PM rails against 'extremist forces trying to tear us apart'

[jon1959]

Re: PM rails against 'extremist forces trying to tear us apart'

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“I once led a political party full of racists, dog whistlers and morons that I couldn’t control, so I held a press conference and blamed the problems on everyone else, but mainly a man most famous for pretending to be a cat.”

[Dorcus]

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This is unquestionably the most undemocratic and sinister speech I've ever heard from a UK Prime Minister. Has he utterly no respect for the ballot box?

His unnerving performance yesterday would have been complete had he worn jackboots and full military regalia.

[JamesWales]

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He is Prime Minister because 202 MPs from his own party voted for him to be. That's not democracy in action and you whatabouting regarding Gordon Brown doesn't change that. -

It absolutely is. That's what happens. The party that won a general election will always choose a leader that way.

I'd accept opposition to it from a moral high ground more if the same people who refused to accept the biggest electoral vote in history and spent 7 years crying about it and the people who object to parties appointing new PMs wasn't a Venn diagram that is essentially one big circle.

I also haven't heard you mention this point in respect of Miles v Gething which is going on now and in the country we live in.

Obviously questioning our democracy to make a party political point is less appealing to you in this instance?!

[JamesWales]

Re: PM rails against 'extremist forces trying to tear us apart'

This is unquestionably the most undemocratic and sinister speech I've ever heard from a UK Prime Minister. Has he utterly no respect for the ballot box?

His unnerving performance yesterday would have been complete had he worn jackboots and full military regalia.

Although I do think that Tories and Labour should have been more graceful in defeat whilst making their valid criticism of intimidation etc, it does often feel that you reset history at midnight every night!

Barely a day passes without something being the greatest outrage of your life! 🤣

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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I have never seen his social media posts but when it comes to sketch writing he usually gets it right. In this case it's a bulls eye!

He has - it's what I thought when I watched Sunak's heart rendering polemic last night, just a meandering moan probably the sort of thing you'd deliver to your wife/close friends, not the nation. But a hint of his style can be gleaned even in this article - he then rips into everything he doesn't like - even talking about the PM introducing a '15 minute of hate'. Not forgetting Brexit, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, Boris Johnston, et al. He also comes across as an absolutely smug Eton tosser !!!

[pipster]

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Sir Keir Starma has just agreed the PM was right in making that address last night.
Of course if you’re a bog eyed swamp drainer type then it was just a desperate cry for help
Some people say that Galloway is a great orator just like Hitler was.

[jon1959]

Re: PM rails against 'extremist forces trying to tear us apart'

Sir Keir Starma has just agreed the PM was right in making that address last night.

In the words of that great pschologist, George Galloway: 'Two cheeks of the same arse'.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: PM rails against 'extremist forces trying to tear us apart'

Sir Keir Starma has just agreed the PM was right in making that address last night.
Of course if you’re a bog eyed swamp drainer type then it was just a desperate cry for help
Some people say that Galloway is a great orator just like Hitler was.

Sadly, I’m not surprised at all by Starmer’s comments.

[the other bob wilson]

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It absolutely is. That's what happens. The party that won a general election will always choose a leader that way.

I'd accept opposition to it from a moral high ground more if the same people who refused to accept the biggest electoral vote in history and spent 7 years crying about it and the people who object to parties appointing new PMs wasn't a Venn diagram that is essentially one big circle.

I also haven't heard you mention this point in respect of Miles v Gething which is going on now and in the country we live in.

Obviously questioning our democracy to make a party political point is less appealing to you in this instance?!

To be fair to Johnson, he’s the one Prime Minister out of the last four to have actually won a majority in an election. That’s why we’re not talking about a Blair to Brown, Drakeford to Gethin or even Thatcher to Major type handover here, the Conservatives have taken this country for a joke for years with their convulsions over Europe and have got themselves into a position where they change leaders, and Prime Ministers, at the drop of a hat - incredibly, there serious calls being made by some in the party for a fourth change of Prime Minister in this Parliament, it’s gone beyond the sort of one off handovers we e seen in the past.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: PM rails against 'extremist forces trying to tear us apart'

To be fair to Johnson, he’s the one Prime Minister out of the last four to have actually won a majority in an election. That’s why we’re not talking about a Blair to Brown, Drakeford to Gethin or even Thatcher to Major type handover here, the Conservatives have taken this country for a joke for years with their convulsions over Europe and have got themselves into a position where they change leaders, and Prime Ministers, at the drop of a hat - incredibly, there serious calls being made by some in the party for a fourth change of Prime Minister in this Parliament, it’s gone beyond the sort of one off handovers we e seen in the past.

Johnson got his large mandate from a pledge to "get Brexit done", and then proceeded to deliver Brexit light. Sunak is the current PM because of this mandate.

[Dorcus]

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Although I do think that Tories and Labour should have been more graceful in defeat whilst making their valid criticism of intimidation etc, it does often feel that you reset history at midnight every night!

Barely a day passes without something being the greatest outrage of your life! 🤣

Maybe it's the first time I've ever agreed with you. Yes everyone is feeling outraged at the state of British politics and it seems it all started 14 years ago.

Mind you, in your case you were born outraged 😂

[Dorcus]

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In the words of that great pschologist, George Galloway: 'Two cheeks of the same arse'.

George Galloway IS a great orator and he would wipe the floor with both of the tossers leading the two main parties. "Two cheeks of the same arse" is a clever and accurate summing up of the dire state of our politics now.

By the way John Crave is up there with the best. I get the impression some on this board are Richard Littlejohn accolytes.

[pipster]

Re: PM rails against 'extremist forces trying to tear us apart'

In the words of that great pschologist, George Galloway: 'Two cheeks of the same arse'.

Galloway has used that quote many times it’s part of his political stand up routine

[jon1959]

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A tenth child in a Gaza hospital has been registered as having died from starvation, said the UN on Friday, warning that the “real figure is likely to be higher”. “The official records yesterday or this morning said there was a tenth child officially registered in a hospital as having starved to death,” said UN health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier. “A very sad threshold …[but] the unofficial numbers can unfortunately be expected to be higher,” he added.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/02/middle-east-crisis-israel-gaza-latest-news-updates-live

Are the extremists the hundreds of thousands who march to end this - or are they the perpetrators and the enablers (yes you Sunak and Starmer)?

[Jordi Culé]

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Or loopy Liz Truss

Honourable mention to Suella Braverman for raising the hordes of Yaxley Lennon fanboys last November.