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This is a bit confusing. I'm talking about those two specific instances too. The difference is that I'm entirely happy for the police and courts to make a judgement on whether the law has been broken, whereas you are seemingly making excuses for those who may have (or have) done it. Boris has...

Absolutely. It's ridiculous, frankly, and makes the police look terrible. The Met appear, not for the first time in their history, to be delaying their own investigation for political reasons. It stinks.

The law is down to interpretation by the Police and courts, surely. For Boris they've done that already (at least in part) and he's accepted his guilt. There's no reason why Starmer shouldn't be subjected to the same level of enquiry, is there?

Exactly this. Possibly worth mentioning that Parliament pretty much spends longer in recess than the schools do in holidays, rarely sits at all on Fridays, and the Prime Minister sees fit to avoid even parliamentary 'urgent questions' and COBRA meetings when he's "busy" elsewhere. The...

Entirely respect the way you make your point mate, but I'm afraid I still differ hugely. The first thing I'd say is that we're not in an existential crisis, so using that as a reason to avoid action against either Starmer or Johnson, doesn't stack up, imho. Secondly both of them are holders of...

Smallest government in the world, Somalia. Ask him how that's working out for them. C'mon LG, I know he's family but you can bury him on this. Two footer, now. 😄

I predict the Tories will get a proper hammering in the next GE, though possibly not enough to get beyond a hung parliament. But it's nothing to do with any of the economic or political arguments any of us could make, it'll be purely this phrase: "It's time for a change". That's it. Crappiest...

That's entirely possible, but often even that argument doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. Even if you're voting Tory to pay lower taxes, which of course at the moment we're not, what happens if you fall ill or lose your job? Overall, what has been the impact of the Conservative government on...

Pointing out things like hypocrisy and corruption aren't a shouty pile on. My take on it is that the reason most average Tory voters are a bit shy about admitting it on open forums is that they can't face genuine debate. At best they can come up with a few (generally spurious or ad hominem)...

We need to find another Mick Harford. One goal every 16 minutes for us. That would be over 250 goals per season, and that's just league games. 😄

Exactly this. It's such an obvious ploy. The Tory government starves the larger, typically labour-leaning councils of funds, so that the electorate blames the latter for the local issues. Of course it doesn't help when local Labour in this neck of the woods also involves itself in, well... I'd...

Amazing. So apparently we should only tax companies more if they want to pay more tax. By the same logic can I stop paying the recent tax rise if I promise to invest in a Tesla at some undetermined point in the future? It's only the threat of additional taxation that stopping me going more...

Also, like most in the party of law and order, a bit bent... https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/tom-swarbrick/cameron-lobbying-scandal-eustice-policies-helping-family/

George Eustice, privately educated ex-UKIP nutter (redundancy alert), only in the cabinet because Boris prefers unthinking loyalty to actual intelligence. 'Let them eat (own brand) cake!'

I stopped watching it when it looked certain that Wasps were going to win. Arse. Now I know how those people leaving the CBS in the 89th minute feel. 😄

Standard internet valuations apply... Either: Eleventy billion. Or: I'll drive him there myself, mate. 😁

I'd start by insisting that refs robustly enforce the rules we've already got. Dissent by word or action at either the ref, the lino, or the fourth official, is a caution. If a bunch of players surround the ref, he cards them all. Touching the ref or any other official, red card. I'd tweak...

In theory at least, not any more. Despite the best efforts of the DUP. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-56041849 Always worth remembering that the DUP can have an unhealthy hold on the Tory party, especially when the numbers in parliament are against them.

I'm sorry but I've got to disagree, it's absolutely not a 'low bar'. Let's just say again what the rest of the country was doing: Not visiting their family in care homes, not being able to comfort loved ones who were dying in hospital, not being allowed to go to funerals. The bare minimum...

It's a good read, and I quite like the idea of the Russian army being comprehensively beaten. For all of that though, and odious as it sounds, I think we need to leave Putin some kind of 'off-ramp'. I think this is more likely to end up in some kind of ugly compromise that no one really...