I don’t know why they keep putting him against Piers Morgan. From the endless dodging of questions to pretending to cry he always looks ludicrous on there.
I don’t know why they keep putting him against Piers Morgan. From the endless dodging of questions to pretending to cry he always looks ludicrous on there.
Is there not a rule in PMQT that states the PM has to actually answer the questions posed to him rather than just mumble some irrelevant *****?
I was about to say I thought it wasn't possible for me to dislike him more than I did, but his performance today is sheer arrogance and obfuscation. How many times has he called the SNP the Scottish 'Nationalist' Party and the Speaker doesn't pick up on it? At least Blackford had the chance to put him right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
Maybe the SNP should start referring to the Tories as "Brexit Party Light" and Labour as the "Yes Prime Minister" party.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinfaePorty
There doesn't seem to be, and Johnson's not the first to make use of that deficiency.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
What strikes me about him is how inarticulate and hesitant his speech is when he's not working from a prepared script. It's all er.., umm.. - quite remarkable in someone whose careers have been in communication. It's particularly noticeable on radio as when you watch him he distracts the audience by flailing his arms around and pulling faces.
His answers to any question put to him by an SNP MP are disgraceful. He is an arrogant ******* and where it comes to Scotland he can barely hide his contempt.
I'm not clear why he does this. It doesn't seem to engender any appreciative braying from Tories. Is it purely to show contempt? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinfaePorty
You could say its actually worse than that since when the time comes the very same chancers will be in the driving seat when it comes to deciding the tax rates and which section of the public will shoulder the biggest load of repayments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
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Education Department (that reverse Midas touch politician Gavin Williamson’s dept) now stopping free school meals in England over half term. No coverage or reaction yet, the story is less than an hour old, but it’s almost like the Tories want to pee off ‘red wall’ constituents. Marcus Rashford will not be pleased.
https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...s-at-half-term
Guaranteed future u-turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
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U-turn from the Tories incoming when Rashford speaks out again. They tried it in October and backed down then too.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Utterly shameless from the Tories
:agree: The winter COVID grant cost £170 million from November to January. So extending it for half term would be less than £100 million. Big numbers but this is really peanuts in terms of national spending; We spend £200 billion on the NHS annually, or maybe as a starker comparison, the failed test and trace project is estimated at £22 BILLION, which mostly went to Government cronies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan91
It really boils my piss. How do we tolerate these ****s.
Tories laundering money...Never.
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/ex-...re-than-200000
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...mpression=true
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How do these folk make it through selection?!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Because they are being selected by like minded folk. Right wing fascists selecting right wing fascists. Ts unlikely that the Tories would ever select a left leaning candidate who is sympathetic to the least well of in society.Simple really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
Probably because there's only like 6 of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
By holding the views shown in the article?Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
my goodness, imagine how vile a human being you have to be to get suspended by the nasty party
FYI - deleted the post above as the cartoon (as good as it was) evaded the swear filter and isn't appropriate for the forum.
Thoroughly enjoyed it though, it was very accurate.
Apparently suspended pending an enquiry. What’s the odds on them concluding he was misquoted or taken out of context and he really is a fine example of a modern Tory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
His lack of knowledge of the breadth of what food banks provide probably matches most others in that party. And what’s worse they don’t care or want to find out the truth. When we are independent there should be a place for right of centre, decent people to create a new party free of racists like him - he can join his friends in the SDL
Added to that not understanding that people can be fat AND malnourished at the same time. I’m fairly sure I did this in Home Economics when I was 14 so I’m not sure what this knobs excuse for not understanding that is. Apart from just stupidity.Quote:
Originally Posted by ACLeith
At some point someone is going to decide to launch a political party that is in the Christian Democratic mould and placed to the right of centre, fiscally dry and socially wet. They'll get old school type Tories into it and comfortably take a wedge of parliamentary seats. The mileage in being bitter twats just isn't there politically, your Rory Stewart types would do far better.
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Originally Posted by One Day Soon
That actually wouldn't be too bad an idea. The current Tory party has veered a bit too far to the right for some of their supporters.
Who'd be their Angela Merkel, though?
