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Problem there is that Corbyn is for Brexit and he doesn't have widespread support from his MPs.
More too do with forcing a general election than Brexit Jim.
Jimbuna
08-06-17, 10:34 AM
More too do with forcing a general election than Brexit Jim.
Nah, I don't believe the British voter is gullible enough to believe the magic fixes promised are actually affordable.
Nah, I don't believe the British voter is gullible enough to believe the magic fixes promised are actually affordable.
Shaky times ahead.
Jimbuna
08-07-17, 10:49 AM
Shaky times ahead.
Of seismic proportions I fear.
Jimbuna
08-10-17, 10:00 AM
Prime Minister Theresa May is to get her own waxwork at Madame Tussauds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40887752
Probably be sited at the entrance to deter burglars.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40887752
Probably be sited at the entrance to deter burglars.
Funny you should mention her, a radio presenter today said Theresa May is not fit to be PM and is only fit to present loose women, what ever that is.
Battle of the festivals: Conservative Ideas v World Transformed
After Jeremy Corbyn’s triumphant Glastonbury appearance, activists on both sides of the political divide plan their own event.
http://news.sky.com/story/battle-of-the-festivals-conservative-ideas-v-world-transformed-10982662
Sounds to me more dumbing down at Westminster. :doh:
Jimbuna
08-11-17, 09:42 AM
Jeremy Corbyn has urged US and North Korean leaders to hold face-to-face talks "in the interest of sanity and safety".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40886690
That's a bit rich coming from him of all people :hmmm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40886690
That's a bit rich coming from him of all people :hmmm:
Corbyn: Trump and Kim should get round negotiating table :haha: :haha: :haha: :har: :har:
FAT CHANCE OF THAT. :doh:
UKIP is back in the news..
Anne Marie Waters: Anti-Islam candidate to stand for UKIP leadership
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40902796
Stoking the fire i would say.
Jimbuna
08-12-17, 07:48 AM
The beginning of the fallout.
A senior UKIP MEP has resigned as deputy whip in the European Parliament over support within the party for an anti-Islam campaigner.
Anne Marie Waters, who founded the Sharia Watch pressure group and has called Islam "evil", has been allowed to stand in UKIP's leadership election.
Mike Hookem said he was not prepared to "turn a blind eye" to extremism.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40909787
^Nah, what UKIP has gone though and still here amazes even me.
Momentum training activists in how to win marginal seats at next electionhttp://news.sky.com/story/momentum-training-activists-in-how-to-win-marginal-seats-at-next-election-10985862
Is this the loony left wing? :hmmm:
Skybird
08-12-17, 05:34 PM
Prime Minister Theresa May is to get her own waxwork at Madame Tussauds.
Probably be sited at the entrance to deter burglars.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to put up the original instead? In her case at least I would not be able to tell the difference.
Over to you jim...
Britain needs second Brexit vote to halt ‘unparalleled act of self-harm’, says David Milibandhttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/britain-needs-second-brexit-vote-to-halt-unparalleled-act-of-selfharm-says-david-miliband-a3610441.html
I will say the Government has cocked it up wasting a year and in house fighting but we have voted and we voted out. So we have to do a Northern Ireland, first vote out no good re-run second vote in job done! NO NO NO....
Jacob Rees-Mogg plays down claims he is plotting Tory leadership bid https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jacob-reesmogg-plays-down-claims-he-is-plotting-tory-leadership-bid-a3610486.html
The country will not take another "Old Etonian" pill. And anyhow he is only leadership material for the upper crust only and not the rest of us.
Jimbuna
08-13-17, 10:28 AM
Wouldn't it be cheaper to put up the original instead? In her case at least I would not be able to tell the difference.
Can't see any difference when put alongside Angela either if I'm tbh :)
Jimbuna
08-13-17, 10:32 AM
Over to you jim...
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/britain-needs-second-brexit-vote-to-halt-unparalleled-act-of-selfharm-says-david-miliband-a3610441.html
I will say the Government has cocked it up wasting a year and in house fighting but we have voted and we voted out. So we have to do a Northern Ireland, first vote out no good re-run second vote in job done! NO NO NO....
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jacob-reesmogg-plays-down-claims-he-is-plotting-tory-leadership-bid-a3610486.html
The country will not take another "Old Etonian" pill. And anyhow he is only leadership material for the upper crust only and not the rest of us.
Haven't spoken to David for almost three years now since he went to live in the US but I'd be really interested in listening to his viewpoint on the matter.
From The Sun Newspaper..
Nigel Farage warns party could be ‘finished’ after far-right anti-Islam campaigner is approved to stand in leadership election
WOW!
She will probably loose, I hear their are around ten candidates standing.
Jimbuna
08-13-17, 11:30 AM
If Nigel doesn't return then probably that will be the end.
Plaid Cymru should "come together" with UKIP to "take Wales forward", according to Neil Hamilton.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-40918885
What the heck is old Hamilton sniffing these days. :haha:
Jimbuna
08-14-17, 02:19 PM
Salmond eventually failed as a politician and is now going into show business it would appear :O:
Alex Salmond opened his first Edinburgh Fringe chat show by welcoming to the stage his "good pal" - Brexit minister David Davis.
The former first minister surprised the crowd of 350 at Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms with his choice of guest.
He introduced Mr Davis as "the next prime minister of the United Kingdom, perhaps the last prime minister of the United Kingdom".
Mr Salmond will perform 18 sold-out shows at the Fringe.
He has promised light-hearted banter and a few behind-the-scenes-revelations from his time in office.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40918376
Salmond eventually failed as a politician and is now going into show business it would appear :O:
He's on LBC Radio you know.
Jimbuna
08-14-17, 03:28 PM
He's on LBC Radio you know.
Never listen to it tbh.
Never listen to it tbh.
Never listen to him. :haha:
But I do enjoy that sarcastic Nick Abbot Fri/Sat 10pm-1am. :)
Jimbuna
08-14-17, 03:46 PM
Never listen to him. :haha:
But I do enjoy that sarcastic Nick Abbot Fri/Sat 10pm-1am. :)
At that time of the night/morning I'm usually watching BBC or Sky news on tv.
At that time of the night/morning I'm usually watching BBC or Sky news on tv.
Radio better. :)
Jimbuna
08-15-17, 02:39 PM
Nigel Farage has said his friendship with Donald Trump is probably why a Hollywood studio is interested in making a TV series about Brexit.
An unnamed studio is reported to be in talks to adapt The Bad Boys of Brexit - former UKIP donor Arron Banks's account of Mr Farage's Brexit campaign.
According to the Sunday Times, Benedict Cumberbatch is being tipped to play Mr Farage, although the former UKIP leader joked: "I have to play myself, obviously."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40934834
Surely not :doh:
^Sounds like a load of guff, Brexit the movie...Yea sure. :har:
Theresa May says 'it can't be right' for Big Ben to be silent
http://news.sky.com/story/big-ben-may-not-be-silent-for-four-years-after-all-10990717
Big Ben War! :o
Forget about NK this is big really big. :03:
FROM THE BBC NEWS - Average weekly earnings increased by 2.1% compared with a year earlier - slightly higher than last month's 2% increase.
NOT FOR ME! NO PAY RISE!
A sharp increase in pest control costs in the Palace of Westminster has been blamed on the amount of work being done on the crumbling estate.
Explaining last year's £132,619 bill, Commons authorities said increased maintenance projects had "disturbed pests and made them more visible".
The mouse problem has got so bad, with sightings reported daily....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40948418
Machine guns, flame throwers, few tanks and one working nuclear missile should do the trick. :03:
Fubar2Niner
08-17-17, 03:25 PM
NOT FOR ME! NO PAY RISE!
Me either mate, worse in fact, had to take a 5.5K pay cut.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40948418
Machine guns, flame throwers, few tanks and one working nuclear missile should do the trick. :03:
I think the only 'pests' in westminster are the bloody politicians :wah:
Me either mate, worse in fact, had to take a 5.5K pay cut.
I'm in a PT job and can I get a second job?..No. Its all bollocks from the government.
I think the only 'pests' in westminster are the bloody politicians :wah:
Agreed, get rid of these useless load of tosspots.
Jimbuna
08-18-17, 07:09 AM
Me either mate, worse in fact, had to take a 5.5K pay cut.
OUCH!! :o
Barcelona reaction: Leanne Wood comments spark outragehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-40974199
Dimbat.
Nicola Sturgeon has said she wishes she could turn the clock back and change the Scottish National Party's name.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40975105
Scottish Referendum Party? :hmmm: :03:
The Sun doesn't run the Labour Party - Jeremy Corbynhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40976072
Of course not, the daily sport runs the party.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2011/4/1/1301673642504/Sunday-Sport-001.jpg
Another dickhead..
Pay British Indians to leave the UK, says Ukip leadership hopeful John Rees-Evanshttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/pay-british-indians-to-leave-the-uk-says-ukip-leadership-hopeful-john-reesevans-a3615756.html
These dickheads can not see the harm they are doing to their own party! :doh:
Catfish
08-20-17, 11:30 AM
^ But isn't it nice to see what they really think. If anyone needed evidence.
Jimbuna
08-20-17, 02:19 PM
Nicola Sturgeon has said she wishes she could turn the clock back and change the Scottish National Party's name.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40975105
Scottish Referendum Party? :hmmm: :03:
:haha:
General Election 2017: 6.5 million voted tactically on 8 June
The Electoral Reform Society is calling for a change to the UK's voting system after counting 22 million "wasted" votes.http://news.sky.com/story/general-election-2017-65-million-voted-tactically-on-8-june-10998890
Well I voted for a candidate I was not keen on. The rest were a sham and next time if I face that situation I will not be voting but will write on my voting papers the above are unfit to vote for.
