zidane's child Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 10 minutes ago, Principal Flutie said: "Stupid woman" is apparently acceptable now as Corbyn says it and the speaker just tries to act like it didn't happen. In all fairness, the speaker is just saying that he didn't observe it nor was it picked up by the clerk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 19, 2018 Author Share Posted December 19, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/19/labour-mp-fiona-onasanya-guilty-of-lying-over-speeding-charge LOCK HER UP. (Seriously) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Chris Hunhe got 8 months and served 6 weeks so she's looking at jail time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 19, 2018 Author Share Posted December 19, 2018 Looks like the Labour Party has responded quickly and firmly. Suspended from the party, whip withdrawn and Onasanya being told she should resign as an MP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loondave1 Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Looks like the Labour Party has responded quickly and firmly. Suspended from the party, whip withdrawn and Onasanya being told she should resign as an MP.Can't argue with that. Correct approach. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, zidane's child said: In all fairness, the speaker is just saying that he didn't observe it nor was it picked up by the clerk. In fairness it's refreshing honesty from a politician. Just a pity he's denying it now. Edited December 19, 2018 by Suspect Device 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 But she’s wearing a poppy!!!! Let poppy wearers speed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Given the amount of versions of events she told in both trials, the cost of both trials and her role as an MP and a solicitor she should get a long spell inside. There seems to be little sympathy either.She must have been on 9 points to have even considered this.Even then as an MP she would have been able to get by in Westminster without a car for the duration of her short ban.Huhne apparently plead guilty and got a reduced sentence of 8 months. This went to trial so hopefully she will get 18 months so serve 9 and be removed as an MP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 25% increase in the last 5 years in the number of homeless people dying on the streets or on temporary accommodation (England and Wales figures). Britain in 2018. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Who will make the 1st shout to recall parliament?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I think Parliament should be recalled. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 I'm sure Putin really careshttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46657470 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Sombre and funny in equal amounts. Boyle's look back at 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/22/frankie-boyle-review-2018-forget-brexit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Quote It is at times like those that we will remember the work of Dominic Raab, who resigned in November, having decided that he could not endorse a deal that he himself had negotiated. Raab didn’t want to be Brexit secretary, but he didn’t have the negotiating skills to decline the job. When Raab took over, I was heartened by the thought that negotiations were being handled by someone with the air of an embattled leisure centre manager, who could be outmanoeuvred by a statue of Stephen Hawking. Surely better withdrawal terms have been negotiated during prison sex 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Throughout the year, Boris Johnson has maintained that dishevelled, confused look of the people at the end of a disaster movie being ferried to the ambulances. He resigned as foreign secretary in July, barking “Chequers is dead” as if he were in an Agatha Christie novel and had just discovered the body of the butler at the bottom of the stairs. Johnson has promised a bonfire of EU regulations, a teetering one, without fencing and namby-pamby safety glasses, so that we can wipe the drifting cinders from our newly liberated eyes screaming, “f**k you, Brussels! Maybe I want to be blind!” I look forward to a UK without EU red tape, and vegans weeping in supermarkets that resemble a cross between a botanical freak show and a fruit-and-veg hospice. I say, let’s forget the worries of Brexit for a week or two, and just enjoy our last Christmas with running water. Brexit has many downsides, but I think it will be nice for the Irish to watch a British famine. Personally I look forward to a new age where the London Christmas lights won’t be turned on by vacuous celebrities, but by someone found guilty of “talking foreign” and sentenced to complete the circuit. A time where we no longer guess the fluctuations of the market, but our high priests stare into polished heads, newly bald from radiation sickness, and interpret the patterns cast by the light of flickering sewer-fat candles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 The shocking plight of homelessness and the impact of Universal Credit might be getting a bit more focus weren’t it for Brexit. The sooner we have an Independent Scotland the better. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar 2nd Tier Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 8 hours ago, Granny Danger said: The shocking plight of homelessness and the impact of Universal Credit might be getting a bit more focus weren’t it for Brexit. The sooner we have an Independent Scotland the better. I agree. The sooner we can look after our own homeĺess the better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 An easy way to do that is to seize people's second homes and stick the homeless in them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 7 hours ago, NotThePars said: An easy way to do that is to seize people's second homes and stick the homeless in them. That would be quite tremendous #scenes, but unlikely I would like to see certain legislation brought in for certain types of second homes/private landlords though. Mainly anyone renting out an ex-local authority property can only do so for a maximum of whatever the equivalent Council rents are for the same type of property. It's shite seeing the homeless stats and yet you have rental companies charging double the Council rent for ex-Council houses. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 24, 2018 Author Share Posted December 24, 2018 2 hours ago, jupe1407 said: That would be quite tremendous #scenes, but unlikely I would like to see certain legislation brought in for certain types of second homes/private landlords though. Mainly anyone renting out an ex-local authority property can only do so for a maximum of whatever the equivalent Council rents are for the same type of property. It's shite seeing the homeless stats and yet you have rental companies charging double the Council rent for ex-Council houses. Do you genuinely think that would work? It would simply see a significant reduction in the private rented sector and an equally significant increase in homelessness. Whatever you think of private sector landlords they are not responsible for homelessness. Government policy and underspending is the cause of the problem and only a reversal of policy and a significant increase in spending will resolve it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Do you genuinely think that would work? It would simply see a significant reduction in the private rented sector and an equally significant increase in homelessness. Whatever you think of private sector landlords they are not responsible for homelessness. Government policy and underspending is the cause of the problem and only a reversal of policy and a significant increase in spending will resolve it. They aren’t FULLY responsible, that’s society at large. However they do contribute to the problem; hoarding property is one of the most damaging things, and the rents they charge on former council houses is shameful. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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