The On-going Never-ending Brexit Story Part Four

You will Kerry the shame of this lame joke for days longer.

 

o ******** more pun fuel

 

Something you don't realise until you watch enough PMQs is how many MPs have a fear of public speaking. A Tory and a Labour MP today couldn't stop shaking as they stood, staring at the ceiling, as they shouted their questions.

It's kinda refreshing next to the Parks n Rec congressbots that typify American politics.

 

The catlicks aren't christian? Who knew!

 

Yeah, it's a tricky one that, isn't it. I wonder what the answer is?

 

I don't think it's a surprise the BBC didn't come under pressure. TBH I'd be surprised if they hadn't. The surprise comes with how quickly they succumbed.

 

No decent, right-thinking person uses mayo for anything other than sex games, (or so I've been told).

 

The thing is, thinking about this completely dispassionately, for the 30-40 years after the war. products were produced in the west by our own labour and the number of people that moved country was severely limited. Rich western countries traded goods to an extent between themselves but there was protectionism and it was hard for both people AND goods to be imported without high import tariffs or immigration controls.

But, also, during that period taxes were high and the wealth of western nations were spread more evenly across society.

Then we had the revolution of neoliberalism, globalism, free-markets, (whatever other name you want to use), and since then we've had rising levels of inequality in the west.

So, thinking about it from the point of view of someone who hasn't been paying attention to economic, trade and finance issues, the increase in globalism and immigration HAS coincided with rising inequality. That's just a fact.

But what is ALSO a fact is that reducing taxes, (particularly for the well off and the upper middle class), the destruction of trade unions and the side-lining of socialist economics has coincided with that change. It's also worth pointing out that at least ONE of those matters, (trade unions losing some of their power), clearly WAS related to globalisation and immigration because it allowed production to be driven to lower wage areas or people. I mean, that was the whole POINT of it... to cut costs and make things 'more efficient'.

Also, even people that weren't paying attention will have realised that it wasn't just the tories, GOP or whatever, that was driving neoliberalism... it was Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and others who were elected by the working class to protect their interests.

I know I've posted this before but it's worth listening to again...



As he says at the end, it's not really about right or left-wing wing, particularly. Those are largely a function of the media eco-system and who drives the narrative.

Put simply, the right have a more effective messaging system than the left. So in the UK, for instance, we've had the right-wing tabloids, owned by rich people and friends to tory MP's and lords, droning on about 'asylum seekers' and 'immigration', (rather than tax cuts, lack of investment in the UK and 'off-shoring' of employment), since we can all probably guess which message will be easier to sell, at least initially.

Hopefully, even the DIMMEST bulb will have started to get the message after the last few years, particularly after today's 'budget' and the Liz truss debacle...

Budget pension shake-up is £4bn tax giveaway for wealthy, critics say

Anyway, we'll see what happens but I'm hopeful, if the change in attitudes to immigration are accurate, that the penny will FINALLY have dropped and the tories will get kicked out and a future labour government will starts to address some of the deep-rooted problems we've got instead of taking the soft option as they did before.

 

One of two things:

a) He's expecting to get suspended and then defeated in a by-election, thereby giving him the opportunity to stand in a safe seat without accusations he's jumped ship.
b) A new Portillo moment at the next election.

New: Boris Johnson was tonight reselected as Tory candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, majority of 7,210

— James Heale (@JAHeale) March 16, 2023

 

goodluck.gif

 

MPs, er, pack into the House of Commons to listen to Andrew Bridgen sound off about Covid vaccines pic.twitter.com/7N6Iz8iCK2

— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) March 17, 2023

 

Please make it 'B'. Please make it 'B'

 

What if I throw option C into the mix?

He's suspended and recalled, then loses the by-election.
Stands in a supposedly safe seat, and then loses again.

Double the fun.

 

Don't make me post that 'Archer' scene again... I've got it ready to go and I'm not afraid to use it

 

What in the hell is this?

 

She's long given up even trying to pretend she doesn't enjoy the cruelty.

Just the Home Secretary laughing merrily in front of the offshore detention centre she dreams of sending refugees and modern slavery victims to. pic.twitter.com/81iyHwUaZy

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) March 19, 2023

 

Just one week after Farage accused Gary Lineker of spreading hate, Darren Grimes manages to take the lead in the Lack Of Self Awareness Trophy 2023

Nobody asked you to be a pound shop political pundit? pic.twitter.com/ZehOeKoqTu

— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) March 18, 2023

 

Professor Nigel J. Farnsworth, late for another lecture due to alcoholism

 

I think even the people that like the policy will find that slightly off-putting. They might feel like that inside but I doubt there's many that will want to express it in that manner in public.

I'm guessing that was a still from a film of the visit where something's happened that made her laugh but the whole vibe of it seems disastrous, politically.

 

The toxic Fox stew of massive lies, fear, threats and misogyny rears it's ugly head once again

Breaking:

A Fox producer who has worked with Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson has filed lawsuits against the company in New York and Delaware, accusing Fox lawyers of coercing her into giving misleading testimony in the Dominion legal battle.https://t.co/IF4nbMBoSd

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 21, 2023

More deets

Fox News sought a restraining order against one of its own senior producers on Monday to prevent her from publicly disclosing information linked to the $1.6 billion defamation claim it is fighting over falsehoods it broadcast after the 2020 presidential election.

Abby Grossberg, the senior producer in charge of booking guests for star Tucker Carlson, told Fox last month she intended to sue the network for discrimination and retaliation, according to Fox's lawsuit.

Fox alleges it was compelled to sue her to prevent the disclosure of its legal stratagems.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164879578/fox-news-sues-producer-dominion-lawsuit

The Fox producers should be dragged as much as the hosts

 

Johnson tying himself in knots trying to cover up his lies.
At the time called the parties as parties, but now claiming them not to be parties and he only called them parties as everyone else did.

So Boris Johnson calls it a ‘party’ in private correspondence not because it WAS a party but because that’s how the media referred to it. AAAH. Of course. pic.twitter.com/BsGUdot8EY

— Jon Sopel (@jonsopel) March 21, 2023

 

Gotta give his lawyers mad props for tanking their careers like this

 

It’s weird to me that people in the UK could get in legal trouble for having a party.

But, it’s perfectly not surprising to me that someone like Boris Johnson would break such a rule.