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On 20/02/2020 at 19:47, bickster said:

(Virginia Bottomley reference)

My father's ex-girlfriend from their University of Essex days, so he claims. 

Given he used to sell copies of Socialist Worker, I am however inclined to take his claim with a pinch of salt. 

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1 hour ago, ml1dch said:

My father's ex-girlfriend from their University of Essex days, so he claims. 

Given he used to sell copies of Socialist Worker, I am however inclined to take his claim with a pinch of salt. 

Nah that’s actually totally believable, plenty of shags across the battles lines happen at Uni

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The Tories ignored expert flood advice in favour of austerity. Behold the results

The Pitt review predicted the current crisis in 2008. Why did Conservative governments refuse to listen?

.... Part of the answer lies in the failure of the broadcast media, with only a few honourable exceptions, to hold Conservative governments to account. I have not seen any television reports on the recent flooding that have mentioned austerity – let alone the Pitt review. Informing the public is invariably limited to showing us pictures of flood plains and submerged living rooms. When a minister is occasionally questioned about state spending, they roll out a prepared soundbite to put the government in the most favourable light – and the interview moves on.

This isn’t about political bias in the media. An obsession with breaking news has crowded out memory and background research. Flood victims ask why this keeps happening to them – but ministers simply respond with statistics that their interviewers have not been briefed about. No interviewer asks ministers why they have ignored the Pitt review, because they don’t know that the Pitt review ever existed. Increasingly, ministers are simply not made available for comment – and yet even then, producers seem reluctant to provide information that puts the government in a bad light, because that might seem “unbalanced”.

If much of the media is bereft of the information that can hold the government to account, then don’t be surprised when people elect governments that ignore experts.

 

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35 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

He eats Ready Salted crisps, except for when he's being extravagant when he eats slightly different Ready Salted crisps

What a boring word removed

Smells a bit like his old boss “I’m a regular guy, call me Dave” 

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49 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

He eats Ready Salted crisps, except for when he's being extravagant when he eats slightly different Ready Salted crisps

What a boring word removed

You'd be hard pushed to call Pringles "Crisps" tbh 

the bigger story is the saddo's  boycotting Yorkshire tea just because  some politician was photoed  with a bag of it , they should have a word with themselves before its too late

 

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44 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

the bigger story is the saddo's  boycotting Yorkshire tea just because  some politician was photoed  with a bag of it , they should have a word with themselves before its too late

Agreed, being from Yorkshire where I'm informed they play B**tles music in eateries is a far greater reason

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2 hours ago, tonyh29 said:

You'd be hard pushed to call Pringles "Crisps" tbh 

the bigger story is the saddo's  boycotting Yorkshire tea just because  some politician was photoed  with a bag of it , they should have a word with themselves before its too late

 

Hopefully he will plug oxygen next so the saddo's can boycott that. 

I think with the Yorkshire tea tweet and the crisp one from JRM, they are just trolling people now. 

If Gove tweets about Haribo tomorrow then we'll know for sure! 

 

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