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  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 10,759

    Guardian reporting Jennifer Arcuri could yet do for Johnson.

    Or is that just wishful thinking?

    The Guardian fishing for more fish from the barrel isn't news.

    Re header: A good thing about Boris is that he is behind his ministers. In my view he's generally right in that. Dorries isn't doing anything so awful, and nor is JRM - in both cases they're an uncomfortable fit, but I'm fairly sure that they're also doing decent jobs. Priti Patel is the most obvious example - despite the overwhelmingly negative press she seems to be doing not so badly.
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,376

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    Sleazy but sadly not yet broken. And until they are broken they will not be able to start to repair and rebuild. Johnson and his ilk need to go.
    Who are his ilk, aside from Dorries and Rees Mogg ?
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829
    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    There isn't, actually.
    YAWN

    What exact point are you trying to make about the Scottish Nationalist Party?
    That there is no such party.

    And that your posting was very specifically a complaint about the incompetence of the Labour and Conservative Paries and the media for being inadequate on the Nationalist problem, whatever that is. You were wanting them banned and no platformed.
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    It's Lab that would want PR, apparently.

    All that SNP Types care about is splitting us of from the sassenachs.
    SNP have been advocates of PR at Westminster for a very long time.
    So?

    That's a minor policy matter compared to the fact their raison d'etre is to split this Island across the middle.
    You mean like in Ireland?
    I'd be all for ROI choosing to rejoin the UK.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,011

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 122,918
    Taz said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    Sleazy but sadly not yet broken. And until they are broken they will not be able to start to repair and rebuild. Johnson and his ilk need to go.
    Who are his ilk, aside from Dorries and Rees Mogg ?
    The 34% of the electorate still voting for him I assume
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,553

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Not sure about this one. Why would Unions care which voting system they're fighting under?
    As the only way they can get a socialist majority government as they did in 1945 or 1964 or to an extent from 2007 to 2010 and came close to in 2017 is under FPTP.

    Under PR they know the centre left would only ever get in power again with the LDs in a Roy Jenkins centrist social democrat type government
    The LDs are "Centre to Centre-left" according to Wiki. Therefore, leaning left.

    Brexit alone would mean no LD-Tory coalition for the foreseeable.
    "According to Wiki"

    Wikipedia isn't automatically correct about everything. (Talking generally, not about this subject).
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,368

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Isn't The Momentum with Jeremy? Asking for a friend.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254
    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    It's Lab that would want PR, apparently.

    All that SNP Types care about is splitting us of from the sassenachs.
    SNP have been advocates of PR at Westminster for a very long time.
    So?

    That's a minor policy matter compared to the fact their raison d'etre is to split this Island across the middle.
    It's what you were whining about: PR.

    On the other matter, if a majority of Scots want independence, that's it.
    I wonder what side you're on? Sarcastic Emoji
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829
    ydoethur said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    The BNP still exists too.
    Doesn't have "NATIONALIST in it's name".
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485
    ydoethur said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    The BNP still exists too.
    Er, neither the BNP nor the SNP have nationalist in their names.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485
    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Wrong.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,175

    ydoethur said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    The BNP still exists too.
    Er, neither the BNP nor the SNP have nationalist in their names.
    That is rather embarrassing...



    ... for the BNP.
  • pingping Posts: 3,805
    ydoethur said:

    pigeon said:

    Britain, 2022: whilst knobhead frantically clings to power and the useless braying fucks that sit behind him every Wednesday allow him to get away with it, it has finally come to this: buy now, pay later credit for buying food:

    Families hit by the cost-of-living crisis are being targeted by credit firms offering “buy now, pay later” deals on weekly groceries, pet food and hot drinks.

    Shoppers are urged to spread their payments for staple foods and treats to help cope with “these difficult times”. One promotion states: “Regardless of your credit rating, we will offer you a tonne of credit to do your shopping with.”

    ...

    Mehmet Sezgin, a former board member of MasterCard Europe, and a global retail banking expert, said: “No one should buy perishable items like food on credit. It’s an invitation to indebtedness and bankruptcy.”

    ...

    One in three buy now, pay later users have missed a payment or made a late one, according to a report published last year by the welfare charity Citizens Advice. The report found consumers using the credit products had also been charged £39m in late fees over one year.

    Rachel Beddow, principal policy manager at Citizens Advice, said: “It is like a runaway train. You can shop 24 hours a day and easily lose track of how much you owe, and there’s not enough protection for people who end up slipping into debt.”


    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jan/29/buy-now-pay-later-grocery-schemes-are-a-debt-trap-for-struggling-families

    One wonders what the Government will do when the inevitable avalanche of penniless single mothers being chased by financiers for defaulting on their Coco Pops starts clogging up the courts? I believe that bankrupt debtors were enslaved under the Roman Empire and sold to recover some of the losses - and Johnson is a classicist.

    He'll probably appoint Rees-Mogg is Minister for Enslavement. The new Secretary of State can even set a good example by purchasing the first lot of victims and putting them to work on his estates. Everyone's a winner.

    Sounds like a metamorphosis of Wonga, but potentially nastier.
    I’m the last person to stand up for this kind of lending, but to be fair, Wonga was a hell of a lot worse. These are 0% loans, albeit with late payment penalties. They’re no more evil than credit cards.

    I think there’s a good argument for banning them, anyway, from a paternalistic perspective - they create debt traps etc.

    If I were king, I’d ban most debt products.
  • Carnyx said:

    ydoethur said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    The BNP still exists too.
    Doesn't have "NATIONALIST in it's name".
    Bangladesh Nationalist Party?

  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Isn't The Momentum with Jeremy? Asking for a friend.
    No Jeremy is living rent free in Centrists heads despite hm being a complete irrelevance ATM

    You are obsessed Pete
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 17,405
    Carnyx said:

    ydoethur said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    The BNP still exists too.
    Doesn't have "NATIONALIST in it's name".
    As an aside what is the difference between a non existent Scottish Party and the Scottish National Party? Isnt the National rather redundant?
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254
    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    There isn't, actually.
    YAWN

    What exact point are you trying to make about the Scottish Nationalist Party?
    That there is no such party.

    And that your posting was very specifically a complaint about the incompetence of the Labour and Conservative Paries and the media for being inadequate on the Nationalist problem, whatever that is. You were wanting them banned and no platformed.
    I do want them banned and no platformed.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 122,918

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    Heavens, I don't think even I dislike Starmer as much as you do BJO
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829
    Off topic, but possibly relevant to the businesspersons gettogether with the PM.,

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/29/fresh-revelations-about-jennifer-arcuri-affair-threaten-to-damage-boris-johnson

    "Boris Johnson is facing damaging new revelations about his relationship with the US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri after hundreds of page of notes and documents were handed to officials at the Greater London Authority (GLA) overseeing two separate investigations into their affair.

