Politics

[Renton 22576]

19 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

If I remember from the last one I went to, French teacher, English teacher and one of the Science teachers were all bankable. 
 

👍

 

You could walk into a nursing home and leave with the same idea. 

[Toonpack 10501]

1 minute ago, Monkeys Fist said:

 

This is not actually my garage door, nor did I have owt to do with the painting of it. 
 

FYI 

[Monkeys Fist 43721]

6 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

 

Just turn up pissed, dishevelled, possibly with some excrement involvement, and get lairy about the younger teaching staff or possibly even the older students.

 

Oh wait, that won't work, you live in Ireland. Apologies, just do your time. 

Ewerk’s first board meeting…

 

[Dazzler 10972]

4 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Ewerk’s first board meeting…

 

The poor parent getting it in the head when he’s “fed up with briiiiiiick”

 

 

[wykikitoon 21610]

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[Renton 22576]

1 hour ago, wykikitoon said:

 

This really sums up politics nowadays. Up is down, down is up, people are as thick as fuck. 

[PaddockLad 18022]

So do we think BlackRock are providing investment to private companies for UK projects that will create “growth TM” or are they just another bunch of loan sharks trying to dig a nations finances even deeper on to their hook?  

 

 

 

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 4095]

3 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

So do we think BlackRock are providing investment to private companies for UK projects that will create “growth TM” or are they just another bunch of loan sharks trying to dig a nations finances even deeper on to their hook?  

 

 

 

Well I for one am very pleased Labour are doing everything they can to avoid another financial fiasco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RobinRobin 11870]

Seems a charming man. 

[Rayvin 5585]

I personally feel nowhere near enough is made out of Farage's past either tbh.

[wykikitoon 21610]

[Kid Dynamite 7335]

https://x.com/Nozza_/status/1860245762132578438

 

Niche reference 

Edited November 23, 2024 by Kid Dynamite

[Howmanheyman 34614]

2 hours ago, wykikitoon said:

 

Pinching that. 

[PaddockLad 18022]

Stewart Lee is taking zero fuckin prisoners this morning

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/24/flat-cap-jeremy-clarkson-only-wants-his-nose-in-the-trough?CMP=share_btn_url

[Isegrim 10035]

https://twitter.com/michaeltakemp/status/1860660145945973100?s=12&t=7EP1snWKh3ho3iDGAoo5gw

Edited November 24, 2024 by Isegrim

[wykikitoon 21610]

On 24/11/2024 at 11:06, PaddockLad said:

Stewart Lee is taking zero fuckin prisoners this morning

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/24/flat-cap-jeremy-clarkson-only-wants-his-nose-in-the-trough?CMP=share_btn_url

That's superb

[wykikitoon 21610]

 

 

[ewerk 31631]

I’m not sure this is a resignation matter but seeing any minister resign for anything short of genocide feels like an alien concept these days.

[Gemmill 47340]

It's fucking mental to resign for that. She accidentally claimed for her work mobile in an insurance claim, cos she thought it had been in her handbag, and a decade later she's having to resign from the government for it. 

 

If this is the bar, expect the press to go digging for similar shit on other people. 

[spongebob toonpants 4190]

48 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

It's fucking mental to resign for that. She accidentally claimed for her work mobile in an insurance claim, cos she thought it had been in her handbag, and a decade later she's having to resign from the government for it. 

 

If this is the bar, expect the press to go digging for similar shit on other people. 

Not only that she had already told Starmer about it before she was appointed. He should have refused to accept her resignation

 

I've said it before, but the bloke is a coward. 

 

Also bizarrely seems to lack any political sense,  it's been one avoidable own goal after another since the election 

[NJS 4452]

She was vaguely left wing so had to go. 

 

Miliband will be next. 

[Gemmill 47340]

2 minutes ago, spongebob toonpants said:

Not only that she had already told Starmer about it before she was appointed. He should have refused to accept her resignation

 

I've said it before, but the bloke is a coward. 

 

Also bizarrely seems to lack any political sense,  it's been one avoidable own goal after another since the election 

 

They've got to start having the balls to explain things. The other lot had press conferences every five minutes to tell steaming piles of lies. He should have called a press conference today and spelled out exactly what Haigh did, and why he is not going to ask someone to resign for an innocent mistake. 

 

This business of saying nothing and hoping it will go away or worse still, with this example, doing something fucking ridiculous to make it go away. It isn't working, because the right wing press doesn't want it to go away and will fill the vacuum of the govt's silence with more noise. They need to start coming out and defending themselves. 

[Gemmill 47340]

Just now, NJS said:

She was vaguely left wing so had to go. 

 

Miliband will be next. 

 

Would have been easier to not appoint them to his cabinet if that was what was going on (it's not what's going on). 

[Renton 22576]

Just now, spongebob toonpants said:

Not only that she had already told Starmer about it before she was appointed. He should have refused to accept her resignation

 

I've said it before, but the bloke is a coward. 

 

Also bizarrely seems to lack any political sense,  it's been one avoidable own goal after another since the election 

 

Looks like the right wing plan is working. They keep sniping away from the sidelines with this anti-Starmer narrative, and the left wing pick it up and back them up for their own reasons.

I think this is a bit worse than she's claiming, the police don't prosecute for fraud unless she they think she did this willfully. Who knows what her disclosure to Starmer was before the election, and I am sure he had other distractions. Whilst there is some obvious double standards here with Starmer's government compared with Johnson's, for instance, Starmer is now in a situation where he is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't. All this is driven from the righ with the tacit support of the left imo. 

Apparently we are told the government so far has been a disaster. Sorry, I don't see it personally, we're far too early to judge any outcomes yet. I don't think he's done a lot wrong, but then, I don't think that even matters to a lot of people.