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Sadly, they outnumber the intelligent people in this country.
Yep. And the Tories know it. Take a turd, roll it in glitter and wrap a Union Jack around it and enough people will love it.
And if you point this out you are a patronising, elitist, unpatriotic snob.
I can't see a way out of this.
Listen, you libtard elites...Channel 4 is done, and Nadine is ushering in a whole new era of intellectualism.
(NSFW, for life, for sanity)
(caused by the Government defunding it cos you wouldn’t want educated voters now, would you?!)
If you dig up the latest 'guidance' for teachers in terms of political issues, it goes much further than just lack of funding...
(the forriners taking all the jobs are also the same as the forriners who are sitting around scrounging all our benefits as well, naturally – this disconnect doesn’t seem to phase the average Daily Mail reader).
Schrodingers forriners?
I can’t see a way out of this.
There's an episode of Spooks where some anti-capitalists infiltrate a meeting of a shadowy group of billionaires being held in the mansion of a Russian oligarch in London - the plot basically being that this group control political strings across the world and "own" all the Governments.
The anti-capitalists take the group down to the mansion's bunker and barricade themselves in there then live stream the execution of one of the hostages, showing photos of the yachts and mansions and private jets that he owns and the corrupt business dealings that he's done. They threaten to do the same to the rest of the billionaire cabal and various Governments threaten to bomb the site to prevent any more embarrassing information about their dealings with these billionaires from being leaked.
So all we need is some anti-capitalist terrorists and a shedload of weaponry and some internet streaming stuff and someone who can infiltrate Chequers to pull off a similar trick...
😉
I still think they will get a kicking in the local body elections. I don't think they will care!
As always, we need to vote. Get down there and vote. Encourage people you know to vote. It really does matter.
I feel super sorry for all the Civil Servants in UK Gov who have to deal with this shower of idiots.
The reality is that the western world is run the way most people want it run, you have to get those who want it run differently to vote for it, our area has an MP that is basically always being ripped apart for what he is, how he votes, etc, but come election day, all those old tory voters are queuing up before the polling office is open and voting him in, sadly the rest finish work, pick the kids up and so on, everything but vote in the numbers required to do something about it.
^^^^
What Trump and Farage also did was to legitimise being 'a bit of an arsehole'.
They essentially rebadged common decency and courtesy as 'political correctness gorn maaaad' and appealed to the inner arsehole that lurked in far too many of 'us' not to be cowed any more by 'political correctness' (aka common decency).
It had kind of been an unwritten rule of Western democracy that you didn't stir those pots, but they did and they did it very well indeed.
As always, we need to vote. Get down there and vote. Encourage people you know to vote. It really does matter.
As ever - they get in on minority votes because they have pissed off and exhausted too many who "can't see the point"
I feel super sorry for all the Civil Servants in UK Gov who have to deal with this shower of idiots
It's incredibly hard implementing policies you know will cause more harm than good - the Labour government made a mess of the area I worked in back in the noughties, but this current shower are destroying everything.
It’s incredibly hard implementing policies you know will cause more harm than good
Unless you stand to gain from it personally - financially, career-wise etc.
Unless you stand to gain from it personally – financially, career-wise etc.
Front line civil servants are a very long way from being able to do that.
As always with the civil service, there's the normal departmental staff around the country, and then there's the ones who are around Parliament, usually 'Senior Civil Servants' and their life is based around that circus and fielding/implementing those policies.
Front line civil servants are a very long way from being able to do that.
Yes - I meant the politicians and their puppet masters.
Just got my son's new passport through - now need to source a burgundy cover. The only thing holding me back is that it is probably a Brexit cheerleader who sells* them in order to profiteer from an unnecessary change.🙂
*Made in a sweatshop somewhere, no doubt.
Made in a sweatshop somewhere, no doubt.
Poland
Yep, UK passports are now printed by a French-Dutch company in Poland. Brexiteers take note!
they simply don't care - as long as it's blue!
I'm on about where the optional burgundy covers are manufactured, but the point is probably lost now.
^^^ I agree, I am sure this piece was scripted for him but personally I think it's fair...
"If that puts me in conflict with some others, then we have got to work it all out. It doesn't mean I'm not immensely sympathetic to people who want to change gender, to transition and it's vital we give people the maximum love and support in making those decisions.
"These are complex issues and they can't be solved with one swift, easy piece of legislation. It takes a lot of thought to get this right."
probably one of the few things he says that I agree with
I saw that earlier and thought, much as I despise Boris and everything about him, everything that he represents, i do actually agree with him on this occasion. And now I feel slightly conflicted.
Although given his usual spoutings and immediate U-turns, I can't see this actually meaning much.
