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skybluetony176

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  • Feb 28, 2023
  • #26,776
What will be interesting is what happens if there are Tory MP’s who vote against Sunak’s deal. Will he take the Boris line and kick them out of the party?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Feb 28, 2023
  • #26,777
rob9872 said:
He's selling them the idea it's a privilege to get this over the line. You're not so stupid not to get that, simply pretending as usual to fit your personal grudges.
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You also aren’t stupid enough to not get that NI wouldn’t have been put in this situation if we hadn’t taken it out of the EU against its will
 

Ian1779

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,778
Shout out to all the teachers striking today.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,779
Ian1779 said:
Shout out to all the teachers striking today.
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Currently freezing a bit on our picket. Proud to be alongside so many colleagues
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,780
Ian1779 said:
Shout out to all the teachers striking today.
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My youngest likes this
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,781
It always amazes me how easily union leaders are able to call out BS and silly game playing from the government. It’s a simple recipe, just tell the truth.

 
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skybluetony176

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,782
Didn’t know whether to post this in the coronavirus thread or this one but on a scale of one to ten how stupid is Matt Hancock?

I recon he’s gone all the way up to eleven, which as we all know is one stupider than ten.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,783
skybluetony176 said:
It always amazes me how easily union leaders are able to call out BS and silly game playing from the government. It’s a simple recipe, just tell the truth.

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We already had one minister confirming that it would have been cheaper to just agree to the RMT requests but they didn’t want to ‘let other unions see the success’. NEU have been clear in saying the strike action will stop if we get a serious pay offer to negotiate on. No offer received
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,784
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-64807384

Integrity in politics such a tragic accident though
 
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Ian1779

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,785
Can someone from the Starmerista’s explain this one for me

Is this more 9D chess….

 

skybluetony176

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  • Mar 1, 2023
  • #26,786
Ian1779 said:
Can someone from the Starmerista’s explain this one for me

Is this more 9D chess….

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Showing my age but I would think it’s referring to how British workers used to go Europe, mainly Germany to work on building sites as there was no work in the UK and loads over there, really well paid too. At the time there was a sitcom called Auf weidersehen, pet which was about some canny geordie builders who went to Germany to work on building sites. Starmer is suggesting that it’s going to happen again but next time they’ll be working in Poland as Poland is on course to becoming a bigger economy than us in 10 years. Do widzenia, pet.
 
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Astute

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,787
Ian1779 said:
Can someone from the Starmerista’s explain this one for me

Is this more 9D chess….

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It's comments like this that could lose him the next election.

Will anyone take him seriously when we all know it isn't true?

All he has to do is keep to the truth and not get into slanging matches. But I suppose he has to try and keep all factions of the Labour Party happy. This is what always helps to keep the Tories in power. The vast majority of Tories stick together whatever the subject. And all for the reason of wanting to keep their snouts in the trough.
 

Ian1779

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,788
skybluetony176 said:
Showing my age but I would think it’s referring to how British workers used to go Europe, mainly Germany to work on building sites as there was no work in the UK and loads over there, really well paid too. At the time there was a sitcom called Auf weidersehen, pet which was about some canny geordie builders who went to Germany to work on building sites. Starmer is suggesting that it’s going to happen again but next time they’ll be working in Poland as Poland is on course to becoming a bigger economy than us in 10 years. Do widzenia, pet.
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I guess if you’ve got to explain it then it’s not really making the impact you’re looking for.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,789
Hancock and Williamson, the ultimate Team Twat

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64819241I’m
 

skybluetony176

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,790
Astute said:
It's comments like this that could lose him the next election.

Will anyone take him seriously when we all know it isn't true?

