Politics

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

It's as if the public have more to worry about in a pandemic than Boris' wallpaper

[Rayvin 5223]

I meant more widely than that but you're not wrong really. For his valid criticism to be taken seriously he actually needs people to be listening.

 

Tbh he might be best giving up midway through the term to allow someone new to come in. That way he has taken the sting out of the Corbyn legacy and given his successor something to run at.

[Dr Gloom 21951]

Nandy would get my vote again 

[Alex 35095]

We haven’t seen the true economic fallout of the pandemic yet. Not that I have much faith in there being a huge turnaround. But we’re certainly in a false position because of the furlough scheme etc 

[ewerk 30641]

The economic fallout of the pandemic will be small compared to Brexit but of course it will be masked by covid.

Johnson is benefiting from the Trump effect. People aren’t taking him entirely seriously and have priced in his untrustworthiness i.e. the shagging, off colour comments, dodgy money etc.

[Dr Gloom 21951]

The polls are where they are because of the vaccine rollout. We are smashing it compared to most places. It might even negate some of the earlier fuck ups in the final analysis, who knows? 

One thing they got right all pandemic. And all thanks to Matt Hancock watching Contagion and shitting himself.

[NJS 4389]

Thing is even that's wrong - the vaccine rollout is pure NHS with very little to do with them as opposed to government facets of the response. 

 

I could understand it if people quoted the vaccine purchasing as a success which it is from a very selfish pov. 

[Dr Gloom 21951]

31 minutes ago, NJS said:

Thing is even that's wrong - the vaccine rollout is pure NHS with very little to do with them as opposed to government facets of the response. 

 

I could understand it if people quoted the vaccine purchasing as a success which it is from a very selfish pov. 

That’s what I was getting at with the Contagion comment. Hancock was apparently all over procurement after he watched the film, which features an international race for vaccine supply that mirrors pretty much exactly how things have played out in real life. 

No question that the rollout itself has been a triumph thanks to the NHS. You can imagine how it would be going if Dido Harding or some other crony were given a contract to do it.

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

Clap for Renton's pay rise

[RobinRobin 11287]

5 hours ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

Clap for Renton's pay rise

Seems a bit risky and over the top, just for a pay rise.

[PaddockLad 17284]

On 28/04/2021 at 16:53, ewerk said:

Arlene Foster chased out of the DUP for not being homophobic enough.

 

Here’s the favourite for her job....good luck....

 

 

 

 

 

[ewerk 30641]

Yup, we've only begun to scratch the surface of the craziness in the DUP. 

[Gemmill 44947]

 

Fair play growing up with those lugs, genuinely believing there's a god that clagged them on your head, and still thinking he's someone you should be paying regular attention to. That's true faith. 

[Kid Dynamite 7034]

12 hours ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

It's as if the public have more to worry about in a pandemic than Boris' wallpaper

I mean that's pretty much the exact spin the Tories are putting on it to detract from the fact that the man in charge of the country is bent as a nine Bob note.

And given Joe Public has lost the capacity for critical thinking, it's working. You being a case in point 

[Kid Dynamite 7034]

The Mails take on it all  

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Perhaps we should remember that when Carrie moved into Downing Street in July 2019 she was already (possibly) pregnant with son Wilf, who was born the following April. The impulse to nest, to put her stamp on another woman’s recently vacated domain must have been powerful.

One must also factor in the dreariness and claustrophobia of living in this public building at the heart of British government. French leaders have the Élysée Palace, Americans have the White House, but we have a clutch of poky rooms above the shop with a vermin problem.

Yes, there is the consolation of Chequers at the weekend — although not during the pandemic — but I imagine that actually living in Downing Street is a kind of hell.

Those prison-like gates, the lack of sunlight and privacy, the crushing omnipresence of politics and political operatives 24/7? No Prime Minister has ever relished living there; his or her family even less.

Give Carrie a break. She has had to cope with pregnancy, the pandemic and her lover, Boris, becoming dangerously ill. What woman would not want to take refuge in swatches, in cheering the place up, in perhaps taking tea with Lulu Lytle to discuss her range of delicious chintzes at £270 per metre and ponder over wicker or rattan for the dining room chairs?

