Sean 6,327 Posted July 13, 2022 22 hours ago, Windsor said: Hague was First Secretary of State, which I think made him the next most senior in the cabinet after the Prime Minister. Theresa May briefly had the same set up with Damian Green. Isn’t Raab Deputy PM and First Secretary of State? No he is Deputy Prime Minister but was First Secretary of State from 2019_2021. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 3,887 Posted July 31, 2022 All that money and yet a suit that doesn't fit properly 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,396 Posted August 2, 2022 Violin time: I’ll wager this is one of the 160,000 cunts voting for our next PM. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted August 3, 2022 On 02/08/2022 at 10:56, TQR said: Violin time: I’ll wager this is one of the 160,000 cunts voting for our next PM. What the fuck is wrong with this country?! BOO FUCKING HOO. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted August 3, 2022 Something away from the Tory leadership contest for a change. Shock horror: conspiracy theorist spouts conspiracy theory right up until the point when it costs him money, at which point he says he didn't mean any of it. Alex Jones admits Sandy Hook was '100% real' in defamation trial. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted August 8, 2022 To be fair, its literally not the first time Brown's played a blinder. Worst. Headline. Ever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,396 Posted August 11, 2022 ‘I don’t doubt thousands will die this winter. But does Martin Lewis have to say it?’ Prick. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted August 11, 2022 We used to have grown-ups running the country. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted August 11, 2022 3 hours ago, Toast said: We used to have grown-ups running the country. What I wouldn't give for Gordon Brown to be Prime Minister right now. An intellectual heavyweight who knows what he's talking about. Something that's been missing ever since he lost to Call Me Dave. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,396 Posted August 12, 2022 Your house is on fire. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is offering to spit on it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted August 12, 2022 5 hours ago, TQR said: Your house is on fire. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is offering to spit on it. Labour are terrified. They've spent a decade being labelled at every opportunity as profligate with the public finances. They've been labelled as socialist rabble rousers, who are out of touch with a nation who wants Brexit. They've lost their Scottish heartlands to the left and their northern heartlands to the right and have been misrepresented at every turn by the right wing press. They're gun shy. The last truly comprehensive election results they can focus on saw the Tories, who had been in office a decade, secure their biggest majority in 30 years. What message does that send? No government in history has lost a majority like that in a single election. They tack too far to the left, they lose out to the Lib Dems in the home counties and the Tories just keep saying 'Jeremy Corbyn' as often as they can. They tack too far to the right, they're accused of selling out and not being radical enough. I want Labour to win the next election, I wish they were running rings round the Tories and offering a radical alternative to the problems we face but I also know lots of the same dickheads who voted them in in huge numbers in 2019 will listen to the Mail and the Sun and Mad Nad and Victorian Jacob and will be more than happy to give that lovely Liz Truss a chance to fix the country, because, after all, it's all Labour's fault we're in this mess in the first place, right? 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,233 Posted August 13, 2022 19 hours ago, RoverAndOut said: They've lost their Scottish heartlands to the left and their northern heartlands to the right and have been misrepresented at every turn by the right wing press. The SNP are not truly left wing. Scotland is naturally left wing and the SNP have changed their spots until they get their pretenderendum. If they win that you will suddenly find they have no issue with austerity. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 4,746 Posted August 13, 2022 4 hours ago, Windsor said: The SNP are not truly left wing. Scotland is naturally left wing and the SNP have changed their spots until they get their pretenderendum. If they win that you will suddenly find they have no issue with austerity. Whatever their motives, the left are voting SNP over Labour. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harvester Of Souls 40 Posted August 20, 2022 On 11/08/2022 at 10:29, Toast said: We used to have grown-ups running the country. I disagree. They just looked that way because you were younger. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,396 Posted August 26, 2022 After Liz Truss responds to the fairly xenophobic question “Is Macron a friend or foe” with an (on-brand) extraordinarily crass and thick answer of “Jury’s out”, Macron is asked about this. Warning for gammons: he’s speaking in foreign. Translation: "It is never good not to lose these bearings too much. The United Kingdom is a friendly nation, regardless of its rulers, sometimes in spite of its rulers.” I am not exactly a Macron cheerleader but credit where it’s due, this is a great, classy answer. And listen to the giggling before the answer. The UK is literally a laughing stock now. 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Insane 349 Posted September 1, 2022 Well a democrat won a house seat in ALASKA. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MortalCaso 1,629 Posted September 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Insane said: Well a democrat won a house seat in ALASKA. It's funny what happens when democracy gets easier! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,396 Posted September 1, 2022 The £120m Festival of Brexit aimed for 66,000,000 visitors, but fell short by a mere 65,762,000. It flopped like the private regions of the gammons who thought it’d be a good idea. But why? The best-selling paper in the UK says it was a ‘Remainer plot’. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,472 Posted September 1, 2022 3 minutes ago, TQR said: The £120m Festival of Brexit aimed for 66,000,000 visitors, but fell short by a mere 65,762,000. It flopped like the private regions of the gammons who thought it’d be a good idea. But why? The best-selling paper in the UK says it was a ‘Remainer plot’. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D What the fuck is the fucking Festival of Brexit? The Mail says it was an event in Paisley, just down the road from here. Never fucking heard of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,396 Posted September 2, 2022 Latest polls show the biggest Labour lead since 2002: Will be interesting to see what happens next week. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,582 Posted September 2, 2022 Just now, TQR said: Latest polls show the biggest Labour lead since 2002: Will be interesting to see what happens next week. I think it will depend on a couple of things Firstly - who she puts in the cabinet and secondly if she hits the ground running with some policies that look like they will actually help people and aren't just window dressing or policies for the Tory right to get off to Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,396 Posted September 2, 2022 10 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said: I think it will depend on a couple of things Firstly - who she puts in the cabinet and secondly if she hits the ground running with some policies that look like they will actually help people and aren't just window dressing or policies for the Tory right to get off to Well, she says she’s “ready to hit the ground from day 1”. I remain hopeful that she won’t act quite as fascistic and dangerous as PM as she has been projecting to the disgusting crowds at the hustings, but I still doubt those who aren’t stinking rich will see any kind of improvement in living standards any time soon. My prediction is she’ll just be Boris with slightly smaller tits. As for her cabinet, it’s bound to be awful; pretty much all the competence and decency in the Tory party (hard to believe now but there was some once) was purged in 2019. From what I’ve heard & read, Khazi Kwarteng is poised to become Chancellor. Dorries the downstreamer is likely to stay at DCMS (FFS!). Apparently Rees-Morgue will get a promotion, Thérèśé Ćòfféŷ will remain in cabinet and Kemi Badenough is set for Education Secretary. It’s mindblowingly bad. You’d think, having said all that, the polls should crush the Tories like a beetle under a boot. But I’ve lost faith in this country and its electorate so much that I wouldn’t put money on it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,140 Posted September 2, 2022 55 minutes ago, TQR said: Latest polls show the biggest Labour lead since 2002: Will be interesting to see what happens next week. And that doesn't take into account the tactical voters like me. I'll be voting Lib Dem as they have held my constituency in the past, with Labour a very distant third. Ideally everyone else should back off and leave it to the Lib Dems to see off the Tories. Doubt they will be that sensible though. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
