It's very depressing to watch one's country slide down the drain, isn't it? Honestly, sometimes the sheer stupidity bothers me more than the bigotry. I almost want to pull these people aside and be like "Listen, here's how you can win your race war." Guys like Trump and Johnson couldn't organize a piss up in a brewery, much less run a country, or something even more critical like leading your culture to victory over the forces of evil. If we have to have a culture war, at least let's go for all the marbles so at least one of us doesn't end up screwed and the other one can go down fighting for something they really believe in. Because this is just stupid. We're all going to lose.. and for nothing.
Scheduled visit home to my 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren in October. It's a sad state of affairs when I'm considering, no definitely, going to use some of that time to join any demonstrations against this absurd Government
The population in various parts of the country, at various times, have been left to fend for itself. It seems that the further away from London, and the main centres, the populations are left to rot. Traditionally, Labour prop up these communities, by spending money, but without a great deal of forward planning or big ideas, and the Tories leave everything to free market forces [although they did do a makeover in Liverpool after the riots]. As a consequence there is always going to be some populated areas that gets neglected. You could point to the old mining communities of the North and Wales, and you'd hit upon decades of neglect, with communities shattered. I can remember reading articles from the early 1980s in the Guardian about pockets of deep political unrest, and that the government of the day [Tory] was playing a dangerous game. The government just banked on the people behaving themselves, and not 'upsetting the Nation'. Frankly, in retrospect, I'm surprised those communities didn't cause more trouble. That is where the deep seated dissatisfaction originated. And they've been manoeuvred by the mainstream paper media and far right groups to hate EU, which actually pushes funds in their direction. The problem isn't the EU. It's our own inept governments at various times. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But like yourself, all this pales in comparison to news of the Amazonian rainforest catching fire through relaxed measures from an extremely right-wing President, which has resulted in an 85% increase this year over previous. This is a guy who, during his election, was dragging 80-20% in the polls, and colluded with a high ranking judge to trump up some charges on his opponent, and promptly jailed her. Good eh? Corrupted government is sweeping the US continent, and the 51st State, and the EU over here are supposed to be the nasty ones. And there are those innocent bees too. They are more important than any trumped-up President.
I like that the constituencies of cabinet ministers, who previously said proroguing parliament was unacceptable, are being targeted like this.
Led By Donkeys are absolutely brilliant. If you don’t know, they are a group of 4 blokes, 2 of whom work for Greenpeace and 2 former Greenpeace employees. All the money for their advertising campaigns comes from crowdfunding and they don’t support any political party.
I am gutted that although my mum lived here officially from 1962, she kept her Italian passport until April 1969, when she surrendered it and became a full U.K. citizen. They were (Mum and Dad) in Naples from 1966 (late...after the World Cup) until then. I was ‘Made in Italy’ and then born in Bournemouth 5 months later. The reason I am gutted is that even if she had come back here to have me I would have been British, but if she hadn’t given up her Italian Passport until after I was born, I would be entitled to dual nationality and could have stayed a EU citizen whatever happens. My Brother (born 1966 in Chiswick) is entitled to one and is in the process of getting it. I would not have been bothered or even had to think about this until this whole mess. To quote Vin “What a ****ing Triumph”
I too would agree with those PM ratings. Maybe slightly unkind to Callaghan who had a tough time without a majority. Other than that I would probably uprate Blair a bit. My best mate won our local constituency with a five figure majority in 1997 after being Tory held since 1959. That election was the most exciting political event of my life by some distance, Blair enabled that.
Sajid Javid has deleted this tweet for some reason. It would be awful if people on social media got hold of it and shared it all over the country, wouldn’t it?
I beginning to think the idiotic politicians learned all this from Armando Iannucci. After years of positively NOT watching political comedy shows like The Thick of It and Veep [which I thought might be good, but turns out to be brilliant], which recently came to an end, I'm currently binge watching the entire output and they'll done all this before [seriously, they have]. And it's a crazy fcuk up, where the politicos gang up and/or are just at each others throats, just to posture and improve their own positions, and ordinary people are called "normals", and are percntage points to carry or drop.
I always think it is better ti fight the fight from within. I hope all these Scottish Tories are backing her 100%. If this can spread to the rest of the party, there is hope that these invaders will be ousted. It is such a shame that the bastions of the media / the Mail, the Telegraph are very quiet about this. The Express is very fascist while the Sun would prefer to write nonsense stories about the whole issue.
Just listening to the BBC talking about billions of pounds being made available for schools. Does anyone, except for the ardent Tory supporters believe this will actually happen? Pre-election bullshit more like.
This would make things very interesting and call Buffoon’s bluff that he really does want a deal, whilst also proving that it isn’t the EU that is being inflexible. Bugger, link no workee. In a nutshell Gordon Brown, on the back of talks with EU leaders, believes that the EU will withdraw the 31st October cut off date to give Buffoon the opportunity to come back to them with a new deal. Pressure would then be squarely on Buffoon as he wouldn’t be able to blame them for the hated No Deal he is aiming for. Outsmarted?
