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Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:03 pm
by That
It's a combination of the two, in all seriousness. Tories disdain both public sector workers ("if you were smart you'd get a real job in banking!") and poor people who can't go private ("if you weren't such a lazy prole you'd be able to afford the cancer drugs!").

You see exactly the same effect in state education, where both teachers and students are reviled by Tories. Because if you were a decent teacher you'd obviously be teaching at Eton, and if you were a decent student you'd obviously be studying at Eton, right?

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:13 pm
by Moggy
Karl wrote:
<]:^D wrote:id like to know how Conservative voters can justify the way the NHS is being run by the government, considering that we knew the plan was to underfund all along.

"Those strawberry floating lazy doctors and nurses and paramedics. Spending years training to save lives, then working long hours to save lives, then expecting to be paid a reasonable wage so they can live comfortably in the limited time they spend at home when not out saving lives. What a bunch of gross deplorable monsters."


And that's just Denster.

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:17 pm
by That
Denster is a gross monster but it's not because he's a Tory. :dread: ( :wub: )

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:19 pm
by Moggy
Karl wrote:Denster is a gross monster but it's not because he's a Tory. :dread: ( :wub: )


I was talking about him being lazy and deplorable, not him being a Tory. Although that works as well. ;)

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:21 pm
by That
We love you Denster you weird pervert. :wub:

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 5:08 pm
by Drumstick
What I'd like to know is what percentage of NHS workers vote Tory. Denny can't be the only one, it's a statistical improbability.

And yes we love you Denny.

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:18 pm
by <]:^D
imagine coming into hospital for work just after Christmas and then dropping that you voted for May last election :lol:

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:27 pm
by captain red dog
I'm honestly amazed there aren't marches in London. People are actually dying in corridors and the government have been caught negligent and nobody really seems to give a damn.

Grenfell tower, NHS collapse......what a strawberry floating legacy.

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:00 pm
by Lagamorph

twitter.com/mediaguardian/status/951446866650046464


Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:01 pm
by satriales
captain red dog wrote:I'm honestly amazed there aren't marches in London. People are actually dying in corridors and the government have been caught negligent and nobody really seems to give a damn.

Grenfell tower, NHS collapse......what a strawberry floating legacy.

Latest polls suggest that 40% would still vote Tory if there was an election today, just 1% behind Labour. It's madness!

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:44 pm
by KK
Question Time back tonight at 10:45 with Gina Miller and Piers Morgan.

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:10 pm
by Moggy
KK wrote:Piers Morgan.


:dread:

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:19 pm
by KK

twitter.com/hendopolis/status/951578791855390720



He ain’t called bone for nothing. :datass:

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:35 pm
by more heat than light
Genuinely thought that was an erroneous apostrophe. :fp:

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:45 pm
by Tineash
Peter Bone is 'famous' for phrasing his questions in parliament as being from Mrs Bone, so... I dunno. extra brownie points for pointless hypocrisy?

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 10:48 pm
by Tineash
so, "Mrs Bone doesn't understand why we can't just fire all EU immigrants out of a cannon" and then David Cameron would say "ohoho I'm so sorry to disappoint Mrs Bone, but my government believes in shooting them out of trebuchets", and then the whole of parliament would chortle and applaud and that was PMQs done for another week

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:47 am
by Skarjo
Ah gooseberry fool, Beth's dead.

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:01 am
by satriales
An MP leaving his wife for another woman shouldn't really be front page news. Didn't he piss off May a bit at PMQs this week?

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 11:12 am
by Rocsteady
They've only led with it for the pun.

Re: The Politics Thread 4

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:22 pm
by satriales
STATISTICS SHOW THAT DAILY MAIL WAS BY FAR THE MOST UNRELIABLE UK PAPER IN 2017

The Daily Mail transgressed the press regulator rules no fewer than 50 times in 2017, making it by far the biggest offender of the year out of the publications monitored by IPSO.

This was more than the combined total of the next three worst offenders
(Daily Express, The Sun and the Daily Telegraph) and far in excess of its 2016 total, when the paper also topped the charts.

https://tabloidcorrections.wordpress.co ... r-in-2017/


Would never have guessed :shock: