General UK politics VIII - The Last Tory

[Carrot Flower King]

Andy Churnwell
@churnwell
No poppy? Then you shouldn't be allowed to purchase a coffee from Costa Coffee. Join me in honouring the war dead by asking Costa customers why they're not wearing a poppy.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1985651126008533254

Oh do go shove yer ◊◊◊◊◊ Costa coffee up yer arse, you utter pish monkey!

PS I have never, ever worn a poppy of any sort, nor ever will.

 

[zooterkin]

I thought the Muslim symbol (though not AFAIK for Allah) was a crescent moon? I'm pretty sure a star is related to another religion...

Nobody tell him what the coat of arms of Portsmouth is, or where it's (possibly) from...

 

[Andy_Ross]

The House of Commons culture, media and sport committee said it had written to BBC chairman Samir Shah to ask what action is being taken over the concerns raised in the memo.

Caroline Dinenage, head of the committee, said MPs "need to be reassured that those at the very top of the BBC are treating these issues with the seriousness they deserve".

BBC has questions to answer over edited Trump speech on Panorama, MPs say

An episode of Panorama is accused of misleading viewers with its editing of a speech by Donald Trump.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Mojo]

Apparently so. That must have come as a surprise to the Three Wise Men.

No, it's well-known that they followed a mince Christmas pie.

 

[junkshop]

I don't know, it messes up the rhyme scheme a bit:

We three kings of orient are,
One in a taxi, one in a car,
one on a scooter, bibbing his hooter,
Following yonder star pie

o-o Star pie of wonder,
Star pie of light,
if you fart we'll have a fight,
Stink up the place and we'll smash up your face,
So just bugger off, alright?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I don't know, it messes up the rhyme scheme a bit:

We three kings of orient are,
One in a taxi, one in a car,
one on a scooter, bibbing his hooter,
Following yonder star pie

o-o Star pie of wonder,
Star pie of light,
if you fart we'll have a fight,
Stink up the place and we'll smash up your face,
So just bugger off, alright?

I grew up with the 'We Three Lads of Liverpool Are' version, and 'following Ringo Pie' definitely doesn't work!

 

[ginjawarrior]

I don't know, it messes up the rhyme scheme a bit:

We three kings of orient are,
One in a taxi, one in a car,
one on a scooter, bibbing his hooter,
Following yonder star pie

o-o Star pie of wonder,
Star pie of light,
if you fart we'll have a fight,
Stink up the place and we'll smash up your face,
So just bugger off, alright?

"so just ◊◊◊◊ off you ◊◊◊◊'s alright!"

i think that fits better

 

[Norman Alexander]

Oh do go shove yer ◊◊◊◊◊ Costa coffee up yer arse, you utter pish monkey!

PS I have never, ever worn a poppy of any sort, nor ever will.

Why would I wear my grandfather??

 

[junkshop]

"so just ◊◊◊◊ off you ◊◊◊◊'s alright!"

i think that fits better

You're not ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ wrong, you clever ◊◊◊◊.

Consder it cannon, because I do.

 

[Darat]

No, it's well-known that they followed a mince Christmas pie.

Literally next to the mince pies in my Tesco are the Christmas puddings and you know what, Tesco dares to call them Christmas puddings! Commercialising Christmas. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/301811588

 

[Andy_Ross]

Today's Gammon outrage

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has unveiled Islamic star “Christmas” lights across the capital

No crosses, no nativity, no sign of Christian tradition.

Another year of stripping faith from Britain’s biggest holiday.

A design that seems to celebrate anything but Christmas itself.

Paid for by the very taxpayers whose heritage is being erased.

Khan’s London doesn’t even pretend to honour Christmas anymore.

No Christian symbols anywhere to be seen.

This is being done on purpose.

 

[Andy_Ross]

The Irish, famous throughout the world for their quiet nights in

MichaeloKeeffe
@Mick O Keeffe
All Irish people know the night time is sacred, once darkness falls, be quiet.
But the migrants have zero respect for our way of life.

 

[gypsyjackson]

The Irish, famous throughout the world for their quiet nights in

MichaeloKeeffe
@Mick O Keeffe
All Irish people know the night time is sacred, once darkness falls, be quiet.
But the migrants have zero respect for our way of life.

That’s why when the sun sets at about 1930 in Dublin on March 17 you can hear a pin drop until the next morning.

 

[Wudang]

“A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants”

Dorian Lynskey (@dorianlynskey.bsky.social)

Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com

bsky.app

I also liked this reply from Kashana
“Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.”

 

[P.J. Denyer]

That’s why when the sun sets at about 1930 in Dublin on March 17 you can hear a pin drop until the next morning.

And Irish Pubs are renowned worldwide for their library like atmosphere.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Glinner wasn't happy that there was a man in a dress on Only Connect.

Victoria is far more polite than I would ever be.

It went as well as you would expect.

 

[catsmate]

Oh No Not Again.'

Met hunting two more criminals mistakenly freed from prison

Algerian sex offender and a fraudster freed by Wandsworth jail, days after new checks brought in after Ethiopian prisoner wrongly released

www.theguardian.com

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company

www.theguardian.com

Join Reform; vote Reform; get Reform trying to close down your mother's care home to save some money.

Just wait until the member for Innsmouth's crew get into government...

 

[catsmate]

I really need to find my petunias picture, a casualty of the forum migration.

Met hunting two more criminals mistakenly freed from prison

Algerian sex offender and a fraudster freed by Wandsworth jail, days after new checks brought in after Ethiopian prisoner wrongly released

www.theguardian.com

There are two missing now.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Of course they do

A company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman owes £39m in tax on top of the £148m it was ordered to pay the government for breaching a contract to supply PPE.

Documents filed by PPE Medpro's administrator on Tuesday revealed the figure owed to His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Mone-linked firm PPE Medpro owes £39m in tax

Administrator's report shows firm owes £39m to HMRC on top of £148m owed to Department of Health

www.bbc.co.uk