Jimbuna
08-21-17, 11:06 AM
Further proposals from the UK but the EU don't appear to be in any form of agreement atm.
The UK government has set out proposals to ensure trade in goods and services can continue on the day the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.
A position paper calls for goods already on the market to be allowed to remain on sale in the UK and EU without additional restrictions.
It also calls for consumer protections to remain in place.
But European Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein said the UK's position papers would not alter the framework for talks drawn up by chief negotiator Michel Barnier and approved by the other 27 EU member states.
"There is a very clear structure in place, set by the EU27, about how these talks should be sequenced and that is exactly what we think should be happening now," Mr Winterstein told a Brussels press conference.
"So the fact that these papers are coming out is, as such, welcome because we see this as a positive step towards now really starting the process of negotiations.
"But as Michel Barnier has said time and again, we have to have sufficient progress first on the three areas of citizens' rights, financial settlement and Ireland, and only then can we move forwards to discussing the future relationship."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40997985
We are not leaving, they twist and turn and sell us the big lie but some of us can see through their smoke and mirrors and see the truth we are staying in the EU.
Vince Cable says the Liberal Democrats will keep pushing for the legalisation of cannabis.http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40819720/lib-dems-under-vince-cable-still-want-to-legalise-cannabis
Right on dude, after all its so cool. :|\\
What next from the mad LibDems? :doh:
Jimbuna
08-22-17, 10:42 AM
What next from the mad LibDems? :doh:
An end to student tuition fees :03:
An end to student tuition fees :03:
:haha:
Skybird
08-22-17, 04:46 PM
This German editorial concludes that neither May nor Davies really want to execute the Brexit, and delay things in order to signal Brussels that they do not want it at all.
https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article167897861/Zu-viele-Skrupel-fuer-den-Brexit.html
Is the obvious truth hidden in plain sight, maybe? That there will be no Brexit and that it is not seriously wanted, not planned for, not mulled at all? It woudl explain why May, instead of pressing the gas pedal to the metal, just takes an even longer holiday, and that there are not serious preparations for the time after Brexit being done at all. Lets face it, the British represetnatives behave like idiots when meeting the EU so far, and are ill-prepared on every meeting, grinning wide, and wasting time.
Politicians. They should be listed as one of the biblical pests. As long as people tolerate their existenc time and again, they will get consumed by them. And since they tolerate them and bring them to power and believe them their lies and excuse their crimes and cheatings, people do not deserve anything better.
Brexit is the big lie, I came to that conclusion the second Mrs May said she would not trigger it for six months.
Jimbuna
08-23-17, 06:13 AM
There could be an element of truth in what you post Sky....the doubters are certainly growing in number.
There could be an element of truth in what you post Sky....the doubters are certainly growing in number.
Too few too slow.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn begins tour of Scottish seatshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41016875
That shouldn't take to long. :haha:
Jimbuna
08-24-17, 08:42 AM
Political parties were given a record £40.1m in donations ahead of June's general election - and the Conservatives received more than all their rivals combined.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41036931
:hmmm:
Catfish
08-24-17, 09:23 AM
While those donations are breathtaking i cannot see how a party wins just with using more money for advertising, at least in Europe (sorry UK for including you here).
Would you vote for a party or candidate you do not like or respect or think of being on the wrong way, even if you saw 90 percent more advertising and TV time about it/him, than about their adversaries?
I guess not, not even with really better arguments. People don't react that way.
In the US, no candidate without billions to spend can even become a candidate, but it's different here.
Most people here would vote for a pig as long as it had the party's rosette on it.
Just wish I could get to vote for this great party..
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/82359000/jpg/_82359558_82358714.jpg
Jimbuna
08-25-17, 06:48 AM
The Tories will be loving this.
Net migration has fallen to the lowest level for three years after a surge in the number of EU nationals leaving the UK since last June's Brexit vote.
Net migration - the difference between those entering and leaving the UK - fell 81,000 to 246,000 in the year to March 2017.
More than half that change is due to a decrease in net migration of EU citizens, which is down 51,000.
The government is committed to reducing net migration to below 100,000.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41036236
^ Thanks to the city in crashing the pound because they lost millions on the bet we would vote to remain. As I have already posted these pigs win in the good and bad times, if the pound bounced back they would still be here.
Police investigate Conservatives over call centre use during election
The Tories deny allegations they broke the law by using a call centre to contact voters in marginal seats.
http://news.sky.com/story/conservatives-under-investigation-over-call-centre-use-during-election-campaign-11004673
Come on the Tories! Nahhhh..:O:
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn silent on lifting benefit freeze in Coatbridge speech
Welfare savings have generated questions for Labour for months and reveal some of the fault lines within the party.
Sounds like bad news for some and good news for others.
Convoys of 'self-driving' lorries get green light for UK trial
Platoons of self-driving lorries will be trialled on motorways in England, but some experts have raised concerns over safety.
http://news.sky.com/story/convoys-of-driverless-lorries-get-green-light-for-uk-trial-11004160
The Government has committed £8.1m to finance trials of semi-autonomous "platooning" lorries.What a wast of money.
Moonlight
08-27-17, 06:17 AM
This could be the norm in a few years time if this gets the go ahead, these politicians are the thickest bunch of prats we've ever had as they are blinded by the scent of a backhander, money rules, especially to a Tory.
Two men charged over M1 minibus crash
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-08-27/two-men-charged-over-m1-minibus-crash/
Jimbuna
08-27-17, 08:20 AM
Labour would keep the UK in the EU single market and customs union for a transitional period after leaving the EU, the party has said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41064314
I think the above makes a lot of sense but then I remember who the leader is and how anti-EU he has always been so I'm not sure I can believe what they are currently proposing.
I'm not sure I can believe what they are currently proposing.
Vote grabbing. :yep:
Theresa May attacks 'unacceptable face of capitalism'
Businesses who pay excessive salaries to senior executives represent the "unacceptable face of capitalism", Prime Minister Theresa May has said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41065485
How about all you lot of "PIGS" at Westminster take a bloody pay cut for a start!
TRUE NEWS YESTERDAY
Theresa May is going to quit as Prime Minister on August 30, 2019
Yea right..:har: :har: :har: :har: :har:
AND NOW
Number 10 dismisses claims....adding 'it must be peak silly season'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4826482/Theresa-sets-date-quit-Prime-Minister.html
Unite boss Len McCluskey backs Emily Thornberry as next Labour leaderhttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/unite-boss-len-mccluskey-backs-emily-thornberry-as-next-labour-leader-a3619006.html
No bloody way, are you bloody off your tiny little head Len? :doh:
EU's Brexit chief Michel Barnier: UK must start negotiating seriouslyhttp://news.sky.com/story/eus-brexit-chief-uk-must-start-negotiating-seriously-11010433
WHY? After all those of us who know this is the big lie and we are not leaving. Why should that sham at Westminster make any kind of effort after all they know we shall remain. They have told so many lies and got away with it what's one more big lie to them.
Jimbuna
08-28-17, 03:11 PM
No bloody way, are you bloody off your tiny little head Len? :doh:
Has been for a long time now.
Has been for a long time now.
He must be backing that barking mad crackpot woman! :doh:
Jimbuna
08-29-17, 12:12 PM
Never the twain shall meet.
Before the Brexit talks and politicians' soundbites come the off-the-record briefings. So, after more work to map out the UK's exit from the EU, how will the third round of talks go?
Not well, say both sides, cautioning against any big breakthroughs at the session starting on Monday.
EU officials speak of a "big gap", unlikely to be closed any time soon. The UK predicts highly technical talks, with progress coming in later sessions.
The British want to broaden the discussion to include a possible post-Brexit relationship, while the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier wants the focus to remain on his priority issues: citizens' rights, the UK's financial obligations and the Irish border.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41049803
Where's are man in Scotland? We need the Scottish input....
Kezia Dugdale quits as Scottish Labour leader
Kezia Dugdale has resigned as leader of Scottish Labour, saying it is time to "pass on the baton" to someone else.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41082916
Jimbuna
08-30-17, 08:26 AM
I doubt Sturgeon will mind but it's a bit of a blow for Jeremy I reckon.
Jimbuna
08-30-17, 08:30 AM
Just in...
A key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has ruled himself out of the contest to replace Kezia Dugdale as leader of Scottish Labour.
Neil Findlay had been one of the early bookmakers' favourites to succeed Ms Dugdale, who quit the role on Tuesday evening.
But the Lothians MSP has confirmed that he will not put his name forward.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41096883
Possbly could come down to a contest between Anas Sarwar or Richard Leonard. If, as I suspect, the Unions swing in behind the latter Sarwar would find himself in some difficulty.
The candidate pool within SLab is a tad shallow.
Mike.:hmmm:
bit of a blow for Jeremy I reckon.
Unless it turns out to be true she was heading for the..:/\\chop
:hmmm:
Jimbuna
08-31-17, 06:51 AM
Some Conservative backbenchers have said they do not believe Theresa May will be able to fight the next general election as prime minister.
Their comments follow Mrs May's claim she was "here for the long term".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41106679
I personally doubt she will survive long enough to see the next election but you never know really.
What a choice the crazy senile JC or senile May! :doh:
Jimbuna
09-01-17, 09:02 AM
The DUP leader, Arlene Foster, proposed an immediate restoration of the assembly in Northern Ireland along with a parallel, time-limited process to deal with culture and language.
Mrs Foster described it as a "common-sense solution" to the ongoing political deadlock.
Sinn Féin rejected the plan and said the DUP have not addressed the cause of the assembly's collapse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41100925
It can't be long now before direct rule from London becomes a reality.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41100925
It can't be long now before direct rule from London becomes a reality.
The mess gets bigger.
