west didsblue
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Much of the media is totally fucked in this country. Too many supposed news outlets have totally given up reporting real political news and just report bizarrely biased opinions.
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Much of the media is totally fucked in this country. Too many supposed news outlets have totally given up reporting real political news and just report bizarrely biased opinions.
Gareth Barry Conlon
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Bill Cash. Always turns up for an opportunity to prove what a shithouse he is.
bluethrunthru
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he has the extra luxury of knowing he does not have to defend his shithousery at the next GE
I had the time to watch the debate, and, well, what a strange one it was. Everyone on the opposition benches was roundly calling him a liar and parliament couldn't work properly if ministers, especially the PM, are lying at the despatch box, and that was the generally accepted principle. They all thanked the committee for arriving at their conclusion despite the intimidation and threats from Johnson and his supporters which had resulted in extra security having to be provided to them, but it was made clear to all and sundry the investigation was carried out in an accepted fashion, the findings were true and fair, and it wan't a Kangaroo Court by any measure.
To be fair, there were also a few tory MP's that supported the motion, some of them through gritted teeth admittedly, but then the nutters on the tory side chirped up. The MP for Grimsby demanded proof, to much derision, as there wasn't any in the report, (have a look at the photos), JRM tried to pick holes in the report but he hadn't thought it through and being a bit on the thick side, got his arse shown to him from the MP he was debating with, so he stayed quiet after that, and a couple of others sided with Johnson, but it was a ridiculous sight, in all honesty, watching them defend a well known bullshitter when the weight of Parliament from largely, but not exclusively, both sides of the house accepted we had had a PM that was full of shit and deserved to be kicked out of the place.
Our current PM didn't have the courage or conviction to be there, of course. I'm sure he'll crawl out from his hiding place in a few days time and tell us 'it's time for us to move on, and I'm concentrating on delivering for the British people'.
That message is tired and failing. The tories haven't delivered anything but misery. David Cameron was as full of shit as Johnson at the Covid enquiry when he said austerity was an economic necessity. He wrote in his biography austerity was a political, and not an economic decision, and he gave £23B away in tax cuts to the wealthiest while cutting funding for basic public services. He wrote it in his book, for Christs sake, but it's never questioned.
He went around waving a piece of paper with 'there is no money left' which was a traditional jokey message left by outgoing finance ministers started by Winston Churchill in the 1920's, but as he admitted in his book, it was the perfect excuse be wanted and he exploited it to the hilt.
Is there no end to the bullshit tory MP's and ministers are prepared to give us?
I don't think there is, and the sooner they are wiped out from power, the better.
To be fair, there were also a few tory MP's that supported the motion, some of them through gritted teeth admittedly, but then the nutters on the tory side chirped up. The MP for Grimsby demanded proof, to much derision, as there wasn't any in the report, (have a look at the photos), JRM tried to pick holes in the report but he hadn't thought it through and being a bit on the thick side, got his arse shown to him from the MP he was debating with, so he stayed quiet after that, and a couple of others sided with Johnson, but it was a ridiculous sight, in all honesty, watching them defend a well known bullshitter when the weight of Parliament from largely, but not exclusively, both sides of the house accepted we had had a PM that was full of shit and deserved to be kicked out of the place.
Our current PM didn't have the courage or conviction to be there, of course. I'm sure he'll crawl out from his hiding place in a few days time and tell us 'it's time for us to move on, and I'm concentrating on delivering for the British people'.
That message is tired and failing. The tories haven't delivered anything but misery. David Cameron was as full of shit as Johnson at the Covid enquiry when he said austerity was an economic necessity. He wrote in his biography austerity was a political, and not an economic decision, and he gave £23B away in tax cuts to the wealthiest while cutting funding for basic public services. He wrote it in his book, for Christs sake, but it's never questioned.
He went around waving a piece of paper with 'there is no money left' which was a traditional jokey message left by outgoing finance ministers started by Winston Churchill in the 1920's, but as he admitted in his book, it was the perfect excuse be wanted and he exploited it to the hilt.
Is there no end to the bullshit tory MP's and ministers are prepared to give us?
I don't think there is, and the sooner they are wiped out from power, the better.
hilts
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What a strange world we live in where a politician can lie in every place in the world except one room. Lie there and you are obviously a bad un.
Lie to the public, reporters in fact pretty much everyone then well that's just politics old bean but lie to others liars in your profession in the special place it's just not cricket.
No more cheap beer for you, a trip to Coventry instead.
Lie to the public, reporters in fact pretty much everyone then well that's just politics old bean but lie to others liars in your profession in the special place it's just not cricket.
No more cheap beer for you, a trip to Coventry instead.
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Courtesy of Private Eye
threespires
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I understand the cynicism, I suppose one way to look at it is that if you don't have at least that one place where it's unacceptable to lie then the country essentially becomes ungovernable.
But Johnson has been an accident waiting to happen his entire life and we need to take a look at how the hell we got ourselves into the position of allowing this all to happen.
You really don't get it. Don't lie in the one place where honourable members can't be called liars because honourable members don't lie.
Never mind the right wing press. Daily Star nailed it.
www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk
Daily Star Front Page 16th of June 2023 - Tomorrow's Papers Today!
www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk
bluethrunthru
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To be fair to our robotic PM he missed the vote as he was undergoing a re-boot after a glitch was discovered in his software