Dang

Suella Braverman - 'There are too many people in this country who are of working age, who are of good health, and who are choosing to rely on benefits'

Also Suella Braverman

https://twitter.com/skottychops/status/1546527336014692357?s=21&t=ayFLPcRMMMBfnopl1wwkpA

Conservative Leadership Contest Update (11/07):

Sunak: 39 (+6) ✅
Mordaunt: 25 (+4) ✅
Tugendhat: 20 (+5) ✅
Truss: 15 (+2)
Zahawi: 15 (+2)
Badenoch: 14 (+1)
Hunt: 13 (+1)
Patel: 13 (+2)
Braverman: 11 (+1)
Javid: 11 (+1)
Shapps: 7 (=)
Chishti (WHO??): 0 (=)

comment by Ignacio Varga (U11781)
posted 31 minutes ago
Suella Braverman - 'There are too many people in this country who are of working age, who are of good health, and who are choosing to rely on benefits'

Also Suella Braverman

https://twitter.com/skottychops/status/1546527336014692357?s=21&t=ayFLPcRMMMBfnopl1wwkpA
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It’s also just a facking outright lie.

Anyway, I cannot wait to hear her lambasting UK corporations for robbing taxpayers through tax evasion and avoidance...

Oh wait:

On 25 Feb 2020:
Suella Braverman voted not to call for robust action to tackle tax avoidance and evasion.

On 28 Jun 2016:
Suella Braverman voted against requiring multinational enterprises to publish a country by country tax strategy including information on their attitude to tax planning.

On 19 Apr 2016:
Suella Braverman voted against giving the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority duties to combat abusive tax avoidance arrangements

On 13 Apr 2016:
Suella Braverman voted against implementing a series of proposals intended to reduce tax avoidance and evasion.

comment by Ignacio Varga (U11781)
posted 2 hours, 33 minutes ago
Quite surprised at how many voters Tugenhadt has got.
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I'm not.

He's this races Rory Stewart, in terms of being fairly central, will have a lot of appeal to voters, has seemed fairly sensible and is completely untainted by Boris. In fact, Boris dislike him quite a lot.

He's the anti-boris candidate

EXCLUSIVE:

Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg are expected to endorse Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, for PM tomorrow

They're planning to make a joint announcement - two of biggest Boris Johnson loyalists backing Truss

James Cleverly also endorses Truss in tomorrow's Times

Looks like most of the Boris cabinet are rallying behind Truss then.

I don't Truss her

MPs have voted by 289 to 202 to approve regulations to allow agency workers to replace those on strike.

comment by Ignacio Varga (U11781)
posted 3 minutes ago
EXCLUSIVE:

Nadine Dorries and Jacob Rees-Mogg are expected to endorse Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, for PM tomorrow

They're planning to make a joint announcement - two of biggest Boris Johnson loyalists backing Truss

James Cleverly also endorses Truss in tomorrow's Times

Looks like most of the Boris cabinet are rallying behind Truss then.
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Unsurprising considering she’s promised him a job as a special envoy with Ukraine etc like Blair had when he left.

Boris and Liz basically doing a swap is the aim

comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted 1 minute ago
MPs have voted by 289 to 202 to approve regulations to allow agency workers to replace those on strike.
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Excellent news

I wonder which of the candidates will be first to promise Mo Farah will be sent to Rwanda?

Andrew Neil @afneil
Enjoyed tonight’s hour-long Andrew Neil Show Special. Gave programme a chance to breathe. Yet not single contender for Tory leadership would agree to be interviewed by me. Closest we got: J Hunt offered E McVey. Then she bottled it. These are people who want to run the country.

Pusssy Tories, although it would’ve been grate to see McVey torn a new one by Neil.

To be fair I’ve pretty much had it now after what I’ve ready We really need an election man, need Starmer in ASAP over one of these clowns

Fackin Rishi promising to fix the mess, he created the mess the melt

Maybe after winter actually

I don’t trust Labour to not bring in covid restrictions of lockdowns or free tests at the first sign of covid trouble this winter and that’s the last thing we need

Country’s facked as it is

I think Wallace has played this well. He knows the next PM is gonna have a nightmare with the economy and will be well positioned to take over if/when the tories lose the next election

Wallace is not going to win an election

Looks too much like the fat guy from Harry Potter, Malfoy’s mate

And Boris was the epitome of Sylvester Stallone

comment by Oscar #TeamFury. Champion of NBA Predictions a... (U12980)
posted 1 minute ago
Wallace is not going to win an election

Looks too much like the fat guy from Harry Potter, Malfoy’s mate
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Tories best hope in the future. He can win an election for them

Posted at 8:008:00
BREAKING
Labour to table no confidence motion
Labour will table a no confidence motion in Boris Johnson's government later today, seeking to hold the vote on Wednesday, party sources say

Keith growing a pair I am hooooorny

So what will that do ?

Holy fack, this is absolutely shocking, if not entirely surprising:

‘SAS reports reveal troubling pattern of suspicious deaths in Afghanistan’

‘SAS operatives in Afghanistan repeatedly killed detainees and unarmed men in suspicious circumstances, according to a BBC investigation.

Newly obtained military reports suggest that one unit may have unlawfully killed 54 people in one six-month tour.

The BBC found evidence suggesting the former head of special forces failed to pass on evidence to a murder inquiry.

The Ministry of Defence said British troops "served with courage and professionalism in Afghanistan".

The BBC understands that General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the former head of UK Special Forces, was briefed about the alleged unlawful killings but did not pass on the evidence to the Royal Military Police, even after the RMP began a murder investigation into the SAS squadron.

General Carleton-Smith, who went on to become head of the Army before stepping down last month, declined to comment for this story.

BBC Panorama analysed hundreds of pages of SAS operational accounts, including reports covering more than a dozen "kill or capture" raids carried out by one SAS squadron in Helmand in 2010/11.

Individuals who served with the SAS squadron on that deployment told the BBC they witnessed the SAS operatives kill unarmed people during night raids.

They also said they saw the operatives using so-called "drop weapons" - AK-47s planted at a scene to justify the killing of an unarmed person.’

[continues in link]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62083196

Full public investigation led by the RMP required, with the hierarchy and soldiers forced to testify in court, and full details made public.

If there’s solid evidence behind the allegations, which there indeed seems to be, we actually need to see war crimes prosecutions and a complete clear out of the hierarchy.

Absolutely disgusting. The ‘Best of the Best’ indeed. What a disgrace.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 6 minutes ago
So what will that do ?
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Force the Tories to vote to say they have confidence in the government. They will then continue to tear themselves apart. It could even see Johnson claim he has a mandate to carry on.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 6 minutes ago
So what will that do ?
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Force the Tories to vote to say they have confidence in the government. They will then continue to tear themselves apart. It could even see Johnson claim he has a mandate to carry on.
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Nah. With the media coverage squarely on the next candidate people have already moved on from Bojo the clown.

Yeah I doubt it'll pass but will be funny to see the likes of Javid and Sunak vote that they have confidence in the same government they resigned from

The government is formed from the Tories. They didn't resign from the Tory party. So if anything it will cause them to unite. The better play would have been to let the Tories tear themselves apart and keep well out of it.