The Politics Thread 3.0

[captain red dog]

strawberry floating hell, the highlights of the speech on the radio were not comfortable listening!

I almost feel sorry for May, she looks massively worse than Gordon Brown did when he was going through a similar spell of shite. I can't believe how quickly things have changed since 2015!

[Knoyleo]

Anyone mentioned that May was wearing a bracelet with pictures of Frida Kahlo yet?

Frida was awesome and she's a major feminist figure and all but I'm not quite sure why a Tory would want to publicly wear images of a communist. Maybe May's stylist really strawberry floating hates her lol

She's either no idea about Frida Khalo and her political views, or is just utterly oblivious.

[Garth]

Borrowing not just from Labour but West Wing too in that speech:

twitter.com/D_Raval/status/915618207343480833

[Knoyleo]

Channel 4 News dropping letters from the on screen graphics in the background as they're discussing the speech.

[Meep]

Strong and stable.

[andretmzt]

Channel 4 News dropping letters from the on screen graphics in the background as they're discussing the speech.

strawberry floating hell.

Is there a clip of that anywhere?

[Knoyleo]

Channel 4 News dropping letters from the on screen graphics in the background as they're discussing the speech.

strawberry floating hell.

Is there a clip of that anywhere?

The C4 News site has the segment here:

https://www.channel4.com/news/philip-co ... e-election

[Lagamorph]

Channel 4 News dropping letters from the on screen graphics in the background as they're discussing the speech.

strawberry floating hell.

Is there a clip of that anywhere?

The C4 News site has the segment here:

https://www.channel4.com/news/philip-co ... e-election

That woman constantly saying "frew" was almost as bad as May's speech.

[KK]

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[Garth]

[KK]

No Daily Mail yet...how odd. They're usually one of the first out of the gate.

[Irene Demova]

Laughed out loud when I got to the express one

[Irene Demova]

twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/915697774091472896

Amazing, especially given they ran with a picture where the slogan is transformed into a criticism

[Squinty]

I haven't seen the whole thing, but I did watch clips of it. She did alright considering she was sick, but my word, it really was a metaphor for her leadership. The final nails are being put into the coffin.

The donor idea is very good. I thought the energy prices was u turned out of, but it seems to be brought back.

[Moggy]

I haven't seen the whole thing, but I did watch clips of it. She did alright considering she was sick, but my word, it really was a metaphor for her leadership. The final nails are being put into the coffin.

The donor idea is very good. I thought the energy prices was u turned out of, but it seems to be brought back.

I'd agree with that, her coughing and spluttering was funny but other than as a metaphor I don't look down on a politician for being ill. I actually thought she made a decent joke (for a politician!) when Hammond gave her a lozenge and she said "the Chancellor is giving something away for free!".

The organ donation is a great idea, there should be no reason that it isn't an opt out arrangement.

The social/council house stuff was not very impressive really. The amount of money being put forward will not build anywhere near enough. Better than nothing I guess, but hardly a return to the house building of old.

I think all the reports of utter disaster I had read over the day made her speech sound better, I was expecting a car crash but instead it was mostly dull.

The clip of Amber Rudd getting Boris to stand up and clap was great though.

[Grumpy David]

How embarrassing.

Listening on the radio yesterday morning and there was talk of a massive house building policy.

How disappointing to find out it's only an extra 2 billion. Something like an extra 25,000 homes. Drop in the ocean.

[Moggy]

How embarrassing.

Listening on the radio yesterday morning and there was talk of a massive house building policy.

How disappointing to find out it's only an extra 2 billion. Something like an extra 25,000 homes. Drop in the ocean.

I think it's estimated that we need to build an extra 250,000-300,000 per year.

[Rex Kramer]

How embarrassing.

Listening on the radio yesterday morning and there was talk of a massive house building policy.

How disappointing to find out it's only an extra 2 billion. Something like an extra 25,000 homes. Drop in the ocean.

Tim Farron tweeted something along the lines of 25,000 homes over 5 years averages out to 15 houses per local authority per year.

[Errkal]

I guess post brexit when they don't need to worry about paying people but and safety they could do a house 8k.

[captain red dog]

I haven't seen the whole thing, but I did watch clips of it. She did alright considering she was sick, but my word, it really was a metaphor for her leadership. The final nails are being put into the coffin.

The donor idea is very good. I thought the energy prices was u turned out of, but it seems to be brought back.

I'd agree with that, her coughing and spluttering was funny but other than as a metaphor I don't look down on a politician for being ill. I actually thought she made a decent joke (for a politician!) when Hammond gave her a lozenge and she said "the Chancellor is giving something away for free!".

Given this Government's treatment of the sick and disabled, she gets no pass from me!