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How'd you work that out then?Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:01 pm Sadly yes, I couldn’t be pals with myopic supporters of abbot & team nonce-protect
Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:01 pm Sadly yes, I couldn’t be pals with myopic supporters of abbot & team nonce-protect
Some irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help him
And to me there isn’t really any difference in scale as to their uselessness - so what ?Tichtheid wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:23 pmYeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:01 pm Sadly yes, I couldn’t be pals with myopic supporters of abbot & team nonce-protect
But Yeeb, I thought we had so much common ground - in my view there is a difference in scale between the individuals in terms of unsuitability for office, but that doesn't mean I actually support either of them. You've got to think, man, not just see what you want to in a post. I'm trying to help you here.
Same with the parties, I haven't voted for Labour since 2005 and have no intention of doing so again unless it's the only viable option of keeping an extreme right winger out. I get the feeling that you haven't been a full-throated supporter of Starmer, Corbyn or Blair - again, common ground. I really think we could be getting somewhere here, we could be mates, talking about all sorts of groovy stuff - Russian and Chinese money in UK politics, a legal system which protects that money, offshoring and tax dodging, lobbying. We could have a right old time.
Oh dear!!!!!Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pmSome irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help him
Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:30 pmAnd to me there isn’t really any difference in scale as to their uselessness - so what ?Tichtheid wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:23 pmYeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:01 pm Sadly yes, I couldn’t be pals with myopic supporters of abbot & team nonce-protect
But Yeeb, I thought we had so much common ground - in my view there is a difference in scale between the individuals in terms of unsuitability for office, but that doesn't mean I actually support either of them. You've got to think, man, not just see what you want to in a post. I'm trying to help you here.
Same with the parties, I haven't voted for Labour since 2005 and have no intention of doing so again unless it's the only viable option of keeping an extreme right winger out. I get the feeling that you haven't been a full-throated supporter of Starmer, Corbyn or Blair - again, common ground. I really think we could be getting somewhere here, we could be mates, talking about all sorts of groovy stuff - Russian and Chinese money in UK politics, a legal system which protects that money, offshoring and tax dodging, lobbying. We could have a right old time.
Past ten out of ten for being utterly shit for public office, there isn’t really a Spinal tap turn up dial to 11. You somehow saying they are especially different , is baffling
Rizz ffs man…Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pmSome irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help him
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/pol ... -387811/Conservative Party divides have deepened after Robert Jenrick supporting activists, who aided his leadership ambitions, set up a new party forum called “Blue Monday” earlier this week, The London Economic can reveal.
The group of nearly 400 pro-Jenrick supporters, including “councillors and MPs,” have secretly criticised the communication skills of Kemi Badenoch since it launched on Monday morning.
Its description reads: “The Blue Monday Community is committed to advocating for and supporting the Conservative Party”. Before its name change, it was called “Conservatives for Jenrick” and supported the former immigration minister’s leadership campaign.
He's not even used it properly.yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:08 amRizz ffs man…Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pmSome irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help himSaintK wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:04 pm
How'd you work that out then?
Head back to PR then. The cess pit that is the UK Politics thread there will be much more to your taste.
Haven't a clue what it means TBHBiffer wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 12:37 pmHe's not even used it properly.yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:08 amRizz ffs man…Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm
Some irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help him
Aaah
WTF you in about, I was perfectly charming to him in how i reposted his quotes about abusing his own child to nuliffy iirc his assertion that there is no noncing in IrelandBiffer wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 12:37 pmHe's not even used it properly.yermum wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:08 amRizz ffs man…Yeeb wrote: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm
Some irisher perma me there , as he couldn’t take the craig when I gave him Rizz about reminding him of admitting he abused his kids. I even quoted his own posts to help jog his memory , sadly it didn’t help him
Like Yeeb
Aaah that'll be it then I'm an ageing babyboomer!!!sockwithaticket wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:27 pmIt's very much a Gen Z thing that's roundly derided and mocked by anyone else who encounters it.
Biffer wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:34 am Liz Truss has sent a cease and desist letter to Keir Starmer claiming it's defamatory to say she crashed the economy.
Love to see that one go to court.
Not a chance in hell. Doubt she could afford the costs and other than right wing American nutjobs can't see anyone funding her.Biffer wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:34 am Liz Truss has sent a cease and desist letter to Keir Starmer claiming it's defamatory to say she crashed the economy.
Love to see that one go to court.
The lawyers even suggest that the assertions from Sir Keir before the July general election [that Truss did crash the economy] contributed towards Ms Truss losing her battle to be re-elected as the MP for South West Norfolk.
