Tuesday 28th March 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

[refitman]

Oh, would you look at this

[refitman]

It's good to know Labour are cracking down on abuse

[frog222]

[AnatolyKasparov]

Bit puzzled at the 83 year olds reference tbh.

[gilsey]

Probably a typo, Blanchflower tends to fire off his tweets in a hurry.

paying Andrew Bailey a six figure salary to deliver hot air

is spot on.

[frog222]

How many left the country because of Brexit ?

Several hundred thousand I think ?

[AnatolyKasparov]

Bailey is poor, I don't think many would disagree. One of the few not totally terrible things Gidiot did was picking Carney.

[frog222]

Someone's been intimidated ?

Very sad .

[refitman]

[AnatolyKasparov]

Ed Miliband is one of the good guys, ignore the cranks who "think" otherwise.

[gilsey]

Coffey's impressing in Committee again I see.

There were xtraordinary scenes in the Commons environment commitee earlier when where Thérèse Coffey, the environment secretary, was being grilled by MPs now.

Despite representing farmers, she said “I am not going to pretend to read the editorials in Farmers’ Weekly” when asked by chair Sir Robert Goodwill if she had read an editorial which referred to her appearance as NFU conference as a “car crash”. She said this is because “I am into information and facts”.

She also launched a scathing attack on the author of the piece, Farmers’ Weekly editor Andrew Meredith, accusing him of “voting Liberal Democrat for a decade before joining Labour.” This is false; Meredith – a fine journalist, incidentally- tells me he has never been a member of a political party and seemed rather baffled by the personal attack.

Liberal Democrat environment spokesperson Tim Farron defended Meredith, notwithstanding his denial of ever supporting the party.

He told me: “Comments like these demonstrate the hostility of the Conservative Government towards farmers just trying to get by.”

Coffey also refused to respond to comments by Tesco CEO John Allan about food suppliers profiteering post pandemic, claiming not to have read or seen the remarks, which were aired on the Laura Kuennesberg show.

Additionally, she rejected the committee’s recommendation that she release an annual food security report because “it takes a considerable amount of time”.

She might have competition for the title of least competent minister but she's surely the laziest.
At least she's not still at DWP.

[frog222]

I'm ignoring a crank --

Thread --

[AnatolyKasparov]

He (EM) is obviously referring to after the 2019 GE, let's not use bad faith arguments.

Corbyn was asked to apologise for making it all about himself on the day the EHRC report came out, and declined to do so.

Had he done that swiftly, he could have got back into the PLP and called the bluff of the aggro-centrists.

Its entirely on him.

[frog222]

Permalink . Tonight's show was worth a look

[refitman]

So, Miliband'a just spineless?

[refitman]

[frog222]

I wouldn't quite go so far as SKY in calling JC a "dick" , but I've always thought of him as a well-meaning wanker , who Blair accepted as part of his electorate .

AK shows a truly pitiful lack of awareness in saying that those who disagree with the Party Line on JC are a tiny NUTTY minority . I still don't know what a ""tanky ''' is ?

FAR from the case , I was NEVER NEVER EVER a Corbyinista , but DO detest dishonesty .

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I wouldn't quite go so far as SKY in calling JC a "dick" , but I've always thought of him as a well-meaning wanker.

After an evening of drunkenly celebrating Scotland beating Spain, which included a great deal of uproarious laughter, I wasn't quite prepared to come home and read something as funny as that.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Let's be clear, Jeremy Corbyn lost a general election to Theresa May despite her election campaign being the worst anyone had seen in living memory. He then managed to lose to Boris Johnson in a defeat so unprecedented no one had seen such a thing for nearly a century.

Despite this his delusional acolytes continue to adhere to the view that if he hadn't been stabbed in the back he would have won handsomely.

This of course being the excuse for electoral failure used by the very people Corbyn supporters claim to despise.

Is he a dick or a well meaning wanker? What's the difference?

He's not an antisemite, of that I'm sure, that was all bollocks, but he's an absolute clown in just about every other respect.

A vain, arrogant fool who Labour are right to chuck in the bin.

[Sky'sGoneOut]