That'll be an interesting one next time.frog222 wrote: ↑Thu 07 Sep, 2023 9:19 am
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- Thu 07 Sep, 2023 9:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th September 2023
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2476
Re: Thursday 7th September 2023
- Tue 05 Sep, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th September 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3948
Re: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Second item "Birmingham is broke" because the government slashed funding to LA's . Many more LA's to follow soon . C4 news reported that the Council 'say' that central govt funding has been cut by x amount since 2010, I wish they wouldn't use that 'he said, she said' format for something ...
- Tue 05 Sep, 2023 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th September 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3948
Re: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Happy birthday RO'T
- Tue 05 Sep, 2023 10:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th September 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3948
Re: Tuesday 5th September 2023
I see another of Cameron's tweets has achieved immortality, right up there with 'chaos with Ed Miliband'.
- Tue 05 Sep, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th September 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3948
- Mon 04 Sep, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 4th September 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3473
Re: Monday 4th September 2023
Rishi Sunak refused to properly fund a school rebuilding programme when he was chancellor, despite officials presenting evidence that there was “a critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels, the Department for Education’s former head civil servant has said. After the department told Suna...
- Sun 03 Sep, 2023 10:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd September 2023
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4689
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd September 2023
What you are asking us to do is have faith while rejecting the evidence of our eyes and ears. On the same lines A Display of Utter Poltroonery If there was anything about Starmer he would seize this as a major opportunity. He likes talking about his "missions", and circumstances have bequ...
- Sun 03 Sep, 2023 10:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd September 2023
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4689
- Fri 01 Sep, 2023 10:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 1st September 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1790
- Thu 31 Aug, 2023 10:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 31st August 2023
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2375
Re: Thursday 31st August 2023
Good morning.
I'm sure UK used to be a serious country.
Grant Shapps appointed as defence secretary
Ben Wallace resignation prompts appointment of former energy secretary and mini cabinet reshuffle
I'm sure UK used to be a serious country.
- Mon 28 Aug, 2023 11:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: August Bank Holiday 2023 26th, 27th & 28th
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5055
Re: August Bank Holiday 2023 26th, 27th & 28th
What could possibly go wrong?
- Mon 28 Aug, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: August Bank Holiday 2023 26th, 27th & 28th
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5055
Re: August Bank Holiday 2023 26th, 27th & 28th
Really interesting thread on infrastructure development, interesting to me anyway
- Sun 27 Aug, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: August Bank Holiday 2023 26th, 27th & 28th
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5055
Re: August Bank Holiday 2023 26th, 27th & 28th
We already knew that Starmer knows sfa about economics. Tbf, the tories have built some major tax rises into the system by freezing personal allowances. We'd all like Labour to make tax more progressive but they wouldn't necessarily need to raise more money overall. I'd like them to raise the higher...
- Thu 24 Aug, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 24th August 2023
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2097
- Wed 23 Aug, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2112
Re: Wednesday 23rd August 2023
This morning Labour’s Pat McFadden, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, hit back. In an interview with Sky News, he said that last year’s “disastrous mini-budget”, which included unfunded tax cuts, should serve as a warning about the dangers of taking an irresponsible approach to the public...
- Tue 22 Aug, 2023 10:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4676
Re: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Morning refit, have you seen this thread?
- Sun 20 Aug, 2023 10:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th August 2023
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7807
Re: Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th August 2023
https://twitter.com/iguanaandy/status/1693179237648257429 Joking aside, I definitely think the PM shouldn't go, he does far too much jetting about as it is. William I'm not so sure, maybe a trip to the other hemisphere should have been arranged long ago so that the football could be fitted in if the...
- Sun 20 Aug, 2023 10:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th August 2023
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7807
Re: Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th August 2023
@Roger
So sorry to hear your news, best wishes to you both.
So sorry to hear your news, best wishes to you both.
- Sat 12 Aug, 2023 10:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th August 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5645
Re: Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th August 2023
Following the success of 'small boats week', it's 'NHS week' next so we can probably expect bubonic plague, never mind covid.
- Thu 10 Aug, 2023 10:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 10th August 2023
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3299
Re: Thursday 10th August 2023
The risky 'investments' are at govt's door as well, if they were properly funded they wouldn't have done it.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has been approached for comment.
- Tue 08 Aug, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 8th August 2023
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3071
Re: Tuesday 8th August 2023
'photocopying'
- Tue 08 Aug, 2023 10:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 8th August 2023
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3071
Re: Tuesday 8th August 2023
Good morning.
- Fri 04 Aug, 2023 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 4th August 2023
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3119
Re: Friday 4th August 2023
Most of the comments I've seen have been on the lines of Rishi, Greenpeace protesters are on the roof of your house Sunak: Which one? Perhaps some assume that if you're paying £500k for a pool house, you must be planning to spend a lot of time there. It isn't a mansion, as the press like to call it,...
- Fri 04 Aug, 2023 2:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 4th August 2023
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3119
Re: Friday 4th August 2023
From yesterday's police statement. A protest at the Prime Minister’s residence at Kirby Sigston has now concluded. North Yorkshire Police was made aware at 08:06 (03 August 2023) this morning of a number of protesters climbing onto the roof of the Prime Minister's home in Kirby Sigston. A large cord...
- Thu 03 Aug, 2023 10:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 3rd August 2023
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3593
Re: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Good morning.
- Wed 02 Aug, 2023 10:55 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4655
Re: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Good morning.