    Last month the GLA oversight committee summonsed and received a significant number of documents – including emails to and from Arcuri – from a London tourism and promotional agency as part of an inquiry into whether Johnson abused his position as London mayor to “benefit and reward” the American businesswoman. [...]

    Arcuri is also said to be cooperating fully with a separate investigation by the GLA’s ethics watchdog that raises the prospect of Johnson facing an investigation for a potential criminal offence of misconduct in public office."
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254
    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    Andy_JS said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Not sure about this one. Why would Unions care which voting system they're fighting under?
    As the only way they can get a socialist majority government as they did in 1945 or 1964 or to an extent from 2007 to 2010 and came close to in 2017 is under FPTP.

    Under PR they know the centre left would only ever get in power again with the LDs in a Roy Jenkins centrist social democrat type government
    The LDs are "Centre to Centre-left" according to Wiki. Therefore, leaning left.

    Brexit alone would mean no LD-Tory coalition for the foreseeable.
    "According to Wiki"

    Wikipedia isn't automatically correct about everything. (Talking generally, not about this subject).
    Wiki, for example, spends much time pushing the narrative that the Skwawkbox is a reliable source, using all sorts of dodgy logic to do so.

    This has nothing to do with the fact that it's an article written by 'Reklaws' who seems to be very close to Steve Walker...

    Similarly, woe betide anyone who points out Richard III usurped the throne and murdered his nephews. Isannani, who clearly is not internationally renowned nutcase Johanna Haminga, will Wade in to do violent battle.

    Just a couple of articles that spring to mind.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 51,821
    edited January 2022
    Andy_JS said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Not sure about this one. Why would Unions care which voting system they're fighting under?
    As the only way they can get a socialist majority government as they did in 1945 or 1964 or to an extent from 2007 to 2010 and came close to in 2017 is under FPTP.

    Under PR they know the centre left would only ever get in power again with the LDs in a Roy Jenkins centrist social democrat type government
    The LDs are "Centre to Centre-left" according to Wiki. Therefore, leaning left.

    Brexit alone would mean no LD-Tory coalition for the foreseeable.
    "According to Wiki"

    Wikipedia isn't automatically correct about everything. (Talking generally, not about this subject).
    References have been included in the article's lead section.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    HYUFD said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    Heavens, I don't think even I dislike Starmer as much as you do BJO
    Would that even be possible?
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829

    Carnyx said:

    ydoethur said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    The BNP still exists too.
    Doesn't have "NATIONALIST in it's name".
    As an aside what is the difference between a non existent Scottish Party and the Scottish National Party? Isnt the National rather redundant?
    Oh yes, Ms Sturgeon was commenting on that recently, it tends to get misunderstood - in the nacionalista rather than independista sense. I think she was saying that she'd be quite happy to rename it along those lines.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,011

    Heh.


    It's Gray not Grey
    More like 50 Shades of black marker pen.
    I do hope they make an arse of the redaction, where you can just copy and paste the hidden text and it magically reappears.

    I've seen that done a few times.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 8,647

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    edited January 2022
    Deleted double post.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
  • RazedabodeRazedabode Posts: 3,028
    The underlying info for polling is that Johnson is extremely disliked at the moment. Opinium was 63% wanting Johnson to resign..

    Which makes me think - Labour wouldn’t have a lead if the Tories replaced BoJo with someone more credible
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829

    Heh.


    It's Gray not Grey
    More like 50 Shades of black marker pen.
    I do hope they make an arse of the redaction, where you can just copy and paste the hidden text and it magically reappears.

    I've seen that done a few times.
    Ooh yes please please pretty pretty please ...
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 17,405
    Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    ydoethur said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    The BNP still exists too.
    Doesn't have "NATIONALIST in it's name".
    As an aside what is the difference between a non existent Scottish Party and the Scottish National Party? Isnt the National rather redundant?
    Oh yes, Ms Sturgeon was commenting on that recently, it tends to get misunderstood - in the nacionalista rather than independista sense. I think she was saying that she'd be quite happy to rename it along those lines.
    Well having the n word does leave you a bit open to simplistic attacks.
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254
    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829

    Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    ydoethur said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    The BNP still exists too.
    Doesn't have "NATIONALIST in it's name".
    As an aside what is the difference between a non existent Scottish Party and the Scottish National Party? Isnt the National rather redundant?
    Oh yes, Ms Sturgeon was commenting on that recently, it tends to get misunderstood - in the nacionalista rather than independista sense. I think she was saying that she'd be quite happy to rename it along those lines.
    Well having the n word does leave you a bit open to simplistic attacks.
    That was indeed her point.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Isn't The Momentum with Jeremy? Asking for a friend.
    No Jeremy is living rent free in Centrists heads despite hm being a complete irrelevance ATM

    You are obsessed Pete
    Look, not hating Jews is certainly a character flaw. No one disputes that. But I think you are attaching too much weight to it in the overall scheme of things.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829
    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Is Mr Johnson leader of the Conservationist Party?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    Whatever Corbyn is doing to the saner elements of Labour, one thing I will say for Starmer is he's clearly achieved a major triumph in domestic housing policy.

    He's living rent free in many Corbynista heads...
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254
    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Is Mr Johnson leader of the Conservationist Party?
    You could say he's the leader of the Tories and I'd know what you mean.
  • Rishi Sunak 'thinks Boris Johnson WON'T survive Partygate and has ALEADY built a dummy campaign website as he prepares leadership bid' and No10 braces to finally receive Gray report

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10455085/Rishi-Sunak-thinks-Boris-Johnson-WONT-survive-Partygate.html
  • JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 8,647
    edited January 2022

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    All that matters (according to collective PB wisdom) is leader ratings.

    Relative to Johnson, the extraordinarily successful (in the real, actual world - not the NUS or a nutty trade union) Starmer is doing ok.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660
    Eabhal said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
    The under 25 vote was a massive reason why Lab got 12.9m votes in 2017

    SKS inherited £13.5m of current Assets he has blown the lot and the Party wont make it through 2022 financially unless some massively rich Donors turn up. Of course they wont want anything in return
  • Scott_xP said:

    The PM has dodged the worst of the partygate scandal this week, thanks to an operation by his closest allies. But tonight he faces claims on another front, that No 10 security protocols were changed because classified papers were not secure in his flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    Why is this relevant now? It is understood that as Sue Gray's inquiry proceeded into socialising in the No 10 flat that it became clear that several of Carrie Johnson's friends in government have the access pin code for the private flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    I increasingly think the police want to redact partly because various security issues at the centre of government look woefully lax, and they're implicated ; and also because the report might simultaneously reveal their extremely tolerant attitude to any wrongdoing at No.10. Fused together with which somewhere is probably Cressida Dick's personal loyalty to Boris Johnson.

