Non AMP
Sky Blues Talk
  • Home
  • Forums
  • General Discussion
  • Off Topic Chat
This is a mobile optimized page that loads fast, if you want to load the real page, click this text.

Do you want to discuss boring politics? (27 Viewers)

  • Thread starter mrtrench
  • Start date Jun 14, 2020
Forums New posts
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 934
  • 935
  • 936
  • 937
  • 938
  • …
  • 1497
Next
First Prev 936 of 1497 Next Last
D

Deleted member 5849

Guest
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,726
CCFCSteve said:
Always sensible to fix if you’re pushing the limits mate. I remember being stuck on 6% for a while for my first place, painful at the time but was affordable. swings and roundabouts over mortgage lifetime.
Click to expand...
I meant more going for only two years rather than five or ten. Done that in the hope rates go down and then I can fix for longer!

If I could cut the interest rate, I could overpay...
 
C

CCFCSteve

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,727
Deleted member 5849 said:
I meant more going for only two years rather than five or ten. Done that in the hope rates go down and then I can fix for longer!

If I could cut the interest rate, I could overpay...
Click to expand...

Looks like the right call
 
B

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,728
jimmyhillsfanclub said:
Why the fuck is this scheduled to run for 3 years minimum? What a pointless & pathetic waste of time & resource.....

Sweden had already completed their inquiry & implemented many actions on the back of it before the UK inquiry had even started.

This country is so shit at doing anything efficiently.
Click to expand...
Well it’s done like that in the hope of people forgetting about it or losing all interest by the time it’s finished.
 
Reactions: duffer
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,729
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Well it’s done like that in the hope of people forgetting about it or losing all interest by the time it’s finished.
Click to expand...
Or just dying.
Windies, Grenfell.
 
Reactions: duffer and Sick Boy
B

BodicoteSkyBlue

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,730
wingy said:
Or just dying.
Windies, Grenfell.
Click to expand...
Postmasters
 
Reactions: duffer and wingy

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,731
jimmyhillsfanclub said:
Why the fuck is this scheduled to run for 3 years minimum? What a pointless & pathetic waste of time & resource.....

Sweden had already completed their inquiry & implemented many actions on the back of it before the UK inquiry had even started.

This country is so shit at doing anything efficiently.
Click to expand...
It probably helped that the Swedish government acknowledged it had made huge mistakes before their enquiry even started. Senior MP’s were resigning left right and centre in Sweden while our government continued to pat themselves on the back saying that they got all the big calls right. The reality has to be unwound from the bullshit in the UK so the enquiry in the UK is starting on the back foot. I agree though that 3 years seems ridiculous.
 
Reactions: Earlsdon_Skyblue1

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,732
Sounds like everyone is lining up to sue Michelle Mone. From the people she bullied by threatening them through her lawyers for publicly saying she lied to her own lawyers who’s she said advised her lie. They’re disputing that and taking legal advice on defamation.
 

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,733
skybluetony176 said:
Sounds like everyone is lining up to sue Michelle Mone. From the people she bullied by threatening them through her lawyers for publicly saying she lied to her own lawyers who’s she said advised her lie. They’re disputing that and taking legal advice on defamation.
Click to expand...
just the legal fees for the papers they sent legal threats to will cost a bit
 

Sky Blue Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • #32,734
BodicoteSkyBlue said:
Postmasters
Click to expand...
Ipp
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,735
Levelling up's going well

Disbelief at plan to fix London potholes as part of Network North project

£235m funding for capital’s roads is possible only because of investment that comes from scrapping northern leg of HS2
www.theguardian.com
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,736
This is testament to how far the Tories have leaned to the far right. He was a vocal supporter of Brexit before the vote and since but he’s not Tory enough because he doesn’t like excrement in our waterways and seas and doesn’t believe that food banks are a lifestyle choice


If you’ve ever seen him on QT you’ll know that regardless of your political viewpoint he tends to speak matter of factual and comes across well. The Tories would have been lucky to have him, he’d have been an asset for them considering how far they’ve dumbed their party down.
 
Last edited: Dec 21, 2023
Reactions: CCFCSteve, Sky Blue Pete and wingy

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,737
Flying Fokker said:
So, is the US moving towards a civil uprising? Trump out?
Click to expand...

If anything, I suspect it may work in Trumps favour.

The more they attempt to try and block him from running, the more this has a decent chance of becoming a kind of Streisand effect.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,738
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
If anything, I suspect it may work in Trumps favour.

The more they attempt to try and block him from running, the more this has a decent chance of becoming a kind of Streisand effect.
Click to expand...

I mean he’s been running the conspiracy theory campaign from the start. Even if no one did anything he’d be claiming everyone is against him.
 
Reactions: Flying Fokker
S

SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,739
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
If anything, I suspect it may work in Trumps favour.

The more they attempt to try and block him from running, the more this has a decent chance of becoming a kind of Streisand effect.
Click to expand...
I don’t think it’s ever a good thing for a candidate to face several dozen criminal indictments and the very real possibility of prison. But I do think the court drama offers an occasionally useful distraction from the fact that he is all over the place policy-wise, and is acting erratically even by Trump standards.
 
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,740
Looks like moan Will be attempting to flee and sail the globe?
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,741
SBT said:
I don’t think it’s ever a good thing for a candidate to face several dozen criminal indictments and the very real possibility of prison. But I do think the court drama offers an occasionally useful distraction from the fact that he is all over the place policy-wise, and is acting erratically even by Trump standards.
Click to expand...

