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Re: The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024
Not really..?? Eh??
She's mean, nasty & looks after her friends. Her whole ideology is based on exploiting the working class & granting favours for the elite. She's a typical conservative.
The only thing that differentiates her is she's slightly more savvy than most of them, but most of them are inbred dipsticks so it's not really a saying much. I'm not even joking. I'm sure you know politicians like that in your country. You know what it's like.
She's been Home Secretary under the Cameron premiership. During that time she's tried to increase surveillance laws which is a really deeply disturbing development. Especially for people like me.. 
She's just a reactionary bitch. Ugh.
Re: The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024
Even though Cameron was the type of MP to conveniently miss out on voting for certain things, she's definitely further to the right than Cameron when it comes to voting. I'm not really sure why gay rights is used as a measuring stick for modern politics. These fuckers look down on everyone.
The BBC talking about her speech how she wanted to be fair to those well off, we'll she's voted against them at every opportunity.
I actually think May was one of the Tories that actually favored leaving, she just backed remain because she thought it would win. Cameron's the same. Ironically I think Boris out of the appointments was probably the most pro EU going by what he stated prior to this referendum, when he saw a chance at career advancement. He's still an enemy though of the non rich.
Country just moved further to the right. At least the fascists aren't in power, but that's the next logical step unfortunately.
Re: The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024
Like Thatcher then. Happy days ahead.
But I agree with that older Englishman I met in Turkey, "we don't like any of them". It takes a certain type to succeed in an environment where shining shit and calling it gold is the prime virtue.
Re: The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024
She appointed her rival Leadsom the environment sectary. If you're wondering what Leadsom's views on the environment are;
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24829 … nvironment
New Environment Secretary backs fox hunting, selling off forests, and opposes climate change measures
Andrea Leadsom spoke out in favour of fox hunting as recently as this month
Theresa May’s new Environment Secretary backs fox hunting, supported selling off Britain’s forest, and has generally opposed measures to halt climate change, her record shows.
Andrea Leadsom said during the Conservative leadership campaign that she wanted to un-ban fox hunting, citing “animal welfare”.
Her voting record shows she generally voted against key measures to stop climate change, including against setting a target on reducing carbon emissions in both 2012 and 2016.
Ms Leadsom’s appointment comes alongside the apparent abolition of the named Energy and Climate Change department; its responsibilities have been subsumed into the new Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
In July 2015 Ms Leadsom supported applying the climate change levy on electricity generated from renewable sources, while in March this year she voted against developing a strategy for carbon capture and storage for the energy industry.
In 2011 she also backed the Government’s policy on selling off Britain’s forests, before ministers were forced to U-turn on the plan.
After her appointment as a minister at the department of energy in 2015 it emerged that she had asked officials whether climate change really existed.
“When I first came to this job one of my two questions was: 'Is climate change real?' and the other was 'Is hydraulic fracturing safe?' And on both of those questions I am now completely persuaded,” she told the All Party Parliamentary Group on Unconventional Gas and Oil in October last year.
During the Tory leadership contest, she said of fox hunting: “I would absolutely commit to holding a vote to repeal the hunting ban. It has not proven to be in the interests of animal welfare whatsoever.
“I do believe we need a proper licensed regime which works much better and is more focused on animal welfare.”
The Environment Secretary generally has little say over energy policy, but issues like fox hunting, badger culls, and floods caused by climate change fall within her remit.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas described the shutting down of the climate change department as “deeply worrying”.
“The decision to shut down DECC is a deeply worrying move from Theresa May. Climate change is the biggest challenge we face, and it must not be an afterthought for the Government,” she said.
“Dealing with climate change requires a dedicated Minister at the Cabinet table. To throw it into the basement of another Whitehall department looks like a serious backwards step.
“In the coming months I will work constructively with any Minister willing to take climate change seriously, and I’ll be holding the Government to account for any backpeddling on our climate change commitments.”
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po … 37066.html
If you're wondering about Fox Hunting. Watch the Omen III, that's it. It's the rich having a jolly good time out on their horses killing Foxes with their dogs.
Re: The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/15/europ … _expansion
Some of Boris our new foreign sectary comments down the years about other world leaders.
A champion of standing against political correctness? Nah just your typical right winger.
