Psychoactive Substances: Rolling UK Politics in The Neo-Con Era

The talented and hard-working have nothing to fear," says Dominic Raab, Conservative MP for Esher and Walton, with just the faintest hint of menace.

talented and hard-working junior doctors across the country breathe a sigh of relief

All the contestants for Britain's Got Talent stand that little bit easier in the audition queue, and feel that little bit more empowered...

Priti Patel is talented? And I've been told that Kwasi Kwarteng does indeed work very hard... at chatting up women in the British Library.

Johnson's overnight switch from 'I think we should leave the EU' to 'I think you should make me PM and we will talk about it' might not be well thought through.

Not forgetting the switch of the night before from 'I think stay in the EU' to 'I think we should leave the EU'.

I doubt he has any particularly strong opinions either way, but he first came to my attention as an MP as a representative of Eurosceptics for Clarke in 2001 or thereabouts. His campaigning for Brexit is hardly a massive surprise.

Any second thoughts are presumably related to Sterling having its biggest fall since 2010 today.

He wasn't much of a Eurosceptic when he was Mayor of London, no surprise there.

He still is!

the rights and security of hundreds of thousands of European citizens who have settled and built a life in the UK

How many could really be deported in the event of brexit? Even putting through a plan would be difficult.

Yeah but their rights and security could certainly be under threat- many ways to fuck w forrins short of deportation.

^ Yes, it would create huge insecurity even for people allowed to stay.

Unless the UK signs up to EU regulations as an external party that require free movement, potentially lots of them would have to leave. The objective the government has set is to reduce net immigration to five figures and the only way to do that is clamping down on EU citizens living and working here. Realistically, I'd expect a transition period followed by the kind of strict controls around minimum earnings that are already in place for other nationalities. Anyone on a medium-to-low wage would lose the right to remain. I would imagine Irish ppl would be excluded for historical reasons and you would retain a lot of well paid professionals but hundreds of thousands of others would have to leave.

"I would imagine Irish ppl would be excluded for historical reasons"

The historically high number of Brits claiming the dole while exploring their artistic side in West cork

Ireland to be used as UK's hostage during seperation negotiations

Let us leave and we'll take Ireland with us.

Speaking as a Scot or as a Brit? It's relevant before I go back to the lads with the offer

OMG OMG OMG *can't even*

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This country.

Sunday trading vote looks set to be very tight

always been torn on this: it's shit for anyone who works in retail, but of course, f the established church &c. &c.

yeah exackly, letting people do what they want when they want = good but businesses isn't people, I guess in the end it becomes a minor sideshow, bomb a shopping mall imo

religion aside a day of rest is good for everybody imo

it's bad for little shops that do well on a sunday and there's no protection for pay, just this shamelessly disingenuous shite from grant shapps: “businesses who want to employ people on Sunday may find they have to pay a premium on a Sunday”

xp

yes this too but a specific day of rest is culturally awkward at best. I don't look back fondly on dry Sunday afternoons tbh

the whole question always comes down to the ridiculous unfettered power of large companies and this is a bad thing in lots of other ways than telling people when they can shop

Mr Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's two decades since these rules were first set. The internet hadn't even been invented at the time.

Wrong. Maybe he means the web? Still wrong.

Who is Grant Shapps speaking for? He isn't a minister anymore.

he speaks for feckless exploitative robber barons everywhere, like all Tories

Mr Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's two decades since these rules were first set. The internet hadn't even been invented at the time.

isn't "the internet" an argument for keeping the shops closed forever on a Sunday?

just pop down the internet and buy a loaf of bread, sure

ordering everyday foodstuff on the internet
it's the stuff of dreams

the Indian takeaway in my neighbourhood was run by the same family as the corner shop next door, so you could add e.g. bread, milk, beer to your Just Eat order, with a hefty surcharge over their corner shop price obv

they shut down, alas, though I don't mourn them for Sunday night bread-buying reasons: since more and more places started taking advantage of the small shop rule I haven't been inconvenienced by Sunday trading rules for some time

(this seemed to happen in the mid-'00s where I live(d) so I was surprised that the exemption dates from '94, according to the Beeb article)

no great feelings either way; if the current set-up is a boost for small shops or one day a week when shop staff don't get to be badgered into working all hours then I'll take the status quo, although Tesco manage to get round it easily enough already (and tbh I do sometimes buy stuff from the local Tesco Metro post-4pm on Sunday) so eh

I'm v pro Sunday hours. Scotland has them already, and it was great both when I needed cash and Sundays were really the only day I could work and also when I was working Mon-Sat and Sundays were the only days I could shop. Was really weird moving to England and finding everything shutting down at 5pm, it was like I'd moved to Harris and not London.

The SNP can fuck off for voting against this too.

just found out that im able to vote in the eu ref as uk emigrants are eligible

similar to general elections i suppose there's a restriction depending on how long you've been out of the country (it's 15 years after leaving before you become ineligible to vote in general elections)

Anyone against Sunday hours worked Sunday hours lately?

Never a shortage of demand to work these shifts ime. But if it's not an automatic premium then obv they can get fucked.

Also, "a day of rest" != "everyone, rest now" tbf

This really shouldn't be a party political issue at all but the SNP voting against it is the most transparent gameplaying I've seen for quite some time.

well, shit. defeated

take that sassanachs

another glorious victory for scotland ☓ ✊

Who needs Euro 2016?

on reflection I'm glad this was defeated. I used to hate working sundays. we weren't paid any extra and it meant you had about half as many free weekends so no one wanted to do it. one guy suddenly announced he was too christian to do it or w/e, which was blatant nonsense and meant more sundays for the rest of us which we resented, but he just wanted to spend the weekend with his kids. anyway apparently that's the first defeat for cameron this parliament

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-black-day-for-disabled-people-as-government-pushes-through-cuts-to-esa-a6918421.html

Pieces of shit

Nice work from the government of the 5th wealthiest country in the world

A survey of 500 people in the affected group found that 28 per cent of people had been unable to afford to eat while in receipt of the the benefit. Around 38 per cent of respondents said they had been unable to heat their homes and 52 per cent struggled to stay healthy.

I genuinely just don't understand the motivation or logic behind it. it doesn't seem high enough profile to be for media/signalling purposes, it's a small amount of money; it seems incredible that it could be anyone's priority

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35783651

Mock indignation at Livingstone's Savile jibe when the real story is their squared-jawed former armed forces golden boy is grubbing money from hedge fund managers.

"No regard for the victims, no regard for the pain and anger he will have caused,

LOLz x1000

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2016/03/15/zac-goldsmith-warns-ethnic-minorities-that-sadiq-khan-will-p

Looks like Goldsmith is trying to mobilise the Indian / Sri Lankan communities against Khan. The Tories did quite a lot of this at the General Election too - pandering to right-wing Hindu groups and, in pockets, using Labour and the Liberal Democrats' willingness to support an end to caste-based discrimination against them.

The fact that Khan is a Muslim is an added bonus.

Zac Goldsmith really is a weapons-grade cunt, isn't he? Honestly can't believe how patronising that is.