2024 General Election

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Yorick wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 6:02 pm
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Mussels wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 4:04 pm Did these people learn nothing from attempts to bully Trump? Unless the guy who threw these did it as a false flag exercise.
Objects thrown at Nigel Farage on open-top bus
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BBC wrote:Police said Josh Greally, 28, had been charged with using threatening, abusive, insulting words and behaviour with intent to cause fear.
Threatening someone to scare them is now a crime? The police are fucked then.
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https://www.aol.co.uk/trust-government- ... 00452.html

The British social attitudes survey revealed a growing lack of confidence in politicians and the political system.
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Mussels wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 9:11 am Threatening someone to scare them is now a crime?
Yes, that's common assault:

"Common assault is when a person inflicts violence on someone else or makes them think they are going to be attacked. It does not have to involve physical violence. Threatening words or a raised fist is enough for the crime to have been committed provided the victim thinks that they are about to be attacked. Spitting at someone is another example"

And it's not particularly new:

"Offences of assault fall under the Offences against the Person Act 1861, the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998."
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/outlines/assault/
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gremlin wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 5:10 pm Fucking morons.

If you don't like him and what he stands for, then don't vote for him. That's how democracy works.
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BBC wrote:In the interview with the SNP's John Swinney, we're now onto tax.
He says the UK should replicate Scotland’s system of taxing higher earners to avoid more austerity after the election.
Bless, the SNP cares about the rest of the UK.
Or is it that he's worried about the net migration of higher rate tax payers going south of the border. :lol:
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mangocrazy wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 8:46 pm Broken News's take on Herr Farrago's reappearance on the UK's electoral stage:

Blimey.
I'm not a Farage fan by any stretch ( not that it has anything to do with this comment really I guess, but for the avoidance of doubt), but that is a really third rate load of just unfunny shite that I think could only appeal to people who dislike him intensely, , or (but probably and :) ) thickies. Never heard of them before so dunno if they do it for everyone or just hate him, but whatever, at least I know never to bother watching of their stuff again :thumbup:
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Yeah, not something you'd send your Nan a link to. I think they must really dislike Farage; I've not seen that level of vitriol deployed against anyone else.
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Tricky wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 8:42 pm
mangocrazy wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 8:46 pm Broken News's take on Herr Farrago's reappearance on the UK's electoral stage:

Blimey.
I'm not a Farage fan by any stretch ( not that it has anything to do with this comment really I guess, but for the avoidance of doubt), but that is a really third rate load of just unfunny shite that I think could only appeal to people who dislike him intensely, , or (but probably and :) ) thickies. Never heard of them before so dunno if they do it for everyone or just hate him, but whatever, at least I know never to bother watching of their stuff again :thumbup:
I refrained from commenting about it because I thought "OK, maybe it really is funny and my bias prevents me from seeing the joke". So thanks for that, it's nice to know it's not just me. :thumbup:
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mangocrazy wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 8:46 pm Broken News's take on Herr Farrago's reappearance on the UK's electoral stage:
Whoever watches brainless sh1t like this is equally brainless. :lol:
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I watched 10-15mins of the political debate on ITV tonight.

The main point I took away was that, if it was life or death, out of all of them, I'd probably shag Penny Mordaunt.
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KungFooBob wrote: Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:26 pm I watched 10-15mins of the political debate on ITV tonight.

The main point I took away was that, if it was life or death, out of all of them, I'd probably shag Penny Mordaunt.
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KungFooBob wrote: Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:26 pm I watched 10-15mins of the political debate on ITV tonight.

The main point I took away was that, if it was life or death, out of all of them, I'd probably shag Penny Mordaunt.
Dunno if Wes Streeting was in the program (cos I didn't watch it) but if he was he'd probably be looking to shag your arse, life or death or anything else for that matter. :lol:
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KungFooBob wrote: Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:26 pm I watched 10-15mins of the political debate on ITV tonight.

The main point I took away was that, if it was life or death, out of all of them, I'd probably shag Penny Mordaunt.
She reminds me of my maths teacher, Gladys Prior. Every teenage boy in the school fantasised about her magnificent rack. Every teenage boy was also terrified of her.
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Cousin Jack wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 9:21 am She reminds me of my maths teacher, Gladys Prior. Every teenage boy in the school fantasised about her magnificent rack. Every teenage boy was also terrified of her.
If you can still remember her full name 60 years on, she (or her attributes) must have made a serious impression... :)

I can't remember the name of a single one of my teachers.
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mangocrazy wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 12:21 pm
Cousin Jack wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 9:21 am She reminds me of my maths teacher, Gladys Prior. Every teenage boy in the school fantasised about her magnificent rack. Every teenage boy was also terrified of her.
If you can still remember her full name 60 years on, she (or her attributes) must have made a serious impression... :)

I can't remember the name of a single one of my teachers.
She wasn't* a teacher, she was a force of nature!

*She vehemently refuted that she was a maths teacher, she was a mathematician.
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mangocrazy wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 12:21 pm
Cousin Jack wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 9:21 am She reminds me of my maths teacher, Gladys Prior. Every teenage boy in the school fantasised about her magnificent rack. Every teenage boy was also terrified of her.
If you can still remember her full name 60 years on, she (or her attributes) must have made a serious impression... :)

I can't remember the name of a single one of my teachers.
Our version was Miss Bissel the art teacher. Had the kind of body that would make the Pope kick a Nun & always had her rack fighting to escape her blouse.
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mangocrazy wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 12:21 pm I can't remember the name of a single one of my teachers.
I remember Mr. Gay.

Course of course you would. It was an all boys school too. :D

He wasn't the nonce though. That was Mr. Paul, turns out.
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Miss Appelby, maths. I rememember one of the "lads" dropping his pen as walked by, in order to look up her skirt....she just stood there, staring at him.