There's not a lot more needs to be said about Dominic Raab that he hasn't said about himself. "I don't support the human rights act and don't believe in economic and social rights".
I think that Danny Finkelstein is right about the Tories and also on giving the vote to 16 year olds. We need to think more about the future and the Tories have had policies designed to support their elderly voters. A lot of young people think their future is pretty bleak and no one is dealing with longer term issues.
As someone of pensionable age, I believe the Brexit referendum provides overwhelming evidence for the need for a cut-off age whereby those older than say seventy years need to be excluded from the electorate. The horrifying proportion of people of this age group who voted 'Leave', when it was so very obviously an exercise in self-harm, as belatedly realised by the population. I know a number of people that voted 'Leave', who clearly did not understand that Brexit would mean the loss of benefits of EU membership, for example being able to live in their home in an EU country. I voted 'Remain', because I was voting for the country's future and for the younger generation. The old farts that voted 'Leave' will never see any benefits of Brexit, if indeed there are any benefits. JRM couldn't find any. My MP, Raab was useless too.
How inconvenient for Afghanistan to erupt when you are on holiday. Just ignore it; it will go away. Well, perhaps not. It will go down as his legacy in politics. I would not want that self-serving gentleman to represent me in a court of law.
Agree with the argument to tip the vote towards the future. The start of the piece appeared to be the hopeless task of trying to defend Raab, whose arrogance could not hide his stupidity.
IIRC that when the Taliban Afghan crisis unfurled, Raab was on holiday in an all-expenses paid hotel, that was being funded by a Russian oligarch. Please correct me if I am wrong.
How about giving > 18 British Citizens the vote? You know, like me? Who was denied a vote in the Brexit elections? There are 2 million of us, more than we're talking of the 16/17 year olds!
Regarding votes for 16 year olds. We're told that the young are different. They’re more 1) worried about climate change, or 2) in favour of trans rights, or 3) in favour of the EU, or 4) in favour of Scottish independence, or 5) in favour of looser drug laws. And so on. The thing is, in every example I’ve come across, the default opinions of the young appear to be in perfect alignment with the default opinions of the people who teach them. I admit we’re all making a lot of assumptions here. Do the young really believe what they tell pollsters, or is there some social desirability bias distorting the data, for instance? I suspect the young care far more what others think about them than the old do; so they may feel more pressure to dissimulate. Still, I can’t think of a single issue where the young loudly and conspicuously dissent from the opinions of those older people who teach them. And teachers and university professors tend to skew left. In which case, it looks like we’re back in the world of Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits insisting that they could control the beliefs of adults by controlling those of the young. Which makes the apparent, declared opinions of the young far less of a recommendation.
Poor Dom he just worked and worked all the hours, the poor man just wanted to have a holiday, why should he have to do the job that he chose to have which meant being on call for foreign affairs at the drop of a hat, he only got paid 90k. I hope i never hear his name for the rest of my life, the worst of the worst
I predict sunak will be gone imminently. Something is stirring throughout the land. The People are beginning to agitate. A new party is coming. You can smell it in the air.
Oh it's such a hard job, 85 grand a year and second jobs for 13 hours work. Bless his cotton socks he has to occasionally work hard. Good ridance and stop giving him sympathy!
Sunak is deeply-unpopular. Latest YouGov polling shows him way-behind both Starmer and Boris. Starmer Popularity = 31% Boris Popularity = 29% Sunak Popularity = 25% The Tories should have stuck with BoJo. He's a proven electioneering monster, and could have turned things around. Even staunch Labour supporters voted for him last time around. Sunak has not got a personality, has no amiable characteristics, and hasn't got a chance. The Tories should have stuck with the leader people actually voted for.
Labour voters voted for Bojo because they were turned off by Corbyn, as much as some liked him, JC was never going to win an election. As for Bojo, they replaced him because his popularity went down the toilet.
Rishi Sunak is the best Prime Minister that the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 has ever had. So stand aside, after getting off your lazy carcasses, and let Sunak restore the British Empire. 🇬🇧
