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7 hours ago, The Old Crem said:Mark Menzies has had the Tory Whip suspended after serious allegations in the Times.
Aye, not sure I trust all the online speculation. Does anyone know for sure who these "bad people" are?
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18 hours ago, time said:Michael Donovan, conspirator in the Shannon Matthews 'kidnapping', dead aged 54.
For the young 'uns who don't recall the TV show Shameless this bizarre kidnapping (which was faked) part of the inspiration was taken from the TV drama set in Manchester and in a bizarre twist much later, during the last series of Shameless there's a discussion between two characters, one of whom is local gangster Shane McGuire about the stupidity and likely lack of success if you fake a kidnapping.
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3 hours ago, Octopus of Odstock said:Replaced by Stevenage's Steve Evans.
So, if you want to watch the beautiful game in Rotherham next season, keep your eyes on the visiting teams!
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On 15/04/2024 at 16:24, DCI Frank Burnside said:And who made those mistakes Liz ? Hmmmmm
She's widened and got way flabbier round the face than when she was PM. Actually looks stressed and pretty rough. Some time in her constituency doing the basics might be good for her, not that she seems interested
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5 hours ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:Isn't Truss one of the few Tories that's probably guaranteed to retain their seat.
On paper yeah, but it's a triple curve ball situation, there'll be a Reform candidate, the local independent is making it clear he favours standard Tory policies but he's a local guy who gives a shit about his constituents (something she has a reputation for not doing), and there's the tactical voting that appears to be happening and being targeted on particular individuals (Hunt, for one is vulnerable to this), so Truss could find it being squeaky bum time, even if she has a job after the election
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Oh aye, and...
Eyebags noticeably bigger and his face/neck have got thinner of late. Tbh, take away the power suit/make up and hair and he looks old and tired. Not sure he's sleeping anywhere near enough.
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Chris Mason's digest of the main threads in Truss's new book linked below - Sunday Times discussed the advances (financial) on this, which were fairly low (less than £2000 in the UK), and also the 71-year-old independent standing against her at the next election (point being the guy's basically a Conservative and very big on actually representing local issues in parliament). Truss could hang on and keep peddling her personal brand of Conservatism, or it could all go to even more shit in the next few months. Interesting times, eh?
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More than Truss backing him now - this album is out at the end of the week!
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1 hour ago, gcreptile said:Dozing off at court:
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/15/what-trump-is-doing-in-the-courtroom/
There might be a non-zero chance that this trial, which, in the grand scheme of things, is the least of all the possible crimes that he might face trial for, is the one that brings him down.
Would be fitting though - the hush money to a pornstar story...
This is a simple narrative, easy to understand, that he couldn't delay - because it's too small a case. He'll be a convicted felon. But even more, he might be forced to be on public display for hours. He might not be able to distract the audience with speeches or insults.
Or stay awake in public and actually concentrate on something for hours on end. He has a habit of using things he seems to worry about as ways of abusing others, like saying someone has very small hands (which Trump does in relation to the bulk of the rest of him). He calls Biden "sleepy Joe," we'll see.
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47 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:Willie Limond reportedly dead:
Former Commonwealth and British champion. 45 years old.
Edit: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/breaking-boxer-willie-limond-dies-32588641
So, was fighting up to last year - may well be impossible to verify but continuing to take hard blows to the head into his 40s might well have something to do with that seizure
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3 hours ago, TQR said:
I see this was published in 2009. There could be one heck of a Volume 2 in the making.
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Not sure Rosemary Haughton has seen herself described as "hot" very often in the course of a writing career that's seen her lauded as a major talent where theology is concerned. That's major talent as in q/o chances, especially in the more permissive pools, are good.
But things are different hereabouts, we're deadpoolers and she (on the left as we look) turns 97 today
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3 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:
I have that book. Pretty sure George Galloway is in it too.Yeah, photo from Big Brother house and a one-line entry in which they point out he's litigious and state that in their opinion he's still a crap MP.
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Bought this cheapie from my local Oxfam and greatly enjoyed it - not exactly a long read.It's a digest of represenative crapness produced in the wake of the expenses scandal. Big take away for me being that the authors clearly thought the expenses a low in political standards, they hadn't a fucking clue how low Boris Johnson's reign would drag the whole business.
