Today I paid my membership fee and joined the Lib Dems - 56 yrs a strong and positive Labour supporter. Corbyn has killed my party. Sat with 4 mates over a pint the other night. They too lifelong Lab - no more. What does that tell you? We are all Blairites? All old working class.
Stanley Johnson on BBCR4 today “[Boris] almost took one for the team and we’ve got to make sure we play the game properly now”.
A lot of people inn the NHS have in fact "taken one" because of his fuckwit of a son's ineptitude.
Just to recap. She is innocent. UK owed Iran shedloads of money. Our Priapic Fridge Magnet told them she was a spy. She lost 6 yrs of her life and missed her child growing up. The Tories paid up cos they want Iran’s oil And you want her to be grateful?
To those who think me a traitor. Leaving Labour has been a terrible wrench- it is the party I fought for all my life, and my whole philosophy is based on socialism. I am European. Corbyn’s fence sitting has helped Putin and Bannon in their project to destroy EU - it will fail.
Fifty years ago today, on 1 January 1973, the United Kingdom joined the European Economic Community. A Tory civil war ripped us out via a campaign of lies, propaganda, Russian money and a bent press. It is a disastrous mistake but no senior politician will admit it. We're fucked
Porn at work - Booze at work - Shagging at work
Parties at work - Sleeping at work
...and Rees Mogg doesn't want you to work from home - because work is the place you ought to be - you couldn't make it up
I can’t give the name for obvious reasons. A senior civil servant in HMRC told me just now that all their prep. is for a no deal situation. All of it. .
The Brexit Party has no MEPs and no MPs - it is basically defunct, about as significant as The Monster Raving Loony Party - so why is Farage still getting print/air and lens space?
1/ I've spent a lot of 2023 in France and Ireland - it is my observation that people in both countries are over Brexit. It's finished and they've moved on. Both countries now have a much higher standard of living than we do and we fall back by the month. On the whole they pity us
Bill Gates will tracking me now and every 5G mast will pull me into it's aura like a magnet but I don't care. Stage 1 done in Skipton just now. The people involved were all brilliant. They gave me Lawrence Fox's vaccine because he doesn't want it and it's his mask I'm wearing.
Arron Banks, that smear on the underpants of History, is in NZ. Why? Covid? He could escape that in on Caribbean tax haven islan. My money is on him working to swerve the NZ elections to get rid of the best PM on the planet. The Kiwis should kick his arse skywards. And quick.
@toryboypierce
No Andrew - the parents of the 40,000 kids will mostly just cough up the VAT like the rest of us have to do on stuff we buy. A state ed. is free like the NHS - choosing to go private is just that - a choice for which you pay. I hope that helps
I've just rejoined the Labour Party. Lets get the bloody hypocritical Tories out. 10 yrs of trashing the NHS and they have the bloody cheek to clap our medics.
@RogerHelmerMEP
Roger Helmer (not an MEP) reckons it’s OK to joke about a 16yr old dying. Not liking the joke is synthetic outrage. Well Roger I think you will find “the Swedish Pixie” has both youth and truth on her side and that your days as a privileged white gammon climate denier are over.
@WestminsterWAG
The Tory govt was told in 2016 after a "war game" against a viral plague that the NHS would collapse under any such. It was a massive "fucking clue" - they ignored it. We lost 70,000 NHS beds under you and thousands of EU medics through Brexit. Now I suggest you zip it Mrs Gove.
And there will be pensioners across the UK waving flags who can't even afford to turn the heating on. Forgive me for not wanting to be part of this goonery, this veneration of somebody who like the rest of us is simply a sentient being with an arsehole.
OK - here's Brexit. I had a microphone on Ebay. Italian chap wanted to buy it. Cost of mic £85 cost of shipping £47 plus customs charges. Number of forms to fill in 4. Somebody in Coventry bought it. Postage £8.70. No forms. Glad I'm not running an export business.
I am sick of the mindless mantra, "Respect the Referendum." Banks/Grimes et al broke the law. Farage/Bojo/Gove/Fox/Leadsom/ lied. Do you respect the burglar who did your house? The twocker who nicks your car? The cheat who forges a c/que? The ref was bent. People conned. End of.
Are we seriously still celebrating VE Day? Seriously? Why? Give me one good reason. My father lies in a war grave in Holland. I don’t regard VE Day as something to celebrate. We should mourn the dead of all the nations that went mad in 2 world wars. No victory - just insanity.
