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Post by gazz on Nov 3, 2019 16:22:29 GMT
Benefits freeze to end in 2020, government confirms www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50278634The man without a mandate spins yet another web of lies. Anyone that falls for this sh*te deserves everything they get. By way of analogy: 'husband who punched his wife repeatedly for years, pledges to stop punching her if she stays with him this time'.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2019 17:20:40 GMT
Benefits freeze to end in 2020, government confirms www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50278634The man without a mandate spins yet another web of lies. Anyone that falls for this sh*te deserves everything they get. By way of analogy: 'husband who punched his wife repeatedly for years, pledges to stop punching her if she stays with him this time'. I suspect that they are aiming for a specific market. They are aiming for the type of voter that scapegoats foreigners for the ills of the country. Someone who is quite happy to blame anybody and everybody, especially "shirkers and scroungers" except themselves. The kind of people capable of voting for this kind of prospective MP actually, www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/03/tory-candidate-francesca-obrien-wrote-people-benefits-street-should-be-put-down
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Post by gazz on Nov 3, 2019 18:06:03 GMT
Your link was broken, Yorks, so I've edited your post with one that works, matey.
Hope you don't mind.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2019 19:16:22 GMT
Your link was broken, Yorks, so I've edited your post with one that works, matey. Hope you don't mind. No problem
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Nov 8, 2019 10:04:58 GMT
With the election coming up, I thought this might be of interest. It tracks all the opinion polls taking place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2019_United_Kingdom_general_electionI like it because it is all factual with no commentary. It also allows you to see who commissioned it (and their potential bias) and the sample size. It seems that every news outlet either deliberately commissions polls to confirm their narrative, or they select the polls that do. This just gives you the plain facts of the polls (which I know are notoriously inaccurate at the best of times). Not sure who does it, but it deserves a higher profile and they should get a New Year honour for services to balanced political information (an increasingly rare, if not almost extinct, commodity these days)
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Post by gazz on Nov 8, 2019 12:53:55 GMT
It takes some doing, but the worst offender in the internet stakes just lately is the Daily Express. Some of the utter garbage that ends up in my search results in Google really is astonishing.
It tries to project itself as this bastion of the British press, but it's as rabid as you can get. Utterly deplorable.
I've never felt so worried for the future as I do now, not even in the Thatcher years - that in itself takes some doing.
Once again wee Jimmy Krankee is threatening to f*** things up, telling Corbyn she won't enter into any arrangement with him unless he supports a second Scottish referendum which, if he agrees to, would almost certainly see them go on their own this time.
If Corbyn loses (nailed on), we're f***ed, because leaving the EU with these nutjobs winning a majority would be a disaster. If he gets into power with SNP support (my arse in a shop window if that happens), we're f***ed, because losing Scotland to a second independence referendum would pretty much hand the Tories a huge victory in any subsequent general election and a lifetime mandate to run this country as it sees fit.
I genuinely wish I was in Duds' shoes right now.
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Nov 8, 2019 12:58:14 GMT
I genuinely wish I was in Duds' shoes right now. more likely espadrilles, but I get your point and with you all the way. I only New Zealand wasn't so far away...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2019 18:39:49 GMT
Once again wee Jimmy Krankee is threatening to f*** things up, telling Corbyn she won't enter into any arrangement with him unless he supports a second Scottish referendum which, if he agrees to, would almost certainly see them go on their own this time. If Corbyn loses (nailed on), we're f***ed, I wouldn't put money on either just yet. I think that there are a number of Scots who can't see how they will prosper out of the union and with yet another Tory Minister coming unstuck in an interview in which she repeatedly refused to answer a question as to whether immigration will fall under their so-called point system I have a suspicion they are one major gaff short of blowing it. Given the bullshitter they've got for a leader who has himself come under fire today for apparently being unaware of the consequences of his own "deal" with the EU vis a border down the Irish sea and I suspect that there is still plenty of time for the Tories to implode under the weight of their own deceit and cluelessness. Alternatively of course that means that there is still time for Corbyn to offer ample evidence for the fact that he remains what he's always been, a political nobody without an ounce of imagination who is more than capable of coming second behind the worst government in my 56 years on this planet.
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Post by Epworth Hatter on Nov 8, 2019 18:54:50 GMT
archie’s insightful comment about it being the small things that bring down big men is called to mind.
It’s hard believe that the Jennifer Arcuri story has ended. Rather too conveniently, it just fizzled out. I just can’t help feeling that Bozo’s opponents are biding their time to release more revelations to inflict maximum damage.
Either way, it’s not going to be a clean fight on any side, bringing parliament into further disrepute (if such a thing is possible)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2019 19:39:53 GMT
I suspect that the editors of most of the right wing press know full well that heir man is a complete turkey and don't want to draw attention to the clown any more than they need to. Given that Johnson is deliberately sitting on a report that suggests that the referendum was subject to outside influence I imagine that the Arcuri story is the least of this country's problems right now.
One of the things that I find the most astonishing is that there has been little said about the complete lack of a legal challenge to the result. The reason for that is that the result has no legal standing. That's worth saying again. It is not recognised in law. As a result, it can't be challenged in a court of law. Had it been it would, as one leading judge has already pointed out, have been rendered null and void on the grounds of electoral fraud.
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Post by gazz on Nov 8, 2019 19:51:14 GMT
Some very good posts here this evening, which I've enjoyed reading.
It's going to be one of the messiest election campaigns in living memory, that's for sure.
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Nov 8, 2019 19:58:14 GMT
I have just had a Facebook message through from the Conservative Party.
I have deleted and reported it as offensive.
How dare they ?
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Nov 8, 2019 20:14:14 GMT
i'm already a shut-in, trapped by the endless deluge of sh*te (mostly lib dem sh*te) coming through my letterbox -
"the tories can't win here. only a vote for the liberal democrats can keep corbyn out", and most risibly of all:
"introducing the next prime minister: jo swinson"...
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Post by gazz on Nov 8, 2019 22:56:50 GMT
Someone get Montgomery Brewster on the line!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2019 6:07:35 GMT
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