:wink:
It would be a filthy centrist ménage à trois headed up by Chukka Umuna Justine Greening and Dominic Grieve. 7%-12% of the vote, would be a highly influential force under PR. Under FPTP they’d go the same way as Change U.K.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Are there any "One Nation" torys left? Are there enough of them to make a difference? There is mileage from Labours reps to fit in with the above for sure. The global "right wing projects" still have plenty time to go I reckon. The civilising offensives pitting people against each other on the most flimsy aspects, whilst they reap the profits, have been really powerful. I would have nothing against a "Sensible Party" but they have a lot weeds to whack.Quote:
Originally Posted by One Day Soon
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I was thinking of them more in the Scottish context where the electoral system would give them a stronger chance. I wasn’t previously attracted to the idea but now that you’ve mentioned a filthy ménage a trois it somehow seems more appealing.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
It's a shame the Scottish fish(ermen) are not quite as happyQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
https://www.sff.co.uk/letter-to-prim...ief-executive/
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https://amp.theguardian.com/world/20...mpression=true
Taking ownership, must be a European thing.
Never catch on here
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Of course the fish are happier. There's fewer people catching and eating them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
But surely they should have stayed on. They can't possibly have an election on the 17th March.Quote:
Originally Posted by Callum_62
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org...ecords/101633/
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the home office right now, she's probably breathing fire as we speak. Wonder what excuse it will be this time?
I saw a similar article earlier this week. While they may have lost all these records I don't believe for a minute that they don't have father/grandfather etc backups from which the lost data can't be mostly restored.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Jack
I'm amazed that something so important doesn't have built in 'resiliency'.
When I'm creating a new Database there's always a backup in place, where all changes are auto-synchronized to backup servers, usually in a different location.
This is tremendous.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...YFKPNJSUYb8H6k
If they're all as inept as the head honcho the recovery job would need to be contracted out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack
It's behind a paywall for me but I assume from the little it lets me read that its about a mixture of incompetence, avarice and looking to make several bucks off the back of the poorest?Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Not sure it's the correct thread but close enough
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...eals-campaign/
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Chartwells, company who is responsible for the £5 worth of kids food parcel that they were paid £30 each for, generate £561 million of profit. Their CEO is a friend of David Cameron and a £10,000 donor to the Conservative Party. One of the directors Stephen Forster, was on the Governments own panel for drawing up the tender documents that his own company ended up bidding for and winning.Quote:
Originally Posted by One Day Soon
While I appreciate that Starmer is criticising the Government here and there on the coronavirus, its this nepotism/corruption that he really needs to be calling out. Theres only a handful of backbenchers drawing attention to it at the moment. And Murdochs Times.:confused:
Can't read the full article. Is she insinuating that it's something other than humanity behind Rashford's motivation to feed poor kids?Quote:
Originally Posted by Callum_62
I 100% agree and his failure to do so makes me (probably unfairly) suspicious. Starmer cannot continue to miss the open goals this Government gives him. He needs to pick one of their many faults, make enough people care about it and squeeze til the pips squeak.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
this woman should speak for every right-thinking decent human being in the UK...unlike the ***m she's in opposition to
https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...27&oe=602C6C40
Zara Sultana is an absolute star.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Its shameful. Taking £20 a week off the poorest in society at a time like this. Affecting 5.7million people. Will be voted on and will pass shortly, not even an item on the news bulletin from what I can see :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
She’s the main person on the back benches I was thinking of in my post above. She’s great.Quote:
Originally Posted by marinello59
I see the Scottish Tories voted to cut universal credit tonight. Shameful.
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Division has just happened on School meals and remote learning. I’ve got it on bbc Parliament now. Kate Green was very good about labours amendment, Gavin Williamson justifying the unjustifiable as I speak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
? Being reported that the result was 278 to 0 in favour of retaining the £20 uplift. :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
The Tories were ordered to abstain, it’s not a binding vote.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
It’s an ‘opposition day debate’ which means it has no legal authority, Johnson and Zahawi called it a ‘stunt’ and whipped all the Tories to abstain. It shows the discipline the party still has because there are 50+ Tory MPs that don’t want to support the removal of the £20 but they clearly don’t have any balls. Or principles.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Yep, I just don't see where anyone voted against it.Quote:
Originally Posted by marinello59
I don’t think anyone did.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
I wonder what multi millionaire Rishi Sunak and his conservative colleagues value most? :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
https://amp.ft.com/content/94a85d1b-...mpression=true
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“It would cost £6bn — that’s the equivalent of putting 1p on income tax and adding 5p a litre on fuel duty,” said one ally of the chancellor. “Hopefully this will help focus minds among Conservative colleagues on what we value most.”
