Tory Lies, Corruption and Hypocrisy- Add Them Here

[Leith Green]

This is the Culture Secretary.........thick and inept. 

 

 

[Florentine_Pogen]

1 hour ago, Leith Green said:

This is the Culture Secretary.........thick and inept. 

 

 

Nadine Dorries v. 2.0

[coprolite]

1 hour ago, Leith Green said:

This is the Culture Secretary.........thick and inept. 

 

 

That’s only your perception.

[AndyM]

18 hours ago, Left Back said:

If companies don’t want alcohol on their premises that’s their prerogative.  It’s not companies that decided this though.  It’s the government.  Toys went everywhere from SG when LNER said “we’re an English company, we’ll follow English laws”.  That being said I genuinely have no idea what Scotrail’s stance was before being taken back under government control.

I'm a frequent train user and pre pandemic Scotrail regularly ran trains that were dry. Especially on football days.  The SG made the decision during the pandemic with Scotrail's full backing. I'm glad it's banned as pissheads on trains are a total pain in the arse.

Also the idea that the set up in England for football fans is some kind of freedom utopia is for the birds. Rubbish overpriced watery pisswater in plastic bottles and plastic glasses on sale in the concourse at half time that you can't take to your seat results in a pretty limited uptake. What you can do is go to one of the club's fan areas in the stadium beforehand and get much better quality booze. But then  you can do that at Hibs  for example as well.

Edited January 22 by AndyM

[Theyellowbox]

2 hours ago, Leith Green said:

This is the Culture Secretary.........thick and inept. 

 

 

Clearly been told to go out and bash the BBC, but has absolutely no idea why and no real evidence.

All they have left in the playbook now is a phony culture war and will stick to it until the bitter end.

Journalist should keep the receipts and when out of office, essentially ignore these no marks when they come crawling looking for exposure. 

Edited January 22 by Theyellowbox

[coprolite]

2 minutes ago, Theyellowbox said:

Clearly been told to go out and bash the BBC, but has absolutely no idea why and no real evidence.

All they have left in the playbook now is a phony culture war and will stick to it until the bitter end.

Journalist should keep the receipts and when out of office, essentially ignore these no marks when they come crawling looking for exposure. 

I think they’ve expected Sky and Kay Burley to be right alongside them for a bit of beeb bashing. It’ll probably play well on GB “news”.

[Highlandmagar]

1 hour ago, Florentine_Pogen said:

Nadine Dorries v. 2.0

Of course the BbC is biased. Always has been. Should be privatised ASAP.

[coprolite]

13 minutes ago, Highlandmagar said:

Of course the BbC is biased. Always has been. Should be privatised ASAP.

Aye, but no doubt you can think of reasons to back up your view. Or at least, if you knew you were about to go on Telly to say that you'd probably take at least a minute or two to find some research or an example or two of said bias. 

I'm not sure privatisation cures bias, but BBC bias or not wasn't really the point: clueless ineptitude was. 

[Theyellowbox]

14 minutes ago, Highlandmagar said:

Of course the BbC is biased. Always has been. Should be privatised ASAP.

On the presumption you are being sarcastic, that these nut jobs genuinely believe the massively regulated and hugely transparent BBC are somehow biased against them, shows how far from reality they have become.

I'm sure all of could point to something in the BBC that irks us or seems a little too right or left, but institutionally it is certainly not biased.

It's more the case that these people do not like being called out or just hearing the truth. Social media has allowed folk to live in a world of mainly people with the same views and anything that is different to that must therefore be wrong and biased.

For a general member of the public to believe that is bad enough, but a sucession of sitting ministers is nothing short of terrifying.

They should (and do) know better and it all plays to the lowest common denominator. 

[blackislekillie]

2 hours ago, coprolite said:

That’s only your perception.

I think there's enough evidence to support his statement.

[MazzyStar]

@Freedom Farter your pal Alicia Kearns was on politics live earlier. Didn’t catch much of it but unsurprisingly she was advocating for more money to be thrown at the armed forces. 

[The Black Flag]

The House of Lords yesterday voted to delay deciding on the UK-Rwanda treaty until Government ministers can demonstrate that Rwanda is safe.

Sunak urged peers not to 'block the ''will of the people'' '  So we are the People??? Aye the country democratically voted for Brexit.

Meanwhile on X Farage has a meltdown about the Lords exercising their right to not just take the Government's word on this as fact and lashes out that all current members of the House Of Lords should be sacked. No idea why this wee pr**k is still relevant to mainstream media, must be the idea of him jumping up and down with rage when things don't go his way.

So now the Government have until the middle of March to address 10 flaws in their case that Rwanda is safe, does this mean that the 2nd reading of the bill is delayed until after? Sunak has insisted that this delay will not delay the bill moving through the Lords. So how is he going to make that happen? Sack the Lords and replace them to stack the deck in his favour, threaten them, bribe them?

