anyone knows. Since they will, as noted, get absolutely cosmically annihilated if they call a General Election, the Tories will resist doing that with all their might (the next one isn't due until 2024, which is about 1004329 years away at the current rate that time is passing here). Truss was already elected by a tiny minority of the country (about 160,000 Tory party members). STICK RISHI SUNAK IN THERE AND CHANGE THE RULES AGAIN?? HECK, SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN! KEEP THOSE MUSICAL CHAIRS COMING, CHAPS!

(Also: we will recall the Daily Star's Lettuce Cam, where a picture of Liz Truss has been placed next to a head of lettuce to see if she is kicked out of office before it rots away. It now has a special companion, Tofu. This is because Braverman, just yesterday, gave a speech attacking the latest round of climate protesters as being spurred on by Labour, the Lib Dems, and the "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati," which she doubtless thought was a very clever line at the time. Because British Twitter is British Twitter, the Tofu: 1, Braverman: 0 jokes have been rife.)

And since we are still not done: tonight, Labour forced a vote on a fracking ban which was being treated as a de facto confidence vote in the government. Aka if the Tories voted for it, they would be considered to be defying the government. Because Britain is a cartoon country run by clowns, the method of Parliamentary voting literally involves walking through Door A for Aye and Door B for Nay. The "whips," or the people whose job it is to assure that party members vote according to the government's position, have thus been known to physically stuff recalcitrant MPs through these doors, because Hail Britannia, or something. So we soon had reports that the anti-fracking vote was, dare I say it, a total clusterfrack, and the Tory whips were literally throwing crying Tory MPs through the Nay door so they would Vote To Support The Government. This sounds like a beginning to a Monty Python sketch, but it is just another ordinary evening in British politics in 2022! (Did Truss herself vote? Or BoZo, Patel, or any of the other Tory big beasts? Nope. Evidently she was "too distracted" with all the other crises going on, which probably means she just didn't want to show her face or she might get killed. Hard to blame her.)

So: the fracking ban was defeated, Labour MPs were like "oh my god the sheer clownery," even Tory MPs were spitting mad, we soon had more rumors that both the Tory chief whip and the deputy chief whip had resigned (currently in the Official Denial stage, so yeah, that will be confirmed before tomorrow morning), and I haven't even mentioned the part where one of Liz Truss's press aides admitted that they used to lie about various relatives of hers having just died so Truss didn't have to do interviews (actual quote: "just aunts and cousins, not any major relatives!"). We all wondered if that wasn't actually a lie but the minor members of the Truss family had voluntarily decided to die rather than have anyone know that they were related to her. Either that or she just sent MI6 after them. It's entirely possible.

#rionsanura #ask #politics for ts #uk politics #i truly cannot explain the magnitude of this clown show #truly #long post

[toaarcan]

Rishi Sunak and the D-Day Disaster

Babes wake up, Rishi Sunak did a fuckup again!

Hokay, so, at time of writing, yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II. This is a big deal for a lot of reasons, D-Day is one of the most significant events in the largest and most destructive war humanity ever fought, and this is likely to be the last major anniversary that the surviving veterans will be alive and well enough to attend.

Political leaders from the world over made their way to the Normandy beaches for a commemoration. Biden, Trudeau, Macron, Scholz, and Zelenskyy were present. Keir Starmer was there, as were King Prince Charles and Prince William, but the UK government proper was represented by Rishi Sunak and David Hameron.

Until suddenly it wasn't!

Let's run down everything (that I'm aware of) that went wrong!

As part of the British event, army paratroopers landed on the beach... and then had to reconvene in a tent to get their credentials checked by the French authorities. Because Brexit happened and we don't have free movement any more! Pro-Brexit nimrods have, predictably, complained about getting exactly what they voted for.

Once each nation's part of the proceedings were done, they were to reconvene at Omaha Beach for an International commemoration. Speeches, medals being awarded, that sort of thing. Except... Rishi Sunak was not present.

No, see, Rishi "The Least Elected PM Ever" Sunak had stayed until the end of the British event and then promptly fucked off back to England, snubbing the leaders of America, France, Canada, Germany, and Ukraine and leaving everything in the hands of the Hameron, his also-unelected foreign secretary that last rubbed shoulders with any International politicians when he was fucking everything up in 2016. Also, in the hands of his main rival, Starmer (Okay calling Starmer and Sunak rivals is a bit unfair, it implies Sunak has a snowball's chance in hell, which he does not).