    If you take this together with the enormous delay and apparent bafflement at the entire idea of investigating No.10 in the first place, it makes perfect sense. The underlying attitude is one of extreme indulgence, and Sue Gray's report therefore would represent just an annoying interlude before returning to the default, combined attitude ; a clearly undemocratic level of indulgence, and lax security with those are the top ; by redacting the details of both.
    Slightly less cynically, maybe the police were astonished to find how lax everything is, and how complicated this would make what they'd previously hoped would be a 48-hour job involving reviewing a few email invitations.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373

    Heh.


    It's Gray not Grey
    More like 50 Shades of black marker pen.
    I do hope they make an arse of the redaction, where you can just copy and paste the hidden text and it magically reappears.

    I've seen that done a few times.
    I once had a boss who redacted all the relevant passages by making the text white.

    And then sent out the original MS Word document, unaware anyone could read them just by using the select tool.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660
    ydoethur said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    Whatever Corbyn is doing to the saner elements of Labour, one thing I will say for Starmer is he's clearly achieved a major triumph in domestic housing policy.

    He's living rent free in many Corbynista heads...
    LoL and who is living rent free in Centrist heads?
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254
    edited January 2022

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
    Well thanks for clearing that up Sunil.

    I honestly had no idea.

    At least we can all agree their ideology is NATIONALIST.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    Bit unfair. The Italians had to fight in some pretty crap tanks.

    In fact, to the degree that some of them turned the things round and went backwards facing the enemy, so that the engine at least might catch some of the OQF 2-pounder solid shot coming their way.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373

    ydoethur said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    Whatever Corbyn is doing to the saner elements of Labour, one thing I will say for Starmer is he's clearly achieved a major triumph in domestic housing policy.

    He's living rent free in many Corbynista heads...
    LoL and who is living rent free in Centrist heads?
    I have no idea. Themselves?
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,829
    JBriskin3 said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
    Well thanks for clearing that up Sunil.

    I honestly I had no idea.

    At least we can all agree their ideology is NATIONALIST.
    No, we can't. Nationalists are right wingers like you, HYUFD, etc. . I'm a centrist independist. I don't go out waving the Saltire and goiung on and on and on about the glorious nation and the Royal Family.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660
    IshmaelZ said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Isn't The Momentum with Jeremy? Asking for a friend.
    No Jeremy is living rent free in Centrists heads despite hm being a complete irrelevance ATM

    You are obsessed Pete
    Look, not hating Jews is certainly a character flaw. No one disputes that. But I think you are attaching too much weight to it in the overall scheme of things.
    Rather silly comment
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,553
    We used to rely on a selection of different encyclopaedias, both within the UK and from other countries, which would often have had slightly different interpretations of the same subjects. Is it really a good idea to replace all of those with just one? I'm not sure it is.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 8,647

    Eabhal said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
    The under 25 vote was a massive reason why Lab got 12.9m votes in 2017

    SKS inherited £13.5m of current Assets he has blown the lot and the Party wont make it through 2022 financially unless some massively rich Donors turn up. Of course they wont want anything in return
    And the pulsating, rotting liability of people like you, infecting what used to be a party of government.

    2017? A loss. What scares you most of all is actually winning.

    Why? Because you think most Brits are scum. And if they vote for you, that makes you scum too.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    IshmaelZ said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Isn't The Momentum with Jeremy? Asking for a friend.
    No Jeremy is living rent free in Centrists heads despite hm being a complete irrelevance ATM

    You are obsessed Pete
    Look, not hating Jews is certainly a character flaw. No one disputes that. But I think you are attaching too much weight to it in the overall scheme of things.
    He Semite detached Corbyn?
  • darkagedarkage Posts: 5,398
    ydoethur said:

    pigeon said:

    Britain, 2022: whilst knobhead frantically clings to power and the useless braying fucks that sit behind him every Wednesday allow him to get away with it, it has finally come to this: buy now, pay later credit for buying food:

    Families hit by the cost-of-living crisis are being targeted by credit firms offering “buy now, pay later” deals on weekly groceries, pet food and hot drinks.

    Shoppers are urged to spread their payments for staple foods and treats to help cope with “these difficult times”. One promotion states: “Regardless of your credit rating, we will offer you a tonne of credit to do your shopping with.”

    ...

    Mehmet Sezgin, a former board member of MasterCard Europe, and a global retail banking expert, said: “No one should buy perishable items like food on credit. It’s an invitation to indebtedness and bankruptcy.”

    ...

    One in three buy now, pay later users have missed a payment or made a late one, according to a report published last year by the welfare charity Citizens Advice. The report found consumers using the credit products had also been charged £39m in late fees over one year.

    Rachel Beddow, principal policy manager at Citizens Advice, said: “It is like a runaway train. You can shop 24 hours a day and easily lose track of how much you owe, and there’s not enough protection for people who end up slipping into debt.”


    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jan/29/buy-now-pay-later-grocery-schemes-are-a-debt-trap-for-struggling-families

    One wonders what the Government will do when the inevitable avalanche of penniless single mothers being chased by financiers for defaulting on their Coco Pops starts clogging up the courts? I believe that bankrupt debtors were enslaved under the Roman Empire and sold to recover some of the losses - and Johnson is a classicist.

    He'll probably appoint Rees-Mogg is Minister for Enslavement. The new Secretary of State can even set a good example by purchasing the first lot of victims and putting them to work on his estates. Everyone's a winner.

    Sounds like a metamorphosis of Wonga, but potentially nastier.
    The article is short on detail. Presumably it is a way of selling a load of consumer goods that companies make a large profit on (coffee, food) at inflated prices.

    People either make the repayments, or they don't. The question I suppose is, if they don't make the 'interest free' repayments of say a hundred quid, what happens then?

    That is what I would really like to understand, before I can make any judgements about this.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 8,647
    edited January 2022
    ydoethur said:

    Heh.


    It's Gray not Grey
    More like 50 Shades of black marker pen.
    I do hope they make an arse of the redaction, where you can just copy and paste the hidden text and it magically reappears.

    I've seen that done a few times.
    I once had a boss who redacted all the relevant passages by making the text white.

