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Fantastic timing for the Greens' leadership election. What's the point of Polanski now?

His 'enthusuastic' welcome of the news was about as genuine as Angies 'i never want to be Labour leader'

Talk of alliance among Greens, New Left and Gaza bros will surely follow.

The LDs feel left out in the cold a bit, still a tad too centrist for that crowd but too left to take over from the Tories should Reform gobble up the right.

Britain does need, and I'm quite surprised it hasn't yet eventuated, an explicitly Muslim political movement to fight the intrinsic and structurally embedded Islamophobia of the British state.

Indeed. Bring it on

We could then have a parallel justice system based on Sharia and all those shoplifters could have their hands chopped off. It would certainly cut crime.

I see a potential flaw though: how will handcuffs work in the event of any further arrest ?

The home office doesn’t know how many foreign workers leave when their visas expire

What a fucking clown show

https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1941033925284929840?s=46&t=d8CnRhyZJ-m4vy0k55W8XQ

Absolutely.
Introduced by guess who ?

..The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which scrutinises government spending, said the Home Office had failed to analyse exit checks since the skilled worker visa route was introduced in 2020 under the Conservatives.
Some 1.18 million people have applied to come to the UK via this route between its launch in December 2020 and the end of 2024.
The Home Office said it had inherited a "broken immigration system" and that it was working to "repair the public's trust"...

But but but Labour are in power now and are absolutely responsible for all the shithouse policies introduced by the Tories.

Must be great for the remaining Tories. All those awful policies they introduced, they just wash their hands of them and pretend they were done by Labour.

lol but thts what Labour has been doing for most of my adult life.

Leave office in a mess and then blame the Tories

Most recently "There is no money" 2010 followed by austerirty austerity in 2011

or

spend more on lock down followed by look at the size of the debt

This is one of those odd occasions where Labour have to clear up the Tory mess, and they are clueless.

ICE officers stopped by our farm yesterday.

“We need to inspect your property for illegal aliens,” one of them said.

I replied, “Alright, but whatever you do, don’t go into that field over there.”

The officer in charge exploded.

“Mister, I have the authority of the federal government behind me!” he barked, reaching into his back pocket. He yanked out a badge and shoved it in my face.

“See this fucking badge? This badge means I can go wherever I want on ANY land. No questions asked, no answers given. Am I clear? Do you understand?”

I nodded politely and said, “Be my guest.”

Then I went back to my chores.

About ten minutes later, I heard screaming. I looked up and saw six ICE agents running for their lives, being chased by my big, mean, old bull. And with every step, that bull was closing in. Fast.

It looked like they were about to get gored for sure.

So I dropped my tools, ran over to the fence, and shouted at the top of my lungs:

“YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR FUCKING BADGE!”

ICE don't show their badges. Farmer is arrested. Bull is shot.

Or bull is arrested and farmer shot, it’s all the same to them.

ICE officers stopped by our farm yesterday.

“We need to inspect your property for illegal aliens,” one of them said.

I replied, “Alright, but whatever you do, don’t go into that field over there.”

The officer in charge exploded.

“Mister, I have the authority of the federal government behind me!” he barked, reaching into his back pocket. He yanked out a badge and shoved it in my face.

“See this fucking badge? This badge means I can go wherever I want on ANY land. No questions asked, no answers given. Am I clear? Do you understand?”

I nodded politely and said, “Be my guest.”

Then I went back to my chores.

About ten minutes later, I heard screaming. I looked up and saw six ICE agents running for their lives, being chased by my big, mean, old bull. And with every step, that bull was closing in. Fast.

It looked like they were about to get gored for sure.

So I dropped my tools, ran over to the fence, and shouted at the top of my lungs:

“YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR FUCKING BADGE!”

As I'm sure everyone is aware: this post is humour and is not -in fact- true.

There are two things that should have tipped off alert PBers.

Firstly, I am a city person, and avoid farms like the plague.
Secondly, ICE officers never show identification.