Highlandmagar Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 9 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: You do realise this is a pretty lighthearted Scottish football forum and not part of the Scottish teaching curriculum. Grow up ffs. So by extension if you were a teacher you would be teaching them pro Reform garbage....no you wouldn't as this isn't anyones place of work and anything posted here doesn't automatically mean you go around every walk of life punting the same message but you know that yet are acting like a child posting nonsense like this. Steely has totally lost it. Hates the truth being told. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Farage now saying he would be a more popular choice for leader of the Conservatives than Rishi Sunak if or when the Tories lose the next GE. How would this go down with the likes of Jacob Reece-Mogg whom currently is not getting the move further to the right he's looking for with Conservative MP's Sunak is very much being seen now as a weak leader. Farage is seen by many as an utter clown but considering the state of the last two PMs and leaders of the party nothing would be surprising in this day and age. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 31 minutes ago, Artie said: Farage now saying he would be a more popular choice for leader of the Conservatives than Rishi Sunak if or when the Tories lose the next GE. How would this go down with the likes of Jacob Reece-Mogg whom currently is not getting the move further to the right he's looking for with Conservative MP's Sunak is very much being seen now as a weak leader. Farage is seen by many as an utter clown but considering the state of the last two PMs and leaders of the party nothing would be surprising in this day and age. This is a puzzle to me. Is Farage for the Tories or against them? He attends their conference and there is talk of him joining and becoming leader. Then again he might become leader of Reform again and be their worst nightmare. It would be like Alex Salmond launching Alba but also talking about rejoining the SNP and becoming their leader again. I don't know if the Tories and Reform are two parties or just one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 1 hour ago, Fullerene said: This is a puzzle to me. Is Farage for the Tories or against them? He attends their conference and there is talk of him joining and becoming leader. Then again he might become leader of Reform again and be their worst nightmare. It would be like Alex Salmond launching Alba but also talking about rejoining the SNP and becoming their leader again. I don't know if the Tories and Reform are two parties or just one. I reckon there will be an unification of both parties after the Tories are wiped out. They might still be called the Conservative party but it will be in the Braverman, Rees-Mogg, Patel, Farage image. This will then give them an appearance of something new, a rebuild, and an opportunity for Farage to be in a position to lead eventually but with a lot of support from the more right wingers in the two parties. No idea where the centre right Tories will end up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 4 minutes ago, eindhovendee said: I reckon there will be an unification of both parties after the Tories are wiped out. They might still be called the Conservative party but it will be in the Braverman, Rees-Mogg, Patel, Farage image. This will then give them an appearance of something new, a rebuild, and an opportunity for Farage to be in a position to lead eventually but with a lot of support from the more right wingers in the two parties. No idea where the centre right Tories will end up. I'll hazard a guess - the fucking Lords, or on the boards of planet-killing megacorps. That's where most of the 2019 "purge" lot ended up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Absolute scenes when Farage gets parachuted into a safe Tory seat and still fails to get elected 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 At this stage, it probably makes more sense for the Tories to have Farage in the tent pissing out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 1 hour ago, eindhovendee said: No idea where the centre right Tories will end up. Spamming this sub forum apparently. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 29 minutes ago, Lurkst said: Spamming this sub forum apparently. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 VAR review not needed When a Congolese footballer made a brief gesture after scoring in an east African league match last weekend, it felt like little more than a talking point among the spectators. Yet the gesture by midfielder Héritier Luvumbu at the game in Kigali has prompted a dramatic reaction from Rwanda that has renewed scrutiny of a regime accused of stoking the world’s deadliest conflict as it enters a volatile new phase. The episode began when Luvumbu, who plays for Rayon Sports in Kigali, scored from a free kick against Police FC. His brief celebration – covering his mouth with his left hand while pointing his fingers to his temple, mimicking a gun gesture – expressed solidarity with those killed in the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). By some estimates, more than six million lives have been lost in the deepening humanitarian crisis. Players in DRC’s national team had performed a similar gesture before their recent Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against Ivory Coast. But on Tuesday, Luvumbu was dramatically suspended by Rwanda’s Football association or six months, then had his contract severed. Two days later, he was apparently forced to leave Rwanda, returning across the border to DRC where he was soon visited by the country’s sports minister. But Rwanda’s reaction has been seen as overly defensive at a time when the east African state is increasingly linked to a brutal rebel group that is causing havoc in DRC. The notorious M23 militia has effectively encircled Goma – a city of two million people and the strategic capital of eastern DRC – cutting off key roads and access to food and healthcare. If the M23 seize one of the biggest cities in Africa’s second-largest country, international pressure will intensify on Rwanda to halt its alleged financial support of a militia linked to indiscriminate killing, rape and mass displacement in DRC. The M23 took up arms in 2012, ostensibly to protect the Tutsi population in eastern Congo, which had long complained of persecution and discrimination. The US and UN are among those who accuse Rwanda of arming and training M23, making it the best equipped and organised of dozens of armed groups roaming DRC’s troubled east. Rwanda has consistently denied the allegation. Against a backdrop of intensifying violence, protests were reported across eastern DRC last week, as Rwanda and western countries were accused of complicity over M23. The treatment of Luvumbu has raised questions about the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. The UK supreme court ruled in November the plan unlawful because asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would face the risk of being returned to their country of origin. Prime minister Rishi Sunak insisted Rwanda was safe and has introduced legislation that would override the supreme court judgment. Rwanda’s apparent expulsion of Luvumbu has raised fresh questions over his assertion it is a safe place to send people. On Saturday, the charity Freedom from Torture issued a statement saying Rwanda’s reaction to Luvumbu ought to force Sunak to rethink his strategy. “This incident once again places a spotlight on the government’s immoral plans to send refugees to Rwanda,” said Freedom from Torture’s Kolbassia Haoussou. “Instead of shamefully pushing ahead with a policy that will place survivors of torture, it’s time for the prime minister to draw a line in the sand and put this ‘cash for humans’ deal behind him, once and for all.” Even the UK government’s own documents attempting to support Sunak’s Rwanda policy recently conceded that the country has “issues with its human rights record around political opposition to the current regime, dissent and free speech”. Last Monday a parliamentary rights watchdog said the prime minister’s Rwanda plan was “fundamentally incompatible” with the UK’s human rights obligations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 The sacked postmaster v badenough is bubbling up nicely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanton Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Just now, doulikefish said: The sacked postmaster v badenough is bubbling up nicely If one of them is lying I know which one I’d put my money on being the liar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I'm always somewhat mystified that Badenoch is frequently touted as a future Tory leader. Presumably this is because she's on the right of the party and plays well to "the base", but she is incapable of taking any degree of criticism and all too easily gets involved in rather ugly spats. A very thin-skinned individual. Whoever is in charge of the party next will be a right laugh*. If you think it's bad now, just wait until it's in opposition and starts howling into the void. Reform might even decide they're too toxic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I want to see the entire care system absolutely decimated for some reason, so I think this is a great idea personally. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 25 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: I want to see the entire care system absolutely decimated for some reason, so I think this is a great idea personally. They are genuinely deranged 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 41 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: I want to see the entire care system absolutely decimated for some reason, so I think this is a great idea personally. Thank f**k for that. This country clearly has far, far too many care workers. Trimming these numbers is a must. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Just to add, last January my teaching discipline recruited 138 international students, each paying a little under £20k a skull. This year, 27. This immigration stuff is shafting universities, not to mention the NHS, care system and so on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Cleverley and his pals are in for a big surprise when they find out how keen The Hard Working Great British Public™ are to empty dementia patients' nappies for minimum wage. Presumably it's the same public who have been holding off on applying for all the fruit picking and hospitality jobs that mysteriously became available from 2016 onwards. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 36 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Cleverley and his pals are in for a big surprise when they find out how keen The Hard Working Great British Public™ are to empty dementia patients' nappies for minimum wage. Can't see them losing a lot of sleep over it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 38 minutes ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said: Cleverley and his pals are in for a big surprise when they find out how keen The Hard Working Great British Public™ are to empty dementia patients' nappies for minimum wage. Presumably it's the same public who have been holding off on applying for all the fruit picking and hospitality jobs that mysteriously became available from 2016 onwards. I know people keep saying things like this, but surely the long-term idea is that our esteemed leaders want to make people desperate enough to take any and all work, whatever the wage or amount of shit that the job comes with. That and the fact that they couldn't care less if your granny dies screaming in her own filth. Neither of you are important anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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