RoverAndOut 3,406 Posted October 27, 2022 41 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said: Seems she was at a Privy Council meeting with the King and Rishi hasn't appointed a Deputy Leader of the Commons who could take her place... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,805 Posted October 27, 2022 10 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said: Seems she was at a Privy Council meeting with the King and Rishi hasn't appointed a Deputy Leader of the Commons who could take her place... What would that be about, any idea? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 3,406 Posted October 27, 2022 12 minutes ago, Toast said: What would that be about, any idea? No idea, just what I read in response to the above tweet. Apparently it was pre-arranged, and the clash had already been identified. The options were delay Business Questions by an hour or slot it in in the afternoon between two backbencher debates. Discussions with colleagues had suggested to her that delaying questions by an hour was less disruptive. Maybe something to do with swearing in new Privy councillors? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,204 Posted October 29, 2022 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11368003/Meet-Rishi-Sunaks-new-mouthpiece-ITVs-UK-mother-two-news-chief-Amber-Botton.html Rishi Sunak hires as his new communications chief someone from ITV who was part of a team that won an award for its coverage and exclusives on partygate that arguably was instrumental in bringing down Boris Johnson! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 2,671 Posted October 29, 2022 Well now 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 2,671 Posted October 29, 2022 The Daily Star once more 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 12,065 Posted October 30, 2022 That’s a nice big “fuck yourself raw” to Mr Bolsonaro 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,967 Posted November 1, 2022 1/2 Liz Truss crashes the economy that was already precarious under holiday loving Johnson. So Sunak has to come back in and fix that. No commitment to the triple lock on pensions or the uprating of benefits which have stagnated for years. Hikes in interest rates with more to come. Inflation at 9% projected for all of 2023. Public sector pay lower in real terms than 2010 - workers are offered 2%, which won't even pay their increased tax bills/mortgage payments. Energy bills likely to remain high through 2023, help runs out in April. Whose fault is it? Because I'm struggling to see it's the immigrants/asylum seekers. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,967 Posted November 1, 2022 2/2 Suella Braverman sits atop the proud British tradition of xenophobia (in general it's an English disease mainly). That's xenophobia of people of different colours as opposed to "white" - after all, nobody's talking about those pesky Canadians, New Zealanders or Australians. Back in the day, it was the Commonwealth immigrants, the hangover from the British Empire that Suella has expressed her love for so much. Blatant Nazis like Colin Jordan setting up his White Defence League in Notting Hill exploited the term "invasion" as far back as the late 1950s. Enoch Powell - well, nuff said, but at least his unpalatable racism was based on two strands - the reports that people of colour didn't want more immigration, and a "compassionate Conservatism" of paying for repatriation. Yet after a period of almost calm and harmony, Thatcher brought back the idea of being "swamped" by immigrants in the late 1970s - and partially got elected on the back of that - but not only that moved the argument on to "bogus" asylum seekers (all the while supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa and offending the Queen with her comments on the Commonwealth). But not only part of the right - David Blunkett and Margaret Hodge of all people have been guilty of using the swamped word during Labour's term in power. Suella is a product of the 1960s immigration that folk like Jordan and Powell fought so hard against - she wouldn't even be here had her predecessors succeeded in their arguments. Same goes for Rishi Sunak. And fucking Priti Patel. Moving the argument again to victimising the victims of people traffickers, dehumanising people as commodities to be packed off to Rwanda like some form of export. Because of the failure to deal with the broken system the Tories have been in charge of for 12 years, we find ourselves supposedly to pour our horrible life experience under this Government onto hatred for asylum seekers who are all condemned as illegal. Similar to the Trade Unions (themselves often authors of their own misfortune), they are demonised as a homogenous group rather than fellow citizens seeking better. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 18,967 Posted November 1, 2022 11 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said: Landlord of his local pub replaces KP Nuts with packets of Kangaroo arseholes....while spending his PPE contract money on a redecoration... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,142 Posted November 1, 2022 2 hours ago, DCI Frank Burnside said: What a fucking bellend. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,805 Posted November 1, 2022 5 hours ago, DCI Frank Burnside said: But Johnson gets away with his multiple holidays. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,032 Posted November 1, 2022 Well at least I know who is going to get all the tasks voted for by the public and hopes he is able to feed the camp. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 2,671 Posted November 4, 2022 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chel 316 Posted November 4, 2022 Since September, a video has been circulating on Russian-language social media, showing Gazprom allegedly cutting off gas to Europe and Europe plunging into the cold. The soundtrack is a song by the Soviet bard Yuri Vizbor, "And Winter Will Be Big" (performed by his granddaughter Varvara Vizbor), which sings about a weeping Russia. For the "intimidation", shots were used of a winter Krasnoyarsk, a Russian city of millions in Eastern Siberia, which will probably(!) be gasified by 2025. This is against a backdrop of permanent news reports about the provision of firewood to the families of the mobilised. Buryatia, Transbaikal terryitory, Udmurtia, Perm Territory, Sakhalin, Khakassia, Irkutsk region, Bashkortostan, Tuva Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 2,671 Posted November 5, 2022 Private Pike in being a nasty little shit shocker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 2,671 Posted November 5, 2022 Not looking good for Private Pike More expendable for the moment than Bravermann 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCI Frank Burnside 2,671 Posted November 8, 2022 Williamson Resigns 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 1,607 Posted November 8, 2022 1 minute ago, DCI Frank Burnside said: Williamson Resigns We needed some good news after the headlines today, glad we got it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RoverAndOut 3,406 Posted November 8, 2022 51 minutes ago, DCI Frank Burnside said: Williamson Resigns In further crap news for the Prince of Darkness, his seat's set to merge with a neighbouring Tory at the next election if the boundary commission's recommendations go through. He's not alone: Conservative Saviour-in-waiting Ben Wallace's seat is set to go completely, split 3 ways, and Dominic Raab's already marginal seat is set to become even more marginal (and we know what that means!) For the other parties, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves's seat will go, and Lib Dem Leader Sir Ed Davey's seat is going to become less safe. Oh, and best news of all, Cruella Braverman's seat is being split in two! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63556905 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,119 Posted November 9, 2022 I sure love the red wave that everyone is so sure would happen 3 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MortalCaso 1,422 Posted November 9, 2022 19 minutes ago, Joey Russ said: I sure love the red wave that everyone is so sure would happen People love to sound educated don't they? Specifically the uneducated. I am absolutely shocked that hand-picked Trump candidates are losing, just shocked. Hopefully, they continue to claim fraud! That way they lose in 2024 as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
