It's all falling apart alarmingly fast for Boris Johnson across the water. How long you reckon he has left as British Prime Minister? Hours surely?
How many parties are they talking about now? I've lost count.
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BBC showed her having her first audience with Charles, she was very awkward and nervous and he really tried to put her at ease. Not really PM material when you're not comfortable on camera or a natural public speaker.
Like when we were asked to vote on getting rid of the seanad or keeping it as is. Put out there so they wouldn't have to answer calls to reform it into a more meaningful component of government.
Mrs Thatcher was a bit of a disaster on her own terms at first, but the Falklands War and experience gained helped her find her feet. While Liz Truss seems a bit of a 10p Mrs T, Keir Starmer has an extraordinary record of, if he was a footballer, of tripping on the football before the open goal of his opponent and doing himself an injury.
There are no words to describe what an exceptionally dumb and particularity nasty comment that is.
Truss has failed her way to the top somehow. She's way out of her depth. I'd say she'll try and milk this for all it's worth but manage to screw it up. Ambition is no use if you're rubbish at your job.
It was kinda awkward the way she shook hands with him from a distance as if in deep respect but he seemed to pull her towards him while they were handshaking.
I don't know. It's quite cynical of course but there is probably a modicum of truth to it.
I've heard dumber and nastier things over the last 48 hrs or so.
That's certainly some comment with the horseshit you've been posting. 🤣
Here, dry your eyes, poor thing.
The performative outrage is convincing nobody. Modern conservatism is a moral cesspit. Disingenuous wailing does not change that.
FPTP provides stronger governments who are able to get stuff done, unlike governments that rely on coalitions who are always compromising. That’s why Irish governments do very little without major outside pressure, because they never have the political capital. Take water rates, abortion and pretty much any major infrastructure project as an example
it also means you end up voting for personalities rather than manifestos, because the manifesto isn’t actually agreed until the coalition is formed, so you end up voting for parties expecting them to do something and they never do. Unless they are a small minority party who become king makers.
FPTP hasn't been getting much done for the UK in recent years.
If you want to "get stuff done" just go for a Putin style strong man altogether 🤣🤣
You could say the same about fascism. Not much of an argument to be honest and that's before we look at how divided the UK is. One party just enforcing its will on the whole country unhindered on the back of 43.6% of the vote is not democratic no matter how you spin it.
I see you've gone for the whataboutery tactic as well. No thanks.
Because that reform will never happen (is any opposition party pledging to do something meaningful with it and risk their own PFG?), we already have coalitions with proportional representation, why would we make it even harder to get legislation through, it's an anachronism that should have been dropped (as is the HOL. Dorries is there as an example of how useless it is).
Unless the goal is USA style getting nothing done partisanship of course.
That's like saying Ireland is undemocratic 2 parties with 25% ish last election.
No, it isn't.
Except its not because they formed a government comprised of TDs that were elected by more than 50% of the vote. There has been 1 government elected by a majority of the voters in the UK in the last 100 years and it was the tory lib dem coalition. Minority rule which is what the UK has had for 95 of the last 100 years is not democracy by any definition.
Liz terrible attempt at a curtsey has become a meme. Seems she can't do anything right 🤦
You could also say the same for communism, if you wanted to completely ignore the points made and shut down a conversation.
sorry for going against the group think.
Truss has put a well diversified cabinet together. Genders and ethnicities all well represented.
A modern British cabinet
No points were made. Just your usual fact-free hysterics and whataboutery.
You missed the points about stronger government, getting stuff done versus constant negotiation then?
coalitions are short term and become 100% tactical rather than strategic. The sole purpose being to keep the coalition together and get re-elected
Again, no points were made. Feel free to provide proof.
I gave proof and you dismissed it as whataboutery.
No, you didn't. This is a lie.
Anyway, we've gone off topic. I won't be responding to any more of this.
To get back on topic, Truss has dismantled the Brexit opportunities department. To save money or because there are no opportunities I don't know but most likely both.
So, surely JRM, having completely failed in this post, hasn't been given any new responsibilities?
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Seriously.
That'll be the work houses back open so.
First past the post is the worst of all worlds.
It provides for simple majoritarianism and calcified "safe seats" for generations where a baboon in a Tory or Labour rosette badge can be carpetbagged into parliament.
You could spend your entire lifetime in a red or blue wall constituency never seeing your vote count if you happen to have a minority political viewpoint (and not a particularly unusual one at that).
Over time, it has a produced a markedly more polarised political system. The Oireachtas is positively mature compared to the circus and low-quality one sees in Westminster.
The legislative process is no quicker in the UK than it is in Ireland (in fact it's slower in Britain as the Irish civil service and parties we are well accustomed to the grind of coalitions negotiating positions, whereas internecine big tent party infighting is a lot more bloody in the UK) so the "get stuff done" thing is a myth.
We've had 7 general elections since 1990, the UK has had 8. No difference in terms of stability, but we have a far more pluralistic system.
There has been a FG and FF TD in my town since the parties were established. Sounds pretty safe to me.
it isn’t the legislative process that takes an age, it is the initial decision making process. Because of the nature of coalition governments, an attempt is made to keep everyone happy and not upset anyone. public transport and the national childrens hospital are perfect examples of this. The debate and discussion takes so long, the decision ends up being parked until the next government and the next and so the project either never gets done, or delayed for so long it ends up with huge additional costs.
From Twitter...
A monarchist, an abolitionist, a Liberal Democrat, a Conservative, a Remainer and a Brexiteer go into a bar.
The Bartender says 'Here's your drink, Liz'
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