ml1dch

34 minutes ago, Jon said:

So, massive political donor to the tories, Mohamed Mansour, Knighted by Rishi Rich. 

I think at this point they've simply given up and are just doing what they can whilst they're still at the helm.

This guy.
 

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Labour has urged the Conservatives to hand back a £5m donation from the party’s senior treasurer, Mohamed Mansour, as it questioned why it had taken so long for one of his companies to wind down its business in Russia.

In a letter to the Tories, Labour’s chair, Anneliese Dodds, called on the party to justify donations of almost £7.5m that she said had come from people and firms who had had links to business in Russia.

Labour renewed its attack on the Conservatives over donations after the Tories criticised its acceptance of £1.5m from Dale Vince, the founder of the energy company Ecotricity who also funds the campaign group Just Stop Oil.

Labour drew particular attention to Mansour’s co-ownership of Mantrac, which earlier this week still appeared to have a Russian-language website advertising its services as an authorised dealer of Caterpillar hardware and equipment, with 14 offices in the country.

Mantrac said in May that it was winding down its business in Russia, more than a year after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine drew international condemnation and calls from Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson for businesses to withdraw.

 

Four years (to the day) is a long time in politics 

2 hours ago, sidcow said:

And I'd LOVE to know who the remaining 30% are who think getting a GP or Hospital appointment is easy. I can only assume that's almost entirely made up of people who have never actually tried to get an appointment. The super healthy and people who use private doctors and hospitals. 

That's not what it says. Of the people who were dissatisfied, 70% said that the difficulty in getting an appointment was in their top three reasons for being dissatisfied. 

Someone might think that all five are true.

Edit 

If the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011 hadn't been repealed, Parliament would have been dissolved today ready for the General Election which the law would have required to take place on May 2nd.

Bloody Johnson, still ruining things two years later.

49 minutes ago, Genie said:

They’ve made him sound like a new football signing  

They've been doing that for a while now. The last proper reshuffle was all done as a Fabrizio Romano piss-take.

At least they've managed to fill the Lee Anderson role with no significant drop in quality

3 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said:

2/3 

Titanic wasn't what I had in mind.  

I assume yours is Lord Of The Rings. But Titanic is obviously the better answer

Back To The Future, Fight Club and Titanic.

59 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

After seeing him in that Gif does anyone know where kieran Clark is now? 

Think he scored for Stoke's reserves against our u-23s a few weeks back.

On 17/03/2024 at 09:39, ml1dch said:

You're projecting a level of political engagement and interest amongst the wider population which just doesn't exist. At most recent polling around 10% of British adults didn't know who Rishi Sunak is and nearly a quarter didn't know who Keir Starmer is. 

QED, if you're still labouring under the misapprehension that the next election will be fought on what Stockport thinks about Douglas Murray's view on trans-rights and how the woke blob is silencing him.

20 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

It's on the back of the shirt isn't it??

Without wanting to flood this thread with more images than is necessary (although I guess it goes with the thread title)

4 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

I just think it's because originally it was a St Georges cross, which people like on there England shirts. 

How many do you see? 

43 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

is this?

 

Pretty sure that's the Angel Of The North.

I for one, was furious about this:

8 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Even the politicians are involved ffs, it's so **** lame.

They'll change St George into a Turkish bloke next, just to satisfy the woke mob. 

Remember how everyone lost their collective shit about this being the Team GB shirt at the 2012 Olympics with its colour-changed flag?

Yeah, me neither. 

3 minutes ago, foreveryoung said:

Seems 90% of fans aren't happy, VT though, always the opposite end of the majority. 

Oh yes? Where is your "90% of fans" figure coming from?

I'd bet that mos people couldn't care less, with a small number on either side of their culture war divide deciding that they have to be Very Angry about it.

8 hours ago, bickster said:

I also want an elected second chamber devoid of any party allegiance and (this one bit is my own personal fantasy)

I only raise this because you're normally right about most stuff on these threads, but this is a terrible, unworkable idea. 

7 hours ago, Danwichmann said:

Recent conversation with American colleagues went something like this:

"I saw a driving video from UK earlier, they were using miles per hour. I thought you guys were metric?" 

"Driving distance and speed is always miles, but if we're talking about height it can be ft or cm. Other things vary from person to person."

"So what about weight, do you use pounds or kg?" 

"most people use stones" 

"Wtf is that?" 

"I've no idea, I don't think anyone else uses it except us." 

I would probably have just sent him this excellent SNL sketch on the topic from a few months back.

13 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

seeing the tories relegated to the 3rd post popular political party in the UK but then having reform as the new opposition

Even if Reform win a seat (and they'd be unlikely to even do that), the Lib Dems would become the opposition in the event of a Tory wipeout. 

All going well.

2 hours ago, Dodgyknees said:

Insane that Mainoo gets a call up after 15 caos, yet Ramsey was on fire last season and didn’t get a look in. Grealish had to prove himself. Konsa consistently overlooked. Mental.

I imagine if attacking midfield, cutting-in-from-the-left were a position that England were lacking in then Ramsey probably would have got a call-up. But last season the likes Rashford, Grealish and Foden were doing just fine.

Likewise, if we had a young player who was excelling in a position where England's current choices are Jordan Henderson and Kalvin Phillips he might have been called up just like Mainoo has been.