Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

[En Passant 3,741]

1 hour ago, TQR said:

Tell you who is evil: those who plant insane ideas in the minds of vulnerable, mentally feeble people like the engineer. Cruelty.

 

 

They are, but I personally don't think he is particularly mentally feeble (he has at least the strength of character to keep turning up here despite what must be around the 3rd highest facepalm count).

Merely misguided and seeking conspiracy theories under every rock using his tin-foil-hat device.

On the plus side, it's his first comment in what must be years now that isn't about the illuminati sponsored vaccine armageddon. Small steps.

 

ETA: Mere seconds ago I just read This which seems extraordinarily apposite just at this precise moment. I wonder if it's a sign from God? ()

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

20pts behind in the polls and doing something like this in Austria where there couldn't possibly be any historical metaphors....

 

 

 

[TQR 14,396]

[TQR 14,396]

30p Leenoch is shouting at (burnt) sausages.

 

 

Presumably tomatoes and beans are woke so they didn't make it to the plate.

[Toast 16,140]

2 minutes ago, TQR said:

30p Leenoch is shouting at (burnt) sausages.

 

 

Presumably tomatoes and beans are woke so they didn't make it to the plate.

 

Is it the black pudding?  I freely admit I prefer white pudding.  It's more common in Ireland though.

[TQR 14,396]

26 minutes ago, Toast said:

Is it the black pudding?  I freely admit I prefer white pudding.  It's more common in Ireland though.

 

Black pudding is imo the best bit, but you've given me an idea now; I might construct a breakfast with a slice of black pudding balancing on a haggard sausage, submerged in a sea of beans, with bacon-wrapped white pudding facing it from the other side of the plate. Call it a Full Nigel.

[YoungWillz 21,046]

So Security Risk Suella introduced rules regarding the policing of protests which rules have now been deemed unlawful. Which the Government intend to appeal.

 

Meantime, Lord Walney, a former Labour MP, wants Parliament to be able to ban Just Stop Oil protests and pro-Palestinian protests completely. This would be the former chair of Friends of Israel, a part owner of the Jewish Chronicle, a man who has business links with both the arms trade and the oil barons. But of course he denies any personal programme, oh yes he does.

 

IMO if you ban protests - which are essentially a last resort - what does that mean? I'll tell you - if your MP won't listen to you, if the party to which they belong won't listen to you, if the Parliament won't listen to you and you cannot raise your voice in protest with others of like mind, the next step is I am afraid, lone wolf attacks like we have seen on Jo Cox and David Amess.

 

If you had banned protest on the infected blood scandal, would we have arrived where we are today?

[RoverAndOut 4,746]

43 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

So Security Risk Suella introduced rules regarding the policing of protests which rules have now been deemed unlawful. Which the Government intend to appeal.

 

Meantime, Lord Walney, a former Labour MP, wants Parliament to be able to ban Just Stop Oil protests and pro-Palestinian protests completely. This would be the former chair of Friends of Israel, a part owner of the Jewish Chronicle, a man who has business links with both the arms trade and the oil barons. But of course he denies any personal programme, oh yes he does.

 

IMO if you ban protests - which are essentially a last resort - what does that mean? I'll tell you - if your MP won't listen to you, if the party to which they belong won't listen to you, if the Parliament won't listen to you and you cannot raise your voice in protest with others of like mind, the next step is I am afraid, lone wolf attacks like we have seen on Jo Cox and David Amess.

 

If you had banned protest on the infected blood scandal, would we have arrived where we are today?

 

Same goes for the Sub-Postmasters.

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

God forbid students vote 

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

8 hours ago, TQR said:

30p Leenoch is shouting at (burnt) sausages.

 

 

Presumably tomatoes and beans are woke so they didn't make it to the plate.

 

 

So, interesting fact re black pudding which was true 25 years ago when I read it in Simon Armitage's book All Points North...

 

The standard bowel cancer test looks for blood in shit samples, it proved less than useful in Bury, the town which manufactured more black pudding than anywhere else in the UK because the local produce was so popular LOADS of people tested positive.

 

 

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

 

 

 

 

 

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They're bigger idiots that I thought (which is quite something) if they go to the Palace on the back of something like this

 

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,046]

How about doing away with the ID requirement altogether?

 

Put in place by Johnson in his dying days in office who stated he didn't believe in it, the offence it was intended to cure was so minimal and negligible as not to warrant it, and it stops people exercising their right to vote in a system that worked incredibly well. Postal voting remains unaffected and is where duplicity is more likely.

 

Bin it.

[The Old Crem 3,605]

2 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

How about doing away with the ID requirement altogether?

 

Put in place by Johnson in his dying days in office who stated he didn't believe in it, the offence it was intended to cure was so minimal and negligible as not to warrant it, and it stops people exercising their right to vote in a system that worked incredibly well. Postal voting remains unaffected and is where duplicity is more likely.

 

Bin it.

Postal voting does have ID rules coming in. 

[YoungWillz 21,046]

25 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

Postal voting does have ID rules coming in. 

Wow. Source?

 

Anyway, fiddling about with a system designed as Johnson's revenge on democracy isn't the answer. BIN IT.

[Sly Ronnie 884]

55 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

 

 

They're bigger idiots that I thought (which is quite something) if they go to the Palace on the back of something like this

 

 

 

 

Well, you know what they say? When you've gotta go, you gotta go!

 

(incidentally for the purposes of the GE sweepstake, if there's an immediate dissolution then the election would be on June 27).

[Toast 16,140]

1 hour ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

They're bigger idiots that I thought (which is quite something) if they go to the Palace on the back of something like this

 

Sssh, don't put them off it.

[TQR 14,396]

Nice reminder in PMQs that Danny Kruger is a fucking salad.

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

 

[Brad252 807]

4 minutes ago, TQR said:

Nice reminder in PMQs that Danny Kruger is a fucking salad.

That's offensive to salad.

[TQR 14,396]

Stephen Flynn: People need to know, is the Prime Minister going to call a summer election, or is he feart?

Rishi Sunak: Something something second half of the year something something.

 

Again, a July election would be the second half of the year. Give us an answer Rishi you fucking invertebrate.

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

 

[The Old Crem 3,605]

Rumour is Jeremy Hunt is going to announce he is resigning as Chancellor and Claire Coutinho is taking over. And that he will also stand down at the election. 

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

1 hour ago, The Old Crem said:

Rumour is Jeremy Hunt is going to announce he is resigning as Chancellor and Claire Coutinho is taking over. And that he will also stand down at the election. 

 

 

Cracking rumour - Hunt's in the firing line for a Portillo moment if not