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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Ciaran, Apr 20, 2020.

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  1. Prince Knut

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    Kustard's moved up in the world - HR manager for a chip shop. :emoticon-0125-mmm:
     
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  2. QuarterMoonII

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    Political Correctness Explained

    It snowed last night...

    8:00 - I made a snowman.
    8:10 - A feminist neighbour passed by and asked me why I did not make a snow woman.
    8:15 - I made a snow woman.
    8:20 - My feminist neighbour complained about the snow woman’s voluptuous breasts saying that it objectified women.
    8:25 - The gay couple down the street threw a hissy fit, arguing that it should have been two snow men.
    8:30 - The transgender man/woman/person from down the street asked why I did not have just one snow person with detachable parts.
    8:35 - The vegans complained about me having used carrots for noses as these are food and not to decorate snow sculptures.
    8:40 - I got called a racist because the snow couple were white.
    8:45 - The Middle Eastern man across the road came and complained because the snow woman was not covered up.
    8:50 - The police arrived saying that someone had been offended.
    8:55 - The feminist returned to complain again because the snow woman had a broom that depicted women in a stereotypical domestic role.
    9:00 - The local Council Equality Officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.
    9:05 - A news crew from the BBC showed up and asked me if I knew the difference between snow men and snow women, so I told them “snow balls” and I am now being called a sexist.
    9:10 - So I am now on the news because I am a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender bent on stirring up trouble in bad weather.
    9:15 - I was asked if I had any accomplices and social services took my children into care.
    9:20 - Far Left protesters, offended by everything, marched down the street demanding that I be arrested for something.

    By noon it had all melted.

    This is what we have become – all because of the snowflakes...
     
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  4. pompeymeowth

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    What absolute twaddle.
     
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    While the left wing hold such power this is all too realistic.
     
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  6. DUNCAN DONUTS

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    There is no such thing as political correctness .

    The EUROPEAN UNION were just going to ban the word Christmas this holiday season so as not to make Muslims angry and hopefully they won't drive into Christmas markets.

    And the far right start crying about it .

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ive-language-withdrawn-after-rightwing-outcry


    Also in the name of tolerance and diversity any fans attending football matches this month that refuse to clap players taking the knee or cheer for the LGBTQP++ rainbow laces should be given life bans and arrested for non crime hate incidents.

    The best way to stop these right wing fascists is to criminalise free thought and religion, well just Christianity.
     
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    Is Toby still refusing to post out of protest that Pete has him on ignore ?

    Refusing to come back unless Pete unignores him

    <laugh>
     
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    Funny you say that your best pal, Tobes runs a chip shop van and thinks he runs a multi million pound company.
     
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  9. DMD

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    'Despite Brexit' :emoticon-0136-giggl

    'Very isolated!' EU mocked as Brexit Britain sees record-breaking number of student visas.

    Almost 430,000 student visas were issued in 2021 by the British Home Office. In a blow to Brussels and fear-mongering Remainers, Brexit Britain immigration services have issued more student visas than ever.

    Mocking the EU and those who believed the UK would become unattractive to students and businesses post-Brexit, Generation Brexit leader Charles-Henri Gallois said: "The United Kingdom of Brexit is very isolated from the rest of the world.

    "As the supporters of the EU had promised!"

    Around 135,000 visas have been issued to Chinese students, a 13 percent increase from September 2019 - the UK is apparently the only English-speaking country that has seen an increase this year in the number of student visa applications from China.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...tudent-visas/ar-AARu9eK?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
     
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    The Captain of industry is busy at the minute, desperately trying to dig himself out of a hole he dug himself trying to defend one of his fellow lightweights on the Leeds board. He's spinning like a top. :emoticon-0136-giggl
     
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    It’s really not that bold or unbelievable a claim to have a company turning over a few mill.
     
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    Tobes banned me the other week for a fortnight for calling Everton The Paedo's Club. I was a bit out of order, tbh, but I didn't mean the fans - just a certain player. And listen, I know for a fact Tobes is a director of company and lives in a big ****-off house. True dat. :biggrin:
     
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    Another one with a second job.

     
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    Sniffer dogs could prowl corridors of power amid claims drug abuse is rife
    Speaker vows to crack down as fears grow that cannabis and cocaine is being used openly at Westminster

    Caroline Wheeler, Rosamund Urwin
    Sunday December 05 2021, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
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    Sniffer dogs could be deployed across the parliamentary estate under plans for a drugs crackdown by the Commons authorities.

    The Speaker has promised to call in the police amid growing evidence of cocaine and other illegal substances being used in parliament. Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he would investigate Westminster’s drug culture after traces of cocaine were detected in a number of places accessible only to people with parliamentary passes.

    Separately, the Conservative MP Charles Walker, who chairs the administration committee, said that the issue would be discussed by the House of Commons Commission next week. “The House of Commons has a long history of using sniffer dogs to detect explosives,” he said. “It may be that we now need to broaden the range of sniffer dogs . . . to include those which can detect drugs.”



    Commons officials received reports last month that cannabis could be smelt in the open space between Portcullis House and 1 Parliament Street. It came after it was revealed that two drug dealers were arrested and 13 people were detained for drugs possession on or around the parliamentary estate in the space of a year.

