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Money worship has been at the centre of Tory philosophy since Thatcherism attempted to commodify every aspect of life. Everything is about financial exchange, ergo nothing is morally sacred. Everything has its price and nothing is more important than the pursuit of money; not even death.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
https://youtu.be/2huztQKb2QI
Both infuriating and heart-breaking:
https://youtu.be/yWqSaO576RA
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Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
and even more stench for the party of corruptness
Pandora Papers: Questions over Tory donations by ex-Russian minister's wife - BBC News
- Mohammed Amersi, who had given nearly £525,000 to the Tories since 2018, was involved in one of Europe's biggest corruption scandals that resulted in a telecoms company being fined $965m (£700m) in a US prosecution
- A businessman whose companies donated to 34 Conservative MPs is alleged to have made millions from one of Russia's largest fraud scandals. Former oil executive Victor Fedotov is the owner of a company behind a controversial infrastructure project in the English Channel, which is currently awaiting UK government approval
tip of the iceberg, one day even the most gullable of Tory voters will finally twig exactly what Brexit was about
To be fair a helluva lot of people voted for him in the last general election.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
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Watching News night at the Torrie Party conference.
Explanations of "levelling up" being offered.
Not one explanation consistent with another.
Top comedy.
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Unfortunately the Tory voters don't care a jot about that. British values thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
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I often think Tory voters see those types of things as a medal of honour ..shows they are “streetwise”….Quote:
Originally Posted by JimBHibees
https://news.stv.tv/opinion/just-how...mpression=true
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Taking Back Control whilst an unknown slice of your country is in the hands of unknown foreigners, whose sources of income are unknown.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigwheel
Banana republic doesn't cover it.
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This was posted yesterday.
https://mobile.twitter.com/STVNews/s...77158636584964
Look around 1min8secs and he does an eye wipe.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bo...ile-gws-wiz-hp
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There is only one way out of this for Scotland.
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What a ****show today. Priti Fascist cutting back on protesters rights and Javid saying it’s not the states responsibility for health care in the first instance and it should fall to family and then the community first.
Community? They told us there was no such thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Thanks Saj, I’ve wasted 45 minutes bleeding to death while I tried to get my auntie Ethel over to apply a tourniquet and get ‘the community’ to help, instead of just phoning for an ambulance.
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Kathryn has played a blinder in the last couple of days.
She's been great this week, it's a shame viewers in the rest of the UK don't get to see her show how far from reality these cretins are.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
The party of law and order...
https://youtu.be/ocV5eyUjjgg
They actually showed one of her interviews on GMB this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Just caught up with the British Prime Ministers interview with Channel 4 News.
Take away the "aryan Tommy Cooper"/Eton bully shtick and we are literally in the hands of a Fat Daz down the pub type who just makes up any old rubbish on whatever is topical this week.
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With a bit of Latin thrown in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kato
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That’s hundreds of thousands of families £20 a week worse off from today as universal credit is cut.
Edwina Currie vs Gary Neville on Good Morning Britain was unbelievable. Just astonishing. No front line Tory would go on the programme, the result being a car crash performance to the extent that she looked like plant by the opposition. Nauseating arrogance, telling people there are lots of jobs out there, get out there and retrain, and something about ‘we’re all alright up here in the Peak District only 20 minutes from Manchester.’ When Nevilles talking about people in poverty.
Deliberate adopting a tone-deaf approach. They've got their half a dozen or so stock answers pre-prepared for them and those are the answers trotted out no matter the question.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
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It’s a winning formula and it doesn’t look like that is changing anytime soon. If I was them I would carry on doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kato
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The actual **** is this speech?
I found it quite amusing, especially the reference to Blackford :faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Politics live... He's a bit of an entertainer,lots of jokes and gags, but a bit short on Policy.
Welcome to the UK 2021
Are you OK?Quote:
Originally Posted by Crunchie
Great thanks, why'd you ask?Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Just worried about you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crunchie
Thanks for the concern but no need to worry about me, chilled out enjoying the October sun here :aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
Good news.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crunchie
Seeing as how you’re in the right frame of mind then, what does the European Super League failing have to do with Brexit?
And this is why he is safe for another 10 years. People lap it up. Especially down south. And up here, so long as he is bashing the SNP then unionists will tolerate any misfortune heaped on Scotland.Quote:
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I've no interest in what his thoughts are on a ESL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
He initially supported it and is now claiming credit for stopping it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crunchie
Tell me then, how is showing both sides of a character like Winston Churchill “rewriting history” and how can extra knowledge be “know nothing”?
One for the Least funny UK comedians thread I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by ronaldo7
"****, being asked about factual things. Best not reply".
