[Watchman]

I think this shitweasel will have soon earned his own thread

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ ... rk-354474/

[davidjay]

Legal heavyweight, Nick Timothy, telling Sunak how to square the circle. Leave the ECHR but tell everyone that it still applies to the NI peace process.

Seven years on and they still think we can use the club without paying the subscription because the members will be glad to see us there.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I think this shitweasel will have soon earned his own thread

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ ... rk-354474/

May I gently remind that posting a link with no explanation or explanatory remarks does not necessarily give uniform satisfaction?

[Andy McDandy]

Jenrick, campaigning to save railway ticket offices in his constituency while supporting measures to close them down elsewhere.

[satnav]

The Tory candidate who is campaigning to be our next MP has sent out a newspaper to every house in the constituency called the 'Chesterfield Chronicles' the paper sets out all the things that the government has done for the area but the word 'Conservative' doesn't appear once in the 4 page newspaper. Anybody would think that he is embarrassed about being a Tory.

The paper contains numerous whoppers including a claim that he is going to work closely with OFSTED to improve schools in the area. Surely OFSTED is meant to be an independent body so it shouldn't be working hand in glove with an MP from any party.

[Andy McDandy]

Shouldn't it have a party imprint?

[satnav]

That was my initiaI thought but I think they only have to do that when we are in the run up to an election where they are expected to account for how much they have spent during the election.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I'm pretty certain it has to be every publication.

[Abernathy]

Yes. A legal requirement on every publication, whether in an election campaign or no. Usually there, but often squashed up at the bottom of a page in 8 point type.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I even used it on pdf newsletters sent exclusively to members.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The paper contains numerous whoppers including a claim that he is going to work closely with OFSTED to improve schools in the area. Surely OFSTED is meant to be an independent body so it shouldn't be working hand in glove with an MP from any party.

Yeah, absolute rubbish.

Ofsted works with the schools, not with the local MP. He's just namedropping Ofsted because it's all he knows about education and it sounds tough. Hopefully this fool won't win.

[satnav]

What is more worrying is this guy actually claims to be a teacher.

I read a tweet from by-line media which suggests that these newspapers are now being published in a number of constituencies. They either stick the word Chronicle onto the name of the town or constituency or they try and use the name of a former local paper that is no longer being published.

I wonder how this plays with Sunak's pledges when he became Tory Party leader.

[davidjay]

What is more worrying is this guy actually claims to be a teacher.

I read a tweet from by-line media which suggests that these newspapers are now being published in a number of constituencies. They either stick the word Chronicle onto the name of the town or constituency or they try and use the name of a former local paper that is no longer being published.

I wonder how this plays with Sunak's pledges when he became Tory Party leader.

They don't care; Sunak is their puppet.

[Andy McDandy]

Some years ago in my mum's town, they did one as a wrap around the actual local freesheet. Although given that paper's typical leanings, they may as well not have bothered.

[Yug]

To the surprise of absolutely no one, another Cabinet member is caught lying.

Steve Barclay, the health secretary, got it wrong when he claimed in an interview this week that NHS consultants received tax-free pensions, the Department of Health has admitted.

Barclay had come under fire after trying to defend the government’s stance on junior doctors’ pay demands in England by claiming that consultants retiring at 65 would get a tax-free pension of more than £73,000 a year...

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... government

They just can't help themselves.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

'Got it wrong'...

Fucking hell.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha. Tax free pensions?!

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Yes please!

[Killer Whale]

Ironically, tax free pensions is something that crops up from time to time as a demand from Mail-land.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ironically, tax free pensions is something that crops up from time to time as a demand from Mail-land.

Like tax free inheritances. Double taxation blah blah bollocks.