Hahahah, I love that one Nuttal bloke's quote on the German situation, that Germany is the teenage girl advertising her house party on facebook and panic-strickenly shuts her doors after so many people arrived, all the while Britain outspends Germany's foreign aid in spite of being a smaller economy - helping millions everywhere from Ethiopia to Bangladesh without fucking over the Balkans, Central Europe or Italy. There are more than one ways to swing a cat and Germany cut the cat by the cord till it could swing no more. Britain is the world's foremost foreign aid donor, only beaten by the USA with its vast shekel reserves. Kudos to Swedes, Nords and Dutchmen who comparative to their population sizes also do well. Besides regular banter though, there is another reason I bring this up; Osborne's been shaving off pounds from our foreign aid budget, diverting some to our local councils to deal with Syrian refugees in Britain and more recently there's been media calls to shave off a few millions from the billions strong budget to save Kew Garden's world-class botanical research standards, after 50 scientists just had to be sacked. Both cases are easily justifiable, but I am still wary, it is clear Osborne is trying to test the limits of what he can get away with. I shall update as Osborne shaves.
Oh yeah and the EU has had to impose more border checks but you guys already knew how much fun the continent's been having. Open them doors wider guys :D
I'm also in a particularly exuberant mood because Corbyn's done exactly what everyone thought he would do: implode labour. You know it's bad when Nigel's partying in Corbyn's honour. Sadiq Khan (labour's London mayor candidate) has vowed to back London versus Corbyn and has refused to allow labour to cow the Khan. Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn distanced himself from Corbyn's choice of John MecDonnell, Caroline Flint former shadow energy secretary said this "I have decided I can best support the Labour Party and the leadership from outside the shadow cabinet," Diana Johnson said "It is so very disappointing - old fashioned male dominated Labour politics in the top positions in Shadow Cabinet #notforgirls," some feminist writer Jack Monroe tweeted "Angry. I wanted to be wrong about Corbyn - so many good friends backed him, feminists, people I admire. And he broke a big promise 1 day in." Hahaha top lel 1 day in GG no Corby
Corgi Byn also tried giving Angela Eagle the non-title of shadow first secretary of the state which is meaningless as her job is being done by McDonnall, not her. She's just a token woman. Chuka Umunna also stood down as shadow business secretary after he could not get a meaningful promise from Corbyn that he would not campaign for EU membership, and Corbyn's former leadership rival Andy Burnham accepted job as shadow home secretary (after a dozen former colleagues declined to serve). Interestingly for one who is so opposed to London, most of Corbyn's cabinet will come from London's tesco finest. He's also got his jimmy properly rustled by reporters asking him questions, go watch his spaghetti falling from his pants when he can't answer that one reporter trying to find out why he broke his promise on having women in senior positions within the shadow cabinet. When you play the game of identity politics you lose or you lose even more