Let's Get Political!

[Flashheart]

Can you imagine the chats he must have with Boris?

[Ardiles]

Sorry to go all local (for me), but just read what Trump said when asked about the Busing Policy used in the USA to breakdown segregation in schools in the 70's and 80's.  It appears he had no idea what it was, so instead of taking a moment or try and sidestep it, he went for the following answer:

"Well, it has been something that they've done for a long period of time. I mean, you know, there aren't that many ways you're going to get people to schools."

Sterling effort, go full ignorance and assume you have just been asked a question about good ways to get kids to school in the morning!  As a sort of innocent bystander, he is a gift that keeps on giving.

It's like an experiment to see whether a country can.manage without a head of state for 4 years.

[ibelieveinmrreeves]

That is a kid who hasn’t revised for his GCSEs, clearly has no fucking clue what he’s on about but has tried to blag it anyway. 0 marks.

[horlock07]

Not to mention the fact they're spending the same money (at least) twice. Both are talking about "headroom" to fund their increased spending plus tax reductions, but that "headroom" is the "war chest" set aside for the No Deal Brexit they both say they're prepared for and that many of their supporters actively want. Can't spend it on all your expensive bribes and then find there's no rainy day money left when it turns out you can't renegotiate the withdrawal agreement inside a couple of months - that money will all be burned up on No Deal.

The fact that we are now setting aside money to have to bail out sections of our own economy due to our own actions is possibly a new high for Brexit.

[horlock07]

This is gold for the carrier bag on his head at least.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48830210

[Batch]

The fact that we are now setting aside money to have to bail out sections of our own economy due to our own actions is possibly a new high for Brexit.

I like how they are setting aside cash for farmers and fishers. The ones that voted for Brexit. I get the need to continue to produce in the UK, just irks me.

[Reg Smeeton]

I like how they are setting aside cash for farmers and fishers. The ones that voted for Brexit. I get the need to continue to produce in the UK, just irks me.

Problem being that you cannot do so according to WTO rules.

[Batch]

Problem being that you cannot do so according to WTO rules.

Really. Oh. i'd laugh if it didn't mean prices going up.

[Reg Smeeton]

Really. Oh. i'd laugh if it didn't mean prices going up.

Johnson and Hunt make stuff up..... Hammond has already rubbished most of it.  I guess he knows as a grown up he'll be replaced as Chancellor so doesn't care.

[pauld]

Really. Oh. i'd laugh if it didn't mean prices going up.

I don't think prices will go up if you laugh

[Batch]

haha.

oh shit, hope you're right

[pauld]

haha.

oh shit, hope you're right

FFS, fiver for a coffee in Costa now. Thanks Batch 

[pauld]

Mark Field weaving his magic once again:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/02/mark-field-calls-homeless-charity-a-magnet-for-undesirable

Presumably vying with Christopher Chope, the Hon Member for Upskirting, for the title of "Most Obnoxious Tory MP"

[pauld]

The superbly named "Dr David Bull" (he's not actually a Dr), a newly elected Brexit MEP whinging on twitter about it taking him quite a long time to get to Strasbourg. Or put another way "Bloke applies for job, bloke is successful in getting job, bloke complains about how long it takes him to get to the office to do the job". If you think the Tories have made a mess of Brexit, just wait until they're in coalition with this collection of fuckwits and weirdos after the next election.

[horlock07]

And people dare complain that politics has in many cases becoming an irrelevant side show....

https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/17748707.cumbrian-mp-denies-39-squirrel-racist-39-commons-debate/