[Cyclist]

Test results arrived 0801. I am a negative person.

[Youngian]

How many more MPs are the Tory hiding in the stupid cupboard? This one escaped the nurses

[Arrowhead]

How many more MPs are the Tory hiding in the stupid cupboard? This one escaped the nurses

Majority of 7,210 in Angela Smith's old constituency of Penistone & Stocksbridge.

What's the betting it edges above 15,000 at the next election? The likes of Ben Bradley and Andrea Jenkyns have managed something similar in the last couple of years, after all.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Tory MPs are chosen by Local Associations, none of whom have ever qualified for the Brains Trust, and they select accordingly. But the present bunch are really the dimmest bulbs ever, and the number of seriously unhinged (Rees-Mogg, Budgen, Javid, not to mention Johnson et al) is higher than I can ever remember.

[Youngian]

Tory MPs are chosen by Local Associations, none of whom have ever qualified for the Brains Trust, and they select accordingly. But the present bunch are really the dimmest bulbs ever, and the number of seriously unhinged (Rees-Mogg, Budgen, Javid, not to mention Johnson et al) is higher than I can ever remember.

I know former Tories in Cambs (with many years service to the party) who will confirm that. The current generation are fucking horrible and is no wonder they lost the Cambs mayoralty. Even in John Major's former manor.

[mattomac]

They got rid of anyone with a brain at that brexit vote.

[Samanfur]

I'm waiting to see how long David Davis'll last, after he broke ranks the other day.

[RedSparrows]

Good lord that MP is a fucking idiot.

[Cyclist]

Worse than idiot. Re-read that tweet. Miriam Cates stated live on national radio that people who routinely cover their faces are not human.

We all know who, in normal times, cover their faces in public.

How's the investigation into Islamophobia in the tory party coming along?

[RedSparrows]

I'd attribute that to sheer lack of imagination, but who knows with that shower...

[Cyclist]

More Magna Cuntas

A coffee shop and its two bosses have been ordered to pay more than £42,000 for breaching Covid-19 rules.

Finla Coffee in Plympton, Plymouth, "flagrantly disregarded" public health regulations in continuing to serve customers inside in November 2020.

The district judge at Exeter Magistrates Court said: "They see themselves as a cause celebre but they were a risk to public health."

The cafe, Deanna Yates and Michael Pendlebury were each fined £10,000.

Finla was also ordered to pay £8,221 costs and the two owners were each ordered to pay £2,002 costs.

Pendlebury, 35, of Stannary Lane, Plympton and Yates, 34, also of Stannary Lane, did not enter a plea or appear at the court.

The firm was fined £1,000 on 6 November and £2,000 on 7 November for breaching regulations on allowing consumption of food and drink indoors, but had refused to pay, the court heard.

The court heard the owners had made a statement saying they were exempt from the regulations, citing Magna Carta...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-57750368

I've lost count of the number of times it has been reported that the Magna Carta defence doesn't work, but still they try it.


We really must bypass England. That country is full of morons!

[AOB]

Is there a more profitable business than selling coffee? £3 or £4 for something that is gone in minutes. If i was arsed about money that's the business I'd be in. But I'll be dead in 50 years so what's the point in the short term hassle of setting such a business up.

[Bones McCoy]

Is there a more profitable business than selling coffee? £3 or £4 for something that is gone in minutes. If i was arsed about money that's the business I'd be in. But I'll be dead in 50 years so what's the point in the short term hassle of setting such a business up.

The only one I can think of is Pizzas: Flour, yeast, Tomato Puree, Mozarella and tiny quantities of other chopped protiens.

Both Pizzas and Coffee have a big initial outlay on shiny Italian metal things used to manufacture the product.

[Andy McDandy]

Pizza delivery is very staff intensive. Speed of service is all.

Popcorn might be the big one. Pennies for the grains, pounds for the finished article.

[RedSparrows]

Yeah, pizza is only good if you have the staff to do it super, super fast, and do it well enough at the same time.

[MisterMuncher]

Work added a pizza section last autumn. There's a hell of a lot of equipment outlay (and unlike coffee, you can't lease it) that you're going to be paying off for a while before the profit hits.

A mixer to do batches for 300-odd pizza, refrigeration to hold same for at least a day before use, as well as batches "in use" and 'in pipeline", trays for all that. Ovens are not cheap, even electric ones, but you'd want wood fired for the real job, and that's a custom build, constant watching, patching, maintenance...

Don't get me wrong, it makes money. Plenty of it, but I would say if it wasn't for the imposition of takeaway and nothing else, we'd have died on our arse (ironically, our biggest competition would probably have been ourselves) .

[davidjay]

I've noticed that round here, where there must be more takeaways per square foot than anywhere on earth, it's usually a pizza/chicken/burger hybrid.

[Cyclist]

I don't have the Twitters, but I am told that #BoycottHeineken is trending. Apparently Heineken have committed the crime of openly supporting getting vaccinated.

[davidjay]

I don't have the Twitters, but I am told that #BoycottHeineken is trending. Apparently Heineken have committed the crime of openly supporting getting vaccinated.

Isn't that cancel culture and suppressing free speech?

[Bones McCoy]

Pizza delivery is very staff intensive. Speed of service is all.

Popcorn might be the big one. Pennies for the grains, pounds for the finished article.

Last time I went to the cinema, there was a £9.00 box of popcorn on sale at the shop.