Politics

[RoadRunnerFan]

6 hours ago, bolty58 said:

You lot will stop defending him by Q1 next year. The shambles is just starting.

Yup. 2010-24 was in no way, shape or form a shambles, it's only just begun. 

Put the Monteiths down fella. 

[Sweep]

13 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

😊 Unfortunately closed now, as is the Ancient Shepard. 👍

bugger. Next you'll be telling me that I can't have a pint in the General Havelock, and then move on to the Cattle Market, then over the footbridge for another at Churchills

[BobyBrno]

35 minutes ago, Sweep said:

bugger. Next you'll be telling me that I can't have a pint in the General Havelock, and then move on to the Cattle Market, then over the footbridge for another at Churchills

Pity the Cattle Market closed and flattened. We always intended going back in to pay for the meal we had in there before our weekend in London for the Bristol City Wembley final. It wasn’t our fault.😉

[Sweep]

20 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

Pity the Cattle Market closed and flattened. We always intended going back in to pay for the meal we had in there before our weekend in London for the Bristol City Wembley final. It wasn’t our fault.😉

I reckon I had my lunch in there nearly every Friday between June 1989 and October 1994  -  I spent, relatively speaking, a fortune in the place

[BobyBrno]

26 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I reckon I had my lunch in there nearly every Friday between June 1989 and October 1994  -  I spent, relatively speaking, a fortune in the place

You must have worked near to me then. I and another worked at Hicks and another at Edbro. I was a Sweet Green man myself though. 👍

[Dimron]

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

I reckon I had my lunch in there nearly every Friday between June 1989 and October 1994  -  I spent, relatively speaking, a fortune in the place

Played darts and doms in there every Tuesday

[Dimron]

On 18/09/2024 at 23:07, bolty58 said:

He has made a marvellous start. Liberating hardened criminals to jail immigration protestors and subjecting pensioners to hypothermia.

The lad's a born winner. 

Just picked up on this... he's had £2.5k worth of free glasses when I've just been told I can't have cataract surgery on the NHS and will have to fork out £3k per eye...

Disappointed

Still one rule for the elite and one rule for us

[Spider]

1 hour ago, BobyBrno said:

You must have worked near to me then. I and another worked at Hicks and another at Edbro. I was a Sweet Green man myself though. 👍

You know any of the Pemricks?

[Sweep]

1 hour ago, BobyBrno said:

You must have worked near to me then. I and another worked at Hicks and another at Edbro. I was a Sweet Green man myself though. 👍

The old HB Electronics on Lever Street, so only a stones throw away

[BobyBrno]

9 minutes ago, Spider said:

You know any of the Pemricks?

Don’t think so.

[BobyBrno]

8 minutes ago, Sweep said:

The old HB Electronics on Lever Street, so only a stones throw away

Mmm. You may know my sister. Think that was another reason we met there as she came with us. AC

[Sweep]

23 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

Mmm. You may know my sister. Think that was another reason we met there as she came with us. AC

Yep, I know her

[bolty58]

4 hours ago, RoadRunnerFan said:

Yup. 2010-24 was in no way, shape or form a shambles, it's only just begun. 

Put the Monteiths down fella. 

Been too cowd for Monteiths mate. I've been growing hairs on my hairs with a double stout for the last few months.

Longevity. That is where Conservative governments fail the (democratic) world over. They become stale after prolonged stays in power and the electorate becomes bored with them and 'wants a change'.

They get a change alright with the red rags. Such a change that they usually revert to blue as soon as the opportunity arises. Tis only a matter of time.

Cold pensioners dying of hypothermia; outrageous pay rises given to some lighting a fire in others; liberating career criminals and Sue Gray. Tick fucking tock.

[fatolive]

3 hours ago, Sweep said:

I reckon I had my lunch in there nearly every Friday between June 1989 and October 1994  -  I spent, relatively speaking, a fortune in the place

I had dinner in there 2 or 3 times a week between 1986 and 1990 , sausage egg and chips, two pints of Trophy and change from a fiver , all served by a lovely “ older”  woman 

Happy days 

*older  woman was about 30 -40 at the time 

[Spider]

50 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Been too cowd for Monteiths mate. I've been growing hairs on my hairs with a double stout for the last few months.

Longevity. That is where Conservative governments fail the (democratic) world over. They become stale after prolonged stays in power and the electorate becomes bored with them and 'wants a change'.

