Off Topic Politics Thread

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SaintinSerbia said:
I worked as a window cleaner in my teens but had to stop when I reached the top.
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Ha, ha. I get promotions because I work hard and I am good. Then redundancy (or Brit worker fright in one case) puts me out of work so I start again. I;ve been in this job 2 weeks and already I am being "used" as a team leader!!!
 
ImpSaint said:
Ha, ha. I get promotions because I work hard and I am good. Then redundancy (or Brit worker fright in one case) puts me out of work so I start again. I;ve been in this job 2 weeks and already I am being "used" as a team leader!!!
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First employee assessment "this boy certainly doesn't lack confidence! will go far!"
 
The "BS Guido" reports on "bydonkeys" about their spending (as a non party campaign) has forced them to register with the EC!! If they are unregistered their limit in England is £20k which they quite obviously have spent way more than. And even now they are registered the limit is £159k which (according to Guido) they have overspent on as well.

I would suggest that them feeling they had to register suggests in itself there is something to this story. Their supporters (including Cadwalladr) completely unaware of actual rules and laws were using the defence "they are not a political party" right up to today.

I daresay they could be done by the BP over copyright, trademarks and trade descriptions, attempt to mislead seeing as their latest billboards don't just emulate BP style adverts. They actually use the logo AND present the whole thing as if it came from the BP.............which quite obviously is not allowed!!

But of course they are on the right correct side of the argument and thus they will get away with it.
 
ImpSaint said:
Don't worry. A plan has been hatched to fool all the thicko leave voters:

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Yes I know, replting to my own post. Make fun as much as you want.

I just noticed that the bins are turned around so the opening is not on the driveway side. It's like they thought that people might indeed make a mistake. And does the block paved driveway extend all the way to the house or just past where the grass has covered it? Is this from an area that doesn't have Polish gardeners?
 
ImpSaint said:
Me being a far rightie alt-right and obvious climate denier does the same. The "charidee bags" which come through my door almost daily are used as bin liners, and I always have a bag in my pocket to use if I go shopping. If we do a planned shop then we take more. Being honest I have always taken "my own*" bags to the shops because the ones they were giving out were crap.

*of course they aren't really my own because they came from other shops but I mean the ones that are a better quality than the flimsy ones the supermarket were giving out towards the end of the "free bag" era.

On your last point I don't leave any bags out for charity. I put my charity things in the charity bins at the fire station. Clothes, Shoes, Toys. Unless it is designer and then I stick it on ebay for someone else to use.
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The flimsy free bags are an interesting point. If we’d paid for them years ago when they were decent bags, we’d have re-used then years ago and would have made a difference to the current plight.
 
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fatletiss said:
That’s recent. It’s been around for years
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Yes but it has been quite a thing for the BBC this past year with Chris Packham on the one show, on BBC news, on the news channel always talking about "easy solutions if biodegradeable plastics are used." The One Show's correspondent on this has also done a load of segments for the Victoria Derbyshire show and she is another that repeats whatever Chris Packham says.
 
fatletiss said:
The flimsy free bags are an interesting point. If we’d paid for them years ago when they were decent bags, we’d have re-used then years ago and would have made a difference to the current plight.
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To be fair bags used to be much better. It was in the few years prior to the 5p charge that they turned into the thinnest, weakest rubbish and mostly because it became "a thing" to buy better bags for a nominal fee or the £1 hessian bag etc.

i.e. only originally done for another avenue for financial gain. Make the free bags **** so we can then sell better bags.

Now there are no **** bags. The thicker ones are readily available for anyone who hasn't brought a bag. But now the supermarket doesn't get the profit.
 
ImpSaint said:
There is a narrative that young people did this and did that. Doesn't explain all the kids in Lincoln sending each other selfies with Farage when he visited the other week. Doesn't explain my Portuguese wife thinking he should be PM. My son showed her one of his mate's selfies and she had a moan that no-one told her because she would have gone into town to see him.
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All the kids in Lincoln? What is he some sort of pied piper. Yours and Neddy's experience with youth and others at complete odds with mine here in The Hague and in the UK.
 
Just read that Labour shadow minister was on politics live today dismissing the 4th version of the WA bill and was questioned <i>"You haven't read it have you. You haven't read it through?</i> to which Laura Pidcock replied "Yes I have!"

Problem being she couldn't have read it because it hasn't been published yet.

Reminds me of when the Minister for Europe (when Labour were still in) Caroline Flint was up in front of the select committee and was questioned on aspects of the Lisbon Treaty (after it had been signed) and she eventually had to admit to the committee that despite being the minister for Europe that she hadn't in fact read the Lisbon Treaty!!!
 
StJabbo said:
All the kids in Lincoln? What is he some sort of pied piper. Yours and Neddy's experience with youth and others at complete odds with mine here in The Hague and in the UK.
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OK, a chunk of Lincoln kids which of course doesn't mean a massive load of them nor a majority of them ;)
 
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