"Suella Braverman is the worst of politicians. An individual who deliberately stokes the fires of racial and religious tensions for self-serving purposes, with no regard to the greater societal damage she is doing."
Humza Yousaf responding to the latest #BarkingMadBraverman diatribe in the Torygraph.
"[Tory] students at University College London and King’s College London [were] invited [on Instagram] to drink port and debate which policy they supported, “sink the boats” or “invade Yemen”, by student Conservatives societies.
"The post featured a picture of a small boat packed with asylum seekers making the journey across the Channel."
On the Last Leg, Adam Hills poses the question "Why are you a Tory?"
Sayeeda Warsi: "Because most Tories used to think like me. We believed in democracy, the rule of law, decency, society, that this country was an amazing place. We weren't toxic mad fascists like some of my colleagues are now."
Leaving aside what you might think about her characterisation of Tories, you have to give props to her for saying this out loud on national television.
The Tory govt passed a statutory instrument that increases amount of money an individual can donate to a party without declaring who donated it, from £7,500 to £11,180
The same statutory law increased election spending cap by 80%, from £19.5m to £35m - the amount party HQs can spend.
Tory Government has scrapped pledge to restrict #MPs’ second jobs
This gives the green light to more sleaze in #Westminster
We call for limits to how much MPs can spend working in second jobs, & how much they can earn. We also need a strict ban of any second jobs that involve covert lobbying.
What the fuck does "phantom growth" even mean?? This country scares me.
From a post-budget statement on today's migration figures by the Nat Cs, via GPLB: "Our voters can tell the difference between real economic growth that improves the standard of living for ordinary households, and the phantom ‘growth’ that importing ever more people puts on a Treasury spreadsheet."
You know when you read a headline and think "I can't fucking believe this"? You know how that happens every day? Well this is possibly the worst domestic headline I've read for a couple of years.
"Jeremy Hunt is threatening Universal Credit claimants with more severe sanctions including cutting access to free NHS prescriptions and legal aid. Digital tools will also be used to "track" attendance at job fairs and interviews" #UKPolitics#ToryFascists https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-threaten-withdraw-free-nhs-31455686
#UK#Health Secretary Steve Barclay: Stop Palantir’s NHS data takeover
The government wants to hand US spy tech firm Palantir a £480 million contract to run a new database that will likely include huge amounts of our health data held by the NHS – the “Federated Data Platform”
“I’m not quite sure why he thinks those of us who criticise the PM are baying wolves, but perhaps I can help enlighten him as to why criticism of Sunak is justified: firstly, he’s our Prime Minister but no-one, not even the Tory Party, elected him to that very powerful post - hardly democratic”
Jonathan Miller takes down Enoch Powell on live TV. Worth a watch.
"Social cooperation is a hard and a difficult thing. I feel that you would have done your duty as a politician - as an ethical politician - much more productively, if instead of exciting the notion of future strife, you had encouraged the notion of future cooperation on the basis of understanding."
"George Osborne disclosed on his own Political Currency podcast that it’s “not inconceivable” that Farage could become a future leader of the Tory Party if it loses the next election."
WOW. I missed this bit from Michelle Donelan's appearance on Newsnight. After having been read Susan Hall's words about Sadiq Khan yesterday, and shown a clip of Nus Ghani's reply at the conference, this is what she said. IT IS A DIRECT QUOTE. I checked.
"I believe that we should stand up for things that are divisive, and promote hatred."
A small addendum to Braverman's speech yesterday which I've just seen - she got a FUCKING STANDING OVATION from the packed crowd in what I think is the largest auditorium in the conference centre.
I'm beginning to think - seriously think - whether they're planning an all-out, cancel elections, military dictatorship. Seriously. #UKPolitics#ToryFascists#CPC23