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- Tue 28 Feb, 2023 7:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th February 2023
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1655
Re: Tuesday 28th February 2023
Andew Sparrow: "According to the Sun’s Harry Cole, at his meeting with the 1922 Committee Rishi Sunak ridiculed a poll finding suggesting that people think Labour would implement Brexit better than the Conservatives https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1630623239310393367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%...
- Tue 05 Jul, 2022 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th July 2022
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6263
Re: Tuesday 5th July 2022
Canary: "Diane Abbott receives abuse for referring to rumours of the PM ‘assaulting women’" On Sunday 3 July, Diane Abbott told a BBC radio programme that Boris Johnson is: rumoured to be one who likes assaulting women. Corporate media, of course, didn’t like this at all. The London Econom...
- Tue 05 Jul, 2022 8:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th July 2022
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6263
Re: Tuesday 5th July 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/tuesday-briefing-boris-johnson-chris-pincher-allegations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other You are perhaps expecting me to say “good morning”, but I have to tell you that – while I am aware that it has been suggested that the morning is good – it would not be a...
- Tue 07 Jun, 2022 8:04 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th June 2022
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2034
Re: Tuesday 7th June 2022
Morning, Greasy Smogg, back pedaling: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jacob-rees-moggs-no-confidence-27163314 He said today: “One is enough. That’s the rule in a democracy – if you win by one you win.” The Brexit Opportunities Minister tonight admitted his comments in 2018 had been a “mistake...
- Tue 07 Jun, 2022 1:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 6th June 2022
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5800
- Tue 31 May, 2022 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 31st May 2022
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1819
Re: Tuesday 31st May 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/31/boris-johnson-partygate-ministerial-code-christoper-geidt?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Geidt, who is meant to advise Johnson over whether ministers have breached the code, dodged the question of whether the prime minister himself had done so – apparentl...
- Thu 14 Oct, 2021 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 14th October 2021
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5264
Re: Thursday 14th October 2021
Like this?
- Wed 06 Oct, 2021 3:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 6th October 2021
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3635
Re: Wednesday 6th October 2021
This from the man who wants to build a bridge to Ireland.
- Sun 03 Oct, 2021 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd October 2021
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7950
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd October 2021
Q: But this is about pigs being incinerated, not killed for food, because of a shortage of people working in abbatoirs. Johnson says they cannot just go back, in all these areas, to the tired, old model, that involved people working on low wages. But there will be a “period of adjustment” as the ec...
- Fri 01 Oct, 2021 4:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 1st October 2021
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7090
Re: Friday, 1st October 2021
Having never heard of Steve, or his repair shop,
will have too watch it at some point.
(Presume Vermouth is optional)
will have too watch it at some point.
(Presume Vermouth is optional)
- Fri 01 Oct, 2021 12:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 1st October 2021
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7090
Re: Friday, 1st October 2021
So narrowing it down,
Bobby Charlton & Alf Ramsey
possibly in his top 3 ...
Bobby Charlton & Alf Ramsey
possibly in his top 3 ...
- Fri 01 Oct, 2021 9:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 1st October 2021
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7090
- Fri 01 Oct, 2021 9:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday, 1st October 2021
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7090
- Tue 07 Sep, 2021 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th September 2021
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4665
Re: Tuesday 7th September 2021
Ok so I'm completely confused by this social care 'plan'. Is property no longer going to be regarded as capital in regard to social care? Because unless that's going to change I can't see how this is going to stop people having to sell their houses. I think it's still capital, but there's a lower C...
- Sun 05 Sep, 2021 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th September 2021
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7473
Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th September 2021
Happy Birthday.
- Mon 12 Jul, 2021 11:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 12th July 2021
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3806
Re: Monday 12th July 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/12/masks-guidance-england-clear-strong-minister-covid?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other In contrast, Argar said he “probably would” wear a mask on an empty train if this was required by the train operator. Argar told Today that with the advent of school holidays i...
- Wed 07 Jul, 2021 2:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 6th July 2021
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6395
Re: Tuesday 6th July 2021
"New Zealand not willing to risk UK-style ‘live with Covid’ policy, says Jacinda Ardern" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/07/new-zealand-not-willing-to-risk-uk-style-live-with-covid-policy-says-jacinda-ardern?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Epidemiologist : Michael Baker Baker said pu...
- Sun 04 Jul, 2021 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th July 2021
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13112
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th July 2021
Good morfternoon. How long did it take for many people to stop believing that Covid was "just like 'flu"? Apparently it is just like 'flu after all, according to Chancellor\Health Secretary Sajid Javid. We are going to have to learn to accept the existence of Covid and find ways to cope w...
- Sun 04 Jul, 2021 2:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th July 2021
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13112
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th July 2021
Anybody around today? Some interesting economic proposals from Labour yesterday I thought. It's a start & good policy, but I thought there were restrictions from trade deals with other countries, which limited the ability to preferentially award contracts to domestic producers. Also can't see w...
