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Those would be scheduled cancellations, which won't be included. They're talking about trains that should be running but get cancelled often at short notice, mostly because of lack of staff. The trouble is that the public probably don't care about the distinction. Train not running will be the Government's fault, even if essential work is being done.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 4:49 pm ... They're talking about trains that should be running but get cancelled often at short notice, mostly because of lack of staff...

What, just like nearly every day somewhere on the national network? Sunday trains already are as reliable as weekday trains - thanks to 14 years of Tory mismanagement.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 4:49 pm Those would be scheduled cancellations, which won't be included. They're talking about trains that should be running but get cancelled often at short notice, mostly because of lack of staff. The trouble is that the public probably don't care about the distinction. Train not running will be the Government's fault, even if essential work is being done.

Thanks Tubby.
I knew I could rely on you for the straight facts.

Having local trains on Sunday that don't stop running before the shops shut would be a start.

Whoever's seeing this stuff can fuck off.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32877590/ ... pp_article

WELFARE ROW No10 chiefs ‘pulling their hair out’ over how long Welfare Sec Liz Kendall is taking to find ‘radical’ benefit cuts

I'm not Kendall's biggest fan but if she's trying to do a proper job here, that's fine with me.

Hey who says Starmer isn't doing anything he's gotte Oakeshott to bugger off to Dubai.

Has Issy been declared bankrupt? Seem to recall noted Arabist Jim Davidson legged it to Dubai to avoid paying creditors. Maybe she's running some companies for Tice so he doesn't have to declare them.
Isn't Talk TV now just a bare bones YouTube broadcast? Doubt Oakeshott will be flying off to war zones.

I’m sure the plethora of bigoted, cash-chasing twats in Dubai wanting to see good old fashioned British humour must keep old chalky nick-nick in gigs as well.

Wonder how many anti-Arab jokes he throws in?

I assume she is aware of Dubai’s view on democracy, women, and alcohol, you know, the things “they” try to ban in the UK

Money makes anything acceptable.

Plus they have plenty of slaves to do all the dirty work.

Watchman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 10:16 am I assume she is aware of Dubai’s view on democracy, women, and alcohol, you know, the things “they” try to ban in the UK

I expect she’s delighted by it. She (in an enclave) can do as she wishes. The plebs, who work under constant fear of deportation and who are persona non grata - and as such have to grovel and scrape to avoid becoming surplus to requirements - cannot, and live under oppressive, restrictive circumstances.

It’s the Tory ideal made real - the poor cannot spend the little money they do have on even simple pleasures, and must be eternally grateful to the rich for their patronage. The fact she can’t live her life outside of sanitised, prohibited spaces and she has no voting rights or citizenship doesn’t matter to her as long as she is made to *feel* powerful - and for sanitised bigots like Tice, tugging the forelock to a few rich sheiks is a small price to pay for the opportunity to really fucking lord it over some very, very poor Asians and Africans.

As ever, the cruelty is the point.

There's no litter on the streets and no foreigners claiming benefits. Nothing else matters.

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 3:11 pm There's no litter on the streets and no foreigners claiming benefits. Nothing else matters.

It has just occurred to me that I bet they love it because they think this it is what the British Empire was like.

And in some ways - horrific exploitation, a brutal regime (if you happen to not be rich and powerful), racism, bigotry, fawning deference for a hereditary monarch - it is.

Fawning deference. Above all, it's the fawning deference.

You see it when they complain about anything - shop assistants being too slow, or chatting to another person, or not asking them their plans for the day. Kids 'cheeking' them, by not doing exactly what they're told. Police looking into anything other than the issue you want fixed now. Anyone correcting them.

Unionists in Northern Ireland trying and failing to get Hillary Benn to pull the Stormont brake, over chemicals packaging and labelling. I don't know if even Kemi Badenoch can be bothered with this one. The Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary is Alex Burghart who was pushing the "Attorner General represented Gerry Adams" bollocks on Twitter.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:31 pm Fawning deference. Above all, it's the fawning deference.

You see it when they complain about anything - shop assistants being too slow, or chatting to another person, or not asking them their plans for the day. Kids 'cheeking' them, by not doing exactly what they're told. Police looking into anything other than the issue you want fixed now. Anyone correcting them.

That's a good point. They want whatever they want, when they want it and you'd better smile while you're giving it to them.

It will never dawn on them that Ab Fab wasn't an aspirational documentary.

Seems like Reeves is going to approve the third runway at Heathrow. I've supported that in the past, and probably defensible now. The point isn't to fill it up with new flights necessarily but to make Heathrow into a proper international hub airport with all the advantages that brings. But the benefits will be slow burning, and the political hit very fast indeed. In my more pessimistic moments I think this is a government that may do many good things but won't get many votes.

Good appointment to head the body that overseas Prevent, David Anderson QC. He replaces Priti Patel's appointment, hard right political hack, Robin Simcox.