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by RogerOThornhill
Sun 17 Dec, 2023 10:42 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th December 2023
Replies: 30
Views: 2612

Re: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th December 2023

Talking of Mone and her hubby...

by RogerOThornhill
Thu 14 Dec, 2023 3:04 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 14th December 2023
Replies: 24
Views: 2377

Re: Thursday 14th December 2023

Lovely bit of whataboutery from a Tory Peer - but good on Cameron for dong this.

by RogerOThornhill
Thu 14 Dec, 2023 10:22 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 14th December 2023
Replies: 24
Views: 2377

Re: Thursday 14th December 2023

Good morning. Not quite sure why everyone seems to be so surprised by the Israeli Ambassador saying a two-state solution was now dead given she slapped down the Board of Deputies over this issue three years ago. Incoming envoy Hotovely attacked Board over two-state commitment https://www.thejc.com/n...
by RogerOThornhill
Mon 11 Dec, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 11th Decemeber 2023
Replies: 6
Views: 1482

Re: Monday 11th Decemeber 2023

How have the Tory Party got to the point where Mark Francois has any influence over it?

by RogerOThornhill
Mon 11 Dec, 2023 12:22 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 11th Decemeber 2023
Replies: 6
Views: 1482

Re: Monday 11th Decemeber 2023

I see Lee Kern is having a bit of a meltdown again...

Weird post - there's an awful lot of "I'm just making this up" here.

And right wing politicians - here, Hamas - not here. Reasonable I think.

by RogerOThornhill
Thu 07 Dec, 2023 11:36 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 7th December 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 2061

Re: Thursday 7th December 2023

Monbiot telling it like it is...and not a single interruption.

by RogerOThornhill
Thu 07 Dec, 2023 6:32 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 7th December 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 2061

Re: Thursday 7th December 2023

Central Office playing a blinder this afternoon...

by RogerOThornhill
Wed 06 Dec, 2023 9:18 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Replies: 10
Views: 1812

Re: Wednesday 6th December 2023

So, it's all about finding Hamas leaders is it?

Hmm...

by RogerOThornhill
Wed 06 Dec, 2023 7:05 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Replies: 10
Views: 1812

Re: Wednesday 6th December 2023

Jenrick's resigned apparently.
by RogerOThornhill
Wed 06 Dec, 2023 6:52 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Replies: 10
Views: 1812

Re: Wednesday 6th December 2023

Oh dear...just goes to show just how extreme Braverman and her backers are.

by RogerOThornhill
Tue 05 Dec, 2023 10:30 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Replies: 16
Views: 1803

Re: Tuesday 5th December 2023

"No, not them either!"

by RogerOThornhill
Tue 05 Dec, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Replies: 16
Views: 1803

Re: Tuesday 5th December 2023

"Cut down on immigration!...No, not those ones!"

Oh dear.

by RogerOThornhill
Wed 29 Nov, 2023 9:40 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Replies: 8
Views: 1547

Re: Wednesday 29th November 2023

Oh dear, this could be fun...

by RogerOThornhill
Tue 28 Nov, 2023 10:11 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Replies: 19
Views: 2196

Re: Tuesday 28th November 2023

Good morning.

Tory in the HoL is not impressed by current Tory PM...all going well then.

by RogerOThornhill
Wed 22 Nov, 2023 9:32 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Replies: 9
Views: 1604

Re: Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Dearie me, what on earth have the Dutch - or at least too many of them - done?
by RogerOThornhill
Tue 21 Nov, 2023 2:38 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Replies: 16
Views: 1775

Re: Tuesday 21st November 2023

Good afternoon.

Gotta love all of the toxic right rubbing their hands with glee over the Argentinian election result and then going...oh...wait...

by RogerOThornhill
Fri 17 Nov, 2023 8:48 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 17th November 2023
Replies: 10
Views: 1439

Re: Friday 17th November 2023

Morning.

