Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Oct 24 2022 07:15pm)
Agree with that. Sunak was also chancellor during the pandemic and did a decent job of not imploding the UK economy. He also opposed Boris' plan to instal gold plated shark tank hospitals in every garden in every town. Without any plan to pay for it.
Is 2 years enough time for people to forget Tory fuckery with these leadership elections? Possibly. Hopefully voters don't forget.
I really don't see labour winning a large majority. This will all have a polarising affect with labour/tory voters and as we've seen Southern England vote overwhelmingly Tory.
Hopefully those northern fishing communities who were promised "no more quotas" don't take the bait this time around.
What is going on in NI now? Did Stormont put in place an administration yet?
if nothing changes, in the next week? there will be another election where the DUP would be expected to lose some seats. all in all, continued limbo, for now.
Article: The Northern Ireland minister, Steve Baker, has made a direct appeal to the Democratic Unionist party to accept EU-UK negotiations on the Brexit protocol and return to powersharing in Stormont. He also warned that if the DUP did not return to Stormont by Friday’s deadline, the government would call fresh assembly elections . “This is one place where we are really not going to have a U-turn,” he told the British-Irish parliamentary assembly in County Cavan, Ireland.
His comments came amid speculation that the Conservative party leadership election could upset the fragile talks between the UK and the EU to end the protocol dispute.“We will continue in the short term to press all parties to re-form the Northern Ireland executive. “We want to see the DUP, in particular, accept that this government and whichever PM the UK returns will continue our policy of reaching an agreement acceptable to all sides. “We want the DUP to accept that, and re-form the executive in order to avoid an election, but we are very clear that we will otherwise call an election and we will call it to get it done as soon as it is feasible,” he said.
In an email to party members over the weekend, the DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson indicated the party would not be ending its boycott of Stormont saying “the protocol debris” needed to be removed. “You can’t proceed with powersharing if one community is not on board. It doesn’t work.” Speaking at the same event as Baker, the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, also criticised the DUP for blocking the restoration of powersharing at Stormont. “The decision of one political party not to participate in the NI executive runs counter to democracy and risks undermining the faith of people in the potential of politics,” he said.
Baker and the Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris, have impressed the EU and the Irish leadership with the intensity and breadth of their engagement with political parties in Belfast, but some believe they could be moved in a reshuffle. Heaton-Harris championed Boris Johnson, which may put him at risk now it has been announced that Rishi Sunak will become the next PM. Some also believe Baker will get a promotion after his sharp criticism of Boris Johnson on Sunday.
This post was edited by ferdia on Oct 24 2022 01:53pm