Some Conservative backbenchers have said they do not believe Theresa May will be able to fight the next general election as prime minister.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41106679
Brexit talks going no where but backwards and both sides falling out. This mess will bring the Bitch down.
MPs declare sports and bookies as most common donorshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41027964
Dam good job I don't have to declare my freebies...:haha:
Jimbuna
09-02-17, 08:47 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41106679
Brexit talks going no where but backwards and both sides falling out. This mess will bring the Bitch down.
I'm more concerned it may bring the country down.
I'm more concerned it may bring the country down.
Nah...The masses have got the three SSS's.
Sex, Sport and Soap opera's that will keep them happy. :03:
1984 is here and now and the worst thing about it is we have bought this on our self's by letting the few with power and money to get away with it.
Theresa May has appealed for unity from pro-EU Conservative MPs as the Commons is set to debate the government's Brexit repeal bill on Thursday.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41138651
Better make it snappy as you lot will be off soon again for your conference season.
Jimbuna
09-03-17, 05:38 AM
MPs declare sports and bookies as most common donors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41027964
Hardly surprising really, our MP's are quite comfortable leaching off whoever is prepared to do the providing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41027964
Hardly surprising really, our MP's are quite comfortable leaching off whoever is prepared to do the providing.
Wake up jim..
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2510043&postcount=7078
:haha:
I am tired of hearing this again.
The NHS in England may suffer its worst winter in recent history if it does not receive an emergency bailout, hospital chiefs are warning.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41030635
I want to know is every single penny being spent on what it should be? Back in the 1990's when I worked in the NHS I witness money being spent on new flash cars every year by the management.
Granted I have no idea how the money is spent now but I feel certain amount of money is being diverted else where.
Theresa May faces 'Repeal Bill' battle in Parliament, Labour warns
As the opposition prepares to push for changes to the Brexit legislation, the PM also faces a potential backbench rebellion.
http://news.sky.com/story/theresa-may-faces-repeal-bill-battle-in-parliament-labour-warns-11018782
Conference season cancelled? That would have been result back in the days it was on TV in full. :03:
Nicola Sturgeon will scrap the 1% cap on public sector pay rises when she sets out her legislative plans for the coming year, it is understood.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41141373
From what I have picked up on Scotland's books are not balanced, so where is the money coming from?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41141373
From what I have picked up on Scotland's books are not balanced, so where is the money coming from?
It'll start with the letter "B". That's the Block Grant which Holyrood receives from the Treasury which is calculated via Barnett. As part of the increased powers that the Scottish Parliament gained it also has the ability to borrow money on it's own account.
The SNP largely cut or froze council funding whilst Scottish Labour controlled so many Local Authorities. Now that the SNP have a greater degree of control over them the purse strings will loosen.
TBH honest, without control of macro-economic policy and the "Stealth" taxes that go with it, Scotland is very unlikely to be able balance it's books.
Only independence or Full Fiscal Autonomy would do that.:hmmm:
Mike.
Possbly could come down to a contest between Anas Sarwar or Richard Leonard. If, as I suspect, the Unions swing in behind the latter Sarwar would find himself in some difficulty.
The candidate pool within SLab is a tad shallow.
Mike.:hmmm:
Looks like I was right:
Sarwar - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41146997
Leonard - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41140402
Guardian article: Sarwar and Leonard confirm bids for Scottish Labour leadership (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/04/anas-sarwar-and-richard-leonard-confirm-bids-for-scottish-labour-leadership).
Now we'll see who has the most powerful backers.:hmmm:
Mike.
It'll start with the letter "B". That's the Block Grant which Holyrood receives from the Treasury which is calculated via Barnett. As part of the increased powers that the Scottish Parliament gained it also has the ability to borrow money on it's own account.
The SNP largely cut or froze council funding whilst Scottish Labour controlled so many Local Authorities. Now that the SNP have a greater degree of control over them the purse strings will loosen.
TBH honest, without control of macro-economic policy and the "Stealth" taxes that go with it, Scotland is very unlikely to be able balance it's books.
Only independence or Full Fiscal Autonomy would do that.:hmmm:
Mike.
So we have the same old story, spend money you have not got and look good and pray no one will find out or blow it big time. :rolleyes:
Benefit sanctions shoot up 50% in six monthshttp://www.politics.co.uk/news/2017/09/04/benefit-sanctions-shoot-up-50-in-six-months
And when you are sanctioned you are off the unemployment figures which makes it look good for the government of the day as monthly unemployment figures show a drop. :03:
Don't get me wrong if you are a lay about who will not work you should be sanctioned but if you are really making the effort and get hit because your bus was late that would be out of order.
Now Tory activists want Theresa May to step down before next general electionhttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/now-tory-activists-want-theresa-may-to-step-down-before-next-general-election-a3626386.html
I don't find this a big story or a little story. I find this another attempt by George Gideon Oliver Osborne to put the knife in. There could be a issue here if these sort of news stories become more and more in the Evening Standard it will show a bitter twisted angry former MP who stills holds a grudge against Mrs May.
So we have the same old story, spend money you have not got and look good and pray no one will find out or blow it big time. :rolleyes:
Not untrue.
I also see that the Tories are also going to do something similar: LINK (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4383549/theresa-may-scraps-public-sector-pay-cap/). I would hardly call the Sun a great source, but it was linked on the Conservative Home site.
I could be sceptical and say that the Tories may wait until the SNP announce it first, indulge in a bit of Nat-bashing/Jockophobia for their voter base in England and then quietly introduce the exact same policy south of the Border......
Not the first time they've done so, of course. The antics of English Conservatives often makes things very difficult for Ruth Davidson and the Scottish Tories.
Mike.:hmmm:
Jimbuna
09-04-17, 04:42 PM
And about bloody time!!
Not untrue.
I also see that the Tories are also going to do something similar
Even if they did, I hardly think those effected will vote Tory.
Anti-Islam UKIP leadership hopeful Anne Marie Waters attacks 'EU-like' rivalshttp://news.sky.com/story/anti-islam-ukip-leadership-hopeful-anne-marie-waters-attacks-eu-like-rivals-11021041
This one seems to me some what blown up about if she is elected its goodnight UKIP. From the UKIP end it just seems a bit of hoo-har while the media comes across as to say that's a rap for UKIP and we will miss their infighting and fruitcake actions.
Jimbuna
09-05-17, 10:33 AM
[B] if she is elected its goodnight UKIP.
I thought they went to sleep ages ago when Nigel left :hmmm:
UKIP - back to being the BNP in blazers, then.
Meanwhile, up at Holyrood the SNP administration has announced it's intention to "get on with the day job"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41147003
At-a-glance: Scotland's legislative programme 2017-18
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41162058
16 bills altogether covering various topics. We'll see how much they can actually deliver.
Mike.
Meanwhile, up at Holyrood the SNP administration has announced it's intention to "get on with the day job"
Some rich bloke rang in to a radio phone in last night moaning the SNP were bleeding his kind dry and the SNP was on course to bankrupt Scotland's economy. He was a employer owning a small company, I suspect too a point he was telling the truth. Question is has the SNP now passed its peak and trying to do what every it can to hold on to power? :hmmm:
The summer break is over and here we go again..
DING DING PMQ'S
May Vs Corbyn
Come on Corbyn, every time that dotty old bag brings up the last Labour Government you should hit back. Over 6 years ago not 6 months ago! Trouble with Corbyn is too many topics, if he gets the wrong answer he should keep hitting back demanding the answer and not some off the cuff answer or deflection response.
May is weak but Corbyn is weaker and can not see how to deliver the knock out blow.
Score
May 1 Corbyn 0
Some rich bloke rang in to a radio phone in last night moaning the SNP were bleeding his kind dry and the SNP was on course to bankrupt Scotland's economy. He was a employer owning a small company, I suspect too a point he was telling the truth. Question is has the SNP now passed its peak and trying to do what every it can to hold on to power? :hmmm:
It's a bit more subtle than that. There was a major stooshie last year over changes to business rates (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38991273). As it turns out businesses in the North East and many other rural areas would be most affected by the rises, the Central Belt less so. So if he's based in the NE it's a bone of contention between the business community here and the SNP administration.
There have been dark mutterings up in this neck of the woods (Aberdeen in particular) that the SNP has deliberately set out sabotage the economy up here in order to boost that in the western central belt (i.e. the Clyde Valley and Glasgow) so they can hold on to their new ex-Labour voter base in those areas.
No doubt relations have worsened now that the Tories have made gains at the SNP's expense in this area.
Mike.
BBC Scotland's Business Editor Douglas Fraser's take on the SNP Programme for Government:
Sturgeon's mid-term reboot (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41173592)
Things haven't gone as anyone expected for the past few years. For Nicola Sturgeon, a rogue Westminster election knocked the momentum out of her party's dominance and the independence movement.
So 16 months out from her re-election to lead a minority administration, the Programme for Government (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41147003) has the look of a reboot. She's switched off the administration, and switched it back on again, and come up with something that reads like an election manifesto.
It's pleased an impressively wide range of pressure groups: those who campaign for the planet, disabled people, against poverty, on race and gender, the business lobby, public sector unions and public transport.
And this is a manifesto that is willing to make some enemies and risk criticism; taking on the lock-em-up brigade on prisons: petrolheads and their diesel cousins: the obese, or at least those who sell fatty foods to them: and local councillors, who stand to lose powers to headteachers and local communities.
Also, Ruth Davidson has this to say about the Brexit process:
Scottish Tory leader says she is worried Brexit could damage economy permanently (http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/09/ruth-davidson-brexit-could-deliver-hit-we-can-t-recover)
What is her biggest concern about the impact of Brexit? She pauses. “Interesting question… My real fear is that if there’s a short-term economic hit, we don’t bounce back from it.”