    And then sent out the original MS Word document, unaware anyone could read them just by using the select tool.
    Great way to get a job application/essay under a word count. Add a letter in between each word and colour it white.
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254
    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
    Well thanks for clearing that up Sunil.

    I honestly I had no idea.

    At least we can all agree their ideology is NATIONALIST.
    No, we can't. Nationalists are right wingers like you, HYUFD, etc. . I'm a centrist independist. I don't go out waving the Saltire and goiung on and on and on about the glorious nation and the Royal Family.
    Ha ha ha - Enjoy your kool aid NATIONALIST.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,011

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    Eabhal said:

    ydoethur said:

    Heh.


    It's Gray not Grey
    More like 50 Shades of black marker pen.
    I do hope they make an arse of the redaction, where you can just copy and paste the hidden text and it magically reappears.

    I've seen that done a few times.
    I once had a boss who redacted all the relevant passages by making the text white.

    And then sent out the original MS Word document, unaware anyone could read them just by using the select tool.
    Great way to get a job application/essay under a word count. Add a letter in between each word and colour it white.
    Genius. Why did I never think of that? I am shamelessly stealing that idea.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660
    Eabhal said:

    Eabhal said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
    The under 25 vote was a massive reason why Lab got 12.9m votes in 2017

    SKS inherited £13.5m of current Assets he has blown the lot and the Party wont make it through 2022 financially unless some massively rich Donors turn up. Of course they wont want anything in return
    And the pulsating, rotting liability of people like you, infecting what used to be a party of government.

    2017? A loss. What scares you most of all is actually winning.

    Why? Because you think most Brits are scum. And if they vote for you, that makes you scum too.
    A rather silly comment

    You think the under 25s and all those enthused by the 2017 Manifesto wanted to lose.

    Labour may never again get 12.9m votes or ever again be in power precisely because they offer nothing to traditional WWC voters
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,890
    edited January 2022
    Omnium said:

    Guardian reporting Jennifer Arcuri could yet do for Johnson.

    Or is that just wishful thinking?

    The Guardian fishing for more fish from the barrel isn't news.

    Re header: A good thing about Boris is that he is behind his ministers. In my view he's generally right in that. Dorries isn't doing anything so awful, and nor is JRM - in both cases they're an uncomfortable fit, but I'm fairly sure that they're also doing decent jobs. Priti Patel is the most obvious example - despite the overwhelmingly negative press she seems to be doing not so badly.
    What is it that our esteemed Home Secretary is "doing not so badly" at? Stopping migrants crossing the channel? A whole six per cent of crimes solved? Record sex offences? Or did you mean directing the Met to derail Sue Gray? ETA or have I been wooshed?
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,368

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Isn't The Momentum with Jeremy? Asking for a friend.
    No Jeremy is living rent free in Centrists heads despite hm being a complete irrelevance ATM

    You are obsessed Pete
    What do you mean?

    I'm still revelling in the glorious victory of 2017.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 8,647
    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
    Well thanks for clearing that up Sunil.

    I honestly I had no idea.

    At least we can all agree their ideology is NATIONALIST.
    No, we can't. Nationalists are right wingers like you, HYUFD, etc. . I'm a centrist independist. I don't go out waving the Saltire and goiung on and on and on about the glorious nation and the Royal Family.
    Ha ha ha - Enjoy your kool aid NATIONALIST.
    The remarkable thing about the SNP is, though there are undoubtedly some unsavoury types on their midst, they have avoided the Corbyn/Momentum problem very well.

    We have these huge marches in Edinburgh full of nutters with hundreds of saltires, 'burn the Tories' (read English), etc, but no SNP MSPs anywhere near them. Smart.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,319
    JBriskin3 said:
    Loons have woken up
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,319
    JBriskin3 said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    darkage said:

    In fact, building on my last comment, my optimum scenario would perhaps be Keir Starmer leading the tories. I am a total centrist dad.

    That's more like the Saturday PB spirit!

    Living in Nippy's semi-autonomous paradise I'm not sure I will be able to consider Sir Keir's party for much longer-

    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-says-more-powers-26079744
    I think Slab being nakedly pro-Union is strategically flawed. They should be neutral and allow individual Labour candidates to express their own views. I think Labour would do better north of the Tweed if they weren’t seen as the natural home of Rangers supporters.
    I don't mind them being strategically ambigious - But Anas (and Sir Keir) seems to drunk half of the glass of kool aid.
    A milestone, you made a post without the words "Nippy " or "SNP" in it. Mind boggling.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,663
    It's a bit same-old, same-old on here tonight.

    Let's hope one of the Sunday papers has something juicy to get us posting about.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 8,647

    Eabhal said:

    Eabhal said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
    The under 25 vote was a massive reason why Lab got 12.9m votes in 2017

    SKS inherited £13.5m of current Assets he has blown the lot and the Party wont make it through 2022 financially unless some massively rich Donors turn up. Of course they wont want anything in return
    And the pulsating, rotting liability of people like you, infecting what used to be a party of government.

    2017? A loss. What scares you most of all is actually winning.

    Why? Because you think most Brits are scum. And if they vote for you, that makes you scum too.
    A rather silly comment

    You think the under 25s and all those enthused by the 2017 Manifesto wanted to lose.

    Labour may never again get 12.9m votes or ever again be in power precisely because they offer nothing to traditional WWC voters
    The second bit I agree with. But your ilk are not the answer.

    The litmus test is something like the Falklands. If a Labour leader can't commit to defending them, then they're useless.
  • JBriskin3JBriskin3 Posts: 1,254
    Eabhal said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
    Well thanks for clearing that up Sunil.

    I honestly I had no idea.

    At least we can all agree their ideology is NATIONALIST.
    No, we can't. Nationalists are right wingers like you, HYUFD, etc. . I'm a centrist independist. I don't go out waving the Saltire and goiung on and on and on about the glorious nation and the Royal Family.
    Ha ha ha - Enjoy your kool aid NATIONALIST.
    The remarkable thing about the SNP is, though there are undoubtedly some unsavoury types on their midst, they have avoided the Corbyn/Momentum problem very well.

    We have these huge marches in Edinburgh full of nutters with hundreds of saltires, 'burn the Tories' (read English), etc, but no SNP MSPs anywhere near them. Smart.
    Nationalists account for circa 45pc of the population up here and are running Holyrood.

    I don't care what trips them up but I hope it will be soon.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,319
    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    There isn't, actually.
    Carnyx you are wasting your time, the lights are on but nobody is home.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    edited January 2022
    Eabhal said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
    Well thanks for clearing that up Sunil.

    I honestly I had no idea.