I just stumbled on Neil Oliver - I thought of a witty takedown - he isn't worth it - the man is a dangerous fool - like all antivaxers. Imagine if he'd been around when Jenner was discovering the vaccine for smallpox or Salk the polio vaccine - what is it with these people.
Just remember this - in 2015 nobody but a few nutters like Greenwood and Rees Mogg gave a fuck about the EU; Farage was a silly little spiv, Johnson a priapic bluffer and Gove just another Tory chinless wonder. 5 yrs that's all it has taken.
I've clicked on BBC News every 15 mins for the last couple of hours. Absolutely bugger all coverage of the protests on the streets. Beyond disgusting BBC - you were once respected the world over.
Mayday - a worker's holiday on the first Monday in May has always been hated by the Tories - so this year they moved it to May 8th to coincide with what the Mail calls "Victory Over Europe" day. In 4 yrs Britain has become a tin pot little kingdom. No wonder the world laughs.
Farage is not an MP or MEP, not the leader of a party, is an authority on nothing. WTF are people stressing about his bank account when instead they should be looking into his Russian links and his treacherous role in dumping this country down the toilet?
I go for a walk and come back to find “ Clap for Boris” is trending. Do fuck off. He was warned by the Chinese this was coming mid Jan. He went for herd immunity and is now being looked after in an NHS run down by his party. It’s a little more nuanced than a simple clap.
State pensions are not a benefit - they are deferred earnings. I paid my NI all my working life. The State isn't doing me a favour giving me some of it back
There is a concern now that the Government have forced through legislation to access bank account details of any benefit claimant that they could seek to means test pensions - pensions were reclassified as welfare years ago
#Toriesout515
#SunakOut405
#GeneralElectionNow
@EstherMcVey1
Hello Esther - it's your Tory cuts that have caused this problem but - on another point entirely - just noticed your Winning Women company was largely funded by the EU Development Fund - channeled through our own NW UK dev. funding org. Any comment?
Absolutely - I'm cool with no pub for a month if it saves lives but am incandescent at having my freedom to live and work in 27 other European nations taken away by a libertarian elite that managed to con 17 million people that the elite was anybody but them
Great fun watching the people who took away our right to live in 27 other countries start losing their shit about individual liberties when it comes to trying to protect the vulnerable.
We didn’t vote to be bombed into eating dried eggs and jam made from carrots in WW2. You arseholes have voted yourselves into this blitz-shit mentality. 200,000 jobs and £6 billion lost already, sterling has tanked and we’re the laughing stock of the world. Get real.
1/The Spaffing, Priapic, Lazarus Clown is (according to some in the know) "in a funny place mentally" . He's not dealing with this crisis because, for the Ist time in his life, he's met something he can't bluff his way out of, laugh his way out of or shag and lie his way out of.
@MPIainDS
You really are a cold hearted glib bastard aren’t you? People won’t live to draw their pensions and you know it full well. As Nye Bevan said. “Lower than vermin.”
It would be cheaper and more effective to mass test the whole country than lock it down for 6 months. Isolating the infected, creating cordon sanitaires and locking up the virus rather than the healthy is the only way to beat this. Test test and test again.
Try walking round Parliament sq with a sign saying “ Shoot Gove - the wee podgy white bastard” and see how soon you find out what prison porridge tastes like. They really do think we are stupid.
Highlight of my week? Watching a woman who was a single mother at 16 and who didn't go to Eton, even as a cleaner, magnificently reduce the PM of GB to a cowardly heap of malevolent jelly. Not since Keir Hardie has "below stairs" shown Truth to Power so well.
If Corbyn was half the decent man his followers claim, he would apologise for his ill thought victimhood and would be working his balls off for Starmer and Labour. Sadly he has more than a touch of the limpet in The White House. And I voted for him, believed in him.
I had to be revived after collapsing breathless with laughter. The Spaffing Priapic Lazarus clown has been in the HOC for exactly 20 days since he was elected. Did the job description say "Part-time PM needed."?
@StanleyIsWhite
You know Stanley. When you actually know fuck nothing about anything you shouldn’t really shout it to the rooftops. Universities are where academics work and where most of the brainy stuff gets done. The Spitfire for example was not designed by a road sweeper. Ask your mum.
