General Election June 2017

Yeah, but which other candidate will have the bravery and resolve to face the terror problem by having a few billboard vans drive around with a slogans such as "Stop being a terrorist or face arrest" and then perhaps "text ENOUGH to 7870 for free advice".

She's going to save us by 'policing the internet' or something. Not cool.

It's really good. But the guardian and independent will see making a political point off the back of terror attack so soon afterwards as beneath them. So if they cover it, it won't be near the front. The mirror may run something.

Obviously all the right wing papers would be all over a statement like this that was anti corbyn, leading with it.

particularly naming radical Islam as the issue

That really stood out. It will score votes.

Who exactly has been "too tolerant"?

Seven long years as Home Secretary and almost a year as PM — this is her own turd she's huffing.

I've never heard my sister-in-law so angry as she was about the 'enough is enough' comment. She's from Manchester and thinks, not unreasonably, that surely that attack was 'enough'?

Yes, I hadn't considered it like that, but that's a very good point.

Kind of implies that up til now we've either not been taking it seriously or not thought it a big deal. And that now, once you declare "enough is enough", like a cross teacher or parent, you can put a stop to it by threatening detention or withholding ice cream.

Yes, definite suggestion of some being more equal than others.

Interesting that the ex-policeman interviewed on Sky said that the armed response last night was good but that this was only because they've sucked in forces from elsewhere to protect London. Elsewhere, he said, the response wouldn't have been the same and protection is 'threadbare'. Always nice to know...

When hustings go wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8aRD9DNDsI

Link no worky

@dancing James Here
https://youtu.be/V8aRD9DNDsI

because they've sucked in forces from elsewhere

We saw armed police from Wales patrolling in Manchester near St Anns Square last week. Made me wonder what'd be the response if something occured in the area where they'd been pulled in from.

Speechless. Anyone seen the Amber Rudd / Rye hustinfs on fb? will try find a link...

https://youtu.be/TEcMW6RmC_w

Watch left of screen to see the note scribbled & passed to guy who then intervenes.

I'm sure nothing will come of it, but...

The pm has been reported to Police for breaching electoral rules over comments made on question time on Friday - accusing Diane Abbott of wanting to erase the records of "criminals and terrorists" from the national DNA database, when she had actually said that innocent people & those who were victims of crime shouldn't have their DNA profiles kept on record...

https://wirralinittogether.blog/2017/06/03/nobody-is-above-the-law-even-the-uk-prime-minister/

This is quite scathing. Good point, too, IMHO
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/election-2017-triumph-wealthy/

I'm no expert on Israeli politics, but is anyone getting a bit of a Nethanyahu vibe off Theresa May?

Although I'm a leftie I feel that in the name of checks and balances, society also needs a political right. Not in the form the red-faced war mongers you see on debate programs, but as a pro-business lobby who'll keep an eye on the red tape.

But May gives me no confidence that she understands economics to the degree that she and the Tories can serve this purpose for the next five years. So she's less the pro-business Thatcher she wants to be, and more a kind of Nethanyahu type strongman. She seems stuck in a narrative where the rest of the world is chaos, while she is the protector of a besieged and mistreated people. (The English?). To hell with the short term economic pain and international animosity, this is a greater historical moment to secure the future of her own kin and only the leader who can see this narrative is fit the lead.

I am aware I might ruffle a few feathers by bringing up a female politician's appearance, but fucking hell these last 7 years have been hard on her. If she is as worn down as she looks she should at least have the social skills to build a support network around her. But instead she has (reportedly) alienated all but two of her co-workers.

Did you see what 8 years did to Obama?
It's a stressful life.

Also Tony Blairs.

Wait. Maybe everybody gets older.

˄˄˄ Or what Boris Johnson's entire life has done to him?

My point was more that you'd like to see her enter the next govt period with some higher degree self awareness, and the ability to play well with her ministers so that she can allow herself some occasional rest.

Quite a challenge to reconcile the 'no deal' rhetoric with the quest for better intelligence