UK Politics- P0rn, Horn and Local Elections

[Spockydog]

A trade war with the EU. Just what the country needs to get out of the inflation/cost of living death spiral, with the added bonus of actual war in Ireland. Strong and stable? You betcha.

[Matrim Fox Cauthon]

46 minutes ago, Spockydog said:

A trade war with the EU. Just what the country needs to get out of the inflation/cost of living death spiral, with the added bonus of actual war in Ireland. Strong and stable? You betcha.

Considering US invested interest in the Good Friday Agreement and a stable NI, this also risks pulling the UK into a trade war with the US, who is likely to side with Ireland and the EU over the UK. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

6 minutes ago, Matrim Fox Cauthon said:

Considering US invested interest in the Good Friday Agreement and a stable NI, this also risks pulling the UK into a trade war with the US, who is likely to side with Ireland and the EU over the UK. 

But England is free! 

[Heartofice]

19 minutes ago, Matrim Fox Cauthon said:

Considering US invested interest in the Good Friday Agreement and a stable NI, this also risks pulling the UK into a trade war with the US, who is likely to side with Ireland and the EU over the UK. 

Yet the current protocol clearly puts the GFA into danger. The UK are trying to break the protocol to protect the GFA, it would be very strange for the US to say they are against protecting the GFA.

[Which Tyler]

 

[mormont]

That's the standard Unionist line, I'm afraid. The argument is that because the protocol (freely agreed to by the UK government, in fact largely proposed by it) doesn't have the consent of the Unionist community, it violate the GFA.

[Week]

 

[The Anti-Targ]

Hasn't the NI Protocol breach of the GFA question been taken to court already, and been rejected? I thought I heard / read that somewhere.

[Spockydog]

What in the actual fuck? Millions of families cannot afford to feed their children and this cunt is doing funny offensive voices. Absolute fucking scum of the earth.

 

[Spockydog]

This is why the right to protest must be protected. She, and many others, now have a platform they were previously denied. Well done!

 

 

[BigFatCoward]

They are just unfuckingbeleivable. 

A Tory MP has suggested people should learn to better budget their finances rather than use food banks.

Despite the worsening cost-of-living crisis, Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield, said "there’s not this massive use for food banks in this country", during a Commons debate on the Queen's Speech.

He went on: "We’ve got generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can’t cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget."

[Poobah]

Absolute bastards the lot of them.

[The Anti-Targ]

Cut MP's salaries to the dole and freeze their assets for a year, and no expenses paid except for travel to and from their electorate to London so they can continue to attend parliament. Show us your budgeting skills.

[Derfel Cadarn]

1 hour ago, BigFatCoward said:

They are just unfuckingbeleivable. 

A Tory MP has suggested people should learn to better budget their finances rather than use food banks.

Despite the worsening cost-of-living crisis, Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield, said "there’s not this massive use for food banks in this country", during a Commons debate on the Queen's Speech.

He went on: "We’ve got generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can’t cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget."

Check out his expenses claims.

[Zorral]

When was the last time he did the planning, the shopping and the cooking of an entire dinner for 5, from scratch, and w/o asking once of the usual household doer of these jobs, "Where is ... what do I do with this ... how do you know if ... what comes next, and etc. ... ? 

Does he even know what food items cost?  What they cost last year?  What they cost 10 years ago?

[Spockydog]

3 hours ago, Derfel Cadarn said:

Check out his expenses claims.

Jesus.

[mormont]

On 5/10/2022 at 2:58 PM, mormont said:

That's the standard Unionist line, I'm afraid. The argument is that because the protocol (freely agreed to by the UK government, in fact largely proposed by it) doesn't have the consent of the Unionist community, it violate the GFA.

To follow up:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61417798

 

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The government's chief law officer has received legal advice that it would be lawful to override parts of the post-Brexit treaty for Northern Ireland.

The attorney general's office said previous advice saying the opposite had changed because the agreement between the UK and EU is causing social unrest.

 

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that "the most important agreement is the 25-year-old Belfast Good Friday Agreement", which set up a cross-community power-sharing government as a way of ending decades of violence.

He said the Northern Ireland protocol failed to command cross-community support and "we need to sort it out".

This argument is nonsense, of course, because changing the protocol doesn't command cross-community support either, and Johnson knows that very well. But he finally found a lawyer willing to provide a fig leaf.

[A wilding]

Indeed. Suella Braverman is another sycophant, hand picked for the role because of a willingness to come up with rulings as required. Given her track record she would be happy ruling that black is white if that is what she thought Johnson wanted.

[Werthead]

13 hours ago, BigFatCoward said:

They are just unfuckingbeleivable. 

A Tory MP has suggested people should learn to better budget their finances rather than use food banks.

Despite the worsening cost-of-living crisis, Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield, said "there’s not this massive use for food banks in this country", during a Commons debate on the Queen's Speech.

He went on: "We’ve got generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can’t cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget."

What's more interesting is that over the last decade or so, we've seen a distinct rise in younger people being more interested in cooking, having more tools to learn ways of cooking and more popular figures, TV shows and YouTube channels to draw on than ever before. They also seem to be better at budgeting because, unlike the older generations, they've never lived through periods when lower wages (even the minimum wage) were high enough to comprehensively clear the cost of living, so they've had no choice.

This is just some berk parroting cliches. If people could get by without using food banks, they would do so. People use them because they are forced to by the failures of government policy.

[Matrim Fox Cauthon]

1 minute ago, Werthead said:

What's more interesting is that over the last decade or so, we've seen a distinct rise in younger people being more interested in cooking, having more tools to learn ways of cooking and more popular figures, TV shows and YouTube channels to draw on than ever before. They also seem to be better at budgeting because, unlike the older generations, they've never lived through periods when lower wages (even the minimum wage) were high enough to comprehensively clear the cost of living, so they've had no choice.

This is just some berk parroting cliches. If people could get by without using food banks, they would do so. People use them because they are forced to by the failures of government policy.

That's because milennials (and Covid, who I suspect is also a milennial) killed going out to eat at restaurants as one of their many nefarious assassinations. Nevermind that milennials couldn't afford it because of two economic recessions and crippling college debt.