Westminster Politics

AllGoodNamesRGone said:
I can’t say I know of a single person who received a letter from their local mp on turning 18. I certainly didn’t.
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That's because in days gone by MP's believed the old maxim about "children being seen and not heard!"... most never got over the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18. The fact they are seeking to canvas young peoples votes this way suggests they have not been listening to the line from the Eddie Cochran hit 'Summertime Blues"..... "I'd like to help you son, but you are too young to vote" :)
 
Maticmaker said:
That's because in days gone by MP's believed the old maxim about "children being seen and not heard!"... most never got over the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18. The fact they are seeking to canvas young peoples votes this way suggests they have not been listening to the line from the Eddie Cochran hit 'Summertime Blues"..... "I'd like to help you son, but you are too young to vote" :)
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Or, the guy is a verified nonce and this is his M.O.
 
FireballXL5 said:
Meanwhile, back in the real world of government corruption...

Pin resets wipe all data from over 100 Treasury mobile phones

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...all-data-from-over-100-treasury-mobile-phones
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The government use iPhones don't they? So the chances are they definitely use the MDM service Jamf. Devices will wipe automatically after up to 11 failed password attempts, which you can reduce to I think 3 or 4 attempts. However, IT services would also be able to clear the passcode remotely for users. The fact the article says that IT services themselves wiped the devices suggests that users hadn't hit the code limit before the devices wiped themselves, so instead of pressing "clear passcode" they just used the "wipe device" option.
 
It's shocking how easy it is to control people.

We have news of a successful actual trial here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success" and led to many workers moving to shorter hours, researchers have said.

The trials, in which workers were paid the same amount for shorter hours, took place between 2015 and 2019.
Productivity remained the same or improved in the majority of workplaces, researchers said.
A number of other trials are now being run across the world, including in Spain and by Unilever in New Zealand.
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Then we see "new research" like this. They make their own "survey" and give it a "twist" and claims all such moves are not possible.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/socialist-push-four-day-week-184431425.html

Campaigners argue that productivity gains for businesses from more motivated and efficient staff would protect wages and make up the shortfall in hours – but research from the Social Market Foundation (SMF) found that employees are unwilling to take a hit in their own pay packets so the policy becomes possible.
The think tank found that 80pc of British workers opposed a four-day working week if it meant lower wages, with only one in 10 happy to work less and earn less.
The average UK worker spends 36.5 hours a week on the job and would need to raise their productivity by 16pc in order to avoid a drop in output, with even bigger gains needed from those working longer hours, the SMF said.
The report warned that to be viable, the policy would require lower profits for businesses, higher prices for consumers or a taxpayer subsidy. The SMF added that the policy could also entrench social divides and be seen as an elitist white-collar office perk by the large parts of the working population unable to benefit.
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How cool would it be if the players of football clubs banded together and made some big gesture against racism? I bet Boris and the rest of the cabinet could get behind that!

Oh….
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Exactly. Not an opportunity or photo op that this PM turns down
 
Jericholyte2 said:
That's right Boris, Priti, tell racist England fans that they are within their right to boo anti-racist gestures, and then come out all shocked when those racist fans racially abuse players...

fecking pathetic!
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Make comments about watermelon smiles while you're at it, I guess.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Make comments about watermelon smiles while you're at it, I guess.
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Step 1: Make your own racist comments (watermelon smiles / letterboxes, take your pick)
Step 2: Tell racists they're perfectly entitled to condemn anti-racist gestures
Step 3: Act appalled when it turns out racists will racially abuse players
 
Drifter said:
Racist abuse of England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho & Bukayo Saka condemned by Boris Johnson and FA


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57800431
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The same government that:
1 - encouraged fans who booed players for taking the knee
2 - insisted institutionalised racism doesn't exist
3 - currently drawing up laws, in response to the BLM protests, to criminalise such activity.
4 - is literally full of cnuts (this has nothing to do with the point, but its worth repeating, daily)
 
Jericholyte2 said:
Step 1: Make your own racist comments (watermelon smiles / letterboxes, take your pick)
Step 2: Tell racists they're perfectly entitled to condemn anti-racist gestures
Step 3: Act appalled when it turns out racists will racially abuse players
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And amazingly

Step 4: Get away with it
 
Darren grimes made the exact same comment on twitter as Natalie Elphick. and hes rightly being destroyed for it.
So many of these right wing / racist provacateurs on social media that parrot and amplify politicians opinions, and yet the politicians are shielded from any consequence. compare and contrast to how the left are treated.
 
Superden said:
Darren grimes made the exact same comment on twitter as Natalie Elphick. and hes rightly being destroyed for it.
So many of these right wing / racist provacateurs on social media that parrot and amplify politicians opinions, and yet the politicians are shielded from any consequence. compare and contrast to how the left are treated.
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Darren Grimes, a man operating from his mother's bedroom is a feckwit. He needs to be stopped from giving a platform to spout his shite yet news and radio broadcasters continue to invite him on.
 
Dobba said:
Finally a two footed, neck high lunge I can get behind.
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They need to make the final leap and question why those who voted for this shitshow feel they did, and how much responsibility they take for it. That would be a proper tackle.
 
Superden said:
Darren grimes made the exact same comment on twitter as Natalie Elphick. and hes rightly being destroyed for it.
So many of these right wing / racist provacateurs on social media that parrot and amplify politicians opinions, and yet the politicians are shielded from any consequence. compare and contrast to how the left are treated.
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It's the general rule of right wing parties they stoke the fire but because they tend to be upper class and social conservatives they take no blame when the lower class act out directly.

Never have, never will. Scumbags
 
Smores said:
It's the general rule of right wing parties they stoke the fire but because they tend to be upper class and social conservatives they take no blame when the lower class act out directly.

Never have, never will. Scumbags
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The same applies to the 'angry leftists'. Yes we're angry, because you lot are fcking up the country.
 
phonics_tid said:


These politicians really are the absolute scum of the earth.
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If there's one phrase that's certain to make my balls boil it's "playing politics". Especially since she's only a politician because her ex husband is a sex offender, yet she still sees herself as above the average proletariat.

But it's just the sheer audacity to respond a heartfelt and intellectually sound statement from Rashford (you know, "let's not let kids fecking starve" but he put it better than I can) with such a effortless and smug brush off. And to do it in such an "I told you so" twattish way that wouldn't look out of place if it was a five year old saying it when, read the room Natalie, he's having a pretty shit evening.

And it goes even further than that! Because we all know that at the root of it they're essentially saying "leave is alone to do whatever we want" and that non policitians should just keep shut. But what about the reverse? Why should a politician dictate NHS policy? Or how our taxes are spent? Why should people stay out of politics when politicians have shown time and again that they know feck all about the civil service, business and an array of sectors and industries that repeatedly have expert opinions quashed by some cnut who used to shove crayons up their nose and arse at Oxford?
 
Mickeza said:


Quite possibly the dumbest tweet I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying something.
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I’m guessing this person will then go (without any kind of self reflection ) and then moan about ‘cancel culture’, etc.
 
Mickeza said:


Quite possibly the dumbest tweet I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying something.
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Who's "accusing" her of anything!? It's simply a statement of facts that she stoked the fire.


But then tories and facts goes like republicans and science.
 
Jericholyte2 said:
What the feck is he supposed to mean by 'submission' to Priti Patel - my head's playing all sorts of tricks on me!
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I think he wants Mings to bend the knee for Patel, in a non-political act of submission I presume?
 
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