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48 hours in modern Britain…. ***title edited by GNHQ on OP's request***

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volver Fri 20-May-22 09:59:52

You really don't understand UK politics at all, do you UG?

Majority of Benefits - managed from WM.

Secretary of State for Culture - UK wide brief.

Immigration and border control - reserved to WM.

Law breaking PM - in charge of the whole UK.

Urmstongran Fri 20-May-22 09:54:03

Yes it governs the whole of the UK but Scotland has devolved powers and runs its own affairs on money allocated from the central pot (apart from defence). Just saying. If you want a pop at Boris just be honest about it.

volver Fri 20-May-22 09:47:29

Urmstongran

Yes I get it ‘Brexit Britain’ but all the examples given were in England. Par for the course.

I so promised myself I wouldn't do this.

You do know that the WM government governs the whole of the UK, don't you? I have explained this to you before....

volver Fri 20-May-22 09:45:38

I'm going to ask to get the title changed. It is to do with Brexit because that is how Johnson got into power, by lying about Brexit. But now we are seeing the results of electing an incompetent government who don't think we should question anything they do.

But people are focussing on Brexit when I wanted to hear views about the state of this nation.

Urmstongran Fri 20-May-22 09:44:35

Yes I get it ‘Brexit Britain’ but all the examples given were in England. Par for the course.

JenniferEccles Fri 20-May-22 09:40:46

Oh goody!
Yet another doom and gloom thread.
Just what we all wanted wasn’t it?

Parsley3 Fri 20-May-22 09:38:47

And there is the NI protocol to resolve.

BigBertha1 Fri 20-May-22 09:35:17

Volver I despair at all the things you list but for me its not about Brexit.

volver Fri 20-May-22 09:32:48

In case anybody's not noticed, we are living in a Britain (or UK if we're really being picky...) that is post-Brexit. Hence, Brexit Britain.

Urmstongran Fri 20-May-22 09:27:40

Love how Brexit got shoe’d in there! Some of the examples you gave are nothing to do with it. They would have happened anyway I suspect.

And it’s not ‘whataboutery’ to point out there are a few unsavoury happenings north of the border too but you don’t mention them in your ‘Britain’ topic!

Grandmabatty Fri 20-May-22 09:25:09

And if we were to go on the streets, Pritty Patel would have us arrested and thrown in jail for ten years. We are living in dark times. I suppose it's like the boiling frog analogy. In addition, people see what they want to see. It is clear on GN those who still defend this absolute shower of dangerous incompetents despite all the evidence to the contrary.

volver Fri 20-May-22 09:19:30

An MP has been requested not to attend Parliament because he is under investigation for sexual offences and a different MP has to take down an offensive tweet about it.

An MP tells people who are suffering under the cost of living crisis that they need to work more hours or get a better paying job.

The Secretary of State for Culture and so on told a select committee about how she shares her Netflix password with her family, before her sidekick told her that was against the rules. The same Secretary of State said 96% of the public support the privatisation of Ch4 when the poll she was talking about shows its actually 96% that are against.

The Chancellor and his wife are now on the UK Rich List, first time ever for a frontline politician, but he told us that when it comes to helping people on low incomes, “computer says no”.

The PM is seen to attend illegal parties but apparently didn’t do anything illegal himself, but the junior civil servants who were there are apparently not blessed with this near-magical power to avoid prosecution.

We are planning to break international law on Rwanda and go back on a treaty on NI that was signed just two years ago.

Why are we not on the streets? What’s happened?