I'd kind of assumed that Shapps has done something to piss Cummings off?
― djh, Sunday, 26 July 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
The timing is weird, though, isn't it? I'm a big believer in holidays/time off and the need for people to look after themselves but it seems odd for Shapps to have taken himself to Spain, unless I'm missing something?
― djh, Sunday, 26 July 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
Surely there's other places he could have gone? I know no one's letting us in right now but Tory MPs are generally not short of cash and there's presumably some rona-free island he could have gone to.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 July 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
little st james also not taking bookings at the moment
― mark s, Sunday, 26 July 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
their laund(e)ry service is still operating as per
― calzino, Sunday, 26 July 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
People with houses in Italy are also going, and two friends have gone to France in the past week.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 26 July 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
One for Calz:
Camilla Long not happy with Twitter & I take her point on the appeal process funnily enough in her article I found the spiteful way she wrote about anther woman Ghislaine Maxwell equally offensive.— Barry Sheerman MP (@BarrySheerman) July 26, 2020
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 26 July 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
Baz Sheerman, feminist
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 July 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
more power to the super rich paedophile sisterhood eh bazza?
― calzino, Sunday, 26 July 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
the best holidays I go on are the two co-dydramol and a bottle of wine induced deep sleep dreams, where I travel not just this world but also deep intergalactic space and then get rudely woken up by a Yorkshire Water engineer in next door's garden shouting " yeah the shite should be coming through now mick"
lol
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 July 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
Could go for a couple of cocodamol now tbh
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 July 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
Shapps certainly isn't short of cash hasn't he got a track record of ducking and diving.
Really get away from it all on North Rona.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 July 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
it's been a pleasure listening to these brit wankers that own bars in Spain crying like babies on the radio, thumbs up to the tories here!
― calzino, Sunday, 26 July 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
Westminster abbey begging for state charity while its parasitical royal owners are very quiet. Let the scrappers at it, burn it down imo - which is exactly what the Tories and Labour have effectively been doing to the rest of the UK's national assets for decades now.
― calzino, Sunday, 26 July 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
can you get maccyDs on the #eatasstohelpout scheme
― ||||||||, Monday, 27 July 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
after listening to Jamie Oliver commending Boris earlier am going to have a deep-fried pizza washed down with a guinness
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 11:39 (three years ago) link
More and more of my radical friends are having a deep-fried pizza washed down with a Guinness. There's a growing sense that we need to destroy ourselves in a way that spites Jamie Oliver
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 27 July 2020 11:45 (three years ago) link
one of the few positive acts still open to us
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 July 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
For this reason, we have taken the decision to continue our social media activity over the next few days.We will challenge the Government on its delays to the Online Harms Bill that would hold social media companies to account for the content on their platforms.— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) July 26, 2020
Safe to assume there won't be significant opposition to the Online Harms Bill - this has the potential to be terrible.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 27 July 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
Fucking hell, two tory parties now, cheers Starmzy
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
I note that Paul Mason is also campaigning for new regulations that mean anyone sending him 'Stoya Come To Athens / England Facepaint' memes needs to do so with their full legal name.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 27 July 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
When has the Labour Party not been as authoritarian af?
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 July 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
At least under Corbyn he wasn't playing this narrow Mr invisible game and encouraging the tories more often than opposing them.
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
Has Brenda jumped on the bandwagon over the huge head like a penis memes? Oh no lol he can't because it would rendered 90% of his written content void!
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
Brenda who?
― the pinefox, Monday, 27 July 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
lol that was my phone autocorrect, I meant everyone's fave rugged libertarian, Brendan O'Neill. Who recently was exposed as a sensitive snowflake when people took the piss out of his grotesquely distended bald head!
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
I imagined it might be your latest name for the LOTO.
Politics discussion is getting like the Wimbledon ilx threads used to be, where no player was actually referred to by their real name.
― the pinefox, Monday, 27 July 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
LOL yes!
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 27 July 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
i think that's largely due to the boredom induced by repeatedly discussing the worst offenders
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 July 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
If you thought the police policies under Corbyn were bad ... honestly this is absolutely terrible https://t.co/XBCAuaLfaF— 🌷 Chlöe 🌹 (@ChloeAHopkins) July 27, 2020
"When has the Labour Party not been as authoritarian af?"
it just got slightly more!
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article22426152.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_Nicklaus-Thomas-Symonds.jpg
Nick Thomas-Symonds, 40 years old? lol being a complete tory wanker barrister cunt has been much less kinder on him than it has been on Starmer!
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
Instead of gaslighting their citizens, or shaming them for their behaviour, or creating smokescreens via fatphobia, Vietnam have gone with effective governance. Seems to be working overall. https://t.co/EmelubHRE1— Justin Hancock (@bishtraining) July 27, 2020
communist govt better at protecting their citizens from Rona shocker
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
This is an extraordinary poll.
Who voters think would be the best party at handling the economy:CON: 40% (+3)LAB: 17% (-2)LD: 5% (-)OTH: 3% (+1)None: 8% (-2)Via YouGov, 18-20 July (changes since 20-22 June)— Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats) July 28, 2020
Labour only two points ahead with Remain voters on the same question.
Let's see what happens when the furlough funding ends.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
Usual caveats for YouGov, etc.
unlike all the unprecedented new factors in uk politics this just feels like reversion to an age old stereotype
not just the end of furlough, let's see how badly a no deal Brexit tanks what's left of the economy
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
Hmm, not sure what's extraordinary about it. Sunak has largely followed through with furlough.
Lab are v quiet
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
Starmzy doesn't present any alternative visions for the economy just for the sake of them the financial backers that have to started to donate to Labour again since Corbyn went.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
it's very odd strategy of sir starmzy to cautiously plough such a narrow path and seemingly abandon many of the very popular economic policies of Corbyn and for a style of *electability* that has him 10 pts behind in the polls and considered economically incompetent by the electorate.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
If I was Starmer's director of comms I'd keep him quiet as possible as well tbf
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
once Roy Cropper starts talking he makes Rishi look interesting and probably fiscally less conservative than him.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Hmm, not sure what's extraordinary about it. Sunak has largely followed through with furlough. Lab are v quiet
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
I would be very surprised if yr average voter knew who Anneliese Dodds was. Thinking back through the last few shadow chancellors:- big John: instantly notorious once appointed for his views, iconic throwing the red book at George Osborne moment, constant source of stories ajout being a thug. Yet despite all that plus his frequent cuddly red jumper news appearances, he’s still only 24th most recognised Labour politician according to Yougov.- Chris Leslie: yes he was previously acting shadow chancellor in the brief post-Miliband, pre-Corbyn period. Would even his own mother recognise him as shadow chancellor?- Ed Balls: had a funny name, then did Strictly. Honesty they’re barely putting her out there, in contrast with Reeves, and her announcements are barely worth quoting. People like the furlough scheme.
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
I reckon Stermzy has no confidence in her, tbf she's just as useless as him!
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
a lot of the Corbyn shadow cabinet wasn't very good and some of the duds are still there, but none of Starmer's are impressive, this isn't a government in waiting by a million miles.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
Andy McDonald is pretty good and still there, but seems quite marginalised these days.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
anyone that might go off piste and reveal some political principles or judgemental opinions other than "tories are bad, but I'm not going to expand on this cos we haven't got anything better" are doomed to be undermined by Reeves now.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
"Which of these would make the better Chancellor of the Exchequer?"
Rishi Sunak: 44% (+4)Anneliese Dodds: 6% (+1)
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
If you said "Anneliese Dodds' Dad's Dog's Dead" no-one would know who you were talking about.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
OK I'll bite who is anneliese dodds pls
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