Good stuff

Jackson Carlaw is doing more for Scottish independence than anyone 😂

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Johnson is terrible.

This is the problem with the tory rhetoric... they blame Sturgeon for not opening up sooner whilst at the same time questioning why she is opening up so soon. She has been more consistent and has garnered more praise than any other UK leader with her approach. Do you really think she's handled this badly?

"political reasons" ffs - we have an average of like 6 deaths a week. She has refused to politicise her briefings on numerous occasions and she's said as much. You're still talking about care homes which seem to have been a blind side for the entire global community... she has remained stoic whilst Boris is blaming them for apparently not following the rules. Jesus man how can you with a straight face still endorse this ****. Unreal.

Christ almighty, Hancock was so bad on Today, all you needed to do was to suggest a date when these mask laws would be reviewed, when whoever was interviewing him suggested "so we could be wearing masks next summer", don't say "foreseeable future" and "let's see how we're going with a vaccine". How hard is it to suggest a timeframe?

Labour will settle out of court with BBC reporter John Ware and the Panorama whistleblowers defamed by Seumas Milne and his henches.



Labour effectively admits that the claims made in the BAFTA-nominated programme 'Is Labour Antisemitic?' were true and that Milne's counter-claims were false and defamatory.

Labour will also apologise to Ware and the whistleblowers.



Of course, Labour is now led by a QC with a grasp of the law, which helps.

This could lead to a lot of further lawsuits, especially after the EHRC report lands in the week commencing 3 August. Some people think Labour could go bankrupt, but I don't think a political party can legally go bankrupt. The cost could be severe, though.

Oh. You know that thing about Johnson nominating Failing Grayling of all people to head the Intelligence and Security Committee? Turns out the committee aren't having it and they've elected Dr Julian Lewis instead.

In reprisal, Johnson and Cummings have removed the Tory whip from Dr Lewis. Silly buggers. The executive simply does not have the powers over the legislature that they think it does. And it only takes 40 Tory MPs, many of them deeply unhappy with the Johnson-Cummings circus, to destroy their majority.

Johnson clearly think he's still in some kind of honeymoon period, and while he may well not be under threat right now, it's not because he wields nearly as much power as he thinks.

The 1922 will bide their time, wait three years for the shitstorm over Brexit and Covid to pass, and he'll be replaced by Sunak.

lol, he really did just lose a rigged election!

Lol proposing Grayling to head up anything ever

They want to suppress the Russia report. So needed a hard core Leavetard. This is what happens when you single issue your party.

I doubt it's to do with the Russian report which has already been cleared, would be released anyway and isn't going to be anywhere near as exciting as some hope for.

This is about far more important and sensitive issues that are coming up, control freakery and general incompetence.

Also, Lewis will likely regain the whip relatively quickly.

Look like its being released today, and yes its all about this report.

Good summary here.

Lewis is also a hardcore leavetard FWIW.

Ok, but he does not put that cause above all things,so does not mind if a report makes the government e.g. Boris look bad. If releasing it is in the broader greater good.

So he is not part of the entwining of the fortunes of Boris with the fortunes of Brexit. Or even is prepared to make Brexit look bad itself, e.g. The russians agitated for it.

I'n sure you will insist it is but in reality it's cheap easy, news fodder about a report that Dominic Grieve has said wasn't a huge deal and speculated "I can only imagine Dominic Cummings – in a fit of pique about my stance on Brexit – is behind it, but it makes no sense, as there were Leavers and Remainers on the committee when I was chairing it"

I'm sure there will be enough sensational revelations for you to lol chezlaw as you miss the far bigger picture about intelligence and security in boris's post brexit britain

Grieve says it contains things that will be bad for the government and its obvious that its release is being frustrated.

That its release is being frustrated, or has been, is obvious to everyone.

There is not point debating your contrarian take, at odds with all commentary on this issue, because you have made a position, and rather than ever admit the simple obvious wrongness of that position, you will plumb the lowest depths of ridiculous hand wavery and intellectual dishonesty to avoid doing such, such behaviour defines you as a poster.

It will have some embarrassing stuff in it that will last a few days or weeks with no lasting impact.

Depressingly you will never learn that politics is a far more serious business than a bit of short term embarrassment. Really serious issues and politics is going on while you do it.