Lord Duckhunter

I’m calling pony on this one.

Thats funny because I had the exact opposite with one of my kids. He hated school & was pretty poor academically. He told the careers teacher he wanted to be an airline pilot & therefore came home with a load of information. He was about 13/14 at time, in all the bottom groups. At the next parents evening I kicked off at them, asking why careers advice couldn’t be more realistic. All off a sudden I’m the bad guy for “not believing in him”. He ended up a marine engineer, working on high end boats, which he loves. We still laugh at it now, if only I’d believed in him, he’d be flying Dreamliners.

If you achieve the same as a privately educated rich kid, then clearly you’ve done it a harder way & had to work harder. BUT that doesn’t make him any less of a person or deserving of criticism. It’s about authenticity. What’s wrong with Sunak saying “I had an easy upbringing because of my parents hard work”. Only a class warrior fuck wit would have an issue with that. It certainly happened to me. never known hunger or poverty, whereas my father grew up with a disabled Dad before the welfare state existed, so did. It’s funny because him & my Gran spent years wanting people to think they were middle class and not poor, whereas nowadays politicians want people to think they were.

I don’t understand why these politicians have to pretend they’ve had it tough. Sunak is making a fool of himself, but he’s not the first one. It’s been going on for years. Im reading a biography of Churchill at the moment, without doubt the political figure that connected with the masses more than any other. But he didn’t dial a telephone number himself until he was 74, took his man servant to the front line when in the cavalry, revived a wedding present from the king & never cooked a meal in his life. His philosophy was that he was going to use his vast privilege to fight for ordinary people. He fell out with most of his peers when crossing the house & helping curtail the Lords influence, way before his WW2 stuff. Sunaks got a great back story immigrant parents doing so well that they can send their child to private school and ensure he’ll never go without. What’s wrong with that narrative, it’s a great British story. Trying to shoehorn a false narrative into it takes us all for fools. Mind you Starmer is pushing the envelop on that himself, he’s a middle class bloke (not that there’s anything wrong with that). It’s not just politics, music is the same. Middle class Grammar school boys Rolling Stones, Pete Townsend & John Lennon the only middle class member of The Beatles singing “a working class hero, is something to be” . It’s not your fault your born poor, and it’s not your fault your born wealthy, just cut out the pony and people will accept you for what you are.

They seem incapable of understanding that normalising this behaviour because it’s Nigel is incredibly short sighted. It needs to be stamped out now with harsh sentencing no matter who is on the receiving end. For a “comedy” aired on the national broadcaster to joke about it is pretty disgusting TBH. Still it’s only Nigel, the hand wringing will come when a far right fuckwit attacks Abbott or Starmer.

First sensible statement since you coughed up a fiver. Keep it up.

Someone give him his fiver back FFS. Nuclear weapons are fucking useless, didn’t stop the IRA from bombing London or 9/11. 😂

Martin Lewis is constantly banging on about it on his BBC show, oblivious to the fact the licence fee is funded by exactly the same method.

I’m going this Oct, thanks for the info. I never get it right, we’re in Turkey this week & it’s fucking baking & I must be the only clown who packed a hoodie & jeans.

“I was listening to a phone in on LBC” & I can see why people are “impressed “ with The Greens.

Yep he did, Sunak & Priti, it was on the thread where he also called Priti an immigrant because she wasn’t white. Horrific stuff.

No it wasn’t, it was a direct response you complaining I thought it was a gimmick. Something you now seem to agree with. You’re all over the place, even trying to pretend she did know how many breakfasts they needed make. You’ll be telling us she knew how many kids were privately educated next.

So you oppose that Labour gimmick as well then?

I don’t want taxes going on feeding middle class & rich kids. That’s the parents fucking job.

Our LBC correspondent must have missed this from this morning. Fresh from not having the “figures to hand” of roughly how many pupils are privately educated, the shadow education sec didn’t know how many breakfasts will be needed for their latest gimmick. https://x.com/LBC/status/1800085493142499333

He wasn’t saying that anyone with money and privilege didn’t understand, just Sunak. He wasn’t saying the reason for that was race, just his privilege. Starmer said more or less the same thing, that his privilege meant he didn’t understand the struggle of the British people. Was he being racist as well. At the end of the day leaving early did show he didn’t understand, that’s an absolute fact. If he did he wouldn’t have left. All of a sudden Nigel is the bad guy. 😂

I see Soggy has derailed another thread. Proof of any was needed that the pension in this country is too generous. I’d vote for any party that cut it by £5

Pre Maastricht.

I don’t discuss politics down the ale house, so I’ve no idea how my follow “bores” vote. There’s nothing right wing about the present government.taxes at a 70 year high, loose legal immigration, soft on crime & an NHS is desperate need of reform. That’s not even mr ruining the most unconservative pony yet, banning cigarettes but only for certain people. The fact a Tory prime minister & Tory advisors didn’t understand how much D Day means to the country, says it all. Just like under Johnny Major the wets form the majority of the PP & just like him they’re going to receive the mother of all kickings. The hard of thinking equate this lot with the right, but all they do is talk the talk, they don’t walk the walk. They’re new labour clones

It was horrific watching the hostages struggling to stay in Gaza. Those Hsmas barbarians were chucking them back to the IDF. Horrific. There was also a demo in Tel Aviv today, “send them back” is the chant. The IDF are going to lose support at this rate

Love people calling for PR. They’ll be the same ones hailing FPTP when Reform get far more votes than the Lib Dem’s but end up with a tiny % of seats compared to them. As for English parliament, it would be dominated by the right. The country is far further right than the posters on here. I’ve said for years, the established political parties are lucky that Nigel is a unionist because he’d play havoc with the unfairness & anti English bias in our democracy. One day someone will come along & the English will rise up. Forget sweaty independence, they’d get that all right, when we gain ours and fuck them off.

Fucking hell, can’t Granty put the subscription up to £20..