UK XI: Please Sir... May I Have Some More?

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/13/rishi-sunak-speech-labour-tories-latest-politics-news-updates?page=with:block-6642086f8f08b358a8b9c20e#block-6642086f8f08b358a8b9c20e

Court rules that the Rwanda law breaches the Good Friday Agreement

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[Lebowski]

To say they don't have a plan is unfair, that plan is to weaponise immigration and small boats to distract the public from 15 years of Tory failings. As a side dish, they are also weaponising trans rights issues, and doing a great job of keeping negative stories about the opposition in the press by leaning on the police and calling in favours from Murdoch and the stacked Tory board at the BBC.

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'The Plan' is to keep saying you've - uniquely - got a plan, and that said plan is working. And insofar as the plan is to just keep saying you've got a plan, it is working.

Politics eh, it would be an art form if they weren’t wasting literally ALL the money they can get their trotters on.

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they can get their trotters on.

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Weight loss drug could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds | Medical research | The Guardian

Union chiefs to hold showdown talks with Starmer over workers’ rights | Keir Starmer | The Guardian

Disqualified Eurovision contestant Joost Klein likely to face charges, say Swedish police | Eurovision | The Guardian

NHS spending rise lags behind Tory funding pledges, IFS finds | Institute for Fiscal Studies | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/14/no-evidence-foreign-students-abusing-uk-graduate-visas-review

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/14/grant-shapps-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-conservatives-labour-defence-budget-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-66430fb38f08ea533a9ef9af#block-66430fb38f08ea533a9ef9af

Esther McVie, a woman with none, is the self appointed Minister of Common Sense and has used her power to deal with a critical issue - banning rainbow coloured lanyards

Meanwhile the Tories are in full swing in their latest in a long line of attempts to find a chink in Labours armour - that the safety of the United Kingdom itself is at grave risk under Labour because as things stand Labour would be spending 2.3% of GPD on the military rather than the Tories unbudgeted 2.5% pledge - once again hoping no-one mentions a decade and a half of gutting under Tory rule

[Lebowski]

Thank god McVey is about to protect us from rainbow-coloured lanyards

I'm sure her and her husband Mr Upskirt Phillip Davies can discuss it on their GN News program that nobody watches.

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Thank god McVey is about to protect us from rainbow-coloured lanyards

I'm sure her and her husband Mr Upskirt Phillip Davies can discuss it on their GN News program that nobody watches.

I for one feel so much safer at night in the knowledge that Chinese nationals can just wander into military bases but rainbow lanyards are FINALLY, FINALLY!! Behind us.

[QualityChimp]

I've said before that I'm annoyed at the grift these politicians have got going where they increase their income by having a secondary job - as a politician.

However, you've made me wonder if their value as pundits would be of less value to GB News if they're not active politicians.
Sports pundits are regularly ex-players, but MPs that actually still have the ability to change laws/votes etc. might be of more use than ex-politicians to GBN.
Just a thought.

Anyway, in other news:
UK MPs arrested for sexual offences face parliament ban

"UK MPs arrested on suspicion of serious sexual or violent offences could be barred from attending parliament after lawmakers changed the rules in a narrow vote late on Monday.

Parliament decided by just one vote that any MP arrested over such accusations should face a risk assessment, which could lead to them being excluded from entering the House of Commons.

The move toughens up a proposal by the Conservative government, which had said MPs should only be barred if they were actually charged with an offence after being arrested.

Notable MPs voting in favour of the amendment included former Tory prime minister Theresa May and Natalie Elphicke, who defected from the ruling Conservatives to Labour last week.

Previously, MPs arranged with their own party whether they could attend parliament having been arrested for serious sexual or violent offences. Now an independent panel will decide.

Several MPs have been arrested for such offences since the last general election in 2019:

• Conservative MP for Wakefield Imran Ahmad Khan was found guilty in 2022 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy at a party in 2008.
• Fellow Tory Charlie Elphicke, the former husband of Nathalie Elphicke, was jailed in 2020 for sexually assaulting two women, including a parliamentary worker.
• And Conservative Crispin Blunt was arrested on suspicion of rape in October 2023. He continues to sit as an independent MP.
• Several other MPs from both sides of the house have been suspended from their parties over allegations of sexual misconduct that did not warrant police action.

Labour former minister Chris Bryant said the move was "long overdue".

"Parliament should be no different from any other workplace," he said.

Mike Clancy, general secretary of the Prospect trade union, whose membership includes civil servants, called it an "important and overdue victory for common sense and those working on the parliamentary estate".

But Conservative Michael Ellis, a former attorney general for England and Wales, said there were constitutional and legal implications to banning MPs from parliament before they had been charged.

"There is a key principle here. There's a golden thread that runs through our system that a person must not suffer imposition before guilt has been proven," he said."

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“Could” be barred, but won’t be.

Edit. Thats just a “could” be barred from attending parliament, they would still get paid. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂


Its just so pathetic.

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Tory MPs: "We can't permit this.... there'd be none of us left!"

[QualityChimp]

It's the whataboutery that's so infuruating.

Jess Phillips said she asked on MP if they'd be happy for their child to be taught by a teacher arrested for rape and they replied, "Well we're self-employed, so it's different", "OKAY, how about a childminder then?". It's an obvious and clear example, but they still want to weasel out of any responsibilty.

[Brad]

Risk assessment...

Sexually assaulted 15 year old boy. No one under 18 in parliament, no risk carry on.

[Protocol Penguin]

I've said before that I'm annoyed at the grift these politicians have got going where they increase their income by having a secondary job - as a politician.

Seems to be mostly Tories who do that, and I suspect that is because they know they are at risk of losing their seats, and if not, are not going to have cabinet positions while in opposition. Being a right-wing media rent-a-gob is their aim (and I suspect that will be more lucrative under a Labour government).