You asking the same about the HS2 funding, I hope.
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
You asking the same about the HS2 funding, I hope.
Is there a single person in the country that doesn't acknowledge it's a crooked shambles?
Some may see it differently just because it's presented in a lighter tint and in a suit as opposed to a dashiki.
Even Lewis and Jimmy think it's a farce, but that might be because Labour also have HS2 shit on their hands.
HS2 is a proper 2006 idea, like ID cards, or The Kooks.
I was against it from the start me.
I've always assumed they keep it running for the same bent reasons that housing developers can cry and wail their way to not building any affordable housing, i.e. it's too much of a ballache to get the lawyers involved.
It keeps going because too many people would have questions to answer if they canned it.
As long as they use the money saved to pay g4s to run some schools or something I'll be delighted.
On an unrelated note, I saw a video of that ridiculous Bangkok Maglev and wondered how fun it would be to hit the emergency stop on it.
Cutting foreign aid is one of those things that isn't a political risk at all: ravenous support for it across all parties as seen here https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1331650556566368258
It's just a cheap win and something to get the capuccino sisters fired up.
It's short sighted nonsense which has been built up to be more important than it actually is (in regards to spend).
The aid or cutting the aid, or both?
Look guys, if we have to cut back, then we have to cut back.
Do you reckon Rishi has one of these?
Saw one of his pictures the other day where ol Rish was wearing a hoodie and a tie. Man of the people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-55146068
How long before that's ripped down?
Should have made it massive like a proper tinpot country.
Not even that, man. Stick it on the Falklands. 200 ft tall pointed directly at Argentina.
They should have a statue of her there, but she would be spinning in her grave at a council forking out for that right now.
Local Tories really are the absolute pits, if you'll pardon the pun (although half the MPs seem to talk like that now too).Conservative councillor Robert Reid added: "She was the Iron Lady who put the iron back in Britain.
"Is it too much to ask that we underwrite this important event?"
Local politicians in general. I've always assumed local government was invented to keep those sort of people away from anything important.
Yeah, that's the civil service. I've seen it happen. One day it'll be me.
I don't know about this DEAL. The fact that the mongs can only cry about lost Erasmus beanos and paperwork ('trade reduction' lol) must be good signs, and no stupid shit has jumped out yet (or at least not binding Theresa May-style shit); but what an opportunity NO DEAL was. The entire Northern Ireland aspect still doesn't sit right (but then I don't believe in devolution, which you could justify it under). We'll see.
No deal would have involved so much short term catastrophe that it would probably have eroded the long term benefits. This is about as good as it gets, I think.
It might have done in normal times (still worth it), but at the minute you would barely notice it. Now was the time.
Apparently the new rules (raise in minimum wage for visa probably?) have meant a struggle to fill 120K vacancies in care sector with dirty EU immigrants. What a disaster. I wonder if any solutions exist to this riddle.
Offing the people who need it.
Brexit cruising through the commons then, which is probably understandable. Who's voting against it at this stage, some strange alliance of John McDonnell's lot, Ben Bradshaw, MOMENTUM and the DUP?
I'm slowly reading bits of it, and what I understand doesn't seem too bad. I just can't get past the Northern Ireland stuff, to the point where I'm half-tempted to write a letter for some official explanation of it.
There’s been extremely little coverage of the deal or explanations on what it all means for all parties. I know covid is #1 these days but it’s been years getting to this and I haven’t the foggiest what’s going on with it all still.
We got the deal, you fucking melts, there's no more to see here.
The vote is meaningless. Government doesn't need the vote to enact the agreement.
Northern Ireland is still basically half in, down to stupid shit like not being able to take certain food products there from England (but you can bring the same crap in from there because we aren't anal about cheese). I think you can justify that if you believe in devolution, which I don't so won't, but the official explanation throughout has been that this is necessary to protect the Good Friday Agreement, which we're either lying about for convenience (which we can't be because the economics wouldn't justify it) or the actual government allowed itself to be memed into believing it by remainer nonces and Irish nationalists.
It clearly does have to happen to protect the GFA, that much is plain as day. Whether the GFA is worth protecting is a whole other story though (it’s not).
I thought that meant Gaelic Football Association for a good few seconds there.
Top Ireland becoming Side Scotland would confuse Sincere even more.
Scotland Detached.
Nothing in the Good Friday Agreement prohibits normal economic checks being conducted at the Top Ireland/Bottom Ireland border, and it explicitly recognises United Kingdom sovereignty over Northern Ireland. The only border stuff concerns military installations, and we also have the Common Travel Area that pre-dates both that and the European Union effectively guaranteeing freedom of movement for the 'community'. There was no need to 'avoid a hard border', by which remainers/nationalists meant a normal border ('soft border' being an open border), and yet it came to define our entire approach. If Top Ireland wants to vote itself out of the United Kingdom then it is free to do so, but until it does then it should have the same status as the mainland.
Just seen that John Redwood voted against the deal. //
Ah shit, he abstained/didn't vote.
It was almost literally just the yellow parties that voted against it (and the green).
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The sermon given by Blackford earlier was just one long string of made up bullshit. That is a proper banana republic in waiting if they ever vote themselves off.
At this stage we should be voting them off.
The government will definitely end up buying them off with more powers at some point, influenced by all of those 'Federal UK' spastics who hate England, when in reality they should either just ignore them or give their existing powers to local government.