• 11 May 2023, 7:56 p.m.

    How else is she going to show her gratitude to our king? On your knees, Swift.

  • 11 May 2023, 8:46 p.m.

    I'm very confused, where is Taylor Swift supposed to be in that picture?

  • 11 May 2023, 8:48 p.m.

    I think it’s the boy in the black jacket.

  • 22 May 2023, 8:08 a.m.

    I see that the project has started briefing against the home secretary. I wonder why they want rid of her now? Apart from her being a deranged out of control sociopath, obviously.

  • 22 May 2023, 8:10 a.m.
  • 22 May 2023, 8:35 a.m.

    The project is committed to destroying the public institutions that maintain stability, prosperity, and effective democracy. Look at the attacks on the law, the BBC, and pretty much every public or collective institution.

    The civil service is the management infrastructure of the country. They want that slimmed down, and under direct control of the cabinet office. A cabinet that itself is deeply compromised and controlled.

    So no, I don't think it's that. That is clearly on message.

  • 22 May 2023, 8:48 a.m.

    Because it's impossible for you to consider that the story has been leaked by a member of the civil service to damage someone they are pissed off with.

  • 22 May 2023, 9:27 a.m.

    There have been many complaints and messages out from the civil service, that should have been a massive cause for concern within the country. You might think about the wider context, and the clear move towards politicisation of the service.

    You might think about the number of civil servants with a ministerial standards remit who have resigned, without similar action from the ministers under scrutiny. You might consider the widespread and consistent behaviour of ministers, in contradiction of those standards, and beyond the pale of what the country would have accepted just a short time ago. You might think about the lack of traction of that in the media.

    So on balance, no I don't think rogue civil service action has caused this pressure on Braverman. There is nothing in the track history that suggests that is likely or even possible. When the civil service have yelped, the press have put them down, and the people have gone all brass monkey on them. The project has such a stranglehold on the 'mainstream' news agenda, that I don't think it happens without their involvement. They want captive nutters, doing their bidding, but they need electorally credible nutters or they risk losing the control that they have so effectively taken 'back'. At least until they completely disable any real semblance of democracy.

    I don't think it impossible, but I do think it highly unlikely in the context of what is happening in the country. You might observe that your prime minister is a comparatively charmless talentless individual, who nevertheless has bobbed to the surface of the sewer, on the back of being fully engaged philosophically with the project, while managing to appear (with considerable assistance from the captive press) mostly harmless.

    My view is that the 'oh, they've made another mistake' theory has long since been stretched beyond credulity.

    I think she's so intellectually compromised and deranged that her spell as useful idiot has come to an end, because even the great british public have noticed how vile she actually is....and she thus threatens their period of control.

  • 22 May 2023, 9:42 a.m.

    P.S. It's hard to think of a public utterance that she has made, that wouldn't have seen her immediately thrown out on her ear, in a decent country.

  • 22 May 2023, 1:06 p.m.

    I see Braverman was put to the sword by a journalist from Cbeebies, or some such. I shit you not.

    1. They talk a lot about delivering for the british people. Do these lying scumbags actually believe that, or are they just constantly gobbing in our faces?
  • 23 May 2023, 12:25 p.m.

    I see that we are on second level disclosures, this morning, building the pressure.

    Sometimes conspiracy is the correct answer, no matter how hard they try to gupp you into thinking it's bonkers to even consider it.

    Have you reconsidered it this morning, now that braverman is being briefed against for having connections in Rwanda that may have benefited from 'her' 'policy'? Like it's a concerted campaign?

  • 30 May 2023, 5:02 p.m.

    www.bbc.com/news/uk-65697595

    11 years for selling illegal streams of Premier League matches. Considerably less for possessing indecent images of children.

  • 30 May 2023, 5:06 p.m.

    I hope you are surprised? Everything about our current society is protecting income streams for big business interests. There is no value placed on ordinary people (except as units to exploit), particularly poor or vulnerable people. They are, after all, what big financial interests need to support their revenue.

    No, it doesn't make me proud.

  • Squad
    30 May 2023, 7:38 p.m.

    The whole BBC articles reads like a “we know you think this isn’t much of a crime but it’s really A Very Bad Thing” along with some spurious reasons why.

  • 31 May 2023, 11:39 a.m.
  • Squad
    31 May 2023, 12:59 p.m.

    Tbf it does say ‘futile attempt’ which is pretty much on the money.