Political Thread in memory of David Reid. (R.I.P.)

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Labour are full of sh!t has we all know.

If anyother political party had have made any kind of cuts to the transport infrastructure, these clowns would have been up in arms
All this is to facilitate Millibands net zero fantasy project, that will bankrupt the country and send us all to the poor house

The next thing will be Labours obsession with getting everyone on welfare benefits, its already started with means testing fuel allowances to pensioners. What will be the incentive to work when the idle, irresponsible and feckless get paid to sit at home. Welcome back to the bunny boiler generation created by Blair and killed by Cameron. Free, state paid for 2bed house/flat for a 16 year old getting banged up. Ffs, not to mention kids even younger encouraged by their parents to get pregnant for additional benefits

You want to talk about a fantasy project my mate let's talk about HS2.

Then let's get on discussing the other Tory vanity project the Elizabeth Line.

100 billion things to discuss - about right?

[Supersub6]

You want to talk about a fantasy project my mate let's talk about HS2.

Then let's get on discussing the other Tory vanity project the Elizabeth Line.

100 billion things to discuss - about right?

AH yes, HS2 ---I wonder who first thought up that idea?

[ballcock]

AH yes, HS2 ---I wonder who first thought up that idea?

BTs hilarious 😂

I bet they love him up Breightmet

[The Bedlington Terrier]

BTs hilarious ��

I bet they love him up Breightmet

Why carry on flogging dead horses for FOUR**** pfhucking years?

[Supersub6]

Why carry on flogging dead horses for FOUR**** pfhucking years?

Because they wanted to keep the Labour Lefties happy. If they had cancelled HS2 the Labour MPs would have been persistently whinging because they weren't trying to improve the infrastructure --as they always do.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Because they wanted to keep the Labour Lefties happy. If they had cancelled HS2 the Labour MPs would have been persistently whinging because they weren't trying to improve the infrastructure --as they always do.

It was supposed to take TWENTY pfhucking minutes off a train journey from Manchester to London with a major intersection in Birmingham branching off to Leeds. Great swathes of glorious countryside were ruined, billions of pounds chucked down the drain.

This fixation with Lefties on here is getting more than tiresome. Anyone with a brain in their head and not a pfhucking sieve knew the HS2 line was a ridiculous costly fiasco that would end in tears.

Without looking back and checking the threads I distinctly recall, both sinkov and myself being amongst its widest critics, and pray tell in which universe could my old mucker be called a "Labour Lefty?"

[Supersub6]

It was supposed to take TWENTY pfhucking minutes off a train journey from Manchester to London with a major intersection in Birmingham branching off to Leeds. Great swathes of glorious countryside were ruined, billions of pounds chucked down the drain.

This fixation with Lefties on here is getting more than tiresome. Anyone with a brain in their head and not a pfhucking sieve knew the HS2 line was a ridiculous costly fiasco that would end in tears.

Without looking back and checking the threads I distinctly recall, both sinkov and myself being amongst its widest critics, and pray tell in which universe could my old mucker be called a "Labour Lefty?"

BT, neither you nor sinky are/were Labour MPs and along with me, you saw the futility of the Labour idea to build and pay for a hideous idea. An idea which was then put into practice by a coalition government and which has cost way over original estimates and has not even achieved its original objective. You heard all the whinging by opposition MPs when they said that the northern part was being cancelled Now they are whinging about lack of funds available to do this that and the other. They are all living in cloud cuckoo land.

Meanwhile, up here in the north east, we are still trying to manage to get parts of the main road into Scotland made into a dual carriageway. After over 15 years, it was agreed in May this year that the work would be carried out on 8 miles of road, however, the whole thing is now under review by our Chancellor.

[sinkov]

It was supposed to take TWENTY pfhucking minutes off a train journey from Manchester to London with a major intersection in Birmingham branching off to Leeds. Great swathes of glorious countryside were ruined, billions of pounds chucked down the drain.

This fixation with Lefties on here is getting more than tiresome. Anyone with a brain in their head and not a pfhucking sieve knew the HS2 line was a ridiculous costly fiasco that would end in tears.

Without looking back and checking the threads I distinctly recall, both sinkov and myself being amongst its widest critics, and pray tell in which universe could my old mucker be called a "Labour Lefty?"

HST was a barmpot idea, originated by Labour, carried on by the Tories, Boris was going to scrap it, then reneged when in power, too many people on the gravy train by then no doubt. Labour and Tories equally culpable, two cheeks of the same arse.

[sinkov]

Boris was going to build 40 new hospitals, Reeves has kicked that one into the long grass. Welcome to life under Labour.

[ballcock]

Boris was going to build 40 new hospitals, Reeves has kicked that one into the long grass. Welcome to life under Labour.

Boris was full of sh!t

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Boris was going to build 40 new hospitals, Reeves has kicked that one into the long grass. Welcome to life under Labour.

Boris never had the Wonga to build 40 new hospitals. It's rather pfhucking stupid blaming Labour for not having the money to pay for Johnson's lies.

[sinkov]

Boris never had the Wonga to build 40 new hospitals. It's rather pfhucking stupid blaming Labour for not having the money to pay for Johnson's lies.

But they have the money to give junior doctors a 22% pay rise. Then again, doctors have votes, hospitals don't, so we know where the money goes. Welcome to life under Labour.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

But they have the money to give junior doctors a 22% pay rise. Then again, doctors have votes, hospitals don't, so we know where the money goes. Welcome to life under Labour.

Don't know about you sinkov but my hernia operation was put off FIVE times because your indulgent Tories who gave Michelle Mone £30 million quid for the non supply of useless gowns would not pay Junior Doctors (who are in attendance 70 hours a week) a £3000 a year pay rise.

What did that thieving, lying ex-Etonian do with the £300 billion needed to fund 40 new hospitals?

[sinkov]

"How Labour’s winter fuel raid on pensioners threatens to backfire. Chancellor’s decision to scrap retirees’ payments risks triggering £490m benefits bill"

"Labour’s decision to axe winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners could trigger a £490m benefits bill, effectively wiping out a third of the savings it is expected to bring in. Rachel Reeves on Monday said winter fuel payments would be restricted to just those on pension credit from this winter in an attempt to raise £1.5bn to fix the nation’s finances. Former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb warned the move could trigger a wave of pension credit applications – with 800,000 people who currently do not claim the benefit eligible, according to charity Age UK. In 2019, claims rose by a quarter when the Government announced free TV licences for the over 75s would be restricted to just those on pension credit, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. Extra payments of pension credit to 200,000 people – one in four of those currently eligible who do not claim – would cost the Government £440m a year. This group would also be entitled to the winter fuel payment, costing another £50m. If pension credit uptake is replicated as a result of changes to the winter fuel payment, the savings made by the move could be reduced by a third."

Lefty economics, welcome to life under a Labour Chancellor, Rachel 'Thick as Mince' Reeves.

[sinkov]

"More than 200 BBC staff, contractors, suppliers and contributors have written to Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, to complain about the broadcaster’s ‘systemic anti-Semitism’. They have also demanded ‘an urgent formal investigation’ into the corporation’s ‘anti-Jewish racism’."

Best of luck with that, institutionally anti-semitic organisations like the BBC never admit it, they'll get absolutely nowhere.