    At least we can all agree their ideology is NATIONALIST.
    No, we can't. Nationalists are right wingers like you, HYUFD, etc. . I'm a centrist independist. I don't go out waving the Saltire and goiung on and on and on about the glorious nation and the Royal Family.
    Ha ha ha - Enjoy your kool aid NATIONALIST.
    The remarkable thing about the SNP is, though there are undoubtedly some unsavoury types on their midst, they have avoided the Corbyn/Momentum problem very well.

    We have these huge marches in Edinburgh full of nutters with hundreds of saltires, 'burn the Tories' (read English), etc, but no SNP MSPs anywhere near them. Smart.
    It speaks well for the Scottish education system that they can spell 'burn.' There is actually graffiti on the A38 near Gloucester where somebody got that wrong and wrote 'bun the Tories.'

    That was in 2017.* If only s/he had waited five years...

    *It's still there albeit rather faded now. Not sure whether nobody can be bothered to remove it or the police just like seeing it as they drive past en route to their HQ at Waterwells.
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,376

    Eabhal said:

    Eabhal said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
    The under 25 vote was a massive reason why Lab got 12.9m votes in 2017

    SKS inherited £13.5m of current Assets he has blown the lot and the Party wont make it through 2022 financially unless some massively rich Donors turn up. Of course they wont want anything in return
    And the pulsating, rotting liability of people like you, infecting what used to be a party of government.

    2017? A loss. What scares you most of all is actually winning.

    Why? Because you think most Brits are scum. And if they vote for you, that makes you scum too.
    A rather silly comment

    You think the under 25s and all those enthused by the 2017 Manifesto wanted to lose.

    Labour may never again get 12.9m votes or ever again be in power precisely because they offer nothing to traditional WWC voters
    The labour view and that of the online labour supporters is these communities are sinners who voted against their own self interest (the Labour Party) and will repent and come home. Labour don’t think they need to offer anything aside from not being Tories.
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,133
    edited January 2022

    Scott_xP said:

    The PM has dodged the worst of the partygate scandal this week, thanks to an operation by his closest allies. But tonight he faces claims on another front, that No 10 security protocols were changed because classified papers were not secure in his flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    Why is this relevant now? It is understood that as Sue Gray's inquiry proceeded into socialising in the No 10 flat that it became clear that several of Carrie Johnson's friends in government have the access pin code for the private flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    I increasingly think the police want to redact partly because various security issues at the centre of government look woefully lax, and they're implicated ; and also because the report might simultaneously reveal their extremely tolerant attitude to any wrongdoing at No.10. Fused together with which somewhere is probably Cressida Dick's personal loyalty to Boris Johnson.

    If you take this together with the enormous delay and apparent bafflement at the entire idea of investigating No.10 in the first place, it makes perfect sense. The underlying attitude is one of extreme indulgence, and Sue Gray's report therefore would represent just an annoying interlude before returning to the default, combined attitude ; a clearly undemocratic level of indulgence, and lax security with those are the top ; by redacting the details of both.
    Slightly less cynically, maybe the police were astonished to find how lax everything is, and how complicated this would make what they'd previously hoped would be a 48-hour job involving reviewing a few email invitations.
    No.10 and the broader area supposedly have more police cameras than almost anywhere else in London, and are also an absolutely top police priority. The extremely lax attitude, both to security protocols with the top people, and any rule-breaking, must have been in some way known to, and cleared from, the very top, to begin with.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    Eabhal said:

    Eabhal said:

    Eabhal said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
    The under 25 vote was a massive reason why Lab got 12.9m votes in 2017

    SKS inherited £13.5m of current Assets he has blown the lot and the Party wont make it through 2022 financially unless some massively rich Donors turn up. Of course they wont want anything in return
    And the pulsating, rotting liability of people like you, infecting what used to be a party of government.

    2017? A loss. What scares you most of all is actually winning.

    Why? Because you think most Brits are scum. And if they vote for you, that makes you scum too.
    A rather silly comment

    You think the under 25s and all those enthused by the 2017 Manifesto wanted to lose.

    Labour may never again get 12.9m votes or ever again be in power precisely because they offer nothing to traditional WWC voters
    The second bit I agree with. But your ilk are not the answer.

    The litmus test is something like the Falklands. If a Labour leader can't commit to defending them, then they're useless.
    Michael Foot did, and still got eviscerated.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,553
    edited January 2022
    "Ai Weiwei: ‘It’s obvious Covid is not a natural disease, it’s something that leaked out’

    The most famous living artist on China's ‘ice cold, cruel’ response to the pandemic – and why the Olympics is ‘just a business event’"

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/ai-weiwei-obvious-covid-not-natural-disease-something-leaked/

    https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/ai-weiwei-covid-19-origin-china-b2003381.html
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    IshmaelZ said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Isn't The Momentum with Jeremy? Asking for a friend.
    No Jeremy is living rent free in Centrists heads despite hm being a complete irrelevance ATM

    You are obsessed Pete
    Look, not hating Jews is certainly a character flaw. No one disputes that. But I think you are attaching too much weight to it in the overall scheme of things.
    Rather silly comment
    Sales juifs
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
    So did I

    The democratically elected leader lied that he was the man to unite the Party He has spent his whole 2 years as leader trying to destroy half of it.

    I want Labour to lose as it doesnt represent a single thing the half of the Party SKS has spent 2 years trying to destroy, stand for.

    If Burnham was leader I would be back in like a shot.

    Instead we have a man with no charisma no radical policies.and some policies way to the right of the Tories under Johnson
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 18,355
    ydoethur said:

    Eabhal said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
    Well thanks for clearing that up Sunil.

    I honestly I had no idea.

    At least we can all agree their ideology is NATIONALIST.
    No, we can't. Nationalists are right wingers like you, HYUFD, etc. . I'm a centrist independist. I don't go out waving the Saltire and goiung on and on and on about the glorious nation and the Royal Family.
    Ha ha ha - Enjoy your kool aid NATIONALIST.
    The remarkable thing about the SNP is, though there are undoubtedly some unsavoury types on their midst, they have avoided the Corbyn/Momentum problem very well.

    We have these huge marches in Edinburgh full of nutters with hundreds of saltires, 'burn the Tories' (read English), etc, but no SNP MSPs anywhere near them. Smart.
    It speaks well for the Scottish education system that they can spell 'burn.' There is actually graffiti on the A38 near Gloucester where somebody got that wrong and wrote 'bun the Tories.'

    That was in 2017.* If only s/he had waited five years...

