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- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1060
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
The idea that the likes of Lee Anderson only decided to be Islamophobic after this week is a bit of a stretch tbh. Come on AK, we've known each other for years on this forum so I know you're better than wilfully misrepresenting what I said. Have Starmer's actions last week aided and emboldened thos...
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1060
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
So the SNP and Tories doing a shabby deal to stitch up Starmer wasn't that? The past week certainly wasn't anyone's finest hour, but you maybe can't really blame Labour too much for fighting back. Nah sorry, not having that AK. The SNP's position has been clear and consistent throughout the 'confli...
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1060
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1060
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
As for the Gaza amendments fiasco it's interesting to see those defending Starmer praising Labour for indulging in exactly the kind of shithousery we've been condemning the Tories for getting up to for years.
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1060
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
Afternoon. Looks like it's been a quiet week in politics while I've been away. Here's the view from an Iron Age hill fort in the Ingram Valley with my Dad annoyingly wandering into shot. https://i.postimg.cc/gJMjMSwC/20240222-151322-2.jpg Northumberland coast with Lindisfarne castle in the distance....
- Mon 19 Feb, 2024 12:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1381
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
Anyway I'm off up North again for the week, my Dad's somehow contrived to develop two different types of arthritis in his wrists in the space of a few weeks according to the consultant he saw. Apparently he's had to have the neighbour round to chop his veg when he's been cooking it's been so painful...
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1381
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
Most of them have genuinely vanished never to return - Berger is maybe the only one I can seriously see returning to parliament. Chuka Umunna would fit quite happily back into Starmer's Labour party but I see he's currently busy trying to fight the capitalist pig dogs at JP Morgan from the inside b...
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1381
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1381
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
If anyone fancies an 80s nostalgia hit I'd never heard of a pop ball, but what's this about yo-yos being 'weaponised' in Australian schools? What were they doing, grafting metal spikes to them or something? I can just see Mel Gibson, striding the post apocalyptic wasteland taking out mohawked bad g...
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1381
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
I mean those Trump trainers are pretty awesome in a camp 70's Wonder Woman kinda way.
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1381
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
Starmer allies gripped by fear of Labour complacency amid byelection triumphs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/18/starmer-allies-gripped-by-fear-of-labour-complacency-amid-byelection-triumphs Josh Simons, director of the Labour Together group, which conducted the analysis, said: “For y...
- Sat 17 Feb, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 765
Re: Friday 16th February 2024
I didn't mean you mate, it's been all over Twitter and in the Guardian comments all day.
- Fri 16 Feb, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 765
Re: Friday 16th February 2024
Indeed, because Labour lost 5000 votes. In others they barely clung on by their fingertips. Have a look at these two from 2018/19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Lewisham_East_by-election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Newport_West_by-election The Labour vote absolutely tanked. I understand ...
- Fri 16 Feb, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 765
Re: Friday 16th February 2024
I must say it's quite something to see Conservatives and the Corbynite left on Twitter clutching at exactly the same straws. Let's not forget under Corbyn the Labour party failed to overturn a single Tory majority at any by election, in fact they managed to lose one while trashing their vote in a nu...
- Fri 16 Feb, 2024 2:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 564
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Getting pretty quiet round here is it not?
I don't mean now, just in general.
Anyway.
I don't mean now, just in general.
Anyway.
- Thu 15 Feb, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 564
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Question Time came tonight from Lancaster. For the Tories we had Graham Stuart. If there's one thing Graham's good at it's dealing with humiliation with good humour and it's a talent which served him well this evening. To begin with he made a foolhardy attempt to take a holier than thou attitude to ...
- Thu 15 Feb, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 564
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Looks pretty beige, although Graham Stuart is inadvertently comedic on occasion so you never know.
- Thu 15 Feb, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 564
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Afternoon. For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished - Allister Heath https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/14/for-the-first-time-im-beginning-to-think-britain-is-finishe/ Britain’s decline over the past 25 years has been staggeringly rapid. Almost everything i...
- Mon 12 Feb, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1324
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1324
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Last post on this subject and it doesn't apply to Ralph's youth because this was 1990 but this is nuts... From Blondie to Lulu: The songs the BBC banned during the Gulf War https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/songs-bbc-banned-during-gulf-war/ Here's just a few. ABBA – ‘Waterloo’ Blondie – ‘Atomic’ The Boom...
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1324
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Well I'm learning a few things this evening. Did you know that until 1968 all theatre scripts had to be licenced by the Lord Chamberlain's Office, a department of the royal household, which had carte blanche to ban or censor as it pleased? This came to an end with the Theatres act. https://en.wikipe...
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1324
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Ha ha, brilliant. I've just learned that the BBC banned this from Swap Shop because they thought it was promoting homosexuality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo Because of the title Enola Gay was thought by some to be a gay anthem. This being the Eighties it was consequently banned from ...
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1324
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
I could add Mary Whitehouse, the Sex Pistols being banned from performing, the hysteria over 'video nasties', I'm sure there's plenty more examples. On the other hand the Holiday Programme on the BBC was perfectly happy to show naked boobs just after teatime. Weird times. What would Ralph prefer, tr...
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1324
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1324
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Simon Danczuk is standing for Reform in Rochdale?
