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- Sat 09 Mar, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th March 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 904
Re: Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th March 2024
Thanks for posting a link to Parris' latest obnoxious scrawling Froggy. I hadn't actually read the whole thing. Unbelievably he's still going on about PIP which is hellishly difficult to claim for mental health reasons (I wouldn't stand a chance) so has little to no bearing on his pig ignorant scept...
- Sat 09 Mar, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th March 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 904
Re: Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th March 2024
This is pretty relentless at the moment, last week the most viewed article in the Spectator was some clown claiming nearly all mental health conditions are non-existent, and there's been more in The Times alongside this garbage from Parris. All written by right wing journalists with zero expertise i...
- Fri 08 Mar, 2024 3:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
Re: Thursday 7th March 2024
Night.
- Fri 08 Mar, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
- Fri 08 Mar, 2024 1:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
Re: Thursday 7th March 2024
Although in defence of Dundee I did venture into a second hand record shop there in the early nineties. While pawing through the Pixies I couldn't help but notice a doorway obscured by a Seventies bead affair like there used to be at the hairdressers I was taken to annually for a bowl cut. Upon push...
- Fri 08 Mar, 2024 12:45 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
Re: Thursday 7th March 2024
For brits the 'North' is the North of England, tho an alternative might be the 'South' of Scotland ? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mAY46AzN39I Eh? You've lost me froggy. She's making the point that calling the country 'The' Ukraine is a communist hangover, I'm not sure what that has to do with the...
- Thu 07 Mar, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
Re: Thursday 7th March 2024
Question Time tonight came from Cardiff, with an audience which could best be described as the least Labour friendly we've had for quite some time, besides Sayeeda Warsi last week who was essentially attacking her own party, this is the first time I've seen a Conservative MP receive any applause for...
- Thu 07 Mar, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
Re: Thursday 7th March 2024
Oh god, what the hell's happened to Phil Oakey?
- Thu 07 Mar, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
Re: Thursday 7th March 2024
And even their harshest critics surely cannot deny that things got worse for people on benefits from 2010 onwards. This simply isn't true in regard to sickness benefits. I've given plenty of anecdotal evidence over the years here, but the figures themselves clearly demonstrate that under the Tories...
- Thu 07 Mar, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
Re: Thursday 7th March 2024
Oh god, David TC Davies and Guto Harri, really? Thanks for that.
[Edited because the original tweet disappeared, I think because they misspelled the Plaid blokes name]
[Edited because the original tweet disappeared, I think because they misspelled the Plaid blokes name]
- Thu 07 Mar, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 7th March 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 946
Re: Thursday 7th March 2024
Labour are really going all in on attacking the most vulnerable Instead of Reeves coming out with his crap it would be entirely possible for Labour to point out that after a century of improving health and life expectancy both have gone into decline in the last 13 years (life expectancy began to go...
- Wed 06 Mar, 2024 1:04 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 764
- Wed 06 Mar, 2024 1:00 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 764
Re: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
Cream cords!
- Wed 06 Mar, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 764
Re: Tuesday 5th Marh 2024
From AK yesterday. Very, very few people spend their entire lives on benefits anyway - save for the small minority who really cannot work. Her statement there was crowd (or media, if you prefer) pleasing rhetoric and not to be taken too literally. I've spent most of my life on benefits and having a ...
- Mon 04 Mar, 2024 2:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 999
- Sun 03 Mar, 2024 11:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 999
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
Anyway back to politics. Perhaps a little belatedly I'd like to inform the voters of Rochdale about George Galloway's previous in Scotland. Read it and weep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_for_Unity One of its candidates was Alan Sked, founder of ukip, another was a vocal 'Tommy Robinson' support...
- Sun 03 Mar, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 999
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
Poor Things https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14230458/ I've got a bit of a love hate thing going on with Yorgos Lanthimos, I loved Dogtooth and The Favourite, but hated The Lobster, this however is on a completely other level, I loved and was repelled by it both at the same time. Is it a twisted femini...
- Sun 03 Mar, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 999
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
Another grim day for us United supporters. Anyhoo...I agree with Caroline in as much as this was what Sunak was attempting, where I disagree is its importance. Sunak's intent was undoubtedly malign, but he's such an inadequate lightweight he merely ended up looking ridiculous. Still it would have be...
- Sat 02 Mar, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 999
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
That would be the cleanest public toilet I've seen for a while. Usually if I can get in and out without retching I count it as a win.
To me it looks more like the cover of a gloomy German Electro single from about 1981.
To me it looks more like the cover of a gloomy German Electro single from about 1981.
- Sat 02 Mar, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 999
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
But Labour are only promising to bring more private provision into the NHS, I've not seen anything about improving the finances of people who aren't already very rich, their 'commitment' to tackling climate change is diminishing by day, if you're LGBTQ+ they seem pretty sanguine about one of their ...
- Sat 02 Mar, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 999
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
The problem with Aditya Chakrabortty's theory, and it's essentially the same as what Dan Hodges has been suggesting, is that I don't see how it helps the Tories. Maybe I'm being thick but it seems to me that unless Labour disown a load more of their candidates and face someone of Galloway's dubious ...
- Sat 02 Mar, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 999
Re: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
Have to say my response was and is closest to the last one - "is that it?". A widespread impression is that he originally intended to say something "big" but for whatever reason got cold feet at the last minute. It was completely bizarre, I can't remember a Prime Minister standi...
