General News Chat

[Donanddusted]

I was hoping for a comment from Stewarty or Buc, but not a phoneme or a syllable so far.

How very odd.

Buc's getting lessons in ***ual proclivities on the hat.
Alaskan pipelines came up in conversation.

[TheDeeDon]

First day in the job and our new Chancellor advising there isn't a lot of money.

We know where this is going to go.

Never thought I'd be so despondent about a Labour government

[Mason89]

We’ve just had 14 years of ‘the last Labour government…’ I expect the next 5 will be ‘the last Conservative government…’

Not sure I’ve got it in me to listen to that pricks voice when he’s saying it every day. Decond class Redurn do Dottingdam please

[YimmyTime76]

I was hoping for a comment from Stewarty or Buc, but not a phoneme or a syllable so far.

How very odd.

Talking about someone who can't reply. Back under the proverbial stone you go.

[Bojangles9]

Boris Johnson, can you hear me Boris Johnson?!

Boris Johnson, Suella Braverman, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Ian Duncan Smith, Rishi Sunak, Dominic Cummings, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch, Nadine Dorries, David Cameron, George Osborne, Douglas Ross, Gillian Keegan, Matt Hancock, Nadim Zahawi, Esther McVey, Steve Baker, Priti Patel, Zac Goldsmith, Dominic Raab, Frank Hester, Paul Dacre, Kelvin Mackenzie, Toby Young, Michael Gove, Sara Vine, Kwasi Kwarteng, Jo Johnson, Simon Case, Allegra Stratton, James Forsyth, Ed Vaizey, Nicolas Soames, Martin Reynolds, Theresa May, Andrew Neil, Andrea Ledsom, Michelle Donelan, Matthew Elliott, Robert Jenrick, Sajid Javid, James Cleverly, Jeremy Hunt, Andrea Jenkyns, Owen Paterson, Graham Brady, Cressida Dick, Sasha Swire, Charlie Elphick, Michael Fabricant, Robert Jenrick, Ruth Davidson, Lynton Crosby, Gavin Williamson, Claire Coutinho, Andrew Mitchell, Michael Portillo, David Davis, Mark Francois, Philip Hammond, Shaun Bailey, Ross Thomson, Murdo Fraser, Owen Paterson, Johnny Mercer, Angelos Frangopoulos, Anthony Bamford, Norman Tebbitt, Andrew Bowie, Therese Coffey, Andrew Griffiths, Jackson Carlaw, Daniel Kawcynski (sp?), Miriam Cates, Andrew Bridgen, Neil Parish, Mark Jenkinson, Chris Grayling, Liam Fox, Johnathan Gullis, David Mundell, Geoffrey Cox, Danny Kruger, Alister Jack, David Frost, Alan Sugar, John Redwood, Michael Fallon, Edwina Currie, Norman Tebbit, Jeffery Archer, Mark Menzies, Chris Philp, Nick Fletcher, Imran Khan, Bob Stewart, Johnathan Rothmere, Edward Leigh, Evgeny Lebedev, William Wragg, Oliver Dowden, Brendan Clarke-Smith, John Lamont, Michelle Mone, Richard Desmond, ‘The’ Hamiltons, Andy Coulson, Victoria Atkins, Chris Loder, Amber Rudd, Tim Martin, Malcolm Rifkind, Johnathan Aitken, Mohamed Mansour, Ben Wallace, Andrew Pierce, Grant Shapps, The Chernukhins, Douglas Hogg, Paul Staines, Dido Harding, Harry Cole, John Hall, Roy Chubby Brown, James Dyson, James Cracknell, Douglas Lumsden, Jimmy Buchan, Graeme Souness, Carrie Symonds, Katie Hopkins, Charlotte Owen, Laura Kuenssberg, Prue Leith, Gary Barlow, Phil Collins, Derek Stillie, Natalie Elphicke (you’re fooling no-one), Rupert Murdoch (and neither are you), the festering corpse of Margaret Thatcher and any other mendacious* Tory cunt* I’ve temporarily forgotten..

Your team took one hell of a beating! Your team took one hell of a beating!


*tautology

And Anne Widdecombe. Knew I’d forgotten someone. Roond ye.

[YimmyTime76]

Aye, the Labour voters will soon find out you don't vote for change unless you know what the change is. They have already said tough decisions will need to be made and we know who suffers from that and it ain't the rich.

We might all have hated Blair and how he changed the Labour party for the worse, but he undoubtedly improved things when he come in and did what he said he would do, rightly or wrongly. They have voted his heir apparent into the top job now and nobody has any idea what he stands for as he enters number 10.

Just a pity Library users like me and other users of our public services caused such a mess of the international money markets back in 2008, that saw the Tories back in power.
I will also never forget or forgive the Lib Dems for aiding and abetting them. Clearly many have!

I agree DeeDon. I've been told that Labour can't introduce bedroom tax or charge us for prescriptions nor can they take away free education.. not till after the Scottish election at least.

[57vintage]

Talking about someone who can't reply. Back under the proverbial stone you go.

WHAT?????

[Donanddusted]

I agree DeeDon. I've been told that Labour can't introduce bedroom tax or charge us for prescriptions nor can they take away free education.. not till after the Scottish election at least.

They can if they reduce the block grant.

[Red Zone]

They can if they reduce the block grant.

They can only reduce the block grant if they reduce spending in England as it is formula driven - that isn't going to happen in the first year of a Labour government. Even then Labour have zero authority on prescriptions, free education or the mitigation put in place to offset the bedroom tax, only the Scottish Government can change them and that certainly won't happen leading up to critical Scottish elections in 2026

[Bojangles9]

I was hoping for a comment from Stewarty or Buc, but not a phoneme or a syllable so far.

How very odd.

Talking about someone who can't reply. Back under the proverbial stone you go.

WHAT?????

Maybe he thought you meant Wiggy

Stewarty & Buc will both be struggling the day I imagine. Two good posters when I was last on here.
Buc still the nicest guy I’ve seen on the net. Total gent.

[Donanddusted]

They can only reduce the block grant if they reduce spending in England as it is formula driven - that isn't going to happen in the first year of a Labour government. Even then Labour have zero authority on prescriptions, free education or the mitigation put in place to offset the bedroom tax, only the Scottish Government can change them and that certainly won't happen leading up to critical Scottish elections in 2026

Yes, I am well aware of all that.
What I'm getting at is that Labour have already said there's little money around.
"Time to tighten belts, chaps."

[TheDeeDon]

Yes, I am well aware of all that.
What I'm getting at is that Labour have already said there's little money around.
"Time to tighten belts, chaps."

Yup, the cuts are coming and of course they will be fully costed and ***** services budgets will be fully ring fenced!

Sounds familiar.

Their non manifesto will bite voters in the arse big time and they have committed to not raising taxes. Of course they can push on chasing people and companies who just don't pay and that would help if they can do it correctly.

We can only give them the benefit of the doubt, but my doubts are huge. It would take an almighty effort of mismanagement to tank the economy worse than the Tories, but you just never know.

I believe Labour will campaign up here in 2026 on the promise to cut the Scottish tax rates back to English levels, whilst keeping things as they were for at least the next parliament, before backtracking if they win it.

[TheDeeDon]

V i t a l is a bad word!

Who knew.

[swaddon2]

V i t a l is a bad word!

Who knew.

You can't even say **** on here. You can say arse, though.

[Bojangles9]

V i t a l is a bad word!

Who knew.

Due to a spammer years ago called v I t a l I ty something selling vitamins IIRC

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