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[Christmas Tree 3997]

I also don’t recall you jumping in to adjudicate on the daily abuse of May in here.

[PaddockLad 14602]

6 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:

 

 

i came in from work this afternoon, watched Marr, despaired at performance, asked a question (which as usual you’ve dodged).

 

Have you even watched it?

 

 

Yes, I’ve watched it, yes she’s dreadful. The point is people like you bring it up all the time. Why? Why her when there are dozens and dozens of horrific incompetent fucknuts in Westminster? Why her CT? Why not the PM for example who at the very least has questions to answer about facilitating the murder of teenage girls in Manchester earlier this year; the attack coming at precisely the  same time as DA was looking daft in interviews during the election campaign, funny that, bit of a coincidence, almost as if the media needed to distract the easily led, yet again.

 

 Why Abbott and only Abbott CT?  

[ewerk 26394]

To be fair she’s by far the worst person on the Labour front bench and is only there because of her blind loyalty towards the bearded one.

[PaddockLad 14602]

6 minutes ago, ewerk said:

To be fair she’s by far the worst person on the Labour front bench and is only there because of her blind loyalty towards the bearded one.

 

I'd tend to agree, am no real fan of hers, Corbyn or the zealots of momentum, and I'm not accusing CT of being a misogynistic racist. I'm accusing him of being an unthinking easily led knob jockey. The torrents of abuse that Abbott gets does come from the basic point of view that shes a black overweight woman though. So May can hold it together in an interview better than Abbott does, but is let off the hook about her actions as home secretary? During the election news articles across tv and radio were being led by Abbots brain freeze, not with the fact that May signed off MI5 sending Libyans to and from Tripoli on tax payers money where they became radicalised by jihadis returning from Iraq. That's what gets my goat, May should be in front of the foreign affairs select committee to answer for her actions at the very least. 

[ewerk 26394]

May is the leader of the governing party. They currently have most of the papers’ support. That’s why she doesn’t have much criticism. That plus she had a largely uneventful period as Home Secretary, which actually makes her a success.

[Dr Gloom 19826]

Two facts: Abbot clearly is incompetent. The amount of abuse she’s gets is far greater than other politicians who are just as bad or worse. 

[ewerk 26394]

But who is her equivalent among the Labour ranks? I don’t think it’s all consciously racist.

[Christmas Tree 3997]

It’s nothing to do with race or being overweight, it’s purely the fact she is so embarrassingly out of her depth.

 

Her incompetence was rarely discussed during the many years spent on the back benches / this week late night sofa, but now she’s in line to run MI5 etc and appearing in the media as a serious politician she’s under more scrutiny.

 

Trumps not black and is equally unsuited.

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

I'd have thought being overweight and out of her depth is something you'd sympathise with

[ewerk 26394]

[Gemmill 34508]

2 hours ago, Christmas Tree said:

It’s nothing to do with race or being overweight, it’s purely the fact she is so embarrassingly out of her depth.

 

Her incompetence was rarely discussed during the many years spent on the back benches / this week late night sofa, but now she’s in line to run MI5 etc and appearing in the media as a serious politician she’s under more scrutiny.

 

Trumps not black and is equally unsuited.

 

I've not heard you comment on David Davis's breathtaking incompetence - his will have far greater reaching consequences than Abbott's. 

[ewerk 26394]

 

 

Or the Tory government's incompetence when it comes to running the economy.

[Dr Gloom 19826]

this is a national disgrace

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/17/nurses-homeless-britain-housing-costs

 

i am giving away about £20-30 a week in change to the poor homeless people camping around my local train station right now. i've never seen so many rough sleepers in all my years living in london. don't forget we are living in a failing society the next time the tories bleat about record employment. 

[Alex 30433]

Noticed loads of rough sleepers in places like Newcastle and Gateshead. It definitely seems to be on the increase and the figures only back that up. Broken Britain anyone?

[Gemmill 34508]

You'll be joining them if you don't knock your flat white habit on the head. 

 

But aye I've just read an article on the guardian called Hunger in the Wirral about the rise of food banks. It's fucking heartbreaking. People who were donating last year are now turning up needing food because of nothing more than a run of misfortune. 

 

And yet last week there was a show on telly about how the incredibly wealthy have to find increasingly bizarre things to buy one another for Christmas because they've simply got everything they need. Thousands of pounds spent on outfits for their dogs, while kids are sleeping rough. 

 

There's something wrong with us. 

[Gemmill 34508]

I notice Cameron has landed a job leading an investment initiative between the UK and China, the groundwork for which was put in place while he was PM. 

 

That cunt should he publicly flogged for the mess he's made. I bet he hasn't spent even a second of self reflection on it though. Just on to the next payday. 

 

I hope his knob falls off. 

[Alex 30433]

The worst thing for me is the attitude where instead of helping the poor we now seem to think it's ok to put all the blame on them. Not saying everyone feels that way of course but it's a lie a lot of media outlets seem happy to peddle and a lot of people lap up.

[Gemmill 34508]

Just now, Alex said:

The worst thing for me is the attitude where instead of helping the poor we now seem to think it's ok to put all the blame on them. Not saying everyone feels that way of course but it's a lie a lot of media outlets seem happy to peddle and a lot of people lap up.

 

There doesn't seem a way to unwind it either. The poverty watermark will eventually rise to a point where the "wrong people" get involved and something will change, you hope. But it's absolutely scandalous that, as things stand, it's OK and fine to just keep blaming those affected. 

[Alex 30433]

3 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

There doesn't seem a way to unwind it either. The poverty watermark will eventually rise to a point where the "wrong people" get involved and something will change, you hope. But it's absolutely scandalous that, as things stand, it's OK and fine to just keep blaming those affected. 

Feels like it's already too late. But, you know, as long as we're free from those foreigners.

[Meenzer 14055]

24 minutes ago, Alex said:

Feels like it's already too late. But, you know, as long as we're free from those foreigners.

 

Meanwhile, these are the people who've really won:

 

 

Britain's been played.

 

[ewerk 26394]

 

[Gemmill 34508]

Appeasement always works with these types. 

[ewerk 26394]

Damian Greene gone.

[Kid Dynamite 5925]

Aye, turns out he's been lying through his teeth all along and he was told in 2008 police had found porn on his computer. They've also as good as admitted he's been sexually harassing lasses in parliament 

 

Another nail in the coffin for Theresa May

[ewerk 26394]

And David Davis refuses to follow through on his threat to resign.