Genie Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, bickster said: The Indie is reporting that Liz Truss flew to Australia by Private Jet at a cost to the taxpayer of £500,000. WTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2022 She did so to win Britain an extra £10k a year in sales of Marmite. ... Wait, they've got their own? Shit. ... Wait, Marmite's owners might be moving the production outside the UK? **** she just spent half a million on a holiday, shiiiiiit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Genie Posted January 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2022 “At least” half a million quid on a flight that took off 2 hours before a direct flight from London, but arrived 5 hours later as it had to refuel twice. 150 tonnes of fuel burnt. 500 tonnes of CO2 generated All instead of business class seats on a daily Qantas flight at about £7.7k. They’re absolutely out of control. Not one of them has a conscience. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 17 minutes ago, Genie said: “At least” half a million quid on a flight that took off 2 hours before a direct flight from London, but arrived 5 hours later as it had to refuel twice. 150 tonnes of fuel burnt. 500 tonnes of CO2 generated All instead of business class seats on a daily Qantas flight at about £7.7k. They’re absolutely out of control. Not one of them has a conscience. Was it just her, or was there a bigger delegation including security etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 46 minutes ago, bickster said: The Indie is reporting that Liz Truss flew to Australia by Private Jet at a cost to the taxpayer of £500,000. In Liz we Truss God help us if she ends up being PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straggler Posted January 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2022 30 minutes ago, Genie said: “At least” half a million quid on a flight that took off 2 hours before a direct flight from London, but arrived 5 hours later as it had to refuel twice. 150 tonnes of fuel burnt. 500 tonnes of CO2 generated All instead of business class seats on a daily Qantas flight at about £7.7k. They’re absolutely out of control. Not one of them has a conscience. The disconnect with real life is unreal. £500k for a single flight is ok but you can feed a child for a week on this: 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 22 minutes ago, Panto_Villan said: Was it just her, or was there a bigger delegation including security etc? I assume there are at least some others, but even if there was 10 of them it’s still 6x more expensive (not to mention the environmental damage). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 27, 2022 Author Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2022 3 hours ago, bickster said: The Indie is reporting that Liz Truss flew to Australia by Private Jet at a cost to the taxpayer of £500,000. If she didn't want to go on a scheduled flight with the smelly poor people, she could surely have gone on that RAF Voyager that they got all tarted up for Bog Dig and the rest of them to flounce around in and use to "sell Britain". That wouldn't have cost 500 grand, though it would still have done greenhouse emissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 12 minutes ago, blandy said: If she didn't want to go on a scheduled flight with the smelly poor people, she could surely have gone on that RAF Voyager that they got all tarted up for Bog Dig and the rest of them to flounce around in and use to "sell Britain". That wouldn't have cost 500 grand, though it would still have done greenhouse emissions. I haven't delved too deeply but I think that was the plane she used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 How has this lasted all week? He will survive it, at least until the May elections. If the Tories get hammered they make get rid of him if they think they could lose their jobs. Its nothing to do with morals but self- preservation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) Not sure if this link will work (to a fb video) https://fb.watch/aOuR3g9yHl/ It’s Tory MP Lee Anderson saying how fed up he is with all the questions about their behaviour and wants to talk about something else. Poor guy. It must be really inconvenient. Edit: wow, the comments Edited January 27, 2022 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 20 minutes ago, Genie said: Not sure if this link will work (to a fb video) https://fb.watch/aOuR3g9yHl/ It’s Tory MP Lee Anderson saying how fed up he is with all the questions about their behaviour and wants to talk about something else. Poor guy. It must be really inconvenient. Edit: wow, the comments We deserve the politicians we have. It's as simple as that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Genie said: Edit: wow, the comments Especially this melt: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 21 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Especially this melt: Crikey some actually married the prick. He must have made that bit up surely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted January 27, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2022 I was briefly in Coventry on Saturday helping the inlaws. Got chatting to a neighbour, my sort of age, who was very excited about not needing to follow guidelines any more after today. He was "in two minds about Boris", though. Said what a great job he's doing, but the party thing was out of order. I reminded him of the billions wasted on PPE, contracts, track and trace etc and was met with the reply "True, but how bad could it have been if Labour were in charge?". I just replied "How bad could it be?", then left him to go about his ignorance. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 52 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Especially this melt: I assumed that guy was taking the piss, but maybe he was being serious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 30 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: I was briefly in Coventry on Saturday helping the inlaws. Got chatting to a neighbour, my sort of age, who was very excited about not needing to follow guidelines any more after today. He was "in two minds about Boris", though. Said what a great job he's doing, but the party thing was out of order. I reminded him of the billions wasted on PPE, contracts, track and trace etc and was met with the reply "True, but how bad could it have been if Labour were in charge?". I just replied "How bad could it be?", then left him to go about his ignorance. I mean, sounds like he’s a mindlessly “go team blue” person. His viewpoint makes sense if you view everything Labour do in the most negative possible light. There’s plenty of “go team red” people around too. Anyone who is willing to give one party their unconditional support is a blight on politics in my book, irrespective of their political persuasion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 27, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, Panto_Villan said: There’s plenty of “go team red” people around too. Nah, they are mainly "Go Team Messiah" people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2022 1 hour ago, NurembergVillan said: I was briefly in Coventry on Saturday helping the inlaws. Got chatting to a neighbour, my sort of age, who was very excited about not needing to follow guidelines any more after today. He was "in two minds about Boris", though. Said what a great job he's doing, but the party thing was out of order. I reminded him of the billions wasted on PPE, contracts, track and trace etc and was met with the reply "True, but how bad could it have been if Labour were in charge?". I just replied "How bad could it be?", then left him to go about his ignorance. Tbf he has a point. If Labour had won the Empire would have been handed over to the USSR and every person over 13 would have to bury a Jewish person once a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Panto_Villan said: I mean, sounds like he’s a mindlessly “go team blue” person. His viewpoint makes sense if you view everything Labour do in the most negative possible light. There’s plenty of “go team red” people around too. Anyone who is willing to give one party their unconditional support is a blight on politics in my book, irrespective of their political persuasion. It's sort of dismissing the point through whataboutism though isn't it? The blue side have been in unfettered power for over a decade now, made a complete disaster of many things during that time, how much longer can 'well some on the other side are loony too' truly go on for? Edited January 27, 2022 by StefanAVFC 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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