Liz Truss's outrageous travel rider requests and diva behaviour scandal!!

[Omegstrat6]

Really? The press can't do any better than this? No fan of Truss and I'm sure she can be demanding and egotistical but what is wrong in asking for sushi or a bagel or even a chilled bottle of wine? Surely she can request what she would like to eat or drink and her choices hardly seem that extravagant -or is it me?And what is the big deal over the " no mayo" request? So she doesn't like it, so what? My son has autism and various sensory issues so even though he will now eat a chicken burger or fish and chips he won't touch them if they have any salad or dressings on them. And this non-story appears in major media outlets. Ffs.

[mickd1961]

But it’s okay for Starmer to neck beer during Covid.

Yes of course it is.

Our media is so biased, TV media are a bunch of w a n k e r s.

I’d love to see someone kick Peston in the b o l l o c k s during an interview and stick their fingers up Beth Rigby’s nose and use her pig head as a bowling ball,

[Omegstrat6]

But it’s okay for Starmer to neck beer during Covid.

Yes of course it is.

Our media is so biased, TV media are a bunch of w a n k e r s.

I’d love to see someone kick Peston in the b o l l o c k s during an interview and stick their fingers up Beth Rigby’s nose and use her pig head as a bowling ball,

Your last paragraph conjured up some pretty good mental images!😂

[kettering_baggie]

Beth Rigby, she’s the worst of the lot, an admirer of Corbyn, I wouldn’t be surprised.

[mickd1961]

Beth Rigby, she’s the worst of the lot, an admirer of Corbyn, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Remember the Rodney Marsh quote......."you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig!".

I think that every time I see Rigby.

I'd rather s h a g Rigsby or his cat than this monotone, biased, lard a r se.

[Omegstrat6]

Probably get shot down for saying this, so tin hat and bunker at the ready, but I think Corbyn is probably the one politician in recent times who more than any other was the victim of a thorough hatchet job by the press. Of course, sometimes he did not help himself but on numerous occasions his words or actions were twisted to suit a particular political viewpoint. Odd too that despite all the highly public accusations of anti-Semitism against him, no real details or proof have yet come to light. Criticism of the Israeli government is not necessarily being anti-Semetic.

Certainly didn't agree with everything he said or did and he lacked both the leadership qualities needed to unite the Labour Party as well as the will to deal with the far left, but there were also some of his beliefs that I do think were right. I think history may be far kinder to him going forward.

[WBA1955]

This has always been the trouble with British politics, two sides poles apart.
You have the conservatives who have always looked after the well off and never done anything for the poor er people except incite working people to hate the poor too.
Then you have Labour who's main agenda is to punish the rich for being rich, tax them until the pips squeak as Denis Healy once said.
I wouldn't vote Tory even if I had eaten a bowl of magic mushrooms, masochism isn't my bag.
But I can see why people like Mick from a humble background who has worked to be where he is today wouldn't trust Labour.
Wealth is good for the economy, we need good business people. Why should they suffer for being successful?
All I have ever wanted is for fair play, a level playing field. But there's something morally wrong with a country when energy companies announce record profits after people have died of starvation or hypothermia, and dodge paying taxes.
The right wing media convince the people that the country's problems are the people on the dole, (what the system of greed through streamlining has put there in the first place) and immigrants.
Wealthy people have choices in life. Poor people don't, and they don't need a good kicking by their peers when they are down.

[Omegstrat6]

This has always been the trouble with British politics, two sides poles apart.
You have the conservatives who have always looked after the well off and never done anything for the poor er people except incite working people to hate the poor too.
Then you have Labour who's main agenda is to punish the rich for being rich, tax them until the pips squeak as Denis Healy once said.
I wouldn't vote Tory even if I had eaten a bowl of magic mushrooms, masochism isn't my bag.
But I can see why people like Mick from a humble background who has worked to be where he is today wouldn't trust Labour.
Wealth is good for the economy, we need good business people. Why should they suffer for being successful?
All I have ever wanted is for fair play, a level playing field. But there's something morally wrong with a country when energy companies announce record profits after people have died of starvation or hypothermia, and dodge paying taxes.
The right wing media convince the people that the country's problems are the people on the dole, (what the system of greed through streamlining has put there in the first place) and immigrants.
Wealthy people have choices in life. Poor people don't, and they don't need a good kicking by their peers when they are down.

Well put ! 👍

I quite often think that we have moved backwards lately in politics. There was a brief time when both Conservatives and Labour parties took a more Centerist view-the Tories began to develop more of a social conscience and Labour realised that you needed healthy business to create wealth and a thriving economy. Somewhere along the line we seem to have reverted to 1980s politics though so that the right became over enthralled with the selfish and greedy sides of Thatcherism with the left moving in the polar opposite direction with beliefs in a far leftist socialism that stifles growth.