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Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 12:11 pm
No mention of the party involved auntie Beeb?

"No mention"? That (very short) article actually states that the party involved is the Conservatives four times, including two in the bit you C&P'd.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 1:04 pm

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 12:11 pm
No mention of the party involved auntie Beeb?

"No mention"? That (very short) article actually states that the party involved is the Conservatives four times, including two in the bit you C&P'd.

But not the headline.

I know for folk like us the truth is just one click away.
Just like the Mail and Express at the petrol station, far more will read the headline than ever see the article.

Well yes, people who don't read the article won't know what it says, but that doesn't alter the content of the article and it certainly doesn't mean that the BBC have written an article without mentioning the subject of the article (I'm not even sure how that would be possible?).

I agree with Bones- you'd expect the party to be in the preview.

This really is absolutely abysmal.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 9:34 pm This is the chap challenging Starmer. No great surprise here. Why do so many of that lot fall for obvious wrong uns?

I got a weird e-commerce hustle site come up. Is this a linkjack?

I did too. No idea what a linkjack is.

It is noticeable that X has exploded in the last hour or so following the announcement of the death of the former Leeds Rhinos half back Rob Burrow at the age of 41. My steam is pretty much exclusively all tweets from everywhere paying tribute to him and all he achieved on and off the field. The General Election campaign need not exist at present. If Rishi Sunak is going to have a Dissolution Honours List in a few weeks time, then Kevin Sinfield must be first on the list for a knighthood before any chinless wonder getting it for “political service”. Both Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield are shining examples of human beings and the power of friendship. A world away from some of the I me now grifters who have sat in the House of Commons.

Simon

A sighting of the surprisingly low proflle (these days) Prit Patel. Nice photo of Bozo there. Very loyal to Rishi.

You did indeed recruit a respectable number of police officers (though you were gone from the Home Office in 2022, so the rest were someone else. Unfortunately you were also voting for your party to cut over 20,000 from 2010.

slilley wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 6:50 pm It is noticeable that X has exploded in the last hour or so following the announcement of the death of the former Leeds Rhinos half back Rob Burrow at the age of 41. My steam is pretty much exclusively all tweets from everywhere paying tribute to him and all he achieved on and off the field. The General Election campaign need not exist at present. If Rishi Sunak is going to have a Dissolution Honours List in a few weeks time, then Kevin Sinfield must be first on the list for a knighthood before any chinless wonder getting it for “political service”. Both Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield are shining examples of human beings and the power of friendship. A world away from some of the I me now grifters who have sat in the House of Commons.

Simon

I'd forgotten about another resignation honours, but it begs the question - after BoJo and Truss, who have they got left to 'honour'? Lord Rees Mogg? Baroness Braverman?

davidjay wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 7:39 pm

slilley wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 6:50 pm It is noticeable that X has exploded in the last hour or so following the announcement of the death of the former Leeds Rhinos half back Rob Burrow at the age of 41. My steam is pretty much exclusively all tweets from everywhere paying tribute to him and all he achieved on and off the field. The General Election campaign need not exist at present. If Rishi Sunak is going to have a Dissolution Honours List in a few weeks time, then Kevin Sinfield must be first on the list for a knighthood before any chinless wonder getting it for “political service”. Both Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield are shining examples of human beings and the power of friendship. A world away from some of the I me now grifters who have sat in the House of Commons.

Simon

I'd forgotten about another resignation honours, but it begs the question - after BoJo and Truss, who have they got left to 'honour'? Lord Rees Mogg? Baroness Braverman?

If either of them lost their seat, it is quite possible

Simon

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 7:17 pm A sighting of the surprisingly low proflle (these days) Prit Patel. Nice photo of Bozo there. Very loyal to Rishi.

You did indeed recruit a respectable number of police officers (though you were gone from the Home Office in 2022, so the rest were someone else. Unfortunately you were also voting for your party to cut over 20,000 from 2010.

Many Tory MPs appear to be running their own manifestos. Newmarket residents have been receiving glossy A4 leaflets from Nick Timothy outlining his own brand mix of populist left economics and nationalist culture war.

Yeah. I looked at Priti's Twitter. No mention of Sunak since the election called, as far as I can see. Or indeed for some time before it was called.

The Tories are really struggling to get cabinet ministers and former cabinet ministers to come out publicly to support Sunak on the campaign trail the fact that Victoria Atkins was wheeled out today has the party's big hitter on the Sunday politics shows is a sign of how desperate the Tory's are.

Victoria Atkins won by nearly 55% last time, so she can spare the time outside the constituency at least. Perhaps Rebecca Harris (who won Castle Point by 60%) will be doing the media round tmrw? She's Comptroller of the Household. Would be a bit like in the early Coalition period where Michael Fallon defended the government from his lofty seat on the Treasury Select Committee.

Just counted nine Tory PMs that are worse than any Labour premier since the outbreak of WWII. Five since 2010, Heath, Douglas-Home, Eden and possibly the best one out of that nine, Neville Chamberlain.

Fair. A senile and drunk Churchill was at least not malevolent.

Straight talking Kemi Badenoch can't say that Truss did wrong by going on Carl Bejamin's podcast.

Apparently the rest of her media round was less than brilliant too.

Kemi isn’t an empathetic people person and that’s a crucial skill for frontline politicians. Might be good at running the IT department.

Truss has hit the ground running and has been out canvassing for more days than she ever visited her constituency. She has Reform, a rising Labour demographic and a credible independent Tory on her back. He has Martin Bell and his pal Rory Stewart helping out on the campaign trail. So far no high profile ministerial support has arrived to lend Truss a hand.

I'm beginning to think that Truss may well be mentally ill.

This isn't gaslighting - she seems to have an absolute disconnect between her view of reality and everyone else's. Either that or she knows that when she drops the act, the cash dries up.