It's a Disgrace!

[JimC]

...and a drawer of water...

[Svartalf]

he's a carrier of water of life, if it be juniper flavored

[rainbow]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/li ... s-fracking

[rainbow]

[Svartalf]

ding dong the witch is dead isn't it?

[Scot Dutchy]

Which one is next? This is so laughable. Like waiting in row before the headmaster's door listening to the screeches.

[Brian Peacock]

Time to bring Boris back.

[rainbow]

Time to bring Boris back.

[Svartalf]

You think the tories will name corbyn next just so they can look good when he gets shoved out?

[Brian Peacock]

Time to bring Boris back.

Awww c'mon. He got Brexit done! Everyone loves Boris, right?

[Svartalf]

we'd all love to know him in newgate, yeah...

[JimC]

If Labour can't win the next election, they should all resign from politics...

[rainbow]

If Labour can't win the next election, they should all resign from politics...

There can only be an election if a lot of Tories defect.

[Scot Dutchy]

[L'Emmerdeur]

'Too sexy for its own continent.'

'Oh, Britain: the chasm between myth and reality keeps on growing'

The last few months of Westminster drama are both so plainly watchable and so painfully bamboozling.

It’s like being forced to sit through a game of cricket or baseball. The beer and the snacks are fine, but the game only makes sense to the insiders who have been thrilled by the secret strategies since childhood.

So it’s tempting to see the fall of the hapless Liz Truss and the rise of the guileless Rishi Sunak as a contrasting tale of character and plot.

One was plainly incompetent and spontaneously combusted in an inferno of their own lies and trickledown economics. So is the other.

But British politics are not quite so simple – not since the country ripped off its reputation for common sense and streaked on to the global stage claiming it was too sexy for its own continent.

There has long been a yawning chasm between what British people admire in the mirror and what the rest of the world observes.

But over the last six years, that gap between myth and reality has become unbridgeable.

Brexit Britain has consumed five leaders since then, the same as Chelsea football club. Only one of those has publicly admitted to Russian ownership.

Sunak, for all his earnest schoolboy affect, is heading for the same fate as all four of his predecessors, because you can only fool all of the people some of the time.

Of course, some of the people can be fooled all of the time. We call those people Conservative party members who are – like their American Republican counterparts – no longer conservative at all.