    *It's still there albeit rather faded now. Not sure whether nobody can be bothered to remove it or the police just like seeing it as they drive past en route to their HQ at Waterwells.
    I think it was on the M6, not far north of Birmingham, where someone had done a "lesson on how not to be a middle lane hog" over the course of at least half a dozen bridges. It might have been the M5 though, I forget. But it was great.

    Understandable to be incredible annoyed at middle lane hogs, but the follow through was incredible.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 8,647
    ydoethur said:

    Eabhal said:

    Eabhal said:

    Eabhal said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
    The under 25 vote was a massive reason why Lab got 12.9m votes in 2017

    SKS inherited £13.5m of current Assets he has blown the lot and the Party wont make it through 2022 financially unless some massively rich Donors turn up. Of course they wont want anything in return
    And the pulsating, rotting liability of people like you, infecting what used to be a party of government.

    2017? A loss. What scares you most of all is actually winning.

    Why? Because you think most Brits are scum. And if they vote for you, that makes you scum too.
    A rather silly comment

    You think the under 25s and all those enthused by the 2017 Manifesto wanted to lose.

    Labour may never again get 12.9m votes or ever again be in power precisely because they offer nothing to traditional WWC voters
    The second bit I agree with. But your ilk are not the answer.

    The litmus test is something like the Falklands. If a Labour leader can't commit to defending them, then they're useless.
    Michael Foot did, and still got eviscerated.
    Hmmm.

    I think the point still stands, though I'm young (relatively) so not sure if Foot disproves it.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,660
    Taz said:

    Eabhal said:

    Eabhal said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    Of course if Jeremy were Labour leader...
    What you going on about now.

    He isnt

    He will never be ever again

    Doesnt alter the fact that SKS is a factional useless nonentity with less charisma than a paper bag and fewer policies than the worlds worst insurance salesman

    Doesnt alter the fact that he has bankrupted Labour and lost more than half of the Muslim vote and the under 25 vote

    All his eggs are in the flag shagging basket and he will lose big time in 2024

    Apart from that .........
    You're right - Labour really need to nail down that under 25 cohort. As we've seen from previous elections, they do a brilliant job of both voting and persuading their parents to ex-scum.

    I agree on the finances too - he should have taken every case to court, defended the Palestinian position, and ignored any damages awards.
    The under 25 vote was a massive reason why Lab got 12.9m votes in 2017

    SKS inherited £13.5m of current Assets he has blown the lot and the Party wont make it through 2022 financially unless some massively rich Donors turn up. Of course they wont want anything in return
    And the pulsating, rotting liability of people like you, infecting what used to be a party of government.

    2017? A loss. What scares you most of all is actually winning.

    Why? Because you think most Brits are scum. And if they vote for you, that makes you scum too.
    A rather silly comment

    You think the under 25s and all those enthused by the 2017 Manifesto wanted to lose.

    Labour may never again get 12.9m votes or ever again be in power precisely because they offer nothing to traditional WWC voters
    The labour view and that of the online labour supporters is these communities are sinners who voted against their own self interest (the Labour Party) and will repent and come home. Labour don’t think they need to offer anything aside from not being Tories.
    SKS thinks exactly that. Remoaners in Lab like the whole front bench now think exactly that.

    They are in for a rude awakening in 2024
  • HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
    So did I

    The democratically elected leader lied that he was the man to unite the Party He has spent his whole 2 years as leader trying to destroy half of it.

    I want Labour to lose as it doesnt represent a single thing the half of the Party SKS has spent 2 years trying to destroy, stand for.

    If Burnham was leader I would be back in like a shot.

    Instead we have a man with no charisma no radical policies.and some policies way to the right of the Tories under Johnson
    Why don't you, how do you say? "Just fuck off and join the Tories!" :lol:
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    edited January 2022

    ydoethur said:

    Eabhal said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Scottish National Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party


    Scottish National Party
    Gordon Lamb House
    3 Jackson's Entry
    Edinburgh, Scotland
    EH8 8PJ
    https://www.snp.org/contact/
    Well thanks for clearing that up Sunil.

    I honestly I had no idea.

    At least we can all agree their ideology is NATIONALIST.
    No, we can't. Nationalists are right wingers like you, HYUFD, etc. . I'm a centrist independist. I don't go out waving the Saltire and goiung on and on and on about the glorious nation and the Royal Family.
    Ha ha ha - Enjoy your kool aid NATIONALIST.
    The remarkable thing about the SNP is, though there are undoubtedly some unsavoury types on their midst, they have avoided the Corbyn/Momentum problem very well.

    We have these huge marches in Edinburgh full of nutters with hundreds of saltires, 'burn the Tories' (read English), etc, but no SNP MSPs anywhere near them. Smart.
    It speaks well for the Scottish education system that they can spell 'burn.' There is actually graffiti on the A38 near Gloucester where somebody got that wrong and wrote 'bun the Tories.'

    That was in 2017.* If only s/he had waited five years...

    *It's still there albeit rather faded now. Not sure whether nobody can be bothered to remove it or the police just like seeing it as they drive past en route to their HQ at Waterwells.
    I think it was on the M6, not far north of Birmingham, where someone had done a "lesson on how not to be a middle lane hog" over the course of at least half a dozen bridges. It might have been the M5 though, I forget. But it was great.

    Understandable to be incredible annoyed at middle lane hogs, but the follow through was incredible.
    Could have done with that on the M5 this evening. Not one, not two, but three cars tootling along at 60 in the third lane past Droitwich.

    Fortunately it was very quiet so I had no difficulty getting into the fast lane.
  • Scott_xP said:

    The PM has dodged the worst of the partygate scandal this week, thanks to an operation by his closest allies. But tonight he faces claims on another front, that No 10 security protocols were changed because classified papers were not secure in his flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    Why is this relevant now? It is understood that as Sue Gray's inquiry proceeded into socialising in the No 10 flat that it became clear that several of Carrie Johnson's friends in government have the access pin code for the private flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    I increasingly think the police want to redact partly because various security issues at the centre of government look woefully lax, and they're implicated ; and also because the report might simultaneously reveal their extremely tolerant attitude to any wrongdoing at No.10. Fused together with which somewhere is probably Cressida Dick's personal loyalty to Boris Johnson.

