mormont Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 5 minutes ago, Heartofice said: Don't seem to remember much complaint about gotcha moments around the Boris 'look at this phone' interview. You don't remember yourself going on about that for pages and pages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 6 minutes ago, mormont said: You don't remember yourself going on about that for pages and pages? Yeah nobody else seemed to have much of a problem with it though. Did you? Probably not. Its fine if it's against old Boris because he's a villain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liffguard Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 29 minutes ago, Heartofice said: Unfortunately that is the nature of the press at the moment, and has been for a while. On that we can agree. The main newspapers and broadcasters have been uninterested in any genuinely open and curious inquiry into the truth for a very long time. Nevertheless, the form this disinterest takes manifests very differently in regard to different sides of the political debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 It seems Len McCluskey is not convinced by RLB and has persuaded Barry Gardiner to stand for leader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Maltaran said: It seems Len McCluskey is not convinced by RLB and has persuaded Barry Gardiner to stand for leader. This appears to be false: https://mobile.twitter.com/LenMcCluskey?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 I wouldn't trust McCluskey to pick a greenkeeper for a community football pitch either, b ut that's another story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Seems like your mean press ran Harry and the American Princess off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 12 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: Seems like your mean press ran Harry and the American Princess off. The amount of press, compared to the actual importance of this story is mind blowing. Which kind of proves their point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 I guess you could say they’ve voted for Sussexit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Gavrilo Princip initiated the 'age of terror', the British Empire gave it a target. Continue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liffguard Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 UK journalists are absolutely obsessed with nuking people. I thought Lewis gave a good answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Liffguard said: UK journalists are absolutely obsessed with nuking people. I thought Lewis gave a good answer. Fucking hippy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 8 hours ago, BigFatCoward said: The amount of press, compared to the actual importance of this story is mind blowing. Which kind of proves their point. Indeed. I’m always blown away by the hate they get when scanning your country’s tabloids. 7 hours ago, Fragile Bird said: I guess you could say they’ve voted for Sussexit? That they’re all calling Megxit is telling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IheartIheartTesla Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 An American woman of color, that's an easy target for the tabloids on 3 counts, not withstanding Prince Harry having agency of his own and quite possible the instigator of all this (based on his open letter or whatever it was a few months ago). Also, Piers Morgan is always wrong as a matter of principle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Obviously the tabloid press are terrible but they aren't entirely beyond reproach either. Apparently they're going to 'carve out a progressive new role' within the Royal institution while working to 'become financially independent'. So they're going to find themselves somewhere in North America while being subsidised at considerable public expense? Fuck off. If they, entirely understandably, want to quit the whole Royal merry go round fine, but actually do it then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 She should have been very aware of what she was getting into when she married Harry so I have little sympathy there. I do think this is probably mostly coming from him though, the stuff he’s said about his relationship with his brother and obviously everything that happened to his mother it’s pretty understandable that he’s want to get the hell out of all that nonsense. Good on them if they do genuinely want to make their own money too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanteGabriel Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 21 minutes ago, Heartofice said: She should have been very aware of what she was getting into when she married Harry so I have little sympathy there. Yes, you've got much more sympathy for Roseanne Barr, who got fired after months of deranged tweeting against the wishes of her bosses, and some jackass who got arrested for tweeting jokes about bombing an airport, as if those people didn't know what they were getting into. Your blinkered predictability is your most endearing trait. Possibly for lack of competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 4 hours ago, ljkeane said: Obviously the tabloid press are terrible but they aren't entirely beyond reproach either. Apparently they're going to 'carve out a progressive new role' within the Royal institution while working to 'become financially independent'. So they're going to find themselves somewhere in North America while being subsidised at considerable public expense? Fuck off. If they, entirely understandably, want to quit the whole Royal merry go round fine, but actually do it then. Apparently only 5% of their income comes from taxpayer funding, the rest is either paid by Charles out of the Duchy of Cornwall or from Harry’s own inheritances from both Diana and the Queen Mother. So becoming financially independent doesn’t appear to be very difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 10 minutes ago, Maltaran said: Apparently only 5% of their income comes from taxpayer funding, the rest is either paid by Charles out of the Duchy of Cornwall or from Harry’s own inheritances from both Diana and the Queen Mother. So becoming financially independent doesn’t appear to be very difficult. The Duchy of Cornwall is basically public funding as well. That part of what's irritating about the whole 'we're giving up the money from the sovereign grant' thing. That's nice, what about the other 95% of their funding that's coming from the profits of a crown estate? ETA: Apparently Harry does have a fairly significant inheritance from his mother and great grandmother and presumably she's reasonably well off. They're probably fine financially so why are they only 'working to become financially independent' and keeping the multi million pound house given to them at taxpayer expense? Yeah, they have been treated badly by the tabloids but they're not exactly the heroes of the story either for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSumm Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 There’s a really strange lack of mentions that Meghan Markle was a successful actress before she married Harry...? I doubt they’ll struggle. 4 hours ago, Heartofice said: She should have been very aware of what she was getting into when she married Harry so I have little sympathy there. Yea, she should have ... not married him? What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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