Sunak is a terrible politician part 5,672
Sunak is a terrible politician part 5,672
- Mon 31 Jul, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 31st July 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3394
Re: Monday 31st July 2023
Good morning. I don't know how popular Sunak's pro-car stance is in the rest of the country but it's probably a winner in his constituency. A look at places where Greens made big gains in May might cast some doubt on this. There weren't any local elections in his constituency, though? New North Yor...
- Mon 31 Jul, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 31st July 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3394
Re: Monday 31st July 2023
Out of touch, moi?Asked how he was travelling to Scotland this morning, a rather grumpy Rishi Sunak, who ended the interview on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme when it reached the five-minute limit imposed by No 10, replied:
I’ll be flying as I normally would.
- Mon 31 Jul, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 31st July 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3394
Re: Monday 31st July 2023
Good morning. I don't know how popular Sunak's pro-car stance is in the rest of the country but it's probably a winner in his constituency. Saw a snarky tweet yesterday about Richmond's beautiful market square being a car park, it's the same in all of the small towns, there'd be a riot if change was...
- Tue 25 Jul, 2023 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 25th July 2023
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3916
Re: Tuesday 25th July 2023
I must say it's getting a bit ridiculous when Christina Pagel is getting abuse, not from the anti-vax covid deniers, but those who insist it's still rife when all the scientific evidence suggests otherwise. You either follow the science or you don't and at the moment it's telling us that, in this c...
- Tue 25 Jul, 2023 2:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 25th July 2023
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3916
Re: Tuesday 25th July 2023
Wren-Lewis with some advice for Rachel. AK will be vindicated if she takes it. Labour Tax and Spend is a question of when, not if The danger in trying to stick closely to Conservative spending plans, even for two or three years, is that inaction on public service provision and pay will mix public di...
- Tue 25 Jul, 2023 10:25 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 25th July 2023
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3916
- Sun 23 Jul, 2023 10:04 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd July 2023
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3717
Re: Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd July 2023
@frog
Agastache is known as giant/Mexican/anise hyssop, and yes the bees love it. It will seed around so you'll probably have it forever now.
Agastache is known as giant/Mexican/anise hyssop, and yes the bees love it. It will seed around so you'll probably have it forever now.
- Sun 23 Jul, 2023 9:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd July 2023
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3717
Re: Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd July 2023
Doesn't look good next to the pic of Rhodes, either.
Sadiq Khan should be an asset to Labour in London, why piss him off.
Sadiq Khan should be an asset to Labour in London, why piss him off.
- Sat 22 Jul, 2023 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd July 2023
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3717
Re: Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd July 2023
That's certainly how it looks.
- Thu 20 Jul, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20th July 2023
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1612
- Thu 20 Jul, 2023 10:56 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20th July 2023
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1612
- Thu 20 Jul, 2023 10:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20th July 2023
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1612
- Thu 20 Jul, 2023 10:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20th July 2023
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1612
- Thu 20 Jul, 2023 10:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 20th July 2023
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1612
Re: Thursday 20th July 2023
Nearly as embarrassing as Greg Hands.
- Wed 19 Jul, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th July 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1237
Re: Wednesday 19th July 2023
"Lord, give me chastity, but not yet"Tackling child poverty is priority for Labour, says Rachel Reeves
- Wed 19 Jul, 2023 10:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 19th July 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1237
- Tue 18 Jul, 2023 10:51 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 18th July 2023
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2715
Re: Tuesday 18th July 2023
https://twitter.com/fletchersimon/status/1681217902899343361 Haven't heard anyone point out that backheeling on the Green policies in the first couple of years creates rather a large space in Rachel's budget for a couple of modest anti-poverty measures, I'm thinking of the overall benefit cap as wel...
- Tue 18 Jul, 2023 10:21 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 18th July 2023
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2715
Re: Tuesday 18th July 2023
And Newsnight.
- Mon 17 Jul, 2023 11:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th July 2023
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2381
Re: Monday 17th July 2023
Quite enjoyed John Harris' piece Keir Starmer is threatening to leave our crises unchanged. So what social forces will he unleash? if Labour wins, what will it actually feel like? Whatever is in its manifesto, and irrespective of the narratives that Starmer does or doesn’t campaign with, a victory w...
- Mon 17 Jul, 2023 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th July 2023
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2381
Re: Monday 17th July 2023
So wouldn't it have been better for her to defeat him in the selection process? Isn't that what it's supposed to be for?AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Mon 17 Jul, 2023 10:47 pm
Labour's candidate is much better (no really, she is) and if there is any justice she will defeat him comfortably.
- Mon 17 Jul, 2023 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th July 2023
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2381
- Mon 17 Jul, 2023 10:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th July 2023
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2381
Re: Monday 17th July 2023
Re sky's comments on North Yorkshire yesterday, the Friarage is a small hospital compared with James Cook in M'bro and there's been plenty of chat about closing various parts of it over the years since 2010. Many of the doctors work across both hospitals and there'll be plenty of brown faces among t...
- Mon 17 Jul, 2023 10:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th July 2023
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2381
Re: Monday 17th July 2023
How much of this focus on 'poor quality' university courses is to do with the amount that Goverment has to write off the student loan book as jobs aren't paying enough for loans to be repaid? Student loans are designed not to be repaid, just look at that lovely income stream. But your point stands ...
- Mon 17 Jul, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 17th July 2023
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2381
Re: Monday 17th July 2023
I'm sorry to hear that, best wishes to you both.