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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months


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Wasn't there talk of a booze tax at one point ? Maybe that was in Scotland ? I dunno, I'll have a dig and see if I can find it. But I agree, the supermarkets make huge profits anyway, which is why they can afford to sell cheap booze. A lot of those margins are absorbed by the suppliers too.

Yes in Scotland, apparently they did it to counter the alcoholism problem they have but it's done nothing to alleviate it. Raise the prices in the shops and the booze cruise brigade come out in force, meaning less revenue for the government.
 
one of the few investigative journals around

Got a lot of respect for Ian Hislop. The fact that he's managed to have a sustained career by both exposing Politicians misdemeanours and keeping the 'establishment' onside as well as running one of the longest running satirical publications in the UK, is testament to the mans' abilities and insight.

The fact that he delivers it all with an inane and dry sense of humour is a ****ing brilliant trait in the best tradition of British satire.
 
Got a lot of respect for Ian Hislop. The fact that he's managed to have a sustained career by both exposing Politicians misdemeanours and keeping the 'establishment' onside as well as running one of the longest running satirical publications in the UK, is testament to the mans' abilities and insight.

The fact that he delivers it all with an inane and dry sense of humour is a ****ing brilliant trait in the best tradition of British satire.

He's also very cleverly, never pinned his political colours to the mast.

People have accused him of being left wing, a euro sceptic, a royalist, a Tory, Oxford establishment man and just about everything in between.

But I think he very smartly just exposes politicians, businessmen and public figures for what they do, rather than what they stand for.
 
He's also very cleverly, never pinned his political colours to the mast.

People have accused him of being left wing, a euro sceptic, a royalist, a Tory, Oxford establishment man and just about everything in between.

But I think he very smartly just exposes politicians, businessmen and public figures for what they do, rather than what they stand for.


I have no idea what his politics are, but I think he embodies the very best of British virtues - integrity, decency, fair play, all that old fashioned stuff hardly anyone gives a **** about anymore, but should <ok>
 
I have no idea what his politics are, but I think he embodies the very best of British virtues - integrity, decency, fair play, all that old fashioned stuff hardly anyone gives a **** about anymore, but should <ok>

He’s also more British than the Saxe-Coburg Gotha royal family.

Ian Hislop for King
 
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It happens, you get people with extreme views mouthing off in the streets.

Sharia law isn’t coming to Britain on the back of a dozen or so blokes chanting for it.

But the narrative from the posts that sucky puts up on here is that it’s a massive problem and people should be scared about it

It was like the one that said ‘Christianity is under attack all over Britain’ because some pissed up numpty was trying to tear down a wooden crucifix from a church.

Its like when schools decided Muslim parents were offended by the 3 little pigs story so they withdrew it

All the knuckle draggers got offended but not as much as the Muslims who love that book

one of my fave stories ever
 
Anybody watch the Joe Rogan interview with Trump ? There wasn’t a lot we didn’t already know about Trump, apart from his slightly homoerotic penchant for US air force pilots (who he described as beautiful specimens and very good looking) and UFC fighters which he excitedly relayed to Joe Rogan ‘Ooh I bet they drip their sweat all over you’

Wtf <laugh>
 
Anybody watch the Joe Rogan interview with Trump ? There wasn’t a lot we didn’t already know about Trump, apart from his slightly homoerotic penchant for US air force pilots (who he described as beautiful specimens and very good looking) and UFC fighters which he excitedly relayed to Joe Rogan ‘Ooh I bet they drip their sweat all over you’

Wtf <laugh>

What gets me is we talk about Putin buying elections, and here's Musk giving out million dollar cheques. crazy.
 
What gets me is we talk about Putin buying elections, and here's Musk giving out million dollar cheques. crazy.

Election interference is fine if you’ve got enough $$$$

I’ve seen people posting stuff about Arabs and Muslims in the States voting for Trump on the basis that he’ll ’end the wars’. And I was reading an article from an American Palestinian woman who said she will vote Trump, because she’s angry with the Biden administration for arming and funding Israel.

She either hasn’t thought this through and / or is in for a nasty shock when she realises that Trump will ‘end wars’ by giving Israel and Putin exactly what they want, at the expense of Ukraine and Palestine

It’s like the teacher saying ‘I’ll end playground bullying’ by telling the bully that he’s allowed to steal everybody’s lunch money and if his victims complain, tough **** coz nothing with be done.
 
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Labour MP Mike Amesbury suspended by the party after new footage emerged of him punching a man to the ground. Don't know what was said verbally but the man he hit was just standing there with his hands in his pocket when attacked by the MP...

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CCTV footage shows Amesbury knocking man to the ground before aiming six more blows at his head...

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...filmed-punching-man-to-the-ground-in-cheshire
 
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Labour MP Mike Amesbury suspended by the party after new footage emerged of him punching a man to the ground. Don't know what was said verbally but the man he hit was just standing there with his hands in his pocket when attacked by the MP...

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CCTV footage shows Amesbury knocking man to the ground before aiming six more blows at his head...

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...filmed-punching-man-to-the-ground-in-cheshire
The guy threatened him apparently.

Chat **** get banged innit
 
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