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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4341 Post by Dushan » Sat May 07, 2022 1:45 pm

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Sat May 07, 2022 9:53 am
Disgraced ex-mayor Lutfur Rahman is back from the slime pits of corruption as the new mayor of Tower Hamlets, London. Never thought that would happen. Have the voters no sense at all...
Funny you should ask. Trudeau got elected 3 times. What does that tell you about the intellect of voters?
And now they are trying to lower the voting age to 16. God help us…
Because they stand on the wall and say "nothing's gonna hurt you tonight, not on my watch".

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4342 Post by barkingmad » Mon May 09, 2022 7:48 am

As the UK local and NornIron election results are digested along with Partygate, Pantygate, Beergate and Currygate for pudding, here’s a thought for 2024 when we might have a chance to swop one pack of dickheads for another;

(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling)

If you can lose your head when all about you

Are keeping theirs and still voting for you,
If you can trust yourself when all sane men doubt you,
And make no allowance for their doubting too;
If you can prate and not be tired by prating,
Or lying, always deal in lies,
Or hating, do give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too bent, nor talk too unwise:

If you can dream – and make utopian dreams your master;
If you can think – and make footling thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with voter and alt-broadcaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the safety-speak you’ve spoken
Exposed as coercive, pointless rules,
Or watch the things commoners gave their lives to, broken,
And stoop and smash ’em up again with new-found tools:

If you can make one heap of all your expenses
And risk nothing on speeches of abject dross,
And win a seat, and forget about your modest beginnings
And never breathe a word about your boss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To slate your country long after it is laid low,
And so hold on when there is everything in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Let go!’

If you can talk with tech giants and lose our statues,
Or walk with crowds – nor lose the elitist touch,
If censored foes can never hurt you,
If all pharma companies count with you, and most too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of falsehoods spun,
Yours is the New World Order and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be an MP, my son!

Not my composition, it appeared in today’s Branch Covidian newsletter but sums up the crap show very succinctly.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4343 Post by Boac » Tue May 10, 2022 12:37 pm

Yet another example of Britain's finest ruling elite https://news.sky.com/story/jamie-wallis ... p-12609811

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4344 Post by Boac » Tue May 10, 2022 2:35 pm

........ there is more! Andrew Bridgen (a Tory MP) has twatted that he thinks the Met police should be investigating the Durham 'beergate'. Where do they find them?

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4346 Post by barkingmad » Wed May 11, 2022 11:19 am

Boac wrote:
Tue May 10, 2022 6:30 pm
What does the team think? https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ory-donors
Once upon a time we in the UK used to look at Italy and other countries as the hotbeds of corruption and dodgy practices but no longer, we realise we're now at the forefront of this way of life.

Sunak's plan might improve things but after watching the effects of the bolloxed Brexit agreement we will have to wait to see if the removal of EUssr imposed bureaucracy and restrictions, which are probably more cumbersome than our own home-grown versions, will yield any benefits.

Luckily the reference alerted me to this gem from the ASA which proves what a bunch of prudish snowflakey woke pillocks are out there spoiling our scenery;

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/ ... witter-asa

"....the ads were gratuitous, objectified women by “sexualising them and reducing them to body parts”,

I recall from late last year that a woman was defined as "a body with a vagina" as this reference adequately explains;

https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/10/bo ... -sex-back/

Is it just me or is the World going quietly subtly more insane? :-?

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4348 Post by Undried Plum » Wed May 11, 2022 6:57 pm

k3k3 wrote:
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Fingers?
Two at a time, in her case.

Be kind.

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#4349 Post by Undried Plum » Wed May 11, 2022 7:26 pm

Fold thumbs back, so as not to appear apelike like a Bush knuckledragger;

then do this:

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4350 Post by Boac » Wed May 11, 2022 8:45 pm

The Guardian has an amusing take on the Gove comedy show today. viewtopic.php?f=75&t=7075&start=160#p334060

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#4351 Post by G-CPTN » Wed May 11, 2022 9:01 pm

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#4352 Post by Boac » Wed May 11, 2022 9:05 pm

Oh yes I am..............:))

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4353 Post by Undried Plum » Wed May 11, 2022 10:32 pm

Buggah!