He fails to mention he is a Tory candidate or that Labour aren’t in power and school is closing because of low pupil numbers. In other words - teacher or not - he is just another lying Tory
This is tragic. Not only will beloved schools close across our country under Labour. That will put untold pressure on the state sector.
I am a teacher in the state sector, & I find this policy pernicious & utterly counterproductive.
Am I missing summat here. GB decided it wants to leave. The EU says “Sorry to see you go but no cherry picking.” Then GB says “The fuckers are bullies and won’t let us cherry pick. “ Brexiters defy all known logic. It’s a Cargo Cult.
I'm in France at the moment.On return I will have to quarantine for 14 days. Mr Gove is in Brussels at the moment - on his return will he too be in isolation?
@CharlotteCGill
And all the chicken pics of Corbyn? You Tories own 80% of the press. I doubt we’ll be taking lectures on fair play from your good self. The man has no majority and must ask for an extension. Dead in a ditch? Sounds like a teenager. “ I didn’t ask to be born”.
The Express? Ye gods and little fishes. The Trolls have already started sending me badly spelled emails. How did they get me address I wonder 😊. Feck em.
We had it here you fucking turnip. People were investing here - not just money but their and their children’s futures. You jumping about like a Jack-in-the-Box makes you look a fool. We should all be in the single market and customs union.
The Mail is more dangerous and virulent than Cov19 - they haven't been physically near each other for weeks. People who write this shit are not journalists - they are propagandists/scaremongerers/truth destroyers. Ashamed of themselves? Not a chance chance
Johnson - whose name isn’t BoJo - hasn’t conducted any face-to face negotiations with Michel Barnier. One wouldn’t wish
#CoronaVirus
on anyone, and certainly not on Carrie Symonds and her unborn child, but this toxic anti-EU propaganda must stop.
Some Remain supporters are still wondering whether to vote Labour in the European elections. If you do, Labour will claim your vote as a vote for Brexit, just like in 2017. Vote Labour and you'll help the political case for Brexit.
Years ago I came off a Connemara Mountain, opened the car door, poured a cuppa from my flask and turned the radio on to hear the GFA being announced. It was a day of great joy, a terrible burden of murder and enmity was being lifted. And now this - all for what?
I get a fair amount of flack, mainly from males, and when I look at their profiles prominent up there is almost always which footie team they support. Sad really. Their tribal identity is Brexit, racism and their team. We’ve come a long way since Enoch haven’t we?
And snake belts, liquorice juice, Dixon of Dock Green and pounds and ounces will return at midnight to Little England. How utterly pathetic and triumphalist. The hooligans have taken over. I’m embarassed. And angry.
Ridge : the deal seems very similar to Mrs May's which you described as completely cretinous, bureaucratic and a betrayal of common sense - so have you changed your mind ?
Rees-Mogg : Churchill often ate his own words and found it a nourishing diet
Viewer : speechless..
#Ridge
The Tory govt was told in 2016 after a "war game" against a viral plague that the NHS would collapse under any such. It was a massive "fucking clue" - they ignored it. We lost 70,000 NHS beds under you and thousands of EU medics through Brexit. Now I suggest you zip it Mrs Gove.
To all those sniping at a government trying to cope with one of the fastest-moving national emergencies in a generation: you haven't got a fucking clue. Not an iota. Either come up with something constructive, or zip it. Ideally the latter. FFS.
Old fart sounds off. Those days were fucking awful: chilblains, freezing cold in bed, dressing in front of the fire, chapped legs, frost-split lips. The good old days - my arse.
Don’t want to sound like an old fart but when I was a kid we had no central heating you where in your room keeping warm as best as you can Mental health issues do me a favour you woke soft as shit Fanny’s!
I forgot that Leo is a doctor. What did our PM do? Walked into a scribblers job his daddy got him, spent years writing lies about the same EU that had paid his daddies wages then spaffed his way round politics. The Dangerous Clown - last ejaculation of the dying British Empire.
Taoiseach does right thing on Xmas day by visiting hospitals.
British PM takes years younger mistress off on holiday and leaves fractured nation to flap about.
Hmm.
Nothing. No amount of money / prestige or hoo haa would get me to either take part or condone this shite. We celebrate damaging our country and insulting our friends and allies? BLX.
Today is the 80th anniversary of a dark chapter in European history, the outbreak of WWII in Poland caused by Nazi Germany.We should remember collectively, learn our lessons individually & act together for the future. For peace. For dignity. For humanity. That's our duty. Forever
You won't attract the "brightest and best" to a xenophobic island run by racists. Your mum and dad and Sajid Javid's were unqualified working people who came here, made a life and helped you both to an education. You want to deny that to others now?
