Theresa May's Conservatives
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats
Paul Nuttall's UKIP
2 people's Greens
Nicholas Durgeon's Scottish Nationalists
Satan's Sinn Fein
Dr Ian Paisley's DUP
Some other bunch of nonces
I'm foreign, but I wish I were an Englishman
Diane Abbott, Labour Leader. Think on that.
Keith Vaz is off as well. It's a proper clear out of the twats.
Gone but not forgotten.
I can now spend the next thirty years focusing all my hate on Laura Pidcock.
I'm staggered he'd managed to hang around for this long after what he was caught doing.
We're back on the 'Corbyn refuses to start a thermonuclear war THE PUSSY' storyline?
It is an odd one. Firstly because we have never used a nuke in anger, secondly because most of them would bottle ever actually using them and thirdly because he should just say he would if he had to. it really is a tedious line of questioning.
We retain the option to inflict low-level twattings on loser countries so it wouldn't necessarily start a nuclear war if we moved first.
Careful what you say or Switzerland goes boom.
Getting in a huff and nuking the one country that actually has tactical nuke preparation would be a good summary of the Conservative strategy over the last decade.
In some breaking news, Farage has said the Brexit Party won't stand in seats won by the Tories in 2017.
Has he given up?
That will make no difference to anything. It's the Labour-held leave marginals where they need to fuck off.
It's the best news the Lib Dems have had in years.
They wouldn't bomb Switzerland, that's where their money is.
Switzerland is not a tough opponent. As per the opening sequence of Tomorrow Never Dies we have strong ski-warfare capabilities, and for more general mountainous combat we have good experience from the First Afghan War. The nuclear weapons are just the icing on the cake. Plus the best bit is Switzerland is neutral, so its troops wouldn't be able to fight back.
That's what they want you to think.
In before phonics is actually a Swiss banker.
Such bants.
They must have drafted dela and ginner in for the big offensive.
Some Lib Dem has resigned for his liberal use of the n word on Twitter. Elections are miserable but I do enjoy these stories.
I walked past a house near here the other day. Large, detached, a child's tricycle on the porch, a 4x4 parked outside and a Lib Dems Winning Here diamond on the front garden wall. My first thought was to whether the man of the house is into scatology or rentboys.
Huge respect for the tactical Asian. Get him a safe seat.
Oh God, this is shit, where the fuck is Ram... RAMESH? YEAH? RAMESH? CAN YOU WALK DOWN THAT CORRIDOR PLEASE? NO, NOW, IT HAS TO BE NOW... YES, I KNOW, JUST DO IT, IT'S A FAVOUR
Meanwhile...
It looks like an intervention.
It's quite funny the amount of seething that is happening on Prominent Remain Twitter about Lib Dems and Labour's failure to stand aside for one another.
1. You do know that Labour don't really want to remain?
2. Are you sure you want to turn this into a second referendum by proxy? What happens if you lose?
I don't bet on politics much and was wondering what's the best place to bet on it? I think the Tories could well get a 30 - 50 seat majority this time around.
Politicians really need to stop using the law for ridiculous things.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-50410790
Imagine taking someone to court for not letting you on the telly. Get a grip love.
According to the last election just two years ago, it's more a two party state than ever before. Add in the fact that they are only standing in 59 of the 650 constituencies and their irrelevance should be well-established. The Greens and Brexit Party have better claims.
I can kinda see Jo Swinson's angle because they at least had a spot at it in 2010. Still, she'd just be there for the illusion of choice rather than an actual option.
Having studied everything very carefully I've just placed my first election bet. Medium-sized wedge on NOM at 2.8 on Betfair. Mainly a trading position but if we see what I expect to happen and the entire north and midlands are repelled by Boris Johnson, then I might leave it in there.
Lab maj is basically impossible but is available at 32, for the true believers.
Can we, whoever wins, agree that the PM should become a mostly ceremonial decision and their job is to go to various places they're widely unliked and get called an arsehole for months on end?
I've really enjoyed Boris walking around in wellies being called a twat.
I hate that any Labour policy is called 'Free Stuff' while exactly the same Tory policy will be hailed as small c Conservatism a la
but this is just absolute bollocks and a bare faced lie.
He literally says 'Free broadband for the country' at the start.
I don't get it, does this mean I won't have to pay £34.95 to Sky anymore, or does it just mean that they'll put fibreoptic down in shitholes?
This Brexit twerp on QT is appalling.
Technically all the fibreoptic/copper-wire etc. that was laid down for your connection was already paid for by the state just like it was done under (actual) British Telecom, they just contracted out the installation. It's a better case for nationalisation than the trains.
England is only 30,000km bigger than South Korea where 95% of the entire country had 3mb connections in 1999. Today a 1GB per second connection costs less than 20 quid.
The West failed because we became absolutely useless at infrastructure for absolutely no gain.
The nationalised telecoms were a joke, and this idea of universal mega broadband is stupid. As far as I'm aware nobody has asked these idiots what they think the state shouldn't provide/balls up, which somebody really should before we end up with all the wacky shit in their 1950 manifesto.
Can i ask what this means? Like, I had a landline in that era that I can never remember ever not working and there wasn't any other technology. What was the issue?
You didn't ask but imo it's:
utilities (electric,gas,water)
national and local transport
some form of public banking system (i.e. through the post office)
speaking of post office, that
and internet technically counts as necessary communication nowadays so that too.
It's basically the other side of the coin from Trump and his wall in terms of batshit politicians making ludicrous promises.
This has distracted from the real lol of the day which is loads of Remainers and Corbynistas piling onto twitter, pleading with Lord Buckethead to withdraw his candidacy in Uxbridge as they fear he will split the anti-Johnson vote.
Sadly I have to correct you. Because we live in a distopian nightmare world, they are pleading with Count Binface because the Monster Raving etc. party filed a copyright injunction against the candidate formerly known as Lord Buckethead.
Apart from it being far cheaper and much more useful, it's exactly the same I agree.
British Telecom (or Post Office Telecommunications) - like every other nationalised industry, including previous attempts at the ones you mention - was notoriously inefficient and unresponsive. They used to take weeks to install phone lines, despite, as you say, there being nothing else for them to actually do. We've had thirty years of this stuff getting better and cheaper year after year. What the absolute fuck do they think that they have to offer?
Have you tried to get a phoneline installed recently? It takes the same amount of time and you pay for the privilege.
Of course it gets cheaper year after year. They're not fucking doing anything that costs any money and anything they do is being paid for by the fucking government.
Cheaper than the wall but did you see the way he just dropped a casual £15 billion of extra spending in there without batting an eyelid? Even if you subscribe to their theory of unlimited borrowing funding everything, that holds that every single such 'investment' they are going to make is going to be a success and pay for itself in spades, which if you look over the history of governments worldwide spending money is not a particularly likely scenario.