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- Wed 08 May, 2024 1:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th May 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 119
- Tue 07 May, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th May 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 119
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: 377
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: 377
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: 377
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: 377
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: 377
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: 377
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: 377
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: 377
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.
- Sat 04 May, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 377
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
So despite the kerfuffle it looks like Khan's going to win comfortably after all and even increase his vote share. We heard the same drivel last time when pundits were claiming Shaun Bailey was running him close without a shred of evidence. As for Susan Hall the funniest thing about her defeat is sh...
- Sat 04 May, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 377
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
I've never seen anything like it in Leeds. Labour lost every ward with high Muslim or student populations, from Headingley to Harehills, all to the Greens. Those are some of the longest serving councillors in the city who would never have dreamed they'd be voted out. I can only imagine they're furio...
- Fri 03 May, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 262
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
What no exciting results yet?
In the meantime how about a bit more from Barbara and Ernie?
In the meantime how about a bit more from Barbara and Ernie?
- Fri 03 May, 2024 12:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 262
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
You know sometimes coming from the borders is a bit of a curse, when confronted by the smug arrogance of the English home counties as a
Heinz 57 mix of Scots and Northern English I end up getting pissed of on behalf of both. Which I'm sure isn't entirely healthy, but it is fun.
Heinz 57 mix of Scots and Northern English I end up getting pissed of on behalf of both. Which I'm sure isn't entirely healthy, but it is fun.
- Fri 03 May, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 262
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
God that was tedious. Remind me never to go to Northstow, which is apparently a posh new town North of Cambridge that doesn't have any shops. What it does have however is a well to do audience who were the most Tory friendly we've had in a long time. Bim Afolami was the first Tory MP not to be laugh...
- Thu 02 May, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 262
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
For all those who think Fiona Bruce is biased against Labour it's as nothing compared to her obvious dripping contempt for the SNP. Kate Forbes is barely being allowed to finish a sentence while one after another clueless English idiots are allowed to belabour her with simplistic, ill informed garba...
- Thu 02 May, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 262
- Thu 02 May, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd May 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 262
Re: Thursday 2nd May 2024
No QT review tonight I'm afraid. There's no earlier live broadcast on the iPlayer due to the elections. I'll still give it a watch later and comment if anything interesting happens. What a lovely day for taking part in the democratic process. After a splendid sunny walk to the polling station, I eve...
- Wed 01 May, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 169
- Tue 30 Apr, 2024 11:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 169
Re: Tuesday 30th April 2024
Anyway going back to Humza Yousaf. I genuinely thought the bloke (and his advisors) had a bit of political savvy and knew what they were doing. That before jettisoning their power sharing partners they'd have crunched the electoral numbers, worked through all the scenarios, and concluded they'd be f...
- Tue 30 Apr, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 169
Re: Tuesday 30th April 2024
Well I was wrong about Humza Yousaf staying in his job, so that's another one to add to the collection. In other news we had the council housing inspectors round today. They weren't very friendly (they failed to laugh at a single one of my hilarious witticisms) but they did seem to be scrupulously p...
- Tue 30 Apr, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 30th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 169
Re: Tuesday 30th April 2024
Wow, maybe one cherry picked out of context quote from Ellie Reeves isn't actually the whole story! I mean, who knew?? Having watched the whole interview there's no cherry picking required, she was talking absolute nonsense. The benefit under discussion is PIP and she started rambling about jobcent...
- Mon 29 Apr, 2024 12:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 210
- Sun 28 Apr, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 210
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
Just asking for a friend, but were Tories this sniffy when that SNP parliamentarian defected to them recently? Of course they will usually have supported their former party, that is how it works. Oh AK, I appreciate you exist in some zero sum political world, but what's the point of being a politic...
- Sun 28 Apr, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 210
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
While out and about today a friend and I encountered my local 'Alliance for Green Socialism' candidate hammering little election signs into a grass verge so we stopped to have a chat. He was a lovely bloke and after a discussion about environmental collapse and the fallacy of infinite growth we ende...
- Sun 28 Apr, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 210
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
While it is nice to have one less Tory MP, it is rather concerning that a man who has spent the last 14 years thinking up ways to fuck the NHS, now thinks that Labour's plans are better. You should see his voting record on cutting benefits for the very people he claims he's now resigned from the To...
- Sun 28 Apr, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 210
Re: Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April 2024
Hmm yes, when asking a rhetorical question I often stare blankly into space for a few seconds looking confused before asking it with a raised inflection in my voice. There are two possibilities here. Chris Philp is either lying, or he's a valley girl from the 1990's. https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/st...
