The Conservative Party

[MillionMilesAway]

Suella Braverman and the Hard Right Capture of the Conservative Party

The Home Secretary's GB News appearance shows how Rishi Sunak's party has been taken over by a radical fringe on the right of British politics, writes Adam Bienkov

bylinetimes.com

It does recall First They Came, doesn't it?

"First they came for the anti-Brexit Conservative MPs, because they weren't nutter enough..."

 

[domalino]

It does recall First They Came, doesn't it?

"First they came for the anti-Brexit Conservative MPs, because they weren't nutter enough..."

"First they came for the Anti-Growth Coalition, but that included everyone and didn't poll well, so next they came for..."

 

[BobKowalski]

You’re asking a question I wasn’t answering. I merely disputed that the current shortage of fresh produce is caused by Brexit. It isn’t.

Your post is flimsy at best, intellectually dishonest even, in that it asks “did I have fruit and veg rationing before Brexit? No, since? Yes” whilst ignoring Brexit occurred some years ago now without fruit and veg issues and further dismissing that it is necessary to prove Brexit is the primary cause for this rationing.

I can see where Brexit is an issue and even a barrier to a possible solution. I’m just not blinkered enough to blame everything on Brexit.

Brexit is a factor in the lack of fresh produce and that it is currently rationed. Even before this round of rationing, supermarkets were struggling to keep general produce on the shelves.

Whereas before we (and by extension, RoI) was protected by a seamless supply chain, that is no longer the case and we are more vulnerable to seasonal disruptions because the supply chain is no longer seamless. This has a knock on effect on RoI as it is at the end of that supply chain (hence the work to bypass the UK land bridge). This supply chain will degrade further when full and/or new EU rules on food/produce are applied.

What surprises me is Brexiteers failure to appreciate the consequences of having to constantly deny ‘Brexit is to blame’ narratives. Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of this argument in any one case, it is reinforcing a negative message and is never countered by any positive messages, ie any tangible upside of Brexit.

What is even more baffling, is that the mantra over Brexit was about ‘control’. How by taking back ‘control’ we will do a better job. Yet this has not occurred. No business sector has benefited from this control. Management of supply chains, food security has not benefited from this control. Instead, there is drumbeat of negative stories, from polluting our waterways, having the highest energy prices in Europe, a labour shortage, the NHS, the car industry struggling, scarcity of eggs, rationing of fresh produce, and a Govt that cannot govern, telling us to eat turnips and be grateful.

We set fire to a business and economic trading model that worked and replaced it with fuck all, expect empty nationalist rhetoric.

On the bright side the schadenfreude is enjoyable.

 

[metalblue]

I am a grown up - just not one wedded to a stupid political idea that is destroying the country and refusing to back down and admit a mistake

Your lack of self awareness is breath taking.

 

[casserole of nonsense]

What about the impact of increased turnip flatulence on the climate? It's a shambles, I tell thee.

 

[BobKowalski]

‘Foreign students will be banned from bringing family members to UK unless they study 'high value' courses under govt plans They will only be allowed to bring dependents for certain courses ie science & if they're studying for more than a year’ @Times

Foreign students for the University sector is big business, so obviously we will kneecap it :)

 

[bluejon]

‘Foreign students will be banned from bringing family members to UK unless they study 'high value' courses under govt plans They will only be allowed to bring dependents for certain courses ie science & if they're studying for more than a year’ @Times

Foreign students for the University sector is big business, so obviously we will kneecap it :)

the amount of the money the sector makes from Masters students, who only stay for a year, is fucking huge. these are such a bunch of cunts

(and an unrelated shout out to metalblue for being the brexit equivalent of the japanese soldiers they found years after WW2 was over still hiding in caves and thinking the war could still be won)

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

the amount of the money the sector makes from Masters students, who only stay for a year, is fucking huge. these are such a bunch of cunts

(and an unrelated shout out to metalblue for being the brexit equivalent of the japanese soldiers they found years after WW2 was over still hiding in caves and thinking the war could still be won)

The 'war' (Brexit) is over surely? I think anyone still arguing either way falls into the Japanese soldier equivalence you suggest. Looking forward we will move back towards a closer relationship with the EU, and even the current version of this govt has a much less antagonistic relationship than previous iterations.

 

[Gabriel]

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Well had us off.