Would she like a prolonged transition period during which Britain maintains access to the single market? “I’m for free trade and want to make sure that people from Scotland and the UK have access to – and the greatest ability to operate within – the single market, which I believe are the exact words the Prime Minister used in her Lancaster House speech back in January. The mechanism for how we get to that I’m less aerated about, as long as that’s where we get to.”
Almost forgot this - the GMB is calling foul over the decision to open up the contract for the new Type 31 frigates to yards across the UK rather than using the Clyde only:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41174619
Viewed UK wide, it's a good decision and one I approve of, but from a specifically Scottish view point this is a potential hornets nest. If Glasgow gets the hump, the rest of Scotland normally suffers.
Mike.
From Sky News..
Who should lead the Tories at the next election?
Theresa May has declared her intention to lead the Conservative Party into the next General Election, scheduled for 2022, but do you think she'll get her wish? If not, then who?
Poll results as of posting this post.
Jacob Rees-Mogg 741
Ruth Davidson 566
Theresa May 454
Boris Johnson 218
David Davis 142
Philip Hammond 142
Amber Rudd 97
Andrea Leadsom 74
Sajid Javid 74
Damian Green 61
Michael Gove 59
My opinion
Jacob Rees-Mogg - Too much of a toff and reminder of Cameron
Ruth Davidson - Scottish bitter pill the country may swallow if no other option
Theresa May - weak washout but still better than Corbyn
Boris Johnson - Got flair but too much of a buffoon at times
David Davis - Safe but dry and not really leadership material
Philip Hammond - Too dry and clearly not got it
Amber Rudd - No chance
Andrea Leadsom - Better chance than Rudd but not by much
Sajid Javid - Could be the stalking horse
Damian Green - Too weak
Michael Gove - Damaged goods
Jimbuna
09-07-17, 05:50 AM
Only real challenger imo might be Rees-Mogg but if May doesn't make any more clangers I can see her hanging on.
On the other hand, should Corbyn enhance his appeal to the electorate and Labour support increases as a result then I predict a rise in support for Boris should he declare an interest.
Davidson's very, very unlikely - not at Westminster and has her eye on Bute House (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bute_House).
I don't think many in Scotland know who Rees-Mogg is.
Mike.
Only real challenger imo might be Rees-Mogg but if May doesn't make any more clangers I can see her hanging on.
On the other hand, should Corbyn enhance his appeal to the electorate and Labour support increases as a result then I predict a rise in support for Boris should he declare an interest.
Rees-Mogg would seal their fate, as said he's a toff a bigger toff than Cameron and that is a vote loser. This could result in a big down turn in the vote if Corbyn fails to get his act together. More people would stay at home.
As it stands at the moment if there was another general election next month I would predict a hung parliament with the Tories the biggest party but needing more than the DUP to prop them up.
Davidson's very, very unlikely - not at Westminster and has her eye on Bute House (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bute_House).
I don't think many in Scotland know who Rees-Mogg is.
Mike.
Well if that is the case the bookies are barking up the wrong tree.
I don't think many in England know who Rees-Mogg is. :03: :haha:
Jimbuna
09-08-17, 05:43 AM
MP Ian Paisley has referred himself to a parliamentary watchdog over claims he did not declare £100,000 in hospitality from the Sri Lankan government.
A newspaper report said the DUP MP and his family took two all-expenses-paid holidays to the island in 2013.
The Daily Telegraph said he recently met Sri Lankan officials to discuss the possibility of post-Brexit trade deals with the south Asian country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41198118
Could it be some will individually benefit from Brexit? :hmmm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41198118
Could it be some will individually benefit from Brexit? :hmmm:
He passed away a few years ago unless this is someone else, oh well click the link and find out.
Jimbuna
09-08-17, 06:52 AM
He passed away a few years ago unless this is someone else, oh well click the link and find out.
This is about the son, not the father.
This is about the son, not the father.
Help I'm under attack from a O.A.P. :haha: :O:
Well Ian Paisley (Jr) got nothing to worry about, after all the DUP has got the Tories under the thumb.
Jimbuna
09-08-17, 07:04 AM
Help I'm under attack from a O.A.P. :haha: :O:
Well Ian Paisley (Jr) got nothing to worry about, after all the DUP has got the Tories under the thumb.
Arguably so but I'm sure they'd rather be in a position to govern in NI.
Arguably so but I'm sure they'd rather be in a position to govern in NI.
The British government is weak because they the Tories failed to gain control and are now in a catch 22 situation with the DUP on one side and the rest of NI party's on the other side.
Mrs May and the Tories take a hit from a big time doner..
Theresa May is a "hopeless" leader of a "weak" government and Britain would be better off with a young Tony Blair at the helm instead, a major Tory donor has said.http://news.sky.com/story/tory-donor-hits-out-at-hopeless-theresa-may-11026381
Only big butch Ruth gets a thumbs up.
The peer instead backed Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson for the top job.
"She's very practical, very solid and won't give in," he said.
"She's clever as well as growing up on a council estate. I think she's top class.
Jimbuna
09-09-17, 08:32 AM
Members of Parliament should be given six months' maternity leave, during which a colleague can cast votes on their behalf, Harriet Harman has said.
The former Labour deputy leader, who has had three children while an MP, said a "proper system of baby leave" in Parliament was "long overdue".
Currently maternity and paternity arrangements in Parliament are informal and operate at the party level.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41211741
I'm honestly surprised this provision isn't already in place.
Tony Blair has defended his call for new controls on EU migration as a cabinet minister accused him of a belated "epiphany" on the issue.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41216679
I see Teflon Tony is now saying his open door come on in must be a door with a man on the desk and a team to decide who comes in.
Bloody useless sod, put your money where your mouth is!
Answer from Teflon Tony...NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
DUP-Tory £1bn deal 'needs Parliament's approval'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-41226113
Must be bit of a slow news day thanks to batty Mrs May. :doh:
Jimbuna
09-11-17, 09:21 AM
Now that could be a tricky one, especially if the government lose the challenge made in the courts.
Theresa May 'confident' of winning vote on Brexit bill
The Government says voting against the bill will mean a "chaotic" Brexit, as Labour claims it gives sweeping powers to ministers.
http://news.sky.com/story/theresa-may-confident-of-winning-vote-on-brexit-bill-11030537
EU Union for a UK Union, good bye democracy? :hmmm:
Jimbuna
09-12-17, 05:04 AM
http://news.sky.com/story/theresa-may-confident-of-winning-vote-on-brexit-bill-11030537
EU Union for a UK Union, good bye democracy? :hmmm:
Well, it has passed the first stage by a margin of 36 votes so the second reading will probably be as early as Monday.
I do admit to it being potentially used as a power tool to ram through whatever the government feel appropriate though.
Jimbuna
09-12-17, 05:09 AM
UK inflation measured by the Consumer Prices Index rose to 2.9% in August, up from 2.6% in July, figures show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41238822
It can only be a matter of time before savings interest rates rise. Good news for those who have savings but not so good news for those with mortgages and debt etc.
Well, it has passed the first stage by a margin of 36 votes so the second reading will probably be as early as Monday.
I do admit to it being potentially used as a power tool to ram through whatever the government feel appropriate though.
I did not vote leave so the government can over rule parliament, I know they are a load of sharks, money takers, power crazy loons and so on but I rather have some democracy than the road to dictatorship.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41238822
It can only be a matter of time before savings interest rates rise. Good news for those who have savings but not so good news for those with mortgages and debt etc.
Not going to happen jim, while interest rates remain where they are it helps the government to pay off the government deficit. Problem is as we and they know and said that paying off is going to take longer as they borrow more adding to the debt. All adding to another world wide recession, if we make it to 2020 I will buy a bottle of champaign, but the dirt will hit the wall before 2025.
Jimbuna
09-12-17, 09:20 AM
Prison officers will get a 1.7% rise while police will get a 1% pay rise plus a 1% bonus for the year, paid for from existing departmental budgets.
No 10 also signalled the end of the 1% pay cap, saying they recognised the need for more flexibility in future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41241295
One small step but in the right direction and hopefully the first of many more to come.
The Sun was right then.:hmmm:
Looks like my earlier cynicism was misplaced - the main UK Tory Party kept quiet about the SNP's earlier announcement of the same policy.
I wonder if behind the scenes there's a discrete degree of co-ordination between the Tories and the SNP in certain areas?
The Nats were known as Tartan Tories in the past, afterall.
In the meantime, SLab have announced their timetable for the leadership contest between Sarwar and Leonard. We'll know who their new leader will be at the end of November.
Mike.
Now things get tricky:
Holyrood: No Holyrood consent for Brexit bill 'at this time' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41233123)
The Scottish government will not ask Holyrood to give consent to the EU Withdrawal Bill in its current form.
Brexit minister Mike Russell told MSPs that the legislation posed a threat to the founding principles of devolution.
The Scottish government said there will be no consent motion for MSPs to vote on "at this time", and it will instead seek to amend the bill.
The UK government has insisted that Holyrood will see "significant" new powers devolved after Brexit.
Talks between the two governments over post-Brexit powers for Scotland ended in stalemate (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40868557) in August, although more are expected to be scheduled.
Cardiff: Brexit: Carwyn Jones objects to 'hijack of devolved powers' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-41241327)
The Welsh Government has confirmed it will formally object to Theresa May's plan to transfer EU laws to the UK at the point of Brexit.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said the bill "hijacked" powers that "rightfully" belonged in Wales.
AMs will vote on a legislative consent motion (http://www.assembly.wales/laid%20documents/lcm-ld11177/lcm-ld11177-e.pdf), on the grounds that the bill will affect the assembly's competence.
