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[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still makes me chuckle how increasinly bad "chaos with Ed Milliband" and "Strong and Stable" sound as the Tory goverment goes on.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Every accusation a confession, with conservatives.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] mackwinston@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Cthuhlu. Why go for a lesser evil?

[–] Tamo@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

James Stupidly is replacing Cruella, the pig fucker is replacing Stupidly.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MP for Braintree. You couldn't make this up.

Seriously, if I wrote a comedy in which all of this happened, people would say it was unrealistic.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Saw an article the other day saying she had the full support of the PM.

Knew she'd be gone within a week, because that's what always happens.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

David Cameron getting back I to government!?!

He is better than most of their more recent seat warmers I guess...

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He started this whole crap show. Because he was scared of losing votes to UKIP, he held that dumb referendum, and that set in motion the events that led to Cruella (Johnson in power purging anyone in the party who didn't bow down to his brexit ideology). Cameron can do one, he's worse than Johnson in my eyes.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The government is effectively acting like it's the opposition, while the opposition is acting like it's in government.

The whole thing's a shit show.

TBF I left the UK years ago, and find the country increasingly alien as the years go by. Like a mirror universe country replaced the one I used to know.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He wasn't intentionally bad though, he just made a (huge) miscalculation about how much the leave campaign were willing to lie.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of people were making the same miscalculation. You have to remember this was around the same time as Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It wasn't widely known just how powerful that tactic really was yet. A lot of people were laughing at the obvious bullshit, confident that it'll never fly, but were oblivious as to just how many were buying into it.

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] graded6827@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know right, I can’t remember a more cruel and callous Home Secretary

[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always preferred Suella De Vil.

Fun fact: her name isn't actually Suella, it's Sue Ellen Braverman. Suella was a choice. She chooses to self-identify as a name that rhymes with Cruella.

[–] Naich@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Fun fact - she was named Sue Ellen after the Dallas soap opera character.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ex-PM David Cameron is made foreign secretary in a shock move as Rishi Sunak reshuffles his cabinet

That motherfucker?! Back again?

protect the pigs

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure he should be allowed to reshuffle from the discard pile.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Let's hope he promises to stick around again...

David? Daviiid? curtain wafts in front of open window

[–] brewery@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the actual fck! Regardless of your view of brexit, him fcking off for the rest of those c*nts to pretend to have an idea of sorting out his mess tells us all we need to know about his character

Next will be the reanimated corpse of Margaret fcking Thatcher with AI designed by Elon fcking Musk

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Considering he was in favor of remaining and he promised a referendum because a large enough proportion of the population wanted to voice their opinion on the subject, I don't think he was the right person to negotiate the terms of separation.

Then again it was non-binding so instead of promising to just go with whatever the population voted for he should have promised to negotiate the terms of separation and then hold a second referendum to know if people agreed to those terms or preferred to stay.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

David, Cameron lost because he didn't have a plan B.

He's too damn arrogant and think assume he could possibly lose. Not exactly great qualities in a politician.