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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    Corbyn was present when his mouth said 'Stupid woman' but wasn't involved.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,551
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Corbyn was present when his mouth said 'Stupid woman' but wasn't involved.
    It's like Parliament has tried to condense the futility and utter waste of the last year's attempts to govern into a single locus of pointlessness.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    rjsterry wrote:
    a single locus of pointlessness.

    That's Corbyn ok
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,551
    TailWindHome wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    a single locus of pointlessness.

    That's Corbyn ok

    If only it was just him.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    The performance by May at PMQs was much more embarrassing. Pre-planning to come out and treat the whole Brexit thing like a big joke.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,551
    Interesting interview with Osborne this morning. He thinks a 2019 General Election is one of two ways that the current impasse will be resolved (the other being a 2nd ref). Is that likely to change anything, though? I can see a few seats changing hands but without a change of direction from either of the larger parties I can't see it resolving anything.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    Have the leftiebollox brigade finally grown a pair?
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/labour-set-to-trigger-vote-to-topple-theresa-may-government

    Probably not, but bring it on...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Have the leftiebollox brigade finally grown a pair?
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/labour-set-to-trigger-vote-to-topple-theresa-may-government

    Probably not, but bring it on...
    Nah, Corbyn's hoping a GE will help him stay hiding behind his let's-pretend-I-don't-want-Brexit smokescreen. He's an idiot if he thinks we can't see him. Actually, strike the "if he thinks we can't see him" bit.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    briantrumpet wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Have the leftiebollox brigade finally grown a pair?
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/labour-set-to-trigger-vote-to-topple-theresa-may-government

    Probably not, but bring it on...
    Nah, Corbyn's hoping a GE will help him stay hiding behind his let's-pretend-I-don't-want-Brexit smokescreen. He's an idiot if he thinks we can't see him. Actually, strike the "if he thinks we can't see him" bit.
    Probably true. This will be interesting regardless.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,551
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    briantrumpet wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Have the leftiebollox brigade finally grown a pair?
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/labour-set-to-trigger-vote-to-topple-theresa-may-government

    Probably not, but bring it on...
    Nah, Corbyn's hoping a GE will help him stay hiding behind his let's-pretend-I-don't-want-Brexit smokescreen. He's an idiot if he thinks we can't see him. Actually, strike the "if he thinks we can't see him" bit.
    Probably true. This will be interesting regardless.

    I can't for the life of me understand the logic of this. He seems to have forgotten that he doesn't actually have a majority even with the SNP and LibDems following suit - which is hardly nailed on, given his determination to go ahead with Brexit. And even if by some miracle he pulls it off, does he really think he'll increase his number of seats seeing as most of his supporters are Remainers? He might have grown a pair but the effort has withered something else.
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  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    briantrumpet wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Have the leftiebollox brigade finally grown a pair?
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/labour-set-to-trigger-vote-to-topple-theresa-may-government

    Probably not, but bring it on...
    Nah, Corbyn's hoping a GE will help him stay hiding behind his let's-pretend-I-don't-want-Brexit smokescreen. He's an idiot if he thinks we can't see him. Actually, strike the "if he thinks we can't see him" bit.

    Corbyn is currently sitting with his hands over his eyes so we definitely cant seen him. Works for 1 year olds so should be universal for all ages:)
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    john80 wrote:
    briantrumpet wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Have the leftiebollox brigade finally grown a pair?
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/labour-set-to-trigger-vote-to-topple-theresa-may-government

    Probably not, but bring it on...
    Nah, Corbyn's hoping a GE will help him stay hiding behind his let's-pretend-I-don't-want-Brexit smokescreen. He's an idiot if he thinks we can't see him. Actually, strike the "if he thinks we can't see him" bit.

    Corbyn is currently sitting with his hands over his eyes so we definitely cant seen him. Works for 1 year olds so should be universal for all ages:)
    That's not a bad way of putting it actually.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Avocados are about 75p each.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Avocados are about 75p each.

    fill your pockets
    get yourself to Shoreditch
    crush them on toast and sell to locals for £13.95
    Retire
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Avocados are about 75p each.

    fill your pockets
    get yourself to Shoreditch
    crush them on toast and sell to locals for £13.95
    Retire
    Ripping off hipsters must be a particularly satisfying way to get rich.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Avocados are about 75p each.

    fill your pockets
    get yourself to Shoreditch
    crush them on toast and sell to locals for £13.95
    Retire
    Ripping off hipsters must be a particularly satisfying way to get rich.

    You must love hipsters, surely?

    Almost all want to be entrepreneurs and make lots of money.
    _
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,551
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Avocados are about 75p each.

    fill your pockets
    get yourself to Shoreditch
    crush them on toast and sell to locals for £13.95
    Retire

    You need better market research for your startup. The hipsters have long departed Shoreditch for Dalston and Haggerston.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    rjsterry wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Avocados are about 75p each.

    fill your pockets
    get yourself to Shoreditch
    crush them on toast and sell to locals for £13.95
    Retire

    You need better market research for your startup. The hipsters have long departed Shoreditch for Dalston and Haggerston.