Re: The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024
It's been such a horrible fuckin week that our problems seem insignificant in comparison. At least we're finally getting a bit of summer. Somehow managed to get my eyelids sunburned yesterday.
Re: The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024
This is from a few years back.
Boris Johnson grilled over past ‘outright lies’ at uneasy press conference
Foreign secretary endures awkward outing as reporters repeatedly press him to explain previous insults about world leaders
Boris Johnson was embarrassingly forced on to the back foot during his first London press conference as foreign secretary on Tuesday as he was repeatedly pressed to explain his past “outright lies” and insults about world leaders, including describing the US president as part-Kenyan and hypocritical.
Standing alongside John Kerry, the US secretary of state, Johnson claimed his remarks had been misconstrued, that his past journalism had been taken out of context, and world leaders he had met since his appointment fully understood his past remarks.
Johnson was holding a press conference designed to showcase the continuing closeness of the UK-US special relationship in the wake of Brexit, as well as the joint commitment to finding a solution to the crisis in Syria.
Johnson twice referred to the crisis in Egypt, but was believed to be referring to Turkey.
He came under strongest attack from American journalists who asked him if he was going to apologise to world leaders for his past insults, including to Barack Obama, and whether other politicians could trust him.
Johnson, holding the press conference in the Foreign Office, said: “We can spend an awfully long time going over lots of stuff that I’ve written over the last 30 years … all of which in my view have been taken out of context, through what alchemy I do not know – somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned.”
He added: “There is a rich thesaurus of things that I have said that have one way or the other I don’t know how that has been misconstrued. Most people when they read these things in their proper context can see what was intended, and indeed virtually everyone I have met in this job understands that very well particularly on the international scene. We have very serious issues before us today we have an unfolding humanitarian crisis in Syria that is getting worse. We have a crisis in Yemen that is intractable and a burgeoning crisis on Egypt and those are to my mind far more important than any obiter dicta you may have disinterred from 30 years of journalism.”
The event was probably Johnson’s bumpiest ride since his appointment as foreign secretary less than a week ago, although he was booed by a section of the audience after speaking at the French ambassador’s party on Bastille Day.
Pressed by an American reporter on a series of remarks he had made about world leaders, Johnson was asked whether he wanted to apologise or instead take them with him as foreign secretary. He joked that it would take “too long” to issue an apology for all the things he had written.
Kerry was forced to prop up Johnson saying the UK had made it clear after the EU referendum that it was committed to the UN, Nato and to making the world safer.
“The people of Britain voted. This is a democracy and we all respect a democracy,” he said, adding that he had been told Johnson was a very bright and capable man.
Kerry said it would be “physically impossible” to cut a trade deal with the UK before it leaves the EU, but informal talks could begin earlier. He insisted it would be possible to begin conversations, adding President Obama had made the same commitment even though during the referendum campaign he said the UK would be at the back of the queue for any bilateral trade talks with the US, if it left the EU.
Johnson concurred saying it was not possible for the UK to enter into a new trade deal while it was in the EU: “Clearly you can start to pencil things in, but you cannot ink them in.”
He said it would possible to control immigration once Britain had completed the process of leaving the EU. “What is certainly possible post-leaving the EU, and once we end our obligations under uncontrolled free movement, it will be possible to have a system of control,” he told reporters.
“You can’t do that immediately, clearly, because we are still in the EU.”
Johnson said the vote to leave the EU did not mean that Britain would step back from the world stage. “I want us to reshape Britain’s profile as an even greater global nation – a Britain that is more active, more outward-facing, more energetic on the world stage than ever before,” he said.
Kerry, who earlier held talks with Theresa May in Downing Street, welcomed the prime minister’s “very pronounced commitment” to the special relationship.
“I have returned to London today to reaffirm ourselves the special and unbreakable ties between the United States and the United Kingdom,” he said.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 … john-kerry
Re: The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024
Question Time tonight on the BBC is scary. Live from Boston (the most far right town in the UK) with a panel of a UKIP MP, a sleazy Sun columnist and Priti Patel (the MP who wants the death penalty brought back).
It's all about the immigrants and bashing Corbyn again, what a surprise!
Oh and Boris said the UK would do everything it could to help Turkey join the EU. I wonder if anyone will bring that up tonight? Probably not.
