Rumour Patel wants to bring back death penalty

[poodlefaker]

Yeah, it's another useful thing to position themselves against wrt Labour: metropolitan, out-of-touch with  real people, lead by an Islington human rights lawyer who defended terrorists...keep it in the bag for the next election.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Should have added:

- Dominic Cummings literally wants a referendum on the ECHR. He's a useless man who has only harmed this country but he's very good at keeping the Conservative Party in power and keeping the right in this country in the ascendancy. If he wants it, it's because he thinks it's a winner.

I didn't know this, I thought most Tory members and cabinet ministers loved her. All that "form a square around the Prittster" shite from Johnson.

That was to stop them from having to get rid of her at the behest of the deep state Home Office because of the imagined sin of "bullying"[nb]Absurd! She's a tiny woman! How could she bully a man who is subordinate to her? Ludicrous![/nb]. There's a reshuffle coming and she'll be gone from the Home Office at least.

Laws aren't magic.

(And it might be argued that we only have to withdraw from certain protocols to be able to legally kill people.)

Oh I agree it could happen, I just think there's a lot of heavy lifting and pitch rolling to get to the point where we join the only Stalinist dictatorship in Europe as the only refuseniks to it. Russia is in it! Russia!

But then the pitch rolling is the point I guess, keep people hanging on as long as possible, get the liberal left to wail about it, get your base rock hard for it. Do you even deploy it to win the 2024 election or save it for 2029 when you might be in serious danger of losing? Or maybe do ECHR ref in the 2024 manifesto, hold it and win it[nb]as they definitely would[/nb] in 2025 and then save hanging for the 2029 manifesto?

[Cursus]

Priti Patel, Ms Priti Patel,
Burnished by sunshine of far Israel,
How we all cheered when on Marr you did smirk,
And as he got rattled, we yelled 'O, good work!'

–

Love-thirty, love-forty, oh weakness of joy,
With the speed of a swallow you mangled the goy,
With carefullest carelessness, gaily you played Marr,
And like a Hindu princess you cheeked and you slayed Marr.

–

Priti Patel, Ms Priti Patel,
Mandarins you mangle, and at police chiefs you yell,
Illegals you find where others have missed 'em,
But you're no xenophobe with your lovely points system.

–

Conference loves you, especially on crime,
When you praise execution, and life means lifetime,
When you toss your long hair with handcuffs resplendent,
I wish you would just wear my heart as a pendant.

–

Priti Patel, Ms Priti Patel,
You're a Guardianista's vision of hell,
But I'd gladly be bullied without repercussions,
If you'd just include me in Ugandan discussions.

[bgmnts]

Good god.

[Rizla]

[PlanktonSideburns]

Fuck me

[Buelligan]

I saw it on her twitter shit a few days ago.  She's desperately trolling for attention and reaction.  A dreary old cunt.  Not even a talented writer.

And imagine those two fucking.  I think I've just sicked up my own teeth.

[Fambo Number Mive]

With carefullest carelessness, gaily you played Marr,
And like a Hindu princess you cheeked and you slayed Marr.

Sub-Thribb.

[Buelligan]

Sub-Clintons.

[Ominous Dave]

Some classic rhyming-on-the-same-word action there from Burchill. Coupled with some excellent lines-whose-metres-only-scan-if-you-pronounce-the-words-oddly poetic genius (I mean, 'Is-rae-EL'?).

Also am I meant to feel clever by getting that it's a Betjeman parody? Because I just felt slightly ill.

[Fambo Number Mive]

I wonder how Patel felt reading that. I imagine she did a bit of sick in her mouth.

[Buelligan]

Some classic rhyming-on-the-same-word action there from Burchill. Coupled with some excellent lines-whose-metres-only-scan-if-you-pronounce-the-words-oddly poetic genius (I mean, 'Is-rae-EL'?).

Also am I meant to feel clever by getting that it's a Betjeman parody? Because I just felt slightly ill.

Don't feel too clever, she actually had the bare faced cheek to invoke Betjeman in her twitter reveal.  Scansion embarrassing.  Utterly humiliating, for them both. if that were possible, luckily for Betjeman, he's dead.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Jesus that's real? That's the actual poem? Published in a magazine? Paid for with money??

[Buelligan]

It's only The Spectator.  Not really a real anything.

