Christ on a bike. That’s utterly barking. It’s not the role of Government to ensure the provision of Fish and Chip shops. Don’t these Tories have any faith in the market anymore? Hasn’t the twunt got anything better to do? I need a lie down. Replies amusing though.
Not sure those things are going to use the same site so therefore not neccesarilly exclusive. As an aside you can get a decent Fish 'n' Chip meal from the Three Tuns or the Spoons in Uxbridge.
Are there currently laws in plaice (deliberate pun) that you can’t have a fish and chip shop on Uxbridge? Or is Tuckwell just going to make some random local open one against their will?
The suggestion is this pollocks is all about getting gullible folk’s email addresses to target them with election material, with the sole aim of turbot-charging his floundering re-election campaign. Hope he gets battered by the Information Commissioner.
Think he would just need to ask if he can contact them on the address given. To be fair I'm not so sure how a effective a campaign medium it would be. These days it's so easy to block/ignore emails. I think the latter. He'll batter them into submission.
Good to see the government prioritising what the people are clamouring for #Broken_Britain: UK government launches review into headlight glare after drivers’ complaints Campaigners welcome move as survey suggests they have become too bright and risk causing accidents
Cleaning your windscreen (both inside and out) and getting a proper eyetest will fix most headlight glare issues.
William Wragg, hard-line brexiter and member of Tory "Common Sense Group" (god help us) is at centre of honey trap wherein he was blackmailed into providing phone numbers of MPs and ministers by someone he sent dyck pics to after contact on Grindr. When will it be over?
"Integrity" - it's a word in the dic(fnarrr, fnaaar)tionary: Senior Tory ‘mortified’ after reportedly passing MPs’ data to dating app contact William Wragg says he was pressed for colleagues’ details after sharing compromising photos of himself
I thought I would do some amateur fact-checking on this Daily Express story. I still don't really understand the numbers. Perhaps someone can help? I have pasted below the last results for Desborough from May 2021. This was a full election and the 3 Tory candidates gained a 55% share of the vote, with Labour on 29% of the vote. It seems to me that the Tories lost around 8% share of the vote. I know that trying to compare a by-election with a full election in this type of council election is problematic, but I don't see where the claimed 7.5% rise in the Tory vote comes from (if anything, their percentage share fell by 7.5%).
Possibly the figures you have are across Desborough whereas the gain is within that ward alone? It’s still the thinnest gruel possible. Council elections are not really what the public consider to be major ‘By-elections.’. It demonstrates the hole the Tories are in and the desperation of its client media.
The local rag published this: The previous Tory councillor won the ward on 55% of the vote - the new incumbent won it on 47% of the vote - a crushing victory (of sorts):
Just been told what my corporation tax bill is going to be. FFS! Thanks Rishi! Does anyone want to buy a kidney?
Of course. But why can't they get the poor to pay? Cut benefits, reduce services, stop paying the bloated salaries of the army of do-nothing layabouts employed in the public sector.... there's plenty of things they could have done - but no, it's decent, hardworking, upstanding pillars of the community such as myself that get to eat the sh1t sandwich. I can't wait for Sir Keir to get in and bring some proper Tory values back
If anyone actually still believes in the Levelling Up bullocks, just read this for a hint at the lunacy it involves: https://www.northnorthants.gov.uk/n...oost-cultural-projects-across-north-northants £5m of taxpayer money kindly awarded by the government for 'cultural projects'. Awarded start of March in the Spring budget. Took until April for an invitation and process for bids to the community to be put out. These have to be of at least £500k, so no small undertaking. Deadline for the Council to reply to the government is 10 May or the money disappears again like the mirage it truly is. It's just utterly bonkers. And this goes on all over the shop in the public sector, across every single thing this government touches. Reams and reams of paperwork being filled out for bids from various pots with ridiculous strings attached and naturally a whole industry of consultants ready to cash in on advising how to tick the right boxes or word something correctly. And then when stuff does actually happen, there's a massive loop of feeding back to the government about how it went or money being released in tranches which need certain hurdles to be jumped. The waste must be absolutely massive.
So much 'talent' will be lost... Will the UK ever recover? UK general election: the seats the Tories will lose if the polls are right
I’m not sure how many days later I would stop laughing if Rees-Mogg loses his seat, let alone the others.
Remember her .. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68821646 Obviously come out trying to make a few headlines .
She's trying to sell her book. She's certainly the banner girl for the 'nothing is our fault' Tory brigade though. Suspect she'll end up being one of many in the next couple of years.
Laura Trott is today's Tory MP doing the media rounds to tell half-truths with her head tilted slightly to the side. Inflation down to 3.2%. Woo-hoo, well done Government, all down to you of course, when the out-of-control inflation rates of the past 16 months were nothing to do with you, right? And a reminder for those who hear a smaller percentage increase and think, 'well that's good, prices must be coming down soon,' I'll do the bit the TV and radio presenters often seem unable to manage... A 3.2% rise on today's prices means they are still rising and they are rising from a higher starting point, which was caused by the previous much higher rates of inflation.
