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[jack_christie]

I’m impressed! I had never imagined the UK Cuntservative Party would be able to unite Italian levels of internal squabbling and backstabbing with GQP levels of racism (Sunak vs Truss) and single-issue idiocy (litmus test: hard-on for hard Brexit), but they have managed.

 

[calvinhobbes]

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Oh. I cannot deny having read the odd article or even opinion piece from The Economist, but I wouldn’t have expected an opinion of mine to appear on the cover of the damn thing.

 

[jack_christie]

Lunchtime endorsements update Rishi Sunak: 144 (+18 today) Boris Johnson: 61 (+3) Penny Mordaunt: 26 (+1) 231 / 357 MPs (65%) have endorsed a candidate.

View: https://twitter.com/patrickjfl/status/1584147229345869824

 

[jack_christie]

Boris is out of the race!

 

[GRtak]

Boris is out of the race!


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He just wants everyone to beg!


But seriously folks, why would he step back into the position to face all that pressure when he is already getting paid not to be there?

 

[jack_christie]

He just wants everyone to beg!


But seriously folks, why would he step back into the position to face all that pressure when he is already getting paid not to be there?

He's a useful idiot for his billionaire masters.

Many MPs were only elected because of their support for their leader. They have don't a populist leader anymore.

Boris is still facing the likelihood of being booted out of parliament by Committee on Standards.

 

[jack_christie]

Brexit Batteries Ltd having a bad day:

 

[GRtak]

Damn, that's not good.

Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession

The Bank of England raises interest rates to 3%, marking the biggest rise for 33 years.

www.bbc.com

 

[GRtak]

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1595416418954133504


Most countries need to have a better system.

 

[jack_christie]

UK government has written off £10b in PPE that was deemed unfit for use. Must be plenty more deals like this:

Gove under pressure to explain role in PPE deals for Mone-linked firm​

Gove under pressure to explain role in PPE deals for Mone-linked firm

Minister’s insistence he referred all offers to civil service channels appears at odds with previously released email correspondence

www.theguardian.com

Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm​

Revealed: Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm

Documents suggest husband passed on money from PPE Medpro, which secured £200m contracts after Mone lobbied ministers

www.theguardian.com

 

[GRtak]

He is a little bit fired up.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gljtvwhcdhc&feature=youtu.be

 

[jack_christie]

Will Santa go on strike too?

Heathrow strike by ground handlers suspended as revised offer put to members

Unite confirms further dates for action over festive period will still go ahead

www.theguardian.com

Hot drinks and public sympathy for nurses on the picket lines

For many striking in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, staff shortages are a bigger issue than pay

www.theguardian.com

UK strike days calendar – the public service stoppages planned for December

All the dates for strikes and stoppages across health, transport and postal networks

www.theguardian.com

 

[jack_christie]

DM used unauthorized image of Emily Clarkson:

 

[jack_christie]

Is Brexit to blame for Britain's fruit and vegetable shortages?​

Fact check: Is Brexit to blame for Britain's food shortages?

#TheCube spoke to experts to find out why some of Britain's biggest supermarket chains are restricting the amount of vegetables customers can buy.

www.euronews.com

Lidl limits sales of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers​

Lidl limits sales of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers

The discount supermarket follows rivals by restricting sales of certain fruit and vegetables.

www.bbc.com

 

[jack_christie]

Brexit deal done again?

EU and UK open 'new chapter' with Northern Ireland Protocol deal​

EU and UK open 'new chapter' with Northern Ireland Protocol deal

The new deal is called the Windsor Framework and reduces red tape and customs checks for goods from Great Britain that are intended to stay in Northern Ireland #EuropeNews

www.euronews.com

 

[jack_christie]

Strippers, Spies & Russian Money​

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbHMG5QkhQ

 

[jack_christie]

 

[jack_christie]

Journo Isabel Oakeshott leaked 100000 txt messages from former health minister Matt Hancock, with whom she helped write a pandemic book . Oakeshott has some contracts with Murdoch media, but sold the story to a rival. Another part of the backstory to this is that her current partner is anti lockdown brexiteer Richard Tice, one of Farage's buddies:

Matt Hancock's handling of the COVID pandemic has come under fresh scrutiny following a leaked trove of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages.

Matt Hancock's leaked trove of WhatsApp messages - some of the key exchanges

The former health secretary's handling of the COVID pandemic faces fresh scrutiny after an investigation based on leaked WhatsApp messages alleges he rejected testing advice on care homes.

news.sky.com

MSN

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZLYTWiA_fE

The txt messages couldn't come at a worse time for BoJo:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie71iIHyY0Q

 

[GRtak]

BBC Wildlife Docuseries Won’t Air Last Episode Over Fears of Right-Wing Backlash

Critics are deriding the decision by the U.K. broadcaster as being environmental censorship.

truthout.org

 

[jack_christie]

Ministers want the BBC to do the impossible and patrol the opinions of every contributor to save the government from scrutiny

The Guardian view on Gary Lineker: the return of unabashed liberal dissent | Editorial

Editorial: Ministers want the BBC to do the impossible and patrol the opinions of every contributor to save the government from scrutiny

www.theguardian.com