YoungWillz

Nothing as you know - I just don't think it's a campaign talking point for Tories to beat the Labour Party over the head with. The culture wars and political process points aren't going to cut through imo. I think people want to hear what can make a difference to their lives, not politicians' lives.

It's now coming out that the internal disciplinary process on her finished months ago. Questions now being raised about why a decision has not been made on re-admittance or otherwise to the Labour Party. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vv4ep92y8o Interesting sideshow to the Election, though I'm not sure CCHQ can make much of this.

Jack Green, sometime guitarist with T-Rex and other bands, Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jack-green-obituary-rock-guitarist-who-was-big-in-canada-r7790r33n

So now Sunak is bribing the pensioners, saying their state pension will never be taxed. And this couple of billion pledge will be paid for by cracking down on tax avoidance. Wait - he's just starting to crack down on tax avoidance? Has anyone told Nadim Zahawi? What about his missus? Or most of his party? This is the guy who said he was abolishing non-dom, then gave a get out of jail free card by transitioning it in. This is the guy who imposed a windfall tax on energy companies, then gave them so many loopholes to jump through, the biggest companies pay virtually no additional tax through that scheme. This is the guy who said he got international co-operation on global companies' tax, then hiked all the indirect taxes he could find. So he's not paying for it that way, I'm guessing. He'll make all of us pay for it. More quacking from this dying duck.

YouTube "sensation", singer/songwriter Mark Gormley reportedly dead aged 67: https://x.com/ConorDevelops/status/1795147170393239939 Cheap and cheerful green screen music videos.

She claims she has left the party. Typical "you can't sack me, I've resigned" line. CCHQ taking the piss - she's essentially gone rogue and ditched the party she represented.

Ulcer flare up on flight: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-13464557/Mike-Tyson-suffers-medical-scare-flight-Los-Angeles.html Doing well, reportedly.

I'd find the figure for Reform under Other quite ridiculous, given their national polling numbers. But hey, who knows? We could end up with a Conservative majority and the pollsters would all be out of business on 5th July.

Yeah, I'm too dense to work out what the resizing of photos above actually means. We have a tool to resize but it no longer works. Also, some folk are able to post Twitter/Xmusk links, but whenever I post mine, it doesn't automatically display the tweet like it used to. Something has obviously gone tits up here somewhere.

Jack Brady, actor with roles in Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, and TV such as Sanditon, Snatch and Ted Teddington in Coronation Street, reportedly dead following a heart operation: https://x.com/skeltonnaggs/status/1795052248705249386

No Reform votes? I find that hardly credible?

To the tune of Alright by Supergrass: We are young, Vote Tory Want to join, The Army Make new friends, rip our tights Feel alright. Fire service, we go out Start a fire, put it out Make new friends, flames and lights Feel alright. Do we like Nige? I can't be sure He's has been, GB News Very strange, in his world But we are young, NHS Sew you up, bandage dress Serve you drugs, if we like Feel alright. Joined the cops, freebie wheels Investigate burglaries Taser you, you don't like Feel alright. Are you like us? I can't be sure Our parents, pay the fines We don't care in our world. But we are young, plenty green Never heard, never seen This idea, it's all shite Feel alright. For those who want to sing along

Don Webb, theatre playwright and scriptwriter for such shows as Byker Grove, Juliet Bravo and The Bill, reportedly dead aged 89: https://x.com/DonWebbWriter/status/1794738423313674263 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916092/

Hugues Gall reportedly dead: https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/news/the-paris-opera-pays-tribute-to-hugues-r-gall-its-director-from-1995-to-2004

Oh yes, it's an equal form of enforced community service. On the volunteering thing, I have no problem with those who want to do things voluntarily, for free, for nothing, nada, zip. If you want or need that on your CV, good for you. However, I learnt under several Governments that working (because that is what it is) for nothing is precisely what they would like you to do. As does business - see the we'll train you for some weeks if that doesn't work out, we'll kick you out and get another wide-eyed idiot in to do the same. Where was the promise of well paid high skilled jobs they were talking about oh so recently? I'll tell you - that really was for all the legal immigrants from far and wide, not for you Brits. To allow the financiers and computer folk from America to come in. To allow Sunak and his predecessors to give those jobs to the public school pals and their business mates, not you Brits. If you are prepared to work for nothing, you can see the greedy buggers at the top salivating at the money they will make while you do the job for them for free. The idea now is, you aren't prepared to do it for free, so we will force you to do so.

Yeah, I've done the sodomy thing voluntarily and it was great too.

The chatter is right. The proposed National Service is simply community service dressed up as something else. Yes, that's right, what is proposed is that young people be forced (out of the time spent on their jobs, their studies, whatever) to work for nothing for the State without having done anything wrong. It's the equivalence of bad ones sentenced to community service working alongside teenagers sentenced to community service by their Government. I think it's easy for millionaires who have done some form of volunteering to say it did me some good, so everyone should do it. Being sodomised at Eton, Rugby, Harrow and Winchester didn't do them any harm either - perhaps that's tomorrow's announcement of compulsory sodomy for everyone - nothing would surprise me at this point. Remember, when National Service was a thing, the State also offered the opportunity to own your home, a Health Service that looked after you from cradle to grave, free university and college education, a job for life and the freedom to smoke if you wanted to, etc etc. There's nothing much left worth fighting for or volunteering for imo. State sponsored slavery.

There will be no return to National Service says Rishi Sunak - January 2024: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/24/army-chief-says-people-of-uk-are-prewar-generation-who-must-be-ready-to-fight-russia

So now Sherman has gone, are you feeling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Sir?

Richard M Sherman QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-13460249/Richard-M-Sherman-fueled-Disney-charm-Mary-Poppins-Its-Small-World-dies-95.html

Gaye Edmond, actress with a couple of roles on Dark Shadows, reportedly dead aged 86: https://x.com/DarkShadowsNews/status/1794340052405035367

Jim Flegg, ornithologist and horticulturalist, death notice: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/flegg-notices_57297 Presented a few TV shows such as Country Ways and The Animal Game. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4129701/

Darryl Hickman QO: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/darryl-hickman-dies-actor-grapes-224539424.html

Nearly 80 Tories standing down?

And as his Wiki has not been updated, Dale Power obit: https://www.tenniscanada.com/news/tennis-canada-mourns-the-passing-of-former-canadian-no-1-dale-power/