At the core of the row are the weeks after Ms Truss’s so-called mini-Budget in September 2022, when financial markets reacted negatively to its major tax cuts funded by borrowing.
The legal letter argues that the financial movements did not amount to an economic crash, since there was no fall in economic output or rise in unemployment – the usual signifiers of such an event.
The lawyers back up their claim by quote a report from Andrew Lilico, a rightwing economist who advised Truss when she was running for the Tory leadership. The report says the “financial volatility” of 2022 did not amount to the economy crashing, and that the mini-budget was only one component of that volatility anyway.
Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has suggested it is not impossible that Britain could become an Iran-style enemy of America, led by an Islamist government, within the next 20 years.
She raised the suggestion in a speech today to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington, reviving a suggestion originally made by JD Vance before he was picked by Donald Trump to be vice president.
Braverman indulged in further anti-Muslim scaremongering in the Q&A. Referring to Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, she falsely described him as an “Islamist extremist”.
She justified this by saying that he had looked at Islamist material online. But Rudakubana came from a Christian family, and although he had looked at Islamist material online, he had also looked at lots of other extremely violent material online that did not have an Islamist connection.
I'm never quite sure whethe she's genuinely mental or just a somewhat thick grifter. I tend to lean towards the latter and her general lack of brains is why what she says is often so hyperbolic or plain ridiculous. It's also why she's in America giving these sorts of speeches - chasing money and telling a paying audience what they want to hear. If she was just a loon she'd be screeching from the back benches in the Commons instead.SaintK wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:15 pm She has completely lost it.........whatever it was she had!!!Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has suggested it is not impossible that Britain could become an Iran-style enemy of America, led by an Islamist government, within the next 20 years.
She raised the suggestion in a speech today to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington, reviving a suggestion originally made by JD Vance before he was picked by Donald Trump to be vice president.
Braverman indulged in further anti-Muslim scaremongering in the Q&A. Referring to Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, she falsely described him as an “Islamist extremist”.
She justified this by saying that he had looked at Islamist material online. But Rudakubana came from a Christian family, and although he had looked at Islamist material online, he had also looked at lots of other extremely violent material online that did not have an Islamist connection.
Maybe she thinks it was only the Islamic stuff that made him kill children - it’s a very strange piece of logic though , and further proof she isn’t really fit for public officeSaintK wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:15 pm She has completely lost it.........whatever it was she had!!!Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has suggested it is not impossible that Britain could become an Iran-style enemy of America, led by an Islamist government, within the next 20 years.
She raised the suggestion in a speech today to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington, reviving a suggestion originally made by JD Vance before he was picked by Donald Trump to be vice president.
Braverman indulged in further anti-Muslim scaremongering in the Q&A. Referring to Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, she falsely described him as an “Islamist extremist”.
She justified this by saying that he had looked at Islamist material online. But Rudakubana came from a Christian family, and although he had looked at Islamist material online, he had also looked at lots of other extremely violent material online that did not have an Islamist connection.
Like a few others in her party/Reform I honestly think she has been radicalized by the white, right wing, quasi religious, xenphobic, racist fundamentalists. Any sane person with access to all the info would never come to such a crazy conclusion as she has. It is just a poor mans/womans rehash of the great replacement theory. Hopefully Prevent have her in their sights as she seems to fit their definition?sockwithaticket wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:19 pmI'm never quite sure whethe she's genuinely mental or just a somewhat thick grifter. I tend to lean towards the latter and her general lack of brains is why what she says is often so hyperbolic or plain ridiculous. It's also why she's in America giving these sorts of speeches - chasing money and telling a paying audience what they want to hear. If she was just a loon she'd be screeching from the back benches in the Commons instead.SaintK wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 5:15 pm She has completely lost it.........whatever it was she had!!!Suella Braverman, the former Tory home secretary, has suggested it is not impossible that Britain could become an Iran-style enemy of America, led by an Islamist government, within the next 20 years.
She raised the suggestion in a speech today to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington, reviving a suggestion originally made by JD Vance before he was picked by Donald Trump to be vice president.
Braverman indulged in further anti-Muslim scaremongering in the Q&A. Referring to Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, she falsely described him as an “Islamist extremist”.
She justified this by saying that he had looked at Islamist material online. But Rudakubana came from a Christian family, and although he had looked at Islamist material online, he had also looked at lots of other extremely violent material online that did not have an Islamist connection.