Naturally, people were pretty fuckin' steamed about this, and put Rishi on blast for showing enormous disrespect to... literally everyone involved. Especially since this is right on the heels of Sunak proposing that they bring back National Service to "fill young British people with loyalty and honour."

Don't worry it gets worse.

Naturally, there are a lot of journalists with cameras present, and this means that we get to see images like these:

Image Description: Left to right, David Cameron, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz, and Joe Biden, standing in front of a partially cloud blue sky. Macron, Scholz, and Biden are lit by the sun, while Cameron appears to be in the shade.

Image Description: Keir Starmer sits, centrally-framed, among D-Day veterans in ceremonial dress uniforms. To the right of the frame sits Emmanuel Macron.

Image Description: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Keir Starmer talking, with a photojournalist in the background aiming his camera at them. Both are smiling.

Quote Pippa Crerar, writing for the Guardian (You may remember her from that time she blew the lid off of Partygate!), Starmer is "already looking like a Prime Minister."

So this is really, really bad for Rishi. Britain has been keen to support Ukraine lately, and we've actually shipped a supply of our Challenger 2 tanks over to them for their use. The impact from this hasn't been as massive as you'd hope, largely because the British military has been absolutely gutted under the Tories, for reasons that I'm sure had absolutely nothing to do with all the financial support David Cameron got from Russians, but Britain has been trying to help.

Boris Johnson in particular liked to really stress the Ukraine point whenever he was losing control of the narrative, essentially making Ukraine's plight and his support for them a shield from criticism. And now, here's the leader of the opposition being photographed in a positive light with Zelenskyy. The optics are incredibly bad for Rishi.

But surely, Rishi had a reason why he had to zip back to British soil post haste? Maybe an emergency that he had to resolve?

No, he needed to record an interview with ITV, for his election campaign. That was it.

Well, interviews in election cycles become outdated pretty quickly. Normally a few days is enough to render them outdated. It must've been pretty urgent.

No, the interview is scheduled for release in six days' time.

That's an eternity in election season. There's a high chance that more than half of its content will be void by the time it airs.

As a reminder, we are four weeks from the big day. In fact, yesterday was exactly four weeks before election night. Time is very short.

Well, maybe this was the only time they could fit him in?

Nope, Paul Brand of ITV has confirmed that this was the date and time Rishi wanted, and they could've moved it to prevent scheduling conflicts!

So, how did a fuckup on such a grand magnitude happen? How did Rishi manage to create a clash between the 80th anniversary commemoration of an event with a specific date (6th June, 1944 is not hard to remember, my guy!) and the election that he called? Well that's very simple! He didn't want to be there at all.

Yes, it seems that Rishi had already told the French government a week ago that he wouldn't be attending at all. Someone seems to have convinced him that skipping the event entirely was a bad idea, but not enough for him to actually commit to it.

Image Description: A block of text reading "The French government was told a week ago that Rishi Sunak would not attend the D-Day 80th commemoration, Tory sources have confirmed. The message to Paris from his team was that he would be too busy campaigning in the general election to make the trip. The decision was reversed, and a short visit was the compromise, but it is extraordinary that an attendance by a Conservative PM, or any PM, was ever in doubt."

Rishi has denied this, however, so the whether it's true or Sunak has elected to not lie for once, well, that remains to be seen.

Quote John Healey, Labour's defence spokesperson, “Given that the prime minister has been campaigning on the idea young people should complete a year’s national service, what does it say that he appears to have been unable to complete a single afternoon of it?”

Conservative commentator Tim Montgomery called it "political malpractice."

And so, after thumbing his nose at half the world in order to pursue an already-foundering election campaign, Rishi Sunak decided that he needed to apologise. Via tweet.

It's been a very bad day for Rishi Sunak.

#Politics #UK Politics #UK Election #General Election 2024 #D-Day #D-Day 80 #British Politics #Keir Starmer #Rishi Sunak #Clownfall 3: The Reckoning

[ayeforscotland]

that last post really hit the whole uk media nail on the head. everything the media has decided was a scandal in the past fuckin 5 or so years has just been the most milquetoast useless fuckin trash that only the most Indignant Moral Outrage centrist shithead could care about.

they should be scandalised about the fact that everyone is getting sick, that most of our university graduates are leaving for better opportunities, that everyone is taking real terms pay cuts (that aren't even described as that bc /on average/ pay is 'keeping up with inflation' despite food costs skyrocketing so badly that it's not), and that nothing is being done about it anywhere, but the fuckers are so monstrously out of touch that the focus is still on whether or not boris johnson went to a party which like. yeah he did. let's move on to Everything Is Fucked, the unspoken story of the decade

I just don’t know how you can look at what’s app messages and the actual shit coming out of Westminster that’s decimating communities and decide the former is the big scandal everyone should care about.

