VILLAMARV Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) 23 hours ago, blandy said: Yeah. None of that fancy foreign muck. Gimme Pizza any day of the week. You may jest but someone actually said exactly this to me once, but about Ravioli Edited October 1, 2018 by VILLAMARV correcting my memory 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chrisp65 Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) 'Scotland will not be permitted' I guess the Scots are happy we're finally throwing off the shackles of the undemocratic soviet EU prison super state. Edited October 1, 2018 by chrisp65 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 (edited) British people who earn less than £18,600 per year cannot live with their non-EU spouses or partners in the UK. You could maybe start there huh. Edited October 1, 2018 by HanoiVillan 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted October 1, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2018 Anyone remember this lady? I was sure we debated her extensively at the time, but a search of this thread and the Labour one only turns up a couple of posts. Anyway, Aditya Chakrabortty, who is one of maximum two or three worthwhile people at the Guardian these days, followed up and it's interesting what's happened: '[. . .] To see how this works in practice, ignore the autocued remarks made in Birmingham this week and think about another speech, made three years ago by a woman in the audience for Question Time. Perhaps you remember Michelle Dorrell: dressed in a grey jacket and minding her Ps and Qs, she suddenly exploded at the then-cabinet minister Amber Rudd for defending cuts in tax credits. Dorrell told Rudd that she’d voted Tory six months earlier – but now she was furious. “I work bloody hard for my money to provide for my children … and you’re going to take it away from me and them. I can hardly afford the rent, the bills and you’re going to take more from me.” And audience members in Dover started chanting at Rudd: “Shame on you! Shame on you!” At the time, I wrote on these pages that that was a seminal moment in the politics of austerity: the point at which the government could no longer pretend that the cuts were happening only to shirkers. And Dorrell was exactly the kind of natural Tory voter the party could ill afford to lose. Dorrell told me this weekend that she’d never planned to go off like that, but when Rudd spoke she felt “a force from inside my belly”. She’d lost her job in 2011, had to go through the horror of the benefits system and then retrained and set up a nail bar. She’d played it by the book, done everything the Tories told her to do – and still she was, to use an old phrase, just about managing. Instead of birthday and Christmas presents, her dad would buy £100 of food from Sainsbury’s or Lidl and restock the fridge. At first business went well, but the economy in her hometown of Folkestone is as moribund as anywhere else in non-metropolitan Britain. She’s just closed her nail business and works in a local shop on a zero-hours contract, getting eight to 12 hours of shifts a week. She needs more, but the manager says the company will never give her 16 hours because they don’t want to pay employers’ national insurance. She still needs benefits to top up wages, yet the benefits system keeps getting meaner. In April 2011, 6.4 million families were on tax credits, according to Carl Emmerson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. By this April that was down to 3.8 million: of those losing out, a tiny number may have moved to universal credit – but many millions more simply got poorer. Dorrell, who is in her late 30s, describes herself as “a child of Thatcherite economics”. Her parents are Tory, her hometown is Tory. And in the 1980s, someone like her might have gone along with the Conservatives’ promises. In the last couple of years she’s become radicalised, joining Labour and Momentum. She talks about local GP surgeries closing and overcrowding in classrooms. Talking to me, she looks out of her bedroom window on to a car park where drug dealers hang about. Her children are still playing by the rules – and getting punished for it. Her eldest daughter is at university, set to graduate with £65,000 of debt. For her children, austerity is all they’ve known – at home, in the classroom, at the start of their working lives. What the winter of discontent was to the Labour party for a decade – the indelible stain, the warning at the ballot box – the decade of cuts may prove to be for May’s party. “The Tories are screwed for a generation, aren’t they?” says Dorrell. “My kids will grow up knowing they’ve been screwed over by that lot.”' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/01/theresa-may-voters-tory-policies-labour Austerity has **** sucked. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted October 2, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 2, 2018 To balance the never ending cavalcade of bollocks that spouts from the collective anus of this Tory government, they announced support for a good thing today - civil partnerships for heterosexual couples as well. Now, back to your regularly scheduled watery arse vomit from 2018s Tory party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 2, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 2, 2018 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 2, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 2, 2018 9 minutes ago, Chindie said: To balance the never ending cavalcade of bollocks that spouts from the collective anus of this Tory government, they announced support for a good thing today - civil partnerships for heterosexual couples as well. Now, back to your regularly scheduled watery arse vomit from 2018s Tory party. They also announced they were going to make employers taking a percentage of staff tips illegal, yet another steal from Labour EDIT: THis appears to be their big policy announcement for the conference. Just shows how out of touch and creatively bankrupt they've become. Their big policy announcement is a complete steal of a seriously minor Labour Policy, the sort of policy Labour made up over a few beers down the pub one night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Words fail me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 2, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 2, 2018 1 minute ago, markavfc40 said: Words fail me That's just bizarre logic from a very warped mind 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 18 minutes ago, bickster said: That's just bizarre logic from a very warped mind His sister's a looker is she? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 33 minutes ago, bickster said: I thought it was quite telling last night, Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis was interviewing that cheese woman and she just straight asked her if May was alright. Said she’d not been in the main conference hall when ministers were speaking, hadn’t done the usual pressers and had last minute cancelled on an interview for Newsnight. Concerned, Emily just wanted to know that everything was alright with her. Cheese woman didn’t really answer the question, but probably just because they’re trained not to ever answer any question. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted October 2, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 2, 2018 I believe the stipulations for the Beeb include soft focus, pre-submitted questions and a suitably stately looking chair and backdrop - as well as almost complete editorial control. Not only do her party openly plan policy that's different to hers, but they also try to keep her away from anyone who might ask her a question. She's not allowed out to play and no one listens to her. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 They've had problems with bums on seats, even with their big hitters in their deliberately down sized venue. It's been noted. Not been an issue for Rees-Prick and would be slave trader Priti Patel, who got numbers for their off campus 'We'll Exploit Brexit' gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Got handed a flyer to a Rees-Mogg and Redwood fringe meeting. Gonna give it a miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 2, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 2, 2018 43 minutes ago, Xann said: They've had problems with bums on seats, even with their big hitters in their deliberately down sized venue. It's been noted. Not been an issue for Rees-Prick and would be slave trader Priti Patel, who got numbers for their off campus 'We'll Exploit Brexit' gigs. Are you sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted October 2, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted October 2, 2018 56 minutes ago, Xann said: They've had problems with bums on seats It's still a big collection of arses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I see Boris is at the hard brexit stuff again. This time talking about trade deals and how the EU stop us trading with the rest of the world. I'd like to hear which countries he would like us to trade with, which we don't already trade with and how much he thinks they are worth. And then I would like him to justify alienating the EU as a trade partner, our closest geographic and political allies. I've heard the 'economic factors are not important because it's the principal' from supporters of Brexit. But here is a leading hard brexiteer suggesting that we will do amazing trade deals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 28 minutes ago, bickster said: Are you sure? Will upload the pics from my work machine tomorrow. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 The one bit I saw was when the new Welsh tory leader, Strax, stood to give his speech and a half full hall stood up and filed out as he was speaking - so the camera very quickly just zoomed in on the stage, rather than the leaving queues in the pews. Funny thing was, he called for a Welsh Assembly election and May made a rare intervention to rule it out and say there absolutely would not be one. Funny thing is, it's legally got **** all to do with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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