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Foul isn’t it? Bloke trying to earn an honest living with different colour skin being abused by trash. Reminds me of the moron in the 10/11 season calling Lee Peltier a ‘black c*nt’ ignoring the fact Guly was tussling with him for the ball and clearly heard it too. Round up all of the racist chavs onto Portsea Island, and destroy the motorway link.

Darren Jones will be replacing Reeves at some stage I reckon as well. Agree on Streeting, best orator for years.

Yep, agree on that. But by electorates/publics, not the kangaroo selection mechanisms Momentum and the ERG were using in their parties to cleanse whole wings.

Thing is, if we want more Andy Streets and Andy Burnhams (maybe just more Andy’s?) with the right background, they won’t all do it out of public duty like those two. Street was a very good Mayor, reached out to other parties, I’ve met him, top guy and proper One Nation Tory. We have to pay what the best leaders earn in all sectors where you find them (and it is a mix having worked across sectors). Then people moan at the salaries yet an HR Director at say IBM or in the NHS earns more than the PM.

I now have in my mind the club hosting a dating agency with former elite footballer’s fathers and different mothers being introduced and mating….like a footballer/zoo programme

Just like the rest of us then. I shake my head at the state of politics and politicians whether it’s here or overseas.

Hopefully this window made a departure from that constant trawl for the next Livramento/Lavia - but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating @hypochondriac - did I get the saying right?

Define ‘Loony Lefties’ - is that Labour, Corbyn’s party, SNP, Lib Dem (who I vote for), Tories who were pretty keen to give tens of billions to their mates of our money through PPE and the VIP. Or Reform, as this is the Reform thread, who have been appointing £600k political advisors to the UK poorest local authorities. Politicians of all rosettes spend/waste public money regardless of left wing, populist, right of centre, hard left, far right - 5 minutes on Google will tell you that. I’ll even post from Private Eye the fortnightly segment they do on Reform corruption in local government and they were elected in May 2025! Try some reading https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blunders-Our-Governments-Anthony-King/dp/1780742665

It was silly, and only she knows why she did. Millions of others do but they aren’t Deputy PM or Deputy Party Leader in opposition.

Big? https://www.spotlightcorruption.org/covid-19-inquiry-and-ppe/ https://www.open-contracting.org/2024/09/09/was-uks-covid-ppe-procurement-even-worse-than-we-thought-new-analysis-raises-more-red-flags/ https://goodlawproject.org/firms-who-supplied-unusable-ppe-are-still-raking-in-cash-from-nhs-contracts/ Not defending Rayner, she had to go by her own standards, and although a Lib Dem voter, if I had voted Labour I’d be disappointed so far.

Pretty much, Reform fucking doesn’t either. Lib Dem’s and Greens are cleaner but Brexit has caused a schism on the former and Reform types and what’s left of the Tories are climate sceptics on the latter. The public also has to grow up about the fact that if you pay peanuts..you know the rest. They are also housed in an asbestos riddled shithouse which looks nice coming into Waterloo but is horrific and dangerous close up. If we want the outside talent @Wade Garrett wants then it won’t come cheap and even then, do they want the hassle that comes with it? And the danger - Cox, Amess. I’m reading former Tory Chief Whip and Minister Simon Hart’s book about how increasingly poor quality the politicians are and how the country is becoming more volatile and ungovernable. Summary - good democracy in the public interest, and the mechanisms to remove bad apples costs money. Plus resources to scrutinise it properly. But in my view, much better VFM in the long-run and will ensure public priorities are met, unlike now.

They’ve not been very good and she should’ve gone, although the track record from the Conservatives and Reform is no better, have a quick look at the clusterfuck they’re already presiding over in local government. It’s so bad Private Eye has a large round up of it every 2 weeks. I’m buying one later so I’ll post it for everyone to see. When Zahawi and others got exposed there were posts on here about the politics of envy and how taxation was wrong (also see the Footballers fraud case thread on the main site) We’ve had issues - Huhne, Smith, tuition fees but us and the Greens are the only clean parties around. Unfortunately we will never win power solo because of Brexit even though the hard Brexit has fucked the economy lube free.

Most sensible comment on this whole thread, and that manager then becomes Head of the LMA. Didn’t he give the firm a glowing testimonial as recently as 2023?

Names? And don’t say America, try going to states like Georgia, Louisiana and Alabama and see the state of their infrastructure. It isn’t like the IEA says it is. Moreover, look at the mortality rates between GOP states and Dem states during the height of Covid. Far more likely to avoid death and lifelong illness in the blue states than the red ones. Anyway, your argument that UK spending is out control is comparatively disproved, taxes haven’t risen sharply since 2021 and Oz, Canada etc have smaller and younger populations than ours. Furlough also didn’t grow on magic money tree, firms were happy to accept including mine so we have to pay it back over many years hence high public debt in the west https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-key-questions/how-do-uk-tax-revenues-compare-internationally In the good old days of the 50s, 60s and early 70s that Brexiteers claim were better and harp on about, UK taxes were miles higher than now.

I think the Labour Party would’ve created an equal amount of pressure and noise but the right leaning posters would’ve accused them of envy. Summary - lots of noise all round. She had to go really and the review reporting as early as today when confirmed last night was a hint in primary colours to the media that’s what was going to happen.

Inevitable really - double standards but Prescott found that he had to be squeaky clean as a working class senior minister under Blair, hence the desperate ‘two Jags’ garbage dredged up by the non-doms and their gimps, sorry editors, at the red tops. Ironically if was another party critics would be accused of envy - but it’s the right decision on balance. I had far more of an issue with that mess of a local government review on council mergers which wasn’t properly costed under her watch. I thought that was dreadful. But since Brexit people’s priorities are just weird.

One shudders at the reaction of Reform and EDL/PA supporters at that!

His and Farage’s ego wouldn’t allow it. He prefers the Tory party clinging onto memories of the 2019 GE and what could’ve been. Farage couldn’t cope with Rupert Lowe let alone Boris.

Louisiana was a very racist state even before that, even by Southern standards

Agree with all of that - but even having the skills and background to do it myself, when we have, we’ve found in a chain that the other buyers who are using them, that the conveyancers deliberately go on a go-slow much to everyone’s annoyance as a protest.

Mad Nads fancies a bit of Farage’s love glue now, his cigarette breath and stale Shepherd Neame fumes. As the Lib Dem response said, not sure who to feel more sorry for (they meant Badenoch or Farage). Who next, Truss? Braverman was strongly rumoured last autumn to go over but not yet.

Just like the non-existent EDI Officers then.

Unlike Farage and Badenoch, Tice speaks sensibly on this sensitive issue. Pragmatism, no stigmatising the kids themselves, no cultural swipes at neurodiverse adults, just stating the growing anecdotal evidence that there is an unsustainable level of claims, some of the claims are excessive and means testing to prioritise cases is reasonable.

Yep, and think IEA, Truss, Tice and other Friedman zealots want us to be more like them rather than like Europe.

Fact less Allen being a dick again, there to watch England not Pompey.