The Politics Thread

Original link got lifted. Worth a repeat

 

As is Theresa may's response to having to interact with members of the public...

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Gercha! you 'orrible kids!

 

Why was Putin and his gang so scared of Hillary Clinton they helped Trump?

 

Interesting talk by Ken Loach on Jeremy Vine R2 this lunchtime. Probably available as a podcast or something techie like that. General sentiment was that what makes us human is unity.

 

They wanted the best politician money could buy...

**** off!

 

If you believe the current thinking, then it's not fear of Clinton, so much as dislike and a general installing of friendly leaders.
Clinton criticised Russia's election in 2011, saying that they were rigged, which they were.
The suggestion is that Putin's still pissed about it and the ensuing protests in Russia.

The other part of the story is the extensive links between Trump's campaign and Putin.
Manafort, Page and Flynn are heavily implicated, for example.
Manafort had to resign as his campaign manager after he was implicated in cash payments from the corrupt Ukraine President.
Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia and records listing $12.7m payments to Manafort were discovered later.

 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...donald-trump-and-russia/ar-AAn8pJH?li=BBnb7Kz

While nothing is anywhere near proven, one question is what good reason could Trump have for cozying up to Russia?

 

Money, power, kompromat.

We don't know what his finances look like, as he refused to release anything.
He's always had political ambitions, running several times in the past.
Anyone who's seen him on Howard Stern knows that he's a bit of a perve and not very discreet.

 

Anti-Trump protest in London today:

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So this guy doesn't like Trump or Wenger? I have a solution, Let Wenger run the Good old US of A, he wouldn't see the Mexicans coming and let Trump manage l'arse, no muslims, only Russians, re-sign Arshavin etc. Might be amusing.

 

Let me guess, it's "intolerant" to call Milo Yiannopoulos a ****ing moron for his pro-pedophilia remarks?

 

No, it's censorship, according to Mr Compromised himself:

 

Errm...what? Breitbart didn't censor Yiannopoulos, he resigned...likely before he was pushed, but given how Milo prefers bluster and bullshit rather than actually attempting to debate with anyone, you know he'll be clinging to how he wasn't fired until the end of his days.

The only thing Yiannopoulos will ever likely be remembered for is as an icon of how the concept of freedom of speech has been bastardised into oblivion: yes, he is free to act like Katie Hopkins with a boyband haircut - but people are also free to say he's an attention-seeking ****-spouter who has nothing but shock value to fall back on.

 

IMHO looks more like a person who thinks the kiddie tech being demonstrated to her
is in fact witchcraft.

 

She'd like it if it was.

 

"Imagination? Creativity? Not on my watch!"

 

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commo...E6-8251-AE99526CC011/PresidentTrumpStateVisit

Not sure if anyone posted this link already to yesterday's debate in Parliament about the 2 Trump petitions.

Some classic descriptions of Dumpf in the first few opening salvos.

I particularly liked 'the Presidents power is enormous, but unfortunately his intellectual capacity is protozoan' and 'Trump, from the cavernous depths of his scientific ignorance, challenges 97% of the world's experts on climate change'.

But as could have been expected - the sum of all the debate was the square root of **** all.

 

Multi-tasking!

 

The other day Newsnight had a segment on the NHS which featured cancer specialist Dr Karol Sikora arguing that the NHS should be privatised, quoted all manner of facts and statistics that have no basis in the real world, and used the phrase "the last bastion of communism" to describe the service.

Here is a list of things that the BBC neglected to mention about Dr Sikora
i.) He is the Medical Director of Proton Partners Ltd, who would directly benefit from the NHS being privatised
ii.) He was a member of the Foundation for Integrated Medicine, which preached homeopathy over treatment (until their financial director took the money and ran)
iii.) He has repeatedly claimed to have an honorary doctorate from Imperial College London despite this not being the case, prompting ICL to take legal action

So not only did the BBC neglect to vet this charlatan's credentials (and obvious lack thereof) but they failed to spot the obvious conflict of interest that comes from allowing someone with a financial interest in the NHS being privatised to give their unchallenged opinion on why it would be best for the NHS to be privatised.

That's not an example of "balance" that the BBC claim to show an interest in, it's naked bias.