    If you take this together with the enormous delay and apparent bafflement at the entire idea of investigating No.10 in the first place, it makes perfect sense. The underlying attitude is one of extreme indulgence, and Sue Gray's report therefore would represent just an annoying interlude before returning to the default, combined attitude ; a clearly undemocratic level of indulgence, and lax security with those are the top ; by redacting the details of both.
    Slightly less cynically, maybe the police were astonished to find how lax everything is, and how complicated this would make what they'd previously hoped would be a 48-hour job involving reviewing a few email invitations.
    No.10 and the broader area supposedly have more police cameras than almost anywhere else in London, and are also an absolutely top police priority. The extremely lax attitude, both to security protocols with the top people, and any rule-breaking, must have been in some way been known to, and licensed from, the top to begin with.
    The police are not inside Downing Street (as far as I know). Are they even watching cameras? iirc from Matt Hancock's handsgate, that has been privatised. "The top" is either the Prime Minister, his chief of staff or one of the Civil Service heads.
  • Tom Brady retires from NFL after 22 years and seven Super Bowl wins
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373

    Scott_xP said:

    The PM has dodged the worst of the partygate scandal this week, thanks to an operation by his closest allies. But tonight he faces claims on another front, that No 10 security protocols were changed because classified papers were not secure in his flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    Why is this relevant now? It is understood that as Sue Gray's inquiry proceeded into socialising in the No 10 flat that it became clear that several of Carrie Johnson's friends in government have the access pin code for the private flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    I increasingly think the police want to redact partly because various security issues at the centre of government look woefully lax, and they're implicated ; and also because the report might simultaneously reveal their extremely tolerant attitude to any wrongdoing at No.10. Fused together with which somewhere is probably Cressida Dick's personal loyalty to Boris Johnson.

    If you take this together with the enormous delay and apparent bafflement at the entire idea of investigating No.10 in the first place, it makes perfect sense. The underlying attitude is one of extreme indulgence, and Sue Gray's report therefore would represent just an annoying interlude before returning to the default, combined attitude ; a clearly undemocratic level of indulgence, and lax security with those are the top ; by redacting the details of both.
    Slightly less cynically, maybe the police were astonished to find how lax everything is, and how complicated this would make what they'd previously hoped would be a 48-hour job involving reviewing a few email invitations.
    No.10 and the broader area supposedly have more police cameras than almost anywhere else in London, and are also an absolutely top police priority. The extremely lax attitude, both to security protocols with the top people, and any rule-breaking, must have been in some way been known to, and licensed from, the top to begin with.
    The police are not inside
    Which is a shame as that's where quite a lot of them belong.

    (Please forgive me my shameless ripping away of the context.)
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,011

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
    So did I

    The democratically elected leader lied that he was the man to unite the Party He has spent his whole 2 years as leader trying to destroy half of it.

    I want Labour to lose as it doesnt represent a single thing the half of the Party SKS has spent 2 years trying to destroy, stand for.

    If Burnham was leader I would be back in like a shot.

    Instead we have a man with no charisma no radical policies.and some policies way to the right of the Tories under Johnson
    A bunch of entryists who've spent most of their lives campaigning against Labour is not 'half of the party'.

    Your boy Burnham was shite in the 2015 leadership election. That is why Jezza ended up as leader.

    Anyway, I need to dip out.
  • Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Carnyx said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    HYUFD said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    Taz said:

    JBriskin3 said:

    pigeon said:



    No point. Why would anyone vote for a slate of synthetic pro-independence candidates (with a leader in London who daren't let Scotland go) when they can keep on voting for real ones?

    The price of the, rather likely, Lab/SNP coalition will enevitably be an #indyref2

    I hope Boris goes soon and the new leader can write a rather simple letter post the inevitable Section 30 request.
    Indyref2 for Scotland and a push for PR if they win the referendum.
    PR push by SNP of Lab?

    If SNP Types win their indyref2 to all bets are off including the voting system.
    PR means the Unions and Corbynites walk out of the Labour party and start their own party and there is never a Labour majority government again.

    That is also the price. ReformUK would win MPs too and it ends the 2 party system
    Why would the SNP want PR when they are massive winners from FPTP?

    2019 Election

    Con 44% of vote, 56% of seats
    Lab 32% of vote, 31% of seats
    SNP 4% of vote, 7% of seats
    LD 12% of vote, 2% of seats
    Labour and the Conservative should run with a PR in Scotland policy. (As in PR for Westminster elections in Scotland.)
    Labour, Con and the Media are weak as fuck on the Nationalist problem.

    These people should be getting no platformed and banned from parliament.
    I quite agree. The Britnats and the media are an absolute disgrace. But I wouldn't go so far as to ban them.
    There's only one party with NATIONALIST in it's name.

    If it walks like a duck...
    Fuck me, do you really not know how wrong that is?

    I thought you lived in Scotland?
    I live in Aberdeen enjoying the fine weather at the moment.
    But you don't know what SNP stands for...
    Of course I do.

    Boris say's it every week in response to Blackford.

    Scottish Nationalist Party.
    Is Mr Johnson leader of the Conservationist Party?
    Not of his majority !!!!!
  • darkagedarkage Posts: 5,398
    Eabhal said:

    ydoethur said:

    Heh.


    It's Gray not Grey
    More like 50 Shades of black marker pen.
    I do hope they make an arse of the redaction, where you can just copy and paste the hidden text and it magically reappears.

    I've seen that done a few times.
    I once had a boss who redacted all the relevant passages by making the text white.

    And then sent out the original MS Word document, unaware anyone could read them just by using the select tool.
    Great way to get a job application/essay under a word count. Add a letter in between each word and colour it white.
    This is the most useful thing I have learned today. Thanks.
  • Guardian reporting Jennifer Arcuri could yet do for Johnson.

    Or is that just wishful thinking?

    It looks to be a slow burner. If Watergate has taught us anything, it is that even terminal scandals can take a long time to reach their denouement.
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
    So did I

    The democratically elected leader lied that he was the man to unite the Party He has spent his whole 2 years as leader trying to destroy half of it.

    I want Labour to lose as it doesnt represent a single thing the half of the Party SKS has spent 2 years trying to destroy, stand for.

    If Burnham was leader I would be back in like a shot.

    Instead we have a man with no charisma no radical policies.and some policies way to the right of the Tories under Johnson
    Obviously jezzas heart was in the right place as far as the Final Solution is concerned, but I can genuinely say that he was by a clear margin the most stupid human being to occupy a position of any importance in politics that I have ever known or read about. Does that not make a difference in your view?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    IshmaelZ said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
    So did I

    The democratically elected leader lied that he was the man to unite the Party He has spent his whole 2 years as leader trying to destroy half of it.

    I want Labour to lose as it doesnt represent a single thing the half of the Party SKS has spent 2 years trying to destroy, stand for.

    If Burnham was leader I would be back in like a shot.

