Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

.....well she was Deputy Leader of the ruling party as opposed to one of a small band of brothers creating "noises off". Her position was rather more exposed. Also Rayner's misdeed was one of tax "evasion" as opposed to non disclosure of outside interests.

One thing they do have in common is that both immediately found someone else to blame (her tax adviser and his senior member of staff) - regardless of colour of rosette surely we the elctorate have a right to assume that our representatives will man up and accept responsibility for the actions of themselves, whether delegated or not. If a member of my staff ****ed up, it would be on me, but thats maybe the difference between commercial enterprise and being an MP

[SithHappens]

I did hear Zack Polanski knowingly underpaid in a restaurant once when they missed the desserts off the bill so...

[Ram Pant]

For those that missed Trump's word salad at Davos, here's a precis...

We're great,we got more
than we've ever had before
we help everybody by the plateful
but nobody's ever grateful
Our figures are up, they're gigantic
Up by more than the size of the Atlantic
doing so well there's nothing to retrieve
even though it's hard to believe
so I'll just say, US is a nice land
be much better if you just give me Iceland

[Geoff Parkstone]

Sith: Aye but Mr Paulden isnt an MP so the same rules dont apply! He can blame Mothin Ali....Free Free Palestine Allahu Akbar

[Ram Pant]

With regard to that island Trump calls Iceland, it wouldn't be the first time Denmark had sold islands to the US. They sold what are now known as the US Virgin islands to the USA.

One of those islands is Little James Island, better known these days as.... Epstein island.

[Ram Pant]

Trump used Davos today to throw out a torrent of ludicrous claims and outright lies, but one was so obviously false it cannot be left hanging.
He told world leaders China is ?too smart? for wind power, that it has no wind farms, and only sells turbines to everyone else, even though China has the largest wind fleet on Earth and generates an enormous share of its electricity from it, on a scale that dwarfs most countries? entire power systems.

Economy never stronger. It isn't
More jobs. There's not.
Lower unemployment. There's not.
Inflation down. It's not.
Building thousands of factories. Oh, no they're not.

[SithHappens]

Trump getting his lands in a mix though...imagine what would have been said if Biden did

[Geoff Parkstone]

Biden wouldn't have heard of either of them

[SithHappens]

Starmer dropped a ******* with his latest TikTok video. Got a rap song with lyrics that say I don't know what she said cause she's foreign.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I find it rather disturbing that the prime minister of this country makes tik tok videos. That which used to be a serious position commanding respect should come to this...

[ramAnag]

We're all old farts in here rA, all have polarised views, all never budge an inch from those entrenched views. The forum is moribund. So what's the issue? You seem to have taken personal ownership of "old fartedness" by assuming it was directed at you but I've seen no evidence that it was. Get over it,. Sticks and stones etc....m

Not personal ownership, GP, no. Context is everything. AF referred to my ‘we’ which was actually aimed at those discerning enough to take issue with Farage.
He referred to ‘four old farts’ on the forum who are presumably the four who most regularly challenge Farage. The last moderator to speak so disrespectfully about posters was Rattea who I don’t recall you ever being remotely protective of.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Not being protective of anyone, fact remains that this is a moribund forum with a few old farts kicking over the traces and disagreeing. It was you who " identified the four" - whether correctly we may never know. I took is as being non specific myself, with four being representative of how irrelevant we few are in the overall scheme of things. If you want to take it personally, fine but as you are won't to say "I've got better things to do".

[ramAnag]

Not being protective of anyone, fact remains that this is a moribund forum with a few old farts kicking over the traces and disagreeing. It was you who " identified the four" - whether correctly we may never know. I took is as being non specific myself, with four being representative of how irrelevant we few are in the overall scheme of things. If you want to take it personally, fine but as you are won't to say "I've got better things to do".

Okay, I think if you read what was written it’s fairly self explanatory but you’re right, I have better things to do.

[Ram Pant]

Not seen it it I'm going to go out on a limb and say... AI.

[Ram Pant]

non-FBers won't be able to see this but it made I smile..

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26516028447999259&set=a.484990901529703