ISTM they’ve been studying the example from our side of the pond … “The cruelty is the point.”
Seems they’re quick learners.
This, dammit. Tories in UK, Republicans in US, let the problem fester and blame the other side because your doomed unworkable idea doesn’t fix it.
I’m not sure about the dodgy boat companies, though the Tories definitely have a history with that, like Chris Failing…uh, Grayling…giving a ferry contract to a company with no actual boats and a website that copied the code from a Chinese takeaway. There’s been so much talk about the planes taking off loaded with migrants (Suella Braverman: “I have a dream!”) that I think that’s where their photo op aspirations lie.
As you point out, Rwandans make asylum claims to the U.K. already. I think the annual immigration from that country actualy exceeds the number of planned expulsions. The Tories really couldn’t organize a two-car funeral, could they?
I was referring to Bibby Stockholm, who I read had costs which meant they could have sent each resident on a year long all expenses paid cruise instead of paying the Tory donor to put them up. I know from this article that the costs would be £2.K PER NIGHT at the moment, so you can see there the REAL motive behind such genius solutions…
Right, I forgot about the Bibby Stockholm. That’s such a tragic tale, I think I prefer to remember the purely comedic incompetence of the Tory years rather than the painful stuff.
I’ve seen it pointed out that housing asylum seekers (or group of people) on a boat has all the costs of a hotel plus all the costs of keeping a vessel seaworthy which anyone who’s owned so much as a dinghy will tell you are inconceivably vast. As in, every time you hear the number, it gets bigger.
Seems as if The flatulent hate gonk (Boris Johnson)'s support for Ukraine was all just a load of guff in the end, with him wanting Trump back.
It’s not as if Trump did anything much to support Johnson when he was in anyway.
For more on Johnson’s latest idiocy, look at the end of Marina Hyde’s latest (the rest is as trenchant as ever):
Well, johnson was pretty uncomplimentary about trump …
It’s so sad to watch clones fight.
Ah yeah, that will probably be back when he was mayor and would be to blame if there were parts of london which were no-go areas. There wasn’t. There still isn’t. And Trump wasn’t running for president at that time either.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Kemi Badenoch is a member of a Conservative WhatsApp group called “Evil Plotters” despite telling party rebels to “stop messing around” and get behind Rishi Sunak, the Guardian can reveal…
… the Guardian has been told that Badenoch and Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, who is regarded as a key backer, are members of a WhatsApp group of similarly minded Tory MPs who are rallying round the business secretary’s longer-term ambitions.
While we’re at it:
The poll lays bare just how unpopular the party is with young people, with just 4 per cent of those aged between 18 and 24 saying they intend to vote Conservative, and only 12 per cent of 25- to 49-year-olds.
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How many young people vote though? Hopefully a larger percentage than in the US.
Fair question. I guess we’ll see. But I don’t think any political party wants to see young voters making their first determination of who they support, and 96% of them saying: Not you!
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With those numbers, I guess it doesn’t matter as much how many vote!
As long as there aren’t too many thinking it’s all a done deal and there’s no need to bother to turn out (it’s not as if it’s that difficult to get to your polling station, after all). But to get this shower out means overturning lots of massive majorities from 2019.
TIL that the UK government has used gamer lingo since 1868, but it took Boris Johnson to make it part of a full department.
Maybe they should have a ministry to calculate how many hit points the PM has lost.
Maybe mod some games to show, instead of a hit points bar, a head of lettuce in various stages of wilting.
Probably inferior in terms of easy recognition, but much greater comedic value.
So, is it time to break out those Larry for Prime Minister signs again?