Tuesday 10th February 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

We've given him a chance Wes and he's wasted his huge majority and any good faith that people have him after the election. He's toast and hopefully you are too

[Frog222]

gilsey -- " I'm inclined to think that ministers have an incentive to want him to stay, so he can take the fall for the May elections. "

Which 'gang' is grooming this one, since December at least , " Ex-Hazlehead Academy pupil Al Carns currently ranked in the top five bookies' favourites as the roof caves in on ... ?

[Frog222]

First lol of the day --



Second --

[Frog222]

WES AND THE BILDERBUGGERS !

[refitman]

Oops, there's another one

[Frog222]

Oops, there's another one

"Since Matthew Doyle lost his job in charge of comms at Downing Street nine months ago there hasn’t exactly been a stampede to snap him up. The main offer of paid employment appears to have been a part-time role with the Malta Film Commission.

But Doyle needn’t lose much sleep about having to log on for Jobseeker’s Allowance. Just before Christmas, Keir Starmer announced that Doyle would henceforth be afforded a perch on the plump red seats in the upper chamber. Doyle is 50, so he’s looking at maybe 30 years of making, amending and passing laws for the rest of us with a daily attendance allowance of £371. Nice work if you can get it."

None of this appears to be an obstacle to Doyle taking his seat in the Lords. To Starmer, it seems to be a pragmatic question of maths. Under the preposterous system he once pledged to abolish, his Tory predecessors showered peerages around like confetti. David Cameron appointed 245 peers during his time in office; Boris Johnson, 87; Theresa May, 43; Rishi Sunak, 51; and Liz Truss, 29, despite being prime minister for just 49 days.
...

The result of all this incontinent patronage was that, before the recent Doyle cohort, the Conservatives had 282 peers, compared with Labour’s 209 and the Liberal Democrats’ 75. There are 177 cross-benchers and 40 non-affiliated peers. A bill to remove 91 hereditary peers is currently going through parliament, yet we are still lumbered with the second-largest legislative chamber after China’s National People’s Congress. "
https://www.independent.co.uk/independe ... 93600.html

Squalid stuff from all points of view .

[Frog222]

Oh so cosy !

[Sky'sGoneOut]

The sorry saga of my housing predicament has reached it's inevitable miserable end. If you recall the house in which I reside received a (ridiculous) prohibition order which was supposed be in the process of being appealed by the landlord. He was round today so as usual I asked for an update and the whiff of bullshit I've noticed coming off him over the last few weeks grew so strong I rang the council. Turns out that while he did lodge an appeal and pay the initial fee, the tribunal service gave him a hearing date last month and he refused to pay the fee for the hearing (a colossal £230) so the appeal was automatically withdrawn with no legal way to resume it. Game over.

He was still in the house when I found this out so at least I got the satisfaction of confronting him and going absolutely apeshit, but even then, once the initial shock of being found out wore off he claimed that he'd been lying to me for my own good, what I didn't know wouldn't hurt me and all that. Rarely have I felt such an overwhelming urge to do someone damage but he's 76. I was shaking with rage. Steam coming out of my ears. He blamed everyone but himself, one bullshit excuse after another, he even asked me whose side I was on (mine, I replied). I then suggested he fuck off post haste before I told any of the other tenants and a lynching occurred.

So it's Zoopla, Right Move and Gumtree for me for the next couple of months, or longer, because none of us need to be in a rush, the council can't kick us out, legally it's the responsibility of the landlord to seek possession to evict us (or face hefty fines) and through this whole ludicrous process he's shown he has about as much knowledge and understanding of housing law and legislation as a carrot. If it comes to it I look forward to being taken to court by him to evict me, it would be risk free for me (no CCJ or other repercussions) while his knowledge of tenancy law seems to be something someone told him in a pub in 1982.

He's basically your typical 'no nonsense Yorkshireman' of a certain age. Racist, tight fisted, thinks he's cleverer than everyone else, when in fact he's just an idiot who I'd hope is about to receive his comeuppance but to be honest once we're all gone he could sell this place for half a million easily.

Anyway just thought I'd get that all off my chest.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Away from my own woes have a read through Streeting's messages to Mandelson here.

"Israel is commiting war crimes before our eyes..."

Kinda puts your own problems into perspective when you cast your gaze over 70,000 dead men, women and children and then see a senior Labour minister say what he thinks in private. Something he and none of the rest of them have had the decency to say in public.