Off Topic Politics Thread

I think Boris Johnson’s government has made a key error in attempting to bully the news media - the same media btw that has always favoured the Tories, and that eviscerated Jeremy Corbyn.

Dividing journalists into two groups - one favoured and one to be denied access - before a recent briefing, succeeded in uniting them all; they all walked out in protest.

It’s worth bearing in mind that while most news outlets have, to varying degrees, a right wing bias, many journalists don’t. Two I know personally - one writes for The Sun, and the other The Evening Standard - are both quite left wing.

 

Couldn't agree more Kaits. Again it's down to individual and family action. We've been out to eat a couple of times recently and did as we usually do and shared. At one place a three course menu and yesterday an excellent cheese fondue. Ate enough to satisfy our appetites with no waste, the staff were happy for us to share, they see to much go into the bin. Another place breaks down it's menus so people order, for example, a simple burger and add bacon, cheese, fries, salad etc. If we don't finish all we'll take away.
It's absurd that people complain about portion size and leave half a plate.

 

Johnson's flood solution (from Private Eye). Need an Ark? I Noah guy

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This may have been on here before, but if so worth another look simply because it makes sense.

 

Taken from an article in the Independent. When will those that voted for this understand that high skilled foreigners will still be allowed to live and work here, meaning that the high skilled British workers might only have the low skilled, poorly paid jobs to fall back on.

“But an Australian style points-based immigration system is what the voters want, so it’s what we’re getting. It will mean that high-skilled, high earning, doctors and scientists and so on will be able to come to the UK, but it will spell, we are told, “the end of unskilled cheap labour.”

Because when the native population makes it clear at the ballot box not once but twice that they’ve had enough of immigrants, what they obviously want is for the skilled jobs still to be taken by immigrants, but the unskilled, poorly paid ones to be saved for them.

They’ve had enough of them all, coming over here, cooking our food, waiting on our tables, cleaning our houses.

It’s time those jobs were given back to their rightful owners, the British. From now on, the immigrants will have to know their place, which is flying our planes, running our universities, performing our complex surgical operations, and headlining our music festivals.”

 

Comment from our friends here in the Netherlands is an open mouthed "what the ****" it's really seen as a national self harm exercise. In the years since the referendum was set up the UK has gone from a respected participant in EU legislation to a marginalised bit player. Bloody shame the jingoistic xenophobes won.

 

Except only established “foreign” acts will be able to tour this sad country as they’ll need visas, paperwork, a list of all the instruments, sound, etc plus at least £1000 in a bank account to show they can pay their way.
I’d suggest that any musician planning on touring starts saving now, as after January 21 it’ll be virtually impossible to play on mainland Europe without loads of paperwork.
What a ****ing triumph (thanks Vin)

 

Just see this:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world...out-donald-trump-mocks-oscars-winner-parasite

How is this not bigger news?!

 

Because he does something like this everyday?

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...47566.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=Feed

 

Here is the man of the moment:-



Look at clever me. I have got us a nice new blue passport made in Poland by a Franco/Dutch company.

What a ****ing achievement. No wonder he looks pleased with himself. He is even worse than Cameron who only ever did what he wanted to do and never what needed doing.

What about our struggling hospitals? Our homeless people? The funding crisis in our schools? The safety and security of our people with a virtually non existent police force to protect them? Where the **** were you when our people's homes and businesses were being destroyed by floods?

You were upstaged by the Prince of Wales and the Labour leader while you were hiding knowing that you would get a mouthful if you showed your face.

A prime minister with a yellow streak all the way down his back.

So well done with the blue passport but now do what needs ****ing doing.

 

Has that photo been taken in a plane, and judging by the quality of the seat, a private plane?
Carbon footprint? Global warming? Perhaps he was flying north or to Wales to speak to those suffering from the flooding.

 

For all the retirees on here.

 

I struggle to cope with this. I'm lost for words. Morally, intellectually and financially corrupt not fit for purpose as a human being let alone PM. Twisting and turning to avoid scrutiny with every move.

 

It will not be long before that passport will need to be redesigned when Northern Ireland and Scotland are no longer part of the Union.

 

There was a fact-check done a few months back of a day in the life of Donald Trump statements and tweets (cause he loves to tweet). He'd got upto several hundred lies (can't remember the exact number) by lunchtime. If the guy speaks the truth it's accidental. He, Boris, and not forgetting that twerp Farage, have normalised outright lying.

 

Resigning!!

 

I would suggest that it is the people who vote for them, that have normalised lying.
If they had treated the lies with the contempt, scorn and derision they merit, the liars wouldn’t have been supported and lying may not have become the norm.

 

That as well, but I would suggest that doing the repeated outright lying in the first place kind of starts the ball rolling.