Fraser Nelson, Camilla Tominey, Rod Liddle, Julie Burchill, Brendan O'Neill.  Oh and Boris Johnson.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

This could be the Future UK! Isn't it inspiring?

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-trump-and-barrs-last-minute-killing-spree

[Junket Pumper]

Pretty certain nobody actually likes or admires Patel, they just pretend to because they know leftists hate here and they want to piss us off. She is incredibly fit though.

[Buelligan]

You and Julie Burchill then.

[Cursus]

The Spectator also published Boris Johnson's doggerel:

[shh]

Should have added:

- Dominic Cummings literally wants a referendum on the ECHR. He's a useless man who has only harmed this country but he's very good at keeping the Conservative Party in power and keeping the right in this country in the ascendancy. If he wants it, it's because he thinks it's a winner.

But then the pitch rolling is the point I guess, keep people hanging on as long as possible, get the liberal left to wail about it, get your base rock hard for it. Do you even deploy it to win the 2024 election or save it for 2029 when you might be in serious danger of losing? Or maybe do ECHR ref in the 2024 manifesto, hold it and win it in 2025 and then save hanging for the 2029 manifesto?

The conservatives already won a majority with an explicit manifesto pledge to repeal the human rights act (the conduit of ECHR into UK law). The reasons were more to do with voting rights & deporting criminals.
Capital punishment seems a hugely unlikely prospect to me, I can't think of a single front-bench politician who's in favour, it's a fringe issue. I think you lot have spent more time fantasising about it than the govt. People want what they always want, tougher sentences, they'll probably get it.

Anyway, if it ever does happen at least we know what people will be eating as they watch

[idunnosomename]

Who eats steak with roast potatoes

[Kelvin]

Lol at these stupid cunts describing themselves as Intolerant.

[Junket Pumper]

Who eats steak with roast potatoes

Me. Beautiful combination, especially with gravy

[Buelligan]

Who eats steak with roast potatoes

Old men who are going to die soon.

[Kankurette]

Burchill is a goy, as is Patel herself, so I don't know wtf that goy line was about.

She's not going to fuck you, Jules. She probably hates the gays.

[Buelligan]

I think Burchill converted, so not sure the goy slur applies but then, IMO, it shouldn't be applied to anyone because it's derogatory.

Of course, Burchill's going to use that word, she's pressing every button as fast as her smelly yellow fingers will let her because she's fucking desperate.  Look at meee.  Loook at MEEEEEEEEEE!

[Kankurette]

She didn't, and it's not derogatory. Goyim means 'nations', i.e. anyone who isn't Jewish. 'Sheygetz' and 'shiksa' are derogatory words for non-Jews though, which makes me surprised Burchill hasn't used them.

Background: Burchill was going to convert at a Liberal synagogue in Brighton, the rabbi of which - Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah - is openly lesbian. Liberal Jews live up to their name; they're very LGBT-friendly (pretty much all the big cheeses in my local Keshet group were Liberals), have quite a few women rabbis, do services in English instead of Hebrew, women wear tallis too, etc. Burchill was put off by the fact that this synagogue was very keen on interfaith work and was involved with Shalom Salaam. Our Jules was not happy about this and sent the rabbi tons of abuse. She refused to join in the synagogue's 75th anniversary celebrations because it supports, in her words, 'PIG ISLAM' (never mind the fact that Jews don't eat pork either). She also went to the rabbi's house for Shabbat dinner and complained that the rabbi served her some elderflower stuff even though she'd had the generosity to bring Bolly. She also, despite being bisexual herself, made some disgusting comments about the rabbi 'canoodling' with her wife. There's an article here.

Burchill then wrote a book called Unchosen about how much she loves Israel Jews - although she doesn't like our obsession with family, our food or our humour - and there was a big long rant in it about how evil the rabbi was for not hating Muslims, because of course the central tenet of Judaism is hating Muslims. Apparently.

So no. She isn't Jewish, no matter how much she goes on about how awesome Israel is.

[Zetetic]

"Goy" clearly has been used as a slur in Yiddish and as loan-word from Yiddish, even if its antecedent in Hebrew doesn't have the same connotations.

[Kankurette]

Yeah, gentiles get touchy about being called 'goyim'.

[chveik]

it could be a slur if it's proffered during the murder of an unharmed Palestinian. otherwise it's just plain old snobbery

[JamesTC]

I like Nicolas Cage and boiled eggs. Am I right-wing?