Do you think anything this administration has done was thoroughly thought out and considered or plain reactionary and for mass media consumption?

From what we’ve seen this past year of Biden he seems more interested in visiting ice cream parlours and having an absolutely shit foreign policy.

I don’t think he understands the words even when they’re coming out of his own mouth.

Good luck with getting permission for a referendum on anything through parliament. You saw what happened last time. 🥲

I’d be very surprised if the government doesn’t fight tooth and nail against this amendment. Instead preferring a now is not the time style approach.

Or they could say… this wasn’t in our manifesto so we don’t feel comfortable bringing it forward 🥲.

Can’t wait for Lammy to shake hands with Trump on his next state visit.

Urrrgh. I’m never voting Lib Dems again.

I’ve literally never been stopped for not wearing a poppy. People wearing them don’t say anything to me about not wearing one and I don’t say anything to them about wearing one. It’s like me commenting on someone’s jewellery. Why the fuck would I? People want to wear what they want to wear.

Is this really such a newsworthy issue?

They include “research” when it suits their argument. And speak in absolutes. No drive time radio isn’t as popular as what it used to be… but he’s using all the same tricks.

He sells controversy. That’s his schtick.

Friend, I have news for you. The Home Office has been utterly shit for decades. Not simply under the Conservatives.

I think this gives too much credit to how badly run the Home Office is. Regardless of political party it is, and will remain, an utter shit show. There’s only so much incompetence throwing money at a department can cover up.

Dawn Butler has since deleted the post,

Why am I not surprised it was Dawn Butler 🧐.

The post described the former business secretary as a member of the “black collaborator class”.

Fucking hell. Does she even read what she retweets? Imagine, for a second, Trump doing this. Would we be defending his actions? Jaysus what is she thinking?

“The best thing will be when we get to a point where the colour of your skin is no more remarkable than the colour of your eyes or the colour of your hair,” she told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

I find it interesting that both Sunak and now Badenoch have said similar things about the colour of their skin and the fact they have been leaders of their party not being a big deal. For them they are are British and that’s how they identify. Whilst in both cases Labour has congratulated them as being the first Hindu to be PM and now the first Black person to be leader of a party. Don’t get me wrong these are important milestones, but I find it fascinating that the people who broke these barriers don’t consider it a core identity point and the party that hasn’t yet does.

I never saw the article as anything more than a sarcastic opinion piece. They’re not calling on the chancellor to reverse the budget. They’re not pointing to business opposition. They’re not saying anything but haven’t an armchair moan in, what looks like to me, a light-hearted opinion piece.

But fair enough if others see it differently. I certainly didn’t.

Ed knows how to write for his audience. He’s a shock jock for the modern age.

I feel… and hear me out… you’re taking this opinion piece too seriously. Read it like you’d read a Spectator article (and I very much appreciate you might read the Spectator). These are meant to be tongue in cheek. They’re not meant to be taken seriously or over analysed.

Could you imagine being this put out about the guardian opinion pieces?

Honest. I like it.

I thought it was an AI at first 🤖

Easy to sell clicks though.

Don’t worry, the American tax payer will bail them out via Joe’s IRA.

Russia’s useful idiots.

You could say… a wave of redundancies.

We shouldn’t be surprised. Lammy is a cabinet minister in a UK government. You’re not going to get a different answer on this topic. Deselect him if you feel strongly otherwise. These people don’t listen to anything else.

He’s also a hardcore Christian. Listen to his views on assisted dying for example. Whilst still in opposition he was asked about this on Question Time not that long ago. When the topic via Esther Rantzen first came up. He said he would seek council from his constituency and then made it clear that it was his church constituency that he was referring to. Forget about the electorate. His head and heart is firmly aligned with what his congregation wants. I suspect on this matter it is much the same.