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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
I'll have a go. Enforce a zero tolerance policy of honesty. Increase their pay to a set level and then outlaw canvassing for private vested interests. Somehow get to vet independently the quality of our elected reps. There are far too many brain dead morons in there who nobody would trust to organise a piss up in a brewery and cannot argue their case.

It should not be about wearing the party's colours but rather their dedication and performance under the spotlight. The much derided Beast of Bolsover, Dennis Skinner is a shining example. Always first in to the chamber, always read the papers and never claimed any dodgy expenses. Many would not agree with his views and occasionally, how he expressed them but think how much better Parliament could be if there were 634 others with differing political views who had the same dedication to duty and their constituents as opposed to their paymasters.

When the doors open to Utopia I'll be the first in the queue to get in. Until then I'll settle for cloud cuckoo land.

Couldn’t agree more……Dennis Skinner was a legend, as well as being as funny as **** with his quips……..The “Dodgy Dave” speech was fantastic :)
The fact he lost his seat after so long just goes to prove how far down Labour had fallen in peoples minds.
 
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My wife has. Is there something she needs to tell me about that very nice man in Staines?

I couldn’t get through to OVO energy for last 2 hours (after them stating the lines were closed for an hour). Went online and submitted it that way, did gas through the automated line.
My Mrs badgered me to do it ‘cos Martin Lewis said we should
 
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I couldn’t get through to OVO energy for last 2 hours (after them stating the lines were closed for an hour). Went online and submitted it that way, did gas through the automated line.
My Mrs badgered me to do it ‘cos Martin Lewis said we should

What happens if you're on a smart meter?
 
What happens if you're on a smart meter?

I had an EDF smart meter installed mid-January and, although it’s quite useful and makes you think about what you’re using, I cannot reconcile the cost it’s recording with what then comes up a few days later on the app. No idea why there’s a disparity, but every day it’s around 50p out up or down. Annoys the pedant in me.

Who amongst you have secured a new increased energy tariff rather than taking your chances with variable?

From what I hear, we should start paying for our energy in roubles.
 
Was at a Stonewall, yes I know, trust me they do some things well and some things ****, workplace conference last Friday, poor Mike Freer MP had covid so couldn’t make it in person due to covid but thought the conference important enough to do a video piece about the work he and the government are doing for the community… less than a week later the banning of conversion therapy bill is dropped, something he made sure he mentioned.

Never trust a Tory
 
Was at a Stonewall, yes I know, trust me they do some things well and some things ****, workplace conference last Friday, poor Mike Freer MP had covid so couldn’t make it in person due to covid but thought the conference important enough to do a video piece about the work he and the government are doing for the community… less than a week later the banning of conversion therapy bill is dropped, something he made sure he mentioned.

Never trust a Tory
just been banned here
dont know what it was but its been banned
 
just been banned here
dont know what it was but its been banned

Basically a practice with origins in religion where gays are persuaded to see the ‘error’ in their ways, when I say persuaded what I mean is both mentally and physically tortured.
 
Basically a practice with origins in religion where gays are persuaded to see the ‘error’ in their ways, when I say persuaded what I mean is both mentally and physically tortured.

To be honest Wills, you’re dealing with people who are mad enough to think there is a “God” and that when we die we either sit on a cloud, surrounded by angels….or burn forever down below while someone sticks a pitchfork up your arse.
Them believing that being gay can be somehow “cured” is probably on par with their usual madness and proves the backwardness of many religions.
 
To be honest Wills, you’re dealing with people who are mad enough to think there is a “God” and that when we die we either sit on a cloud, surrounded by angels….or burn forever down below while someone sticks a pitchfork up your arse.
Them believing that being gay can be somehow “cured” is probably on par with their usual madness and proves the backwardness of many religions.

I believe we may have similar opinions on the subject of religion. As the comedian Richard Herring puts it a magic man in the sky who grants wishes, grow up.
 
I believe we may have similar opinions on the subject of religion. As the comedian Richard Herring puts it a magic man in the sky who grants wishes, grow up.

I’ve seen death too many times to be thinking it’s all gonna be harps, Ángels and fluffy clouds…..however I can see the obvious “want” for something to continue after we die, as when we get older and approach the end…it all seems so “final”.
Understandable why so many elders start to go to church and find religion when they approach old age…..more in hope I guess.
 
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Oh my days Johnson has done a u turn on the conversion therapy bill, clearly he thought he could do it on the sly but nope after the backlash he’s done another u turn, a u turn on a u turn, the fella must be getting dizzy. Maybe he could convert to being a decent human being.
 
Oh my days Johnson has done a u turn on the conversion therapy bill, clearly he thought he could do it on the sly but nope after the backlash he’s done another u turn, a u turn on a u turn, the fella must be getting dizzy. Maybe he could convert to being a decent human being.

Isn't the reason the legislation was going to be halted, was because it was felt by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission that it was important that kids with gender dysphoria received appropriate support? Surely, even now the legislation is going ahead, children confused about their sexuality should not be deprived of professional help and advice.