The Politics Thread

You can buy one for less than £13 from Argos and use pay-as-you-go or get a really cheap monthly contract of less than a tenner.
You're choosing something that almost literally everyone in the country has.
Why not just pick running water?

 

Water is necessary to live, a mobile phone is not. As I said, we never had a landline when I was a kid, it didn't kill us. It's the first thing that I would get rid of if I found myself in a dire situation.

 

A lot of people don't have landlines now, so they need a mobile to get a job. The same applies to computers.
Times change.

 

Poverty is assessed on the amount of income people have - not necessarily how they spend it.
The reality is that many who have mobile 'phones live in substandard rented accommodation, have debt, make poor lifestyle choices etc.
It's all relative.

 

Anyone on here get the feeling that the Tory MPs are setting Boris Johnson up for one almighty fall later in the year? It is my hypothesis that he has more enemies than friends among Tory MPs, and so they are prepared to put him on the sacrificial altar when the time comes. After all, they are not known as the nasty party for nothing.

 

The problem is that the Tory members vote when it becomes a two horse race.
If the vote remained with the MPs, the combined anti Boris vote would probably be enough to elect the other candidate, but when it's put to the Daily Mail readership........

 

These Tory MPs know he is likely to become the next leader … his fall will come when he is boxed into a corner over Brexit. Even he is not daft enough to go the "Full Monty," and will repackage May´s deal in wonderful tinsel. then watch the ERG go ape, while Labour sit things out to let the Tories rip themselves apart with Johnson as the sacrificial lamb. I have no doubt that many Tory MPs hate him more intensely that those of another political persuasión and see this as a good move to get rid of the arrogant prat.

It has been quite a while since we have had the pleasure of a PM surviving less tan two years. Douglas-Home survived around a year before he had to go to the country. Johnson is unlikely to make it a year before he is out. I look forward to his demise.

 

They know that he's the party member's choice and they're quite happy for him to become the sacrificial mutton for Brexit.
Stewart's got no intention of winning this particular battle, but he's using it well to position himself to win the next one.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ourt-over-leave-campaign-investigation-delays

Will of the people, my arse. ****ing crooks.

 

Nobody is condoning criminal practice, but didn't the government spend £9 million on posting a leaflet to every household setting out the remain case before the official spending limits came into force (£7m each side I believe).

 

So what? How much have the media spent on lying about the EU down the years?
The leaflet wasn't just legal, it was required. Putin buying off Banks wasn't.

 

Brexit voters were sold on Project Fear. Now they just dismiss concerns as fearmongering.
The vast majority of them will never change their minds, no matter what happens.

 

Trump given plenty of loot for his 2020 election bid. Probably donations from all the billionaires who got tax breaks and don't know what to do with them! Wonder why Boris wants to do a Trump?

 

Because that's exactly what Steve Bannon has told him to do

 

Are Bannon and Boris getting into mischief in the UK?

 

Johnson, Gove and Rees-Mogg met with Bannon last year.
Boris is our Trump. He's backed by the same money and spouting similar rhetoric. He's not quite as thick, though.
Bunch of ****ing traitors.

 

I've just realised that Johnson and Trump were born in the same city!
The ultranationalist patriots installing a foreigner as PM.