- Sun 04 Jul, 2021 1:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th July 2021
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13112
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th July 2021
In that case,
Your great great Grandmother is worried about you,
She thinks you've been drinking too much in recent months & suffering from Anxiety.
Also possibly should try and get out & meet people more
- Fri 18 Jun, 2021 4:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 18th June 2021
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13919
Re: Friday 18th June 2021
Hopefully he'll have been ferried in from Gerrard's Cross by coach, I'd hate to think of him being loose on the streets.
- Fri 18 Jun, 2021 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 18th June 2021
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13919
Re: Friday 18th June 2021
Also Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Dominic Raab went to school there
And (I think) Oliver Cromwell's wife was from Chesham.
Dominic Raab went to school there
And (I think) Oliver Cromwell's wife was from Chesham.
- Thu 10 Jun, 2021 12:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 9th June 2021
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3459
Re: Wednesday 9th June 2021
No, I think he believes climate change is due to effects such as orbit variation & sunspot activity,
and the question was meant to make the forest service look foolish because probably they're of the opinion that trees could be involved somehow
and the question was meant to make the forest service look foolish because probably they're of the opinion that trees could be involved somehow
- Wed 09 Jun, 2021 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 9th June 2021
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3459
Re: Wednesday 9th June 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/09/texas-republican-louie-gohmert-climate-change?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other The Texas Republican congressman Louie Gohmert has asked a senior US government official if changing the moon’s orbit around the Earth, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun, might ...
- Thu 27 May, 2021 11:25 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 27th May 2021
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2648
Re: Thursday 27th May 2021
Good morning. Isn't criticising Corbyn for being vain like criticising the sea for being wet? He's a politician, vanity's a fundamental characteristic, otherwise you wouldn't put yourself forward for it. I'm sure there are a few honorable exceptions but I can't think of any offhand. Michael Foot?
- Wed 26 May, 2021 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 26th May 2021
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10958
Re: Wednesday 26th May 2021
"Dominic Cummings may have audio recordings to back up his allegations, say Whitehall sources" https://inews.co.uk/news/dominic-cummings-audio-recordings-back-up-allegations-whitehall-sources-1019000 In particular, Downing Street is concerned that Mr Cummings may have a recording of Mr Joh...
- Wed 26 May, 2021 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 26th May 2021
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10958
Re: Wednesday 26th May 2021
"Cost of protecting Dominic Cummings" https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclosure-2020/june/cost-protecting-dominic-cummings/ I note you seek access to the following information: Information is requested on the total cost to the taxpayer of operations undertaken by the ...
- Tue 11 May, 2021 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 11th May 2021
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5307
Re: Tuesday 11th May 2021
@Sky'sgoneout
something like this?
(though not sure if she's a Tory)
something like this?
(though not sure if she's a Tory)
- Mon 10 May, 2021 9:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 10th May 2021
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13964
Re: Monday 10th May 2021
Ignore the pink rabbit bit, couldn't work out how to post just the top tweet.
(Generally it's probably always best to ignore the pink rabbit ...)
- Mon 10 May, 2021 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 10th May 2021
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13964
- Mon 10 May, 2021 2:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 10th May 2021
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13964
Re: Monday 10th May 2021
Old article, from February last year: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/brexit-freeports "Brexit Britain’s freeport utopia isn't about free trade, or ports" The success of Sunak’s freeport experiment hinges on whether he is ready to tackle all the other factors – skills, education, infrastru...
- Mon 10 May, 2021 1:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 10th May 2021
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13964
Re: Monday 10th May 2021
Unless everyone in the polling station knows what everyone ion the area looks like I don't see how photo ID helps - my passport doesn't show my address. However, if they were looking for proof of name and address, then if you don't have a polling card because it's got lost in the post, then take al...
- Mon 10 May, 2021 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 10th May 2021
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13964
Re: Monday 10th May 2021
Instead of mucking around with photo ID, why not simply require people to take their polling card along? I don't get how photo ID helps since I wouldn't imagine people manning polling stations know everyone in the area. I'm confused did you edit your post? I first read it & thought you'd said. ...
- Sun 09 May, 2021 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May 2021
- Replies: 120
- Views: 35865
Re: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May 2021
Keir Starmer’s sacking of Angela Rayner is self-destructive, stupid and wrong What is there to be said about Keir Starmer’s mystifyingly stupid, self-discrediting and self-destructive decision to sack Angela Rayner as Labour Party chair? Other than the obvious, which is that unless it emerges in re...
- Sun 09 May, 2021 7:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May 2021
- Replies: 120
- Views: 35865
Re: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May 2021
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=87966 ... In essence, the Tory showing is actually quite mediocre, on which basis, rather than suggest that there had been a swing to the Tories, it would be more appropriate to point to that collapse of the Labour vote: the Tories didn't win the seat...