They get a change alright with the red rags. Such a change that they usually revert to blue as soon as the opportunity arises. Tis only a matter of time.

Cold pensioners dying of hypothermia; outrageous pay rises given to some lighting a fire in others; liberating career criminals and Sue Gray. Tick fucking tock.

😁

you love to see it, you really do.

 

[Sweep]

2 hours ago, bolty58 said:

Been too cowd for Monteiths mate. I've been growing hairs on my hairs with a double stout for the last few months.

Longevity. That is where Conservative governments fail the (democratic) world over. They become stale after prolonged stays in power and the electorate becomes bored with them and 'wants a change'.

They get a change alright with the red rags. Such a change that they usually revert to blue as soon as the opportunity arises. Tis only a matter of time.

Cold pensioners dying of hypothermia; outrageous pay rises given to some lighting a fire in others; liberating career criminals and Sue Gray. Tick fucking tock.

Some truth to that, however the last lot we had in charge became thoroughly repulsive and self serving, all started by Johnson getting rid of anybody with a modicum of talent, in order to attempt to sure up his own position. 

 

So I'd say, this time around, it wasn't so much longevity.....but consistency, as in consistently being absolutely awful over a 3 or 4 year period.

 

Will Starmer and his mob be any better?, who knows, but we did need a change. If they're shit, then they'll only do the one term.

[Casino]

4 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

Don’t think so.

bradshaw white

[BobyBrno]

15 minutes ago, Casino said:

bradshaw white

Nope. Still none the wiser. 🤷‍♂️

[kent_white]

3 hours ago, bolty58 said:

Been too cowd for Monteiths mate. I've been growing hairs on my hairs with a double stout for the last few months.

Longevity. That is where Conservative governments fail the (democratic) world over. They become stale after prolonged stays in power and the electorate becomes bored with them and 'wants a change'.

They get a change alright with the red rags. Such a change that they usually revert to blue as soon as the opportunity arises. Tis only a matter of time.

Cold pensioners dying of hypothermia; outrageous pay rises given to some lighting a fire in others; liberating career criminals and Sue Gray. Tick fucking tock.

Well I'm pretty happy so far. 

Lets face it. You'd made your mind up before they got into power and there's nothing they could do that would make you change that point of view is there? 😁

[little whitt]

4 hours ago, Sweep said:

Some truth to that, however the last lot we had in charge became thoroughly repulsive and self serving, all started by Johnson getting rid of anybody with a modicum of talent, in order to attempt to sure up his own position. 

 

So I'd say, this time around, it wasn't so much longevity.....but consistency, as in consistently being absolutely awful over a 3 or 4 year period.

 

Will Starmer and his mob be any better?, who knows, but we did need a change. If they're shit, then they'll only do the one term.

be more then ONE TERM 

cause they have no one to stand Agenst them

[Winchester White]

24 minutes ago, little whitt said:

be more then ONE TERM 

cause they have no one to stand Agenst them

Can you stand?

[Sweep]

3 hours ago, kent_white said:

 

Lets face it. You'd made your mind up before they got into power and there's nothing they could do that would make you change that point of view is there? 😁

Sadly, I suspect he'd love Labour to fail, so he can say "I told you so" - it's a bit miserable, surely, to want your country to fail to try and prove a point

[Greg_BWFC]

42 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Sadly, I suspect he'd love Labour to fail, so he can say "I told you so" - it's a bit miserable, surely, to want your country to fail to try and prove a point

They'll get things wrong and piss people off.

Probably piss me off at some point. 

But they had to be given this chance.

There had to be a change.

[Zico]

49 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Sadly, I suspect he'd love Labour to fail, so he can say "I told you so" - it's a bit miserable, surely, to want your country to fail to try and prove a point

Especially when it boils down to an attempt to "equalise" in terms of the previous governments failure

"As bad as the last lot were, I hope the next ones are worse"

Basically

[Not in Crawley]

36 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Sadly, I suspect he'd love Labour to fail, so he can say "I told you so" - it's a bit miserable, surely, to want your country to fail to try and prove a point

He'll come out with the normal - I've been there I expect.

Do I think Starmer has done well with his first days - I think they need better comms. Do I agree with the money taken, no because you can't stand on a platform of being righteous and do what most PMs do. 

It's early days but there have been some missteps. Although, I'll still judge on policy rather than distraction. I do agree with the policy on winter fuel allowance- but it was done really badly, a self inflected bad news story.