UK Politics Thread

[Chillidoggy]

1 hour ago, C8RKH said:

Love Scotland. For me my relationship with it is like France.

I love both countries, but the Politicians in both drive me to distraction 

They are piss poor. Short sighted. Dimwitted. Etc 

The SNps preoccupation with Independence being everything, the route to a land of milk and honey for all, is just nuts. 

My plan B is progressing. Had a house viewing recently, only 20 miles from Cadwell Park too 

Sssshhhhhh, don't tell the wife....

 

Good luck getting your bags packed without her noticing.

[exeterjeep]

3 minutes ago, Chillidoggy said:

 

Good luck getting your bags packed without her noticing.

When the car transporter turns up.

[eeyoreish]

Fine, I'll self fund some treatment. As long as you refund me my paid in contributions from the last 30 years, which i now won't be drawing on. Seems fair..?

Edited November 21, 2022 by eeyoreish

[C8RKH]

3 hours ago, Chillidoggy said:

 

Good luck getting your bags packed without her noticing.

I didn't want her to know as she would have packed them for me by now! 😱

Imagine Scotties surprise when I turned up on an MLOC run! A pound for the picture anyone.

[ChrisJ]

And this is the chap the Tory MPs wanted all along - what a twat!

 

[Barrykearley]

He might sell the big issue 😬

[scotty435]

On 21/11/2022 at 20:05, C8RKH said:

I didn't want her to know as she would have packed them for me by now! 😱

Imagine Scotties surprise when I turned up on an MLOC run! A pound for the picture anyone.

Looks like I am living rent free in someone’s head 😂

[C8RKH]

You're only a month behind, so technically in arrears 😜

Have a healthy and happy 2023 bud ..

[scotty435]

40 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

You're only a month behind, so technically in arrears 😜

Have a healthy and happy 2023 bud ..

Same to you 👍

[Kimbers]

I'm gonna Ressurect this after a couple of weeks of inactivity.

I really do think there is no way in a month of Sundays the Conservatives will get anywhere near the votes to get elected next. And lots of Tory MP's seem to agree as many have said they aren't standing at the next election. 13 so far and many big names of the party like Savid Javid and Harriet Harman.

I think they have shot their bolt and pissed off so many people. My issue is who to vote for?

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

I am pretty sure they will cling onto power as long as they legally can, in the hope that some sort of miracle will save them. Maybe they will encourage the Argies to invade the Falklands again?

[pete]

Don't think they secretly want to win again . Next lot to get in could be on a loser for a long time

[Frickin_idiot]

The only question is the size of the defeat. I have a feeling that despite the lack of quality of the opposition, that the Tories will have a defeat on the scale that will make 1997 look like a triumph.

I have certainly had enough of the rudderless government.

[oneshot]

23 hours ago, Kimbers said:

I'm gonna Ressurect this after a couple of weeks of inactivity.

I really do think there is no way in a month of Sundays the Conservatives will get anywhere near the votes to get elected next. And lots of Tory MP's seem to agree as many have said they aren't standing at the next election. 13 so far and many big names of the party like Savid Javid and Harriet Harman.

I think they have shot their bolt and pissed off so many people. My issue is who to vote for?

Err

Harriet Harman is a Labour MP?

[Mark Blanchard]

Even Ken Clarke says it's time the Tory's had a rest. 

I've no idea who to vote for either.  I won't be voting for our current socialist Tory government.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/ken-clarke-conservatives-rest-labour-power-starmer/

[MJON]

Best position currently for any major party politician “The Opposition” The world is in total disarray and I don’t believe any party in power worldwide is being praised by their people’s…. (Russia excluded as Putin has his own ways for control) for their current performance. The primary faults lie elsewhere. first China, currently Russia. It is and always has been world events that create crisis and no single government, whoever they are can do enough to weather it. Will a change to party in power solve it?

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Anyone else notice how the latest Chancellor Jeremy Hunt seems to take unnatural pleasure in announcing bad news? All of his predecessors have always spun an overly optimistic tone (especially for the period after the next General Election), but Hunt just uses his interviews to say the Economy is in bad shape now and will only get a whole lot worse for everyone! I guess he’s trying to lower pre General Election expectations by playing Bad Cop to Rishi’s Good Cop.

[PaulCP]

Anybody see the shadow levelling up minister make a complete fool of herself on b’fast TV this morning?

She was a glowing example of why Labour will have real problems when they win the next GE. She was unable to argue any point in a constructive manner and instead just jumped on to the bandwagon of “let’s criticise the Tories at any cost”

TBF Charlie did pin her down when she tried to to use the same answer to a different question that she had already used twice for different questions. All she could do was follow a previously rehearsed script.

She bleated on about the usual, the North of England is woefully neglected by the Tories but the stand out bit of her responses for me was that she criticised the government for expecting regional councils to have to apply and justify why they need the projects they are bidding for. “Regional and Local councils just don’t have to time that this takes” she kept insisting.

I’m afraid that this is when either the interviewers weren’t bright enough to really pick her up on what she was bleated NX on about or they started to follow the BBC agenda. Why didn’t they point out that local businesses are required to do just the same when they are applying for Council grants. They have to justify to the council why the grant and project are needed.

Labour really do need to get a front bench with capable and intelligent individuals if they are going to succeed.

Apologies for the long rant, I just can’t abide interviewers who don’t (or can’t) put politicians on the spot by making them give straight forward intelligent answers

[march]

[ChrisJ]

[Bibs]

How it's taken him so long to be sacked beggars belief. He should be facing criminal charges, not sitting in the job for a week while Fishy has an enquiry! 

 

[pete]

so guilty until proven innocent 😇

[Barrykearley]

He was guilty the minute he paid the Hmrc penalty - just saying

[Bibs]

He lied 5 times I think it was to Parliament. He didn't once declare he was under investigation even when appointed Chancellor!

[Frickin_idiot]

Why does a man who is reportedly worth close to £100 million go against all common sense and desperately cling onto a job that pays £100,000 per annum….