- Sat 08 May, 2021 9:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May 2021
- Replies: 120
- Views: 35865
Re: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May 2021
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2 ... lture-wars
The Tories’ Hartlepool triumph owes more to cash than culture wars
- Sat 08 May, 2021 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May 2021
- Replies: 120
- Views: 35865
Re: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th May 2021
Loopeltrah?
- Fri 07 May, 2021 2:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th May 2021
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10299
Re: Thursday 6th May 2021
Thanks, great comments to,Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Fri 07 May, 2021 1:19 am https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/ ... one-review
I've never understood the fascination with Van Morrison. He's always been a whining second rate troubador.
Think my favourite is
"The DUP has a vacancy, Van"
- Thu 06 May, 2021 8:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th May 2021
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10299
Re: Thursday 6th May 2021
Well I'm off to do my democratic duty on this historic occasion.Voting for West Yorkshire's first elected Mayor. I can barely contain my excitement. I have a tough decision to make. Do I put a coat on or not? One minute it's warm and sunny, the next it's freezing. Maybe I can get away with a jumper...
- Thu 06 May, 2021 8:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th May 2021
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10299
Re: Thursday 6th May 2021
https://www.leeds.gov.uk/your-council/e ... -electionsSky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Thu 06 May, 2021 6:35 pm .. Then was asked to wipe down the booth and clean the pencil after I was finished. Ie.
I think they're paid £200 for the day & part of the job (this year) is disinfecting the booths.
![Cool 8-)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
- Thu 06 May, 2021 6:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th May 2021
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10299
Re: Thursday 6th May 2021
"At least the weather looks like it will be decent in most places tomorrow"
Not one of Anatoly's better predictions,
Just had a very cold looking Olivia Blake knock on the door,
Is now hailing.![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
Not one of Anatoly's better predictions,
Just had a very cold looking Olivia Blake knock on the door,
Is now hailing.
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
- Thu 06 May, 2021 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th May 2021
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10299
Re: Thursday 6th May 2021
Did a shock £350,000 tax bill trigger Boris Johnson’s pleas for Downing St cash? It all stems from a year of prolific — and lucrative — public speaking and writing after his resignation from Theresa May’s Cabinet as foreign secretary on July 9, 2018 to the day he marched triumphantly back in as Pri...
- Thu 06 May, 2021 10:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th May 2021
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10299
Re: Thursday 6th May 2021
Boris Johnson’s Scotland headache is only going to get bigger ...with polls on a knife edge, SNP strategists have privately been discussing a fallback plan if the party falls narrowly short of a majority under its own colors: forming a coalition with the pro-independence Greens, who will likely imp...
- Wed 05 May, 2021 10:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th May 2021
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3039
- Sun 02 May, 2021 10:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank holiday weekend, Sat 1st - Mon 3rd 2021
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9213
Re: May Bank holiday weekend, Sat 1st - Mon 3rd 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/02/senior-tory-says-boris-johnson-should-resign-if-he-breached-ministerial-rules?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other The Electoral Commission this week launched an investigation into whether any donations or loans to pay for the refurbishment of his residence in ...
- Sun 02 May, 2021 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank holiday weekend, Sat 1st - Mon 3rd 2021
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9213
Re: May Bank holiday weekend, Sat 1st - Mon 3rd 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/02/raab-dismisses-claim-donor-was-asked-to-pay-for-johnsons-nanny?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Following reports that Johnson sought payments from a donor to help pay for his one-year-old son’s care, Raab told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “I have no idea, ...
- Sun 02 May, 2021 12:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank holiday weekend, Sat 1st - Mon 3rd 2021
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9213
Re: May Bank holiday weekend, Sat 1st - Mon 3rd 2021
Hmm, Is the anonymous donor admitting some kind of similarity between producing conservative leaflets & wipings of babies bottoms? ![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif)
![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif)
- Mon 18 Jan, 2021 1:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th January 2021
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8908
Re: Monday 18th January 2021
Patel looping Red Hot Chili Peppers Give It Away & the cat programme videos on her phone Priti Patel picked a perpetual playlist of pungent peppers, A perpetual playlist of pungent peppers,Priti Patel picked If Priti Patel picked a perpetual playlist of pungent peppers, Where's:the perpetual pl...
- Mon 18 Jan, 2021 9:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th January 2021
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8908
Re: Monday 18th January 2021
Morning (& happy new year)
Someone's managed to combine two of my least favourite things,
Sea Shanties & Rees Mogg
Someone's managed to combine two of my least favourite things,
Sea Shanties & Rees Mogg
- Sun 08 Nov, 2020 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th November 2020
- Replies: 80
- Views: 29476
Re: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th November 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/libertarian-jo-jorgensen-donald-trump-joe-biden?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Results reveal Jorgensen’s vote share was higher than the Trump-Biden margins in some states – but did she really ...