All he has to do is keep to the truth and not get into slanging matches. But I suppose he has to try and keep all factions of the Labour Party happy. This is what always helps to keep the Tories in power. The vast majority of Tories stick together whatever the subject. And all for the reason of wanting to keep their snouts in the trough.
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Which bit isn’t true?
 

skybluetony176

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,791
Ian1779 said:
I guess if you’ve got to explain it then it’s not really making the impact you’re looking for.
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Yeah. I doubt anyone under 50 understands the joke.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,792
skybluetony176 said:
Yeah. I doubt anyone under 50 understands the joke.
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I’m 32 and I got it-I didn’t laugh, mind
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,793
It’s all your fault Part…. 5?

Poor families more resourceful in past, says top Tory Lee Anderson

Deputy party chair Lee Anderson says "our garden was our foodbank" when he grew up in a mining town.
www.bbc.co.uk
 

clint van damme

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,794
skybluetony176 said:
It’s all your fault Part…. 5?

Poor families more resourceful in past, says top Tory Lee Anderson

Deputy party chair Lee Anderson says "our garden was our foodbank" when he grew up in a mining town.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Think that's a transparent attempt to get daft Lee to distract from the WhatsApp malarky
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,795
I agree it's a distraction attempt, but it's not taking into account that rent/mortgage and fuel bills take up a much larger percentage of take home pay now. Fact he talks about using the garden as the foodbank - I bet there's a lot of people nowadays saying "what garden?"
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,796
clint van damme said:
Think that's a transparent attempt to get daft Lee to distract from the WhatsApp malarky
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Apparently he’s also stalking people that use food banks.
 

Grendel

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,797
Ian1779 said:
I guess if you’ve got to explain it then it’s not really making the impact you’re looking for.
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It’s a shite joke that fell flat
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,798
skybluetony176 said:
It always amazes me how easily union leaders are able to call out BS and silly game playing from the government. It’s a simple recipe, just tell the truth.

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It'd be great if the opposition did it from time to time
 
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PVA

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,799
Oh no let's hope a bad joke doesn't erode the near 30 pt lead in the polls
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,800
PVA said:
Oh no let's hope a bad joke doesn't erode the near 30 pt lead in the polls
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Let the votes pile high
 

skybluetony176

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,801
Tories on fire this morning. Menopausal women compared to gingers

 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,802
skybluetony176 said:
Tories on fire this morning. Menopausal women compared to gingers

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You’d think her commitment to women would extend to knowing which recommendations had been taken up
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,803
‘I wasn’t insulting all teachers, just the 800,000 who belong to a union’

Labour attacks Sir Gavin Williamson over teachers 'insult' in leaked texts

The then education secretary appears to question teachers' work ethic in leaked pandemic texts.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,804
Brighton Sky Blue said:
‘I wasn’t insulting all teachers, just the 800,000 who belong to a union’

Labour attacks Sir Gavin Williamson over teachers 'insult' in leaked texts

The then education secretary appears to question teachers' work ethic in leaked pandemic texts.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Yep it’s got to be I’m sorry it was unacceptable
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,805
Sky Blue Pete said:
Yep it’s got to be I’m sorry it was unacceptable
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60% of parents surveyed support the teachers strike, just 20% oppose.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,806
Brighton Sky Blue said:
60% of parents surveyed support the teachers strike, just 20% oppose.
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In fact let’s say it how it is. For him to have said that when he is a lying cheating incompetent twat is incomprehensible
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,807
Sky Blue Pete said:
In fact let’s say it how it is. For him to have said that when he is a lying cheating incompetent twat is incomprehensible
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He also worked for the laziest PM in modern history
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,808
Remember when all the Tories loved, admired and respected Sue Gray. Her honesty and decency was unquestionable. Nobody could question her integrity which was why Boris Johnson was right to appoint her to head of the enquiry into his behaviour.

 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,809
skybluetony176 said:
Remember when all the Tories loved, admired and respected Sue Gray. Her honesty and decency was unquestionable. Nobody could question her integrity which was why Boris Johnson was right to appoint her to head of the enquiry into his behaviour.

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What’s she been appointed to?
 

skybluetony176

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  • Mar 2, 2023
  • #26,810
Sky Blue Pete said:
What’s she been appointed to?
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Labour chief of staff.
 
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