 

[Left Back]

1 hour ago, Artie said:

The House of Lords yesterday voted to delay deciding on the UK-Rwanda treaty until Government ministers can demonstrate that Rwanda is safe.

Sunak urged peers not to 'block the ''will of the people'' '  So we are the People??? Aye the country democratically voted for Brexit.

Meanwhile on X Farage has a meltdown about the Lords exercising their right to not just take the Government's word on this as fact and lashes out that all current members of the House Of Lords should be sacked. No idea why this wee pr**k is still relevant to mainstream media, must be the idea of him jumping up and down with rage when things don't go his way.

So now the Government have until the middle of March to address 10 flaws in their case that Rwanda is safe, does this mean that the 2nd reading of the bill is delayed until after? Sunak has insisted that this delay will not delay the bill moving through the Lords. So how is he going to make that happen? Sack the Lords and replace them to stack the deck in his favour, threaten them, bribe them?

 

No practical way to sack members of the house of Lords except in specific circumstances.  Criminality being one of them.  Inciting a punch up in the bar and having them all arrested for affray might do it.  Would be an excellent laugh.

In theory he could appoint a whole raft of new peers that would support his plan to get it through any votes but I doubt that's going to happen.

He's grandstanding so he can say at election time "we tried and such and such group blocked it.  Don't vote for them or we'll be flooded with immigrants".

[Freedom Farter]

17 hours ago, MazzyStar said:

@Freedom Farter your pal Alicia Kearns was on politics live earlier. Didn’t catch much of it but unsurprisingly she was advocating for more money to be thrown at the armed forces. 

Aye, she's becoming a bit of a media darling, I've noticed. Her and Tom Tugendhat are almost like MI6's representatives in parliament. Kearns was quoted in a BBC artice I read yesterday calling for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to be designated a terrorist group by UK. They're loving this Houthi situation and are using it to whip up as much anti-Iran sentiment as they can. Tugendhat is actually far worse than Kearns and he's been banging the drum on Iran for almost a decade now, The Spectator published him in 2015: "Iran's hidden war with the West - and what we can do to fight back". That weaselly framing, "we" are under attack. His reasoning was that Iran were arming militias in Afghanistan - that's the same Afghanistan which neighbours Iran yet isn't even on the same continent as us. More annoying is Tugendhat is a member of Conservative Friends of Pakistan. Well it was Pakistan's ISI (military intelligence) who created the Taliban with Saudi oversight before unleashing them upon the Afghans in the mid-90s. Naturally, Tugendhat is also a big fan of Saudi and has praised Mohammed bin Salman.

Edited January 23 by Freedom Farter

[Leith Green]

Another one of these chinless fucks who cant understand the difference between comedy and news - 

 

 

[Florentine_Pogen]

^^^^ Merriman is anything but.  In fact, he is an utter slaver.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/23/bbc-radio-4s-news-quiz-is-completely-biased-minister-claims

[sophia]

I believed Boris when he revisited Wilson's white heat of technology energy and his promise that as each new year dawns we would get another nuclear power station. Perhaps not too cheap to meter but a exciting promise all the same. 

In 2016 Theresa May signed up and confirmed the state aid promised by the likes of David Cameron, George Osborne and Ed Davey to Hinkley Point C and it should've been producing electricity by now. Ach well, we'll just have too wait until nearer 2030 and double the price to circa £50,000,000,000 for some strong and stable power. 

 

 

[Michael W]

I saw that Mrs Johnson's pal (ex) Harry Cole was excitedly tweeting that a 'senior party figure' was going to go public against Rishi Sunak. Turns out it was Simon Clarke, a Johnson loyalist whose only senior position was short-lived under Liz Truss. Boris Johnson game him a knighthood for his troubles. 

This is Simon. He's 6ft7. I don't think I've ever seen someone of that height look less intimidating. 

 

[GordonD]

46 minutes ago, Michael W said:

This is Simon. He's 6ft7. I don't think I've ever seen someone of that height look less intimidating. 

[Billy Jean King]

3 hours ago, Michael W said:

I saw that Mrs Johnson's pal (ex) Harry Cole was excitedly tweeting that a 'senior party figure' was going to go public against Rishi Sunak. Turns out it was Simon Clarke, a Johnson loyalist whose only senior position was short-lived under Liz Truss. Boris Johnson game him a knighthood for his troubles. 

This is Simon. He's 6ft7. I don't think I've ever seen someone of that height look less intimidating. 

 

If nothing else it creates even more division and at least this lanky streak of piss acknowledges that they are heading for a total hiding albeit by the diet variety.

ETA minutes after posting I see James Cleverley who was sent in to bat for Sunak this morning doing the media rounds and had to laugh at his hot take that a leadership change now would "open the door at the GE for Starmer". Deluded doesn't even start to describe these idiots !

Edited January 24 by Billy Jean King