The All New Adventures of His Majesty's Government

[Piscian]

Congrats on your new Minister, maybe this time itll all be different.

 

[09philj]

The Home Secretary, odious right wing fuckwit Suella Braverman, has resigned, ostensibly over a breach of the ministerial code, but probably more likely in reality because Jeremy Hunt wanted the crypto-fascist liability out of the cabinet. This makes her, I think, the shortest serving home secretary since 1834, with only 43 days in the job. (The previous shortest tenure was as part of a short term caretaker government formed by the Duke of Wellington to cover essential business before Robert Peel returned from Sardinia to form a proper government)

Braverman has now been reappointed as home secretary. FUUUUCK

 

[Thaluikhain]

Braverman has now been reappointed as home secretary. FUUUUCK

Does that make them both the shortest serving, and the shortest time between serving?

 

[09philj]

Does that make them both the shortest serving, and the shortest time between serving?

yes

 

[Baffle]

Braverman has now been reappointed as home secretary. FUUUUCK

But that's a shit idea. Her getting booted was the only decent thing Truss did.

 

[Silvanus]

But that's a shit idea. Her getting booted was the only decent thing Truss did.

Under the last several home secretaries, the Home Office could accurately be renamed the Office for Generating Headlines.

 

[Hades]

Braverman has now been reappointed as home secretary. FUUUUCK

What's a Braverman? If she's bad then so far not so iconically bad that she's known on the continent.

 

[Silvanus]

What's a Braverman? If she's bad then so far not so iconically bad that she's known on the continent.

She's actually potentially the worst of the lot, if we're talking immorality rather than ineptitude. She's a big proponent of our government's current scheme to deport illegal migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda, regardless of where they're from-- she recently told the Conservative Party conference that it was her "dream" to see a front page reporting on the first deportation flight to Rwanda.

Most recently, she caused mirth by saying that it was the "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati" who are to blame for protesters causing disruption. Actual quote right there, from an apparently serious politician, in our Parliament.

 

[09philj]

But that's a shit idea. Her getting booted was the only decent thing Truss did.

Well now at least the police and anti government protestors can have a common enemy.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Most recently, she caused mirth by saying that it was the "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati" who are to blame for protesters causing disruption. Actual quote right there, from an apparently serious politician, in our Parliament.

Fuck. All she had to do was mention avocado toast and I could've filled in my conservative shit-talk bingo card.

 

[Thaluikhain]

She's actually potentially the worst of the lot, if we're talking immorality rather than ineptitude.

That's quite an achievement.

She's a big proponent of our government's current scheme to deport illegal migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda, regardless of where they're from-- she recently told the Conservative Party conference that it was her "dream" to see a front page reporting on the first deportation flight to Rwanda.

Most recently, she caused mirth by saying that it was the "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati" who are to blame for protesters causing disruption. Actual quote right there, from an apparently serious politician, in our Parliament.

Ah, ok then.

 

[09philj]

Ah, ok then.

Braverman's also in the modern vein of British Conservative Home Secretary in that law enforcement don't like her either. Unlike in a lot of countries, the conservative desire to neglect public services has no exemption for the police in the UK. Forces are genuinely overstretched, and the Police Federation (which is a body we have instead of a police union because those are illegal) has been asking for better pay and conditions for a long time and not really getting anywhere. They are only just now about managing to recruit enough officers to return their numbers to the levels they were at when Labour left government in 2010. The rest of the justice system, from prisons to public defenders, are similarly up shit creek without a paddle. Braverman's response to the brewing crisis in criminal justice has broadly been to blame the police for not trying hard enough and being too woke. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-police-symbolic-gestures-diversity-inclusion

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

"leaky Sue" is a new one to me.

 

[SilentPony]

'Indians are not Asians': Ronny Chieng stand-up bit on ‘The Daily Show’ criticized as 'racist'

Malaysian comedian and actor Ronny Chieng is under fire for his stand-up skit on “The Daily Show” in which he joked “Indians are not Asians.” Days after former finance minister Rishi Sunak was announced as Britain’s first Asian prime minister, Chieng appeared on “The Daily Show” and joked about...

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Asians of the Escapist, thoughts? Im white, and this seems like straight up racism.

 

[09philj]

'Indians are not Asians': Ronny Chieng stand-up bit on ‘The Daily Show’ criticized as 'racist'

Malaysian comedian and actor Ronny Chieng is under fire for his stand-up skit on “The Daily Show” in which he joked “Indians are not Asians.” Days after former finance minister Rishi Sunak was announced as Britain’s first Asian prime minister, Chieng appeared on “The Daily Show” and joked about...

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Asians of the Escapist, thoughts? Im white, and this seems like straight up racism.

Bit of casual cultural ignorance mixed with a bit of casual racism.

In British English "Asian" tends to mean someone from the continent of Asia (excepting any Russian Slavs). This includes people from all over Asia from the Turkic people in Central Asia to the Tagalogs in the Philippines. Because of the whole empire incident, people from the Indian subcontinent are the most prominent Asian minority in Britain. In American vernacular, "Asian" tends to mean people of East Asian or South East Asian descent, and sometimes people of Central Asian descent, but not South Asians. (East and South East Asians are, of course, the largest Asian groups in the US)

It is culturally ignorant to not know about the above difference between British and American language. It's racist to blame it on the Indians.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Any validity to this?

 

[09philj]

Any validity to this?

In the Express so I'm going for no.
Also a significant minority of Tory MPs hate Sunak, but they are a minority.

 

[Trunkage]

Bit of casual cultural ignorance mixed with a bit of casual racism.

In British English "Asian" tends to mean someone from the continent of Asia (excepting any Russian Slavs). This includes people from all over Asia from the Turkic people in Central Asia to the Tagalogs in the Philippines. Because of the whole empire incident, people from the Indian subcontinent are the most prominent Asian minority in Britain. In American vernacular, "Asian" tends to mean people of East Asian or South East Asian descent, and sometimes people of Central Asian descent, but not South Asians. (East and South East Asians are, of course, the largest Asian groups in the US)

It is culturally ignorant to not know about the above difference between British and American language. It's racist to blame it on the Indians.

This can Asian/Indian thing sometimes happens in Australia too, but we tend to follow the American way

And, if anything, Asia probably refers to the north and SE Asia for below India. Anything west of Pakistan is generally refered to as the Middle East. Indonesia can fit into SE Asia and Oceania

 

[Baffle]

Matt Hancock suspended as Tory MP for joining I'm a Celeb cast

The former health secretary is punished by his party after announcing he will join the reality show.

www.bbc.co.uk

The guy who ran our COVID strategy is going on I'm a Celebrity, because we are a serious country.