Politics

[royal white]

I’m really interested to hear why NIC thinks someone who has worked for 10 years should be richer than someone who has worked for 40. Can anyone help? 

Edited 7 hours ago by royal white

[Tonge moor green jacket]

17 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

No threshold has been met

Yes it was.

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

The Times reporting that Streeting has told the PM he will challenge him tomorrow and will resign.

He has to have the backing of this threshold number in order to do it.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

8 hours ago, bolty58 said:

The panic has really set in. It will be amusing to see it reach a crescendo leading up to the next GE.

What a truly remarkable post his is.

I would hazard a guess that he voted Labour. 

It has been an unmitigated disaster, so by that score he, and all the others who votes labour must be fucking thick.

The same thickos that Starmer et al have fucked over as much as anyone.

Yet, a party that isn’t even in power, let alone had a couple of years to show its hand and have effect is 100% guaranteed to fuck up its voters first, and the country next.

Not only was the buzz phrase "14 years of failure" created and utilzed by opposition parties, we now have 16 years of failure. 

No one expected those 14 years to be rectified over night, but they also didn't expect it to be significantly worsened so quickly.

Nevertheless, the next incumbents will fuck it up.

I wish I had that crystal ball- I'd put some numbers on the lottery.

Edited 6 hours ago by Tonge moor green jacket

[mickbrown]

31 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

What a truly remarkable post his is.

I would hazard a guess that he voted Labour. 

It has been an unmitigated disaster, so by that score he, and all the others who votes labour must be fucking thick.

The same thickos that Starmer et al have fucked over as much as anyone.

Yet, a party that isn’t even in power, let alone had a couple of years to show its hand and have effect is 100% guaranteed to fuck up its voters first, and the country next.

Not only was the buzz phrase "14 years of failure" created and utilzed by opposition parties, we now have 16 years of failure. 

No one expected those 14 years to be rectified over night, but they also didn't expect it to be significantly worsened so quickly.

Nevertheless, the next incumbents will fuck it up.

I wish I had that crystal ball- I'd put some numbers on the lottery.

Arf…..

I’m bookmarking this classic of the genre. 

Edited 5 hours ago by mickbrown

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

20 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Yes it was.

 

Not to your knowledge

[Sweep]

31 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

What a truly remarkable post his is.

I would hazard a guess that he voted Labour.   -  nope, never in a million years

It has been an unmitigated disaster, so by that score he, and all the others who votes labour must be fucking thick. - I didn't vote Labour

The same thickos that Starmer et al have fucked over as much as anyone.

Yet, a party that isn’t even in power, let alone had a couple of years to show its hand and have effect is 100% guaranteed to fuck up its voters first, and the country next.  

Not only was the buzz phrase "14 years of failure" created and utilzed by opposition parties, we now have 16 years of failure.  - 100% agree, it'll soon be 20+ years of failure, no matter who takes over, certain parts of the country are fucked and pretty much in a death spiral. It'll take many years and cross party co-operation to even get close to fixing those areas.

No one expected those 14 years to be rectified over night, but they also didn't expect it to be significantly worsened so quickly. - agreed, I didn't for one minute think Labour would fix anything, but we did needed a change, as the Conservatives had given up

Nevertheless, the next incumbents will fuck it up. - they will, especially if it is Reform. I'd be more confident if they'd had a year or two in opposition. They have zero experience (other than Conservative cast offs), if you think they'll make everything great again, then fair enough. I wish I had your enthusiasm.

I wish I had that crystal ball- I'd put some numbers on the lottery. - you can buy a crystal ball off Amazon, if you really want one, it won't help you predict lottery numbers though, as they're random

I presume that was aimed at me, so some answers above...

[little whitt]

[Sweep]

6 minutes ago, little whitt said:

See, I don't mind that at all.....although, early doors Trevor has put his cards on the table, so as soon as he's "caught" spending money on something frivolous, I'm sure people won't be holding back. I'd like to see more councils take this sort of approach, and save money where they can

 

[deeane Koontz]

Labour will have fucked it completely if Streeting gets the job. He's a proper grubby little shitebag

[mickbrown]

22 minutes ago, little whitt said:

Maye be they should ask their boss for some of that £5 million for a few bags of chips

[kent_white]

10 minutes ago, deeane Koontz said:

Labour will have fucked it completely if Streeting gets the job. He's a proper grubby little shitebag

Yeah I'm not a fan. Although he's not afraid of taking decisive (if not necessarily wise) actions. Which seems to be what people want. 

[kent_white]

23 minutes ago, little whitt said:

I'm going to assume that this 'banquet' is a buffet from Odessa. I doubt they're eating quail eggs 😁

[frank_spencer]

10 minutes ago, kent_white said:

I'm going to assume that this 'banquet' is a buffet from Odessa. I doubt they're eating quail eggs 😁

Bacon Barms and cheese on toast from the Lido staff cafe.

[Traf]

12 minutes ago, frank_spencer said:

Bacon Barms and cheese on toast from the Lido staff cafe.

Some of the recently elected will have to have just cheese on toast.

[Spider]

50 minutes ago, little whitt said:

Performative bollocks.

[mickbrown]

1 minute ago, Spider said:

Performative bollocks.

Is the correct answer

[Ani]

Ben Habib will be getting taken to the cleaners I assume if this is all lies.

 

[Sweep]

12 minutes ago, Ani said:

Ben Habib will be getting taken to the cleaners I assume if this is all lies.

 

You'd think so, but Farage, like Trump seems to be 100% teflon. His supporters will just double down on the support, no matter what comes to light

[gonzo]

It's all just very silly isn't it.

[Sweep]

18 minutes ago, gonzo said:

It's all just very silly isn't it.

yes, and will get even more ridiculous the longer Starmer clings on......then it'll reach ultimate silly season as and when a GE is called in a year or two

[royal white]

I’ve just been Listening to him speak in parliament and he said that millions went to school hungry under the tories and now they don’t. What’s changed? 

[DirtySanchez]

5 minutes ago, royal white said:

I’ve just been Listening to him speak in parliament and he said that millions went to school hungry under the tories and now they don’t. What’s changed? 

Breakfast clubs 

[Cheese]

2 minutes ago, DirtySanchez said:

Breakfast clubs 

He's going to say "But the breakfast clubs are in school, so they're still going to school hungry" or something equally banal.

[L/H White]

Just caught a bit of the king's speech (not my king) 

seemed to be a lot of fucking about going on just for him waffle some shit 

Banging doors and trumpets playing 

Edited 2 hours ago by L/H White