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- Wed 22 May, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 171
- Wed 22 May, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 171
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: 171
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: 171
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: 171
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: 171
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: 171
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: 116
- Wed 22 May, 2024 12:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 116
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: 116
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: 116
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: 116
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: 116
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: 116
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: 116
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: 116
- Thu 16 May, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 136
- Tue 14 May, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 157
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: 157
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: 157
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: 157
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: 335
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: 335
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: 335
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: 335
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: 335
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: 335
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: 335
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: 335
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: 335
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: 285
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: 285
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: 285
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: 285
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: 285
- Thu 09 May, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 285
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: 285
- Thu 09 May, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 285
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: 287
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...
- Wed 08 May, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 287
Re: Wednesday 8th May 2024
So today we learn that according to the Labour Party Natalie Elphicke is more representative of their values than Diane Abbott.
What a joke.
They'll be welcoming Gullis next.
What a joke.
They'll be welcoming Gullis next.
- Wed 08 May, 2024 1:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th May 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 325
- Tue 07 May, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th May 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 325
Re: Tuesday 7th May 2024
Ak from Monday... Because whichever Leeds winner last week that was, the Greens have just suspended them. They most certainly have not much to the consternation of the Mail, Telegraph and apparently your good self. Are you sure you want to continue this because lying with dogs and getting fleas is s...
- Sun 05 May, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1084
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
And Refitman is right. I watched Jacqui Smith on Kuenssberg and her smug superior attitude towards the left and anyone with any sympathy for the Palestinians was appalling. Apparently a Labour leader must be a statesman and rise above the views of the party and its voters. Let's have a think about w...
- Sun 05 May, 2024 11:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1084
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Looks like at least one of the Leeds winners for the Greens referred to by Sky yesterday could be a potential embarrassment to them. I presume you're talking about Mothin Ali who won the Gipton and Harehills ward which is literally just over the road from me? Have you watched the video of the speec...
- Sun 05 May, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1084
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
It's Nicolas Cage time again...or is it? Arcadian https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22939186/ Nicolas Cage is the father of two teenage sons in a post apocalyptic rural Ireland teeming with monsters. So far so good you might be thinking, I certainly was, but then nothing happens for half an hour until Ca...
- Sun 05 May, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1084
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Oh dear, Dan Hodges has decided to pick a fight with Marina Purkiss and it's going about as badly for him as you would expect. I'm beginning to suspect he humiliates himself like this deliberately for the masochistic sexual thrill of it.
- Sun 05 May, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1084
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Another question for the BBC is why the Lib Dems or Greens weren't invited onto Kuenssberg's programme after making gains in the local elections, while three Tories made an appearance despite making huge losses.
Is it because she doesn't have any Greens or Lib Dems on speed dial?
Is it because she doesn't have any Greens or Lib Dems on speed dial?
- Sun 05 May, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1084
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Charitably, she was letting Braverman hang herself, but surely some balancing comment on the rest of the diatribe was essential? Indeed, she was equally quiescent when interviewing Mark Harper yet as if by magic as soon as Pat McFadden appeared she began channelling her inner yappy dog and went for...
- Sat 04 May, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1084
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Wow indeed, I'd even go so far as to offer a blimey.
- Sat 04 May, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1084
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
I see Lawrence Fox and Dan Wootton have both had tantrums and pledged to leave London.
Seems rather presumptuous of them to assume they'll be welcome anywhere else in the country.
Seems rather presumptuous of them to assume they'll be welcome anywhere else in the country.