A functioning Conservative majority government will get Brexit done and control immigration numbers, while attracting the brightest and the best.
Labour's plan for unlimited and uncontrolled immigration would put huge strain on our public services.
I’ve a good mind to go live in Scotland. Looks like they still have a civilisation. I’ll ask Dick Gaughan and Ian McCalman to put a word in with Nicola.
My team saw your video
@JacindaArdern
- so no harm in some friendly competition 😉.
Here’s my attempt to get through some of my Scottish Government’s headline achievements in under two minutes. Start the clock!
@allisonpearson
I don’t know what qualifications Nye Bevan had beyond being a miner but he was one of the finest politicians and human beings of the last 100 years.
@LSwitlyk
Well done - you shot a sheep. Easier than shooting a fish in a barrel since sheep tend to stand still eating grass. You, Mighty Hunter, with thousands of dollars worth of gear shot something that hardly moves / you won't eat / but killing it made you feel good. Arsehole.
The Right are blubbing at being loathed/detested. As they say in Ireland "Cop on lads" You tanked the economy, sold off oil and gas etc, gave us child poverty, foodbanks, worst Covid record in the world, Brexit not done & 3 of the worst PMs ever - all with Russian money.
As a recovering Catholic I was only slightly surprised to find that both Mogg and IDS are fervent RCs. Both are utterly smug and heartless bastards who embrace the theology not of Christ but of Ayn Rand - as does Bannon who is now working to smear Pope Francis. Schismatics?
@MattHancock
Hello Mr Halfcock. I downloaded your App and put it in my iPhone and set off to the park for my exercise but the sat nav on the phone kept taking me to Barnard Castle. I told it to move on but it told me to piss off. Can you help?
There is only one just way out of this mess: an EU extension and a 2nd ref. The games Cummings is playing brings a disaster closer by the day. Why the rush to get Brexit done? The EU Tax Avoidance Directive, effective 2020, would hang people like Mogg and Odie up by the balls.
I cant believe that Owen Jones is blaming us Remainers for the Brexit shitstorm - that's like standing in the Colosseum and blaming the Christians for being eaten by the lions or blaming the passengers when the drunk driver takes the bus over the cliff.
So the report on Russian political meddling in our democracy is kept under wraps until next Spring and the police inquiry into The Dangerous Clown using our taxes for shag money is closed until after the election. BBC doing a major exposé on this? Telegraph screaming for truth?
Never ever say "It can't happen here." It can.
Germany was a highly civilised nation with great art/music/ culture/ education. All it took was 1 populist psychopath (Adolph) 1 Scapegoat (the Jews) and all bets were off. You think we'll be any different?
Labour is now officially the party of neutrality. So why would anybody ever bother voting for them? The manifesto may be fine but Labour will never be elected on this ticket. The libdems will pick up the Remainers the BP the Leavers. Goodbye Labour. Death of a once great party.
Keir Starmer is the only hope we have in these dangerous days. If you don't like that and think that someone else - a melange of McClusky and Jesus is going to come along and lead us to the Promised Land you are much mistaken.
Exactly this. It is normal procedure for the Speaker to be knighted. The Dangerous Clown is also a Spiteful Clown. Ye gods! What a shower of hi-born shite governs us now!
@rcolvile
@MarinaHyde
He didn't "almost die of covid" was never on a ventilator and was only in the ICU because he was PM. Neither you nor I have access to his medical records but "almost dead" Covid patients generally are not up and running 5 days later. As for a rest - from what? He does fuck all.
I couldn't give a half of a half of a hoot about Harry & Megan - Bread&Circuses, keep the people occupied with trivia and the govt can be up to anything while the population is distracted. What a ridiculous little island it is that we live on.
Catching up on the superb The Rise of the Nazis BBC 2
2 things struck me immediately A / Hitler was lazy, hated reading briefs, spoke in long ramblng monologues and was a "useful idiot" until he took over B / The fascists prorogued the Reichstag to close down debate. Resonance?
Unless I've read the data completely wrong it would seem that Pfizer gives around 80% immunity and AZ only 60% immunity to the India Variant. If this is true it ain't good news and to release the Data on a Saturday Night while Eurovision is on TV looks nasty - or am I paranoid?