sidcow Posted April 17 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17 26 minutes ago, HKP90 said: I didn't realise there was another Laura Trott. I thought this was the Olympic cyclist for a second. Which disappointed me cos I really liked (like) her. Whoah. Hold your horses there slick. There is only one Laura Trott!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 17 Moderator Share Posted April 17 48 minutes ago, sidcow said: Yeah......but Laura Trott....mmmmmm This is more attractive (and speaks more sense) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sidcow Posted April 17 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17 47 minutes ago, bickster said: This is more attractive (and speaks more sense) Nicer hair too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 17 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17 23 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Ten years to save The West. The gift is strong in this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 (edited) I imagine that if it were a former Labour leader instead of a former Tory leader who had been using made-up quotes from massive anti-semites all about how the Rothschilds control what Governments are able to do, it might have got a bit more of an excitable reaction from the media. Edited April 17 by ml1dch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted April 17 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17 1 hour ago, bickster said: This is more attractive (and speaks more sense) Is it weird that the design of this bus reminds me of: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted April 17 VT Supporter Share Posted April 17 31 minutes ago, HKP90 said: Is it weird that the design of this bus reminds me of: Captain Orion I loved that show as a kid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 17 Author Moderator Share Posted April 17 4 hours ago, bickster said: This is more attractive (and speaks more sense) Phil Oakey hasn’t aged well 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’ Quote A Tory MP is under investigation over allegations that he misused campaign funds and abused his position after making a late-night phone call saying he’d been locked up by “bad people” who were demanding thousands of pounds, The Times can reveal. Mark Menzies, the Conservative MP for Fylde and a government trade envoy, rang an elderly local party volunteer at 3.15am in December saying he was locked in a flat and needed £5,000 as a matter of “life and death”. The sum, which rose to £6,500, was paid by his office manager from her personal bank account and subsequently reimbursed from campaign funds raised from donors. £14,000 given by donors for use on Tory campaign activities had previously been transferred to Menzies’s personal bank account and used for his private medical expenses. The Conservative Party has been aware of the allegations of potential fraud for more than three months and has taken no action I mean, it's just solid 10/10 Tory sleaze stuff. Great work from the lad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 17 Author Moderator Share Posted April 17 1 hour ago, ml1dch said: Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’ I mean, it's just solid 10/10 Tory sleaze stuff. Great work from the lad. My MP. Previously caught up, a few years ago, in some kind of Brazilian rent boy and drugs story, who said he was gonna clear his name in court, but somehow never quite got round to it. I mean, what they do in their lives is their business and if they like cocaine and prostitution, hypothetically, that’s y’know, not really any concern of mine. But it is a bit of a sign of some vulnerability and insecurity. It sounds like he’s not got his life in order. He nearly found a spine about fracking, but…didn’t. He nearly found a spine about…a few things, but didn’t. Soon enough, or perhaps not soon enough, someone else will be the MP for here. See ya, Mark, another who put party before the people who he represents or his own prospects. Now **** off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 8 hours ago, ml1dch said: Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’ I mean, it's just solid 10/10 Tory sleaze stuff. Great work from the lad. I had to laugh reading this, how do they keep ending up in these situations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Exciting day for the Tories Quote A council leader is facing allegations that he kicked, punched, spat at and throttled women. Jonathan Nunn, of West Northamptonshire Council, is also accused of threatening or controlling behaviour. The BBC has heard exclusive accounts from five women. Four had relationships with Mr Nunn between 1990 and 2013. The 59-year-old told the BBC he "strenuously denies" the allegations and said "domestic abuse is never acceptable". A long-serving Tory councillor, Mr Nunn was elected to lead the county's newly formed unitary authority in 2021. link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_ian_taylor Posted April 18 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18 17 hours ago, sidcow said: Ten years to save The West. The grift is strong in this one. FTFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 18 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18 23 hours ago, bickster said: About time someone on a TV station stopped letting them get away with this inflation line It's mad the number of people that still equate inflation going down with prices going down (although in this case it was probably deliberate) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 18 Author Moderator Share Posted April 18 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: It's mad the number of people that still equate inflation going down with prices going down (although in this case it was probably deliberate) In this case, that Tory person - she was actually (with some creative license) correct on food prices. While general (overall) inflation is, as you say, above zero, and therefore prices are rising, overall, for a significant number of food items prices are and have come down. Now that's where the creative license applies - because the basket of food items used to measure inflation has slightly crept up, overall, as some have risen and some have fallen in price, leaving food inflation overall at (I think) 0.2%. I imagine the weather and stuff will see prices leap again, and none of it (the fall in the cost of certain items) is anything to do with the government's actions, anyway. Ed Balls didn't actually pick up on the thing she "mis-spoke" about. But that's pedantry on my part - she said "food prices" he just picked up on "prices". A proper pedant would have said something like (in his response) "some food prices might have fallen, but others have risen and the cost of non food items has also continued to rise, not fall", but then both the viewers would have fallen asleep or switched off, so perhaps he dod well to pick up on any of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 18 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18 1 hour ago, blandy said: In this case, that Tory person - she was actually (with some creative license) correct on food prices. While general (overall) inflation is, as you say, above zero, and therefore prices are rising, overall, for a significant number of food items prices are and have come down. Now that's where the creative license applies - because the basket of food items used to measure inflation has slightly crept up, overall, as some have risen and some have fallen in price, leaving food inflation overall at (I think) 0.2%. I imagine the weather and stuff will see prices leap again, and none of it (the fall in the cost of certain items) is anything to do with the government's actions, anyway. Ed Balls didn't actually pick up on the thing she "mis-spoke" about. But that's pedantry on my part - she said "food prices" he just picked up on "prices". A proper pedant would have said something like (in his response) "some food prices might have fallen, but others have risen and the cost of non food items has also continued to rise, not fall", but then both the viewers would have fallen asleep or switched off, so perhaps he dod well to pick up on any of it. The irony of the one time a Tory actually correcting themselves being the rare occasion that they were actually right is staggering 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 18 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 18 Moderator Share Posted April 18 2 hours ago, sidcow said: Wouldn't touch her with a barge pole (unless it was to push her off a cliff) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted April 18 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18 On 17/04/2024 at 14:54, Designer1 said: Captain Orion I loved that show as a kid. A friend of a friend tells me you can get a 4DVD box set of every episode for about 20 quid on EBay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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