[litres-of-cocaine]

keir starmer is a coward and a fuckwit, not least because he refuses to speak on genocide but also because he has no discernible values beyond appealing to tory converts. i do not want him as a prime minister. but anyone who thinks that spoiling ballots or voting for green in a place where labour is set to have a majority has no fucking clue how the world works.

tactical voting is important in places with no chance of swinging left. voting lib dem or green in places where conservative majorities aren’t going to be supplanted by labour is a great idea. but not voting labour because ‘they are definitely going to win and it sends a message’ will not work. everyone thought labour were going to get in last election. admittedly, it looked like it was going to be less of a landslide, but a lot of the public (i.e. average people not political forecasters) thought a labour win was certain. and guess what! boris johnson got in. boris johnson. the meme. the joke, who no one took seriously. there isn’t a guarantee that labour will get in. the ‘message’ that you’re trying to send to labour will just end up in the conservatives lap. you can’t send a message if it gets delivered to the wrong house.

vote labour, vote tactically, vote any way that decreases the power of the conservatives.

it’s fucking horrible, it’s vile, but the chance of a better option swooping in is nearing the impossible.

#no one is actually going to read this but i needed a rant #labour #keir starmer #uk politics #things can only get better #because a hundred mile below acceptable governance is still an improvement on a million miles below acceptable governance

[hacash]

"Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility. I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else."

 - thoughts and prayers from this poor bastard who was teaching Boris Johnson back in 1982, who presumably is now necking their third gin and yelling ‘I fucking told you so!’ at the BBC live news coverage

#uk politics #it's not often i'm proud of my country

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Good news: Boris Johnson pulled out of running for PM.

Bad news: We now may be stuck with Rishi Sunak as next PM who last I heard, is a Margaret Thatcher stan, made anti-trans comments during his last bid for leadership and is another Tory who prefers to fuck over everyone else in favor of the rich. 

#uk politics #boris johnson #rishi sunak #the tory's just trying to avoid giving us a general election already #because they know we wouldnt vote for any of them after all the stuff their party has pulled

[obaewankenope]

Seeing the stuff about the SNP and Labour and Conservatives and how SIR Lindsay Hoyle is being targeted by everyone because, as he stated, he tried to provide a variety of options for MPs to vote ammendments on because he'd had a meeting with police that same day about threats to MPs safety... And he's a well known person for caring about the safety of his fellows in the House... And like, the whole thing is just a mess.

Convention is not law.

By tabling a Labour Ammendment, SIR Lindsay Hoyle went against convention in the House, not law.

And conventions are gone against in the House, many many times, like, for example:

During a general election, the Speaker will stand for election in their constituency unopposed by the major parties. During the election, the Speaker will only campaign as a Speaker seeking re-election and not on any political points.[3]

This convention was not respected during the 1987 general election, when both the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party fielded candidates against the Conservative speaker, Bernard Weatherill, who was MP for Croydon North East.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) does stand against the speaker if they represent a Scottish constituency, as was the case with Michael Martin, speaker from 2000 to 2009.[4]

The Speaker enjoys wide discretion to interpret the Standing Orders and relevance of precedent. They decide the procedure of the House.[1]

[source: Wikipedia]

Another "convention" which is well known for Conservatives to ignore, especially in recent years (looking at Boris fucking Johnson):

Any member that misleads Parliament is expected to resign.

[source: Wikipedia]

With accusations against Starmer and Labour being thrown by the SNP and Conservatives about pressuring etc, you have to remember that without the minutes being shared, OR an official statement in Parliament (where MPs aren't meant to lie or mislead Parliament) stating that Labour didn't do this, the SNP and Conservatives can and will keep throwing this accusation around.

But tabling an opposition ammendment as well as the government one to a motion is against convention but not against Parliamentary law.

I like convention to be followed but exceptions do get made, as we've seen in the past. Or changes to the conventions change to accommodate different circumstances:

The Prime Minister should be a member of either House of Parliament (between the 18th century and 1963).

By 1963 this convention had evolved to the effect that no Prime Minister should come from the House of Lords, due to the Lords' lack of democratic legitimacy. When the last Prime Minister peer, the Earl of Home, took office he renounced his peerage, and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home became an MP.

