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Post by mattyovrio on Aug 29, 2024 11:11:23 GMT
Money is tight, but they can start by asking Mone for a wedge of the money she siphoned off for PPE equipment that wasn’t fit for purpose and go after the other Tory fat cats that had their snouts in the trough during Covid.
You can’t beat a mixed animal metaphor!
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 29, 2024 11:34:43 GMT
Money is tight, but they can start by asking Mone for a wedge of the money she siphoned off for PPE equipment that wasn’t fit for purpose and go after the other Tory fat cats that had their snouts in the trough during Covid. You can’t beat a mixed animal metaphor! Rishi wrote all that off, didn’t he? Tories, giving to their friends with one hand, and letting them keep it with the other…
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Aug 29, 2024 11:58:11 GMT
I'm not asking them to do this in a few weeks, what I'm asking is they outline their plan and vision for the country. Labour talked about creating safe and legal routes before the election, but now there is absolutely no mention of it, even as an objective. They clearly want to pin the blame for the £22 billion black hole on the Tories and provide cover for what will be a harsh budget in October and I totally get that, but the approach Starmer is taking is so negative and depressing. It won't work much longer, people voted for Change, we want hope, but all we are getting is more of the same and people will become sick of it very quickly. Tony Blair and New Labour outlined a very optimistic outlook for the country and set about delivering. We saw a very ambitious programme in the first 100 days. It would be good to see some positivity from Starmer. Spot on Red Hatter. Unlike some people in the UK who want to see Starmer and the country fail, there are tens of thousands of middle of the road punters even wild extreme right wing Conservatives (LOL) who want to see the country prosper irrespective of which political party is in power. Somebody said on the radio the other day that Starmers speech was the most downbeat one since the announcement that we were going to war back in the 1940's 1939*
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Post by Stranded Hatter on Aug 29, 2024 12:00:22 GMT
Money is tight, but they can start by asking Mone for a wedge of the money she siphoned off for PPE equipment that wasn’t fit for purpose and go after the other Tory fat cats that had their snouts in the trough during Covid. You can’t beat a mixed animal metaphor! Rishi wrote all that off, didn’t he? Tories, giving to their friends with one hand, and letting them keep it with the other… Giving with one, giving more with the other
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Post by tvor on Aug 29, 2024 12:06:16 GMT
Money is tight, but they can start by asking Mone for a wedge of the money she siphoned off for PPE equipment that wasn’t fit for purpose and go after the other Tory fat cats that had their snouts in the trough during Covid. You can’t beat a mixed animal metaphor! Rishi wrote all that off, didn’t he? Tories, giving to their friends with one hand, and letting them keep it with the other… Isn't legal eagle Starmer the one to go after them? I'm surprised that he's not done that already. Today the news from Starmer is that there is a clamp down on smoking, and elsewhere potentially drinking limits at airports (2 drinks max). I don't smoke so not too bothered about that but I know others who do. It looks like we are heading for a North Korean style of management from number 10
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Post by vicar on Aug 29, 2024 12:52:42 GMT
Rishi wrote all that off, didn’t he? Tories, giving to their friends with one hand, and letting them keep it with the other… Isn't legal eagle Starmer the one to go after them? I'm surprised that he's not done that already. Today the news from Starmer is that there is a clamp down on smoking, and elsewhere potentially drinking limits at airports (2 drinks max). I don't smoke so not too bothered about that but I know others who do. It looks like we are heading for a North Korean style of management from number 10 You're expecting a lot from him in his first few weeks, maybe he'll get the ferry to Dover when he's met Macron.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 29, 2024 13:01:57 GMT
It looks like we are heading for a North Korean style of management from number 10 You’re right: at no point in the last 14 years did the ruling class allow the élite to plunder the country’s assets for their own enrichment while the general population slid into poverty.
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 29, 2024 13:27:13 GMT
When a party inherits a Country so broken that they cannot lock up their criminals it asks the question what else is hiding behind the curtain. KS isn't a Blair of thankfully a Johnson and he doesn't have a box of hats like Truss has / had. Positivity will come about when Starmer knows exactly what he has in front of him. If he goes laugh a minute Johnson he will get hammered in the press (though he probably will regardless of whatever he does). I expected some form of financial shortfall and the usual lie lie deny afterwards. It was always in the pipeline with the Tories certain that Labour would end up increasing taxes (at the moment they are confident that they won't have to) and rely on recouping the shortfall from elsewhere (unless more comes to light). Good coming from a party that has seen Taxation rise to its highest level since 1948. Also which war in the 1940s was announced in the most downbeat fashion prior to (presumably) KS's statement in the Rose Garden?. Operation Masterdom? Maybe the Winston Churchill Iron Curtain speech, although that wasn’t a return to war and he wasn’t Prime Minister? Who knows? If you’re prepared to vote for Johnson and Farage actual facts and truth are incidental matters.