Ex-Welsh Secretary David Jones (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-41239423) has said there is a case for EU powers in areas such as farming to go to Westminster.
Brian Taylor's take on the matter: History and Henry VIII at Holyrood in Brexit consent debate (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41245326)
Scotland's Brexit Minister is Mike Russell. Perhaps he might be more accurately characterised as the anti-Brexit Minister or the Minister for Mitigating Brexit.
Either way, Mr Russell is a cultured individual, a prolific author indeed. He has a keen interest in Scotland's cultural, social and political history.
So it was no surprise that Mr Russell reached for an historical analogy when delivering a statement to Holyrood on the latest Brexit developments (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41233123).
The UK government's approach to Scotland was, he said, a modern version of the "rough wooing". Remember? The dating scheme pursued by Henry VIII?
Lacking an app or a website, Henry VIII essayed a rather different approach when seeking to hitch his young son Edward to the infant Mary Queen of Scots. Instead of chocolates and flowers, he opted for swords and gunshot.
Henry has resurfaced as a character in the current Brexit debate. That's because he decided, after careful consideration and full consultation, that the best source of law in England was himself, rather than any pesky Parliament. He took executive powers.
Mike.:hmmm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41241295
One small step but in the right direction and hopefully the first of many more to come.What the government gives from one hand they take it back with the other.:03:
I wonder if behind the scenes there's a discrete degree of co-ordination between the Tories and the SNP in certain areas?
The Nats were known as Tartan Tories in the past, afterall.
https://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/052a17fa7beac38d673a61cb6cee83a518eb43-v5-wm.jpg?v=3
Chancellor Philip Hammond has set 22 November as the date for his newly created autumn Budget.
Quick stock up on booze and cigs and toilet rolls. :03:
Meanwhile ahead of Wednesday PMQ's....
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/b1/02/c7b102ebd245715b3ef99ed5814f9560.jpg
PMQ'S
May Vs Corbyn
Corbyn let me give you some more advice, never attack May and hand over ammunition she can throw back in your face. You do that and the dotty old bag is going to win while you look silly. One thing old Corbyn did well on was to use the Chancellor's own words and throw them back at him and May, apart from that once again that dotty old bag got the better of old Jezza.
Score
May 2 Corbyn 1
Looks like the DUP is going to put a knife in the government's back!
The Government is facing a symbolic defeat on public sector pay, a day after scrapping the seven-year cap on pay rises.
According to Sky sources, the Democratic Unionist Party is planning to vote with Labour during a House of Commons debate on NHS pay on Wednesday afternoon.
http://news.sky.com/story/government-face-defeat-on-nhs-pay-as-dup-back-labour-11033732
The first rumble in the Tory/DUP jungle and this will not be the last that's for sure. :03:
Jimbuna
09-13-17, 10:34 AM
Aye, May is currently skating on extremely thin ice.
Jimbuna
09-13-17, 10:36 AM
Brexit: UK will 'soon regret' leaving EU argues Juncker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41252653
I'm finding it increasinly harder to take this foolish man seriously.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41252653
I'm finding it increasinly harder to take this foolish man seriously.
Just another big head on the world stage saying...look at me what a tosspot i am, without knowing what he just said. :haha:
Jimbuna
09-14-17, 07:57 AM
Pound jumps as Bank of England hints at rate rise.
The Bank of England has said that higher inflation and a pick up in growth could lead to a rate hike in "the coming months".
Members of the Bank's nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 to keep interest rates on hold at 0.25%
They still voted to keep it down though!!
^What pick up?...recent reports say we are slowing down again and there could be a recession.
As for these hints that BS has been going on for near on a year now.
Jimbuna
09-15-17, 05:00 AM
Money will always look after money. Sad but true.
Skybird
09-15-17, 05:10 AM
Currency-wise, third world war has begun already years ago. That this still escapes so many people, is stunning. Dollar versus Euro versus Renminbi versus Rubel versus Pound versus centralbank-owned physical gold. Currencies get swung like weapons of war these days. Central banks are the new war ministries. Econimic Keynesian alchemists are the new Adolfs.
And I do not talk of war against cash money, which is another battle running. ( I fear in the medium term it already is deicded. Just see how much a major criminal like Kent Rogoff, who wants states to be equipped to totalitarian powers to plunder and steal, get celebrated and kneeled before. Like Keynes. That politicians ally with him, is clear, his gospel serves their interests of collecting more power, control and opportunity to plunder and hide their debt-making, but why the people still allow him to walk freely and elect people putting his calls for crime into action, is beyond me. )
^Not sure of the term WW3 Skybird, but Currency Wars I can buy. I read James Rickards books and his hopeful tune from his first book "Currency wars" has long passed in his second book "The Death of Money". I'm just about to start his third book "The Road to Ruin" and from what comments I have read about that one there seems to be no hope.
Jimbuna
09-15-17, 07:50 AM
John Bercow: Cut the size of the House of Lords
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41264966
Now that certainly works for me.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41264966
John Bercow: Cut the size of the House of Lords Now that certainly works for me.Not good enough, scrap it now and cut the dead wood away from the HOC.
Jimbuna
09-16-17, 07:14 AM
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has repeated the controversial claim that leaving the EU would save £350m a week, which could be spent on the NHS.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41289080
Haven't we heard this before :hmmm:
blackswan40
09-16-17, 08:42 AM
With the exception of Winston Spencer Churchill theres only one other person that got in the Houses of Parliament with good intentions and that was
Guy Fawkes!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41289080
Haven't we heard this before :hmmm:
YES. :DL
And that word..could.
With the exception of Winston Spencer Churchill theres only one other person that got in the Houses of Parliament with good intentions and that was
Guy Fawkes!
:haha: :haha: :)
Five areas in England to pilot voter ID checkshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41287240
Problem is even ID can be faked these days, good fakes.
Brexit: Boris Johnson 'back-seat driving' over Brexit, says Ruddhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41298473
Any power struggle by Boris could result in a king without a country to rule. Boris could topple May but if he fails to deliver the NHS promise will see old Jezer in power.
Vince Cable: I could become prime ministerhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41298475
:k_rofl::k_rofl:
George Osborne has been accused of "bitterness and bile" over his attacks on Theresa May.
Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg hit out at the former chancellor, who is now editor of the London Evening Standard, a position he has used to launch a series of blistering attacks on the Prime Minister.
Claims that Mr Osborne, who was unceremoniously sacked by Mrs May when she took office last year, is pursuing a vendetta against the PM have been further fuelled by a recent magazine profile.
The Esquire piece said Mr Osborne is reported to have told colleagues he will not rest until Mrs May is "chopped up in bags in my freezer". (http://news.sky.com/story/george-osborne-wants-theresa-may-chopped-up-in-bags-in-my-freezer-says-magazine-11033831)
http://news.sky.com/story/osborne-accused-of-bitterness-and-bile-over-attacks-on-may-11034775
Just a very bitter power crazy slug who got slung out of Mrs May garden. I find the slug laughable these days making a fool of himself.
The UK's statistics watchdog has stood by its criticism of Boris Johnson in a growing row over the possible financial windfall the NHS may get from Brexit.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41301049
Statistics...Bah humbug!
So what, Boris has made his bed and if it all goes to pot that's it for Boris the leader Boris the PM.
Jimbuna
09-19-17, 02:48 PM
http://news.sky.com/story/osborne-accused-of-bitterness-and-bile-over-attacks-on-may-11034775
Just a very bitter power crazy slug who got slung out of Mrs May garden. I find the slug laughable these days making a fool of himself.
Me too :yep:
Jimbuna
09-19-17, 02:50 PM
Sir Vince Cable has said he can lead the Liberal Democrats back to power by offering a mix of "hope and realism".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41307116
I'll have some of whatever he's on :)
'Corbyn will be PM if Theresa May can't unite Tories' says party grandee William Hague http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/corbyn-will-be-pm-if-theresa-may-cant-unite-tories-says-party-grandee-william-hague/ar-AAsaXJi?OCID=ansmsnnews11
WOW!..Friday the make or break day for May. :hmmm:
Trump trumped the Cable on the news i here. :haha:
Jeremy Corbyn unveils ‘power grab’ to strengthen Left’s grip on Labour Partyhttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-unveils-power-grab-to-strengthen-left-s-grip-on-labour-a3638221.html
At this rate old JC will be going wearing a donkey jacket and then doing this..
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47407000/jpg/_47407009_38853957.jpg
Foot's appearance at the Cenotaph caused controversy, Jezzer next? :hmmm:
Jimbuna
09-20-17, 08:44 AM
Those proposals (some of them anyway) will only drive me further away.
Those proposals (some of them anyway) will only drive me further away.
Mrs May will greet you will open arms and a big wet sloppy kiss. :03:
https://d2kmm3vx031a1h.cloudfront.net/Dc5ee1caQ0mvZZzKgGg7_front21.jpg
Another good reason to get rid of the HoL's.
Jimbuna
09-21-17, 06:28 AM
Theresa May's speech on Brexit in Italy on Friday will represent an "open and generous offer" to the rest of the EU, a cabinet minister has told the BBC.
It is thought that might include a guarantee that no EU country would lose out from changes to the EU's current budget as a result of the UK leaving.
But another minister warned against offering too much money, saying "it's our only leverage".
Mrs May is briefing her cabinet on Thursday morning about the speech.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41342580
This speech could well be intersting :hmmm:
Looks like SLab is going to swing left and align with Corbyn - that's all the major unions swung in behind Leonard:
https://labourlist.org/2017/09/unite-swings-behind-radical-corbynista-candidate-for-scottish-labour/
https://labourlist.org/2017/09/usdaw-back-left-candidate-richard-leonard-in-scottish-leadership-race/
https://labourlist.org/2017/09/aslef-backs-left-wing-candidate-for-scottish-labour-leadership/
https://labourlist.org/2017/09/left-wing-candidate-wins-tssa-backing-in-race-for-scottish-labour-leadership/
Sarwar's toast, for all intents and purposes - it turns out that the family company wasn't paying it's staff the minimum wage. That killed any support from the Unions. He's also too closely associated with the Blair period.