It is a slam dunk for him, though. Most of the Oi Oi support will just read the headline and say "**** Yeah".
What's he doing to address dirty Russian money in British politics, Partygate etc?
In opining on this he is seeking to divert attention. Again. It really isn't PM-level stuff to be commenting on this.
It's hardly a high risk position to take with a likely backlash from either within the Tory Party or the wider public.
Johnson taking a popular stance is precisely what I would expect.
Oh yeah, it's another distraction technique undoubtedly.
Find the popular stance, run to the front of it and "lead" on it.
Again. It really isn’t PM-level stuff to be commenting on this.
I would be interested to hear what level Boris is qualified to comment on (beyond the usual knee-jerk, tabloid friendly, barely thought out stuff he normally sprouts). Beyond the decisions he has made which will make his mates millions he has got by his term in office by holding out on actual decisions until his ‘options' have disappeared so no decision has to be made.
It's just a another populist dead cat - I'd agree with the sentiment if it wasn't coming from him but suspect it's just another way to get people nodding.
It's just a distraction and a cheap psychological trick to get people to agree with you even if they're your sworn adversary.
It really isn’t PM-level stuff to be commenting on this.
Was he not responding to a question asked by a journalist? I'm sure he'd have been pilloried on here if he'd have um, ahh'd and answered a different question, (as per)
Now off to wash myself in powerful bleach.
Oh yeah, it’s another distraction technique undoubtedly.
Find the popular stance, run to the front of it and “lead” on it.
I think you might be reading too much into it. He wasn't "leading" on it. He was asked the question whilst visiting a major new hospital along with the Secretary of State for Health and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
They were there to "discuss what measures the government was implementing to tackle the Covid backlogs and reform the adult social care system - the Health and Social Care Levy."
Was he not responding to a question asked by a journalist?
Could have just been a random question, more likely a "seeded" question from a friendly journalist.
Given that 1. a major conference on LGBT+ issues has had to be cancelled as many of the charities supporting it have withdrawn their support, and 2. subsequently Johnson's advisor on the matter has felt he needed to resign. This issue is pertinent.
I think Ernie is right, it's a legitimate question to ask given the background and where he was.
He was asked the question whilst visiting a major new hospital
Although its not actually new. Its called the "new QEII hospital" to distinguish it from the "QEII hospital". Its seven years old now.
I wonder if they chose to visit it since the name could confuse people into thinking it was one of the magic 40.
It's certainly a topical issue (see Sara Symington's letter to the UCI). Johnson will also have seen the knots that Labour is predictably tying itself into and not wasted an open goal.
It gets more complicated. The Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, visit a hospital with a deliberately misleading name, ostensibly to discuss Covid backlogs and social care, so that a friendly journalist can ask a seeded question.
Surely there must be an easier way to express the opinion that transgender women shouldn't compete in women's sport?
holding out on actual decisions until his ‘options’ have disappeared so no decision has to be made
Yeah, but they (abroad) need us more than we need them, so this is fine. Yes?
Surely there must be an easier way to express the opinion that transgender women shouldn’t compete in women’s sport?
It seems fairly easy tbh, ask someone to plant a question which will get them good copy, whilst you’re on a pre-planned visit / photo op ; an easy win for both sides I’d have thought.
Yep, as @kilo says, it's a standard tactic. Have a couple of friendly journos drop in topical questions supposedly ad-hoc.
It's an easy win for the Tories having seen the utter mess that Labour are making as they try and fail to tiptoe around the issue while keeping everyone on side.
Got to say; i didn't think I'd ever see "Living at No11" as a tax dodge. Pretty bold
I'll bet a penny to a pound that Mrs sunak earns her wage outside the UK.
a penny to a pound
rate of tax she pays?
Only if the accountant has slipped up.
I'm increasingly convinced that we're in a simulation which aims to test how implausible events have to be before we try to wake up.
'Chancellor's announces tax hikes while his wife turns non-dom to avoid millions in tax' seems a bit OTT even for that scenario, though.
Makes you long for the good old days of Cherie Blair hanging out with fraudsters.
I’ll bet a penny to a pound that Mrs sunak earns her wage outside the UK.
I think the main money is infosys dividends rather than wages.
Mrs sunak earns her wage outside the UK.
Her income from infosys isn't earned.
The fact that she is 'earning' anything from trading with the Russian regime should be enough of an issue, and mean that Sunak, who is instrumental in deciding which entities to sanction, has a massive conflict of interests.
Honestly, it's beyond parody now. He doesn't even seem concerned about it.
And as for the state of political journalism in this country, as he introduces a massive tax hike to pay for NHS backlogs, why isn't he constantly being asked by every interviewer where the much-vaunted 18bn Brexit dividend for the NHS has ****ed off to?