    De Beauvoir never had such glamorous appeal...
    Ben

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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rjsterry wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Avocados are about 75p each.

    fill your pockets
    get yourself to Shoreditch
    crush them on toast and sell to locals for £13.95
    Retire

    You need better market research for your startup. The hipsters have long departed Shoreditch for Dalston and Haggerston.

    Not at all.

    Selling to wannabe hipsters will last longer and be more lucrative
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    ITV News@itvnews

    Could you cut your meat intake to half a rasher of bacon to save the planet?

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    Yes


    :lol:
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    Man up, Diane... :)
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/01/22/man-up-diane/amp/
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    Didn't think she got a rough ride. Also I thought Bruce is turning out to be a good chair of that show. I thought her predecessor was getting a bit soft or light on the chair person's role in his last year or so. He didn't control the debate as well as he used to. Just my opinion. Also he did highlight a few contradictory comments on his last years but tbh not enough. It seems to me that Bruce wants to be more of a strict chair and wants to highlight it when someone spouts garbage or goes off on a party political a bit too much.

    Although I do feel that QT became more a place for Tories and Labour to spout the party line than an open debate like when I first started to watch. The days of Tony Benn and Heseltine perhaps at their best and giving their opinions in the debate not exact party lines. So I watch QT less and less these days. Abbott on it sends me to the remote and another channel quicker than any other politician (although there's a younger, white, female mp that's very corbynite who is close in terms of being annoying).
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,551
    Tangled Metal wrote:
    Didn't think she got a rough ride. Also I thought Bruce is turning out to be a good chair of that show. I thought her predecessor was getting a bit soft or light on the chair person's role in his last year or so. He didn't control the debate as well as he used to. Just my opinion. Also he did highlight a few contradictory comments on his last years but tbh not enough. It seems to me that Bruce wants to be more of a strict chair and wants to highlight it when someone spouts garbage or goes off on a party political a bit too much.

    Although I do feel that QT became more a place for Tories and Labour to spout the party line than an open debate like when I first started to watch. The days of Tony Benn and Heseltine perhaps at their best and giving their opinions in the debate not exact party lines. So I watch QT less and less these days. Abbott on it sends me to the remote and another channel quicker than any other politician (although there's a younger, white, female mp that's very corbynite who is close in terms of being annoying).
    Part of the complaint was about what happened before the programme went on air. I think Abbott was right on the point about the relative polling positions of Labour and the Conservatives, but the slightly hysterical claims of a BBC conspiracy from various Momentum activists do somewhat undermine what is a fairly minor point. Frankly only managing to be neck and neck with a party that cannot get its business through parliament is not much to brag about.
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  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    Having watched and listened to Diane Abbot at the last general election I thought she might have Alzheimer's. At least the lone green party MP when asked about wide ranging issues and giving poor answers had the defense that she was not from a large party and therefore they did not have the back room staff for proper briefing on every government issue such as housing etc. I wondered what she had been reading for the many years she has been a politician as she was clueless. She is a liability to the party and should not be let out if I am being honest.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    john80 wrote:
    Having watched and listened to Diane Abbot at the last general election I thought she might have Alzheimer's.
    The worrying thing is that she very probably doesn't and is at the peak of her mental capabilities.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    Meanwhile in the polls and outside the Cake Stop echo chamber :)
    https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/02/labour-slumps-in-polls-as-tories-open-biggest-lead-since-general-election
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    And about time too - the Labour splinter that I predicted quite a while back.
    https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/02/rebel-labour-mps-set-to-quit-party-and-form-centre-group

    SDP Mark 2? If that plays out like the original lot they could almost double the size of the Lib Dems in Parliament :)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • sgt.pepper
    sgt.pepper Posts: 300
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    And about time too - the Labour splinter that I predicted quite a while back.
    https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/02/rebel-labour-mps-set-to-quit-party-and-form-centre-group

    SDP Mark 2? If that plays out like the original lot they could almost double the size of the Lib Dems in Parliament :)

    Or split the vote and gift another unpopular Tory Government a decade of free reign.


    The gang of four have a lot to answer for.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    Sgt.Pepper wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    And about time too - the Labour splinter that I predicted quite a while back.
    https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/02/rebel-labour-mps-set-to-quit-party-and-form-centre-group

    SDP Mark 2? If that plays out like the original lot they could almost double the size of the Lib Dems in Parliament :)

    Or split the vote and gift another unpopular Tory Government a decade of free reign.


    The gang of four have a lot to answer for.
    Yep, they were great, weren't they :D
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    Sgt.Pepper wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    And about time too - the Labour splinter that I predicted quite a while back.
    https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/02/rebel-labour-mps-set-to-quit-party-and-form-centre-group

    SDP Mark 2? If that plays out like the original lot they could almost double the size of the Lib Dems in Parliament :)

    Or split the vote and gift another unpopular Tory Government a decade of free reign.


    The gang of four have a lot to answer for.

    In 1983 the Labour Party had pledged that the UK would leave the EU within 5 years. So what would Cake Stoppers be wetting their pants over in 2019 (acknowledgement to Stevo) if the gang of four and those nasty Tories had not stopped them?

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