On C4 news as well, although KGM didn't feel the need to argue with him like Montague did.
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- Thu 28 Mar, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28th March 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 29
- Wed 27 Mar, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 80
- Wed 27 Mar, 2024 10:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th March 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 80
Re: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Good morning.
- Tue 19 Mar, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19th March 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 224
Re: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Do the clowns advising Starmer and Reeves not realise just how downright offensive it is to have this ret-conned Thatcherism jammed down our throats as if we're all too stupid to remember just how awful it was? This. Of course there are many people who aren't old enough to remember what it was like...
- Tue 19 Mar, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 19th March 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 224
Re: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Good morning. Reeves going to inspire the Labour base again today? She'd rather get on the front page of the Telegraph. They don't seem to realise the job's done, there are no floating voters left. https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1769896561872441370 https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/17698965...
- Mon 18 Mar, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th March 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 226
Re: Monday 18th March 2024
Bit more than a gimmick.AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Mon 18 Mar, 2024 4:12 pm Labour is generally not in favour, dismissing them as fundamentally gimmicks with few positive features.
- Mon 18 Mar, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th March 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 226
Re: Monday 18th March 2024
Whitby today
- Sat 16 Mar, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 410
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March 2024
Good morning, sunny here for a change.
- Fri 15 Mar, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 15th March 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 217
Re: Friday 15th March 2024
Thanks for the QT review, sky.
I gave it a swerve because of Mad Mel.
Flynn is always good value and pleased to hear Hazarika was sticking up for Abbott, as you say she's not exactly a voice of the left.
I gave it a swerve because of Mad Mel.
Flynn is always good value and pleased to hear Hazarika was sticking up for Abbott, as you say she's not exactly a voice of the left.
- Thu 14 Mar, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 14th March 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 294
Re: Thursday 14th March 2024
He did say it, but we don't believe most things he says, soAnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Thu 14 Mar, 2024 6:43 pm It is being claimed that Sunak has said there will *not* be a May GE, in an interview on regional TV.
- Wed 06 Mar, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 6th March 2024
- Replies: 4
- Views: 175
Re: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Smashing.It cost taxpayers £15,000 to cover damages to an academic science secretary Michelle Donelan had falsely accused of supporting Hamas, her department has said.
- Tue 05 Mar, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 214
Re: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
Not sure arguing with Lewis Goodall on twitter is a good look for Mikey.
400 replies and counting...
400 replies and counting...
- Mon 04 Mar, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 4th March 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 245
Re: Monday 4th March 2024
Good morning.
'Ominous' may turn out to be the understatement of the year.
'Ominous' may turn out to be the understatement of the year.
- Sat 02 Mar, 2024 10:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 439
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
But Labour are only promising to bring more private provision into the NHS, I've not seen anything about improving the finances of people who aren't already very rich, their 'commitment' to tackling climate change is diminishing by day, if you're LGBTQ+ they seem pretty sanguine about one of their ...
- Sat 02 Mar, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 439
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
Good morning.
Definitely not a sign of genius.
Definitely not a sign of genius.
- Fri 01 Mar, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st March 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 210
- Fri 01 Mar, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st March 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 210
Re: Friday 1st March 2024
Good morning.
Thanks for the QT commentary, sky.
I agree with Caroline Lucas.
Also, Lucas and Warsi on the same programme? What were the BBC thinking. Robbie Gibb'll be having a word.
Thanks for the QT commentary, sky.
I agree with Caroline Lucas.
Also, Lucas and Warsi on the same programme? What were the BBC thinking. Robbie Gibb'll be having a word.
- Wed 28 Feb, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 28th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 377
Re: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Worst privatisation ever.
No end in sight.
No end in sight.
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 26th February 2024
- Replies: 15
- Views: 477
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
A faultline has opened in Keir Starmer’s pragmatic politics – and this time none of the usual fixes will work - Nesrine Malik https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/26/faultine-keir-starmer-politics-gaza-labour From later in the piece It’s bad luck though, for both the people and the pa...
- Thu 22 Feb, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 22nd February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 361
Re: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Good morning.
Bernie Sanders was on C4 news last night, clearly in much better mental shape than Biden or Trump, despite being older.
If it is those two in the autumn, are they really going to do tv debates? Neither of them can string a sentence together.
Bernie Sanders was on C4 news last night, clearly in much better mental shape than Biden or Trump, despite being older.
If it is those two in the autumn, are they really going to do tv debates? Neither of them can string a sentence together.
- Wed 21 Feb, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 21st February 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 345
Re: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Lindsay Hoyle sticking his neck out for once, is it?
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1112
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
Probably.
Awful to admit that Thatcher was right about anything, but credit where it's due.
Awful to admit that Thatcher was right about anything, but credit where it's due.
- Wed 14 Feb, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 14th February 2024
- Replies: 8
- Views: 379
Re: Wednesday 14th February 2024
Starmer talks to Netanyahu on a daily basis?!
ffs
ffs
- Tue 13 Feb, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th February 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 603
- Tue 13 Feb, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 13th February 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 603
Re: Tuesday 13th February 2024
Good morning.
Exactly.
Exactly.
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 965
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
.... and the second
- Sat 10 Feb, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 965
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Good morning.
