The UK Politics & Brexit Thread

[Scott_F]

How long before Khan is booted out of office..........

https://www.conservativehome.com/th...-is-ravaged-by-four-murders-in-four-days.html

I don't know but you'll never learn much about anything from Conservativehome - it's just a mouthpiece for bigoted Tories.

During his tenure as Mayor, the website was effusive in its praise of Johnson and remains so as he challenges for the leadership:

https://www.conservativehome.com/lo...ents-of-boris-johnson-as-mayor-of-london.html

 

[Dryce]

I note the standard method of those who want to get emotive is to stray from facts into adjectives - like 'emotive'.

That note sets a neat catch-22 for any observer describing the situation by suggesting that that the adjectives that they apply in that description are applicable to themsleves or their own observations.

It is in effect the classic and elegant form of misdirection by accusing the critic of misdirection.

 

[flowrider]

I don't know but you'll never learn much about anything from Conservativehome - it's just a mouthpiece for bigoted Tories.

During his tenure as Mayor, the website was effusive in its praise of Johnson and remains so as he challenges for the leadership:

https://www.conservativehome.com/lo...ents-of-boris-johnson-as-mayor-of-london.html

What's a bigoted Tory?

 

[Peter103]

Very similar to a bigoted socialist. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Giantvanman]

Bigoted Tory, bigoted socialist, bigoted politician...... all examples of tautology, surely.

 

[Giantvanman]

Also on the joke thread because I used to be indecisive.

A farmer named Sam was overseeing his herd in a remote hilly pasture in Hereford when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the farmer, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

Sam looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing animals and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.

Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot® that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the Farmer and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Sam.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Sam says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a Member of the European Parliament", says Sam.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered Sam. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of pounds worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. Now give me back my dog.

AND THAT Friends IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE EU.

 

[AltonAnt]

AND THAT Friends IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE EU.

You can see from the tech how old this 'meme' is
No doubt doing the rounds on FB still?

 

[Bellow]

Also on the joke thread because I used to be indecisive.

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Ahhh - that's where I've seen it before.....

 

[AltonAnt]

I recently had two bikes stolen from the train station I commute from. Both subsequently recovered as the second had a tracker. and the thief had both of mine along with around 8 other peoples.

Speaking to the police was quite eye opening. For the whole of East Hants, an area of 200 sq miles, there are 6 community officers who cover the entire area.
They were pretty pleased to wrap up the cycle thefts in a quick and easy way once I'd located my bike.
Is nobody else worried that at least in the short term there is going to be even greater cuts to public services?
Boris hasn't mentioned where the money is coming from to pay for tax cuts to higher incomes has he (if he wins of course)?
A further reduction of an estimated £10 billion a year.

The magic money bus?

 

[Alfie]

Can't believe this, no wonder Maggie didn't like the show, too near the truth

She absolutely loved the show.

 

[Scott_F]

What's a bigoted Tory?

The sort who use a website which publishes nonsense articles about London's Mayor as a flimsy distraction from the many failings of their anointed candidate for the party leadership.

 

[Bellow]

Is nobody else worried that at least in the short term there is going to be even greater cuts to public services?
Boris hasn't mentioned where the money is coming from to pay for tax cuts to higher incomes has he (if he wins of course)?
A further reduction of an estimated £10 billion a year.

Buy your own security with the tax cut - until it dawns that that's an expensive way to protect your dwindling assets.

 

[neilrr]

26 TIMES!!! Paxman vs. Michael Howard all over again.

The Boris campaign unravelling, & still nearly 4 weeks of this to go! Fantastic. No wonder his handlers don't want him anywhere but hidden, away from the press, away from microphones, away from interviewers in the Back Boris bunker. He simply will not answer a straightforward question on virtually any topic.

Boris Johnson Refuses To Answer Question About Couple Picture 26 TIMES - LBC

 

[AltonAnt]

Buy your own security with the tax cut - until it dawns that that's an expensive way to protect your dwindling assets.

The £10bil wasn't just for me
But thanks for errr.....whatever that response is I think...

 

[Bellow]

The £10bil wasn't just for me
But thanks for errr.....whatever that response is I think...

Wasn't aimed at you - apologies.
I meant generally, so should have written 'Buy their own security...'

I've touched on this before, but to what extent will the increased costs of self providing what the state no longer does (eg, security, health provision, etc) outstrip the savings in tax paid? How far up that economic food chain must a person be to have absolute immunity from the effect? How many are in for a surprise when they realise they are spending more to protect (inevitably) less?
That question can be asked at any time, but with the uncertainties ahead, maybe some who have created the uncertainty should ask it again from their own perspective.

 

[flowrider]

The sort who use a website which publishes nonsense articles about London's Mayor as a flimsy distraction from the many failings of their anointed candidate for the party leadership.

The kind of comments bigoted socialists say.

 

[DSM10000]

Our current possibilities regarding our next PM (or the one after)are all a poisoned chalice.

BJ is entertaining on a quiz show and possibly at a dinner as a speaker, JH has had a charisma bypass and his intransigence and ineptitude when dealing with the junior doctors strike shows his ability to listen and learn is pretty much non existent.

Then we look at Labour.................I just cannot take any of them seriously and believe that each one would, in their own way, be disastrous for the UK but that is what we will have to work with unless something very unexpected happens to alter the mix.

 

[Alfie]

Sadly, the prospect of a hard left/inept (Corbyn/McDonnal) government is just so awful/cataclysmic that even the characters from Bill & Ben are a more attractive proposition for government.

 

[Bellow]

Would a hard left response to a decade of hard right austerity be such a surprise?
What makes the next government attractive if not the failures of the current one?

 

[AltonAnt]

Sadly, the prospect of a hard left/inept (Corbyn/McDonnal) government is just so awful/cataclysmic that even the characters from Bill & Ben are a more attractive proposition for government.

As would an hard right/inept (BJ/Farage) one. Extremism has no place in modern european politics.