The Politics Thread

[thebish]

she could have just called him a bigot like they normally do, insteada trying to come up with wierd analogies.

I suspect she really wanted to call him a ginger "something else" but reigned that back and settled on "rodent". Quite what "ginger" is doing as part of an insult has always evaded me...

[hisroyalgingerness]

She's trying to persuade the Scottish voters in the national elections to (bore off) vote Labour and not Tories and not Lib Dems

Did you feel hurt personally?

Not really, no. But let's not get into the "ginger - is it a form of racism or not" debate, it's a Sunday night. It just has extra amusement for me with it being Harperson herself

[thebish]

Dave and Nick appear to have swapped off our troops and stuff to the french for a baguette and a bag of onions... unless I've read it wrong...

[Bruce Rioja]

I shall put this in here. Quite a strange story regarding one of the coppers that shot that solicitor in Chelsea sneaking song titles into his evidence. You'd have thought that he'd have managed to get A View to a Kill in there, wouldn't you?! Bloody amateur.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11672840

[Prufrock]

I shall put this in here. Quite a strange story regarding one of the coppers that shot that solicitor in Chelsea sneaking song titles into his evidence. You'd have thought that he'd have managed to get A View to a Kill in there, wouldn't you?! Bloody amateur.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11672840

Unbelievably crass if true. The cnut.

[a1]

I shall put this in here. Quite a strange story regarding one of the coppers that shot that solicitor in Chelsea sneaking song titles into his evidence. You'd have thought that he'd have managed to get A View to a Kill in there, wouldn't you?! Bloody amateur.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11672840

or this

[Worthy4England]

I shall put this in here. Quite a strange story regarding one of the coppers that shot that solicitor in Chelsea sneaking song titles into his evidence. You'd have thought that he'd have managed to get A View to a Kill in there, wouldn't you?! Bloody amateur.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11672840

We have been known to offer bonus points for similar type activities during various "customer interactions", so wouldn't surprise me if this was true - but rather difficult to prove I'd have thought, unless they had a leaderboard accompanying it.

[Bruce Rioja]

I shall put this in here. Quite a strange story regarding one of the coppers that shot that solicitor in Chelsea sneaking song titles into his evidence. You'd have thought that he'd have managed to get A View to a Kill in there, wouldn't you?! Bloody amateur.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11672840

We have been known to offer bonus points for similar type activities during various "customer interactions", so wouldn't surprise me if this was true - but rather difficult to prove I'd have thought, unless they had a leaderboard accompanying it.

Indeed - a round of 'meeting bingo' definitely helps the whole dreary experience, and I seem to remember the England World Cup squad of 98 slipping song titles into TV interviews too.

[thebish]

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[thebish]

some - but not all - may enjoy this by Charlie Brooker:

a taster:

Nick Clegg is proving to be perhaps the most useful tool in the government's shed. Not because he says or does anything particularly inspiring, but because he functions as a universal disappointment sponge for disenchanted voters.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... nick-clegg

another snippet... (just cos I am nice!)

At times Clegg sounds like a once-respected stage actor who's taken the Hollywood dollar and now finds himself sitting at a press junket, patiently telling a reporter that while, yes, on the face of it, his role as the Fartmonster in Guff Ditch III: Fartmonster's Revenge may look like a cultural step down from his previous work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, if you look beyond all the scenes of topless women being dissolved by clouds of acrid methane, the Guff Ditch trilogy actually contains more intellectual sustenance than King Lear, and that all the critics who've seen the film and are loudly claiming otherwise are misguided, partisan naysayers hell- bent on cynically misleading the public – which is ethically wrong.

[Gravedigger]

USAF Fairford now run down as an operational base with consequent damage to local economy. This is a strange one as, should the shuttle need to divert within 14 minutes of launch then Fairford is the airbase chosen. Apparently there'll have to be a 26% increase in business rates to cover the shortfall. I'd have thought it would have been cheaper to move Lyneham and Brize Norton ops to Fairford. On a more pleasant note, for plane spotters, RIAT will still be at Fairford, though it'll cost a bomb , no pun intended, to put operational staff back for this once a year do.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Re-run for Oldham n Saddleworth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11699888

Naughty boy.