    Now many sources have described casual cocaine use by a group of MPs and detection wipes found evidence of the class A drug in 11 out of 12 locations tested in the building, including places accessible only to those with parliamentary passes.

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    The prime minister is preparing to launch a fresh crackdown on middle-class cocaine users to shift any perception that some people can take class A drugs without consequences. Boris Johnson is understood to be drawing up plans to “make an example” out of high-profile middle-class offenders. The maximum sentence for any individual caught in possession is seven years in prison.

    Evidence of cocaine was identified in the lavatories nearest the private offices of Johnson and the home secretary. It was also discovered in the disabled bathroom on the shadow cabinet corridor in Norman Shaw North and in the accessible lavatory on the oak-panelled committee corridor next to the office of Nick Thomas-Symonds, the former shadow home secretary.

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    The tests were all carried out on the same evening using cocaine detection wipes, which are more often used in nightclubs and bars to identify and minimise onsite drugs consumption. The white wipes turn blue if cocaine is present.

    Hoyle, who was a Labour MP before he was elected Speaker, has long feared that parliament has a drug problem. In the autumn of 2019, when he was in the running to replace John Bercow, he said: “It’s not just drink we’ve got to catch out, there is a drug problem.”

    Now scores of MPs, peers, special advisers, researchers and staff have shared their stories of drug abuse in Britain’s corridors of power on condition of anonymity. “I have seen an MP openly snorting cocaine at a party,” one source said. “There were journalists present and I warned them that what they were doing was extremely dangerous and they could be exposed but they seemed to get off on the power trip.”

    Another source said: “MPs tend to be more careful than staff and will go back to their office to do it rather than doing it in any of the public spaces, but I have heard of one staffer who walked in on their MP doing a late-night line at their desk.”

    Several MPs on both sides of the political divide are alleged to have taken class A drugs at house parties in front of colleagues. The same names were identified by multiple sources.

    “There is a cocaine culture in parliament,” a Westminster veteran said. “Some people are at it all the time and are totally blasé. Others dabble. Some are household names, some are ambitious young MPs and officials, but all of them risk throwing away their careers. They think they are untouchable, protected by their friends in the bubble. It’s shocking but also sad. Lots of them need help.”

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    A former MP is alleged to have put his drug dealer on the parliamentary payroll, claiming that the man was a member of his staff as a way of paying him for the drugs. That same former MP is rumoured to have dealt drugs himself.

    It is understood that at least one parliamentary aide has been sacked in the past year after it was discovered that they were taking cocaine. Another aide was “managed out” of their job after their drug abuse was exposed. “They were told clearly that unless they sought help for their addiction and left their post of their own accord the police would have to be involved.”

    Priti Patel, the home secretary, said there was “no place in our society for drugs and certainly not in our parliament”. She added: “Those who have the privilege to work at the heart of our democracy who are involved in drug use or distribution are utterly divorced from the heartless pain and suffering of the drug trade they are fuelling.”

    Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, demanded a full inquiry. “When thousands of young people are in prison for their drug use, it is outrageous that people are doing cocaine in parliament with impunity,” he said. “Government ministers cannot talk tough about illegal drugs while turning a blind eye to their mates.

    “We cannot allow a culture to persist where powerful people think they can do this, and we need effective action from the government to undermine the criminal gangs who profit from selling harm.”

    Jenny Symmons, who chairs the GMB union branch for members’ staff, said: “Parliament is a microcosm of the country so of course drugs will be a problem, but the working culture of late nights and short deadlines can create a pressure that feels unmanageable. Support must be available for those who have turned to drugs and we must continue to improve working conditions for staff.”

    Figures released by the Metropolitan Police under freedom of information laws show that there were 17 drug crimes in or near the parliamentary buildings in the past year. Police investigated 38 drug offences on the estate between 2015 and 2018.

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    Parliament has 19,000 pass-holders who can enter the estate without security checks. However, only about 3,000 have been routinely attending the site since the first lockdown. All other visitors must have their bags searched and be subject to a metal detector.

    Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Commons leader, said: “The palace of Westminster ought to be the bastion of lawfulness. There are a lot of police on the parliamentary estate who should enforce the law using all the tools at their disposal to stop drug dealing and drug abuse within the palace.”

    A Commons spokesman said: “Parliament takes the issue of substance misuse very seriously, and should drug use be identified in parliament, appropriate action would be taken. Any allegation of criminal behaviour would be a matter for the Metropolitan Police.”


    May explain PMQ's. Not being party political when I say this, as Labour were just as bad in the late 90's when they had a whopping majority, but it's ****ing unwatchable with all the howling, braying and jeering from the backbenchers. It's like chucking out time at 'Spoons. Indeed, the fact it's organised and orchestrated makes it worse. Always had a suspicion they weren't just pissed at that hour.
     
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    Toby, I took you off ignore!
    or at least I might sometime
     
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    vaccines are racist?
     
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    Hancock, nailed on. Johnson possibly.

    Gove's a smackhead.
     
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    If the rumours are to be believed, the former MP was described by a colleague as "the most disgustingly morally bankrupt person [he had] ever had the displeasure of working with" and had shown "inexcusable contempt" for his constituents.
     
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