Politics

[Anorthernsoul 1221]

[Alex 34787]

Posted that a little while back. Quality

[Alex 34787]

Labour should be all over shit like this as well.

[ChezGiven 0]

They're not because its fake news. Nearly every single image with a statement on nowadays is full of shit. 

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2260104/as-chancellor-ploughs-7million-into-wentworth-woodhouse-we-reveal-the-saucy-sex-secrets-of-aristrocrat-with-ancestry-linked-to-colin-firths-mr-darcy/

 

 

A series of such tragedies and a lack of male heirs meant the Fitzwilliam bloodline died with the last Earl, known as Tom, in 1979.

 

By then, Billy’s inheritance — which had been the second largest of the 20th century — was almost gone.

 

The nationalisation of the coal mines in 1946 meant the family lost control of their lucrative income stream. Just £45million remained when Tom died and it passed back to Lady Juliet Tadgell, Peter’s only daughter, now 81. The first of her three marriages was to bankrupt jewel thief Victor Hervey, sixth Marquess of Bristol, known as the No1 Playboy of Mayfair.

 

They had two children, Ann, who was stillborn, and Nicholas, who took his own life in 1998, aged 37.

 

Her second marriage, to Somerset de Chair, produced one daughter, Helena, who married the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.

 

While Juliet got the fortune, the house went to the family trust, which sold it in 1989 to businessman Wensley Haydon-Baillie. He faced debts of £13million and was forced to sell in 1999. The next buyer, Clifford Newbold, died in April 2015, aged 88.

 

His plans to turn Wentworth into a hotel, wedding venue, function space, museum and family home had been thwarted by subsidence caused by years of coal mining. The Newbolds allowed the grand rooms to be used to film the 2014 Timothy Spall movie Mr Turner and the TV series Wives and Daughters and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

 

Until four years ago the public were not admitted to Wentworth Woodhouse. Now it is open for pre-booked guided tours and more than 100,000 people have visited.

[Rayvin 5164]

 

Nice catch.

[NJS 4365]

So she had ancestors who owned and lived in the house making it an ancestral home?

[ewerk 30221]

Labour go from second to fourth in the Sleaford by election.

[PaddockLad 17070]

UK's chief diplomat uses decidedly undiplomatic language about the Saudis, earning a fairly major clip round the ear from Downing Street, seemingly it must have slipped his mind about a planned trip to Mecca next week

Edited December 9, 2016 by PaddockLad

[Meenzer 15372]

Labour go from second to fourth in the Sleaford by election.

Pretty lousy result for UKIP too, looking at vote share and the momentum they thought they had. Although on the face of it you could say it's just "hardcore Leave constituency confirms satisfaction with government pursuing Brexit" combined with typical low December by-election turnout and not read anything more into it than that. It's not great news for the opposition though, aye.

[ewerk 30221]

Pretty lousy result for UKIP too, looking at vote share and the momentum they thought they had. Although on the face of it you could say it's just "hardcore Leave constituency confirms satisfaction with government pursuing Brexit" combined with typical low December by-election turnout and not read anything more into it than that. It's not great news for the opposition though, aye.

 

Though they were mainly pro-Brexit there was still a sizeable anti-Brexit vote there for the taking which prob helped Lib Dems a bit. The Labour candidate though went chasing the Brexit vote, while the main party itself doesn't seem concerned on positioning itself strongly on anything to do with Brexit at all so was in a bit of a no mans land.

 

Still, always look on the bright side:

 

[Alex 34787]

FFS

[Park Life 71]

Back to believing the the Lib Dems. The circle of Life. /LionKing

[ewerk 30221]

[Alex 34787]

Wanking over the queen is one thing but admitting to it in public....

[Gemmill 44273]

[emoji38] Putting out the white bunting.

[Meenzer 15372]

Taking the corgi for walkies.

[Park Life 71]

Corby calling on freeze to arms sales to Saudi.

[ewerk 30221]

Like that's ever going to happen.

[ewerk 30221]

 

Labour slumped to fourth place in the Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election this week, while the Conservatives enjoyed a 17-point lead over the official opposition in a YouGov survey on Friday.

 

The Shadow Home Secretary suggested the party’s recent poor showing stemmed from the moves against Mr Corbyn’s leadership this summer.

 

Speaking to the Andrew Marr show, she conceded Labour has gone through a “very difficult year” and argued “it was always going to take time to pull round from that”.

 

“But I think we are coming together now. We’ve got a new chief whip, Nick Brown, who’s one of the most experienced party managers in the House of Commons,” she explained.

 

“I think that as we come together, as you hear less noises off, I believe we can close the polling gap.”

 

When asked to give a timeline for Labour to narrow the gap to the Tories in the opinion polls, Ms Abbott replied: “I’m confident we’re going to close the gap in the coming 12 months.

 

“We’ve had a pretty difficult 12 months – partly [due to] Jeremy’s enemies in the party, partly commentators. But we have the right policies and we have the right leader.”

 

Ms Abbott also said that claims the Labour party is in demise are “much exaggerated”.

 

“We are the largest social democratic party in Europe,” she declared. "That huge surge in membership is due to the current leadership. We have the right policies on whether it’s the NHS, whether it’s investing in the economy.

 

“As you know the Tories are fatally split on Europe. It consumed John Major’s leadership, it consumed David Cameron, I believe it will consume Theresa May.”

 

 

Meanwhile Labour cleverly avoid divisions over Europe by refusing to take a position on it.

Edited December 12, 2016 by ewerk

[Rayvin 5164]

Still think they're avoiding showing their hand so that they can maximise their position once the Tories reveal theirs. Has the unfortunate side effect of making both parties look incompetent though.

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3809]

Still think they're avoiding showing their hand so that they can maximise their position once the Tories reveal theirs. Has the unfortunate side effect of making both parties look incompetent though.

I honestly think they're just incompetent.

[Rayvin 5164]

I honestly think they're just incompetent.

I know what you mean mate, and that's definitely possible. I live in hope though.

[ewerk 30221]

Still think they're avoiding showing their hand so that they can maximise their position once the Tories reveal theirs. Has the unfortunate side effect of making both parties look incompetent though.

 

That's the sort of leadership this country needs.

 

'You first'

 

'No, you first'

 

'I'll show you mine if you show me yours'

[Rayvin 5164]

That's the sort of leadership this country needs.

 

'You first'

 

'No, you first'

 

'I'll show you mine if you show me yours'

 

Actually fully agree with that sentiment - if they are doing this, they're putting politics before leadership. That said, maybe with their present polling, they don't have a choice but to be cynical.

[Gemmill 44273]

@@Rayvin have you read Postcapitalism by Paul Mason. It's bang up your street - Chapter 1 is called "Neoliberalism is dead". That is your kind of masturbation material.