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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Your prime munster has spoken. The UK's problems will not all go away in 2023, says Rishi Sunak. Sadly it looks like you people are going to be in for more the same this year. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It looks like someone is going to be in for a shock. Boris Johnson On Course To Lose His Seat At The Next Election, New Poll Reveals. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
There will be a lot of "were you still up for Portillo?" moments during the next counts. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Is he already planning for life after politics, and will it be a seller? Boris Johnson signs deal for memoir of turbulent premiership. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24912 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Yep, breaking the law is one thing, but how dumb must one be to film yourself doing it? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31013 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Yep, breaking the law is one thing, but how dumb must one be to film yourself doing it?Who Knows |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Liz certainly screwed the U.K.'s economy. It’s one of the biggest economies on earth and yet it’s been humiliated by a new report that says war torn Russia will grow quicker. ..The IMF report has forecast the British economy will contract by 0.6 per cent rather than grow slightly grow as had been previously predicted.Though it's not surprising when you see where she got her ideas from. Liz Truss Crashes the (Republican) Party. ..Truss conceded she had made mistakes: She had not done enough to build support for her ideas and had moved too abruptly on an agenda that shocked the country. Truss did not put it this way, but she had tried to transplant American-style anti-tax politics onto British soil and she had failed. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22535 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Well Scotty Totty, aka Wullie Cranky, aka Miss Fish etc........ Sorry I mean Ms.N.Sturgeon has thrown the towel in having just discovered that politics is not a pleasant game to play: (Sorry many of the links are just transient in nature, should be something more stable in a few hours) Edit a few minutes later, here's a link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64647907 Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
He's even using the same words that our right wing mob used when trying to justify that policy here. Illegal Migration Bill introduced to UK parliament as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vows to stop the boats. Plagiarism at its finest (and wrongness). |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21235 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
UK Science is thrown under the Brexit bus: Nobel scientist says 'UK research is in jeopardy' wrote: A new assessment of Britain's research capability has concluded that it has "serious and longstanding problems"... Why is it that our politicians understand nothing of Science? Too far sighted a subject for them to see anything of the Science that is for them lost far beyond their politic short sighted eyebrows?... Only in the UK?... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22535 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Corrected: Why is it that our politicians understand nothing of Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21235 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Corrected: Which comes back to: Should we require a Competency and Integrity test before anyone can be honoured with the title "MP"? Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21235 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Pieces of Eight anyone for mi 'earthies? And so our UK space race came to pass: Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects wrote: Very world-beating funding A laughable political spin for space peanuts?... Fly high?! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Is it political interference or not? After Gary Lineker was stood down by BBC as Match of the Day host after furore over asylum-seeker policy tweets it seems that he isn't alone as the row causes a mounting crisis at BBC with presenters refusing to work while Sunak reckons it just a matter for the BBC to sort out. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Sunak reckons it just a matter for the BBC to sort out.That's actually about the only part of it that makes sense. I've actually been surprised by how quickly the protest has grown, and how widely it's spread: it feels like some kind of turning point. The BBC really has to grow a pair, and decide whose side they're on. Trying to be an "independent" broadcaster, whilst at the same time being an organ under direct state direction, is proving tricky with this particular government. The BBC likes to proclaim itself to be "impartial", but the government is very decidedly partial: the result has been described more than once as 'censorship', and that doesn't go down well.. The BBC has to decide, but the government has to call off its attack dogs as well. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Yes the right wing pollies here have tried it with our ABC on many occasions, but public backlash keeps putting them back in their place. Why does the right always want to silence bad news and opinions about themselves? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36827 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
The pollies are still whinging about the truth being told, but the word is A peace agreement has reportedly been reached in a football icon’s war with the BBC with the network forced into a dramatic backflip. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
It's just been announced that Gary Lineker will return to broadcasting as normal, and has been given an apology by BBC management. And a good thing too. The government need to learn the lesson that talking to - and most important, listening to - people with a different point of view is the way to resolve these clashes. There'll be a formal review of the written policy guidelines later. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21235 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
That was a brilliant penalty kick by Lineker, and a silly own goal by the BBC, and the crass comments by Braverman have been gaslighted: Gary Lineker to return to Match of the Day as BBC's Tim Davie denies climbdown wrote: ... Last week, in a tweet, Lineker compared the language used to set out the government's asylum plan to "that used by Germany in the 30s". Eventually, good moves all round for hopefully some further good to come. All in the greedy world of politics... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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