- Fri 01 Mar, 2024 3:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
- Fri 01 Mar, 2024 1:12 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
As for Twitter, fucking hell. I'm old enough to remember when all we had were unmoderated Usenet Newsgroups and how they always eventually descended into the depths of hell as a result of a minority of dickheads. It's why we all fled/flocked to moderated forums back in the day and Usenet went from b...
- Fri 01 Mar, 2024 12:18 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
So the one really notable thing this evening was how the audience reacted to Sayeeda Warsi. She's the first Tory politician to appear on QT for months who didn't face laughter, groans, or even worse tumbleweed. Despite all the sound and fury from racist dickheads on Twitter and elsewhere over the pa...
- Fri 01 Mar, 2024 12:08 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last question was on the war in Ukraine. Lammy blathered some delusional nonsense about him exerting pressure in Washington. Warsi said it would end in negotiation, while then confusingly pointing out Putin couldn't be trusted to abide by the terms of any negotiation. Stanley also went down the nego...
- Thu 29 Feb, 2024 11:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
Wow. On the subject of assisted dying Tim Stanley gives a well reasoned argument against it which takes the view that we'd be turning against the post WWII attitude towards the sanctity of life, while speaking out against the ideology of seeing people only for their economic worth. So whether he und...
- Thu 29 Feb, 2024 11:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
Hah. Caroline Lucas kicks David Lammy's arse on Labour's fear of taxing the rich and the audience love it.
- Thu 29 Feb, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
Tim Stanley thinks Lee Anderson is wrong and thick but manages to avoid calling him racist then comes out with some guff about the Tory Party being in some kind of existential intellectual crisis about the balance between calling out racism and the right to free speech. Sayeeda Warsi wonders if her ...
- Thu 29 Feb, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
Lot's of conspiracies on Twitter about why the QT live stream was pulled with 15 minutes notice.
To be honest I actually think they dropped a bollock last time when airing it before the by-election polls had closed. As far as I can remember they've observed purdah rules on every previous occasion.
To be honest I actually think they dropped a bollock last time when airing it before the by-election polls had closed. As far as I can remember they've observed purdah rules on every previous occasion.
- Thu 29 Feb, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
Oh ffs...there were two by-elections a couple of weeks ago on the same night and it didn't stop them airing QT earlier online. What's the difference this time? I'm not starting a review at 20 to midnight so a running commentary is probably the best that's going to happen if I'm not already too pisse...
- Thu 29 Feb, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
RIP Dave Myers - an absolutely brilliant ambassador for Barrow-in-Furness (a place frequently and unfairly maligned) as well as everything else. Absolutely, my Mum met them both and said they were lovely, I was genuinely saddened to hear he'd died and we won't be able to experience his good natured...
- Thu 29 Feb, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
This could be fun.
- Thu 29 Feb, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 29th February 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 501
Re: Thursday 29th February 2024
I was reading the comments on a Toynbee article this morning and saw a few from people discussing the lack of English grammar teaching at state schools in the 70's and 80's. After a bit of googling it's absolutely true, between some time in the late 60's and 1988 (when the National Curriculum was br...
- Wed 28 Feb, 2024 1:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 420
- Wed 28 Feb, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 420
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Anyway on the more genteel front of the culture wars Jonathan Sumption is making an arse of himself again.
- Tue 27 Feb, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 420
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
As a counterpoint to the right wing journalists now facing shit from Islamophobic racists, it seems Corbyn supporters have taken it upon themselves today to have a go at James O'Brien for defending Dawn Butler (who as far as I'm aware was a Corbyn ally) against accusations of antisemitism from a Tor...
- Tue 27 Feb, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 420
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Gave it a few hours and oh look, he's being attacked by a load of racists. Let's hope this opens the eyes of the 'decent' right wing commentariat who've been happy to dismiss or downplay Islamophobia on their side of politics for years. They scoffed at Sayeeda Warsi, called her a crank, and accused ...
- Tue 27 Feb, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 420
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Don't often agree with him but fair play to Iain Dale here. Let's see if he gets the same racist pile on as the other right wing commentators who've had the gall to express a bit of human decency. He went on afterwards to explain that he's so disgusted he's questioning for the first time if he'll vo...
- Tue 27 Feb, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 420
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
This is what happens when racists are emboldened, those on the right who aren't prepared to be openly racist are denounced as traitors and apologists. We've seen it with Fraser Nelson and Konstantin Kisin already and I'm sure it's happening to others. The Tories are playing a very dangerous game, no...
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 26th February 2024
- Replies: 15
- Views: 767
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
A faultline has opened in Keir Starmer’s pragmatic politics – and this time none of the usual fixes will work - Nesrine Malik https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/26/faultine-keir-starmer-politics-gaza-labour Whatever motion Labour ended up ramming through, it came too late. The party...
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 3:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 944
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
Good luck dude.
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 1:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 944
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 1:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 944
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 12:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 944
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
I genuinely think it made very little difference. At the end of the day his "actions" largely involved parliamentary procedures which will have been fairly incomprehensible to the vast majority. If you are making implications about MPs feeling insecure being blamed on Muslims, that's argu...
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 944
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: 944
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: 944
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 944
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: 944
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....