 

[ewerk 30641]

God love the poor dear trying to get by in a four bedroom flat with garden in central London. It must be a real chore.

[Renton 21637]

Meanwhile they have screwed over thousands of leaseholders who own flats who through no fault of their own are death traps they can't move from. But it's just about wallpaper. 

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

28 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

I mean that's pretty much the exact spin the Tories are putting on it to detract from the fact that the man in charge of the country is bent as a nine Bob note.

And given Joe Public has lost the capacity for critical thinking, it's working. You being a case in point 

 

Personally I do care though, I'm just capable of observing that the wider public can't be arsed with it. Dick heed. Maybe it's your own capacity for critical thinking that's askew. I've criticised Labour for not appealing to the electorate. The polls say I'm right. People like you that sit on the left and stick their fingers in their ears is just more Corbynism

Edited April 30, 2021 by TheGingerQuiff

[Renton 21637]

8 minutes ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

 

Personally I do care though, I'm just capable of observing that the wider public can't be arsed with it. Dick heed. Maybe it's your own capacity for critical thinking that's askew. I've criticised Labour for not appealing to the electorate. The polls say I'm right. People like you that sit on the left and stick their fingers in their ears is just more Corbynism

 

Sleaze and corruption took down the tories last time. I think it will take down Johnson this time. He was squirming in PMQ, I think this is the tip of a pretty big iceberg. And what's the alternative? To just let it go, have a pointless toothless enquiry where it will be kicked into the long grass and forgotten about? Let him continue lying unabated? I hear all this criticism about what starmer is doing, but no suggestions what he should be doing. 

[Dr Gloom 21951]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

 

Fair play growing up with those lugs, genuinely believing there's a god that clagged them on your head, and still thinking he's someone you should be paying regular attention to. That's true faith. 

And god created me in his own image

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

23 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

Sleaze and corruption took down the tories last time. I think it will take down Johnson this time. He was squirming in PMQ, I think this is the tip of a pretty big iceberg. And what's the alternative? To just let it go, have a pointless toothless enquiry where it will be kicked into the long grass and forgotten about? Let him continue lying unabated? I hear all this criticism about what starmer is doing, but no suggestions what he should be doing. 

 

The bloke went to a DIY shop and posed with rolls of wallpaper. He should be working on his sense of humour.

[Gemmill 44947]

2 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

 

Here’s the favourite for her job....good luck....

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love this btw. I mean I can't see any reason why anyone wouldn't ignore the science and just go with his guesstimate. 

[Gemmill 44947]

Speaking of religious nutjobbery, I see 44 people have died at a religious festival in Israel. This would be like CT dying at the Sunderland Airshow. 

[Monkeys Fist 42460]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

Speaking of religious nutjobbery, I see 44 people have died at a religious festival in Israel. This would be like CT dying at the Sunderland Airshow. 

“ Mam, there’s a fat Mackem over there on his back, should I flip him over!”

” Look at the nice helicopter son, LOOK AT THE HELICOPTER!”

CT, as the darkness descends and his breathing slows…

” B…

 

A…

 

 

U…”

[Rayvin 5223]

1 hour ago, TheGingerQuiff said:

 

Personally I do care though, I'm just capable of observing that the wider public can't be arsed with it. Dick heed. Maybe it's your own capacity for critical thinking that's askew. I've criticised Labour for not appealing to the electorate. The polls say I'm right. People like you that sit on the left and stick their fingers in their ears is just more Corbynism

 

What is it that you think Labour should do to appeal to the electorate? It's reading very much like your view is that they should sit down and shut up, but I'm not sure that's going to turn the tide on this.

 

I think Starmer is playing this badly firstly because he's chasing after a demographic that isn't listening to him, and secondly because he's alienating leftwingers and remainers who were already on side. So all he's done is make a bad situation worse.

 

I think we're getting close to the point where he becomes a busted flush and needs to resign - unless his strategy suddenly starts paying off.