General Election views

[Slasher]

So Slasher, what is your meaning?

What I was told many yonks ago, while drinking at a local pub in East London, that a quiff is...well considering this isn’t the Sick thread... a ‘promiscuous woman’.

I asked what it was after a real Pom remarked to his mate (also a real Pom) “Cor that’s a nice bit of quiff innit!” or words to that effect.

Edit: yes. What Boac said.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urband ... e&amp=true

A Quiffe, as it’s poofingly spelt, was known affectionately in Oz as a Love Puff.

[Pontius Navigator]

Slasher, that leaves far more to the imagination and less off putting at breakfast. Also much more applicable to the thread topic with all the candidates love puffs.

When all is said and done, we have two different election choices that are not this time either/or.

The Tories and all the other parties except Labour are about Brexit. Labour is about extreme Socialism in EU or out.

[om15]

BJ comes across as someone who is completely washed out, dull, lifeless and with no sparkle at all, he is looking terrible and on Friday may be in the most difficult position since Churchill in 1940.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

What Planet is this guy on? Zorb? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... WEEKS.html

What worries me is that the young generation who weren't even thought of by their grandparents living in the 1970's will fall for all this Utopian cr@p.

[Boac]

Nationalisation is a brilliant concept - it keeps all the country's assets in 'public' control and stops private companies from profiting from public services. Only one small problem - it doesn't work.

The 'yoof' will not know this, and will be charmed by the utopian concept.

[AtomKraft]

Om
Surely you meant your comments for dreary Theresa...

Boris is a firecracker compared to her!

[Woody]

I’m genuinely beginning to believe that Boris doesn’t want to be re-elected

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50717606

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

More ambush interviewing. The child was placed on the floor by his mother, not the hospital.
And this comes hours after Boris says that BBC funding "needs to be looked at".
Meanwhile in America, the fake news MSM laid off 7,700 journalists this year.
The MSM cannot get their heads around the fact that they won't be deciding elections any more. Maybe they should learn to code

Meanwhile in Canada, the CBC national news program, The National, is now watched by less than 1% of the Canadian population. Ad revenue has dropped 53% in 5 years. 35 jobs cut at HQ last month.

[Woody]

And this comes hours after Boris says that BBC funding "needs to be looked at".

Didn’t read the article very closely, it was an ITV reporter!

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I did notice. You may also notice that the BBC rarely mentions ITV reporters*, except when it suits their agenda.

* The last time, after a brief search on the BBC website, was February.

And where does this kind of sh!t-stirring lead?

A Labour activist has been arrested after punching Matt Hancock’s advisor, Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, in the face, whilst on a visit to a Leeds hospital. Luckily he didn’t have to travel far to get to A&E…

Hancock was visiting the hospital in light of the reports dominating the news today of a boy with pneumonia having to sleep on the floor due to no free beds.

Labour are denying they paid for taxis to transport around 100 protestors to the hospital, however, the following Whatsapps sent to Guido disprove that:

https://order-order.com/2019/12/09/hanc ... tal-visit/

Update: SpAd not punched, report in error. Walked into arm-waving member of Labour rent-a-mob. Original punch report by L Kuenssberg, and you know who she works for.

[llondel]

I have mixed feelings about nationalisation, I can see that there are benefits to keeping some stuff under public control. The railways were just about making a profit before they were sold off, and one could argue that having a cheap and efficient rail service is in the public interest rather than have it for-profit with the money generated going overseas (and with a single organisation clearly responsible for all of it so we know who to blame when things don't work). I'd also look at power and water the same way, and also Royal Mail. Even that bastion of capitalism, the US, keeps very tight control of postal services. I'd also like to see a good council house building programme without the cheap sell-off bit thrown in. That would rein in rental costs and would keep the public money (as housing benefit) back with the council so would reduce the amount they needed to give out. That's about my limit though, the rest should stay private.

[om15]

The blond bird from the Green Party was being interviewed today, she made a good point, many of us have quite a wedge of savings in cash ISAs earning very paltry tax free interest, she recommends that we loan this money to the Government at a better rate, (and presumably pay tax on the interest), this is quite an innovative idea, however if Labour get in I would rather put all my savings on a horse.
The anti BJ fever in the Al Beeb, Channel 4, Guardian, Observer is getting really bad, I am beginning to think that our country has sunk to the level of Egypt or France, it would be nice if BJ gets a sweeping majority and disbands the BBC, the only thing that it broadcasts that is worth watching are the repeats of Dads Army.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

The problem with nationalisation is not the principle, but the practicalities of jobs-for-life for employees, over-generous pension schemes, and the political power of compulsory unions who provide services essential to the economy. That's why Thatcher got rid of nationalised industries. Her heinous crime was not that but to expect the free market to sort out the ensuing chaos and misery, which it didn't and was never going to.
I have a personal beef about the nationalisation of education, which is what to all intents and purposes state education is for most people. The service is bad, and it's getting worse, and it's impossible to compete when the Government takes taxes for it off everybody whether they use it or not.

[llondel]

[...] it would be nice if BJ gets a sweeping majority and disbands the BBC, the only thing that it broadcasts that is worth watching are the repeats of Dads Army.

And Dr Who, don't forget that. I know it's been almost a year since the last one was broadcast, but it's one of the few things I miss from the TV side of things. I listen to BBC local radio too.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Recently bought the complete DVD collection of Dad's Army. I find buying the DVDs of everything I like both cheaper and more convenient than connecting to any TV service. I have BluRay players for both US and UK regions, which pretty much allows me to play anything. I got a Japanese copy of 'Those Magnificent Men...' for peanuts, which plays fine on the UK player (same region).

[OFSO]

Buy ? Throwing them away here. Last one I threw out was complete set of "Fools and Horses". Got a CS of "Star Wars" plus bonus discs at the weekend, someone else's bin fodder. What the link is to the Election I'm not sure !

[Pontius Navigator]

OFSO, probably locking ones door, switching off phone and internet, pulling up an armchair, turning the lights low and sound up.

[Boac]

What I saw on C4 tonight of the 'Brexit Party' in Hartlepool was enough. I do not think any of the parties are fit to govern.

As for BJ - what a dick-head. No idea at all. Let's feed Corbyn an early Christmas present?

[FD2]

Just make the BBC accountable to independent scrutiny. That shouldn't be hard to achieve with cross party consensus. That should be in some party's manifesto! I've come to the conclusion that BJ is just the best of a bad lot -the others fill me with deeper dread!

In NZ we would love to watch TV with no adverts - sadly a lot of Kiwis miss those days - since the licence fee was abolished and the 'free' TV we get here is wall to wall advertising. That's not a pleasurable thing and most people have turned to streaming channels to get away from shouty adverts! The real pleasure comes in hunting down and watching good films and documentaries on DVD.

[Pontius Navigator]

BJ is just the best of a bad lot

Few would disagree. As we vote for an MP and not a PM (in theory) we are stuffed (as in oven ready).