Yup, it didn't even end with a whimper. Will Labour do anything to reverse the enshittification of the BBC?
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- Sat 25 May, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 54
- Fri 24 May, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 126
Re: Friday 24th May 2024
This passed me by yesterday and is something to celebrate, the government's Orwellian plan to spy on the bank accounts of millions of people has been scuppered due to Sunak calling the election and the Lords refusing to fast track it. https://twitter.com/premnsikka/status/1793661342613962942 Of cour...
- Fri 24 May, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 126
Re: Friday 24th May 2024
This is beginning to piss me off. So many of the cowards are cutting and running we're going to be denied a lot of the joy we deserve on election night.
I don't want to see some disappointed nobodies looking sad, I want to see Gove having a coke fuelled tantrum and Redwood in tears.
I don't want to see some disappointed nobodies looking sad, I want to see Gove having a coke fuelled tantrum and Redwood in tears.
- Fri 24 May, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 126
Re: Friday 24th May 2024
sky wrote I have some sympathy for Labour's position, without 'seeing the books' they've absolutely no idea what's possible I have no sympathy for them at all. They're pinning it all on economic growth, there are only 2 ways that could happen and they've ruled them both out. If they want the privat...
- Fri 24 May, 2024 12:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 201
Re: Thursday 23rd May 2024
Unless of course said condition was being an alcoholic.
Anyway, bit racy this one. Apparently the Obamas are fans.
Anyway, bit racy this one. Apparently the Obamas are fans.
- Fri 24 May, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 201
Re: Thursday 23rd May 2024
Hmm...lot of stuff on Twitter about Tim Montgomerie being pissed because he was slurring his speech.
I remember hearing him talk a few years back about having a condition that makes him slur and causes him difficulty walking.
Not cool people. Not cool.
I remember hearing him talk a few years back about having a condition that makes him slur and causes him difficulty walking.
Not cool people. Not cool.
- Thu 23 May, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 201
Re: Thursday 23rd May 2024
Question Time came tonight from Coventry with an audience who demonstrated that if Labour think they're in for an easy election campaign where they just need to keep their heads down they've got another thing coming. For the Tories we had Mark Spencer. If you want to know what we're going to hear re...
- Thu 23 May, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 201
- Thu 23 May, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 201
Re: Thursday 23rd May 2024
Here we go. Normal service shall be resumed this evening. Well if you can call it normal.
- Thu 23 May, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 201
Re: Thursday 23rd May 2024
Not sure what's going on with QT tonight. Last I looked Jess Phillips and Ash Sarkar were scheduled to be on but the lack of the usual panel line up on Twitter (yeah fuck off Musk) suggests Sunak has thrown a spanner in the works, or maybe they just forgot to post it. [Edit] According to the website...
- Thu 23 May, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 201
Re: Thursday 23rd May 2024
Well that's a bit of a bugger, they're changing the address to x.com and now the links don't work. https://x.com/TomLarkinSky/status/1793608546015490381 [Edit] If you edit the address to twitter instead of x it works but for god knows how long. Thanks Elon you dick. https://twitter.com/TomLarkinSky/...
- Wed 22 May, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 182
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Go ahead, make our day.
- Wed 22 May, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 182
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Not really that much of a "surprise" is it though. Apparently it is to many Tory MPs whose reactions seem to range from bemused to furious. I really don't understand why he's done it. All that fuss and nonsense about the Rwanda flights and he's calling an election before they even get off...
- Wed 22 May, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 182
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Ha ha he got soaked. Even the weather hates Sunak.
- Wed 22 May, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 182
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Goodwin's descent into the gutter continues.
- Wed 22 May, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 182
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Oh wait Dan Hodges has confirmed it so maybe not.
- Wed 22 May, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 182
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Finally! Rishi Sunak will call general election for July in surprise move – sources https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/rishi-sunak-will-call-general-election-for-july-in-surprise-move-sources Rishi Sunak will this afternoon call a surprise early election for July, senior source...
- Wed 22 May, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 182
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Is it actually happening? Are they really about to end the misery?
- Wed 22 May, 2024 2:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
- Wed 22 May, 2024 12:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Hah! Thanks Refit. I'm struggling to put a name to some of the instruments but it's nice to see the one I do know (the so called Korean sitar, the Gayageum, being played like an actual guitar, very punk).
- Wed 22 May, 2024 12:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
I do believe that's what I said.AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Tue 21 May, 2024 11:06 pm Let us assume that this statement is basically 100% true - isn't that, nonetheless, a good thing? Not least in that it shows that democracy can actually work??
- Wed 22 May, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Re that full English tweet, I like my sausages well done and it has black pudding - one of *the* essentials. Beans are optional - as is tomato - and *definitely* no chips. Won't say no to a slice of fried bread tho. Black pudding is great and the only thing on that plate that looked edible. There's...
- Tue 21 May, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Oh dear...how to piss people off at either end of the age spectrum. Having Johnny Mercer exposing his bare sweaty feet next to me on the train would certainly piss me off. Fucking hippies think they can get away with anything. Appearing drunk on Question Time, sitting around half naked on public tr...
- Tue 21 May, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
The only connection between racists and that breakfast I could make is I wouldn't want to eat either. The bacon's undercooked, the sausages are burnt, and god only knows what's happened to those poor mushrooms. Controversially however I am going to welcome the lack of beans and addition of a hash br...
