howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Time for Jezza to appease his MPs and supporters and announce that his party wants to keep us in the single market or have access to it. Would be a vote winner in many marginals and appeal to current Lib Dem voters.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
People paying £40 a pop to hear a lecture from a millionaire Marxist on how capitalism has failed them. You couldn't make it up! (£10 discount if you is black
)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42783246"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,087
Captain Haddock wrote:(£10 discount if you is black
)
Ah, dear old G.A. Henty, bless him.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
WGS,
It was not me who was patronising the BAME community (dread phrase!) by suggesting that members are too poor to buy a full priced ticket.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
mr fish, if your that tight you could allways black as a minstrel
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I would consider blacking up in a good cause and saving a tenner comes into that category, for a further ten quid I would bring a set of steel drums along to beat out a calypso.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Interesting that Lansman says "No Labour MP that works hard and campaigns and listens to their members has anything to fear from the selection process.”
I thought they were supposed to listen to constituents.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/momentum-jeremy-corbyn-labour-mps-deselect-campaign-purge-jon-lansman-a8174621.htmlhoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Jezza seems to have decided that Dover is a winnable seat as one of his chiefs of staff - Kier Starmer no less has been seen in the town today.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Standing room only at the meeting tonight when Keir had them eating out of his hand apparently.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
crumbs
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Classic Jezza. Starting to actually despise the man. Manages to make a statement on the Holocaust without actually mentioning Jews:-
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/254060/jeremy-corbyns-holocaust-memorial-day-statement-leaves-out-the-jews
On the same day as DIANE Abbott ordered Labour MPs to OPPOSE a move to ban Hezbollah from Britain - because it wanted to
"encourage" the terror group to become democratic.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5426591/diane-abbott-orders-labour-mps-oppose-ban-terror-group-hezbollah/
From Wiki:-
From the inception of Hezbollah to the present
the elimination of the state of Israel has been a primary goal for Hezbollah. Hezbollah not only opposes the government and policies of the State of Israel, but also each and every Jewish civilian who lives in Israel.Its 1985 manifesto reportedly states [B]"our struggle will end only when this entity [Israel] is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no ceasefire, and no peace agreements."[/B] Secretary-General Nasrallah has stated, "Israel is an illegal usurper entity, which is based on falsehood, massacres, and illusions," and considers that the
elimination of Israel will bring peace in the Middle East: "
There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel." In an interview with The Washington Post, Nasrallah said, "I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called 'Israel.' I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful. That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it;
Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle."We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
His latest wheeze:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42851024
8000 homes for 4751 homeless people (methinks he let the Abbott out of the box again to help him with his maths) will the remaining 3249 remain empty while he waits for people who can't find a house to buy (because he brought them all) to become homeless?
I'm kicking the missus out now though so she can get to the front of the queue!
Arte et Marte
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
- Posts: 1,071
Reginald Barrington wrote:His latest wheeze:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42851024
8000 homes for 4751 homeless people (methinks he let the Abbott out of the box again to help him with his maths) will the remaining 3249 remain empty while he waits for people who can't find a house to buy (because he brought them all) to become homeless?
I'm kicking the missus out now though so she can get to the front of the queue!
Sleeping rough is the severest form of homelessness. The 4751 homeless figure relates to the 2017 annual census just recently published (regarding those seen sleeping on the streets). The homeless figure for 2016 actual exceeds a quarter of a million - it contains those not housed and living in B&B, hostels etc.
As an aside, the rough sleeping counts are hugely underestimated as they are a snapshot typically taken in one or two areas within a district or borough council's area for the duration of one or two hours. Realistically, these are a third or worse of the genuine figure.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
My bad! he's not Giving them to the homeless but to the rough sleepers
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Initially I heard Corbyn on TV this morning and though I had not laughed so much since Orgreave, but on reflection, I can't see the problem with his proposal.
Apparently there are hundreds of thousands of EU dentists, crop pickers, coffee servers, nurses and teachers fleeing UK already due to Brexit so there should be loads of empty accommodation?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
What about the labour leaders across the country signing up NOT to support it's own party run now by momentum?
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Reginald Barrington likes this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Having looked into "infiltration" by Momentum the evidence shows that local parties choose the candidate that they think is right for the constituency and in most cases it is not someone endorsed by Momentum, even Jon Lansperson agreed with it. An emotional blog from someone hardly counts for much in the grand scheme of things.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,167
Emotional? Dunno about that but seems to press most of the buttons on what's wrong with Labour.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
