Labour leader.

[4mastacker]

Watched it. Calling that interview a car crash is somewhat of an understatement.....and to think, people voted that creature into Parliament.

[OFSO]

The Jumboberry has been on ITV tonight, explaining the new heat recovery system on the Northern Line underground that will heat half of Islington. Oh dear.

[4mastacker]

The Jumboberry on heat??? Ye gods, that is scary!!

[G-CPTN]

District heating in UK.

[OFSO]

Nice thing about the 'new' system is its sort of reverse-cycle. Uses heat from the underground to heat buildings in winter, and cool the underground in both seasons. Although no idea where the extracted heat goes to in summer. Jumbo was only speaking in v e r y general terms.

[AtomKraft]

Who wants to win the wooden spoon?

[barkingmad]

Roll up roll up, come and see the latest attraction! But don’t all log on at the same time, we don’t want the site to crash-do we?

https://labourlist.org/2020/03/watch-re ... -and-more/

I must go see if my paint is dry........

[OFSO]

So the Labour Party suspends Trevor Phillips for racist behaviour in that he claimed Muslim men of Pakistani origin groomed children for sex in Rochester. But they did ! More indications that the Labour Party are completely nuts.

[barkingmad]

Some time ago Trevor Phillips fronted a very balanced and factual TV program about racial diversity which at the time I thought might result in such behaviour from the lefty woke PC brigade because he spoke and speaks the truth.

I agree wholeheartedly with his latest comments and await the phone call from UK Plod so’s they can “check my thinking”.

It amazes me how they can conflate a comment about a done & dusted criminal case against the ethnic minority grooming gangs with a racial slur and proves the depths of insanity and unreason to which they’ve descended.

Now the UK needs a sensible political party to provide a viable and capable opposition to the incumbent administration but the current Labour Party are definitely not in the running with their ‘qualifications’.

As if they didn’t have enough problems already;



Did you mean Rochdale/Rotherham Instead of Rochester in your post, OFSO? The good burghers of Rochester may not appreciate a perceived slur, unless of course I missed that scandal which is more than likely?

[barkingmad]

For those on O-N who may not know who Trevor Phillips is and his part in UK race relations;

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the ... est-debate

I have to regretfully assume he will now be on the hate&hit list maintained by our population of *WEHFF brethren?

*Wild Eyed Hairy Faced Fundamentalists, for clarification.

[Nick Riviera]

Looks like we have seen the end of Lisa Nandy's bid with this disastrous interview:



I'm absolutely not a Piers Morgan fan but he destroys her here. She is so determined not to be accused of offending any group that she completely ignores the question and goes off on an accusatory tangent against Morgan. It is toe-curlingly embarrassing.

[OFSO]

Just the sort of person Labour needs as a leader. Bonus point: she keeps reminding people she's half-Indian. No we didn't notice and no we don't care.

[barkingmad]

Speaking as a half-caste Oirish......so fecking what!?

It’s called identity pollyticks and is presumed either to add some authority and conviction the the content of the speaker’s waffle or more likely it’s done to cut them some slack for the complete bollocks they’re spouting.

It is also similar to the “I’m glad you asked me that question, it’s very relevant in this context” = “I need time to assimilate what you’ve asked and to compose my response”. Meeja training courses probably have it in their armoury for everyday use.

[AtomKraft]

Lisa giving us a nice insight there, into what's gone wrong with the "Labour" party.

[barkingmad]

After watching the vid in post # 171 and baring (sic) in mind the original Olympic Games, maybe it’s time we revisited the dress code for those games and went back to an event without all the commercialism, sponsorship and clothing which has become routine.

https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-oly ... t-olympics

That would put a different aspect on what used to be a sporting competition and provide a level playing field (NPI) for all concerned?

The Piers Morgan show indicated to me just how difficult Ms Nandy would find it to match the opposing party in the bear pit of the UK HoC.

[barkingmad]

Shame the Olympics have been postponed, I was looking forwards to all those naked competitors doing their thing on track and field.
Which reminds me, I noticed the other day I was holding my breath for quite a few seconds at a time. But having read the 10-second test for Covid-19 was complete bollocks, I realised that it was the result of the Labour Leader election for which I was holding my wind.
Only another 168 hours to go and we’ll be soooh relieved to know who’ll be gnawing at Johnson’s heels and blaming austerity for the plague outbreak. Though the last decade of cuts and reduced funding have negatively impacted on our NHS’s ability to cope with the pandemic.
OTOH, which NHS procurer of kit would have known or got away with spending on things like ventilators and PPE unless they’d watched and believed the Bill Gates’ 2015 very prescient lecture?



What’s the betting when things ever calm down and the plague goes away for a while this lecture and it’s dismissal will give the various political parties plenty of rotten eggs to hurl at each other across the various debating chambers?

[barkingmad]

A reminder that today is the 4th April 2020 and we will be treated to the formal but socially-distanced long-awaited announcement as to who will be leading the UK Parliamentary Opposition.
Alas I’ve got tasks to achieve so I won’t be prostrate in front of the TV with bottles of Corona beer and empty crisp packets littering the lounge with my football rattle poised for action.
I wonder what the Spitting Image puppet of the departing Jeremy looked like? Regrets we might never see it but a bright new dawn (not Butler) spreads across the land and all will be good.......

[Woody]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52164589

[Boac]

Alas I’ve got tasks to achieve so I won’t be prostrate in front of the TV with bottles of Corona beer and empty crisp packets littering the lounge with my football rattle poised for action.

don't fret - I'll record it and send a link. Enjoy the beer.

PS Do you think it tastes a bit funny?

[om15]

Do you think that the rather robotic Sir Keir Starmer has the key to electoral success with his policies of pursuing nationalisation of all industries, repealing union laws and applying to rejoin the EU, or not?
Let's see if he can sort out antisemitism, oust Momentum and select a front bench of normal people first.

I had my letter from the PM this morning together with a small instruction leaflet, all seems very proper, despite the shrill anti Government line from C4 and the BBC I think that the Government seem to be dealing with this crises reasonably well, if labour were in power they would be taking advantage of this to fulfill their ambitions of completely destroying industry and the economy.