Questions Of The Day (Politics)

[Wile E. Coyote]

Hang on, the Euro trend is to chuck out a centrist woke lot for a rebranded fascist/national party. We, I mean Britain, not AE ( I can speak for the former), are chucking out a centrist woke party for another centrist woke party.

We are stuck in the age-old paradigm of chucking out a so-called "right" party for a so called "left" party, whereas the Europeans are in a battle of all the "old" parties (now called centre) against the "new" right. This is what Ursula calls the centre holding, ie you tot up every vote for these older parties (no matter how bonkers their manifesto) on the grounds they are not "new right" and then claim a victory for centrist mederation.......

Note, Meloni and Le Pen have cleverly worked out that you will secure national power by always blaming Europe (bit like the SNP gained total power by always blaming Westminster), by keeping inside the Union and then moaning about directives, rather than by actually Exiting. It only goes to show how badly Farage and Johnston have cocked up by taking us out of the EU. Boris and Nigel have in reality ensured another half century of wokist mediocrity. Bastards.

[Mick Harper]

Yes, but you're not being very AE-ist. The correct approach is to eschew such labelling and simply observe that there is nothing whatsoever 'wrong' about some new lot coming to prominence. It is the way democracy works when democracy is not working. You might think some of their policies are 'bonkers' just as you have declared some mainstream parties to have 'bonker' policies but they are simply policies that haven't been tried yet. We have no idea whether they will turn out be bonkers or not. Right-wing populists are rational so they probably will.

The only reason you -- and everyone else -- is alarmed by these new parties is because they might turn out to be the Nazi Party de nos jours. Let me put your mind to rest. The Nazi Party (along maybe with the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democrat Party insofar as they were democratically elected) were only able to do their horrid deeds because they were operating as the government of a Great Power and therefore free to murder (or seriously disoblige) millions of people unmolested.

This does not apply to any country within the EU.

[Wile E. Coyote]

[Mick Harper]

Nah, you just think they're below the salt.

[Grant]

I'm not one for conspiracy theories (actually I love them) but is Rishi deliberately destroying the Tory party?

In the last month he's made the two greatest errors in the history of British general elections.

First, after declaring for two years that his goal is to reduce inflation and boost growth, he calls a GE at the first positive sign that his plan is working, even though he could give it another five months.

Second, he deliberately avoids being seen with the US and French presidents on the beaches of Normandy. Is there a single British politician who would have missed this opportunity in the middle of a GE - or indeed any time.

Some say he's made a gaffe, but this is a man who seduced a billionaire's daughter at Oxford, held down a good job at Goldman Sachs and outmanoeuvred Boris and Truss to the top job. He's a cunning little devil.

He called the election as soon as the good news broke so the Tories couldn't capitalise on the positive financial news.

[Mick Harper]

His father-in-law is going to buy up a bankrupt Britain and asset-strip it, is that the idea? He needs to concentrate on buying up India, he does, what with Modi 'doing a Rishi' as we psephologists call it.

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Is Rishi Sunak a Houthi? If he is a plant he is certainly doing a brilliant job.
Mick Harper on Medium Jan 24, 2024

Sending Typhoons from Cyprus to bomb people driving around in pick-ups with drones in the back is proving a tough ask but each time ‘Rishi’ orders it, a million Yemenis hit the streets declaring death to the British and undying loyalty to the Houthi cause. One wonders how often he can get away with it before the British intelligence services smell a rat.

However, despite their coup, the Houthi intelligence services can be justly criticised for giving their man a less than believable legend:

[Wile E. Coyote]

To be fair, whilst I believe his family come from the colonies, I don't think they, or he, had practical experience of governing. What we should have done, of course, is topple Modhi and given Rishi a few years as Viceroy, and only then elevated him.

Only once you have put down an Indian Mutiny, have you really demonstrated that you might be able to cope with Mogg and co, and so are worthy of "the highest office".

[Mick Harper]

The Black Hole is too good for the likes of them.

[Mick Harper]

As a self-employed pensioner suffering from fly-tipping, I shall be voting Conservative. (Will they really come round and clear up my living room?)

[Wile E. Coyote]

Bit disappointed the Tories are only cracking down hard on organised fly-tippers. Come on guys, be ambitious, target the disorganised, really messy ones.

[Wile E. Coyote]

Labour will not scrap the Illegal Migration Act, as far as I can see, so the question is which bits will they retain. My guess is, given Sir Keir's Stazi streak, they still want the asylum seekers' mobile phones, or the inbuilt presumption that they are not genuine asylum seekers if they refuse or are unable to give reasons why they are unable to comply with this demand.

This electronic monitoring of course is a better deterrent than any threat to send folks to Rwanda, modern states need to monitor the movement of goods and people, primarily electronically.

[Mick Harper]

It may be easier for the 'Caring Party' to act tough than the 'Nasty Party'. [And be supported in their measures by 'caring' judges.] As people keep pointing out, a large majority means more trouble from rebels on your own side but, contrariwise, you've got enough loyalists to take steps that please the voters but upsets the base.

[Wile E. Coyote]

They will also have to clear out the prisons.

Personally, Wiley favours the Putin approach of giving offenders the chance for national service but, failing that, a massive extension of nationalised electronic surveillance for released non-violent offenders, undertaken by probation officers (renamed Starmer Snoopers) rather than private companies, is the way to go.

[Mick Harper]

Won't the same thing happen as when we 'cleared out' the old Victorian loonie bins and replaced them with 'Care in the Community'? Ex-cons wandering round town centres making nuisances of themselves? In which case I support the proposal.

[Wile E. Coyote]

It's perfectly possible to exclude these folks from any area you want, for example you might decide those that look at electronic images of children should not be in jail, but should not be hanging round schools.

You really just need the will to implement an electronic surveillance society.