From the former head of the Government Legal Service.

by RogerOThornhill
Tue 14 Nov, 2023 5:06 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Replies: 25
Views: 1825

Re: Tuesday 14th November 2023

Hot off the press...and you can still see the steam rising from the page.

by RogerOThornhill
Mon 13 Nov, 2023 6:27 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 13th November 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 2325

Re: Monday 13th November 2023

All going well I see...calling Boris unforgivable is pretty funny though.

by RogerOThornhill
Mon 13 Nov, 2023 9:02 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 13th November 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 2325

Re: Monday 13th November 2023

Just had an awful thought...what if he promotes Miriam Cates to the HO?
by RogerOThornhill
Mon 13 Nov, 2023 8:43 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 13th November 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 2325

Re: Monday 13th November 2023

Braverman gone! Good riddance. Horrible individual - no compassion, no empathy, just cruel and vindictive. https://twitter.com/ChrisMasonBBC/status/1723982917016191287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1723982917016191287%7Ctwgr%5Ef5c890ddbc983267888773b1e5638e8a319a2dec%7Ctwcon%5...
by RogerOThornhill
Sat 11 Nov, 2023 6:36 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th November 2023
Replies: 46
Views: 3103

Re: Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th November 2023

News from the National Trust AGM. None of the Restore Trust candidates were elected - even Sumption who I thought might have a chance - and none of their resolutions passed. I guess that means that RT will go back to sleep again for a year before popping up again, although if there is an election I ...
by RogerOThornhill
Fri 10 Nov, 2023 1:55 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 10th November 2023
Replies: 10
Views: 1227

Re: Friday 10th November 2023

I think this has been deleted...wonder why?
Guido Fawkes
@GuidoFawkes
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Told Suella failed to turn up to Home Office remembrance service at Marsham Street… despite being on the programme.
by RogerOThornhill
Fri 10 Nov, 2023 10:23 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 10th November 2023
Replies: 10
Views: 1227

Re: Friday 10th November 2023

Apparently the guys in the SS were quite sensitive souls really...

by RogerOThornhill
Thu 09 Nov, 2023 5:17 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 9th November 2023
Replies: 21
Views: 1681

Re: Thursday 9th November 2023

I have to say that the bit in Braverman's article that she had to 'clarify' was fairly hilarious. Suella Braverman has been forced to clarify that she had been referring to dissident republicans in an article in which she likened the pro-Palestine protests in London to sectarian marches in Northern ...
by RogerOThornhill
Thu 09 Nov, 2023 4:41 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 9th November 2023
Replies: 21
Views: 1681

Re: Thursday 9th November 2023

AnatolyKasparov wrote: Thu 09 Nov, 2023 3:12 pm I said the other day, Braverman is now parroting GOP "culture war" lines almost verbatim.

Presumably someone is "coaching" her in this, it would certainly be interesting to know exactly who though.
John Hayes probably.
by RogerOThornhill
Tue 07 Nov, 2023 11:59 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 1347

Re: Tuesday 7th November 2023

Oh dear...one of Boris' old mates from his Mayoral days sticks the knife in... Remember when they used to call him Teflon Boris? Now it's as if he's a freakish creation comprised entirely of fly paper. Just 18 months ago he still seemed untouchable and just look at the state of him now. Covered in ...
by RogerOThornhill
Tue 07 Nov, 2023 7:32 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 1347

Re: Tuesday 7th November 2023

Oh dear...one of Boris' old mates from his Mayoral days sticks the knife in...

by RogerOThornhill
Mon 06 Nov, 2023 5:42 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 6th November 2023
Replies: 9
Views: 1160

Re: Monday 6th November 2023

Interesting intervention on the subject of the homeless and tents from...a Tory MP.

by RogerOThornhill
Mon 06 Nov, 2023 1:29 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 6th November 2023
Replies: 9
Views: 1160

Re: Monday 6th November 2023

Shocked etc.

by RogerOThornhill
Sun 05 Nov, 2023 10:49 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023
Replies: 23
Views: 1833

Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023

There's a lot of people who simply will not comment on the makeup of the Israeli Government right now (if there is in fact something approaching that) for fear of being labelled antisemitic or 'being on the side of Hamas'. And even acknowledging that Likud aspire to the 'from the river to the sea' a...
by RogerOThornhill
Sat 04 Nov, 2023 9:32 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023
Replies: 23
Views: 1833

Re: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November 2023

This is just a little bit confusing now. On the one hand we have a Government-appointed bod who guarantees free speech at universities. But on the other, the same Government might determine some of that free speech to be labelled as extremist. Huh? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/pla...
by RogerOThornhill
Thu 02 Nov, 2023 5:30 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Replies: 26
Views: 2022

Re: Thursday 2nd November 2023

The director of Restore Trust lying about the National Trust again in the Telegraph. The National Trust won’t let me go to their AGM – despite being a member in good standing The way it works is that you enter a ballot and a 3rd party org who is managing this allocates seats at random. This little m...
by RogerOThornhill
Wed 01 Nov, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Replies: 16
Views: 1590

Re: Wednesday 1st November 2023

A poll that might make the PM blink a bit...