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Post by nelly on Aug 29, 2024 13:28:37 GMT
Rishi wrote all that off, didn’t he? Tories, giving to their friends with one hand, and letting them keep it with the other… Isn't legal eagle Starmer the one to go after them? I'm surprised that he's not done that already. Today the news from Starmer is that there is a clamp down on smoking, and elsewhere potentially drinking limits at airports (2 drinks max). I don't smoke so not too bothered about that but I know others who do. It looks like we are heading for a North Korean style of management from number 10 Straight down the middle (LOL)
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Post by The Real Exile on Aug 29, 2024 13:31:32 GMT
Rishi wrote all that off, didn’t he? Tories, giving to their friends with one hand, and letting them keep it with the other… Isn't legal eagle Starmer the one to go after them? I'm surprised that he's not done that already. Today the news from Starmer is that there is a clamp down on smoking, and elsewhere potentially drinking limits at airports (2 drinks max). I don't smoke so not too bothered about that but I know others who do. It looks like we are heading for a North Korean style of management from number 10 2 pints of Vodka please
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Post by tvor on Aug 29, 2024 13:32:25 GMT
Maybe the Winston Churchill Iron Curtain speech, although that wasn’t a return to war and he wasn’t Prime Minister? Who knows? If you’re prepared to vote for Johnson and Farage actual facts and truth are incidental matters. hedley, try reading what people have actually posted before you go into yet another full on sarcastic rant. Here, I'll copy and paste it for you ... "Somebody said on the radio the other day that Starmers speech was the most downbeat one since the announcement that we were going to war back in the 1940's " Apology accepted by the way. Have a good day.
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 29, 2024 13:36:18 GMT
Maybe the Winston Churchill Iron Curtain speech, although that wasn’t a return to war and he wasn’t Prime Minister? Who knows? If you’re prepared to vote for Johnson and Farage actual facts and truth are incidental matters. hedley, try reading what people have actually posted before you go into yet another full on sarcastic rant. Here, I'll copy and paste it for you ... "Somebody said on the radio the other day that Starmers speech was the most downbeat one since the announcement that we were going to war back in the 1940's :-*" Apology accepted by the way. Have a good day. I read it fine the first time, you posted it, presumably because you agree? Which war is the question
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Post by sidcup on Aug 29, 2024 13:40:19 GMT
Rishi wrote all that off, didn’t he? Tories, giving to their friends with one hand, and letting them keep it with the other… Isn't legal eagle Starmer the one to go after them? I'm surprised that he's not done that already. Today the news from Starmer is that there is a clamp down on smoking, and elsewhere potentially drinking limits at airports (2 drinks max). I don't smoke so not too bothered about that but I know others who do. It looks like we are heading for a North Korean style of management from number 10 I suspect the people of North Korea have more pressing concerns than being restricted to no more than two out of date pints of Abbot Ale at Spoons in Pyongyang International.
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 29, 2024 13:46:48 GMT
Isn't legal eagle Starmer the one to go after them? I'm surprised that he's not done that already. Today the news from Starmer is that there is a clamp down on smoking, and elsewhere potentially drinking limits at airports (2 drinks max). I don't smoke so not too bothered about that but I know others who do. It looks like we are heading for a North Korean style of management from number 10 I suspect the people of North Korea have more pressing concerns than being restricted to no more than two out of date pints of Abbot Ale at Spoons in Pyongyand International. Not that the boss of Ryanair suggesting something means it’s going to become government policy of course
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Post by sidcup on Aug 29, 2024 13:58:14 GMT
I suspect the people of North Korea have more pressing concerns than being restricted to no more than two out of date pints of Abbot Ale at Spoons in Pyongyand International. Not that the boss of Ryanair suggesting something means it’s going to become government policy of course Most of the things he comes out with don't even become Ryanair policy.
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