Let's Get Political!

[chalkies shorts]

Unless she is regarded as a chattel of rishys like going back in time then she shouldn't really come into play. I thought the world had moved on.

[horlock07]

Unless she is regarded as a chattel of rishys like going back in time then she shouldn't really come into play. I thought the world had moved on.

Again I don't disagree with the sentiment, albeit it rather dispels the one rule for all shtick and instead reinforces one rule for the rich and another for the plebs, if it remains a non-justified answer for a benefit claimant to state when the forms asks what their spouse earns to reply 'none of your fucking business'.  

[Bogus Dave]

What about the man himself being declared a permanent US resident?

[Posh Red]

Got to feel for him, he's not considered a "significant link to the UK"

Fuck me, I'm sure if a bloke said this to his wife he'd find his bollocks in the fridge in the morning.

As has been said, it further justifies the "One rule for us, but a different one for them"

PS  I did see someone ask the question if you were registering for benefits and asked the question about your spouse's income whether a "Mind your own Business" defence would be acceptable

[Nemo]

What about the man himself being declared a permanent US resident?

That is... quite the thing. Given up in October last year, by which point he'd been an MP for six years and the second highest ranking member of HM Government for 18 months. Not a great look.

[RobertT]

I'm happy to join a Tory bashing when it is needed, but what does the Perm Residency bit have to do with anything?  It simply grants the holder a right of entry and residence, plus the ballache of owing taxes even if you leave the country and earn elsewhere for a bit but don't go through the necessary hoops.

It most certainly doesn't give you a conflict of interest - A Perm Resident cannot vote in the vast majority of elections bar some local ones, depending on the State.  I see an article mentioning some sort of Pledge, maybe they've got a little mixed up with Naturalisation and becoming a USA Citizen?

If anything, retaining the Perm Residency status after moving back to the UK is a financial burden to the holder as they have to file a tax return in the USA still but get nothing in return.  The only benefit Sunak would have gained is going down the quick queue at immigration when visiting the USA.  He certainly was not beholden to USA Govt policy, nor influenced by it.

I just find that line all a bit odd.  In fact, if his wife was a Perm Resident as stated, it meant she WOULD have likely had to pay tax in the USA.  If anything he could probably pinch the tax thing for the UK (please don't though, rather not pay any more).

[Bogus Dave]

Should the man who’s job is to manage the finances of this country have permanent right of residency elsewhere?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

I just don’t see how that makes a jot of difference, tbh. How would it affect his job as chancellor?

[RobertT]

Exactly.  When part of the EU we all had right of residency to lots of Countries.  USA perm residency is less of a right than that was.

[Batch]

Crispin Blunt, serving MP of Reigate, calling  a 'miscarriage of justice' in Imran Khan's conviction of assaulting a 15 year old boy

https://www.blunt4reigate.com/news/statement-conviction-imran-ahmad-khan-mp

"I am utterly appalled and distraught at the dreadful miscarriage of justice that has befallen my friend and colleague Imran Ahmad Khan, MP for Wakefield since December 2019.  His conviction today is nothing short of an international scandal, with dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ muslims around the world.

I sat through some of the trial. The conduct of this case relied on lazy tropes about LGBT+ people that we might have thought we had put behind us decades ago.

As a former Justice Minister I was prepared to testify about the truly extraordinary sequence of events that has resulted in Imran being put through this nightmare start to his Parliamentary career.  

I hope for the return of Imran Ahmad Khan to the public service that has exemplified his life to date. Any other outcome will be a stain on our reputation for justice, and an appalling own goal by Britain as we try to take a lead in reversing the Victorian era prejudice that still disfigures too much of the global statute book."
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even if it is a miscarriage of justice, is this really ok.

and right now there is nothing to say this is a miscarriage of justice

[chalkies shorts]

Crispin Blunt, serving MP of Reigate, calling  a 'miscarriage of justice' in Imran Khan's conviction of assaulting a 15 year old boy

https://www.blunt4reigate.com/news/statement-conviction-imran-ahmad-khan-mp

"I am utterly appalled and distraught at the dreadful miscarriage of justice that has befallen my friend and colleague Imran Ahmad Khan, MP for Wakefield since December 2019.  His conviction today is nothing short of an international scandal, with dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ muslims around the world.

I sat through some of the trial. The conduct of this case relied on lazy tropes about LGBT+ people that we might have thought we had put behind us decades ago.

As a former Justice Minister I was prepared to testify about the truly extraordinary sequence of events that has resulted in Imran being put through this nightmare start to his Parliamentary career.  

I hope for the return of Imran Ahmad Khan to the public service that has exemplified his life to date. Any other outcome will be a stain on our reputation for justice, and an appalling own goal by Britain as we try to take a lead in reversing the Victorian era prejudice that still disfigures too much of the global statute book."
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even if it is a miscarriage of justice, is this really ok.

and right now there is nothing to say this is a miscarriage of justice

Now retracted and he's stood down from an all party group on LGBTQ+ rights.
What a total bellend.

[horlock07]

Now retracted and he's stood down from an all party group on LGBTQ+ rights.
What a total bellend.

He has quite the playbook.

[Batch]

retracted = ordered to do so!

[tans]

Johnson and Sunak fined for breaching lockdown rules

Positions untenable now surely?

[chalkies shorts]

Johnson and Sunak fined for breaching lockdown rules

Positions untenable now surely?

Boris is a bullshitting lying cunt who will get away with it. The Tories will be in full protection mode  now. Don't forget the modus operandi has been lie and deny. I'd also charge these cunts with wasting police time. I'd also want the met investigated. They saw offences and either ignored them or referred it up to be ignored.