https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...d2&oe=602B1970
cowards...each and every one of them
https://scontent.fman1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...00&oe=602BF0FF
https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...1c&oe=602DA248
what a bunch of fudlies they are
https://mobile.twitter.com/w2wScotla...11113213599746
Most definitely...definitely...NOT obsessed with another referendum.
Not in the slightestQuote:
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Lennon already smashed himQuote:
Originally Posted by degenerated
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Interesting that he says the only way to avoid a 2nd referendum is to vote for the Scottish Tories in May? I though Johnson was going to refuse anyway? Which is it?Quote:
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I'll be surprised if she gets the gig, Sarwar is more the sort of person the Labour donors are looking for these days. Under Kier Hardly Labour are going to be a tory lite party.Quote:
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Every time Johnson gets asked about the delays in transporting seafood to the EU, he comes back and says it's because of a decline in demand due to Covid19 and Restaurants being closed. He's just done it again in PMQs. Surely those trucks sat at ports are loaded with seafood already sold or do we just send our produce to the continent to dump?
I just got the latest Conservative leaflet through the door. Needless to say it was more anti-SNP than pro-Conservative. Thats it, thats all they've got. They are the party that stands for opposing the SNP.
I would post a picture but a) it has Douglass Ross on it and most of you will be eating lunch and b) it was bunged in the fire before it even touched the floor.
Priti Patel excelling herself today at the Govts daily briefing.
Stated that she thinks we should have shut the borders in March 2019.
In accusatory tones.
But in March 2019 she was Home Secretary.
:faf:
Starmer asked Johnson about that at PMQsQuote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Dearie me
Malware found on laptops given out by government - BBC News
Some of the laptops given out in England to support vulnerable children home-schooling during lockdown contain malware, BBC News has learned.
Teachers shared details on an online forum about suspicious files found on devices sent to a Bradford school.
The malware, which they said appeared to be contacting Russian servers, is believed to have been found on laptops given to a handful of schools.
You probably mean 2020. I think she's hinting that she was overruled from higher up.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsbollah
Yes, 2020. Sorry, years are flying by these days. She’s also shamefully refusing to even pretend to answer the question posed to her. To be expected in the commons, but this is a matter of public information. She’s disgraceful really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
I'm fairly sure Patel thinks the borders should have been closed after her parents arrived.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg
She probably thinks they shouldn't have been allowed in, just herQuote:
Originally Posted by Future17
"I'm not on magic mushrooms", oh we believe you Douglas :greengrin
https://twitter.com/totovste/status/...087198720?s=20
A video of some ragde getting his knickers in a twist about other radges' comments on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Grieves
Does he not know that's sooo 2018?
Proper politicians now understand that getting into squabbles with faceless Twitter folk isn’t a great look. But Douglas Ross is not a proper politician. So not really sure what point I’m trying to make really :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr Grieves
I survived about 40 seconds of that. If politicians could just not behave like automatons for five minutes I might actually start to listen to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Grieves
The leader of the Conservative party in the Welsh Senned has resigned, after some people were outraged that he and some colleagues had drunk some wine with a meal in the parliament building.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ng-alcohol-ban
The outrage seemed to be around the fact that it was only a few days after the pubs had closed, but there's no evidence that any of them broke any Covid regulations.
That all sounds like a fuss over nothing, surely?
What's the objective opinion on how Ross has been doing? He just seems to be a void to me.
Douglas or Jack? 🤔😉Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
Ross out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
Bottler, can't even stand up for Scotland in the big issues
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Probably doing paleantology stuff like he always did. That's who you mean, yeah?Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
That will fly right over the heads of quite a few I suspect 😏Quote:
Originally Posted by Glory Lurker
That tan was Jimmy CalderwoodesqueQuote:
Originally Posted by StevieC
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With "Friends" like you, who needs enemies?Quote:
Originally Posted by Glory Lurker
He's keeping a seat warm until the torys find a full on unionist with a bit of a charisma willing to take up the baton.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
In the meantime Scottish torys will play musical chairs.