The debate should be interesting though. I might watch it for the first time just to see two senile old men go at it (awaits joke about elderly porn)
 
Reactions: wingy and CCFCSteve

Evo1883

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,742

Did make me chuckle
 
Reactions: Sick Boy, Ian1779, fernandopartridge and 3 others

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,743
Evo1883 said:

Did make me chuckle
Click to expand...

Who's he referring to? I cant see anyone in the photo.
 
Reactions: Terry_dactyl, dutchman, CCFCSteve and 2 others

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,744
clint van damme said:
Who's he referring to? I cant see anyone in the photo.
Click to expand...

Keir Starmer: the only man less attention grabbing than camouflage.

Why do all our politicians have to play dress up? I really don’t get it. And why when he visits a tech park is he in a suit and not a pair of dirty jeans and a ten year old hoodie like the workers there? I await his visit to sex workers with anticipation.
 
Reactions: dutchman, fernandopartridge, CCFCSteve and 1 other person
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,745
shmmeee said:
Keir Starmer: the only man less attention grabbing than camouflage.

Why do all our politicians have to play dress up? I really don’t get it. And why when he visits a tech park is he in a suit and not a pair of dirty jeans and a ten year old hoodie like the workers there? I await his visit to sex workers with anticipation.
Click to expand...
Just get the hi vis on.
 
S

SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,746
shmmeee said:
The debate should be interesting though. I might watch it for the first time just to see two senile old men go at it (awaits joke about elderly porn)
Click to expand...
Think it’s unlikely there will be any debates tbh. The Biden-Trump debates in 2020 were genuinely unwatchable anyway.
 
Reactions: shmmeee

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,747
Be honest though, of the four he wears it the best

 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 21, 2023
  • #32,748
shmmeee said:
Be honest though, of the four he wears it the best

View attachment 32915
Click to expand...
Why is Sunak giving me these vibes?
 
Reactions: RegTheDonk

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 22, 2023
  • #32,749
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Suella Braverman pranked into collecting ‘D*** of the year’ award

Pranksters invited the Tory MP to officially launch ‘Fareham Fishing’ - a bogus angling company - as part of a segment for Channel 4’s Last Leg programme
www.independent.co.uk
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete

Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 22, 2023
  • #32,750

Rail fares in England to rise by up to 4.9% in March

The rise is below inflation but comes after a year of travel disruption for passengers.
www.bbc.co.uk

Train fares to rise by up to 4.9%.

How long until people stop using them altogether? The prices in the UK for trains is totally nuts.
 
Reactions: Sick Boy

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 22, 2023
  • #32,751
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:

Rail fares in England to rise by up to 4.9% in March

The rise is below inflation but comes after a year of travel disruption for passengers.
www.bbc.co.uk

Train fares to rise by up to 4.9%.

How long until people stop using them altogether? The prices in the UK for trains is totally nuts.
Click to expand...

To be fair an inflationary increase in fares is perfectly acceptable if service levels are retained. The problem is that British people have become conditioned to having sub inflationary or no pay increase at all so prices going up has a worse impact than it should.
 
Reactions: Sick Boy, Earlsdon_Skyblue1 and Deleted member 5849
P

PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,752
James Notso caught making jokes about date rape.

Being an awful c**t seems to be a prerequisite for holding the position of Home Secretary in this government.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,753
PVA said:
James Notso caught making jokes about date rape.

Being an awful c**t seems to be a prerequisite for holding the position of Home Secretary in this government.
Click to expand...

Not a date rape joke TBF a boomer “my wife hates me” joke.
 
S

SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,754
shmmeee said:
Not a date rape joke TBF a boomer “my wife hates me” joke.
Click to expand...
???

According to reports first published by the Sunday Mirror newspaper, Mr Cleverly told some female guests there that "a little bit of Rohypnol in her drink every night" was "not really illegal if it's only a little bit".
Click to expand...
 
P

PVA

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,755
shmmeee said:
Not a date rape joke TBF a boomer “my wife hates me” joke.
Click to expand...

I think there were two jokes, one was a wife hates me joke, the other was definitely a date rape joke.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,756
SBT said:
???
Click to expand...

!!!

 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,757
PVA said:
I think there were two jokes, one was a wife hates me joke, the other was definitely a date rape joke.
Click to expand...

It’s the same joke. He’s sedating her with rohypnol
 
S

SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,758
shmmeee said:
It’s the same joke. He’s sedating her with rohypnol
Click to expand...
Ah yes, Rohypnol, the sedative that famously doesn’t have any connotations with any usage other than sedation.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,759
SBT said:
Ah yes, Rohypnol, the sedative that famously doesn’t have any connotations with any usage other than sedation.
Click to expand...

So you accept it’s not a date rape joke then?
 
S

SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • #32,760
shmmeee said:
So you accept it’s not a date rape joke then?
Click to expand...
It’s a joke about spiking a woman’s drink with an illegal drug that’s synonymous with date rape in order to impair her judgment.

I’m not saying it’s the greatest scandal in political history but this is a strange hill to die on!
 
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 934
  • 935
  • 936
  • 937
  • 938
  • …
  • 1497
Next
First Prev 936 of 1497 Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 15 (members: 0, guests: 15)
Share:
Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email
  • Home
  • Forums
  • General Discussion
  • Off Topic Chat
  • Default Style
  • Contact us
  • Terms and rules
  • Privacy policy
  • Help
  • Home
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2021 XenForo Ltd.
Menu
Log in

Register

  • Home
  • Forums
    • New posts
    • Search forums
  • What's new
    • New posts
    • Latest activity
  • Members
    • Current visitors
  • Donate to the Season Ticket Fund
X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?

X

Privacy & Transparency

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

  • Personalized ads and content
  • Content measurement and audience insights

Do you accept cookies and these technologies?