The Politics Thread

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Ulster politics is not my Big Thing, so I've never heard of Charlie either. Nay Sayrenda.

Aye well, they're kicking off now over how many times a year they'll fly the Union Jack outside Belfast City Hall.

They shouldn't fly it at all - they should paint it on the outside, extra large with a mural of an SAS soldier sighting down his rifle barrel.

In which case they should get someone that's good at it in to do it. Most of the murials that I've seen on the Shanklin/Falls/Crumlin Road etc. are embarrassingly shit.

I don't think sensitive artistic types last very long on Shanklin/Falls/Crumlin Road

[Bruce Rioja]

Ulster politics is not my Big Thing, so I've never heard of Charlie either. Nay Sayrenda.

Aye well, they're kicking off now over how many times a year they'll fly the Union Jack outside Belfast City Hall.

They shouldn't fly it at all - they should paint it on the outside, extra large with a mural of an SAS soldier sighting down his rifle barrel.

In which case they should get someone that's good at it in to do it. Most of the murials that I've seen on the Shanklin/Falls/Crumlin Road etc. are embarrassingly shit.

I don't think sensitive artistic types last very long on Shanklin/Falls/Crumlin Road

One of my brothers works for TNT. He once told me how one of their lorries was stopped on the Falls Road, the driver ordered out and then the lorry set ablaze - because it was orange. The B&Q Warehouse in Newry has its signage in red rather than orange to keep it from getting burned down. That's the kind of shit-headed 4ucktard mentality that we're dealing with here!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Never mind, the piercing eye will get them! And that's another thing, how come when we've got an English news story it's Oily Gearring or some Scot presenting it, but whenever it's Ulster news stories the presenter has the most Ulsterish accent that can be found. It took me months to work out that the mysterious Piercing Eye is in fact the PSNI (police service of nothin island).

[Little Green Man]

I was most disappointed when they chose not to call themselves the Northern Irish Police Service.

The feck-wittedness over certain colours extends to these shores too.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/th ... 81747.html

I don't suppose they're too welcoming to Martians in Larkhall.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

"There have even been claims that drunken youths have attempted to set fire to grass."

[Relentless09]

"There have even been claims that drunken youths have attempted to set fire to grass."

Probably empty wkd bottles which they think are petrol bombs but their too "drunk" to realise there's actually no petrol in it

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

She's got to go, I'm afraid.

That special adviser will never work in this field again either...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... story.html

She's got to go, I'm afraid.

That special adviser will never work in this field again either...

But it'll drag on, and on

[Hoboh]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... story.html

She's got to go, I'm afraid.

That special adviser will never work in this field again either...

I'm not afraid she's got to go!
The snout in trough pig should be drummed out immediately given all that’s happened on the expenses front, it smacks of sheer arrogance.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... story.html

She's got to go, I'm afraid.

That special adviser will never work in this field again either...

But it'll drag on, and on

I might need to revise that. The BBC doesn't even recognise this as a news story, it's not even buried in the margins of the Politics page, so it might just be quietly dropped. Trough snuffling b*stards.

[bobo the clown]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... story.html

She's got to go, I'm afraid.

That special adviser will never work in this field again either...

I'm not afraid she's got to go!

The snout in trough pig should be drummed out immediately given all that’s happened on the expenses front, it smacks of sheer arrogance.

Interesting to see on that page a link to "too sick to stand trial ex MP'ess Margaret Moran is well enough to take nice breaks in her Spanish property.


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[Lord Kangana]

Its interesting that it only appears to be The Telegraph thats still looking under rocks on this one. Perhaps the Leveson threat wasn't so idle, and wasn't confined to one newspaper?

Theres still clearly legs in the story, and it appears a significant proportion of MPs are, shall we say, not playing by the spirit of the rules, as much as breaking them? I suppose you can act with impunity when you get to make your own rules up...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Its interesting that it only appears to be The Telegraph thats still looking under rocks on this one. Perhaps the Leveson threat wasn't so idle, and wasn't confined to one newspaper?

Theres still clearly legs in the story, and it appears a significant proportion of MPs are, shall we say, not playing by the spirit of the rules, as much as breaking them? I suppose you can act with impunity when you get to make your own rules up...

I'm expecting the headline anytime soon... "JK Rowling in world Quidditch match fixing allegations"

[Lord Kangana]

Might at least make her books interesting.

[Hoboh]

Might at least make her books interesting.

Agreed!

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parli ... s-and.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Another hair-brained Conservative idea.

Very little winds me up in politics more than Conservatives being simultaneously ludicrously moralistic and senselessly impractical.

[Harry Genshaw]

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parli ... s-and.html

Another hair-brained Conservative idea.

Very little winds me up in politics more than Conservatives being simultaneously ludicrously moralistic and senselessly impractical.

Unsurprising but I found the idea of reducing redundancy notice from 90 days to 45 days more annoying to be honest

[William the White]

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parli ... s-and.html

Another hair-brained Conservative idea.

Very little winds me up in politics more than Conservatives being simultaneously ludicrously moralistic and senselessly impractical.

i'd like to get that prick living on a claimant's benefits with his Welfare card.

Feckin permanently.

[Bruce Rioja]

Plebgate's raised it's head again. Looks like it's the Coppers that are lying, not Mitchell

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Plebgate's raised it's head again. Looks like it's the Coppers that are lying, not Mitchell

Pigs in porkies shocker!
Still wouldn't trust that Mitchell as far as I could throw him.