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Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 7:14 pm
by Youngian
No views published on his Wiki biog except this hobby horse of his. Seems a very pedestrian journeyman, otherwise. Perhaps this is his original thought and is cherishing it.
During a debate on International Men's Day, Fletcher has blamed traditionally male roles being given to females as a reason for men being more likely to commit suicide and making up the majority of prisoners in England

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 7:27 pm
by Youngian
In search of local male role models from Doncaster is this actor. Playing a very similar role to Nick Fletcher.

12 famous people who are all from Doncaster

Thomas Howes
Thomas, 33, was trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is best known for having played the role of William Mason, the second footman in ITV's Downton Abbey. https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/he ... HVrM0syOXA.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 7:58 pm
by The All New KevS
If I was a cynic of course, I'd say CCHQ told Nick Fletcher to come out with that Gallifreyan related nonsense so we weren't talking about 31 people who drowned yesterday.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:47 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
I think the dead cat theory is overrated, And anyway, hardly anyone who votes Bluekip is going to blame the UK for the drownings, They'll agree with Patel that it's the fault of France.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:52 pm
by kreuzberger
I might be wrong, but Kev's tongue seemed so far in his cheek that it crossed in to a different time zone...

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:20 pm
by satnav
Wasn't the whole international men's day debate thing the brain child of Philip Davies about 5 years ago? At the time it was a bit of a joke but I think the joke is now wearing a bit thin.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 9:59 pm
by The All New KevS
It'd be terrible if someone told someone else they knew about the Fletcher gaffe, wouldn't it? Especially if that someone else was a Twitch streamer from Los Angeles who has now retweeted it to their 25k global followers.

*Walks away whistling innocently*

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 10:19 pm
by The Weeping Angel
kreuzberger wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:52 pm I might be wrong, but Kev's tongue seemed so far in his cheek that it crossed in to a different time zone...
I think he is being tongue in cheek but Tubbs is right that dead cat is overrated.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 10:34 pm
by Bones McCoy
Alexander's prompter is reaching for the bolt gun


Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 10:39 pm
by MisterMuncher
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:47 pm I think the dead cat theory is overrated, And anyway, hardly anyone who votes Bluekip is going to blame the UK for the drownings, They'll agree with Patel that it's the fault of France.
It's France's fault they're dead, but they'll give Boris credit they didn't get here

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:50 am
by Youngian
If the beaches of Kent were covered in razor wire and ruled out of bounds, how many of these blowhards would sacrifice days at the seaside with the grandchildren as a price worth paying?

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:58 pm
by Cyclist
Collapsed energy supplier Bulb Energy appears to have used its role advising ministers on green business to exaggerate its own environmental credentials, while playing down rivals’ progress.
Bulb’s chief executive, Hayden Wood, used a meeting of the Council for Sustainable Business (CSB), attended by key government officials and MPs, to highlight its green progress ahead of the Cop26 climate talks and boast about £4.5m it has donated to organisations fighting climate change.
Now he's picking our pockets with government blessing
Bulb this week became the biggest energy supplier casualty of the gas price spike, when it was taken over by the British government via a so-called “special administration”. That means the effective nationalisation of the company, which has 1.7m customers, and could cost the taxpayer more than £1.7bn over the winter, as the government underwrites its power purchases.

Wood, 38, who co-founded Bulb in 2015, is still running the company during the administration on a salary believed to be £113,000 – something that has stoked further controversy given that he was the architect of Bulb’s meteoric but heavily loss-making growth...

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/20 ... nst-rivals
For a party of fiscal responsibility they ain't arf free with taxpayers' money.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:17 pm
by Boiler
Whatever happened to the "if you fail, you fail and that's that" of capitalism?

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:32 pm
by Cyclist
And all those Bulb customers aren't stuck with no electricity - it's never been easier to switch suppliers.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 7:26 pm
by Bones McCoy
Boiler wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:17 pm Whatever happened to the "if you fail, you fail and that's that" of capitalism?
It was always bullshit, and only applied if you got sacked form MacDonalds (or similar tier jobs).

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:59 pm
by Andy McDandy
Wingnut welfare. Uncle Monty's holiday letting policy. Too big to fail. Etc.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2021 9:53 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
What Dr Dunc said.


Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:50 pm
by Bones McCoy
Googled NHS reserves, and got a page advising NHS staff on joining the TA.

I think they need to pick a more distinct name.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2021 9:35 pm
by mattomac
“We treat foreign people like shit and they don’t want to come here anymore…..”

“We for some reason about three years ago removed the nursing bursary”

All much more accurate than whatever Javvid is bleating.

Re: New Depths Plumbed While You Wait - The Tories Generally

Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 1:06 pm
by Boiler
Covid bereaved families 'sickened' over No 10 Christmas party (links to BBC)

And yet this will bounce off them as though they're covered in PTFE with a side order of molybdenum disulphide and graphite sprinkled on top.