Yes but this drop in inflation is being driven by falls in the price of that universal commodity - crumpets https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68833077 Just goes to show those crumpet airlifts Rishi masterminded into the country, farmed from the famed crumpet trees of Rwanda, have had a profound effect on the economy for everyone. And to think Sir Kier and Labour said it couldn't be done!
Fortunately, I think even so-called 'low information voters' won't fail to notice the cost of a packet of mince or a cup of coffee. The question then is whether they'll join the dots and work out who's got incredibly rich at their expense.
She was also leader of the Tory rebels during last night’s smoking vote. It may be cancer, but it’s British cancer.
It's good to see inflation come down at last. It's been very bad over the past couple of years - especially for necessities like food and fuel. Things everyone has to buy. Now the rates are easing off a bit and stabilising all over the world - Cuba, Venezuela, Kenya for example. There is no longer the shock where the price has gone up since the last time you bought it. But still the high prices for basic food are shocking. Just a pound of rice now is 200 pesos in Cuba. That would be $10 US on the old system. But still, pensioners are trying to live on 1500 pesos a month! And meat - forget it! I don't pretend to understand economics but it seems obvious to anyone that inflation rates mirror quite precisely the USA rate, which has also fallen to about 3.5%. Richie and his menagerie of goons have very little control over the UK rate, and point this out willingly to excuse themselves when the rate is shooting up, but then puff out their little be-suited pigeon chests on the evening news and claim it's all their hard work when the rate is falling. .
For some of the ladies I work with, the destination of their vote will depend more on whether Richie can be considered "dishy" or not, when compared to Sir Starver's oily charms. Rising prices are moaned about, but viewed as being a force of nature like the weather and mainly the fault of shopkeepers, café and pub owners and (of course) foreigners. There is no link whatsoever to government policy. About their only political thoughts are to rage about local councillors (of every stripe) who are drawing gazillions in wages, whilst wantonly destroying the locality, imposing ludicrous unworkable schemes and giving away more gazillions of freebies to foreigners. And from that entrenched position, concreted in over many decades, you cannot move them. I have tried.
Great excitement in the Lloyd household! My eldest boy's school friend and now flatmate is Mark Menzies' parliamentary assistant/researcher. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68841840 My son assures me that he and his pal aren't the 'bad people' who locked poor Mr Menzies in a flat - although having been to their 'digs' several times I can fully understand why anyone would pay 5 grand to get out of the place, so I have given their details to the police. More to come - apparently!
The Tory conveyor belt of alleged sleaze and corruption rolls inexorably on... Mark Menzies MP for the Fylde has announced that he has agreed to relinquish the Tory whip ("I strongly dispute the allegations..") after the Times ran a story this week suggesting that this Lancashire political titan had (ahem) dipped his hand into the local party funds account to the tune of £14,000 for medical bills/expenses and more recently £6,500, none yet to be repaid, for this: "According to the newspaper, Mr Menzies phoned his former campaign manager, now a party volunteer, at 03:15 last December saying he was locked in a flat and needed £5,000 as a matter of "life and death". The sum was reportedly paid later that morning, by which time it had risen to £6,500, from the personal savings of Mr Menzies' office manager, who was reimbursed from campaign donations, the paper said." Well we'd surely all accept that being taken hostage and needing to pay ransom to "bad people" is a legitimate party expense I'd imagine. Menzies does seems to be a tad unlucky in his personal life outside Westminster: (1) In March 2014, Menzies resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Alan Duncan, then the International Development Minister, after a report in the Sunday Mirror that Menzies had paid a Brazilian male escort for sex and asked him to supply the illegal drug mephedrone. Menzies said a number of the claims were "untrue"; and (2) Menzies was questioned by police over allegations he fed alcohol to a dog and had a brawl with a friend in August 2015. The dog had emergency veterinary treatment for "intoxication" and "poisoning". Menzies was not charged and strongly denied any wrongdoing. Menzies said his friend had attacked him and stated the police dropped their investigation into him after he showed them pictures of his friend plying the dog with alcoholic drinks. I guess this is all part of the rough and tumble of high level political life representing the hard-working great British public (© Rishi S). Here is Mark M in January promoting his work with the Fylde plod on his website. Oh the irony! Grant Shapps, our favourite Old Fullerian, was quick off the mark this morning ("we have immediately suspended him from the party") to refute the suggestion made by that nasty lefty Nick Robinson on the Today programme that the Tory hierarchy was perhaps a bit slow out of the blocks to act on this having been informed in January as well as listing the various Tory MPs currently operating outside the whip. I think the Tories are going to need a bigger whip!