Very much so. Serious interveiwers seem caught out by the actual f@€kwittery of the answers, are wrong footed and before they know it interview time is up. They come over as dumb but it's a clever, sneaky, snidey tactic and for those who want to see "the elites" dumbstruck it counts as a vote winner no matter the damage caused to the populace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
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… not a new positionQuote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
https://youtu.be/sU_pDM1N7i0
Norman Tebbit, 1983
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Building up Burger
Building up Beaver
What in the name of fuchsia is he talking about?
Interesting fact-checking on BJ's speech by the BBC.
BBC News - Boris Johnson's conference speech fact-checked
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58818531
Not exactly pro-Tory.
https://nation.cymru/news/tory-mp-sl...e-really-grim/
Angela Rayner was right. ****.
On point Toryism. Chancing his arm whilst trolling the poor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
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Johnson is certainly enthusiastic about beaver :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
I'm avoiding news coverage of his conference speech, as it will just wind me up. The country is in shambles on so many fronts, I just don't want to listen to his Norman Wisdom routine. ****.
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Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
>>SPOILER<<
It's all Mr Grimsdale's fault.
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/sta...751937538?s=21
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:no way:Quote:
People kept putting Gove’s name forward for karaoke but his team wouldn’t let him sing“He’s not doing it,” one adviser said. “Look at that Hancock video from a few years back when someone filmed him. He never recovered”Gove told me that he would have sung Sunshine on Leith
He's not got a heart to break!
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Did they check everything though.Quote:
Originally Posted by CropleyWasGod
The one that rips ma knitting is using wage growth as a plus when bigging themselves up and then an anomaly when not boosting pensions. It stinks of a government who will distort and use figures to their advantage at every opportunity and actually change the message associated with the same figures when it suits them. They are spin Chameleons
It’s reported in the press today, I know the only thing you can believe in a newspaper is the date, that Sir Peter Bottomly, MP, father of the house, has said that living on the £81,000 annual salary was “really grim”, and calls for them to receive a pay rise. With all the added extras they receive their salary is just over £100,000 a year. I feel so sorry for them I was going to start a “go fund me” page for them. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Excellent.Quote:
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An intervention from the Conservative Party's political kamikaze wing there. ****ing idiot. (Him not you BH!)
That is what I read but he thought that MPs needed about £115K to be at same standard of living, presumably he thinks MPs work more hours or similar. Basically a typical self-entitled Tory with absolutely no idea how the other half live and also no conscience to say it on the day they reduce the income of those most in need of money by over a grand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
Maybe this shameless character should just do a fatty Foulkes and roll up to the House of Lords for a free feed and a sleep and a couple of hundred a day appearance money?Quote:
Originally Posted by wookie70
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Originally Posted by Berwickhibby
Its not much different to Edwina Currie giving it the 'we're all right up here in Cheshire' on Good Morning Britain the other day. You'd think they were out to sabotage their own side with crap like that but they're actually emboldened. Right wing Extremists are being emboldened everywhere, keep an eye on Eric Zemmour in France, makes Le Pen look like a liberal.
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Originally Posted by hibsbollah
I'm actually beginning to think they're wheeling these dinosaurs out on purpose just to remind the far right that they're still there. The problem is Tories have nobody on the right to challenge them, which allows them to dabble their toes into even center/center left policies without any consequencies from other right wing parties i.e. wheeling Johnson out spraffing on about levelling up etc and thus hoovering support up from everywhere. If Starmer thinks going all Tony Blair on Johnsons ass is going to cure that he's way off the mark. Dare I say it but someone needs to unbox the Farage again.
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Scottish Tories going for the flat out lie tactic.[emoji849]
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I got there about 10 minutes before kick off, short queues at the east stand turnstile and moving quickly. There is no way you would have known we were in a pandemic at Hampden. No masks, hugging, high fiving, no cordon, no checks etc etc. Judging by how drunk many fans were it could have got interesting very quickly if checks had stopped fans getting in on time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
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They should bring this man back...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAClNQUUeE
Nigel ChuckieArLarage you mean? :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy Bee
https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/st...78940501098507
To be fair, he’s done more for Irish re-unification than most.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
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That is shocking. Absolute joke of a party.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics...mpression=true
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Another reward for failure in the tories!!Quote:
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LinkedIn mafia.Quote:
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flippin heck i was just telling folk yesterday that it was a cert that corrupt crook would be back in a high position in parliament soon enough...i wasn't far away with my prediction
meanwhile the Cheltenham races and the Liverpool CL game possibly led to at least 78 covid deaths, i remember thinking at the time Cheltenham going ahead was just incredibly insane
money is more important than lives though, for some
I think both governments made mistakes about mass gatherings as they were probably getting the same advice.
