@sky, sorry to hear you've got the 'rona, how many others at that wedding have it too, I wonder. Hopefully not the bride and groom.
Here's a review of 'Party Marty' at the inquiry.
The fog of bores
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- Wed 01 Nov, 2023 9:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 1st November 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1603
- Tue 31 Oct, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 31st October 2023
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1120
Re: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Starmer says he is not suprised by the level of support for a ceasefire. People want to alleviate the suffering. But he says he has asked if a ceasefire would be right if it would allow Hamas to carry out further attacks, and if it would not bring back the hostages. And so that is he s not calling ...
- Tue 31 Oct, 2023 9:40 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 31st October 2023
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1120
Re: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Good morning. This morning Richard Holden, a transport minister, was doing the broadcast round for No 10 and he had to defend the government’s handling of Covid in the light of the evidence revealed at the inquiry. He argued that the WhatsApp revelations were just “tittle tattle” When you're in a ho...
- Sun 29 Oct, 2023 10:50 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th October 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1382
Re: Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th October 2023
I'm sure you've seen this by now but
Starlink will support connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza.
- Thu 26 Oct, 2023 9:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 26h October 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 630
Re: Thursday 26h October 2023
'Very serious plagiarism scandal' seems a bit OTT tho. It's only a book.
Crispin Blunt, otoh.
Crispin Blunt, otoh.
- Wed 25 Oct, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 25th October 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 690
Re: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Wed 25 Oct, 2023 3:37 pm Honestly what's the point of voting for these clowns? Absolutely fucking useless. You simply cannot believe a single word they say.
Labour U-turns on promise of Scottish-style right to roam in England
Only a matter of time before the cancellation of the badger cull goes the same way.
- Wed 25 Oct, 2023 10:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 25th October 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 690
Re: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Sky last night Yes Israel is our ally, hence the recent support of our security services in ratifying their account of the hospital bombing, but it's not an ally so beloved that it can murder thousands of civilians without revulsion despite what Tim and the freaks around him might think. "The E...
- Wed 25 Oct, 2023 10:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 25th October 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 690
Re: Wednesday 25th October 2023
The King.
Of course you don't have to look far for the context, Netanyahu and his reprehensible allies would like the Palestinians in the West Bank to go to Jordan, just as he'd like the Gazans to move to Egypt.
Of course you don't have to look far for the context, Netanyahu and his reprehensible allies would like the Palestinians in the West Bank to go to Jordan, just as he'd like the Gazans to move to Egypt.
- Mon 23 Oct, 2023 10:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 23rd October 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 767
Re: Monday 23rd October 2023
Good morning.
There's always a tweet.
There's always a tweet.
- Fri 20 Oct, 2023 10:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 20th October 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2883
Re: Friday 20th October 2023
Curtice on Toady it was reasonable to argue 24 hours ago – that the Conservative party faces the serious prospect of losing the next general election heavily, and maybe even more heavily than they did in 1997. Let me just give you one illustration as to why one might say that. I’ve got in front of m...
- Fri 20 Oct, 2023 9:58 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 20th October 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2883
Re: Friday 20th October 2023
Good morning.
- Thu 19 Oct, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 19h October 2023
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3122
Re: Thursday 19h October 2023
That graphic was originally meant as satire when I saw it a while ago, calling out the performative cruelty.
- Sun 15 Oct, 2023 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October 2023
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6723
- Sun 15 Oct, 2023 10:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October 2023
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6723
Re: Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October 2023
Congrats to Scotland, but the sporting story of the day surely is the rugby.
Who'd have predicted the only European team in the semis would be England.
Who'd have predicted the only European team in the semis would be England.
- Sat 14 Oct, 2023 10:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October 2023
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6723
Re: Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October 2023
Good morning. I, for one, didn't know about Blunt's pro-Palestinian views. Don't know if anyone else reads Chris Dillow's blog, I recommend it to you not least for his description of current affairs programmes as poshcuntstalkshitshows . ON REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM The Tories might have learned from t...
- Fri 13 Oct, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 13th October 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3738
Re: Friday 13th October 2023
Lots of Labour front benchers have said Israel should abide by international law. But in wars bad things happen, even if the combatants are well intentioned. The only solution to that is not to have them, but let's not forget that Hamas started this one. Doesn't seem much like a war to me, the two ...
