Off Topic Politics Thread

And here is that same phrase in Norwegian:

"Personlig vil jeg heller Benedict Cumberbatch se ut som Jeremy Corbyn"

Or have we finished with that game now.?

 

way past it! or is it passed it? passed it

 

Past [time]
Passed [object]

I think.

 

The BBC Trust have admitted that their political editor Laura Kuenssberg created fake news when she misrepresented Jeremy Corbyn's position on shoot-to-kill.
The BBC Trust ruling concluded that Kuenssberg's report was "not duly accurate" because it presented "an answer Mr Corbyn had given to a question about shoot-to-kill as though it were his answer to a question he had not in fact been asked".
The original complaint against Kuenssberg alleged that her sneaky decision to splice a clip of Jeremy Corbyn talking about shoot-to-kill with a question he wasn't even asked was designed to cause "maximum political damage".

 

Backing the Tories would "strengthen my hand" in Brexit negotiations and be a vote for a "stronger Wales", she added. Really?? As the more enlightened ones on here know, Madame May is talking absolute rot. The EU is going to negotiate what is best for the EU, not what is best for the UK, but the UK media are pretending this is going to strengthen her negotiating position. Ha! Ha!!

 

Four more prisons for gay men have been found in Chechnya


https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/04/...&tse_id=INF_2beb59a029f511e7ab1b4bd69f1788b7\

Context: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/04/21/chechnyas-president-i-will-eliminate-the-gay-community-by-the-start-of-ramadan/

Journalists investigating the abuse of gay men in Chechnya have made a gruesome discovery.
Respected newspaper Novaya Gazeta originally reported that gay men were being held in two concentration camp style prisons in the region.
Reports initially centred on two jails in the villages of Argun and Tsotsi-Yurt.
However journalists from the area now say they have uncovered evidence of a further four prisons, meaning there are at least six prisons in the region holding people because of their sexual orientation.

The newspaper also claims that the men, who face torture in jail, are only released once their families offer bribes to police.
Editors of Russian newspaper have since said they fear that the “entire staff” on the paper are at serious risk after they uncovered the gay purge in Chechnya

 

I've been hearing from pensioners today that they are going to vote conservative as Corbyns new bank holidays means days without a bus service.

 

Hopefully there'll be a bus drivers strike on polling day then

 

The old duffers are all Cons anyway, just check the Tory Conference.

 

"The old duffers" **** me!!!

 

These prisons were entirely unknown? Bloody hell.

 

One was known about, but they are finding more and more. They are concentration camps for the LGBT+. Some one needs to step in before another "cleansing" happens.

 

That 'someone' won't be us at the moment as we concentrate on being 'Little Island Britain'.

 

I don't think it will be anyone sadly. 1000's of people will be killed off, as the people in charge look the other way.

 

Indeed. Invisible people. I find that the world is pretty accomplished at looking the other way

 

Anyone know anything about this?

https://tompride.wordpress.com/2017...ivate-us-healthcare-system-kaiser-permanente/

 

You have to look back further than that. Time didn't start in 2010:

2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3207027.stm

2010
http://www.energyroyd.org.uk/archives/12788

There are many more. As usual someone looking for a story makes 2+2=5 because 5 is the number they want it to equal.

We are always hearing MPs and commentariat warbling on about looking at the way other countries and learning how they do education or drugs policy etc. It is quite normal to look at other "models" when trying to sort out your own's problems yet with this one being the NHS it is all about reform!!.

Funny how no-one seemed bothered when it was in TTIP! Something that Cameron and Blair supported yet no-one was listening then.

 

Interesting little graph I stumbled over. Spot the faux pas.? I understand that when this was posted, it was hastily taken down again. regrettably for the Tory MP, the media saw it just it:

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Full article here: https://www.thecanary.co/2017/02/06...line-post-revealing-secret-heart-party-image/

 

To be fair to the Tories, they have consistently said that debt would increase before it is reduced. Which makes that MP even more of an idiot and that article complete bull for calling it a secret.

I believe it's the same thing our club have said about our finances/debt so I tend to trust them on that.

But I've always found it pathetic that they would rather score cheap points by attacking eachother than trying to actually understand each others policies(or in this case, their own). But I guess that's what wins you an election.

 

To be fair to the actual truth, the Tories at no point ever said that the debt would triple without any sign of it even beginning to come down. The plan was to reduce the debt to nothing by 2018 I believe, and that's gone really well hasn't it? They have never admitted this is the case either, and it's to Labour's everlasting shame that they aren't in the government's face every minute of every day reminding them how they have betrayed the people who voted them in.