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It’s absolutely disgraceful once again, every day something new in this country. Once again they give their mates state money to screw us all over and no one cares, they will win the next election and probably the one after.
 

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So which Tory's partner/brother/sister/ex landlord/donor does Chartwells belong to then?
CEO of the group that owns chartwell is a donor.

The group seem to be make a lot of money, atleast pre covid, so really everything about this is awful.
 

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Clearly it’s much better that a corporation with a Tory donor CEO gets to pocket a £25 profit from the £30 voucher (supplied by public funds) than it is a family having money difficulties buys something a Daily Mail reader thinks they shouldn’t be allowed.
 

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Clearly it’s much better that a corporation with a Tory donor CEO gets to pocket a £25 profit from the £30 voucher (supplied by public funds) than it is a family having money difficulties buys something a Daily Mail reader thinks they shouldn’t be allowed.
Anyone that buys the Daily Mail has no business lecturing anyone on how to spend money.
 

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Words can't describe the amount of disgust at some of these 'food hampers' these families have received.
Then the politicians in this country will ultimately do feck all because the populace in this country will ultimately do feck all too.

We'll never know the true depths of corruption & depravity this government is responsible for in the last year alone, because no doubt they'll cover that up too.
 

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Words can't describe the amount of disgust at some of these 'food hampers' these families have received.
Then the politicians in this country will ultimately do feck all because the populace in this country will ultimately do feck all too.

We'll never know the true depths of corruption & depravity this government is responsible for in the last year alone, because no doubt they'll cover that up too.
Na, this is going to be the scandal Starmer gets a resignation from. Cummings, Jenrick, Patel, PPE, the billions for track and trace, the Brexit deal and keeping schools open for 24 hours before they suddenly needed to be closed were just practice run ups. Let the heads roll.
 

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Na, this is going to be the scandal Starmer gets a resignation from. Cummings, Jenrick, Patel, PPE, the billions for track and trace, the Brexit deal and keeping schools open for 24 hours before they suddenly needed to be closed were just practice run ups. Let the heads roll.
:lol: Don’t get me started on that useless toad
 

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Why is a footballer holding our prime minister to account ffs :lol:
 

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Boris' reply to any difficult questions during PMQs today about food parcels, and fisherman in Scotland:

'Oxford Vaccine!'
 

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jesus fecking wept
the tories will just continue to repeat this because 1 - it's true, and 2 - starmer wont do anything to change it.
 

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The British Gas workers being fired then rehired on lower wages was a very low act.
 

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Today's pmq, Boris at his dithering, bumbling, rambling and indecisive worst. He should be ashamed of himself to yet again have the Speaker intervene and tell him to answer the questions.
He sounds full of panic and typically says the first stupid thing that comes into his head.
Is he a real leader???
 

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well, if it isn't the consequence of my own actions
And we all saw it coming.


jesus fecking wept
the tories will just continue to repeat this because 1 - it's true, and 2 - starmer wont do anything to change it.
Got to laugh at this though. At least they're now admitting that they're useless. New tactics seem to be "I know we are but so are you." Wonder if he'll now grow a pair and do what he should be doing rather than sitting on the fence trying to win back the lost sheep.
 

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Same with food bank stuff it seems.


Not even surprised, by this.

And we all saw it coming.



Got to laugh at this though. At least they're now admitting that they're useless. New tactics seem to be "I know we are but so are you." Wonder if he'll now grow a pair and do what he should be doing rather than sitting on the fence trying to win back the lost sheep.
To people with common sense, yes it reads as "wow Boris is admitting to his own shiteness", the problem with that is a large majority of the British public are empathising with Boris because "he's got a difficult job to do". People are dumb.

When it's time for elections, what will stick in the minds of the populace is that the LOTO was outdone by a 23-year old footballer - especially since, I doubt Boris will still be the leader of the Tories by then, so he won't be the target for Labour to go at - and if the Tories are smart, they will just continue to repeat that line again & again because Starmer will have no defence to it.
 

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Christ. The amount of painful, excruciating clips there have been of Matt Hancock since 2019... How can one man take so much public humiliation? What effect must that have on him?
Honestly deliberate or not I think the non stop public humiliations act as a sort of relief valve for the media and watching public. The tories solution to the constant pressure building up from both their inability to deal with covid and their role in the general decay over the last decade is to basically make Hancock into a human piñata. Some one that the media or public can batter around once a week on live tv in order to create some idea of accountability.
 

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Honestly deliberate or not I think the non stop public humiliations act as a sort of relief valve for the media and watching public. The tories solution to the constant pressure building up from both their inability to deal with covid and their role in the general decay over the last decade is to basically make Hancock into a human piñata. Some one that the media or public can batter around once a week on live tv in order to create some idea of accountability.
Completely agree. Think that much was clear in the 2019 election too.
 

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Completely agree. Think that much was clear in the 2019 election too.
Yeah the last election was genuinely mad. It's one thing to have a party win a massive majority but the Tory campaign was just something else.

We've pretty much got a government full of Spectator columnists.
 

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Yeah the last election was genuinely mad. It's one thing to have a party win a massive majority but the Tory campaign was just something else.

We've pretty much got a government full of Spectator columnists.
Funny you say that, a Tory colleague of mine was telling me today how the tories are different than when they were under May and Cameron because supposedly some of their new MPs are social liberals.