Puts the Mandelson vetting scandal into perspective

Coming up to the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum that Cameron, in part, held to deal with the threat Farage posed to the Tories. How’s that working out, Dave?

I mean I, as a middle aged man, would find it difficult to be in a relationship, or even a close friendship, with some who thought Trump was great because it would tell me a lot about their character!

I think even being friends, never mind an intimate relationship, would be difficult with somebody who is ok with Trump. It’s not like disagreeing over Brexit or tax and spend.

Our parliamentary select committees are so dull

Interesting. I suppose, ultimately, the FO/PM was entitled to make that call

What the fuck is going in with this site today?

If selling food is no longer profitable, what will food retailers do? Answers on a postcard.

I know it could still be over three years away but next election seems so difficult to call. Both Labour and Tories polling figures that would once have been existential threats but chances of one of them winning next election relatively high.

Did we just have an X style outage? Hope it’s not a sign of this place being in financial difficulty and not paying its bills like the other place

We’re coming up to the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote. What are the unrepentant leavers going to say? That we’re now an independent country? Surely they’re not going to mention immigration. In their heart of hearts they must know just what an underwhelming damp squib it’s been.

I know this is hardly the most important point about the horrific Southport attacks but something quite troubling about the willingness of the leader of the opposition’s willingness to call for the deportation of *British* people.

Applying for a government job. Is there some major change coming that we haven’t yet been told about? If we’re are going to split could it please be an amicable Czechoslovakian style break-up rather than a Yugoslavian type.

Heaven forbid the PM have a nice place to live

Like the newbie at work who’s a complete know it all

"Are you saying to every black, brown person in Britain that if your child commits a crime & you haven't stopped them, that you're going to be deported.. most people will find that is odious, vile & racist" Kevin Maguire on Robert Jenricks call to deport the parents of Axel Rudakubana

1. They’re British citizens 2. In any event, they haven’t been convicted of a crime. 3. They have another son in a wheelchair who is autistic which makes him reliant on his parents, who Jenrick would tear apart from him, for help.

I can make eye contact or I can follow intensely what you’re saying but doing both is a challenge.

Being out of work is shit, even controlling for the financial consequences.

If somebody’s ghosting you

Unless I’m missing something, this woman, believe it or not, isn’t a British citizen, despite being born here to a British parent. Until 2006, unmarried fathers did not pass on their citizenship. But that does mean she can travel to the U.K. on her Spanish passport.

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All a bit Fawlty Towers

Expensive way of killing yourself

Reminded of when they first introduced barriers. Started with Zone 1 as that’s where most journeys begin or end before rolling them out across the network. If your station was one of the first to get them, then yes it was a fare dodging hotspot.

Good Friday Agreement. In the 80’s and 90’s bombs went off frequently. Two attempts were made on the life of PMs, one very nearly succeeding and the other a direct attack on Downing Street. You have to be middle aged to have any memory of how bad it was

First time I’ve heard of Avignon in a context that isn’t a children’s song

My Flake “99” cost £3.50

I understand the need for finality and certainty but 28 days seems very short. Families in such a situation will presumably want to take stock and process what’s happened and carefully consider whether it’s something they wish to pursue.

Paul Krugman once said that the number of facial piercings that NYC waiting staff had was a good real time indicator of the employment market. More piercings = buoyant labour market as restaurants can’t be picky about who they hire. Employers stipulating a maximum commute seems to be another.

Remember this all the fault of the Democrats for supposedly saying that trans women should be allowed to compete in in women’s sports

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

After years of storms with names that nobody is called, something refreshing about ‘Storm Dave’

Particularly disappointing to see a law firm that provides criminal defence not respecting the principle that people are innocent until found or proven guilty. As well as discriminating against communities who are more likely to be wrongfully arrested.

Are MPs any less in touch than other people on over 90k?

OK, let me explain this really simply for those struggling with reading comprehension. Just because MPs do things that you dislike (and maybe I dislike too!), does not automatically make them out-of-touch. Politics is fundamentally about trade-offs, external pressures and wicked problems.

Not entirely sure why they continue to maintain a pay phone. Legal obligation? In case the mobile networks go down?

All a bit a bit tractor production in Ukraine. I know it’s nonsense, you know it’s nonsense and I know that you know it’s nonsense.

Trump’s going to lose the birthright citizenship case isn’t he?

Apparently in the 80’s a London black cab driver could earn £150k in today’s money. No idea if it’s true or not but can think of several advantages they had back then. Minicabs: back then we didn’t have mobiles let alone apps. So they had to be ordered through a landline or their office.

Apparently in the 80’s a London black cab driver could earn £150k in today’s money. No idea if it’s true or not but can think of several advantages they had back then. Minicabs: back then we didn’t have mobiles let alone apps. So they had to be ordered through a landline or their office.

This is the problem with surveys that give cash rewards to participants, some of whom just select answers at random as quickly as possible.

Genuinely wondering what % of the population would support this policy? Bear in mind that you have to be well into your 20’s to remember a time when people could smoke in pubs.

Leaving aside the veracity of the claim, can we please not refer to humans as a “drain”, a label, which in a system of progressive taxation could apply to most people.

Latest attempt by Lambeth Council to stop people taking drugs; boarding up areas while leaving the equally private area next to it free. When they take drugs openly in prow’s front gardens, hard to imagine this making any difference

Like suitcases without wheels, I suspect one day we’ll wonder why we stuck with it for so long.

I presume that the claimant is saying that when Morgan said “the claims you are making are bullshit”, he was alleging that she knowingly said Worthing that was untrue. Depending on context, accusing someone of “bullshit” does not necessarily mean lying does it?

Brings me back to my Contract Law studies. IIRC rising prices are a risk they accepted when they entered into the contract and it’s their fault if they didn’t agree a term linking to the price of a commodity. It’s hardly a secret that such prices are subject to geopolitical events.

Quite the take from somebody who wants to be PM of a nation of animal lovers.

This is depraved.