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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Wed Oct 21, 2015 8:48 pm

Well said Tory-woman - fair-and-balanced-Bish agrees!


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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:56 am

Saudi Arabia has launched an attack on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after he urged the UK Government to scrap a £5.9m prison consultancy contract with the repressive Middle Eastern regime.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, said there had been “an alarming change in the way Saudi Arabia is discussed in Britain” in the last few weeks.

prison consultancy contracts with saudi arabia... hmmmm... we're in bed with some pretty dodgy characters...

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:15 am

thebish wrote:
Saudi Arabia has launched an attack on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after he urged the UK Government to scrap a £5.9m prison consultancy contract with the repressive Middle Eastern regime.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi ambassador to the UK, said there had been “an alarming change in the way Saudi Arabia is discussed in Britain” in the last few weeks.

prison consultancy contracts with saudi arabia... hmmmm... we're in bed with some pretty dodgy characters...
The world is run by pretty dodgy characters.
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by CAPSLOCK » Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:22 am

Ironic that in consecutive posts he wants more spent on benefits but doesn't want us to raise the money to be able to do it
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Lord Kangana » Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:16 pm

So the only way to make money is by nefarious means.

I'm glad we've cleared that one up.
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:33 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:So the only way to make money is by nefarious means.

I'm glad we've cleared that one up.

aye - the only way of raising cash is to build prisons for despotic regimes to lock more dissidents up in before torturing/executing them... my bad! :D

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by CAPSLOCK » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:54 pm

thebish wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:So the only way to make money is by nefarious means.

I'm glad we've cleared that one up.

aye - the only way of raising cash is to build prisons for despotic regimes to lock more dissidents up in before torturing/executing them... my bad! :D
So the prisons won't happen, otherwise?

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:05 pm

all sorts of things happen otherwise to me getting involved - that fact doesn't mean I should get involved, even if it might make me some cash...

that's about the lamest argument in town!

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by CAPSLOCK » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:30 pm

Fine, we'll cut benefits

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:34 pm

CAPSLOCK wrote:Fine, we'll cut benefits

I'm not arsed, either way

"we"?? who the feck are you - George Osbourne? :shock:

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:53 pm

thebish wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:Fine, we'll cut benefits

I'm not arsed, either way

"we"?? who the feck are you - George Osbourne? :shock:

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:54 pm

Hoboh wrote:
thebish wrote:
CAPSLOCK wrote:Fine, we'll cut benefits

I'm not arsed, either way

"we"?? who the feck are you - George Osbourne? :shock:

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:19 pm

I've just watched some 'highlights' of yesterday's PMQ's. I'm hoping that they were edited to suit someone's agenda, because otherwise, if the shouting down of Corbyn actually happened as I've just seen it, then it's an absolute fecking disgrace and an absolute affront to the whole democratic process.
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Jugs » Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:32 pm

Happens every week at the moment, mate.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:57 pm

Jugs wrote:Happens every week at the moment, mate.
See, I have to disagree, or maybe not. I honestly thought that we were getting somewhere with it. I've truly been suckered into believing that one person might raise a point and his or her opposite number counter it. Didn't some nice person Filibuster the tax credits debate earlier this week? This is fecking playground tactics!
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Jugs » Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:56 pm

Aye, it's a regular occurrence now. The Tories can often be heard heckling and laughing. They even laughed when Corbyn was reading out a quote from a member of the public whose plight he wanted to highlight.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by BWFC_Insane » Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:42 pm

Jugs wrote:Aye, it's a regular occurrence now. The Tories can often be heard heckling and laughing. They even laughed when Corbyn was reading out a quote from a member of the public whose plight he wanted to highlight.
Not exclusively a Tory thing. The sneering and jeering in politics is embarrassing and needs to stop. But it is so deep rooted into many of the creatures involved, it may take a long time for that to happen.

PMQs should have members of the public asking questions each week anyway. And those people should be there asking the questions and getting the answers. And the PM shouldn't be allowed out until that person is happy with the answer to the question.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Prufrock » Sat Nov 07, 2015 10:46 am

Did enjoy Corbs asking the same question all six times because he didn't get an answer to the question asked.
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Tue Nov 10, 2015 11:42 pm

if I may... an injection of deeply-thought out, reasoned debate...

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:55 am

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... xfordshire" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not sure I'd be happy if I was a Europhile with this idiot leading the campaign to stay in. :lol:
On a serious note, what a wanker!

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