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by macliam » Sun Jun 26 2022 5:29pm
Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get me
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by macliam » Tue Jun 28 2022 11:16am
This, whilst aligning themselves with the DUP in NI...... not a good look, eh?
Surely to goodness people can see the direction of travel when a democratic vote in NI is ignored, the government plans to ignore the ECHR and the right to protest is curtailed. If that happened anywhere else there would be claims of "authoritarianism" or worse.....
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by Sarah » Tue Jun 28 2022 7:10pm
https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/stat ... xmG7gHP_zg
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL wrote:Johnson is an accidental fascist. He didn’t start out as one but a combination of ineptitude, narcissism, failure to deliver, character failings, his vulnerability to political pressure due to a lack of moral compass, and his desperation to survive, has driven him there
https://medium.com/@cormack.lawson/fasc ... 6b115a8e3a
Cormack Lawson wrote:Johnson was never a committed Brexit idealogue, as exemplified by the infamous pro-EU Telegraph column. I doubt that he has secretly always been a fascist either, albeit he is now embracing it with open arms. But here we are, 4 countries and 68 million people locked into the self-sabotaging, economic death-spiral that is Brexit. In part, because one man wanted to be King and saw an easy means to realise his hollow ambitions, with a little help from his friends.
His attraction to the ease of right-wing populism, his lack of political ideology and unbridled greed made him a sitting duck for the foreign corporate interests who have bought our country. More could have and should have been done to stop the UK’s institutional fire-sale and subsequent descent into fascism within the traditional structures of power. It is possibly too late for an effective opposition in Westminster to do anything about it now. This will not end with the demise of Johnson, as welcome as that will be, this new-found ideology is embedded deep in the modern Tory party.
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by macliam » Wed Jun 29 2022 7:11pm
The Good Law Project and ex-Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Met, Lord Paddick, are threatening to sue the Metropolitan police for a second time to get to the truth about Partygate.
It was their previous threat of legal action that spurred the Met to start the now-concluded investigation, but their questions regarding the process have been ignored (and their right to ask them questioned). The Good Law Project insists that law must deal equally with all people, regardless of status - and is concerned that this has not been the case so far.
https://goodlawproject.org/news/new-...uth-partygate/
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by Sarah » Thu Jul 07 2022 7:27am
Johnson is now adding constitutional crisis into the mix. It's almost certain he no longer has the confidence of his party, yet resists pressure from all sides to stand down.
The government cannot function properly this morning with 40+ vacancies and some departments having no ministers at all. It's increasingly likely that anyone accepting appointments will be from the more extreme fractions of the party.
So we wait for another formal 1922 Committee vote next week. If he loses and still refuses to go then in theory The Queen could designate someone else to replace him.
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