The Politics Thread

[Worthy4England]

Just what are they not telling us about Ebola?
The scale of help and professionals heading for Africa is unprecedented, not the usual half hearted efforts of government.

I'm not sure what you think you're missing? They've said it's a epidemic, that it's a huge fecking problem and likely to kill lots of people and try your best not to catch it.

I'm thinking more like is it mutating and going airborne

That'd sort of make it like a greenhouse gas, which everyone knows don't exist...

[thebish]

Just what are they not telling us about Ebola?
The scale of help and professionals heading for Africa is unprecedented, not the usual half hearted efforts of government.

I'm not sure what you think you're missing? They've said it's a epidemic, that it's a huge fecking problem and likely to kill lots of people and try your best not to catch it.

I'm thinking more like is it mutating and going airborne

That'd sort of make it like a greenhouse gas, which everyone knows don't exist...

Hoboh the totally credulous skeptic!

[Hoboh]

Just what are they not telling us about Ebola?
The scale of help and professionals heading for Africa is unprecedented, not the usual half hearted efforts of government.

I'm not sure what you think you're missing? They've said it's a epidemic, that it's a huge fecking problem and likely to kill lots of people and try your best not to catch it.

I'm thinking more like is it mutating and going airborne

That'd sort of make it like a greenhouse gas, which everyone knows don't exist...

Don't be silly, if someone sneezes at you it comes jet propelled and has now't to do with tree huggers not washing and polluting the air!

[Bruce Rioja]

Get this on yer bedroom wall, Hoboh.

Nigel Farridge - 1983.

[thebish]

^ tis a photoshopped fake....

it's these two photos shopped together:

[Bruce Rioja]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[William the White]

^ tis a photoshopped fake....

it's these two photos shopped together:

Might have left us to enjoy it a little longer...

[thebish]

Might have left us to enjoy it a little longer...

it's been doing the rounds for years, Bill!

[Bruce Rioja]

Might have left us to enjoy it a little longer...

it's been doing the rounds for years, Bill!

Said the man that doesn't who James Martin is?!

[thebish]

Might have left us to enjoy it a little longer...

it's been doing the rounds for years, Bill!

Said the man that doesn't who James Martin is?!

{cough} Jennifer Lawrence!

and - I still couldn't pick James Martin out of a crowd! You're all a bunch of TV celeb tarts!! (with the creditable exception of Worthy!)

[thebish]

meanwhile...

UK public borrowing UP another 10%... the electorate could be forgiven for having thought they heard the tories tell us that labour were borrowing too much - and that they'd borrow less...

whilst he may still manage to look like the cat that got the cream... Georgie may well miss his defecit reduction promises yet again...

[Bruce Rioja]

What's this business about UKIP / Mike Read having a song out? Has anyone heard it?

[Beefheart]

meanwhile...

UK public borrowing UP another 10%... the electorate could be forgiven for having thought they heard the tories tell us that labour were borrowing too much - and that they'd borrow less...

whilst he may still manage to look like the cat that got the cream... Georgie may well miss his defecit reduction promises yet again...

It's fine though because 'wealth creators' are paying less tax. Making them pay more would be a ridiculous way of cutting the deficit.

[Beefheart]

What's this business about UKIP / Mike Read having a song out? Has anyone heard it?

Yeah, it's really fecking awful.

[thebish]

What's this business about UKIP / Mike Read having a song out? Has anyone heard it?

Yeah, it's really fecking awful.

from the Independent:

Something truly, excruciating, sickeningly, sordidly, cringingly, toe-curlingly awful is threatening to invade the music charts. Mike Read, once known as a DJ, has written a ‘Calypso’, and has recorded it, singing in a faux-Jamaican accent, to raise money for Ukip.

He denies that it is in any way racist.

more here: (not least - about his last musical venture...) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 07020.html

singalong for yourself with a faux Jamaican accent..

all together now:

“The other parties will count the costings/In Eastleigh, Thurrock and Bow they’re lost in/Labour and Tories shaking in their boots/When UKIP kick them up the grassroots.”

[Prufrock]

Any excuse to post this, just for Worthy:

[Worthy4England]

Nope - didn't crease a grin. Wasn't bad as far as party political broadcasts go, though.

[Bruce Rioja]

I managed 37 seconds. Dear me!

[Worthy4England]

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Found this quite interesting, on Student Debt in the US...£11bn owed just by folks over 65...by 75, 50% default...

What a shambles of a society. Good job we don't try and emulate them. Errrr....

[Prufrock]

That's part of what pisses me off about the whole tuition fees thing. For all the fuss and argument it caused, they're never getting a gigantic proportion of that money back anyway. Waste of time and money.