Mike.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41342580
This speech could well be intersting :hmmm:
And nearly a year wasted getting no where, time is running out for this silly old cow.
Looks like SLab is going to swing left and align with Corbyn - that's all the major unions swung in behind Leonard
Can not see even this winning back the voters so soon.
Jimbuna
09-22-17, 05:59 AM
Theresa May has warned the United Nations that Britain could withhold up to 30% of its £90m core funding each year unless the organisation reforms.
The PM told delegates at the UN general assembly there was a gap between "the nobility of its purposes and the effectiveness of its delivery".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41337444
Now the UK disclose their doubts.
I wonder how much China and Russia contribute in return for their exalted positions :hmmm:
Skybird
09-22-17, 08:41 AM
Philip Stephens, co-senior editor of the Financial Times, published a German opinion piece over here where he imo correctly points at the terrible basic mistake Londown is committed to - the assumption that is that after elections in Germany Berlin would start to support Londowns positions somewhat and push the eU towards accepting according compromises. He reasons that this reflects a traditional basic flaw in British foreign polciy towards Germany since always, and a general inability in Londown to see things from politically totally different perspectives - perspectives shared by the opponent on the other side of the table.
Merkel has very different things on mind than to help Brexit illusions and dreams by Londown to get the process running the way it wants.
I think Stephens is right there. Germany will present May, or whoever will be leader in the forseeable future, an ultra-hard crashlanding on the unforgiving grounds of reality. Londown reads too much into the high german interest in good trade relations with britain. Becasue although they are high, for the EUcrats in Berlin other things rank incredibly much higher in importance, no matter how foolish they are, than trade with the UK. This is what May and others do not understand. They overrate the UK's position and strength if not in the world, then in the EU.
And the British nuclear weapons may be important for Europe, but obviously nobody in Europe cares.
The sun of Rome is set.Our day is gone.
Clouds, dews and dangers come; our deeds are done.
Shakespeare: Julius Ceasar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41337444
Now the UK disclose their doubts.
I wonder how much China and Russia contribute in return for their exalted positions :hmmm:
Theresa May has warned the United Nations that Britain could withhold up to 30% of its £90m core funding each year unless the organisation reforms.
Bloody heck we pay to stay in this United Nitwits club! I demand a referendum so I can vote to leave.
PM Theresa May has said there should be a transition period of "about" two years after Brexit, during which trade should continue on current terms.
And the UK will pay into the EU budget so member states are not left out of pocket.
:o
Man this is going to BLEEP off a lot of people. As for me i am not really surprised coming from that mad woman.
Hey Mrs May some good news for you..Oh wait its bad news.
Moody's downgrades UK's rating on Brexit and growth fears
Moody‘s, which was the first major credit ratings agency to strip Britain of its top-notch AAA rating in 2013, said it had cut the rating to Aa2 from Aa1.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-moody-s/moodys-downgrades-uks-rating-on-brexit-and-growth-fears-idUKKCN1BX2WO
Nigel Farage - "Politicians' 'two fingers' to 17.4m people"http://news.sky.com/video/digi-160712fr-nigel-farage-brexitm2t-11048107
Well Nigel i clearly saw it coming and was not stunned were you? :hmmm:
Catfish
09-23-17, 05:40 AM
Of course, this successor of a french immigrant saw it all coming.
1st rule: Nigel Farage is always right.
2nd rule: In case he should be wrong, rule 1 automatically applies.
Of course, this successor of a french immigrant saw it all coming.
1st rule: Nigel Farage is always right.
2nd rule: In case he should be wrong, rule 1 automatically applies.
:haha: :haha:
The UK must provide more clarity about its negotiating position on Brexit, the French president has said.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41369600
Here is how i see it..
EU:- Delays and demands
UK:- Divided weak leadership making a pigs ear of it all
Jimbuna
09-23-17, 07:08 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41369600
Here is how i see it..
EU:- Delays and demands
UK:- Divided weak leadership making a pigs ear of it all
It'll all come good in the end....won't it :doh:
Jimbuna
09-23-17, 07:11 AM
Now Macron starts to tighten the screw.
The UK must provide more clarity about its negotiating position on Brexit, the French president has said.
Emmanuel Macron said the issues of EU citizens' rights, the exit bill and the Irish border question must be settled before talks could be held on trade.
On Friday, Theresa May made suggestions including a two-year transition period after Brexit, and that the UK pay the EU for "commitments" previously made.
She hoped this offer, made in a speech in Italy, would unblock Brexit talks.
In the first response by a European leader to the speech, Mr Macron welcomed her initiative, but said the British position still needed to be fleshed out.
"Before we move forward, we wish to clarify the issue of the regulation of European citizens, the financial terms of the exit and the question of Ireland," he said.
"If those three points are not clarified, then we cannot move forward on the rest."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41369600
It'll all come good in the end....won't it :doh:
More chance of giant cockroaches taking over the earth. :haha:
Jimbuna
09-23-17, 07:18 AM
More chance of giant cockroaches taking over the earth. :haha:
Keep the faith ya miserable bugga. It could be a lot worse with two face Corbyn at the helm.
Keep the faith ya miserable bugga. It could be a lot worse with two face Corbyn at the helm.
And his new side kick Russell Brand..
Comedian and actor Russell Brand tells BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis that he may have helped the rise in popularity of Jeremy Corbyn.
What!...Bring on the giant cockroaches.
Looking at the Sunday's newspapers front covers seems to suggest all out war as the knives are out for Mrs May. :hmmm:
Jimbuna
09-24-17, 08:25 AM
Jeremy Corbyn has promised to listen to Labour members' calls to keep the UK in the EU single market - but warned it could hamper the government's ability to protect jobs and invest in industry.
The Labour leader said EU restrictions on state aid and pressure to privatise sectors like rail could cause problems.
He also predicted "a lot" of people would continue to come from the EU to work in the UK after Brexit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41376138
When will he realise he can no longer hide the fact he is anti-EU
Skybird
09-24-17, 08:37 AM
Jeremy Corbyn, the man with the corkscrew neck. Glue rotorwings to his ears, and he could fly.
Jimbuna
09-24-17, 08:45 AM
Reminds me of Worzel Gummidge.
Momentum festival shows Labour's left is increasing its grip on party
Momentum's ever-growing presence at the Labour Party's annual conference shows no signs of slowing down.
http://news.sky.com/story/momentum-festival-shows-labours-left-is-increasing-its-grip-on-party-11051010
Rose tinted glasses - check
1970's - check
All set to return to those day's of the past by turning back the clock once Labour wins the 2022 general election. :doh:
Jim my reference for you is on the way. You would be great..
Parliament advertises for new Black Rod
Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod to replace Lieutenant General David Leakey, who is retiring.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=2514793
John McDonnell pledges to end PFI 'scandal' at Labour conference
John McDonnell has unveiled a plan to end new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts and bring existing ones back 'in-house'.
http://news.sky.com/story/john-mcdonnell-to-announce-an-end-to-scandal-of-pfi-at-labour-conference-11052899
Tories bought in PFI in 1992 Labour were against it until they got in power and it became bigger under them. :doh:
Emily Thornberry you are not funny and that is a fact. Your useless attempt at a Boris joke made me cringe and wanting to throw a brick at the TV screen. :mad:
https://e3.365dm.com/17/09/736x414/c9086367c040bbf7963c0381b4f914d3ada0b79401a662e36a 653ec7ea537648_4110594.jpg?20170925160115
The second coming of Jeremy Corbyn. :har: :har: :har: :har:
Jimbuna
09-25-17, 02:02 PM
Labour would allow hundreds of thousands of women born in the 1950s to retire at 64 on a reduced state pension, rather than wait until 66.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41381583
Now that I could support because it would benefit my wife but the question I would ask is "How much of a reduced pension"?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41381583
Now that I could support because it would benefit my wife but the question I would ask is "How much of a reduced pension"?
Find tomorrow or not.
Labour's Jon Ashworth calls for £500m NHS winter bailouthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41397682
You can ask for one trillion and it will not make a scrap of differences until you count where every penny is spent on. There is corruption in the NHS and until that is dealt with nothing will change.
The Labour Party is making detailed plans for government, including "war-game-type scenario-planning" for events such as "a run on the pound".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41393021
So what, politicians only know how to lie cheat steal. They have no idea they are the puppets of big banks and business and as long as it remains that way the elite are happy.
Rule number one you do not bail out a bank that broke the law.
Rule number two too big to fail is a lie, again if they break the law they should fail.
Rule number three politicians do not understand rules one and two.
European Council president Donald Tusk has said not enough progress has been made to move to the next phase of Brexit talks in Brussels.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41389498
Where is this tiny progress for where I am sitting it looks like sweet flip all.
Catfish
09-26-17, 09:21 AM
[...] So what, politicians only know how to lie cheat steal. They have no idea they are the puppets of big banks and business and as long as it remains that way the elite are happy.
[...] Rule number two too big to fail is a lie, again if they break the law they should fail. [...]
In Europe, it is easy.
1. The people finance and build the infrastructure, like rails, streets, powergrid, telecommunication.
(It then theoretically belongs to the "state", the people.)
2. Lobby and influence on politics have it that those accomplishments are then being sold by the state, to private companies, often for a penny.
3. The private companies use what is there for profit, while doing no upgrading, repairing, and not any maintenance.
4. All decays, until it is almost unusable anymore, companies are beginning to suffer because their bosses took out the money and left.