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 2:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Thanks Roger.
People assume I sometimes exaggerate for comic effect, which when reviewing Question Time drunk is kinda part of the fun.
But as you can see from my review above sometimes just repeating a Conservatives words verbatim is funnier than anything I could make up.
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Question Time came tonight from Tottenham, which can be proud of the audience it provided this evening. They seemed like a genuinely compassionate and pleasant lot who needless to say had zero time for any Tory bullshit. I usually start with the Tory panellist, but after an absolutely bravura perfor...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Please stop trying to make this all about Labour, when its really down to the SNP's failure. I see you don't disagree with my assertion that if this were the other way round your response would be very different. Besides, I've already said I'm far from happy with the decision Yousaf has taken today...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
I'm deeply interested how the BBC will cope with Labour getting in (if, of course they do win come October or whenever Sunak graciously allows us to vote) as far as filling the Politics Live panel and others of that type. This one was Tory, Labour, LibDem, and Hard Right Journalist, a set up typica...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
It is a VONC, there is no way ScotLab can seriously be expected not to support it. The fact it just happens to be tabled by the Tories is close to irrelevant. EDIT: and now it is reported that the Greens will vote FOR the motion, ie "with the Tories". That will upset a few narratives. Wha...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Its all kicking off north of the border, it would appear! It genuinely saddens me that Yousaf has caved to the right of his party, but what disgust me more is seeing Labour joining the Tories (as they so often do in Scotland) in performatively putting the boot in when they know they've got zero cha...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
They had a discussion about Labours plan to begin the process of renationalising our railways on Politics live. Kate Andrews was making one of her customary appearances and I was absolutely astonished when she fully backed the plan and declared that the privatisation of public assets had been an unm...
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1598
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Thanks god for booze, because let's be honest, who in their right mind would voluntarily listen to Chris Philp, Wes Streeting, and Charles Moore sober?
- Wed 24 Apr, 2024 12:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1773
Re: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Anyway I'm sure you all remember my racist landlord. He came round today with a letter he'd written, a copy of which he said he'd given to the police. For years he's been turning a blind eye to the antisocial behaviour of a tenant here who also just happens to be openly racist, let's just call him R...
- Tue 23 Apr, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1773
Re: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Where has the Spring gone? I just walked back from the pub and it was so cold I wouldn't be surprised if there was frost in the morning. What I should have done of course was film myself arguing with the Norse ice giant Ymir blaming him for the cold then releasing a highly edited video of the encoun...
- Mon 22 Apr, 2024 2:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1987
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1987
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
The one, slightly, amusing thing from Sunak's speech on disability and benefits (and how the Tories plan to fuck everyone on them), was him saying that the previous reforms, by IDS, were a failure - and at IDS's pet thinktank too. I must confess I missed the irony of the venue, I merely glanced at ...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1987
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Let me tell you a story. A long time ago (back in 2013) an evil goblin called Iain Duncan Smith decided too many sick and disabled people were receiving something called Disability Living Allowance. He claimed people were receiving payments for conditions it was never originally intended to cover an...
- Sun 21 Apr, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1987
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2024
Oh how I love being a Man Utd supporter right now. Never a dull moment. Who doesn't enjoy the spectacle of a bunch of millionaires running around like headless chickens with all the tactical nous of a primary school five a side team. The only way it could be improved would be to make them wear clown...
- Fri 19 Apr, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2383
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2383
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Question Time tonight came from windswept and wonderful Buxton, a splendid place which presumably inspired the name of Buxton the cat from The Magic Roundabout film 'Dougal and the Blue Cat'. Though it must be said in all my visits to Buxton the cats all seem to be of standard colourations so who kn...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2383
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2383
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Tice vs David TC Davies could prove to be amusing. I guess I better go and get some cheap plonk.
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 2:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1831
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 10:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1831
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
Bloody hell I go away for a few days and come back to find we're on the brink of WWIII again. My cousins brought half my uncle's ashes to scatter. He died eight years ago and my Dad's been asking for them all this time but this was the first occasion where everyone managed to get their shit together...
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1020
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Even the faux Jamaican accent and him professing his love of punanni? That was supposed to be a Jamaican accent? I thought he was doing some weird bhangra crossover thing. I even pictured him with little cymbals on his fingers bobbing his head from side to side in a sari. As for professing his love...
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1020
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Did anyone see Alan Bates' testimony to the Post Office enquiry today? I only caught a bit of it during which he was asked about a meeting he had with Ed Davey. He looked somewhat perplexed for a few seconds before admitting he couldn't recall anything about it. Which I expect is a fairly common occ...