Hes got them 2nd in the country. Jack could only dream of ‘doing a Douglas’:greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Callum_62
No friends of mine 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by StevieC
I was expecting ‘pivot!’Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
I think he is "ON A BREAK".
http://ismympaprick.co.uk/
Have fun
:top marksQuote:
Originally Posted by Glory Lurker
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Originally Posted by Diclonius
I think he's looking down the back of the couch to find his principles.
I honestly think Jackson Carlaw was making more impression on the public.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diclonius
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A wee bit of cod-Burns...
Oh big curly length o *****
Yer wee haw-maws I'd love tae skite
And pit them tae a greater height -
Aboon yer heid!
Then stuff them past yer Adam's Apple
And lodge them in yer dung-glazed thrapple
Until yer deid.
c.Twitter
He's coming! He's coming!
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/polit...box=1611822975
For any Tories and Unionists looking in, particularly those who keep telling us supporting Independence is about 'self interest', this is how proper self interest works. First you dish out huge contracts to your (already very wealthy) mates and then use tax payers to prevent anyone from trying to expose what you are doing and what you are all about. This from the Good Law Project
Correspondence with Government has revealed they expect to spend a staggering £1 million defending our judicial review of their decisions to award contracts criticised by the NAO. This is a sum unprecedented in our lawyers’ experience of judicial review proceedings. We can’t but wonder whether they are trying to scare us off – using the bottomless public purse to avoid accountability to the public.
Government also says, remarkably, that finding out whether they acted lawfully in channelling hundreds of millions or billions to their VIP associates, is not in the public interest.
We had until recently been working on the understanding that we had raised enough money for our challenges to Government’s awards of hundreds of millions of pounds of PPE contracts to Pestfix, Ayanda, and Clandeboye.
We were shocked to learn that – having failed to provide the evidence we’ve been asking for since July – Government is threatening a vast disclosure exercise going well beyond what would normally be undertaken in a judicial review. And not just that they have hired an expensive international commercial law firm. They expect to have a team of 30-40 working for up to 3 months on an exercise that has not been requested by us, or by the Court.
In the experience of our legal team, costs incurred by Government in judicial review proceedings rarely exceed £100,000. Here Government says it has already spent over £325,000, and estimates their total costs will amount to £1 million – a staggering sum for a judicial review.
Government knows full well that we cannot take existential risk on bringing a single case. So we wrote to Government asking it to agree and order ‘capping’ both our costs and the taxpayers’ costs in these public interest proceedings.
We were shocked this week to receive their response contending that the litigation is not in the public interest, and refusing our proposed reciprocal cap: “In particular our client does not agree that the proceedings are ‘public interest proceedings'”. These are cases involving on Government’s own admission hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on unusable facemasks on companies that went through the VIP lane.
Not in the public interest? What are they on!
The point is all the more remarkable given that a barrister employed by the Government Legal Department in her witness statement of 30 November stated that: “We acknowledge that there is considerable public interest in Covid related procurement, particularly of PPE.”
We have now applied to the court for a Cost Cap. In line with our transparency principles I am publishing my Witness Statement. But if we don’t get one, unless a white knight or white knights emerge, the simple fact is we will have to abandon the litigation. We are not in a position to bear a £1 million risk.
Thank you, Jolyon Maugham QC
Director of Good Law Project
https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1354836643262255105
Doctor Rachel Clarke, telling it how it is. Thought it should go in here instead of the coronavirus thread due to it being about Tories(Prime Minister) Lying.
No words really.
He's not been lying really, just being himself, but this is Marina Hyde's note to Desmond Swayne for his recent antics:
"you’re a Windsor-knotted, contrast-collared conspiracy frotter with a grasp of science inferior to even Gwyneth Paltrow’s and sideburns that read like a come-and-get-me-plea to the sex offenders’ register"
Up there with frankie boyles one of gove :greengrinQuote:
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