Westminster Politics

So that's why they call it NI contributions. shamelessly stolen
 
Smores said:
Oh dear what? One is a joke and one is a nothing answer both said between mates not a public speech
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For Corbyn to stand a chance of becoming PM, he needs to win over those sceptical voters who just dont think they can trust him and think he doesn't care about this country.

The stuff about trident does him more harm. I would have thought he'd have learned his lessons with the pummelling Labour got in the Copeland by-election because of Corbyn's views on the nuclear industry.
 
I fecking hate Parliament. fecking oneupmanship snobby groaning twats.

Anyway, here they are talking some bollocks and arguing like children (apart from Corbyn who's the best)



Look at the smug cnuts, they're having a right laugh getting rowdy about the stuff that affects us.
 
The best thing about May's "arguments" are that they're either utter bollocks or refer back to the New Labour days, completely justifying the shift under Corbyn. Nobody tell her, or it might spoil the next few weeks.
 
Really can't wait until we have got rid of these clowns.
 
Listened to 5minutes of that and forgot how much I hate it.

They don't actually talk about politics, it's just bullshit posturing with a load of old feckers heckling everything. Like a bunch of chickens.
 
So Corbyn went with the McDonnell attack line (Cameron, Clegg, austerity, murderers) :rolleyes:, just said it in more coded language. He could focus on reverse the Labour decision of 2005, but that wouldn't play into the Cameron deregulation argument. There was a worthwhile point made about structures in the private sector, although i was making a coffee and missed the answer.

As an aside, a property management firm near where my sister works has received two packages purporting to e anthrax over the past week. Or such is the rumour each time the building s evacuated and the place is swarming with police.

The SNP's hypocrisy with regard to UK funding is quite a cheek, but deep down they know that i imagine.
 
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Nothing really to use this tweet in response to... but hey! It's a goodun' init?

 

Give it a few days and we'll be treated to the 'Labour moderates' amnesia re: the likes of Anna Soubry, Ken Clarke and Heidi Allen again.

I get the feeling the sound of the Tories/political wing of the Old Testament cheering not having to give public service workers a pay rise will be a talking point for a while.
 
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Dobba said:

Give it a few days and we'll be treated to the 'Labour moderates' amnesia re: the likes of Anna Soubry, Ken Clarke and Heidi Allen again.

I get the feeling the sound of the Tories/political wing of the Old Testament cheering not having to give public service workers a pay rise will be a talking point for a while.
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Yeah saw that, utterly disgraceful.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-40437158

A car park in east Belfast has been closed to the public by young men building bonfires.

The public car park is just off the Upper Newtownards Road, one of the main routes into the city.

Thousands of wooden pallets are now piled up where previously there were parked cars.

The bonfire makers are involved in a dispute with the city council over the storing of pallets.

They say the council collected pallets from the area earlier this year, agreed to store them and return them this month but failed to do so.

Bonfire builder Macauley McKinney, 21, said: "We had an agreement with the council that they were going to store the pallets in a safe place, and now because the agreement was broken, they've let us down."

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Image captionThe public car park is just off the Upper Newtownards Road
Belfast City Council is not commenting in detail on the issue, as an investigation has been called into the storing of pallets.

A spokesperson said: "It was agreed at a meeting of Belfast City Council's Strategic Policy and Resources Committee on Friday that an investigation and full review, led by the chief executive with independent input, would be carried out into the issue of collection and storage of bonfire material, and the future approach of bonfires across the city."

The committee's decision needs to be approved at a full council meeting next week.

Traditionally, bonfires are lit in many loyalist areas of Northern Ireland on the "eleventh night" - the eve of the Twelfth of July, an annual celebration to mark William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
 
Dobba said:

Give it a few days and we'll be treated to the 'Labour moderates' amnesia re: the likes of Anna Soubry, Ken Clarke and Heidi Allen again.

I get the feeling the sound of the Tories/political wing of the Old Testament cheering not having to give public service workers a pay rise will be a talking point for a while.
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For the past six years I've seen what goes into my bank account on pay day quickly disappear within the first week. Every time I tighten the purse strings there's always something that goes up in price the next month. I'm now at a point where my own fecking relationship is strained because we can't afford to pay the bills. Imagine my, and everyone in my office's, joy when I came back home last night and heard that there was serious talk about removing the pay cap. And then imagine how we felt a couple of hours later when the u-turn was also u-turned, and these cretins were cheering. There's people up and down the country, public and private, who are being affected by this - some worse than others, but that doesn't make me feel any better about my household situation quite frankly. They play games with people's lives, acting like children as they cheer their most recent success to stop people from having enough to get by, before popping off to their commons pubs for subsidised pints.
 
How long until crunch time? It surely can't be far off people coming together and pushing back?
 
He should have mentioned they cheered themselves for doing it.

However, i suspect images of those cheering tories will make nice ads when the next election comes around. Probably october.

Even wollaston, self proclaimed saviour of the NHS voted against the removal of the cap. What I really don't get is, and its the same with the cheering the result, do none of them at all think even for a second 'I'm going to look very bad here'? Party over country, its the true motto of the modern tory it seems.

I have to say, Heath would not recognise his party now, there are no conservative values on display any more.
 
11101 said:
You really need to look at that as the Tories haven't changed. Labour's popularity wave has just subsided, as it was always going to. To win an election Corbyn needs go quiet and time the next surge properly. What he's doing now isn't sustainable.
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Take a look at @NCPoliticsUK's Tweet:
 
I feel its going to be a tough few years when Brexit fully kicks in and austerity continues to hurt - it's always the public sector/ welfare state/lower and middle classes which is going to pay for it

if May manages to hold onto power for two or three years (Tories will rebel eventually) I think it could finish the Tories in the next election - can't help but feel we are ready for a brand of socialism

the election just gone was just too early for Corbyn when you consider his polling 6 months ago.... a few more years of punitive spending will only help him and Labour - just hope he can get his own party sorted
 
buckooo1978 said:
I feel its going to be a tough few years when Brexit fully kicks in and austerity continues to hurt - it's always the public sector/ welfare state/lower and middle classes which is going to pay for it

if May manages to hold onto power for two or three years (Tories will rebel eventually) I think it could finish the Tories in the next election - can't help but feel we are ready for a brand of socialism

the election just gone was just too early for Corbyn when you consider his polling 6 months ago.... a few more years of punitive spending will only help him and Labour - just hope he can get his own party sorted
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Strategically he should have voted against calling a general election. They now have until 2022 so may see a rebound from the inevitable recession.
 
WackyWengerWorld said:
Strategically he should have voted against calling a general election. They now have until 2022 so may see a rebound from the inevitable recession.
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If they are stupid enough to get in Boris as leader, they'll get trounced. Hammond would be the best bet, but I reckon people will want change, regardless.
I think the economy will still be in the shit in 2022 tbh. Brexit could easily set the economy back a decade, if you think about all the trade deals that need signing and how long they take.
 
Labour will get to play the services, services, services tune at the next election anyway, unless the Tories suddenly decide to up the budget by a feckton. And services are what people are most worried about.
 
Silva said:
Labour will get to play the services, services, services tune at the next election anyway, unless the Tories suddenly decide to up the budget by a feckton. And services are what people are most worried about.
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It will be what Labour want most people to focus on, but if it is a five year gap between elections it's impossible to say what the issue of the day will be.

Two years ago the key issues were economic prosperity and the deficit, one year ago Brexit was the only topic of political conversation. None of the three seemed to be significant areas of concern in this election. Who knows who the leaders will be, and what the public will be most concerned about by the time of the next election? Definitely not me.
 
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