Everything is about Hillsborough to these twats.
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
Everything is about Hillsborough to these twats.
It's the culture. Hopefully there's a generation coming through who couldn't give two shits.
Performative Scouseness is even worse than its Scottish equivalent, and the sooner those two UFC fighters get flattened the better.
'You alright mate?'
'Yeah sound me lad Scouser aren't I werkin' class boss me lad Liverpool gotta make you laugh we don't like Tories Liverpool aren't we son...'
Should've guessed the response here.
I missed the debate. Did anything good happen?
Oh.
We're into silly season and although I'm still waiting for my August animal-related extravaganza (a worthy successor to Geronimo and Dog Man), here is the apex version of my favourite genre of Guardian bollocks that is 2012 Olympics nostalgia: https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ening-ceremony
Before you lot got found out as a load of having-your-cake-and-eating-it bourgeois pricks, you mean.It is often said (and I suppose I used to say it myself) that what Britain needs now is a post-imperial narrative as confident as that of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. But it’s too easy to look back on that time as somehow antediluvian: as a gilded moment before the traumas of the Scottish and Brexit referendums; before JK Rowling (who read that night from Peter Pan) became divisive; before the lurch to the right of the Conservatives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62325842.amp
Counterproductive.
I just want a good Labour leader to come along.We used to have them, I swear.
He's so desperate to prove he's not Corbyn but is looking a right mess doing it.
Originally Posted by Boydy
Exactly, I think it might have been JIM who made this point, but it's like they're trying to replicate new labours third way centrist shit, but forgetting Blair had a lot of charisma and shit. This lot think just choosing to basically have no stance on anything is the way to win over middle England, forgetting that New Labour actually had policies and stances. I guess it could still work if the Tories nuke their own popularity enough, but it's a risky strategy, especially for getting more than one term.
It was a while ago now, but I remember some dumbass shadow junior minister going on the telly during the debate about whether to send the kids back to school and she just refused to give an answer either way. "Would Labour send the kids back to school or not?" ".......well, the dangerous Tory policies of..." Fffffs
That last line tells you all you need to know. These people moaned like shit about austerity ('austerity') at the time, but they would take decades of it in a heartbeat to reverse the referendum.
Truss's coached voice is so irritating.
When she speaks it’s almost as if she needs to think before every word she says.
G’wan, Lizzie. Give it your all.
The first iteration of Thatcher was bad enough.
But she'll claim the energy cap freeze as her own and ride on that for a while.
To be fair she's got it easy now Boris has fixed the energy cost crisis with his "buy a £20 kettle" solution.
It fooled my mother-in-law, who despite not being too bright, surely won't be the only person to have fallen for that. Thankfully we nipped it in the bud before she made it down to Argos.
I'd missed that.
He's got to be doing it deliberately now, the absolute shambles.
The quote seemed pretty ok in the full context.
"and yes nuclear always looks - when you begin, it always looks relatively expensive to build and to run but look at what is happening today, look at the results of Putin's war it is certainly cheap by comparison with hydrocarbons today in fact if Hinkley Point C were already running already this year it's been delayed for ages and ages of course it would be cutting fuel bills by £3 bn say that again -if Hinkley Point C were running now, it would be cutting fuel bills by £3 bn
So you have to look ahead And you have to beware of the false economy If you have an old kettle that takes ages to boil, it may cost you £20 to replace it But if you get a new one you will save ten pounds a year every year on your electricity bill"
He was making a crap analogy about investing in nuclear power to save money in the long run, which all of the internet people who get very angry about him being dishonest dishonestly clipped out of context and memed into his apparent solution to increased household bills.
Congrats to those that did that then. What a bunch of tools.
Good to see Ian and Ben were lapping it up too.
As for nuclear, it seems like the solution to everything. It's madness we're not all over it.
It's hugely expensive and takes a very long time to build with a difficulty in getting rid of the nuclear waste.
But it pays back in the long run because the cost of the fuel is minimal, as opposed to, you know, gas.
Can we not just fire the waste into space?
Not great if the rocket blows up.
Fair point.
I've concluded that they're not actually angry about his many faults, they're just angry that he doesn't agree with them.
Missing him already tbh.
Nuclear is expensive because we've never scaled it, like having to buy everything in (including the tin at this point) just to make one cake. As for the waste, the vast majority of it just gets landfilled, and the small amount of dangerous filth is easily secured and stored. The issue is having to do so over the very, very, very, very long-term, which is where burying it comes in. That is the solution, and would be perfectly fine; but people even moan about that because what if humanity regresses to the point where we forget what it is and start digging it up seven thousand years from now? We are therefore bookended by not wanting to build Sizewell C because it won't work for ten years, but also fretting about health and safety on the Planet of the Apes.
The 'Boris Johnson had his faults but...' pieces are being drafted as we speak.
Well fair play to them for somehow picking a bigger cunt than the outgoing one. Outstanding work. Liz fucking Truss. Jesus.
To be fair given I only reference it to shitpost on here I'm happy to take "Boris Johnson is a cretin" at face value rather than spend more time reading things he's said only for it to 99% of the time turn out he was in fact being a cretin.
If he was actually making a salient point about something then congratulations to him, he got at least one chalked up before he left for the after dinner circuit.
I don't think it was a salient point, it just wasn't the laughable dreck that people were saying it was.
Much like the Michael Gove 'had enough of experts' quote.
Well I'm happy to extend him my congratulations for that as well. Rare ground for him either way.
On Truss, was the vote expected to be as close as that?
I only just checked now you said it. I guessed it was going to be about 70-30. Voters probably started to get cold feet when they realised she would have to do something important straight off the bat. Luckily, all these plans that she will announce imminently have been drawn up for a couple of months now.
Quite a lot of the Tory membership aren't unbelievable morons (despite what you may read) so Sunak will have attracted a fair bit of support. However, I think he comes across a bit corporate America which is massively off-putting for certain demographics (see also Barack Obama tanking Remain's chances).
A Tory leader should never say things like 'Yeah, guys'. Even David Cameron wouldn't have said that at his fakest.
The BBC mentioning valid votes implies there's possibly a sizeable amount of ballot spoiling. Then again, that could just be the BBC being shithouses.
EDIT: Patel resigns. Probably off to work with Rwanda's tourist board.
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Truss banging on about Putin, should we have a TTH Death Pool when we are conscripted?
Nuclear has been the best option for the last thirty years, it's cheaper, cleaner, and less impactful than any of the viable alternatives. Shame the uranium mining lobby was less effective than it's oil/gas counterparts.
If only the yanks dropped a big petrol bomb on Nagasaki.
They spent most of 1945 doing exactly that.
TNT is not petrol.
Neither is thermite or magnesium if were going to get technical. They'd already burnt most of the country to the ground is the point.
As well they should have.
It's Chernobyl (and to a lesser extent Fukushima) that cause everyone to shit their pants, which is annoying, because modern Nuclear power is world's away from Chernobyl and we are pretty safe from tsunamis and monster earthquakes.
True. There's a lot less room for some gimp in the control room to go solo. Still room for a cover-up, though.Storage is still a problem but the Earth is deep. Then you've just got to worry about dickheads digging it up.
Windscale fire though
We successfully covered that up for decades -- so that can't have had any effect. Anyway, good to see we're off to a fine start with the shittest possible intervention in the energy market.
Aren't a few of these nuclear power plants near eroding coastline?
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