I struggle to imagine anyone thinking it's a good idea to write this, and do the Times think they're helping her by publishing it?
Disgusting individual.
I struggle to imagine anyone thinking it's a good idea to write this, and do the Times think they're helping her by publishing it?
Disgusting individual.
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 983
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Taking a more optimistic view (yes, I know) this might actually be a case of one side getting a headline "win" (formally dropping the £28 bn figure) but most of the actual substance behind it being retained. And somebody did make the point many voters will relate more easily to smaller (t...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 983
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
https://bsky.app/profile/andraswf.bsky.social/post/3kkvia7sb5f25 Thought I'd see if bluesky posts would display here, I see the answer is no. Refit? It says let me reiterate my opinion that having gendered pronouns is a waste of everyone's time and we should all aspire to the gender neutrality of th...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 983
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Good morning. I can't remember a better example of the need to follow Healy's advice than yesterday, but it isn't only Sunak who's bad at politics, is it. The PM and the tory front bench are totally discredited in the eyes of most of the public, but Labour can't/doesn't want to stand up to them. Bar...
- Tue 06 Feb, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 6th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 674
- Sat 03 Feb, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2859
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Good morning.
- Thu 01 Feb, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 1st February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1174
Re: Thursday 1st February 2024
A mea culpa from the IEA? Why Brexit was a mistake, from a libertarian perspective https://iea.org.uk/why-brexit-was-a-mistake-from-a-libertarian-perspective/ Slow hand clap. I read that the other day and was rather baffled by this bit Brexit, contrary to being a move towards greater liberty, was p...
- Fri 26 Jan, 2024 10:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th January 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1632
Re: Friday 26th January 2024
@sky, thanks for the QT review.
Alex Burghart, where do they find these people.
As you said, every week you think a Tory politician can't perform worse than the last one, and every week they defy that prediction.
Alex Burghart, where do they find these people.
As you said, every week you think a Tory politician can't perform worse than the last one, and every week they defy that prediction.
- Fri 26 Jan, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th January 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1632
Re: Friday 26th January 2024
I found this interesting. "not committing genocide, but that it is failing to punish isolated genocidal acts by its forces or incitement of genocide by its officials" https://twitter.com/Alonso_GD/status/1750969845414309904 https://twitter.com/Alonso_GD/status/1750969850443231422 https://t...
- Fri 26 Jan, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th January 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1632
Re: Friday 26th January 2024
Discourage them from saying the quiet part out loud, you mean?
Not sure how it helps, really.
Not sure how it helps, really.
- Sat 20 Jan, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st January 2024
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2518
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st January 2024
Something to cheer you up. It might not be one of the Royal Navy's finest hours, but it's one of twitter's. The replies https://twitter.com/Ian_Fraser/status/1748698769464365451 eg Unfortunately the Captain received different orders from each of the four Secretaries of State for Defence. Didn't we h...
- Tue 16 Jan, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1848
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2024
On a lighter note
- Fri 12 Jan, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th January 2024
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1504
Re: Friday 12th January 2024
Good morning.
Yes.
Yes.
- Thu 11 Jan, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th January 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2448
- Thu 11 Jan, 2024 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th January 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2448
Re: Thursday 11th January 2024
Good to know our* instincts are confirmed by the data. centre-left parties promising, for example, to be tough on immigration or public spending are unlikely to attract potential voters on the right, and risk alienating existing progressive supporters. “Voters tend to prefer the original to the copy...
- Thu 11 Jan, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th January 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2448
Re: Thursday 11th January 2024
Good morning. This essay was titled 'Gaza and the End of Western Hypocrisy', now changed to Western Fantasy. I suppose someone could write a book about why this has happened, certainly this piece doesn't attempt to explain it. It's not very long. https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/17451758655147...
- Wed 10 Jan, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th January 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1902
- Wed 10 Jan, 2024 3:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th January 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1902
- Sat 06 Jan, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th January 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2284
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th January 2024
"the British are among the worst idlers in the world"
- Sat 06 Jan, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th January 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2284
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th January 2024
Good morning.
The CSJ? Really?
How has it come to this....
The CSJ? Really?
How has it come to this....
- Thu 04 Jan, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1331
- Thu 04 Jan, 2024 11:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2024
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1331
Re: Thursday 4th January 2024
Good morning. Is everyone watching Mr Bates vs the Post Office? I've been following that story for many years and still find plenty of jaw-dropping moments and I'm only part way through ep 2. The writer has done a brilliant job and Toby Jones is excellent as ever. Download it and there's no adverts.
- Sun 31 Dec, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: End of the Year 30th & 31st December 2023 / Jan 1st 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2579
Re: End of the Year 30th & 31st December 2023 / Jan 1st 2024
Nice moon pic.
Get well soon.
Get well soon.
- Fri 29 Dec, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Christmas week 23-29 December 2023
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3611
Re: Christmas week 23-29 December 2023
"the prerogative of the harlot through the ages"
Whatever our poor opinion of the current Labour leadership, might be reasonable to assume they will actually pull a few levers, and of course be castigated for it by the Tories. Whether we'll think they're the right levers, time will tell.
Whatever our poor opinion of the current Labour leadership, might be reasonable to assume they will actually pull a few levers, and of course be castigated for it by the Tories. Whether we'll think they're the right levers, time will tell.