Sid4ever Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 If only somebody in the travel industry was a Tory donor. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 I guess I should have already piped up by now with my usual reminder that the House of Lords is an (unnecessary) sewer of corruption right in the heart of British public life. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted June 6, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) Could put this in various threads, but anyway... I daren’t imagine the devastating impact Mr Anderson’s absence will have on the tournament. Quote A Conservative MP has vowed to boycott England’s games in the European Championship over players’ decision to take the knee before matches. Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, said that by taking the knee the England team was supporting a “political movement” and risked alienating “traditional supporters”. “For the first time in my life I will not be watching my beloved England team whilst they are supporting a political movement whose core principles aim to undermine our very way of life,” he said in a Facebook post. Guardian link Edit - I see it has indeed been posted in the other football section too. Edited June 6, 2021 by Mark Albrighton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 On 03/06/2021 at 22:15, HanoiVillan said: I guess I should have already piped up by now with my usual reminder that the House of Lords is an (unnecessary) sewer of corruption right in the heart of British public life. And so far out of touch it's unreal. Hardly anyone of them would know how much a bottle of milk is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted June 6, 2021 38 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said: Could put this in various threads, but anyway... I daren’t imagine the devastating impact Mr Anderson’s absence will have on the tournament. Guardian link Edit - I see it has indeed been posted in the other football section too. It took me all of ten seconds to find this... Quote MP claims Gary Lineker is 'virtue signalling' and should put up migrants in his own home 'It's the liberal left again, virtue signalling, trying to say all the right things' Notts Live EDIT: One might suggest that Lee Anderson MP is nothing more than a tinpot racist word removed 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blandy Posted June 6, 2021 Author Moderator Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2021 32 minutes ago, bickster said: It took me all of ten seconds to find this... Notts Live EDIT: One might suggest that Lee Anderson MP is nothing more than a tinpot racist word removed I mean to be fair, apart from the Marcus Rashford efforts to get food for poor children and books, and Tyrone's kids coaching stuff, and Jordan Henderson's efforts on merseyside and Jack's kindness to kids and others, and numerous other examples of the selflessness of professional footballers, so particularly evident through the pandemic, and apart from them being millionaires and stuff, it's abundantly clear that they are just selfish marxist infiltrators who want to smash the system, and the last thing anyone should do is support their campaign for equal treatment for people. I mean it's obviously political lunacy* *if you're a massive bell. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 6, 2021 Moderator Share Posted June 6, 2021 In news that will Shock absolutely no-one, Hat Mancock caught lying #1325763 Quote Matt Hancock denies claiming to have ‘thrown a protective ring around care homes’ despite saying it live on TV Health secretary insists notorious statement came ‘much later’ - but footage shows he claimed to have acted ‘right from the start’ Indy 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted June 7, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2021 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 What the **** is he doing? It looks like he's gone for a drive and left the car at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 8, 2021 He's such a strange strange man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted June 8, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 8, 2021 Did we reach negative death day? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 I’d say he was doing an impression of Pinocchio but his nose is far too small. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Gerrymandering of constituency boundaries about to deliver the Tories another 5 seats on the last election vote. Seems to be a thing for Right wing Parties on both sides of the pond. Expect photo ID, to combat non existent fraud, to be next on the agenda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: He's such a strange strange man He's definitely on the spectrum is some capacity. His penchant for mistruths and callousness is all him though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 1 hour ago, meregreen said: Gerrymandering of constituency boundaries about to deliver the Tories another 5 seats on the last election vote. Seems to be a thing for Right wing Parties on both sides of the pond. Expect photo ID, to combat non existent fraud, to be next on the agenda. It's not gerrymandering though. Gerrymandering means politicians - or their parties - picking their own lines. In the UK, the Boundary Commission chooses the boundaries. The next question is 'are the parameters set by the government for the Boundary Commission unfair', and I don't think so particularly. The idea of equalising constituency sizes is messy, but it does follow a basic principle of democratic fairness, that one vote should not be worth more than another. It is true that the government may be slightly advantaged by population growth in the English countryside and the opposition slightly disadvantaged by population decline in the south Wales valleys, but it's not unreasonable to update boundaries to reflect where people actually live. On the other point you made, about ID nonsense, I agree with you that they're talking about bringing it in, but I'm not sure how far they'll go with it (I'm not sure they realised when they started pushing the idea that the main group without photo ID are pensioners). Time will tell I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 (edited) On the topic of constituency boundaries: The West Midlands maps can be found here: https://boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/review2021/2021-06-08_Initial_Proposals_Mapbook_West_Midlands.pdf (very large pdf) Several W Midlands constituencies see no changes at all: Burton / Cannock Chase / Sutton Coldfield / North Warwickshire / Nuneaton / Coventry NW / Bromsgrove / Worcester / West Worcestershire. Wyre Forest also sees no boundary changes, but will now be called Kidderminster. From the maps, the main oddities are that Stourbridge has become weirdly shaped, taking in Netherton and other areas Dudley-side of Merry Hill; Blackheath has been removed from Halesowen and Rowley Regis (now Halesowen, and probably much less competitive) and added to a new 'Smethwick and Rowley Regis' seat that also eliminates Warley; Selly Oak is awkwardly split across two constituencies; and Walsall seems to be going down to only one seat, though I haven't checked how different the actual boundaries are there. Edited June 8, 2021 by HanoiVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 I might have got a bit carried away... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted June 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2021 Tory MP George Useless complaining today that the Brexit deal is clearly ‘bonkers’ if we can’t sell great british sausages in Northern Ireland. What he needs to do, in my opinion, is find out what bunch of idiots voted it through without reading it or understanding it. Find out the incompetent people responsible for this being law, and have them removed from post. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HanoiVillan Posted June 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2021 31 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Tory MP George Useless complaining today that the Brexit deal is clearly ‘bonkers’ if we can’t sell great british sausages in Northern Ireland. What he needs to do, in my opinion, is find out what bunch of idiots voted it through without reading it or understanding it. Find out the incompetent people responsible for this being law, and have them removed from post. literally screaming at the car radio WELL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE **** SIGNED IT THEN SHOULD YOU, no good for my blood pressure, jeez 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Pretty depressing though. It'll be framed across the media as "Brussels dictates that keeping sausages out of Northern Ireland is more important than the fragile peace" and the credulous halfwits who vote for them will gormlessly nod along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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