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[steviewevie]

[Cherry Tree]

2 hours ago, steviewevie said:

she'll get sacked, there will be massive riots on saturday, she'll do a massive told you so and will be tory leader and PM this time next week.

BET NOW!

The problem is that she wants to be sacked, she knows the ship is sinking and is planning her own survival by making sure she isn’t associated with Rishi when it goes down. She did the same with Truss by resigning over a relatively small issue. She may be wary of resigning again as she might start to look like Gavin Williamson.

[steviewevie]

8 minutes ago, Cherry Tree said:

The problem is that she wants to be sacked, she knows the ship is sinking and is planning her own survival by making sure she isn’t associated with Rishi when it goes down. She did the same with Truss by resigning over a relatively small issue. She may be wary of resigning again as she might start to look like Gavin Williamson.

yep. She has an eye on that tory membership who probably broadly agree with a lot of stuff she comes out with.

[lost]

8 hours ago, Barry Fish said:

Met Chief is confident he can manage both.  I hope so.  His arse will be on the line if it goes wrong.

football is effectivley sectaranism as well and most people understand the reasons the Manchester clubs or Liverpool and Everton don't play at home on the same day. Seems a massive risk to me.

[steviewevie]

34 minutes ago, lost said:

football is effectivley sectaranism as well and most people understand the reasons the Manchester clubs or Liverpool and Everton don't play at home on the same day. Seems a massive risk to me.

manage both what? What normally happens on armistice day?

[Rufus Gwertigan]

On 11/7/2023 at 7:27 PM, Ozanne said:

I hope you get the place. 

I have place. I have passed all the checks snd view tomorrow. That is formality as I only get one offer. Its Withington so a cool area even if the place is a sh*t hole

 

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, Rufus Gwertigan said:

I have place. I have passed all the checks snd view tomorrow. That is formality as I only get one offer. Its Withington so a cool area even if the place is a sh*t hole

 

Great news. Onwards and upwards. I lived in Withington for a while so it must be cool.

[lost]

7 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

manage both what? What normally happens on armistice day?

Everyone links hands and sings kumbaya

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, lost said:

Everyone links hands and sings kumbaya

oh well, they're asking for trouble. They should definitely cancel that.

[Ozanne]

16 minutes ago, Rufus Gwertigan said:

I have place. I have passed all the checks snd view tomorrow. That is formality as I only get one offer. Its Withington so a cool area even if the place is a sh*t hole

 

Awesome news, well done!

[fred quimby]

56 minutes ago, lost said:

football is effectivley sectaranism as well and most people understand the reasons the Manchester clubs or Liverpool and Everton don't play at home on the same day. Seems a massive risk to me.

What a strange comparison 

[fred quimby]

16 minutes ago, Rufus Gwertigan said:

I have place. I have passed all the checks snd view tomorrow. That is formality as I only get one offer. Its Withington so a cool area even if the place is a sh*t hole

 

Great news

[lost]

4 minutes ago, fred quimby said:

What a strange comparison 

 

Quote

 In left-wing circles it is always 
felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman 
and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse 
racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably 
true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of 
standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a 
poor box. George Orwell, England Your England

 

[steviewevie]

Suet puddings? HAHAHAHAHA. 

[fred quimby]

1 hour ago, lost said:

football is effectivley sectaranism as well and most people understand the reasons the Manchester clubs or Liverpool and Everton don't play at home on the same day. Seems a massive risk to me.

Sorry are you talking about policing 2 events in the same city

[fred quimby]

11 minutes ago, lost said:

11 minutes ago, lost said:

 

 

 

Oh can't seem to quote your quote. 

Are you comparing football fans to people sneering at Suet Puddings or at the weekend one march is left wing and the other right wing

Edited November 9, 2023 by fred quimby

[lost]

1 minute ago, fred quimby said:

Sorry are you talking about policing 2 events in the same city

Keeping two politically different groups apart.

[steviewevie]

again, is there actually anything going on for armistice day? Remembrance day is the main one.

[fred quimby]

Just now, lost said:

Keeping two politically different groups apart.

Well maybe but they think they can. Obviously SBs comments stock the fires. 

Not sure they are politically different groups, sure some in there but it quite an us and them stereotype. 

[fred quimby]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

again, is there actually anything going on for armistice day? Remembrance day is the main one.

2 minutes silence

And I am off to a gig

[steviewevie]

I'd be more worried if there was any obvious antisemitic stuff, or if it kicks off with police if someone tries to chuck some red paint over churchill or something.  I'm sure the latter will be more of an issue with dumbarse english people.

[steviewevie]

I wonder what Suella will do tomorrow to try and get the sack?

[Rufus Gwertigan]

1 hour ago, lost said:

Keeping two politically different groups apart.

Sorry how are they different?

I think protesting Gaza on Remembrance Day is as better a time than any and I an ex military 

[Cherry Tree]

Remembrance Day is on Sunday and that is the one with politicians and royalty. The Armistice Day event at the Cenotaph is a relatively low key event to commemorate the end of the first world war, organised by  the Western Front Association. The organiser Richard Hughes has come out stating that the Palestinian protest should go ahead as he believes that the casualties of WW1 were fighting for democracy and freedom of speech.

There have been Pro Palestine demonstrations in London for the last three weekends and these have passed off without any major issues or nothing that has aroused media interest.

In reality these two events should pass off without either being aware of the others existence as there locations are a couple of miles apart. The issue caused by Suella intervening is that she has stirred up both the right and left wing activists who have a more anarchic viewpoint, that there may well be a more violent conflict than there has been at the protests over the last three weekends.

[gizmoman]

4 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Strange choice of pose given the political history, older readers may remember.

Christine Keeler and the Profumo affair for the young uns.