Catherine Calderwood at the time said "we know that mass gatherings and stopping those are not the best way to contain the virus"
Jason Leitch remember was telling us to "hug our granny" and said he would have gone to the Stereophonics at the SECC in Glasgow if he could, and Lewis Capaldi played to 11,000 in Aberdeen days after the Cheltenham Festival took place.
I remember discussing it at the time and all my mates and family thought the governments were certifiable for allowing those events to continue. My view hasn't changed. It is akin to Corporate manslaughter to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by James310
That was my favourite ever Cheltenham, you could get served at the bar really quickly and I won a right few quid. I remember at the time being quite surprised that it went ahead. The only advice at that time was to wash your hands regularly. Looking back now it seems crazy that it went ahead.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
I remember an Old Firm game being called off really quite late, maybe a few days before it was due to go ahead.
It all looks mad with hindsight but certain events are huge in people's lives and it takes a lot for us to reconsider their importance.
It was pretty unthinkable that an Old Firm game would be called off, and there was an awful lot of "what about the tv companies, what about the viewing figures for a rearranged game" etc etc.
The governments look pretty foolish with hindsight knowing what we now know about the coronavirus but it's not easy for them to get public on board with cancelling the events which are the most important in their social calendars.
It didn't seem crazy at the time. Hindsight isn't required for many of the decisions made by Government early on and Cheltenham was obviously a ridiculous decision at that time.Quote:
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Crisis? What crisis? [emoji849]
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It’s actually a joke. There is no UK opposition.Quote:
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He's busy sorting out the driver shortage.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ing-test-video
Or maybe not.
A variation on that brexit favourite.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2b0a8c6151.jpg
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Tory voters are ****. Tens of thousands dead, billions handed to their mates and they’re happy to endorse it.
There's a firm inability to accept that they might have got something wrong, or that anything corrupt is going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northernhibee
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At least a Tory minister has finally apologised for the failings highlighted in the COVID report. Twenty thousand preventable deaths in care homes; it only took them about three days to say sorry. The Tory spin doctors must have told ministers that refusing to apologise doesn't look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Eat out to spread Covid surely accounted for quite a bit of spread as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
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Yes, that was another disastrous move.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
https://www.cityam.com/sunak-causes-...-discount-end/
Sunak wants to scrap the EV grant!
Tory mp Sir David amess reportedly stabbed multiple times at his surgery today. Absolutely disgusting, after Jo Cox incident you'd hope that was a one off. Hopefully OK
I like the idea to build the network of chargers etc but why stop the EV Grant. Hope they get crucified at COP for this decision. At this point all Governments should have one eye on Covid and the other firmly on the Environment. Every sinew should be strained in making dramatic and positive changes. We get a Chancellor that says it is one or the other, what a total weaponQuote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Totally agree.Was on hols at the time and the pictures from Cheltenham were just jawsdropping.Of course no one will possibly accept responsibility. Its 2021 for goodness sake. Get with the plan.Quote:
Originally Posted by wookie70
Hancock’s new job terminated before it begins.
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I remember taking stick on here for suggesting back then, that the EU were slow out of the blocks because they were looking at getting a global vaccination plan up and running but had the plan scuppered by the UK and US grabbing first dibs on vaccines forcing the EU to follow suit.Quote:
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We also had a Six Nations match with circa 70k in attendance plus an Edinburgh derby get the go-ahead. Easy to brush it off as SNP bashing but you wonder if these events would have taken pace had Sturgeon not overruled medical advice to make the Nike conference issue public.Quote:
Originally Posted by James310
I don't think the devolved nations will be spared criticism in the public inquiry.
There has been a report on the Nike conference and there was found to be no evidence of any further covid transmission in the community as a result of the conference.Quote:
Originally Posted by He's here!
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Originally Posted by He's here!
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Also the government were told at the time by the medical folks to not publish anything to protect attendees confidentiality (the numbers were so low it would have been easy to work out who had it etc)Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...ray-mp-3417927Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
According to this article there was a further 38 covid infections linked to the Nike conference.
Am I really looking at an article written by Ian Murray, The Only Labour MP in Scotland!!! An OPINION PIECE!!Quote:
Originally Posted by greenginger
Here is what I heard...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58810370
From the OFFICIAL report
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An outbreak of COVID-19 was identified in Scotland on 2 March 2020 following the detection of a case among 71 delegates who attended a conference in Edinburgh between 25 and 27 February 2020. The delegates were from Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands.
Twenty-three primary cases were linked to the conference and 16 secondary cases were subsequently identified.
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In Scotland, eight cases were directly linked to the conference (six primary and two secondary cases).
Pesky factsQuote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
Science says there was no community transmission.Quote:
Originally Posted by greenginger
I know. It really doesn't help the anti government rhetoric, does it? 😁Quote:
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