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Do you want to discuss boring politics? (11 Viewers)

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PVA

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,186
Grendel said:
No but good try in fact the only politician I can recall him praising for years is Jeremy Corbyn but hey ho
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It's not a 'good try'. He thinks modern Tories are too far left.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,187
Grendel said:
No but good try in fact the only politician I can recall him praising for years is Jeremy Corbyn but hey ho
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Such praise

 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,188
shmmeee said:
Such praise

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Maybe not praise, but he's actually not wrong in much of that.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,189
Deleted member 5849 said:
Maybe not praise, but he's actually not wrong in much of that.
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He’s not, but he’s very clear he disagrees with Corbyn politically and doesn’t think much of him personally.
 

Otis

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,190
Deleted member 5849 said:
But the Daily Star's OK?
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No. I didn't include them because they are a joke. Have you seen their front pages?

I don't even treat them as a newspaper
 

Otis

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,191




The prosecution rests m'lud.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,192
Otis said:
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The prosecution rests m'lud.
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More accurate than the Express is half the time.
 
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Otis

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,193
Ummm.... or maybe not quite ...

 
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Otis

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,194
So I don't ever treat them as a newspaper and thus, that is the reason I didn't include them .
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,195
Otis said:
Ummm.... or maybe not quite ...

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tbf, the pigeon ended up on the BBC news bulletins, and the owner was a special guest on the radio! Obviously didn't get to the Guardian, as 'pigeon found' is too positive for it
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,196
Otis said:
Ummm.... or maybe not quite ...

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This used to be the only paper my mate read, then he quit reading papers all together saying “they’re all full of shit”.
 
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Otis

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,197
Deleted member 5849 said:
tbf, the pigeon ended up on the BBC news bulletins, and the owner was a special guest on the radio!
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That maybe, but they are still a joke. Anyway, you may wish to treat them as a newspaper, but I do not. I am within my rights to dismiss them as such.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,198
Tell a lie, a positive Guardian news story, to add to the wealth of them.

Sweet home Alabama: errant Gateshead pigeon takes diversion to US

Bob set off for north-east England from Channel Islands three weeks ago, and has been found about 4,000 miles away
www.theguardian.com
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,199
Anyway, as we all love an outlier poll

 
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Otis

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,200
Deleted member 5849 said:
Tell a lie, a positive Guardian news story, to add to the wealth of them.

Sweet home Alabama: errant Gateshead pigeon takes diversion to US

Bob set off for north-east England from Channel Islands three weeks ago, and has been found about 4,000 miles away
www.theguardian.com
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It's their approach though isn't it.

Cartoonesque and ridiculous headlines.

I cannot take them seriously for a second.
 

Otis

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,201
shmmeee said:
Anyway, as we all love an outlier poll

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The Tories really should be at about 20% right now. They have made such a pig's ear of things under Johnson's leadership.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,202
Otis said:
It's their approach though isn't it.

Cartoonesque and ridiculous headlines.

I cannot take them seriously for a second.
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Harsh on the Guardian!
 
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wingy

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,203
The cycle interrupted.
Ah so Abe been shot killed assassinated ?
 
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SBT

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,204
CCFCSteve said:
As in never having anything positive to say as a paper, yeah.

The Times editorial is right leaning but the opinion and columnists usually offer a pretty balanced view taken as a whole

I discount the Telegraph and Express as just pure delusional
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Do newspapers have an obligation to be positive?
 

skybluetony176

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,205
PVA said:
I wonder if this Lebedev stuff will gain more traction.

It should do, it's fucking atrocious behaviour. We all knew it happened, but he finally admitted it.
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Seems to be gaining traction. The story has already changed from he registered the meeting to he thinks he registered it. The BBC has it on their website now also pointing out that he broke the rules meeting him without his security detail and how Johnson also personally overruled the security services assessment that it was a security risk to put his son in the lords to put his son in the lords. Nothing we didn’t know already but it’s being elevated all of a sudden and details are being added all the time.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,206
Otis said:
I think it's easier to list all the occasions when Boris HASN'T exhibited atrocious behaviour to be honest.
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The point being made today that when a politician has to resign in disgrace the event is normally known by said politicians name, such as the Profumo affair. They can’t do that with Boris because it doesn’t narrow it down so you have to refer to the event not the person. Another first in politics.
 
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Grendel

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,207
PVA said:
It's not a 'good try'. He thinks modern Tories are too far left.
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Can you show me some examples of that?
 

skybluetony176

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,208
skybluetony176 said:
Seems to be gaining traction. The story has already changed from he registered the meeting to he thinks he registered it. The BBC has it on their website now also pointing out that he broke the rules meeting him without his security detail and how Johnson also personally overruled the security services assessment that it was a security risk to put his son in the lords to put his son in the lords. Nothing we didn’t know already but it’s being elevated all of a sudden and details are being added all the time.
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Now being suggested that he met up with him without his security detail etc in the height of the Salisbury poisoning incident.

#butcorbyn
 
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Ian1779

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,209
SBT said:
Do newspapers have an obligation to be positive?
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I wish they started somewhere basic like the truth.
 
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RegTheDonk

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,210
Starmer cleared.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,211
Grendel said:
Can you show me some examples of that?
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Here’s a flavour, along with some truly mad thoughts on covid and coal power…

PETER HITCHENS: I warned these Tories have no heart or soul

PETER HITCHENS: The Conservative Party is a ferocious raiser of taxes and spendthrift with your money. It is in fact New Labour, Blairism but without the Blair creature.
www.dailymail.co.uk
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,212
RegTheDonk said:
Starmer cleared.
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Boo!

More chaos I say!
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,213
skybluetony176 said:
The point being made today that when a politician has to resign in disgrace the event is normally known by said politicians name, such as the Profumo affair. They can’t do that with Boris because it doesn’t narrow it down so you have to refer to the event not the person. Another first in politics.
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We can just refer to all future scandals as “doing a Boris”
 
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stupot07

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,214
RegTheDonk said:
Starmer cleared.
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Was always going to happen. It was obviously a work event, food and debrief and discussing the plan for the next day, after a long day campaigning

Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk
 
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David O'Day

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,215
so Ric Holden should be fined for wasting police time
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,216
shmmeee said:
We can just refer to all future scandals as “doing a Boris”
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It would cover a multitude of sins.
 
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stupot07

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,217
Another Boris / Tory failure

Sats results: Standards slip in Year 6 tests

59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, down from 65% before Covid.
www.bbc.co.uk

Shame they didn't listen to the expert they recruited to look at education recovery following Covid, pledging just 10% of the funding they required, leading to him resigning.

Education recovery chief quits in English schools catch-up row

Sir Kevan Collins said to be dismayed that his long-awaited £15bn proposals were watered down to a £1.4bn package
www.theguardian.com

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Northants Sky Blue

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,218
RegTheDonk said:
Starmer cleared.
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Thoughts and prayers for Dan Hodges at this difficult time
 
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SkyBlue_Bear83

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,219
PVA said:
I've never had a speeding ticket so I guess not
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Does it still make you a criminal if you commit an offence but are never caught?
 

duffer

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  • Jul 8, 2022
  • #17,220
shmmeee said:
We can just refer to all future scandals as “doing a Boris”
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Only if the following lines are uttered by the guilty party, in this approximate order.

I wasn't there.

I was there and nothing happened.

I was there and something happened, but it was nothing to do with me.

I was there and something happened, and it was me but it wasn't my fault.

I was there and something happened and it was me and it was my fault, but I've since forgotten what it was.

Boris's first song at the wedding bash...

 
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