- Tue 21 May, 2024 10:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
The cynic in me wonders if this isn't simply the Labour hierarchy shitting themselves after losing so many council seats over the issue.
If that hadn't happened do we really believe this is the line they'd be taking?
Nonetheless it's a welcome development.
- Tue 21 May, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Hi Froggy, yes Lindisfarne was originally a centre of 'Celtic Christianity' until it was decided at the synod of Whitby that Northumberland should follow the Roman traditions (after lots of arguments about when Easter should be and such like) resulting in the Scots/Irish clergy leaving the island in...
- Tue 21 May, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 127
- Thu 16 May, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 138
- Tue 14 May, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 158
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
I dunno, this maybe the dimmest of any of the current batch of right wing commentators. She's definitely not a journalist. She's just another right wing grifter talking bollocks for cash. In the tragic world country we now live in where bands are making a loss producing music it's easier to make a ...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 158
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
12° Brrrr! It's currently 20° here with the windows open, which I'm most definitely not moaning about. Going from chucking £20 a week into my old gas meter from 1969* to luxuriating in warmth for free has been a most welcome change. What's weird, and this was true last year as well, is that parts o...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 158
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
A lot of comments on X on the theme of "They're all going to 3rd rate unis" whereas the evidence is that they aren't. It's the Russell Group ones who will suffer when international applications drop off a cliff - you only have to look at the numbers of top unis ditching courses and sheddi...
- Tue 14 May, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 158
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
Newcastle council could be complicit in sportswashing, campaigners claim https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/14/newcastle-council-could-be-complicit-in-sportswashing-campaigners-claim Looks like even the Labour council are getting in on the act in Geordie Arabia. One email in the ...
- Mon 13 May, 2024 12:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
RIP Steve Albini.
- Mon 13 May, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Some people getting rather excited that Israel won the UK audience vote, but doesn't this really just show FPTP in all its glory? If you wanted Israel, you vote Israel. If you didn't, there were maybe a dozen reasonably credible choices (and of course lots more in total) Agreed. And frankly who giv...
- Sun 12 May, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Plenty of reports on Xitter of people who wouldn't usually watch Eurovision voting for israel, it's not exactly a scientific survey. Plenty of bullshit from idiots on the far right saying they voted for Israel 20 times or whatever, which given it was a phone poll would have meant they'd have to hav...
- Sun 12 May, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Went wandering in Calderdale with my friend today and it was so hot we stopped off in a little village called Norwood Green for a drink. https://i.postimg.cc/0NtWT8d3/signal-2024-05-12-165719-002.jpg Looks nice doesn't it? Guess how much it cost for a pint of bog standard pale ale? £6.30. I actually...
- Sat 11 May, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Quite rightly the UK's awful Eurovision entry is the only one to receive 0 points from the public vote. Good. The memory of it is still causing me psychological trauma.
The Irish were robbed.
The Irish were robbed.
- Sat 11 May, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
They have not, at least round here.
- Sat 11 May, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
It has to be Ireland or failing that Armenia, anything else would be a travesty.
I'm off out to see if the Northern Lights are going to make another appearance.
I'm off out to see if the Northern Lights are going to make another appearance.
- Sat 11 May, 2024 9:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Yesterday the sharp-eyed daughter spotted a bumblebee nest in the lawn, now marked with a stick . She also transplanted some of last year's wildflower seedlings to the front of the house, and this morning I watched a bumble enjoying the flowers :-) Good stuff. Not much in the way of bumblebee actio...
- Sat 11 May, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 342
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
The UK's Eurovision entry made me cringe so much I fear I may have done myself a mischief.
Ireland's was best by a mile so far.
Ireland's was best by a mile so far.
- Fri 10 May, 2024 12:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 286
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
So Steve Albini died yesterday.
- Thu 09 May, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 286
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
Ok so what do we do when Refit's away enjoying a well deserved holiday?
First one up and about starts a new thread for the day?
I can guarantee that won't be me so have at it.
First one up and about starts a new thread for the day?
I can guarantee that won't be me so have at it.
- Thu 09 May, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 286
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
Question Time came tonight from Stoke. When the audience was asked to raise their hands if they thought Natalie Elphicke would be an asset to the Labour Party guess how many did so? That's right, not one of them. For the Conservatives we had Nigel Huddleston. Nigel was so insipidly dull it's almost ...
- Thu 09 May, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 286
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
Looks marvellous.
Mind you Leeds feels like the Mediterranean today.
Mind you Leeds feels like the Mediterranean today.
- Thu 09 May, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 286
- Thu 09 May, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 286
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
It's been interesting seeing the fall out from Elphicke's welcome into the Labour party from its centrist cheerleaders. Noticeably there's been an almost complete split between male commentators like Raphael Behr above who see it as pragmatic politics, and female commentators like Marina Purkiss and...
- Thu 09 May, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 286
- Thu 09 May, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 286
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
I wonder what Nandy is going to have say about her newly acquired comrade. Let's hope she does a better job than Anneliese Dodds this morning. That was painful.
- Wed 08 May, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 290
Re: Wednesday 8th May 2024
Kinda stunned by this to be honest. Steve Albini, US alt-rock musician and producer, dies aged 61 https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/steve-albini-us-alt-rock-musician-and-producer-dies-aged-61 I've got a ticket to go and see his band Shellac on Jun 3rd, the first time they've tour...