The banker loving, baby-eating Tory party thread (regenerated)

[tonyh29]

19 hours ago, Davkaus said:

Apart from the ridiculous sentiment, it's hardly even English. "The people you have chosen the live", what the **** does that mean? This imbecile is an elected politician. 

if we discounted things on the internet for "hardly being English"  , we'd never read a single thing Dem posts again

[bickster]

6 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

if we discounted things on the internet for "hardly being English"  , we'd never read a single thing Dem posts again

I've just written to a firm of solicitors telling them if they can't be bothered to write their request in English then I can't be bothered to read it

[blandy]

1 hour ago, tonyh29 said:

if we discounted things on the internet for "hardly being English"  , we'd never read a single thing Dem posts again

[Xann]

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In a move that must be gutting for young Tories across the UK, Nando's has declined to be part of the Conservative Party's plans to offer a retail discount card to attract new members.

Joe.co.uk

[HanoiVillan]

Such a pathetic idea in the first place. 

[Amsterdam_Neil_D]

1 hour ago, Xann said:

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In a move that must be gutting for young Tories across the UK, Nando's has declined to be part of the Conservative Party's plans to offer a retail discount card to attract new members.

I suppose all companies like Nando's can't be seen to promote far right organisations such as you mention.  

 

[HanoiVillan]

From hashtag abuse to compound adjective abuse

EDIT: Not fair to make you suffer through that without offering a prize at the end:

 

Edited May 24, 2018 by HanoiVillan

[snowychap]

'blob-bashing'?

[bickster]

9 minutes ago, snowychap said:

'blob-bashing'?

I presume a typo for blog unless she's fighting her period

[Dr_Pangloss]

 

[blandy]

8 hours ago, snowychap said:

'blob-bashing'?

 

[Xann]

rocket polisher Blair played his part, but the current crop of fat fingered tax evading pricks are determined to line their chum's pockets.

[Xann]

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Britain’s Big Squeeze

In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything

After eight years of budget cutting, Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty.

... At Fulwood Green Medical Center in Liverpool, Dr. Simon Bowers, a general practitioner, points to austerity as an aggravating factor in the flow of stress-related maladies he encounters — high blood pressure, heart problems, sleeplessness, anxiety.

He argues that the cuts, and the deterioration of the National Health Service, represent a renouncement of Britain’s historical debts. He rattles off the lowlights — the slave trave, colonial barbarity.

“We as a country said, ‘We have been cruel. Let’s be nice now and look after everyone,’” Dr. Bowers says. “The N.H.S. has everyone’s back. It doesn’t matter how rich or poor you are. It’s written into the psyche of this country.”

“Austerity isn’t a necessity,” he continued. “It’s a political choice, to move Britain in a different way. I can’t see a rationale beyond further enriching the rich while making the lives of the poor more miserable.”...

New York Times

 

[snowychap]

Gavin Williamson cut off by TV interviewer for dodging questions:

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Defence secretary refuses to respond to claim he used ‘Trump-esque’ language

 

video on link

The defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, had a live television interview cut off after he repeatedly dodged a question about his “Trump-esque” approach to Russia in the aftermath of the Salisbury poisoning.

The Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley repeatedly tried to get Williamson to answer a question on Tuesday and terminated the interview when he felt it had become clear Williamson would not do so.

“What are they like? What are these politicians like, when you give them a straight question?” said a clearly exasperated Madeley afterwards.

He had asked Williamson: “You told Russia to ‘shut up and go away’. Do you regret that now? Do you think it was a bit too informal?”

In response, the defence secretary began by paying tribute to the health service staff who had tended to Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, the victims of the poisoning. Madeley cut him off, saying they could discuss the health workers in due course and asking him to answer the original question.

Rather than addressing his previous comments directly, Williamson variously sought to talk about Britain being unified over the poisoning of the Skripals, about Russia’s actions in a UK city and about the UK working with its global allies – interrupted by an increasingly frustrated Madeley at each turn.

“Mr Williamson, you are just not answering the question. I’m asking the question not on my behalf but on behalf of our viewers, so on behalf of the viewers, would you please answer the question,” he said at one point.

At another, he told Williamson: “You’re telling us what we know. We know what happened in Salisbury, we know how atrocious it was, we know how close these people came to death. The question is – I’ll try it one more time – do you regret using very casual, Trump-esque language like ‘shut up and go away’? Please don’t tell me what happened, because we know what happened. Do you regret using that language? That is the question.”

Finally giving up, Madeley told him: “Right, you’re not going to answer, are you? OK. All right, interview terminated because you won’t answer the question. It would be helpful if you answered a straight question with a straight answer.”

Shown up for being a clearing in the woods by Richard Madeley. That's low.

Edited May 29, 2018 by snowychap

[Amsterdam_Neil_D]

When is there a General election in the UK by date and when you think it will be ? (I quite like them)

[bickster]

13 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

When is there a General election in the UK by date and when you think it will be ? (I quite like them)

It's a new game show called Ask Arlene

[HanoiVillan]

'The Home Office has been ordered to review their case three times . . . so far, it has cost them £20,000 in legal fees'

 

[Seat68]

Without watching the video and purely looking at the headline. 16 years is hardly Windrush. I have shoes older. 

[snowychap]

3 hours ago, Seat68 said:

Without watching the video and purely looking at the headline. 16 years is hardly Windrush. I have shoes older. 

Therein lies a problem. It's not all 'Windrush'. If the end result of the issues that have been highlighted around those cases is to see them (i.e. 'Windrush') as some sort of benchmark then that's more than a real shame.

Edited May 31, 2018 by snowychap

[Amsterdam_Neil_D]

23 hours ago, bickster said:

It's a new game show called Ask Arlene

I am looking forward to the new "Strong and Stable",  I thought that was hillarious to be honest.  If they were "Strong and Stable" back then,  WTF are they now.