The Politics Thread

That's the 2017 General Election in Kenya that had it's result nullified due to suspected hacking. Total coincidence.

 

Rumours circulating that the caller was a certain B. Johnson (currently no fixed abode)

 

...and my dad's bigger than your dad! Harold Wilson's choking in his grave!!!!!

 

Bernard Manning as 006. Might as well go completely barmy!

I can remember enjoying the first Bond movie. My mates thought it would be boring and chose "The Long distance Runner". I think they fell asleep watching that one!
I stayed away from the George Lazenby version but watched it many years later. Thought he was pretty good.

 

Hardly politics but I have to comment that OHMSS does get unfairly slated I think. The main criticism with Lazenby appearing to be that he isn't Connery. It also contains what I consider to be the outright best bit of Bond music (and there's a lot of good stuff to chose from*) which is the main theme (not "All The Time In The World" which is better known).

* Excluding of course the last two efforts by Adele and Sam Smith that astonishingly won oscars.

 

The main issue with the first Bond film of a new actor is its always written with the previous actor in mind, so OHMSS was written with Connery in mind while The Living Daylights was written for Moore instead of Dalton

...and presumably the next one will reuse that plans for a spin-off series they had for Halle Berry's character in Die Another Day

 

The thought of this is actually nauseating but still funny!

 

You couldn't find a bone in his body for the fat.Why do you think he always wears a black blanket?

 

It's a literal Ukipper...

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Worst. Fishmonger. Ever.

 

He's found the missing link!

 

MPs have voted to block the next PM shutting down parliament to push through a No Deal Britait

The fact the vote ended up 315/274 means that we're probably going to see the waffling gargoyle say that it doesn't have a workable mandate...

 

And now some local bullshit from Croydon

First thing on Tuesday morning, the site of the former Allders (which presently houses some depressing outlet stores on the ground floor, and the Heart of Gaming retro arcade and Playnation Games game shop on the first floor) had bailiffs descend upon it, changing the locks and preventing any of the staff to enter the site to retrieve their belongings or any cash from the tills, and the site remained shuttered and fenced off on Wednesday (although I can't comment about today)

What soon came to light was this move was signed off on by Jo Negrini, the chief executive of Croydon Council, who called in the bailiffs not because of unpaid rent but because she is trying to wrangle a CPO on the site even though the current leaseholder signed a five year lease in mid-to-late 2018, and the bailiffs were summoned to lock everyone out so inspectors could make a thorough survey of the site in the hopes of pushing the CPO through

The reason for this? Negrini has staked her reputation on Westfield taking over the flagging Whitgift Centre and has spent the last five years stoking hopes that this will happen, even though Westfield themselves have remained (at best) non-committal about the idea of taking over the site, and to be blunt considering walking down Croydon high street feels like you're playing The Last of Us these days why she expects Westfield to take over a flagging shopping centre in a decaying area where pubs (not "pubes", ****'s sake autocorrect...), clubs, shops and offices are being closed down in order to cram an ever-increasing number of blocks of flats into the town centre in the name of regeneration, the scheme has clearly been the work of fantasy for years by this point - and that goes back to when the high street didn't look like a work of post apocalyptic fiction

 

Is John Cleese writing his speeches?

 

BJ to introduce the guillotine?

 

...and that's my brain broken for the day

 

Hospitals waiting for spare parts!

 

Does Donald Trump actually know what escapes from his mouth? The man(?) has a split personality. He thinks he's Hitler one day and Pope the next!