by RogerOThornhill
Wed 01 Nov, 2023 3:52 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Replies: 16
Views: 1590

Re: Wednesday 1st November 2023

Oops!

by RogerOThornhill
Tue 31 Oct, 2023 3:22 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Replies: 14
Views: 1110

Re: Tuesday 31st October 2023

Good afternoon. What with everything else going on, I now have a rotten cold and confining myself to barracks for the time being. I notice GB News bigging up a conference in London for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. So who's involved with the ARC? https://find-and-update.company-informati...
by RogerOThornhill
Tue 24 Oct, 2023 11:25 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Replies: 8
Views: 568

Re: Tuesday 24th October 2023

Good morning.

Oh dear...rats trying to clamber back aboard a sinking ship to oust the captain.

by RogerOThornhill
Mon 23 Oct, 2023 1:50 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 23rd October 2023
Replies: 9
Views: 761

Re: Monday 23rd October 2023

good afternoon. Saturday was the cremation and celebration of 'er indoors' life and all went as well as such things can go. We put out displays of various aspects of her life and I was going to say a few words but realised I didn't need to - the photos, certificates, items spoke for her better than ...
by RogerOThornhill
Fri 20 Oct, 2023 3:27 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 20th October 2023
Replies: 10
Views: 2879

Re: Friday 20th October 2023

Good afternoon.

This is just a little odd...

by RogerOThornhill
Mon 16 Oct, 2023 11:56 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 16th October 2023
Replies: 14
Views: 3954

Re: Monday 16th October 2023

Good morning. Been a little busy...

This might be quite amusing...

by RogerOThornhill
Fri 06 Oct, 2023 11:47 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 6th October 2023
Replies: 7
Views: 2374

Re: Friday 6th October 2023

Oh dear.

by RogerOThornhill
Thu 05 Oct, 2023 1:30 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Thursday 5th October 2023
Replies: 16
Views: 2717

Re: Thursday 5th October 2023

Good afternoon. After yesterday's announcement of "Our edu reforms have been great...which is why we're tearing up the 16-19 bit in place of something that has been proposed (and dropped before)" I looked for a comment from The World's Greatest Headteacher. Given that she leads a secondary...
by RogerOThornhill
Wed 04 Oct, 2023 9:37 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Replies: 33
Views: 5153

Re: Wednesday 4th October 2023

There's lots of these doing the rounds...and a couple of examples where future projects actually exist right now.

Decision rushed without giving it much thought or sense-checking? Perish the thought...

by RogerOThornhill
Tue 03 Oct, 2023 12:28 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Replies: 17
Views: 3411

Re: Tuesday 3rd October 2023

Looks like Susan Hall has been told to keep a low profile...

by RogerOThornhill
Tue 03 Oct, 2023 10:05 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Replies: 17
Views: 3411

Re: Tuesday 3rd October 2023

Good morning.

Susan Hall's campaign for London Mayor going well I see...

by RogerOThornhill
Mon 02 Oct, 2023 4:02 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 2nd October 2023
Replies: 15
Views: 2787

Re: Monday 2nd October 2023

Odd that the original Guido tweet about this has been deleted. Wonder what it was about? Ah, found it. The former Tory MP was suspended in April and now sits as an independent. The suspension was put in place after he was recorded offering to lobby ministers and leak confidential information on beha...
by RogerOThornhill
Mon 02 Oct, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Monday 2nd October 2023
Replies: 15
Views: 2787

Re: Monday 2nd October 2023

So far we've had Gillian Keegan saying that phones will be banned in the classroom - something the DfE said only last year was not necessary since most schools have that policy anyway; and Danny Kruger doing the "they're trying to control us!" crap. "There's a huge movement going on g...
by RogerOThornhill
Sun 01 Oct, 2023 12:12 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, 30th September 2023
Replies: 21
Views: 3535

Re: Sunday, 1 October 2023

Staying with the them of cars...

by RogerOThornhill
Sun 01 Oct, 2023 11:31 am
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Saturday, 30th September 2023
Replies: 21
Views: 3535

Re: Sunday, 1 October 2023

Good morning.

Boys Smith is one of the more interesting and thoughtful Tories I've found. This is worth a read.

by RogerOThornhill
Fri 29 Sep, 2023 12:21 pm
Forum: The Daily Politics
Topic: Friday 29th September 2023
Replies: 6
Views: 2014

Re: Friday 29th September 2023

Oh dear, the knives are definitely out...cancel culture lives on at GB News. Which is pretty hilarious really.