The state of UK politics

[Blackwhite]

The under the breath griping in the second clip is just characteristically shit.

[dirty leeds]

. removed. Wrong thread.

[Devi]

Could go on any number of threads, given the levels of govt incompetence on display here

[Blackwhite]

Who even MAKES a laptop with no sound?

[Blackwhite]

[Matt White]

So we are now, finally, closing borders. A mere 9 months after we should have done. And a few weeks after travel companies have reported large upswing in bookings for spring breaks. Fucking clowns.

I don't want to sail in this ship of fools. As Nik Kershaw once sang.

[Mustafaster]

So we are now, finally, closing borders. A mere 9 months after we should have done. And a few weeks after travel companies have reported large upswing in bookings for spring breaks. Fucking clowns.

I don't want to sail in this ship of fools. As Nik Kershaw once sang.

But you're still sending your deadly BRITISH mutation to kill the rest of us.

[eric olthwaite]

Kent mutation, Musta. Kent.

(In any event the choice to close country A’s borders to travellers from country B is always a matter for A. But whatever)

[Blackwhite]

Just got off a call with some friends in Spain who were very happy to take my suggestion to call it the English Flu now the variant is in Madrid.

Let's not get regional: as ever, the problem is the English.

[Ponte]

So we are now, finally, closing borders. A mere 9 months after we should have done. And a few weeks after travel companies have reported large upswing in bookings for spring breaks. Fucking clowns.

I don't want to sail in this ship of fools. As Nik Kershaw once sang.

But you're still sending your deadly BRITISH mutation to kill the rest of us.

It’s the only export we have left.

[the flying pig]

pretty interesting May piece in the Heil. the comments [sort by highest rated] are entirely predictable.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... rship.html

[Bobbycollins]

Headline from the BBC News website "East West and Northumberland rail lines get £794m boost", with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps stating "These investments would return these routes "to their former glory" and was part of the government's "levelling up" agenda".
The detail shows a slightly different angle on "levelling up" as £760m from the £794m total will be used to connect those two industrial rust belt towns of Oxford and Cambridge, with £34m being allocated to the North East.

[eric olthwaite]

Headline from the BBC News website "East West and Northumberland rail lines get £794m boost", with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps stating "These investments would return these routes "to their former glory" and was part of the government's "levelling up" agenda".
The detail shows a slightly different angle on "levelling up" as £760m from the £794m total will be used to connect those two industrial rust belt towns of Oxford and Cambridge, with £34m being allocated to the North East.

My practice does loads of rail and transport work and my idiot Surrey Tory Brexit keeps bleating on about focusing on the Northern Powerhouse bollocks to get new work. I’ve tried telling him time and again that this government will never spend money in the North and it’s all bullshit smoke and mirrors, but he won’t have it.

[Blackwhite]

A useful free service

http://ismympaprick.co.uk/

[FredFlintstone]

Meanwhile, over at the Department for International Trade...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/23/brexit-hit-firms-advised-government-officials-set-up-shop-in-eu

[Blackwhite]

Don't blame them. I'd like to secede from union with Essex and Kent.

[Ponte]

A useful free service

http://ismympaprick.co.uk/

I don’t even need to look.

[MightyWhite]

A useful free service

http://ismympaprick.co.uk/

I don’t even need to look.

Jenrick. Ditto.

[jackos]

Not really UK Politics perhaps, but I feel sick after reading that a billionaire who enslaved UK workers in sweatshop is taking over the Debenham's brand with the loss pf 12k jobs.

Depressing.

[Blackwhite]

2021 and Send Them Back is an equal opportunities cunt now.