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Taipan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:49 am Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK. No real surprise, but I bet Sunak isn't happy!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68532602
Well, that's 3 parties he's been in, just needs the Lib Dems and Greens for a full set. :lol:

(I imagine Sunak thinks GFR).
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Taipan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:49 am Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK. No real surprise, but I bet Sunak isn't happy!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68532602
So all the Tory MPs who so desperately avoided calling Lee Anderson racist will now be able to do so!

Be interesting to see if they do (or not).
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:24 pm
Taipan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:49 am Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK. No real surprise, but I bet Sunak isn't happy!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68532602
Well, that's 3 parties he's been in, just needs the Lib Dems and Greens for a full set. :lol:

(I imagine Sunak thinks GFR).
I suspect a key number of erstwhile Tory voters will think exactly that about Sunak. ;)
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:24 pm
Taipan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:49 am Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK. No real surprise, but I bet Sunak isn't happy!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68532602
Well, that's 3 parties he's been in, just needs the Lib Dems and Greens for a full set. :lol:

(I imagine Sunak thinks GFR).
Or make his own party?
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Not sure if I've dreamt this up, but didn't the government downgrade shoplifting quite a few months back. Strangely SL is now out of control. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Dodgy69 wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:13 am Not sure if I've dreamt this up, but didn't the government downgrade shoplifting quite a few months back. Strangely SL is now out of control. 🤷🏻‍♂️
I've never been in control. :roll:

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Dodgy69 wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:13 am Not sure if I've dreamt this up, but didn't the government downgrade shoplifting quite a few months back. Strangely SL is now out of control. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Our local plod wont respond to shoplifiting unless its violent. Then they'll turn up with a crime number within a matter of days! :thumbup:
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Brexit is a disaster - official. 'Britain has not managed to cope with Brexit' - report
Britain has still not managed to cope with Brexit despite a huge increase in the size of its civil service, according to a new report.

A study by think tank UK in a Changing Europe has concluded that the British government still does not have a coherent plan to deal with the EU eight years after the vote to leave.

The report states that Brexit was a major factor in the hiring of 100,000 extra civil servants since the EU referendum in 2016.

The expansion was necessary to take over functions and responsibilities from the EU.

However, the report found that with changing ministers and political turbulence, the government has failed to come up with a strategic vision for Brexit.
Who'd have thought that eh?
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Lutin wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:06 am Brexit is a disaster - official. 'Britain has not managed to cope with Brexit' - report
Britain has still not managed to cope with Brexit despite a huge increase in the size of its civil service, according to a new report.

A study by think tank UK in a Changing Europe has concluded that the British government still does not have a coherent plan to deal with the EU eight years after the vote to leave.

The report states that Brexit was a major factor in the hiring of 100,000 extra civil servants since the EU referendum in 2016.

The expansion was necessary to take over functions and responsibilities from the EU.

However, the report found that with changing ministers and political turbulence, the government has failed to come up with a strategic vision for Brexit.
Who'd have thought that eh?

Just to make things clear for some of the hard of learning on here, none of that is down to, or the fault of the people who voted 'Leave'.

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It gets better - (from the Daily Express) -


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Notice that he will be campaigning on "freedoms" and not "benefits".

The "freedom" to cripple the UK economy perhaps?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68548389#

I don’t shooting at a target the size of Abbott is very sporting.
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Controversy as short-arsed, snuffling, soon-to-die dog wins Crufts award for, presumably, still being able to draw breath...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ch-bulldog

Every Frenchie I meet when I walk my hound seems to be on the verge of dying of asthma and runs like it's in the throes of an epileptic fit. I feel sorry for the little fuckers, them and Pugs, as they seem to be bred to an aesthetic that people love, yet does the dog no favours in life.

But then The Kennel Club seems to love awarding rosettes for crippled dogs...

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I posted this in another thread, but it applies equally here

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gremlin wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:41 pm Controversy as short-arsed, snuffling, soon-to-die dog wins Crufts award for, presumably, still being able to draw breath...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ch-bulldog

Every Frenchie I meet when I walk my hound seems to be on the verge of dying of asthma and runs like it's in the throes of an epileptic fit. I feel sorry for the little fuckers, them and Pugs, as they seem to be bred to an aesthetic that people love, yet does the dog no favours in life.

But then The Kennel Club seems to love awarding rosettes for crippled dogs...

Did you see the Best of Breed Rottweiler? Thing had a head more like a bulldog than a rott.

Local cops haven't many GSD now, practically all Malinois now. Nearly impossible to find a GSD with a solid back now.
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Vote Binface!!!

London Mayoral elections: Intergalactic space warrior Count Binface to stand

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68552817

I like his manifesto: "Those include a price cap on croissants, the renaming of London Bridge to Phoebe Waller-Bridge and bringing back Ceefax."
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Good riddance to the driver.

https://www.bbc.com/articles/c517rnryj04o
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Good job that bush was there to break his fall!

https://news.sky.com/video/share-130975 ... ILGpK0pEp8
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KungFooBob wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:36 am Good job that bush was there to break his fall!

https://news.sky.com/video/share-130975 ... ILGpK0pEp8
:shock: What on earth was so bad to make someone want to do that. Tis an angry world we live in :thumbdown:
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Driver got 4 years I believe? Dangerous driving, so said Mrs D.

Surprised it wasn't attempted murder TBH.