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Anthony Stimson's avatar

The U.K. gov't. seems to be pissing away its legitimacy with a fire hose.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Thanks to the PPE set, the process has been underway for some time. See J Major Esq, Tone Blurr, Mandi, Gordo, 'PM to the Diddi C', Dame T May, BoJo, Oh L Truss Esq, Dish-Rishi Sunak, PM Mr KC 'son of a tool' Starmer KC.

Not one capable of opening a wet paper bag.

Their cabinets were and are no better.

Then there's the House of 'buy out' Lords.......

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Robert  Smith's avatar

Thank you again Laura for another very interesting article.

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Daniel Saunders's avatar

Is there *ever* an occasion when a superinjunction can be put to good use, whether by the state, a private organisation or an individual? The ones that become public never seem particularly socially useful.

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All Mouth And Trousers's avatar

The Express yesterday said that the cost would be £800m because the scheme allowing most of them in was ended in January after "experts" said the Taliban probably already knew who was anti-Taliban. This is a tribal culture, you're in the clan and doing what the clan leader says or you're dead in a ditch because no other clan will trust you for one second. Plus of course they hate you because someone in your clan killed someone in their clan 150 years ago, you know how it goes. So much for it being vital to safe these people, as soon as Reeves and co. spotted £7bn they could spaff on something else their lives "were signed away with the stroke of a pen".

The fact they can just "hide" £7bn in spending makes me wonder what the hell else they are hiding? This super-injunction is the first and longest of its kind as far as we know, but then we didn't know about this on Monday did we? Who would be surprised to find we are funding migrants to a far more generous level than previously disclosed? Or there are more rape gangs that have been covered up - There have been no prosecutions of large rape gangs in London for instance? Who the hell believes that?

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Laura Perrins's avatar

None of it makes any sensne as I will write on Friday.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

The £800 million is for the ops and costs of the cover-up, excluding legal fees.

Goodness knows what PongoLand is doing (click, click, click).

The circa £6 billion spend on 'refugees' (of which £2.7 billion has been spent so far) equates to a total of £240,000 per claimant.

Goodness knows what Theee Home Office is doing.

Is Rht Hon D Lammy KC doing the flight booking?

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Robby24's avatar

Apparently the Taliban were told about this list. They knew already and weren’t interested.

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Tychon's avatar

I'm honestly shocked the government lawyers ran this argument. Did nobody look into the potential risk of contempt of Parliament? The AG who is supposedly obsessed with rule of law came into office in 2024, reviewed this shambles, and signed off on it instead of applying to lift a superinjunction that was meant to last 4 months. The uniparty is f'ed.

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