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So, according to Sophie, the rule of law is now wrong and should be done away with?

Fucking idiot.

I love the way that Sophie is so independent there, with a take that's not exactly what the government would have dictated to her.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:41 pm I love the way that Sophie is so independent there, with a take that's not exactly what the government would have dictated to her.

I hope the grammar is hers and not the Government's.

I see the Torygraph is encouraging Brits to flee the UK because of 'woke'

Where can they go where their kids won't get "wokery" rammed down their throats?

Pakistan
Uganda
Saudi Arabia
Ghana
Iran
North Korea
Afghanistan
...

Somehow , I think they'll prefer the overpriced childcare, unfair taxes and "wokery" in the UK to a new life in a more socially conservative country.

Where they mean is Singapore, backwoods Australia, Hong Kong before 1997, South Africa before 1990, the USA in the 1950s, and Rhodesia.

Unfair tax system, eh?

Well, yes, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark would be much fairer all round.

What do you mean that isn't what you had in mind?

Andy McDandy wrote:Where they mean is Singapore, backwoods Australia, Hong Kong before 1997, South Africa before 1990, the USA in the 1950s, and Rhodesia.

Four of those are gone and won't be coming back. Australia, despite our noble free press' efforts to convince us otherwise, is now quite well grounded in progressive liberalism, so the Torygraph readers wouldn't really like it there. Singapore has some quite Draconian laws which are rigidly enforced, and while the Singaporans are socially conservative, the last thing they'll put up with is a bunch of white English racists with a yearning for the colonial past. No special treatment there.

If only the Tory press hadn't been quite so keen on Brexit - they could have moved to Hungary or Poland. As it is, they're stuck in a Britain they helped to create. They'll have to learn to live with it.

Yug wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:05 pm

Andy McDandy wrote:Where they mean is Singapore, backwoods Australia, Hong Kong before 1997, South Africa before 1990, the USA in the 1950s, and Rhodesia.

Four of those are gone and won't be coming back. Australia, despite our noble free press' efforts to convince us otherwise, is now quite well grounded in progressive liberalism, so the Torygraph readers wouldn't really like it there. Singapore has some quite Draconian laws which are rigidly enforced, and while the Singaporans are socially conservative, the last thing they'll put up with is a bunch of white English racists with a yearning for the colonial past. No special treatment there.

If only the Tory press hadn't been quite so keen on Brexit - they could have moved to Hungary or Poland. As it is, they're stuck in a Britain they helped to create. They'll have to learn to live with it.

I don't think the Telegraph would be happy with how Singapore has gone woke either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Singapore

Boiler wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:30 pm I see the Torygraph is encouraging Brits to flee the UK because of 'woke'

How did this wokery in schools happen? It used to be "leftwing councils", but such as they exist, they don't have much power over schools now. Are the wokes Ofsted, Tory education secretaries and academy chains?

The UK tax system is actually fairly progressive, with some exceptions like undertaxing capital gains. But I've a feeling that's not what she means by unfairness.

Is she going to join Douglas Carswell in Mississippi?

Yug wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:42 pm Where can they go where their kids won't get "wokery" rammed down their throats?

Pakistan
Uganda
Saudi Arabia
Ghana
Iran
North Korea
Afghanistan
...

Somehow , I think they'll prefer the overpriced childcare, unfair taxes and "wokery" in the UK to a new life in a more socially conservative country.

If she's thinking of anywhere specific, it'll probably be Southern US States, particularly Texas, which is on a 30 year population boom, and therefore economic boom, though not for everyone, to say the least.

Maybe Dickie can recommend some real estate agents, nothing woke about de Santisland

Telegraph has gone big on ULEZ, like the Mail.

Starmer handled it reasonably well by "listening" after Uxbridge (and no doubt twisting Khan's arm to provide more funds for scrappage). I was worried then it could escalate into a wider "war on the motorist" theme, and that's certainly what they're trying to do, but it seems a bit weak now. As far as most people are concerned, London is Piccadilly Circus, not suburban streets. "Bastards improving air quality" isn't going to fly, I'd have thought.

There's doubtless a bit of "Labour run by crazy Muslims" but that's not worked any better now than in 2016.

Ha ha ha ha.

Can't have cameras near a cemetry? When was that rule devised?

And it says that the cemetry is 1.5m from the boundary of Ulez. You're liable for Ulez if you're there. "Cynical" apparently,

Tim Stanley is increasingly a deranged, barely coherent fuckwit. The true heir to James Delingpole.

If we all wish hard enough...

Remember that from Brexit?

Is it me, or does he resemble Will from the Thick of It, in appearance, thought and deed?

Ramaswamy is an intensely irritating bullshitter like an annoying Hollywood agent in a US sit com.

Doesn't Nile live it America? He should be used to the practice of news organisations projecting winners. They like to get this right, for obvious reasons. Lots of Nile's mates attacked the media for calling Biden as winner of Arizona too quickly. Here's Nile criticising the BBC for calling Brexit too slowly.