Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,056
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
I don't really understand the fuss that is "Wardrobegate"; in these times of food banks and what-have-you I regularly send clothes to charity shops and, despite having been wary of the 'it's time for a change' mantra that delivered us a new administration, I'd be happy to donate pre-loved clothes to the current government front bench.
Arthur likes this
(Not my real name.)
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
As your aware button it's bigger than that .
Neil where are you??!
Don't think Reeves went down that well
Let's see if your leader can come over a bit better
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,056
A case of shutting the wardrobe door after the clothes horse has bolted?
Arthur and Button like this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,056
Spends £2,500 on his glasses and he still can’t read the autocue
'Free the sausages' indeed!
Arthur likes this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Some schoolboy errors but hardly fatal. We have five years, but do need to learn, fast. The only reason Labour was voted in, is because people had had enough of the last lot. We can't allow ourselves to be dragged down to that level.
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Afraid that horse has already bolted…….photographers, free clothes, free concert / football tickets, 40th birthday party, free stay in New York, free glasses, and they have the audacity to say they’re “different “ . Just a different set of freebies, from a different donor. It makes me shudder to consider how much influence Lord Alli is expecting to exert in return.
Interesting letter in the Times today concerning a case of wine which sent to Rishi Sunak from the British Wine Growers association- apparently he declared the gift, gave it to the Government and then bought it back at the full market value.
Sadly before the election I thought Starmer came across as a decent honest man…….how wrong I was!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
It's this continued error of judgement that eats away at Neil's lot.
The danger is the people that wanted Tories out ,
Can as easily want Neil's lot out.
Arthur likes this
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
People can wish governments (and individual MPs) out of office for all kinds of reasons, but they only get the chance every so often. I guess it's not certain that a Fastrack bus will be along before the next election, but the 'danger' of another change in administration is hardly immediate.
Jan Higgins likes this
(Not my real name.)
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,870
The way things are going at the moment in what should be a golden time by next election Labour will be as hated as the last Tory lot.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Button wrote:People can wish governments (and individual MPs) out of office for all kinds of reasons, but they only get the chance every so often. I guess it's not certain that a Fastrack bus will be along before the next election, but the 'danger' of another change in administration is hardly immediate.
Exactly this. I want Starmer to stop chasing the likes of Captain and Arthur - they'll never vote Labour so have more confidence in your own beliefs.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I'm really not sure who Starmer is chasing as core support.
Look at the turnout in St Radigunds 8%
That tells you how bad Labour's support is
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Yes, while Labour has a huge majority, it does not enjoy huge public support. We are there due to complete self destruction by the Tories. The good thing is that we do have the parliamentary majority to make a difference - let's hope we use it.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
The turnout, or lack of it, in St Rads is more likely to be telling you that the electorate prefers a WGS carry-out to voting for anyone at all in a local by-election.
Jan Higgins, Reginald Barrington and Weird Granny Slater like this
(Not my real name.)
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
That's not a good base to start from Button .
Neil , when is your leader going to avoid these gaffes over donations , winter fuel allowance , etc
Arthur likes this
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Keith Sansum1 wrote:Neil , when is your leader going to avoid these gaffes over donations , winter fuel allowance , etc
Not soon enough for some "right -wingers" apparently:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vkdy997rko
Asked by the BBC if Duffield would be welcomed into the Conservative Party, Tugendhat said: "That's really a decision for her... but I strongly suspect she won't be asking". Shame, I'm all for symmetry.
(Not my real name.)
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Bravo Rosie Duffield! Just hope more Labour MPs have enough courage to follow her example.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
With her views she would easily fit into the Tory party .
Having support of right wing Tory MPs tells the story .
She moans about Starmer and winter fuel allowance but she voted for it !!!!!!
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Keith Sansum1 wrote:She moans about Starmer and winter fuel allowance but she voted for it !!!!!!
No, she did not (!!!!!!). What made you think she did?
(Not my real name.)
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
Put it another way
She didn't vote agAinst it !!!!
That would have least shown something
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