5. Now the companies and banks are crying for funding and being bailed out.
6. Now is the time for the state to get it all back from private hands, and repair/improve/upgrade all that has been neglected so long to fill the pockets of a few.
7. What happens in 6. is financed by – you knew it – the people.
And so on, starting from new.
British rail anyone? Seen the film "Navigators (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navigators_(film))" ?
The joke is that while all cry how good capitalism is and works, the real backbone of infrastructure and real estate is built and financed by common people without money, so that a few can live on their back.
Communism does not work, but it is time to see what capitalism does to the people in the long run.
Skybird
09-26-17, 10:14 AM
In Europe, it is easy.
1. The people finance and build the infrastructure, like rails, streets, powergrid, telecommunication.
(It then theoretically belongs to the "state", the people.)
2. Lobby and influence on politics have it that those accomplishments are then being sold by the state, to private companies, often for a penny.
3. The private companies use what is there for profit, while doing no upgrading, repairing, and not any maintenance.
4. All decays, until it is almost unusable anymore, companies are beginning to suffer because their bosses took out the money and left.
5. Now the companies and banks are crying for funding and being bailed out.
6. Now is the time for the state to get it all back from private hands, and repair/improve/upgrade all that has been neglected so long to fill the pockets of a few.
7. What happens in 6. is financed by – you knew it – the people.
And so on, starting from new.
British rail anyone? Seen the film "Navigators (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navigators_(film))" ?
The joke is that while all cry how good capitalism is and works, the real backbone of infrastructure and real estate is built and financed by common people without money, so that a few can live on their back.
Communism does not work, but it is time to see what capitalism does to the people in the long run.
You mistake - once again - capitalism for monopolism. And that trend for monopolies you unfortunatekly have in just every form of society, goivernment, trading relations. Like the living being has an inbuild tendency to become old and ill and one day will die, it and nevertheless tries to fight against illness and thwe weakneing by age, we must also fight against monopolism. Its integral to ideologies as well as capitalism, and lives by the quality in man that we call greed. The remedies to counter it with, to keep it in check, are transpareny, an educating and training to freedom and self-responsibility. Only when people reject to hanhd over respoinsiubility for thmeselkves to others, they become invulnerable to these others' attempts to bribe them with luxury and promised easings of their lives. Transparency, freedom, self-responsibility - that is what is needed to fight against monopolies. And that means a population where peopel ahve a mindset of certain quality that today, in our nanny states and - in the end - socialist definitions of standards and social rules, have become extremely rare.
It starts with refusing to obediently believe that freedom can be given to you by somebody else. He cannot give you freedom, he can only forcefully take and keep freedom away from you. But if you then accept that and do not fight against this other guy, even support him, then what use is there in trying and hoping for a better world?
Servility is a pest. Freedom has its own pride, but we learn from schooldays on to defame it, to demonise it, to ridicule it, to spit on it.
Much of your criticsm I would sign in to, if only you would finally see that what you want to aim at, is not capitalism, but monopolism. The whole world seem to mistake these two today.
Jimbuna
09-26-17, 12:22 PM
European Council president Donald Tusk has said not enough progress has been made to move to the next phase of Brexit talks in Brussels.
He said Theresa May's "realistic" speech on Friday showed the UK's "philosophy of having a cake and eating it is finally coming to an end".
But he said "there is not sufficient progress yet".
Mrs May had hoped her offer of a two-year transition period after Brexit would unblock talks in Brussels.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41389498
Looks like he popped in for a quick cuppa whilst visiting to pick up his child benefit :hmmm:
Jimbuna
09-26-17, 12:24 PM
Jeremy Corbyn says it is "right to look at all these scenarios" after his shadow chancellor suggested that there could be a run on the pound if Labour went into government.
John McDonnell said Labour was doing "war-game-type scenario-planning" for events such as "a run on the pound".
He made the comments at a fringe event at the Labour conference.
A party spokesman said the preparations were for events that could occur under any government.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41393021
Too bloody true but even more so under a Labour government under the present leadership.
Catfish
09-26-17, 12:51 PM
You mistake - once again - capitalism for monopolism. [...].
The first always ends in the latter.
Aggressive undercutting of rival firms.
Vertical integration.
The less governmental influence or regulation there is, the sooner it happens.
See Rockefeller, or the gilded age. Or see big oil, Microsoft, the car industry, now Facebook.
True, monopolies can be overcome by technological advances, as long as progress is not being hindered by the very companies who still want to sell their, and only their stuff. See: Oil and car industry.
But in the longer-lasting meantime, it is the common people who have to pay, and sometimes suffer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41393021
Too bloody true but even more so under a Labour government under the present leadership.
Beat you, see post 7188. :O:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41389498
Looks like he popped in for a quick cuppa whilst visiting to pick up his child benefit :hmmm:
Beat you, see post 7189. :O:
In before jim again but don't worry jim will post this again. :DL :haha:
Jeremy Corbyn is to tell supporters Labour is "on the threshold of power" and stands ready for government.
Addressing the party's conference in Brighton, he will say its general election showing has "put the Tories on notice", calling on ministers to "pull themselves together or make way".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41408150
I see it another way, clearly Mrs May was taken for a ride by her advisors at the time before they both stepped down after the bad result. But when you look at Neil Kinnock who was on course for a possible victory before that major gaff of a party which allowed the Tories to win he still did better than Jeremy Corbyn.
Jim..
Jeremy Corbyn's ready for government speech today 12:15pm miss it and miss a possible laugh.
I will be watching it and having a cuppa.
Jimbuna
09-27-17, 07:53 AM
I missed that but no doubt you'll update us :)
Long winded and nothing in it to suggest they are ready for government.
Keep the red flag flying...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SHhXMzXFl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_PHRX1lmAQ
UPDATE
Corbyn: Labour is on the 'threshold of power'Not where I am sitting, way to much back slapping and didn't we do well. I got news for you the Tories will go full term and most likley win the next general election.
Boeing warned Bombardier dispute 'could jeopardise' future UK contracts
The Defence Secretary delivers a stark message to the US firm, the Government's strongest intervention in the Bombardier row yet.
http://news.sky.com/story/boeing-warned-bombardier-dispute-could-jeopardise-future-uk-contracts-11056096
Mrs May stuck in the middle on one side Boeing and on the other side the DUP. Maybe she should flash some leg Boeing's way. :hmmm:
UKIP will unveil its new leader on Friday at its party conference in Torquay, after a contest that has turned into a battle for the soul of the party.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41401153
I wonder if Catfish won. :hmmm: :)
Theresa May ally Damian Green reveals PM's plan for 2022 election
Damian Green believes "fighter" Theresa May will prove more popular the longer she remains in 10 Downing Street.
http://news.sky.com/story/theresa-may-ally-damian-green-reveals-pms-plan-for-2022-election-11057097
Hey no fair, get your grubby hands off Jim's crystal balls! :timeout:
Jimbuna
09-28-17, 09:52 AM
"Decisive steps forward" have been made in the latest round of UK-EU talks, Brexit Secretary David Davis has said.
But EU negotiator Michel Barnier said there were still "big gaps" between the sides on some of the withdrawal issues.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41426620
Who to believe :hmmm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41426620
Who to believe :hmmm:
I just can not see any progress, nothing major seems to be reported on the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ZFeE2YwDA
Top EU official Guy Verhofstadt mocks Theresa May and Boris Johnson
The PM felt at home in the Italian city because of its political history of backstabbing and betrayal, Guy Verhofstadt jokes.
http://news.sky.com/story/top-eu-official-guy-verhofstadt-mocks-theresa-may-and-boris-johnson-11058236
It's the world over you dickhead. :doh:
No doubt this dickhead would say apart from the EU, yea sure. :roll:
The EU's top official has declared it will take "miracles" for Brexit talks to move on to their next phase by the end of October.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker offered a gloomy verdict on the chances of Brexit negotiations progressing from divorce issues to future trading arrangements within the next month.
http://news.sky.com/story/jean-claude-juncker-says-miracle-needed-for-brexit-progress-11058757
Well what a surprise. :roll:
UKIP set to unveil new leader amid resignation threatshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41440637
Anti-Islam campaigner Anne Marie Waters is favourite at the bookmakers to take the crown.
But many of the party's 20 MEPs have threatened to resign if that happens, with one telling the BBC it would take UKIP "down a very dark alley".
Game over or game on? :hmmm:
Theresa May urged to halt Universal Credit roll-outhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41433019
That bloody mess costed millions to set up. The master plan is to get rid of the benefit system outright, looks like its going well and on plan for the end by 2030 I would say.
Jimbuna
09-29-17, 09:25 AM
Interest rates could rise in the "relatively near term" the Governor of the Bank of England has told the BBC.
In the clearest indication yet that there could be a rate rise as early as November, Mark Carney suggested that it was time for the bank to "ease its foot off the accelerator".
The next opportunity for a change in interest rates is the Bank's monetary policy committee meeting on 2 November.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41439349
Great news for savers but not so good for borrowers.
^Same old BS, and here is more same old BS.
Tory members want Theresa May replaced by Boris Johnson - YouGov poll
The Foreign Secretary is favourite to take over, with Ruth Davidson and Jacob Rees-Mogg not far behind.
http://news.sky.com/story/tory-members-want-theresa-may-replaced-by-boris-johnson-yougov-poll-11058430
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41439349
Great news for savers but not so good for borrowers.
What on the back of this. :hmmm:
UK economic growth for second quarter revised down
Official figures show an annual rate of growth of 1.5% in the three months to June, weaker than originally reported.
http://news.sky.com/story/uk-economic-growth-for-second-quarter-revised-down-11058704
Henry Bolton elected UKIP leaderhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41447568
Looks ok, but can he restore order and strip away the deadwood in UKIP only time will tell.
