O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[Old_pie]

Talking of the tram and fare dodging the tram company say they are losing £ 20,000 a week due to people not paying when catching the tram at Midland station and they have shut the bridge for a 3 weeks trial.

I think you mean trains not trams. They've not shut the bridge off - it is a designated public footpath before the station was built and had to remain so as a condition of the land being used to build the station. What they've closed off is the free and open access to the station's platforms.

Quite often I would use that entry point when meeting or leaving people at the station rather than go up through the barriers. It was also a useful route if walking from town to Meadow Lane and it was only recently (Gillingham) that I mentioned to my companion the history of the bridge which I think is on a plaque on the southside.

[Notsohumblepie]

Kop a load of of our deputy PM, what a state

https://whatsnew2day.com/angelas-top...on-budget-day/

I must confess I have always had considerable admiration for Angela's rise from obscurity , and I find her strangely attractive , but that look does her no favours.

Not exactly Pre Raphaelite is it. I suspect that Lord Alli may be requesting a refund.

[Med Pie]

Just heard that the Speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoyle, has headed off questions to the PM about who knew what and when regarding the Southport murderer, banning, commons debate of the topic using sub-judicae rules.

https://uknip.co.uk/news/uk/breaking...d-controversy/

[Med Pie]

I think you mean trains not trams. They've not shut the bridge off - it is a designated public footpath before the station was built and had to remain so as a condition of the land being used to build the station. What they've closed off is the free and open access to the station's platforms.

Quite often I would use that entry point when meeting or leaving people at the station rather than go up through the barriers. It was also a useful route if walking from town to Meadow Lane and it was only recently (Gillingham) that I mentioned to my companion the history of the bridge which I think is on a plaque on the southside.

Indeed, when I was younger, my pals and I would often cut across to Station Street from Queens Road by using the pedestrian bridge which runs above and across all the platforms, not sure it was any shorter tbh.

[SmiffyPie]

Just heard that the Speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoyle, has headed off questions to the PM about who knew what and when regarding the Southport murderer, banning, commons debate of the topic using sub-judicae rules.

https://uknip.co.uk/news/uk/breaking...d-controversy/

I listened to his statement and it's hard to disagree with his reasoning. He did mention that it would all come out once the legal restrictions permitted it.

[i961pie]

I think you mean trains not trams. They've not shut the bridge off - it is a designated public footpath before the station was built and had to remain so as a condition of the land being used to build the station. What they've closed off is the free and open access to the station's platforms.

Quite often I would use that entry point when meeting or leaving people at the station rather than go up through the barriers. It was also a useful route if walking from town to Meadow Lane and it was only recently (Gillingham) that I mentioned to my companion the history of the bridge which I think is on a plaque on the southside.

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[SinceSept1959]

I listened to his statement and it's hard to disagree with his reasoning. He did mention that it would all come out once the legal restrictions permitted it.

Strange that we always seem to have " legal reasons " that other countries don't seem to have ?
Strange that citizens of some countries can have mass protests against tourists which would be considered as hate crimes here ?
Judging by the rival factions protesting in London last weekend, it appears that the
" far left ?" protesters are allowed to wear full face coverings without fear of arrest ?
Rather like football referees' then who choose which Laws they are going to apply , on the day ?

[OchPie]

Been listening to various news outlets and it seems that our government is basically run by communists. Starmer apparently did some kind of weekend retreat with the 'young communists' in his youth and Rachael Reeves is said to have removed a photo of a former, male, chancellor and replaced it with an image of a female, former communist figure.

Starmer went to restore an anti-Nazi memorial. The "former Communist figure" was also a junior minister in Churchill's wartime government.

Neither Starmer nor Reeves are communist. They are barely socialist. They are both centre-left moderates.

One thing they can't get the hang of though, under communism, a core principle is that no man shall have more than another

That's not communism at all The core principle, at least in Marx's imagining, is that each person should receive according to their need, and the means of production should be jointly owned to facilitate that. This doesn't actually work in practice.

Strange that we always seem to have " legal reasons " that other countries don't seem to have ?

The US doesn't have such sub judice rules because of the 1st Amendment. But plenty of other countries, including Canada and Australia, have rules restricting reporting and/or discussion in Parliament on live criminal cases.

[maddogslater]

How about this great bastion of democracy giving its citizens the 1st amendment

[TheBlackHorse]

... oh dear Ochpie ... time you did some homework. Herr Sturmer died in the wool commie control freak. Plays by the rule book, his rule book. Our beloved Chancellor never done a proper job in her life, just slimed her way into the BOE from uni. Ask for her job description ... ha ha !