All Politicians at present seem to be lacking in Statesmanship. Oz is no differentSandstorm wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:59 pm Braverman is a 7-time failed politician doing whatever she can to make some money now, before she's broomed off into the weeds again. She'll say anything to make a buck. Sadly this is the moment in history when her kind of stupid, racist dog-whistle speech sells seats.
I hope we look back on this decade and all hang our heads in shame.
Speaking as a member of GenX, we’ve failed. The things we like about our generation, the not giving a fuck in particular, means we’ve produced no serious politicians, no leaders, no statesmen. There hasn’t been a GenX President of the US, and there probably won’t be. The UK has had three GenX PMs - Cameron, Truss and Sunak. France, Macron.mat the expat wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:13 amAll Politicians at present seem to be lacking in Statesmanship. Oz is no differentSandstorm wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:59 pm Braverman is a 7-time failed politician doing whatever she can to make some money now, before she's broomed off into the weeds again. She'll say anything to make a buck. Sadly this is the moment in history when her kind of stupid, racist dog-whistle speech sells seats.
I hope we look back on this decade and all hang our heads in shame.
It is a bit worrying - I'm the same as the average of these guys in the Senate and my main aims in life now are now getting my handicap down and making it to the loo in time!Hal Jordan wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:56 am The US is verging on a gerontocracy in terms of its legislative houses, Congress got a bit younger (av. 58.4 years) but the Senate is God's waiting room (64.3) with some Senators way past it, mentally and physically. But if they quit, the party loses their seats on committees etc , so cling on in there!
Loldpedin wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:13 amIt is a bit worrying - I'm the same as the average of these guys in the Senate and my main aims in life now are now getting my handicap down and making it to the loo in time!Hal Jordan wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:56 am The US is verging on a gerontocracy in terms of its legislative houses, Congress got a bit younger (av. 58.4 years) but the Senate is God's waiting room (64.3) with some Senators way past it, mentally and physically. But if they quit, the party loses their seats on committees etc , so cling on in there!
Boomers still had the balance of power for Cameron, etc. Same in Oz for Conservative votersBiffer wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 6:27 amSpeaking as a member of GenX, we’ve failed. The things we like about our generation, the not giving a fuck in particular, means we’ve produced no serious politicians, no leaders, no statesmen. There hasn’t been a GenX President of the US, and there probably won’t be. The UK has had three GenX PMs - Cameron, Truss and Sunak. France, Macron.mat the expat wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:13 amAll Politicians at present seem to be lacking in Statesmanship. Oz is no differentSandstorm wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:59 pm Braverman is a 7-time failed politician doing whatever she can to make some money now, before she's broomed off into the weeds again. She'll say anything to make a buck. Sadly this is the moment in history when her kind of stupid, racist dog-whistle speech sells seats.
I hope we look back on this decade and all hang our heads in shame.
We’ve shat the bed as a generation and let the fucking loonies in.
Yeah, let's blame other generations againmat the expat wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:35 amBoomers still had the balance of power for Cameron, etc. Same in Oz for Conservative votersBiffer wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 6:27 amSpeaking as a member of GenX, we’ve failed. The things we like about our generation, the not giving a fuck in particular, means we’ve produced no serious politicians, no leaders, no statesmen. There hasn’t been a GenX President of the US, and there probably won’t be. The UK has had three GenX PMs - Cameron, Truss and Sunak. France, Macron.mat the expat wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 2:13 am
All Politicians at present seem to be lacking in Statesmanship. Oz is no different
We’ve shat the bed as a generation and let the fucking loonies in.
Luckily, the demographics have tipped over here
We wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.Hugo wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:28 am Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.
I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.
Wonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.Sandstorm wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:04 amWe wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.Hugo wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:28 am Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.
I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.
Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.
My wife is of Goan ancestry (first generation of her family to be born in the UK, but third generation to be born on a different Continent to the parents - India - Africa - UK).Yeeb wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 11:07 amWonder what the actual % of gen x that has shagged other races is for the Uk, I reckon it’s surprisingly small. Was just the one guy in my peer circle in Berkshire who had a black girlfriend for a while, and he got the nickname SR71 from it as was uncommon.Sandstorm wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:04 amWe wasted our youth doing good drugs, openly shagging people from other races and welcoming homosexuality as completely normal behaviour.Hugo wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:28 am Realistically, what could have us gen xers have done differently? We are not a not a numerically large or influential generation and things were just about ok for us that there was nothing for us to revolt against.
I just don't think we've had enough of the voting power or wealth to be held to account for the sorry state of the world.
Instead we should have been buying guns, oil shares and disowning our gender-curious children.