Another one:

All Cabinet members must be members of the Privy Council, since the cabinet is a committee of the council. Further, certain senior Loyal Opposition shadow cabinet members are also made Privy Counsellors, so that sensitive information may be shared with them "on Privy Council terms".

[source: Wikipedia]

Incidentally, we saw Labour Privy Counsellors not be given information recently by the Government about military actions against Houthis and there was some drama about that in the news and Parliament. Some argue convention was ignored there, others that it wasn't. But these aren't codified, written down laws or anything that Must Follow Exactly Every Step Exactly and so that means conventions have wiggle room.

Especially in special circumstances.

Personally, I've met SIR Lindsay Hoyle before and he's not a man who bows to pressure. He admits when he messes up, tries to not mess up again, and definitely learns from his mistakes. But he's a man who has been in Parliament for a long time, speaks with many MPs across all parties and has seen the rising hatred and violence aimed at MPs over the years get worse and worse.

The issue around Israel and Hamas and Palestine is messy and highly contentious with the public. Threats to MPs really are at an all time high. SIR Lindsay Hoyle is not a man who ignores danger to his colleagues. He's not a man who just lets things happen to avoid rocking the boat if he can do something to possibly protect his colleagues.

I get the anger of the SNP at their day being marred by a Labour Ammendment being added to the discussion alongside the Government but, honestly, this is more political games because I cannot imagine fora second that the SNP can see that Labour is still ahead of them in Scotland, especially with all the stuff that happened with Sturgeon and want to undermine them in an election year.

All I truly care about is one: treating SIR Lindsay Hoyle as a man who tries to do the right thing whenever he can (and owning up when he is wrong), two: getting the Conservatives out of power because we damn well need them out, and three: doing something about the issue in the Middle East because people are dying.

SIR Lindsay Hoyle has given the SNP an emergency motion debate to actually address that last point. That's more than other Speakers have done in the bloody past. Literally.

#Uk politics #SIR Lindsay Hoyle #Getting right tired of people ignoring his title here bc wouldn't do that to others even when they've pissed you off #Politics #United Kingdom

[needletailz]

tumblr memes & trends 2022

sooooo i've been writing this down all year :p the dates just represent the day i noticed the meme & wrote it down, not when the meme was created

jan 1 - new years posts years out of date (happens every year)

jan 1 - horse plinko

jan 2 - oh mien got dis cave is full of bluntsmoken

jan 4 - urfavisunfuckable mod drama

jan 6 - blorbo from my show

jan 12 - eeby deeby trending w/ blorbo from my show & glup shitto

feb 7 - tbh creature w/ big eyes (aka autism creature)

feb 8 - amongi & amongus babies

feb 19 - quirked up white boy busting it down sexual style

feb 25 - im the ps5 speaking inside your brain

mar 4 - live slug reaction

mar 20 - new tumblr users

apr 1 - april fools this year was crabs :) they were cherished 🦀

apr 1 - get drinked

apr 21 - tumblr blaze

apr 25 - misha collins comes out as straight

may 3 - dracula daily

may 18 - not too fond of gay people dog

may 29 - morb

may 31 - swedes won't give you food (this is a twitter meme but it's funny)

june 2 - mousegirl bartender

june 4 - manscapped :'((

june 15 - that fucking pikachu man ad

june 21 - increased recognition of were-ralph (from the werewolf boyfriend pulling out post) by name

july 8 - shinzo abe is assassinated & boris johnson announces resignation & everyone rejoices

july 15 - crabs 2: the sequel 🦀 now bestowed upon others for a price

july 31 - something something taylor swift private jet idk

sep 6 - gougar

sep 6 - tumblr logo has eyes??

sep 8 - reigensweep looses to an unexpected SANS UNDERTALE & then THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND DIES 🦀 🦀 trisha paytas goes into labor

sep 26 - female presenting nipples & other scandalous appendages are unbanned (edit: they were not. everyone is disappointed)

sep 27 - ned from try guys cheated on his wife >:/

oct 20 - liz truss defeated by lettuce

oct 22 - posts that look like this:

🐈‍⬛ needletailz Follow

check this shit out

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oct 22 - this should be a _k post

nov 4 - ryan reynolds joins tumblr on destiel eve

nov 6 - so many 2014 style tumblr posts in hopes of scaring away twitter refugees (everyone say thank you evilmario666)

nov 20 - GONCHAROV (1973)

dec 17 - the pornbots return

dec 29 - greta thunberg roasts andrew tate, he reveals his location in his response & is arrested by Romanian authorities for human trafficking. what a lovely way to end the year :)