- Tue 10 Oct, 2023 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 10th October 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2422
Re: Tuesday 10th October 2023
are you all totally underwhelmed Hi there. Maybe we're beyond taking any notice of any politician's speech, after 13 years of tory talk and no delivery, we can't remember what it's like to have a govt that tells us it'll do something (positive) and then actually does it. AFAICS Labour aren't going ...
- Tue 10 Oct, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 10th October 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2422
Re: Tuesday 10th October 2023
He's not wrong.
- Tue 10 Oct, 2023 10:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 10th October 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2422
Re: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Starmer would also allow low-quality green belt such as scrubland and car parks to be released for development. The party has branded the areas “grey belt” and will specify that half of homes built are to be sold at affordable price. The designation of scrubland as 'low quality' is going to upset t...
- Tue 10 Oct, 2023 10:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 10th October 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2422
Re: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Entirely predictable question and entirely predictable response, really Not News.
- Sun 08 Oct, 2023 10:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th October 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4254
Re: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th October 2023
https://en.rattibha.com/thread/1710840233720172990
I don't think we want to discuss this here but this thread seems a good summing up of where we are.
The human race really doesn't deserve this planet.
- Sat 07 Oct, 2023 11:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th October 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4254
Re: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th October 2023
I read 'if it threatened to breach her fiscal rules' and thought, who does she think she is?
Similar to Sunak & Hunt cancelling HS2 on a whim.
Similar to Sunak & Hunt cancelling HS2 on a whim.
- Sat 07 Oct, 2023 10:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th October 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4254
- Fri 06 Oct, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 6th October 2023
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2378
Re: Friday 6th October 2023
Good morning. The Scottish Conservatives lost their deposit in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection after securing less than 5% of the vote. Thomas Kerr, the Scottish Conservative candidate, won 3.9% of the vote, below the 5% needed to retain his deposit. In 2019, the party won 15% of the vot...
- Wed 04 Oct, 2023 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 4th October 2023
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5818
Re: Wednesday 4th October 2023
What just happened?
(at St James Park)
(at St James Park)
- Wed 04 Oct, 2023 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 4th October 2023
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5818
Re: Wednesday 4th October 2023
The Labour party has issued a response to Rishi Sunak’s speech saying he can’t run the country because he cannot even run his own party. In a statement Pat McFadden, Labour’s national campaign coordinator, said: After 13 years and five Tory prime ministers, Rishi Sunak’s latest desperate attempt to...
- Wed 04 Oct, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 4th October 2023
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5818
Re: Wednesday 4th October 2023
https://reaction.life/mark-bostock-has-been-proved-totally-right-about-hs2/ Mark Bostock, a former Arup consultant who successfully led the construction of HS1 from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel and a former client of ours, would have had a few things to say about it. Sadly he passed away in Aug...
- Tue 03 Oct, 2023 10:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3631
Re: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
The UK's inability to invest for the long term never ceases to amaze. Multi-billion £ project goes on or not on the whim of the PM of the day. If, God forbid, Johnson was still there it would almost certainly be continuing. Here's another example of something that shouldn't be at the mercy of the cu...
- Tue 03 Oct, 2023 10:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3631
Re: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Rumour has it that HS2 will go to Euston but not beyond Birmingham, thus confirming Northeners' scepticism about 'levelling up'.
- Mon 02 Oct, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 2nd October 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2865
Re: Monday 2nd October 2023
Is this World Government in the room with you now?
- Sun 01 Oct, 2023 10:18 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, 30th September 2023
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3889
Re: Sunday, 1 October 2023
Good morning PF, it's lovely to see you but we don't usually have a new thread for Sunday?
- Fri 29 Sep, 2023 10:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 29th September 2023
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2016
Re: Friday 29th September 2023
Good morning. Thanks for the QT report, sky. sky said A couple of years ago my brother and I drove to a place we loved as kids only to find it was gone, completely wiped off the map. A whole hillside forest chopped down and replaced by burnt heather and scrubland by Duncan Davidson of Persimmon home...
