Can sexual assault not be a fucking punchline please.
>Robert Saunders (@redhistorian)
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>If Conservative MPs choose to keep Johnson in power, they will be confirming that law-breaking and truth-telling are not, in their view, among the “big issues” by which leaders must be judged. They will be as complicit as Johnson in the erosion of democratic norms.
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>[Apr 12, 2022 · 9:10 PM · 🧵](https://nitter.net/redhistorian/status/1513987930926297088#m)
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More ridiculous…
Independent: [Boris Johnson broke law ‘in error’ and is ‘completely mortified’ by fine, minister claims – Grant Shapps defends boss he describes as ‘honourable man’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-party-police-fine-b2056933.html)
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Times: [Rishi Sunak apologises after agonising over future](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-sunak-wrote-his-resignation-letter-after-party-fine-but-settled-on-an-apology-rpf33tvdr)
([*mirror*](https://archive.ph/6l7F6))
Can sexual assault not be a fucking punchline please.
>Robert Saunders (@redhistorian)
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>If Conservative MPs choose to keep Johnson in power, they will be confirming that law-breaking and truth-telling are not, in their view, among the “big issues” by which leaders must be judged. They will be as complicit as Johnson in the erosion of democratic norms.
>
>[Apr 12, 2022 · 9:10 PM · 🧵](https://nitter.net/redhistorian/status/1513987930926297088#m)
[Twitter link](https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1513987930926297088)
Fuck me, we need a warning on parody news. As things are right now, this was believable enough that I’ve just crushed my phone case in rage.
You know shit is bad when you don’t even consider a headline like this is from newsthump
I’ve fallen for pretty much every NewsThump Tory-related headline posted in this sub for months, far too believable.
It is a sad state that so many people in this thread (myself included) couldn’t tell if it was satire from the headline.
Within the rules? I’d have thought it was required.
British politics has a long tradition of pederasty.
When satire is so close to reality that it breaks the world, something is up.
It’s understandable why Armando Iannucci said he couldn’t keep producing satirical content.
Just the whip? Usually would be seat at the Lords with the whip.