Friday 7th March 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

I think we've found out why Tice might have been in a bit of a mood, on QT last night

[refitman]

The latest SpaceX launch was less than successful. Here's a thread of videos of it blowing up. Debris came rather close to a commercial aircraft, at one point.

[Frog222]

Anyone for Mars ?

After you Elon

[Frog222]

"" @yeoshow1984 il y a 5 heures
Negotiating with Trump is like trying to play chess with a pigeon. No matter how many times you checkmate, it just knocks over all the pieces, craps on the board, and struts around like it won. ""

[Frog222]

Hampton Dellinger a true public servant, lost his own job the same day he had got 6,000 USDA employees their jobs back--

" My worst day at work and my best day at work "

[refitman]

I see Alexander Armstrong has outed himself as a complete knob

https://dorseteye.com/oh-dear-alexander ... -the-room/

[RogerOThornhill]

After Lowe saying that he thought Farage needed to tone down the Messiah act we get a "Excuse me while I whip this out..."

[Sky'sGoneOut]

‘Don’t punish the vulnerable’: Labour MPs uneasy over planned welfare cuts

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... lfare-cuts

No 10 is preparing to make the case for welfare cuts before Rachel Reeves’s spring statement, with Keir Starmer’s spokesperson saying on Friday that there had been an “unsustainable rise in welfare spending”.

Nope, as the graph I posted yesterday demonstrates according to the OBR's published figures social security spending as a proportion of GDP is the same as it was 10 years ago and lower than the years before that.

Starmer and Reeves are unashamedly lying about this and besides a couple of disability campaigners it appears nobody in the press is prepared to call them out on it.

[Frog222]

Freedland on ' The Donald ' Corleone --

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... afia-state

[Frog222]

Peaceloving Moscow paper review

[Frog222]

Declines in waiting lists should also see fewer people on so-called 'welfare', and there is this --

[AnatolyKasparov]

After Lowe saying that he thought Farage needed to tone down the Messiah act we get a "Excuse me while I whip this out..."

A classic "shame they can't both lose" situation.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Declines in waiting lists should also see fewer people on so-called 'welfare', and there is this --

Indeed. That's another blatant lie Labour keep repeating, that there are record numbers of people claiming for anxiety and depression. What they don't mention is in the vast majority of cases those are secondary symptoms caused by the primary health issue the claim is based on not the reason for the claim. In opposition they even criticised the Tories for being misleading about this but now, surprise surprise, they're more than happy to repeat the lie themselves.

[refitman]

The EU have done a graphic design whoopsie

[Frog222]

Now I know what it refers to, can I unlearn it ?

PLEASE

[refitman]

Absolutely fuck Labour. Cunts the lot of them.



(Waiting for AK to defend this)

[AnatolyKasparov]

I'm done with speculating on rumours, I will comment on what they propose when they actually propose something.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

If this is what they're going to do (and it's certainly what they've been enthusiastically leaking to the press) it would cost me approx £250 a month and I don't claim PIP, so for those who do it's going to be worse. It's absolutely appalling.

It'll end up in court because there's no doubt only targetting sick and disabled people is discriminatory.

If ordinary Labour MPs don't fight this then Labour are done as a political party of the left. There were a few FOI documents which came out last year pertaining to the Tory proposals in which civil servants explained in detail how removing the LCWRA category would plunge thousands of the most vulnerable people in the country into poverty. In the end the Tories backed away from it but that's exactly what Labour are proposing having presumably being given the exact same warnings.