In the U.K., Lee Anderson, deputy chair of the ruling Tory party is recommending that the government ignores the Supreme Court ruling that deporting refugees to Rwanda is unlawful. He thinks they 'should just stick them on a plane anyway'.
In any other country, we would call this an outrageous disregard for the rule of law. Here, we just call it a Wednesday.
I sometimes feel bad about posting articles from MSM here on Mastodon. It's all so corrupt I should really boycott it.
Then I remember that I am British. If I boycotted everything I disapproved of I'd be buggered. I wouldn't even be able to drink the tap water. I'd especially not be able to drink the tap water.
Meanwhile, here in the U.K. we have the has-been ex-politicians Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson floating the idea of forming a new party for all the people who think the Conservative Party is not quite racist and xenophobic enough.
While this may be a disturbing development to some, the comedy gods will find a way to make this happen. They're cueing up the Benny Hill theme tune as we speak.
Ah, but every day is the same in the U.K. You wait for the battle between the evil and the stupid to begin, and you place your bets, knowing full well it always ends in a draw.
Meanwhile, back on the sunken island, U.K. prime minister Rishi Sunak has had to confirm that he doesn't share the views of the new deputy chair of his own party, the one he just selected, and he doesn't support the death penalty.
If you're tuning in from outside the U.K. we haven't had the death penalty here since 1967. The only people who support it are psychopathic sadists, your reactionary old granddad, and now, it seems, the deputy chair of the ruling party.
The idea of Liz Truss making a comeback in U.K. politics is a joke, the punchline being that, with the state of our current government, she stands a good chance of making it.
Britain is just like 1930's Germany. We've reached the part where the Nazi's are paralysed by infighting, they're being forced to sack ministers, all their corruption is being investigated, they've destroyed the economy, their legislative agenda is in ruins, everybody's on strike, nobody believes a word of their propaganda and there's not a chance in hell of them staying in power at the next election, assuming they make it that far...
It's a clear as day here in the U.K. Sunak and the Tory government have got absolutely no chance of winning the next election. They're already gone. All we have to do until then is stay alive. That's the hard part.
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