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Discussion in 'Watford' started by andytoprankin, Mar 21, 2020.

  1. Bolton's Boots

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    Labour peer Prem Sikka suggesting the Tory government is responsible for 750K deaths?

    Am prepared to believe him, but won't be pointlessly contacting my Tory MP about it though.

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    A rising star of UK politics. You hope for someone of her age that she doesn't beome fed up with the sorry state of it all.

     
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    In those "if you could invite ten people to dinner" scenarios that get talked about on the internet, Mhairi Black is on that list for me. I don't go along with the SNP (though I have some sympathy with the position) but she is an absolute joy to listen to.
     
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    One of the annoying things about this endless mess going on is that we get compared to the Tories each time they make a change.

    I mean would sum the sorry state of the Government up if Boris returns.
     
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  6. andytoprankin

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    If Boris returns, then this is our next manager:

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    Precipitating a firesale of the likes of Pedro, Sarr and Asprilla...
     
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    I do like a good James O'Brien rage - especially when he hits the likes of Grant Shapps with both barrels.

     
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    Stumbled across this earlier today - an article from the Daily Fail in 2015, written after the general election. In it, the author tries to visualise what the UK would be like if Corbyn were to win the next, 2020, election.

    A quick summary:

    • Criticism of the PM for being on his third wife;
    • Demonstrations in the streets;
    • Public assets sold off;
    • Strikes in core public services;
    • IMF warnings about economic strategy;
    • Soaring inflation;
    • The value of the pound plummets; sell off of Treasury Gilts destroys pensions;
    • Blackouts become common.
    • Chronic instability at Number 10, with Jeremy eventually flying away to retirement in Ireland as he leaves office.
    Almost prophetic - I'm tempted to say that we fortunately dodged a bullet by voting the Tories back in...



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    Boris Johnson drops out of the leadership race. Knowing that he has a problem with the truth, and despite claims he had enough support from MPs, I suspect he didn't have.
     
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    You couldn't write it... :emoticon-0127-lipss:emoticon-0138-think:emoticon-0176-smoke:emoticon-0183-swear
     
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    Rumour has it that he managed to get 101 backers - but it turned out that Grant Shapps was 4 of them...;)
     
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    Billionaire banker and former president of the Oxford University Conservative association, Guy Hands, tells #r4today that the Conservative Party and Brexit is turning Britain into the "sick man of Europe" with a "doomed" economy that will eventually need bailing out by the IMF.
    Guy Hands says that if the Conservatives "own up to the mistake they made" and pick a leader with "the intellectual capability and the authority to renegotiate Brexit, there is a possibility of turning around the economy, but without that the economy is frankly doomed."
     
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    One can wish....... if only.....
     
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    <laugh> <applause>
     
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    I can’t get enough of this guy.

     
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    So Jacob Rees Mogg has resigned from the Cabinet.

    Good riddance to the obnoxious creep.

     
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    He revolts me more than any other. Utterly, but utterly, immoral.
     
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    It’s a bad thing to say, but would the world have been a better place if his nanny had smothered him shortly after that early interview?
     
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