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19 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

Ok I just read about it. Thousands of porn images stored on his computer. His work computer.

 

That's a fucking sacking. Not even smart enough to use a remote desktop connection to his home machine ffs...

 

Thousands of thumbnails, rather than thousands of downloaded images.

 

If only he'd known about incognito mode.

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1 hour ago, Rayvin said:

Ok I just read about it. Thousands of porn images stored on his computer. His work computer.

 

That's a fucking sacking. Not even smart enough to use a remote desktop connection to his home machine ffs...

 

Is it more err “normal’ to actually download porn/images rather than just browse web pages?.. :unsure: 

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15 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Davis is apparently threatening to resign if Green goes. I mean surely this is too good an opportunity to pass up. 

It's almost like Davis is a fraud who is way out of his depth and looking for an escape route.

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36 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Davis is apparently threatening to resign if Green goes. I mean surely this is too good an opportunity to pass up. 

 

solidarity with his fellow willy waver

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I always think Jess Phillips is a bit of a pain in the tits, but fair play for this on twitter:

 

"David Davis, your red line, your hill to die on is really something. 'What made you want to become an MP?'... 'Great question, I really wanted to fight hard so people can wank at work'". 

 

:lol:

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Jacob Rees-Mogg had a private meeting with former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon in London on Thursday to talk about how conservative movements can win in the US and UK, the Guardian has learned.

Rees-Mogg, a favourite among Conservative members to be the next party leader, spent more than an hour at the meeting in a Mayfair hotel with Bannon, who was at one point seen as Trump’s most influential adviser.

The American also met Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader, and another Conservative MP during a short trip to the UK.

The meetings took place on the day of the diplomatic spat between Trump and Theresa May, after the US president retweeted anti-Muslim material from the far-right fringe group Britain First.

Rees-Mogg confirmed the encounter, saying Bannon was “an interesting man to have met” and they talked about US and UK politics. Farage also confirmed he had met Bannon, who is a friend.

Bannon, who describes himself as a populist and economic nationalist, was forced out of the White House in August. He then rejoined the rightwing news website Breitbart as executive chairman, but he remains in close contact with Trump.

 

The meetings were brokered by Raheem Kassam, the Breitbart London editor and former chief of staff to Farage. Kassam defended Trump over the retweets on Thursday and criticised Downing Street for “flushing the UK’s relationship with the US down the toilet to virtue-signal over a couple of tweets”.

 

Asked about the meetings, Kassam said: “Brexit and the election of President Trump were inextricably linked, so the discussions focused on how we move forward with winning for the conservative movements on both sides of the pond, how you build movements, on the ground and digitally, and what Steve’s brand of economic nationalism – which puts the interests of ordinary people first – can do in the US and United Kingdom.”

Rees-Mogg’s “Moggmentum” followers have attracted comparisons with the US Tea Party as they champion rightwing ideas, grassroots activism and shaking up the conservative establishment.

The Tory MP has previously expressed support for Trump but backtracked on that before the presidential election. In mid-September last year, he said that he would “almost certainly vote for Trump if I was American”.

 

However, a month later, Rees-Mogg said he felt he could not vote for either candidate. “I obviously do not have a vote and believe it is important for the UK to be polite about all US presidential candidates as it is the most important foreign relationship for us,” he said at the time. “However, I could not personally vote for either candidate so would have to abstain.”

Since the election, Rees-Mogg has developed a substantial following among Tory activists looking for their own populist leader to take on Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn.

He received a hero’s welcome among the grassroots at the Conservative party conference, but he has repeatedly dodged questions about running for Tory leader in the future.

He has also attracted opposition from protesters over his rightwing views on issues such as abortion and foreign aid.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/01/jacob-rees-mogg-held-meeting-with-steve-bannon-in-london

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On 01/12/2017 at 11:40 PM, Monkeys Fist said:

Honestly, if that fucking chinless wonder, Rees-Mogg, gets in power, I’m taking the family to Plessey Woods and going Sambo. 

What’s more of a concern is the ever-growing shift to the right. 

Alreet Farage, that's enough of that carry on.

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6 hours ago, Rayvin said:

We have no idea what it should be, we can only say what it is. And it is better than being 20 points behind going into the last GE.

 

Have we ever had a less popular and grossly incompetent government? I think it's fair to say not. Yet personally I wouldn't be confident of a Corbyn majority. I would be more confident in someone like Starmer, despite his lack of charisma.

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8 hours ago, Rayvin said:

We have no idea what it should be, we can only say what it is. And it is better than being 20 points behind going into the last GE.

 

Except they weren't 20 points down. The same pollsters had Labour one point down before the election. So it's not that big an improvement.

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