- Thu 28 Sep, 2023 11:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28th September 2023
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2775
- Thu 28 Sep, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 28th September 2023
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2775
Re: Thursday 28th September 2023
Good morning.
- Wed 27 Sep, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 27th September 2023
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2576
Re: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Good morning.
What could possibly go wrong? Oh
What could possibly go wrong? Oh
- Tue 26 Sep, 2023 10:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26th September 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3614
Re: Tuesday 26th September 2023
That is sad news indeed, Roger O'T.
Look after yourself.
Look after yourself.
- Fri 22 Sep, 2023 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 22nd September 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3269
Re: Friday 22nd September 2023
I'd guess sky knows a Stonechat when he sees one anyway. Shrikes turn up a couple of times a year at South Gare, Teesmouth, grey ones as well. Rare/unusual birds are probably a lot commoner than we think, don't get spotted unless there's a twitcher in the vicinity. There's a hoopoe somewhere in sout...
- Fri 22 Sep, 2023 11:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 22nd September 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3269
Re: Friday 22nd September 2023
A long way away presumably, or you'd have got a photo of it.little orange bastard all by itself sitting on a fence post
Stonechat is the first to spring to mind, but Red-backed shrike would be nice.
- Fri 22 Sep, 2023 10:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 22nd September 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3269
Re: Friday 22nd September 2023
It's a bit out on a limb, how do you get there without a car?near the one and only Lake District in Cumbria
Nice video, glad you had one sunny day.
I've been to Arnside a couple of times, lovely place.
- Mon 18 Sep, 2023 10:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 18th September 2023
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2433
Re: Monday 18th September 2023
Good morning. Why have the Institute for Govt invited Truss to speak, and why is there any interest from the media? Why do this when 98%* of the populace agree with me that she's a discredited waste of space? Perfect demonstration of the bankruptcy of the UK MSM. If we just ignored her maybe she'd g...
- Sun 17 Sep, 2023 10:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th September 2023
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4351
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th September 2023
He should have been asked if they'd commit to taking it into London.
- Sun 17 Sep, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th September 2023
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4351
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th September 2023
Surprised? You won't be.
- Sun 17 Sep, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th September 2023
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4351
Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th September 2023
Which in one way makes sense because for some people just doing a few hours here and there is fine, however they tend to be people who are financially secure enough not to care, they're just topping up their income with a job on the side. The problem comes when it's your actual job and who defines ...
- Wed 13 Sep, 2023 11:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 13th September 2023
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2277
- Tue 12 Sep, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th September 2023
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2415
Re: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Worth a read, it's quite short. But TL:DR voters care more about the NHS than 'the debt' if they have to choose between them, which they do. Labour should highlight those treade-offs. Very few people care about the debt above and apart from all other considerations. Second, those voters who really d...
- Tue 12 Sep, 2023 11:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th September 2023
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2415
Re: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Blimey, an unequivocal commitment.Rayner says Labour would repeal Strikes Act within first 100 days in office
- Tue 12 Sep, 2023 11:48 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th September 2023
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2415
Re: Tuesday 12th September 2023
William Hague writing in the Times about potential cross-party agreement about the triple lock, controversial enough in itself but In 1995, I was the pensions minister who took through parliament the equalisation of pension ages, giving 15 years’ notice that the women’s pension age would rise in slo...
- Tue 12 Sep, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 12th September 2023
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2415
Re: Tuesday 12th September 2023
It's Dirt cheap, DIY by any group of teachers and school parents and the Treasury would approve ? Morning. Seems like a no-brainer to us, but involves them admitting that, after all, something should be done. Something that could have been done 2 years ago and could have prevented a great deal of i...
- Mon 11 Sep, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 11th September 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2128
Re: Monday 11th September 2023
More detail has emerged today about ministerial efforts to secure funding from the Treasury to improve the school estate, as the government continues to grapple with the crisis of crumbling concrete in school buildings. Lord Agnew, who as academies minister 2017-20 was also responsible for school c...
- Mon 11 Sep, 2023 9:51 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 11th September 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2128
Re: Monday 11th September 2023
Good morning. Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds MPs and peers on the all-party parliamentary group on democracy and the constitution will publish a report on Monday saying that the rules caused more harm than they prevented when they came into force in May...