LEAVE the Conservative Party and save your country!

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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,952
    I thought CS would enjoy this.

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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 62,004
    rjsterry said:

    The current Labour party could do worse, about the same or better. The current Conservative party are clearly exhausted, out of ideas and talent. There's no realistic prospect of the current iteration doing any better than they are.

    They need a break and a long hard think about what they want to be. If they want to join their US friends who were over here with that conference they might as well close down now. If they really are interested in being all the things they used to claim to be then there might be a future for them.

    It happens to all parties who have been in power for long enough - it was the same for the last Labour administration after 13 years and the previous conservative administration after 18 years. Seems we manage to last longer than the lefties though :)
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    briantrumpet said:

    I thought CS would enjoy this.

    is The Sun really arguing that there is a inverse correlation between net migration and benefit claimants?
  • Jezyboy
    Jezyboy Posts: 3,677
    Their argument seems to be one is high because the other is also high.

    Begs the question why they've chosen to use this chart to illustrate that.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,952
    edited May 2023
    I'm sure that refusing to allow an audit has nothing to do with trying to cover up anything. No, perish the thought.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Lol that’ll be the Freeports that experts said would make no difference but brexiters insisted they would?

    Those Freeports?
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,952
    rick_chasey said:

    Lol that’ll be the Freeports that experts said would make no difference but brexiters insisted they would?

    Those Freeports?


    They'll make a difference to the Tory stooges and their mates who make millions out of them at public expense.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    She’s obviously upset someone.

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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,302
    Yebbut. One can avoid a fine and points by attending a speed awareness course assuming one isn't way way over the limit.

    My one and only, triggered by pulling over to allow a blue lights to shoot past then forgetting on the speed back up, was in 2020 lockdown times so online. Dunno if they've moved back to classrooms now but... if still online I can understand why Cruella might want to avoid being film clipped ad nauseam. Hence 'private'.

    That said, she's still a #toryscum Nat-C f-wit embarrassment to this dUK.

  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,952
    orraloon said:

    Yebbut. One can avoid a fine and points by attending a speed awareness course assuming one isn't way way over the limit.

    My one and only, triggered by pulling over to allow a blue lights to shoot past then forgetting on the speed back up, was in 2020 lockdown times so online. Dunno if they've moved back to classrooms now but... if still online I can understand why Cruella might want to avoid being film clipped ad nauseam. Hence 'private'.

    That said, she's still a #toryscum Nat-C f-wit embarrassment to this dUK.


    She tried to wangle a private speed awareness course, so no-one would know she'd done it. Normal rules about the (attempted) cover-up being worse than the crime. Also questions being asked about Simon Case (again), and whether he knew, and if he didn't know, why. He's a wrong 'un.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,477
    Tough local elections in NI for the Tories.

    In fairness they were ahead of Labour (0) and Lib Dems (0)


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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,952
    tailwindhome said:

    Tough local elections in NI for the Tories.

    In fairness they were ahead of Labour (0) and Lib Dems (0)



    Sounds like Sinn Fein had a good night.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,615
    briantrumpet said:

    tailwindhome said:

    Tough local elections in NI for the Tories.

    In fairness they were ahead of Labour (0) and Lib Dems (0)



    Sounds like Sinn Fein had a good night.
    By my understanding not good enough though.
    Still a hung/useless/redundant parliament?
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,918
    Priceless.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/21/suella-braverman-tried-to-get-out-of-final-vote-on-small-boats-bill
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,302
    From teh Grauniad


  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/22/rail-passengers-in-england-could-lose-wifi-access-amid-cost-cuts

    This sums up UK politics for the last 10 years tbh.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,918
    edited May 2023
    rick_chasey said:

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/22/rail-passengers-in-england-could-lose-wifi-access-amid-cost-cuts

    This sums up UK politics for the last 10 years tbh.

    How can you lose something that you rarely have in the first place? Thameslink barely has any WiFi and Southern's is patchy and slow.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,491
    This proposal is like turning the radio off in your 5L V8 car to save fuel consumption.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,918
    Especially given that train WiFi is so basic in the first place.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    rjsterry said:

    Especially given that train WiFi is so basic in the first place.

    some tech colleagues were on a train when it was announced the wifi was broken, they declared their skills and offered to fix it for free, at which point train staff admitted it was not installed on that train
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,491
    Fortunately, mobile phone coverage across the UK is really good.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    First.Aspect said:

    Fortunately, mobile phone coverage across the UK is really good.

    I sincerely hope this post is dripping in sarcasm.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,952
    First.Aspect said:

    Fortunately, mobile phone coverage across the UK is really good.


    Apart from where it's not... which was most of my route across Dartmoor this morning.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,491
    rick_chasey said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Fortunately, mobile phone coverage across the UK is really good.

    I sincerely hope this post is dripping in sarcasm.
    There are long stretches of the trip down to Carlisle without even a good BBC radio signal, let alone a phone signal. This is on the motorway. God only knows what happens if you are on the A68 and break down. Walk to the nearest farm and attempt to communicate in sign language with one of the natives I suppose.

    I was in the Highlands a couple of weeks ago and parked somewhere that uses one of those apps for parking.

    Guess what. No mobile signal.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Fortunately, mobile phone coverage across the UK is really good.

    I sincerely hope this post is dripping in sarcasm.
    There are long stretches of the trip down to Carlisle without even a good BBC radio signal, let alone a phone signal. This is on the motorway. God only knows what happens if you are on the A68 and break down. Walk to the nearest farm and attempt to communicate in sign language with one of the natives I suppose.

    I was in the Highlands a couple of weeks ago and parked somewhere that uses one of those apps for parking.

    Guess what. No mobile signal.
    I can assure you it's barely better in actual civilisation ;)
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,952
    Nothing worrying about this, no, nothing at all. I mean, why should anyone be allowed to challenge government policy, if they are an expert in their field?

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  • pangolin
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    rick_chasey said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    First.Aspect said:

    Fortunately, mobile phone coverage across the UK is really good.

    I sincerely hope this post is dripping in sarcasm.
    There are long stretches of the trip down to Carlisle without even a good BBC radio signal, let alone a phone signal. This is on the motorway. God only knows what happens if you are on the A68 and break down. Walk to the nearest farm and attempt to communicate in sign language with one of the natives I suppose.

    I was in the Highlands a couple of weeks ago and parked somewhere that uses one of those apps for parking.

    Guess what. No mobile signal.
    I can assure you it's barely better in actual civilisation ;)
    The venn diagram of parking machine locations that use apps vs locations that have poor mobile reception does have a remarkable amount of overlap.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    As ever, the people doing the name calling were just describing their own actions.

    Snowflakes indeed.
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,496
    briantrumpet said:

    Nothing worrying about this, no, nothing at all. I mean, why should anyone be allowed to challenge government policy, if they are an expert in their field?

    from the party in government that has repeatedly whined about 'cancel culture'

    suppression of dissenting voices is one of the steps along the road to fascism
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