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#4354 Post by Rossian » Thu May 12, 2022 7:03 am

....etc? Why not ? Or is it a glitch?

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4355 Post by Boac » Thu May 12, 2022 7:46 am

Major panic at No10 to 'U-turn' on tax as Bojo wakes up to find he has made a bigger mess of the UK economy than Labour ever did.

Standby for 'new' policies'. https://news.sky.com/story/tax-cuts-cou ... s-12610861

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4356 Post by Boac » Thu May 12, 2022 10:29 am

Another 50 fines issued by the Met for Downing Street Covid breaches.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4357 Post by barkingmad » Mon May 16, 2022 8:05 am

Meanwhile back in leafy Surrey, the following comment by the wife of a senior (expensive) civil servant ‘working’ from home;

“Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn’t appreciate what civil servants do all day. My husband mows the lawn, walks the dog AND collects the kids from school”. Thanks to the Daily Torygraph cartoon for that one!

Entrepreneur John Caudwell has condemned the pandemic-induced work-from-home culture as “a catastrophe for the British economy” and an “epidemic of inefficiency sweeping the country” as he demands in the Mail that civil servants get back to their desks.

—-:Up and down the country, large parts of life are not functioning as they should, causing enormous frustration as we carry out our daily tasks.

From delays of as much of three months for renewing a passport or driving licence to finding it impossible to speak to a human to pay a bill or make a complaint, the pandemic has left a trail of destruction that Britain is still reeling from.

And I’m sorry to say, this situation seems to suits some people rather well.

Part of the problem is the continuing trend for working from home, which some see as an absolute windfall that allows them to walk the dog, have a long lunch, look after the children and still collect full pay.

But there is something else, too: a growing sense of entitlement on the part of workers who believe that jobs exist for their own convenience rather than to serve customers or the public.

And it is the civil service who particularly benefit from this privilege of convenience.

Whitehall workers enjoy job security and generous pensions – and all for hours that allow them to clock off at five o’clock.

But while customers can hold private companies to account for sloppy service by simply going elsewhere, they have no such option for the Government departments that run essential parts of their daily lives.

Worse, their taxes pay the wages of our enormous public sector workforce, leading to a growing sense of resentment when they are put on hold for the umpteenth time – or simply don’t get put through to a human on the phone at all.

The sheer scale of the epidemic of inefficiency sweeping the country means Boris Johnson’s plans to tackle the overstaffed public sector by taking a knife to more than 90,000 civil service jobs in line with pre-pandemic levels is hugely welcome.:—-

Here is the link to the complete article if you are suffering from low blood pressure;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... lture.html X(

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4358 Post by Boac » Mon May 16, 2022 12:52 pm

Another example of the understanding way the Conservatives are helping in the cost of living crisis

A Tory MP has suggested struggling people should tackle the cost of living crisis by getting “a better-paid job” or “taking on more hours”.

Rachel Maclean claimed her advice wouldn’t work for people “already working three jobs”, but added other government measures would.

“One of the obstacles is about being able to take on more hours, or even move to a better-paid job,” the minister for safeguarding said.

“It may be right for some people, but it’s not going to work for people already working in three jobs.”

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4359 Post by OFSO » Mon May 16, 2022 1:32 pm

Clock off at five o'clock? You must be joking. German civil servants (who are literally un-sackable) start the week at midday on Monday and finish the week at midday on Friday. German saying: " Why aren't German civil servants allowed to look out of the office window before lunch? Because if they did, they have nothing to do after lunch... "

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#4360 Post by Boac » Tue May 17, 2022 9:33 pm

Whatever happened to he taxi driver/undertaker that used to do all those video blogs? Is he still selling T-shirts and pillows?

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