Boris take two..
Boris Johnson has set out a leadership manifesto on the eve of the Conservatives' annual party conference, positioning himself as the custodian of hard Brexit and champion of low-paid workers.http://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-ramps-up-pressure-on-pm-over-brexit-and-pay-11060076
Sacking Boris now could be to late, so Mrs May you live with it or.....:hmmm:
Catfish
09-29-17, 04:29 PM
^ BoJo "... positioning himself as the custodian of hard Brexit and champion of low-paid workers."
This really sounds hilarious, from here :D
Better not hold a election tomorrow as a new poll suggest old JC would sweep into power. Just heard it on the radio news, same polls who said Mr May would floor it with 100 seats over Labour and we all know what happen don't we.
Clue.. DUP have got a big smile on there face.
Big Ben tower repair costs double to £61mhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41444415
Why is it they can not tell the truth until work is well under way the truth comes out. Not only on this..:roll:
Jimbuna
09-30-17, 06:37 AM
Every time I think of Boris I can't stop getting a mental image of a clown out of my head.
https://i.imgur.com/jF5qxNS.jpg
Inside the FO....
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AbGuuLOFvHY/VtxCpurCuRI/AAAAAAAArLM/Yxqul3Dnq1E/s1600/Bozza4.png
That's Ruth Davidson had another go at BoJo:
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/89435/ruth-davidson-slams-boris-johnson-over-brexit-
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/73dw7g/boris_johnson_under_fire_from_ruth_davidson_on/
I think it's becoming pretty obvious that the Tories are going to have to splinter. There are too many factions for their traditional "broad church" approach to work.
Mike.
^ Ruth Davidson has called for “serious people” to take charge of Brexit as she launched a fresh attack on Boris Johnson.
Buffoons on our side and a EU brick wall on the other side no wonder its all going to pot. :doh:
Catfish
09-30-17, 11:53 AM
^
Buffoons on our side and a EU brick wall on the other side no wonder its all going to pot. :doh:
Well it is your brick wall.
Well it is your brick wall.
No its a EU wall, our side keeps caving in. Anyway I know we are staying its a big lie. :03:
Embattled Theresa May arrives at Conservative Party conference in Manchesterhttp://news.sky.com/story/embattled-theresa-may-arrives-at-conservative-party-conference-in-manchester-11062116
Hey Jim why don't you drop by and give poor Mrs May a bottle of beer. :03:
For the love of....Oh get over it will you.
May to apologise over election
The PM says she takes responsibility for her performance in June's snap election, as the Tory party's conference gets under way.
http://news.sky.com/story/live-tory-conference-opens-in-manchester-11062521
Jim make it two bottles of beer when you drop by.
Jimbuna
10-01-17, 06:38 AM
My understanding is there is a growing faction within the Tory ranks who are advocating we simply walk away from the Brexit negotiations should there be no meaningfull progress by xmas.
My understanding is there is a growing faction within the Tory ranks who are advocating we simply walk away from the Brexit negotiations should there be no meaningfull progress by xmas.
Well that would go down well with Jezzer, Tories ripping themselves to shreds that could cause frictions DUP way and Mrs May could be under a leadership challenge.
Jimbuna
10-01-17, 08:58 AM
Only a clown would dare....er, wait, there already is a clown waiting by the circus rinside isn't there :hmmm:
Only a clown would dare....er, wait, there already is a clown waiting by the circus rinside isn't there :hmmm:
BoJo is going further right and that will be a bitter pill the voters will not want.
Theresa May has admitted a change in her party's approach on tuition fees in England, saying she has listened to voters and fees will freeze at £9,250.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41456555
That is not going to get them voting for you you know.
Philip Hammond has said no minister should feel they cannot be sacked, amid continued Brexit cabinet tensions.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41467301
Sideways swipe at BoJo? :hmmm:
Brexit trade talks this month are unlikely, senior minister admitshttps://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-trade-talks-this-month-are-unlikely-senior-minister-admits-a3648286.html
Another month down the pan!
Tory leadership: The runners and riders hoping to replace Theresa May
Boris Johnson 11-2
Philip Hammond 12-1
Jacob Rees-Mogg 8-1
Amber Rudd 14-1
Ruth Davidson 12-1
James Cleverly 20-1https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-leadership-the-runners-and-riders-hoping-to-replace-theresa-may-a3648316.html To right wing, to wet, to much of a toff, to out of it, to far north, to who.
Catfish
10-02-17, 07:11 AM
Who can delay longer, until people forget there ever was a referendum? :doh:
Is it delayed because of the enduring power struggle, or is the delay the reason for the power struggle? Or is the struggle the reason (or pretext) for the EU, for the delay?
Both sides are not exactly productive in that matter :hmmm:
Jimbuna
10-02-17, 12:57 PM
Philip Hammond: We must win 'clash of ideas' with Labour 'dinosaurs'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41462577
Dinosaurs eh? This could be a reference to either party :hmmm:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41462577
Dinosaurs eh? This could be a reference to either party :hmmm:
LibLabCon should have dropped dead years ago.
A Conservative MP has been criticised for saying unemployed young people should take farm jobs working with "gorgeous EU women".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-41477777
Hey I take it all back, what a great idea, sign me up. :DL
Oh wait I'm not unemployed and young...Sod it. :wah:
Theresa May dodges questions over 'unsackable' Boris Johnson
The Prime Minister says the Foreign Secretary's conference speech "has been looked at" following recent Brexit interventions.http://news.sky.com/story/theresa-may-dodges-questions-over-unsackable-boris-johnson-11065340
What hold has BoJo got over you Mrs May? :hmmm:
Barnier: 'Not enough progress' for next phase of Brexit talks
The EU's Brexit negotiator's view is backed by a European Parliament vote, dealing a fresh blow to UK hopes of moving talks along.http://news.sky.com/story/barnier-not-enough-progress-for-next-phase-of-brexit-talks-11065406
I have not seen 1% progress.
Right time for a song, remove the words sailing for staying..
We are staying we are staying with the EU all the way
We are staying we are staying.....
((BREAKING NEWS))
Sale of acids to under-18s to be banned, Amber Rudd sayshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41484909
About time too, problem is these scumbags will find something else. I want to see life sentence for this vile evil crime.
Jimbuna
10-03-17, 07:55 AM
MEPs have voted to urge the EU not to open the next phase of Brexit talks unless there is a "major breakthrough".
A motion in the European Parliament to back a delay in any decision over trade discussions was backed by 557 MEPs, with 92 against and 29 abstentions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41477817
Not that the MEP's have any say in negotiations but this could actually be a way forward.
Both sides walk away and have a rethink, then return if and only when at least one side has something tangible to offer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41477817
Not that the MEP's have any say in negotiations but this could actually be a way forward.
Both sides walk away and have a rethink, then return if and only when at least one side has something tangible to offer.
The EU Spanks the UK you are a naughty naughty country you are staying. :03:
Jimbuna
10-03-17, 08:29 AM
Don't be so sure.
Boris Johnson: Let the British lion roarhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41489674
Oh come off it most people are drunk of booze, glued to porn on the Internet. With a helping of sport and soaps on the TV. :har: :har:
Take that away and they may whimper.
Jimbuna
10-03-17, 02:55 PM
That may well be the case on your household but it certainly isn't the case in mine.
That may well be the case on your household but it certainly isn't the case in mine.
Not mine jim that's for sure.
Jimbuna
10-03-17, 03:05 PM
I know what some of you church goers are like :03:
*Private joke
I know what some of you church goers are like :03:
*Private joke
I don't go. I listen to the radio a lot on Sunday's. :)
Keep tabs on your MP even if you did not vote for them. :03:
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/
http://www.parliament.uk/
UPDATE
Mrs May big speech Wednesday will she deliver or stumble leaving the door open to the Tory Wolf's wanting her blood.
Jim did you see it?
It was so funny..:haha:
Some bloke got close to Mrs May trying to hand her a P45. :har: :har:
And now the silly women has fluffed her speech coughing up. :doh:
What a weak washout speech.
Just popped in to post this. :)
Jimbuna
10-04-17, 06:19 AM
Theresa May says sorry to Conservative conference for election.
Theresa May has apologised to Conservative Party members for not securing the victory they hoped for in June's general election.
As she closes the party's conference, she said the campaign had been "too scripted, too presidential".
"I hold my hands up for that. I take responsibility. I led the campaign and I am sorry," she said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41493370
Jimbuna
10-04-17, 06:21 AM
Jim did you see it?
It was so funny..:haha:
Some bloke got close to Mrs May trying to hand her a P45. :har: :har:
And now the silly women has fluffed her speech coughing up. :doh:
What a weak washout speech.
Just popped in to post this. :)
Looks like we were both posting at the same time but no, I missed it but will no doubt catch up on the one o'clock news.
EDIT: Here it is, the bloody fool.
https://i.imgur.com/IcLo6dz.jpg
Joking aside now the speech is over what poor security allowing that prankster get near her.
As for her on and off and on coughing fits why didn't she just take a moderate pause instead of trying to plow on, it just was plain silly.
So the speech itself was poor nothing in it to give me any faith in her or her government and more money for the right to buy ponzi scheme oh dear me.
Clearly this is the sign Mrs May is not going to be the one to take the Tories into the next election.
Even those attended the conference summed it up..Dull.
Oh and finally old BoJo will never take charge as he drops another clanger in the works.
So to sum up the big three party's are all in trouble and offer nothing but the same old rubbish. We really are in deep mud oh heck.
And now I am taking a break. :)
Jimbuna
10-04-17, 07:38 AM
Have a KitKat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQKET83qKg
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