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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yet another tory pm resigns in shame when?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If a Tory resigns every time they do something corrupt we'd get through them pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are y'all not going through them pretty quickly? I seem to recall something about bacon and lettuce, with a certain red-faced fellow potentially being the tomato that completes the sandwich.

In the absence of snark if the person/party resigning gets to essentially pick their replacement then their is quite obviously no reason not to just do whatever hideous shit you want to, then resign and escape responsibility entirely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No the problem is the system has broken down. Normally they don't do shit like this because it costs them votes, but since they know they're going to lose anyway they now don't care anymore. This is a very obvious floor with the system but it's never been fixed because up until relatively recently, MPs tended to act with least a little bit of decorum / The scandals they got up to were mostly related to having various affairs, rather than inappropriate financial dealings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like y'all are gonna have to figure out a way to make the law apply to the rich. Good luck. We're trying over here as well and there's been some progress lately but it's been less about getting the rich to submit to the rule of law and more about us getting so pissed off at one of them that the rest of them are willing to sacrifice him to maintain their own patrician standing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Modern Tories have no shame.