[thebish]

Have I got this right? Prisoners will get guaranteed worthwhile jobs for which they will be paid the minimum wage. The long-term unemployed will get enforced unpaid work litter-picking. The council street-care workers who would normally do the litter-picking will get made redundant - and if they remain unemployed, will eventually be made to do it unpaid?

can one of you tory/lib-dem boys explain how this works?

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Be sure and let me know when you make your first convert - Labour Boy!

[thebish]

Be sure and let me know when you make your first convert - Labour Boy!

and the question? tory-boy? any answer - even a little one?

[Bruce Rioja]

Have I got this right? Prisoners will get guaranteed worthwhile jobs for which they will be paid the minimum wage. The long-term unemployed will get enforced unpaid work litter-picking. The council street-care workers who would normally do the litter-picking will get made redundant - and if they remain unemployed, will eventually be made to do it unpaid?

can one of you tory/lib-dem boys explain how this works?

Given the amount of litter, discarded chewing gum etc. that I see washing around the place I don't think anyone'll be being made redundant. Is that your left knee that's jerking?

[thebish]

Have I got this right? Prisoners will get guaranteed worthwhile jobs for which they will be paid the minimum wage. The long-term unemployed will get enforced unpaid work litter-picking. The council street-care workers who would normally do the litter-picking will get made redundant - and if they remain unemployed, will eventually be made to do it unpaid?

can one of you tory/lib-dem boys explain how this works?

Given the amount of litter, discarded chewing gum etc. that I see washing around the place I don't think anyone'll be being made redundant. Is that your left knee that's jerking?

plenty of street-care people will be made redundant - local council budgets are being cut by 25.6%

[Bruce Rioja]

Have I got this right? Prisoners will get guaranteed worthwhile jobs for which they will be paid the minimum wage. The long-term unemployed will get enforced unpaid work litter-picking. The council street-care workers who would normally do the litter-picking will get made redundant - and if they remain unemployed, will eventually be made to do it unpaid?

can one of you tory/lib-dem boys explain how this works?

Given the amount of litter, discarded chewing gum etc. that I see washing around the place I don't think anyone'll be being made redundant. Is that your left knee that's jerking?

plenty of street-care people will be made redundant - local council budgets are being cut by 25.6%

Is a 'street-care person' a road-sweep? I once spoke to a bloke who was a flagger - he described himself as being a 'Street Mason'.

[thebish]

Have I got this right? Prisoners will get guaranteed worthwhile jobs for which they will be paid the minimum wage. The long-term unemployed will get enforced unpaid work litter-picking. The council street-care workers who would normally do the litter-picking will get made redundant - and if they remain unemployed, will eventually be made to do it unpaid?

can one of you tory/lib-dem boys explain how this works?

Given the amount of litter, discarded chewing gum etc. that I see washing around the place I don't think anyone'll be being made redundant. Is that your left knee that's jerking?

plenty of street-care people will be made redundant - local council budgets are being cut by 25.6%

Is a 'street-care person' a road-sweep? I once spoke to a bloke who was a flagger - he described himself as being a 'Street Mason'.

a street-mason is one of the levels of expertise (not in sweeping - but usually in road-work/excavation etc..) it's one down from the Ganger and one up from the Roadworker.

I was using the phrase "steet-care" to cover the whole range of street-care services as council might provide, a bit wider than sweeping - the following are the street-care service categories in my own council:

* Animal fouling
* Dead animals
* Fly tipping
* Graffiti
* Grass cutting
* Litter
* Road spillages
* Syringes
* Vandalism

[Lord Kangana]

Re-run for Oldham n Saddleworth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11699888

Naughty boy.

Perhaps he can whip up a few extra votes whilst he's inside?