    Instead we have a man with no charisma no radical policies.and some policies way to the right of the Tories under Johnson
    Obviously jezzas heart was in the right place as far as the Final Solution is concerned, but I can genuinely say that he was by a clear margin the most stupid human being to occupy a position of any importance in politics that I have ever known or read about. Does that not make a difference in your view?
    Nadine Dorries is not occupying a position of importance?
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,133
    edited January 2022

    Scott_xP said:

    The PM has dodged the worst of the partygate scandal this week, thanks to an operation by his closest allies. But tonight he faces claims on another front, that No 10 security protocols were changed because classified papers were not secure in his flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    Why is this relevant now? It is understood that as Sue Gray's inquiry proceeded into socialising in the No 10 flat that it became clear that several of Carrie Johnson's friends in government have the access pin code for the private flat
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-boris-johnson-wriggling-free-of-partygate-hn9rlbkrw

    I increasingly think the police want to redact partly because various security issues at the centre of government look woefully lax, and they're implicated ; and also because the report might simultaneously reveal their extremely tolerant attitude to any wrongdoing at No.10. Fused together with which somewhere is probably Cressida Dick's personal loyalty to Boris Johnson.

    If you take this together with the enormous delay and apparent bafflement at the entire idea of investigating No.10 in the first place, it makes perfect sense. The underlying attitude is one of extreme indulgence, and Sue Gray's report therefore would represent just an annoying interlude before returning to the default, combined attitude ; a clearly undemocratic level of indulgence, and lax security with those are the top ; by redacting the details of both.
    Slightly less cynically, maybe the police were astonished to find how lax everything is, and how complicated this would make what they'd previously hoped would be a 48-hour job involving reviewing a few email invitations.
    No.10 and the broader area supposedly have more police cameras than almost anywhere else in London, and are also an absolutely top police priority. The extremely lax attitude, both to security protocols with the top people, and any rule-breaking, must have been in some way been known to, and licensed from, the top to begin with.
    The police are not inside Downing Street (as far as I know). Are they even watching cameras? iirc from Matt Hancock's handsgate, that has been privatised. "The top" is either the Prime Minister, his chief of staff or one of the Civil Service heads.
    From what I understand or have read in the last few days, the westminster and downing street police and their facilities belong to the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Group, who presumably answer straight to the higher-ups in the police top brass, as well as the heads of the civil service. If they were only answering to Boris Johnson, presumably we'd all have a big problem.
  • ydoethur said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
    So did I

    The democratically elected leader lied that he was the man to unite the Party He has spent his whole 2 years as leader trying to destroy half of it.

    I want Labour to lose as it doesnt represent a single thing the half of the Party SKS has spent 2 years trying to destroy, stand for.

    If Burnham was leader I would be back in like a shot.

    Instead we have a man with no charisma no radical policies.and some policies way to the right of the Tories under Johnson
    Obviously jezzas heart was in the right place as far as the Final Solution is concerned, but I can genuinely say that he was by a clear margin the most stupid human being to occupy a position of any importance in politics that I have ever known or read about. Does that not make a difference in your view?
    Nadine Dorries is not occupying a position of importance?
    She's just a lightweight - oh, sorry, I thought you were talking about Rees-Mogg!
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 10,759

    Omnium said:

    Guardian reporting Jennifer Arcuri could yet do for Johnson.

    Or is that just wishful thinking?

    The Guardian fishing for more fish from the barrel isn't news.

    Re header: A good thing about Boris is that he is behind his ministers. In my view he's generally right in that. Dorries isn't doing anything so awful, and nor is JRM - in both cases they're an uncomfortable fit, but I'm fairly sure that they're also doing decent jobs. Priti Patel is the most obvious example - despite the overwhelmingly negative press she seems to be doing not so badly.
    What is it that our esteemed Home Secretary is "doing not so badly" at? Stopping migrants crossing the channel? A whole six per cent of crimes solved? Record sex offences? Or did you mean directing the Met to derail Sue Gray? ETA or have I been wooshed?
    All Home Secretaries are unpopular. (I can only say what I think, and they may be daft thoughts.)
  • IshmaelZIshmaelZ Posts: 21,830
    ydoethur said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
    So did I

    The democratically elected leader lied that he was the man to unite the Party He has spent his whole 2 years as leader trying to destroy half of it.

    I want Labour to lose as it doesnt represent a single thing the half of the Party SKS has spent 2 years trying to destroy, stand for.

    If Burnham was leader I would be back in like a shot.

    Instead we have a man with no charisma no radical policies.and some policies way to the right of the Tories under Johnson
    Obviously jezzas heart was in the right place as far as the Final Solution is concerned, but I can genuinely say that he was by a clear margin the most stupid human being to occupy a position of any importance in politics that I have ever known or read about. Does that not make a difference in your view?
    Nadine Dorries is not occupying a position of importance?
    You think she is thicker than jez?
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  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,373
    IshmaelZ said:

    ydoethur said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    HYUFD said:

    Labour lead slashed to just 5% with Opinium tonight

    Labour 39%
    Conservatives 34%
    LDs 9%

    https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1487515919316361218?s=20&t=z35hrhJnc6E2-_OYLPJXJw

    The broken, sleazy Tories haven't had a poll lead since December 6th's Redfield & Wilton.
    The momentum is with Boris.

    February will be back to poll leads unless he is arrested or resigns
    You're in Momentum and you're with Boris?
    I have never been in Momentum. I have never voted for Boris

    You are as obsessed like the rest of the Centrists with the past. and factional battles

    Is it because you are completely incapable of coming up with any other reason why SKS is going backward faster than an Italian tank?
    I voted for Nandy. However, I want us to succeed under the leader we democratically elected.
    So did I

    The democratically elected leader lied that he was the man to unite the Party He has spent his whole 2 years as leader trying to destroy half of it.

    I want Labour to lose as it doesnt represent a single thing the half of the Party SKS has spent 2 years trying to destroy, stand for.

    If Burnham was leader I would be back in like a shot.

    Instead we have a man with no charisma no radical policies.and some policies way to the right of the Tories under Johnson
    Obviously jezzas heart was in the right place as far as the Final Solution is concerned, but I can genuinely say that he was by a clear margin the most stupid human being to occupy a position of any importance in politics that I have ever known or read about. Does that not make a difference in your view?
    Nadine Dorries is not occupying a position of importance?
    You think she is thicker than jez?
    I'd say they're about even.
  • While the U.K. official figures and ⁦@BBCNews⁩ say cases in U.K. have plateaued- the reality is that they have been increasing for the last two weeks based on the Zoe data . Now at 176000 cases per day - thanks for logging ! https://t.co/v21U5Hr2D9

    https://twitter.com/timspector/status/1487414741274402817?t=4M4MD9EUqKBGob8DTpEweQ&s=19
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