UK Politics Thread

[Jimbuna]

IS fanatic Ali Harbi Ali has been given a whole-life sentence for murdering Sir David Amess MP.

Ali stabbed the Conservative MP for Southend West more than 20 times after tricking his way into a constituency surgery in Essex last year.

Sir David's family said it broke their hearts that he would have "greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship".

At the Old Bailey, Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said: "This was a murder that struck at the heart of our democracy."

Sir David, 69, was killed at the surgery he was holding at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October.

He was stabbed after 26-year-old Ali had gone into the meeting pretending to be an NHS employee moving to the area.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-61094059

Sadly, the death penalty is no longer an option.

[Jimbuna]

Some asylum seekers who cross the Channel to the UK will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans.

The trial will involve mostly single men arriving on boats or lorries.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the £120m scheme would "save countless lives" from human trafficking.

Refugee organisations have criticised the plan as cruel, questioned its cost and impact, and raised concerns about Rwanda's human rights record.

In a speech in Kent, Mr Johnson argued action was needed to stop "vile people smugglers" turning the ocean into a "watery graveyard", adding the "humane and compassionate" plan was designed to break their business model.

He said he wanted to make clear to people arriving on the Kent coast they were better off taking legal routes and that the new plan would "over time prove a very considerable deterrent".

Last year, 28,526 people are known to have crossed in small boats, up from 8,404 in 2020.

Around 600 people made the crossing on Wednesday, and Mr Johnson said the figure could reach 1,000 a day within weeks.

Mr Johnson said the scheme would be uncapped, affect those who arrived illegally since 1 January, and potentially involve tens of thousands in the coming years.

"We cannot sustain a parallel illegal system," the prime minister said. "Our compassion may be infinite, but our capacity to help people is not."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61097114

[Moonlight]

I expect the Labour MPs and their politically corrupt lawyer friends will do everything they can to oppose this new strategy that's being implemented by the Home secretary.

[Catfish]

As our polish neighbours said today, "England has been trying hard to destroy the EU [... ]... and when Marine LePen becomes prime minister they will have succeeded. What the hell is wrong with them?".
Seems "Yes Minister" was right all along.

[Jimbuna]

Refugees Minister Lord Harrington has declined to comment on government plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Asked by the BBC if he thought the scheme was a good idea, he said it was not his responsibility.

The minister - who was appointed to lead efforts to help Ukrainian refugees - said last week there was "no possibility" of sending them to Africa.

Under the scheme, single men who arrive in the UK and claim asylum will be relocated to Rwanda.

In an interview with LBC last week, Lord Harrington said no refugees had been sent to Rwanda and added: "If it's happening in the Home Office on the same corridor that I'm in they haven't told me about it."

On Thursday, he told the BBC that "hundreds of thousands" of people were fleeing Ukraine and none of them would be going to Rwanda.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61105696

What an absolute mess!!

[Jimbuna]

They're all at it now

Nicola Sturgeon has been reported to police after being filmed apparently breaching Scotland's face mask rules.

Footage on social media shows the first minister without a mask in an East Kilbride barber shop, which she had visited on the election campaign trail.

She posted footage of the visit on her own Instagram account with her mask on.

The SNP said Ms Sturgeon realised she was not wearing a mask "within a few seconds" of entering the shop.

It is legally required for people to wear face coverings in many indoor settings in Scotland until Monday, when the law becomes guidance.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "We can confirm that we have received a complaint which is currently being assessed."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...-west-61135232

[Jimbuna]

Boris Johnson will make his first statement to Parliament since being fined for breaking his own lockdown laws.

The PM is expected to apologise but repeat his claim that he did not knowingly break the rules.

His comments are expected to follow a statement by the Home Secretary at 15:30 BST on the government's plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

It's thought Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle will also announce at about 14:30 what measures opposition parties can take to try to hold the PM to account.

Johnson, his wife and Chancellor Rishi Sunak have paid fines for attending a birthday gathering for the PM in the Cabinet Room in June 2020

Opposition parties accuse him of misleading Parliament and have called on him to resign.

Johnson is known to have attended at least two further events of 12 being investigated by police, so could be fined again.

[Jimbuna]

The Commons Speaker says MPs will vote on Thursday on whether the PM should be investigated for knowingly misleading Parliament over breaching Covid laws.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle says he will allow MPs time to debate a motion from Labour on whether to refer Boris Johnson to Parliament's Privileges Committee.

Johnson is expected shortly to make his first statement to MPs since being fined for breaking his own lockdown laws last week.

The PM is expected to apologise but repeat that he did not knowingly break the rules.

[Jimbuna]

Boris Johnson has ignored a Labour call to apologise to the Archbishop of Canterbury over comments the PM made to a private meeting of Tory MPs.

Mr Johnson reportedly told his MPs that senior clergy had been "less vociferous" in their condemnation of Vladimir Putin than of plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Sir Keir Starmer demanded an apology at Prime Minister's Questions.

The PM said the Rwanda policy was an attempt to save lives in the Channel.

In his Easter Sunday sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the policy of sending some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK illegally to Rwanda cannot "stand the judgment of God".

Mr Johnson accused "senior members of the clergy" and the BBC of misconstruing the policy in a speech to Tory MPs on Tuesday evening.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61163702

[Jimbuna]

MPs will vote later on a Labour plan to open an investigation into whether the prime minister misled the House on lockdown parties.

The vote will happen because the government dropped an attempt to try to delay it by adding an amendment.

It was withdrawn because it was clear any probe would wait until after the report into parties by senior civil servant Sue Gray, No 10 says.

Boris Johnson was fined last week by police for breaking Covid laws.

The prime minister, who is in India, told reporters he was "very keen for every possible form of scrutiny" and denied misleading Parliament.

Opposition parties have accused him of lying to Parliament after he previously told MPs no rules had been broken.

Labour's Sir Keir Starmer says the PM could be found to have broken the law "again and again and again"

[Jimbuna]

A Conservative MP who allegedly watched pornography on his phone in the Commons should be kicked "out of parliament, out of the party", a Home Office minister has said.https://news.sky.com/story/tory-mp-w...party-12600533

[Platapus]

A Member of Parliament in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, Neil Parish, said Saturday he will resign after admitting twice watching pornography in the House of Commons.
Parish told the BBC the first time he viewed the explicit material was an accident after searching online for farm vehicles. The second time was deliberate and a “moment of madness,” the 65-year-old said.



Searching for "farm vehicles" or "farm animals"?

[Jimbuna]

[Buddahaid]

Ewe!

[Jimbuna]

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