Regardless of what you might think about his 'political journey' surely Reform sending someone who was sacked for grooming a teenage girl to Rochdale is at best tasteless?
Regardless of what you might think about his 'political journey' surely Reform sending someone who was sacked for grooming a teenage girl to Rochdale is at best tasteless?
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1324
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Amen. The Tory right’s radicalisation should trouble us all One of the main anchors of our politics has become increasingly unmoored from reality. By Lewis Goodall https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/02/the-tory-rights-radicalisation-should-trouble-us-all The Conservatives, facing a potentiall...
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th February 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 390
Re: Friday 9th February 2024
Laura Trott humiliating herself again? Say it aint so.
You can watch the entire excruciating episode here...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68250020
You can watch the entire excruciating episode here...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68250020
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th February 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 390
Re: Friday 9th February 2024
Braverman incompetent? Say it aint so. Braverman’s ‘crazy’ law costs £1.5m a day because 22k migrants can’t be removed https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/braverman-law-cost-migrants-removed-2898645?ito=twitter_share_article-top A “crazy” contradiction in Rishi Sunak’s flagship small-boats law has lef...
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 1:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Just because.
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
And......James Daly has a combover? That's what it looked like to me in all it's HD glory this evening, wispy strands combed across his head held in place with gel or hairspray. As someone who went down the topknot/ponytail route to cover a bald crown and ended up fooling nobody I'm not one to judg...
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 12:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Indeed I did. Thanks and it's been edited accordingly.AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Thu 08 Feb, 2024 11:38 pm I presume you mean Daisy Cooper there, Sky?
Rosie Cooper is a now retired Labour MP (though she was previously a LibDem)
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Question Time tonight came from Nottingham, where I've had a few good nights at Rock City. I assumed like a lot of music venues from my youth it was probably gone by now but after a quick Google it seems like it's still going strong. Yay. For the Tories we had James Daly. James began with a bit of f...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Holly Valance's husband says it's time for a Labour government.
Chortle.
Chortle.
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
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. Barry Gardiner's...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
It's snowing* and cold, I've had to turn the gas fire up which will be costing me a fortune, it wouldn't be so bad if this house had even basic insulation but the landlord will never spend the money. If only there was some kind of government scheme to provide funding... *Sadly it's wet rubbish snow ...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1426
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Ugh, apart from Daisy Cooper this looks absolutely bloody awful.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
When Sonia Sodha condemns Sunak then gets a load of abuse for it, not from the right and transphobes, but from those advocating trans rights, she really isn't the problem.AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Wed 07 Feb, 2024 10:45 pm When you have lost the likes of Sonia Sodha, stop digging.
It's utterly depressing.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
How indeed. Maybe it's just me but this feels pretty terminal for Sunak, he's not going to be able to live this down. He's been egged on by the right of his party and the rightwing press to fight these horrible culture wars and look where it's got him. https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/17552981305374...
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Wow, apparently Badenoch went rogue.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
I think it may be possible to be too cynical about today - it might just be this depressing saga's "Sir, have you really no sense of decency?" moment. Let's hope so but from what I can see all it seems to have done, outside of a few honourable exceptions, is entrench both sides. One thing...
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
I don't say this often but well done Dan Hodges and Tom Harwood.
While many of the usual, odious suspects are defending Sunak those two appear to be the only Tory pundits showing an ounce of humanity and calling him out.
While many of the usual, odious suspects are defending Sunak those two appear to be the only Tory pundits showing an ounce of humanity and calling him out.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Absolutely grim from Sunak. And a thing that seems to being missed here is that in his non apology statement at the end of PMQS Sunak referred to Brianna Ghey as 'her'. So on the one hand it would appear he's happy to refer to her using a female pronoun, while on the other he's mocking Starmer for n...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2995
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
An ex of mine's grandad met an American woman after his wife had died and they decided to make a life together. She smuggled him into the US over the Canadian border in the boot of her car. They settled in Vegas, invited us over, and he was the one of the funniest, daftest people I've ever had the p...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2995
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
And let's not forget United made that same West Ham look like 1970 version Brazil less than two months ago. We made Wolves look like 1970's Brazil 3 days ago. Still with Ratcliffe and Ineos now in charge surely the least we can expect is a freakish improvement in our player's fitness which has noth...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2995
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Not just unfeasible, but illegal - standing in multiple constituencies simultaneously was outlawed a while ago. I would imagine it would also stretch the laws of physics beyond breaking point, George would have to zoom round every constituency in the country on election night faster than Santa at C...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2995
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Anyway.....who are this Man United who are scoring goals for fun - do you recognise them Sky?? Finally getting most of the first team back fit has obviously made a difference, Martinez especially so let's hope his knee isn't another long term injury. I'm really happy for Hojlund, he's been busting ...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2995
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
I'd like to say I enjoyed this bit of absurdist whimsy by Dan Hodges but it's behind a paywall which I've not bothered trying to break yet. Presumably his argument goes that if Galloway significantly splits the left in Rochdale the Tories should take advantage of that split by calling a GE and limit...
- Sun 04 Feb, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2995
Re: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th February 2024
Strangely enough, that is also the UK government's position (the US deemed it a genocide some time ago, though) You're absolutely right, I made the assumption that we'd fallen in line with the Americans but clearly not. A 1999 Foreign Office briefing for ministers said that the recognition of the A...