Useful hereabouts as a reminder that some of the expenses mob remain alive and their wrongdoings back then will guarantee q/o coverage in the broadsheets as and when.
So, a reminder
Anthony Steen - b.1939 Conservative, claimed £87,000 in expenses to upkeep his mansion and bawled out critics as simply jealous because he had a big house
Sir Derek Conway - b.1939 Conservative, half the fucking family on the payroll, worst example being paying one son a substantial salary as a aide despite the fact the young 'un was otherwise engaged studying Geography in Newcastle at the time
Margaret Moran - b.1955 Labour, multiple expense and ongoing shitstorm including sterling efforts to keep the lingering shite off her Wiki page
Andrew Mackay and Julie Kirkbride - b.1949 and 1960 Conservatives, married MPs who milked the potential of flipping their main residences so's they could cash in mightily.
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5 hours ago, TQR said:That’s the shortest 6’3” and the heaviest 215lbs I have ever seen.
Sure we've had this chat before but this guy was measured and weighed regularly at 6ft 3ins and around 215 lbs
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Ronda Rousey is out there promoting her new book and she's fairly frank about the fact her brutal and rapid victories were partly down to her own awareness that she'd had so many concussions in her judo career she wanted to avoid lengthy bouts in MMA. From a dead pooling point of view she's likely not the only one and that first generation of highly prominent (i.e., q/o shoo-in) female fighters, many of whom owe Rousey a debt because her fame dragged the sport to a higher profile could well be figuring regularly hereabouts within a decade. Grim stuff. Link:
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3 hours ago, TQR said:Nice one, I'm thinking that leaves him more time to use his phone - no wonder they want to get youngsters off the internet.
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone last night played a track by National Health and mentioned the death of Jimmy Hastings, brother of Pye Hastings and man about prog, jazz and a few other places - like playing on Radiohead's Amnesiac album. Sax, Flute and that kind of thing.
In good form here - he's the flute on Love Song with Flute:
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3 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:
For the love of god please don’t bother. There’s a general political discussion thread. PCCs are the most boring and pointless things in the whole of the UK political system.Couldn't agree more but it's likely something worth ranting about if only because it is so pointless. They're elected on a ridiculously low turnout and you'd suspect the Tories like them because the whole concept of some right minded person keeping the police honest appeals to avid Daily Mailsters and the like. So this daft situation where only the Tories appear willing to give Cumbria a go despite their tanking fortunes tells us something important about the whole PCC role. I promise I won't go hog wild on this. Doubtless there's some arm twisting taking place at this very moment whereby Labour (probably) field someone who gathers votes from everyone who wants the Tories out and even Cumbria has a tight election, possibly even their first Labour PCC.
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Not exactly a by-election but I'm not thinking to start another thread for the non-event of Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Interesting development in Cumbria (where the post also includes responsibility for the fire service). The incumbent - Peter McCall (Conservative) - has done two terms and isn't standing again, though the Conservatives do have another candidate. The problem is, as things stand, he's currently the only candidate!
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16 hours ago, The Old Crem said:I wonder if Wragg told the honeytrapp which heterosexual MP’a were rumoured to cheat on their wife’s. Feels odds that Dr Luke Evans would be included on the list (and sent a naked women image) when he is married unless he suspected he might respond positively.
He's also a GP, maybe she was after a medical opinion!
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Just doing some research ahead of blathering about mysteries to a crowd next week
Joseph Davidovits - French scientist who went a long way to proving the ancient Egyptians were clever to the point of building much of the pyramids out of their own version of Breeze Blocks (and it was therefore nowt to do with ancient aliens) - is still around, and recently turned 89
That stuff on the pyramids is likely a q/o shoo-in story as and when
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16 hours ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:Horrible looking crash in the Basque Tour that’s taken out three of the pre TDF favourites, Vingegaard, Roglic and Evenepoel. Hopefully no one is too badly hurt, they all seem conscious at least.
Aye, age restricted on YouTube, a few broken bones but everyone's going to okay eventually
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I think I might have been the first person on Deathlist to - ahem - finger her for future use, that was ages - like over a decade - ago when she turned up in a documentary, discussed surviving the holocaust and indicated she was terminally ill.
There's more life and joy in that face than in 77-year-old Donald Trump's mugshot