Rishi Sunak to make Downing Street speech about need to ‘protect our democratic processes’ – politics live
by boomitslulu
Rishi Sunak to make Downing Street speech about need to ‘protect our democratic processes’ – politics live
by boomitslulu
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I bet “protecting our democratic processes” will include new restrictions on our democratic right to peacefully protest.
Wow…does he understand that is literally one of his jobs?
Why is he making a bloody speech about it instead of actually doing something about it.
Absolutely fucking useless.
Sounds like Rishi should be open to a general election after all we must ”protect our democratic processes”
Politicians promising action to protect democratic processes are almost always in fact attacking democratic processes. Also a bit rich that the guy has undermined devolved elected parliaments and bastardised London’s elections.
Says the man who undemocratically seized leadership of the United Kingdom… Absolutely shameless.
The Tories are absolutely shameless aren’t they. They have fanned the flames of division, pitted people against each other, pushed the culture wars on us for years and now want to lecture us on extremism and people allowing their anger to go too far.
So general election to get a democratic mandate from a body larger than the Conservative Parliamentary Party?
Rish! is one of our finest satirists. Absolutely superb yet again.
This is why we put billionaires in charge. They simply know what is best for us.
So there are going to be further restrictions on free speech, the right to protest, and/or voter qualifications.
He’s talking about George Galloway – regardless of if you agree with him or not he was democratically elected, that’s democracy in action. And how does he have the sheer balls to trot out the we all need to come together trope when his party is doing all they can to divide us.
And finally – who’s been in charge for 14 years? It ain’t anyone else’s fault
10 minutes of speaking and he said absolutely nothing
Almost as if cutting police numbers was a fucking terrible idea wasn’t it?
But hey ho.
Facts like that don’t matter anymore.
Sounds like an excuse to ban pro Palestinian marches. If the UK is his home why did he buy a mansion in California?
Therefore only party members will only be allowed to vote.
An MP was murdered in the street and another was murdered at a surgery. So sure yeah, let’s clamp down on peaceful protest. Love living in such a reasonable, free country.
this is just crap, they want to control and need to lie about it, we need a better government
A Change the agenda talk because the five pledges won’t be happening now.
Fishy’s handlers cannot accept the minimum pushback against israel…..
Shameless little shit weasel. The one thing that will save our democracy is him **calling an election** so we can send him packing
Where was this when Braverman et al were whipping up hate
I don’t like George Galloway I think he’s a twit with many bad takes, but honestly I’m glad he was elected now just to watch these absolute wretches Starmer and Sunak squirm like slugs under salt and the government media apparatus just howling full blast about “Protecting Democracy” the very thing they’ve essentially murdered the past 10 years.
So why is an unelected official making this statement, democratic my ass. This county is a fucking joke
Weaselly little prick trying to zig zag once again even though it’s been his party driving divisive politics. Has to be closing in on his final days, can’t come soon enough
The status quo has been threatened. This is what’s it’s all about.
He’s such a twat. It’ll be more constant erosion of our rights. Always is.
One of the most un-democratic speeches I have ever seen.
Genuine shame on Rishi Sunak, he is one to talk about democracy.
Like the one where they vote for a new party leader?
… wait
Coming from the party that used trans men and women as punchlines, whose party member called the London mayor an Islamist, before the parliamentary party spent an entire week dancing around it being wrong but not racist. Coming from the party with a member who jetted off to a cuckoo, fringe, far right conference and stood there whilst Steve Bannon said that Tommy Robinson was a “national hero”, and who STILL hasn’t received any consequences and was defended by colleagues on TV as “not having heard what was said”. And that’s all just recently… Sunak’s speech HAS to be satire, right??
This is all the last Labour government’s fault, clearly
His bloody politics are what are radicalising people though. It’s radicalising on both sides. His actions towards the Gaza conflict has angered a lot of people and he isn’t listening to what people want so that ends up causing more anger and tension over it. At the same time, he’s constantly demonising marginal groups in this country with his culture wars which is emboldening far right extremism as well.
He drove a wedge into the country, sledgehammered it more and now is complaining because it’s all falling apart and he’s losing control.
Why is authoritarians always try to save democracy by restricting it? Weird that.
He’s full of shit, lining up another thread for his culture wars election strategy
“We need to protect our democratic process, that’s why I’m calling in to question a recent by-election result”
From a man who just fell into his position like a fucking Tetris brick.
NOBODY VOTED FOR THIS CUNT? Democratic process… fuck me. I know it’s the party not the person but the gaul of this man drives me crackers
The balls in your court mate. Call an election and let the democratic process do its thing.
Says the man in charge of the party slowly eroding our civil rights.