Interesting Links for 22-10-2022

[andrewducker]

1. The facts around former PMs' £115,000 annual 'allowance'

(tags:money politics uk FactCheck )

2. Tories admitted to no oversight of ballot when members pick new prime minister (pet tortoises are totall eligible)

(tags:politics Conservatives voting fraud )

3. Where does JK Rowling stand on alliances with the far right?

(tags:LGBT transgender politics racism jkrowling bigotry )

4. The Conservatives are 5 parties fighting each other to death. We'd all be better off if they could split

(tags:politics conservatives UK )

5. Shooty gun games look pretty amazing (Amsterdam in this case)

(tags:games graphics )

6. Queen, Bowie & Annie Lennox - Under Pressure rehearsal ,1992 .

With George Michael singing along on the sidelines
(tags:Queen video music DavidBowie )

7. The world's energy situation is not as terrible as you might expect

(tags:electricity energy )

8. Tory leadership: How secure is the online vote?

(tags:voting conservatives security internet )

Comments

[alithea]

'Raise the drawbridge' plus the English exceptionalism thing - their parents might be immigrants but they have grown up in very middle class families (AFAIK) and been to Oxbridge and been indoctrinated into the idea that Britain is fantastic and the 'riffraff' (read 'foreigners') need to be kept out now because Britain is "full".

[calimac]

Yes, according to Wikipedia they both seem to have been from moderately prosperous families - Patel's parents owned a chain of newsagent stores. Patel's higher ed was plateglass rather than Oxbridge, but your basic point is valid.