It's not what you do it's where you went to school?

I think you're being a bit hard on him. Which one of us hasn't occasionally lost track of how many houses they own for a decade or three?

Dave

Or converted some outbuildings but forgotten about them.....

Hey, I went to school in Durham City too!

Not that one though, but a better one. Cummings went to the one that in my day the lads who failed the 11+, but had wealthy parents, went to...

Text was probably too small for him to read and he didn’t have time to get to his optician.

Johnson didn't tell the truth?

I'm shocked!

I’m old enough to remember when paying public money for sex was called corruption and prostitution.

"You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--"
"Oh there you go, bringing class into it again."
"But that's what it's all about, if people only would -"

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Ministers should waste no time to make unpopular cuts to pensioner benefits, a think tank director has said.

Many of those hit by a cut to the winter fuel allowance might "not be around" at the next election, said Alex Wild of the Taxpayers' Alliance.

And others would forget which party had done it, he added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965

Still nothing from the Taxpayers Alliance on money being spaffed on the awful Test, Track and Trace system (I checked their website after reading that they are upset about MPs being reimbursed for poppy wreaths).

https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/s...22252524326912

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Ian Botham is a Lord.

I don't really want Sentamu in the Lords, but I don't want Botham or Claire Fox there either. Can they just avoid giving peerages to twats for a bit?

Is it an extraordinary snub? I know former Archbishops of Canterbury tend to be given life peerages when they retire and thus lose their position as a Lord Spiritual, but I don’t recall Archbishops of York being given them. I don’t follow that side of the Palace of Westminster that closely, though, so I may be wrong.

ETA - I correct myself. The previous three Archbishops of York had been given life peerages, so it does seem unusual not to follow that pattern, small sample size aside.

FWIW, the reason given was that there are too many Lords.

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And yet there's space for "Lord" Botham of 1981 for services to grouse shooting?

Perhaps his smile didn't extend as far as a watermelon for Boris's liking

'too many Lords' but Boris still found room for a Russian Oligarch and Ian bloody Botham!

I hope you used your visit to leave a message asking who funds them.

Ah, the right-wing libertarian nuts are true to form. :rolleyes:

Multi-millionaire property developer Tony Gallagher who hosted David Cameron's 50th birthday party has received a knighthood for 'services to land development and the property business.' Gallagher has given the Tories almost £750,000 since Boris Johnson became prime minister.

At 9pm on BBC1 was Roadkill, a fictional drama about a ruthless Tory MP who will stop at nothing to achieve his ambitions.
Or you could just watch the news and see the real thing.

I don't watch the News any more, it got too unrealistic when the comic relief became the bad guys (twice, sack the writers!) & now it's just got that 'final season' vibe.

2020 as a whole does seem to have been scripted by Charlie Brooker and Armando Ianucci, with additional material from Frankie Boyle.

Based on an idea by Mitchell & Webb

("Hello, Good Evening and Stay Indoors")

Par for the course. John Bercow is still being denied a peerage as well.

A mark of how badly Boris wanted Charles Moore to be BBC chairman is Boris agreed that the salary for the post could rise from £100,000 to £280,000, to match what Moore is paid by the Telegraph even though the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport pointed out that the government’s official position is to reduce pay at the BBC.

Johnson wanted to throw money at a mate? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

Mind, he is the man who can't live on 150k and all the freebies he gets and who once described his quarter of a million a year from the Torygraph as "chicken feed", suggesting his grasp of personal finance is loose at best.

The overriding policy, though, seems to be to give money to their mates.

He might just have a lot of chickens, but I suspect that if he did they wouldn’t do too well. He’d probably plant them too close together.

Imagine being an MP and being asked “Do you want kids to go hungry” and you say “Yes, yes I do”

"Black lives matter. We should do something about racism"
"All lives matter!"
"Okay then, let's help refugees"
"We can't afford to do that when there are starving kids right here in the UK!"
"Alright, let's start with feeding kids during the school holidays"
"No! Not that either"

Imagine anyone but a psychopath or a sadist giving that answer.

Jeremy Hunt said they'd have to review again coming up to Christmas, as if half-term is some kind of test run to see how starvation will affect the kids.

One of those - expletives deleted - is mine, not that I would ever vote for her.

I'm not surprised she voted how she did, given how she boasts about how she, as a then school governor, improved special needs provision at a local high school when the opposite is true (I worked with that high school and the old SENCo and the pastoral manager a lot, to the point of pretty much running a weekly clinic there, not that she knew about that...).

Thinks: must ask any Tory canvassers what she has agin local children.

Now local councils, cafes and restaurants are plugging the gap.

And McDonalds if offering 1 million free meals worth of funding to the food charity Fare Share. Please note it's not 1 million burgers, they are providing funding to help the charity feed people.


eta: Sample link https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...ty/ar-BB1akro7

I get why people are unhappy about parents who live a chaotic lifestyle, such that they do not feed their children properly, but further preventing those children from getting sufficient food is just going to make the situation worse, not better.

There are an awful lot of parents who are working and still can't afford to feed their children well, especially if their jobs leave them time-poor as well as money-poor.

Or parents who lost their job(s) and then have to wait 6 weeks for benefits and so end up with payday loan sharks and are trapped in a spiral of debt and poverty.

Since the Bishops are trending, here's a fun fact for the day - just 3 countries in the world have law making clerics. The UK, the Vatican and Iran.

Mark Jenkinson Tory MP for Workington tweeted his reason for voting against feeding hungry kids.

@markjenkinsonmp
Here, @AngelaRayner is either being disingenuous or really hasn’t a clue what goes on in her constituency. I hope for the sake of her constituents it’s the former.
I know in my constituency that, as tiny as a minority it might be, food parcels are sold or traded for drugs.
And that’s parcels, not vouchers - which have greater monetary value.