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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5401 Post by Boac » Mon Jan 16, 2023 10:44 am

Even more good news on the way the government is using our taxes https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 62410.html

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5402 Post by Boac » Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:52 pm

Judging by today's conviction of PC Carrick, the London Mayor was 100% right about Cressida Dick.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5403 Post by ricardian » Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:34 pm

Things the Conservative Government want to make more difficult:
  • The right to vote.
    The right to protest.
    The right to strike.
It's almost as though they are frightened of the public
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5404 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Jan 18, 2023 12:35 am


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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5405 Post by Boac » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:49 pm

In The Telegraph, James Dyson thinks that Sunak Sucks =))

"James Dyson: Stupid, short-sighted Tory policies are holding back the economy"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... k-economy/

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#5406 Post by Woody » Fri Jan 20, 2023 8:20 pm

Sunak has been given a fixed penalty fine for not wearing a seatbelt, the enquiries into why he’s not using a booster seat are ongoing :D
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5407 Post by Boac » Sat Jan 21, 2023 3:09 pm


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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5408 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:50 pm

ricardian wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 4:34 pm
Things the Conservative Government want to make more difficult:
  • The right to vote.
    The right to protest.
    The right to strike.
It's almost as though they are frightened of the public
And voting age of 16 suggests the SNP are frightened of adults.

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5409 Post by Boac » Sat Jan 21, 2023 7:14 pm

Carol Vorderman on Twatter posted
"SAJID JAVID
Aug 20 Starts as paid adviser to investment bank JP MORGAN
May 21 JPM forms Morgan Health
June 21 Javid is Health Secretary
Nov 22 Morgan Health says aggressively investing in “promising healthcare companies”
Jan 23 Javid calls for NHS reform!"

He's just returned, apparently to JPM. Nothing dodgy there, then............

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#5410 Post by FD2 » Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:21 pm

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5411 Post by Woody » Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:04 pm

Never mind tax evasion, eel fishing is bad for the career in Sweden :-o
Sweden's prime minister has been caught up in a political row after it emerged he hired a top aide who went eel fishing illegally, and misled the police about it.
Ulf Kristersson has admitted he knew Peter Magnus Nilsson had broken the law before appointing him last October.
The aide's behaviour was "stupid", but did not mean Mr Nilsson was unsuitable for the job, the PM said.
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5412 Post by Boac » Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:13 pm

Eel be in trouble...

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5413 Post by emjay » Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:37 am

Just try and wriggle out of that..

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#5414 Post by Pinky the pilot » Tue Jan 24, 2023 9:15 am

A slippery situation indeed!
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5415 Post by Woody » Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:37 pm

Invoking Godwins Law, Adolf Hitler is more popular than Margret Thatcher in most of the North of England :-o

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... gland.html
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5416 Post by Woody » Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:32 am

This is going to make a big hole in the Government’s finances, losses on VAT, income tax, national insurance etc :((

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64399748
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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5417 Post by G-CPTN » Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:04 am

Has overall vehicle production reduced?
I presume the majority of vehicles are currently produced in China.

List of motor vehicle production by countries.

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#5418 Post by Boac » Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:12 pm

I wonder how many fans of GB News will welcome the Mogg?

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Re: WTF is happening in the UK?

#5419 Post by Boac » Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:17 pm

It appears that UK taxpayers are going to cough up £220,000 to defend (the indefensible) Boris in his 'misleading parliament' case (why?) and the bill will almost certainly rise. I think the BBC chairman should stump up?

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#5420 Post by TheGreenAnger » Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:18 pm

Boac wrote:
Thu Jan 26, 2023 7:12 pm
I wonder how many fans of GB News will welcome the Mogg?
Will his show be called "The Whited Sepulchre!?"
My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

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