lol'd

I know it's trivial but the BBC taking Martine Croxall off the air cos she laughed at a joke about Boris is bullshit.

I think it's more serious than you give it credit for.

BBC journalists/presenters choosing to ignore charter's rules about impartiality has given us Laura K and Fiona Bruce constantly interrupting opposition politicians while giving ministers free rein. They should all be removed from news/politics if they can't be more balanced, including Croxall.

I lolled at a sentence on the guardian (I think) website that said '150,000 members of the conservative party will be denied a say in the next leader'. So they can be like the rest of us then.

Sunak's speech was short, wooden and unconvincing.

He's probably already had death threats.

The bar is so low that all he has to do is avoid soiling himself live on TV and he will ensure that he was a better PM than the last one.

Maybe he didn't even manage that.

He should take a huge dump on the dispatch box, say 'still better' and walk out

Then he would be a legend

And a nice rack

She isn't actually a blonde, though she is perceived as one. (She has fairly dark brown hair.) Really it was always going to be Rishi this time, and now it is.

Just caught about 5 mins of GB News.

I now know which narrative 6/4 is parroting.

Well you know...they made quite a thing of it, relatively...

put it under a shell company, registered in another country. write off losses in company. pay no taxes!

compulsory purchase order is good though

The icon of the cancer at the heart of Tory politics has gone.

Bye bye Steampunk C3PO.

I hope they give braverman a relatively menial job.

She's Home Secretary again. ****ing hell

6 days ago. They really are just taking the piss now.

Sunak pandering to the ERG and the far right party membership.

Wouldn't want a mass exodus to Reform UK (aka BNP).

It's ok though, Biden has his finger on the pulse of world politics.

I mean it's really no surprise that Braverman is home secretary again with the immigration policies the Tory's have.

They know they can't put a Hunt, Gove, Mogg in that role as the calls of racism will be too strong. I can only really see it being Braverman,Patel, Zahawi or as a more outside shout of Cleverly or Badenoch.

I was actually quite pleased when Shapps had it briefly as I thought they would have to tone down the anti refugee veiws slightly and it may have lead to the end of the ridiculous Rwanda policy

And failed. Badly.

Chief political commentator, Sunday Times:

It's ****ing typical though that the critiicsm iso over that rather than the evil immigrations policies. They are the atroicty.

The 1930s Germany style immigration "policy" has been normalised now. Wouldn't be the least surprised if PM Starmer decided to stick with it .

When they start deporting people who've migrated here legally, perhaps because they've committed a crime and it's "too expensive to keep them in prison", or holding them in internment camps "while their cases are reviewed" you'll know how it started.

And as JEC points out "it can't be racist, because the Home Secretary is a person of colour".

If only people had been pointing out racism in all its forms over the past decade or two instead of "let them have their say".

We are so close to being irretrievably ****ed, depending how far the Tories want to push it.