:tories: Tories in trouble?

Equality and fairness are two different things, right my daughter was Peppi Pig spagheti and we only have normal so I am expecting a scrap…

Is Peppi Pig an immigrant?

Yes she is Peppa’s Italian cousin, it is alright she has an entertainment and artist visa.

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True story, same for me too. Loved working on the Deli in Hythe!

Never got dble time at Sainsburys but then its for ordinary people, not posh wankers they can overcharge like Waitrose

I wonder if they got double bubble at the qwick save? Fuck them as well, if say a neurosureon is on a Sunday would he get more than the bog standard junior doc? I think thats fair as well, maybe the anaesthetist I bought my house from was getting triple time? Tight fucker never paid for the garden.

The parents of a teenage ­quadruple amputee have accused benefits bosses of being “heartless” for threatening to stop his money.

Edward Bright lost his arms and legs to meningitis, aged seven, and his family have since claimed £388-a-month Disability Living Allowance on his behalf.

After he turned 16 last month, the wheelchair-bound youngster had to claim again for the Personal Independence Payment, which has replaced DLA.

The family filled in a form saying he needed help with almost all aspects of his daily life, but were shocked to get a letter ordering him to attend a face-to-face meeting or risk losing his benefits.

Great stuff from Owen Jones on how the Tories are using their time in power to criminalise dissent and protest. “Boycotts are vital: that is why Tories ban them”

We are ruled by a power-grabbing government intent on silencing its opposition. You might expect that the benefits of a largely loyal press and a main opposition party in disarray would be enough. But whether it be a gagging bill aiming to silence civil society organisations, trade union legislation intended to both cripple organised labour and bankrupt the Labour party, or the slashing of “Short money” to fund the opposition’s ability to scrutinise the government, the Tories seem determined to undermine dissent by legal means.

Take the latest example. The government has a much-vaunted “localism” agenda, all about handing power and decision-making to local authorities. It defies belief, because we know the motivation is to devolve responsibility for cuts. But it also defies logic; for how to square fine words about localism with proposals to ban public bodies – local authorities among them – from boycotting companies they deem unethical, be they arms firms, Big Tobacco or goods produced by, or companies working in, illegal Israeli settlements. Until now the democratically elected representatives of local communities have been able to decide how public money should be ethically used. Now a blanket diktat will be imposed by central government.

If the student unions vote on it then yes of course, but a blanket boycott is not democratic, has there been a vote on it?

http://www.thenational.scot/cartoon/a-right-jeremy.56

And thus, the sundering begins.

Good to see ol’ Dave with the priorities straight. He was ordering Corbyn to “put on a proper suit” and sing the national anthem. Bless.

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I don’t know what Boris has been up to recently, but it isn’t dieting, or visiting qualified hairdressers.

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The more I see photos of BJ the more he looks like a Matt Lucas character

Yeah, but no, but yeah, but no

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Today’s PMQs.

And these children are in charge of the country? :lou_facepalm_2:

This section in particular is fucking disgusting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35651049

It’s a game to them, isn’t it?

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Originally posted by @ant

This section in particular is fucking disgusting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35651049

It’s a game to them, isn’t it?

It is, but the problem is that they have traditionally been very good at getting the public to play along. It’s much easier to stoke up envy or anger than it is to offer any substantive plan for change, and having plenty of their own troubles, it seems being a bunch of childish cunts is the one thing they can unite on.

But yep, a game, long dreamed up in the airy environs of public schools and Oxbridge Universities, canny enough to reward the right players, with everyone else a loser by default.

For all the talk about Corbyn being unelectable, they still went through with their plans to drop 770k people off the electoral register, still going ahead with their plans to gerrymander through the Boundaries Commission.

Report on Channel 4 news about £000’s undeclared spending in Clackton by-election.

Laws don’t apply to Tories though. So it’s OK.

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God watching them squirm is bloomin’ hilarious.

Good work, Mirror. That suit remark isn’t backfiring at all :lou_lol:

On a related note, I wouldn’t normally have a go at someone for having a two grand whistle (unless they fucking went on about it).

Dave went on about it.

David Cameron has been accused of ducking public scrutiny after he launched a bitter personal tirade against Jeremy Corbyn for not wearing expensive suits.

The millionaire - who frequently wears tailored suits costing £2,000-apiece - mocked the Labour leader’s sometimes-shabby attire in an unprecedented outburst at PMQs .

Hypocritical Mr Cameron had previously vowed to end the ‘Punch and Judy politics’ of PMQs .

And only last night the White House tweeted a picture of the PM on a conference call – wearing neither a tie nor a suit jacket.

Tonight he also stripped to his shirtsleeves as he went into “campaign mode” at a pro-EU rally.