#new years #happy new year #tumblr2022

[sm0kedfag]

Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then if you want to, copy/paste this ask to your favourite people/friends/mutuals 💌💜

hey, i’ll do it again, why not? everyone look i’m popular i have two whole friends :)

Secret Worlds - The Amazing Devil

girls - girl in red

Elsa’s Song - The Amazing Devil

As Death Embraces - Haken

Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt - The Kunts

a rollercoaster! hope you like it <3

#asks

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

A source of great joy to me this weekend has been watching Boris Johnson's fucking transparent-as-oxygen game of Schrödinger's contestant because my god, this man's ego

Like he cancelled his holiday, came home early on Saturday, and he was ready, Tumblrs, he was ready, little blue boxing gloves on, sweatband in place around his little ham ears, Carrie Antoinette mopping his brow... He was here and prepared to FIGHT Rishi Sunak. He was going to WIN. This was his chance to unite the Tories, to be vindicated and exonerated, to get back to his ugly flat in number 10 that he had decorated like a colonial officer's room in the British Raj, and everyone was going to pat his wig and honk his dick and it was all going to be great. All he needed was a hundred supporters! He could beat his mean former Grand Vizier! It was going to be beautiful.

...Except people did hate him when he left, didn't they? They said very mean things about his face and also his brain. When he was packing up he even found custard in his clown shoes, Tumblrs, and he's pretty sure it was Michael Gove that put it there because he smirked at the squelching. So wouldn't it be awful - wouldn't it be HORRIFYING - if he tried to compete...and LOST.

:O :O :O

Solution - campaign without ever actually telling anyone you're campaigning. If you win, huzzah! You're so popular! If you lose, it's fine, you were never actually competing. Schrödinger's contestant. A perfect plan. The only thing that would undermine it is if you then very obviously and visibly start canvassing and competing.

Lol.

The highlights included:

Getting back into the country yesterday and immediately claiming that he already had over 100 votes, because hey, lying always worked before

He did not

He had 54

Calling Penny Mordaunt today and begging her to drop out so he can have her votes

Penny Mordaunt telling him to fuck his own clown nose

Penny Mordaunt telling him her supporters will switch to Sunak anyway if she drops out

Penny Mordaunt telling him some of his own supporters have already switched to her

Claiming tonight (Sunday) as the Monday deadline approaches that he has 102

102 is the exact number you'd claim because 100 or 101 would sound too unbelievable

Realising he is definitely not going to win because he does not, in fact, have 102, or even 100

Announcing 15 minutes ago that he isn't competing anyway so really when you think about it he hasn't lost

He should have stayed on holiday

Anyway people keep asking me but I'm telling you, it'll be Sunak

#politik #the adventures of big dog the clown #the second clownfall of 2022

[nostalgia-tblr]

Things The Tumblr Drafts Feature Is Currently Saving Me From Actually Posting About Where Other People Would See It:

America looks odd

We're harsh on Amsha and Richard Bashir but actually I can see why they did that in such an ableist society and it feels a bit unfair to hold them solely responsible

A fic snippet from a fic I am claiming not to be writing because it's fucked up and I feel guilty about that

Further complaints about U MUST REBLOGism

Me Godwinning the Mobius Discourse TWICE!! :O

"Sibling-coded" lol no

Migratory Het Fans: A Commentary

No I Shall Never Write Thorki Fic. Ever. But if I did...

A Barbie meme reblog everyone else already reblogged

LOKI CLASSISM WANK!!!

Mein Hobbys In The Tags

Columbo made people rate Boris Johnson (WTF????)

Some gay bit from M*A*S*H (a reblog)

The Funniest Disablity Discourse Is Person-First Language Except It's Not Actually That Funny But Also It Is (if u didnt laff u'd cry)

Everyone sounds like twats in Them Thor Films and for some reason I have Extensive Thoughts on why that is and also fandom is stupid (and maybe classist?)

BOYSLASH WANK: DR WHO EDITION

#tumblr #it me #I'm here to talk about the Tumblr Draft #it's like some modicum of self-control for me has been provided by tumblr dot com. AND FOR FREE! #at least these non-posts are mostly on-brand for me eh? #i recently saw Columbo described as the best US detective show because it contains “open class warfare (a rarity in US TV)” #“There's just one thing bothering me... what would you say is the history of all hitherto existing societies?”