scotland hates tories, tories hate us. this will never change.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
also the nats don't want rid of the brit armed forces, salmond campaigned against this iirc.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, he did - he gave a speech n the village hall across the road from my house. The SNP's position was that we've already lost a base, so expecting Scotland to bear 2 of it's 3 bases closed was ridiculous, so both Lossiemouth and Leuchars should stay open.
At least it will be quieter here - the Typhoons are noisy as hell. Now it'll just be rifle drills and the odd helicopter (assuming the vague ideas about an army barracks come to fruition, and even then it'll probably be about five years)
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
imo the defence review is classic osbornomics, ie unserious. it wasn't a real review: if they don't want the uk to be one of the big clubs, they should make that case, but doing it as part of a defence review *and then launching into a new war* was just derrrrrrrrrrrrp.
― so brycey (history mayne), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fox kept responding to questions by saying things like 'in order to achieve a regular/reservist proportion similar to the US we have to...' but he never explained why such a ratio was desirable. Of course, it's all about the £££'s, but he should have the guts to say so.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
November 2006:
Shadow Olympics minister Hugh Robertson said: "The secretary of state has admitted to a 40% increase. "She has failed to disclose the true cost of VAT, contingency, building cost inflation and security, much of which was entirely predictable at the time of the bid. "Today's increase is just a starting point. While the figures remain ambiguous, we can only expect further increases."
"She has failed to disclose the true cost of VAT, contingency, building cost inflation and security, much of which was entirely predictable at the time of the bid.
"Today's increase is just a starting point. While the figures remain ambiguous, we can only expect further increases."
July 2011:
The Olympic Delivery Authority has announced 88% of the building programme for London 2012 is now complete.It has also been announced the anticipated final cost of the project fell by £16m during the last quarter.This has prompted Sports Minister Hugh Robertson to say for the first time he is "confident" the project will come in under its £9.3bn budget.He said: "With one year to go construction is 88% complete, ahead of time and under budget."
It has also been announced the anticipated final cost of the project fell by £16m during the last quarter.
This has prompted Sports Minister Hugh Robertson to say for the first time he is "confident" the project will come in under its £9.3bn budget.
He said: "With one year to go construction is 88% complete, ahead of time and under budget."
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
NHS services opened to competition
― stet, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
FUCK THESE PEOPLE.
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wheelchair services an interesting choice for the first round, given Cameron's been talking about his troubles with them.
― stet, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seriously, fuck these guys. They know it's completely buried.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hear Champneys in Tring treats people in wheelchairs well...
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Interesting choice of day to announce this eh?
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Guardian has the Lansley announcement story on page 15, the Independent on page 21, The Times on page 17 and the Daily Mail on page 31. And that's your lot.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 07:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
iirc this was something that was going to happen. and now it has happened, kind of thing.
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100098140/george-osborne-wants-a-single-euro-state/
what does this all mean?
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Thursday, 21 July 2011 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Osborne's lost his (Jonny) marbles?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 11:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dorset County Council is closing 9 of its 34 libraries, with 11 of those left to be run by unpaid volunteers and community groups.
Apparently it's OK because 75 per cent of Dorset residents never set foot inside a library.
Wonder what the percentage of primary school age children is. Oh.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
They all vote Tory down there anyway, so fuck 'em, they're getting what they voted for
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
those primary school age child tory voters are the fuckin worst
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Let them take it up with their parents
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
d-cam is editing the next issue of the big issue o_0 o_0
whose ideas was that? good god
― lex pretend, Friday, 22 July 2011 09:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
sure that's "editing" and not "selling" ?
― graveshitwave (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 July 2011 09:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
get on with running the country into the ground you prick
― ledge, Friday, 22 July 2011 09:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, in this current situation, that's bound to be a good idea.
Next up, Harold Shipman opens his own old people's home...
― Mark G, Friday, 22 July 2011 09:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
whose ideas was that?
[Big Issue founder, John] Bird revealed in 2010 "My guilty secret is that I’m really a working class Tory. There, I’ve said it. I’d love to be a liberal because they’re the nice people but it’s really hard work – I can’t swallow their gullibility and I think their ideas are stupid. I’d love to be someone who wonders around in a kind of Utopian paradise seeing only the good in everybody but I just can’t. I support capital punishment for a start. I know this will destroy my reputation among middle-class liberals but I’m 64 now and I should be able to breathe a bit. Wearing the corsetry of liberalism means that every now and then you have to take it off."
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 22 July 2011 10:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
My guilty secret is that I’m really a working class Tory
Form what i've seen of this guy over the years I wouldn't exactly call that a secret
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 22 July 2011 10:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
"working class"
― graveshitwave (Noodle Vague), Friday, 22 July 2011 10:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is that the British meaning of 'liberal' or the American definition?
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 22 July 2011 10:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
US I imagine, I assume the sneer used when saying it is the same in any case
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 22 July 2011 10:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Getting people to sell your product without having to worry about if they have enough to pay their mortgages...
― Mark G, Friday, 22 July 2011 10:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Plus, of course, being pure 'profit-share' means the minimum wage doesn't apply, right?
― Mark G, Friday, 22 July 2011 10:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm not slagging the whole enterprise, just defining it.
I used to write for the Big Issue in the '90s. I seldom see people buying them with the same enthusiasm today.
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 22 July 2011 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, it's only middle-class liberals who wonder around in a kind of Utopian paradise seeing only the good in everybody who seem to buy it these days
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 22 July 2011 11:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
The rest of us have taken our corsets off and say "no thanks"
― Mark G, Friday, 22 July 2011 11:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Huhne's a naughty boy then?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 22 July 2011 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Re: RAF Leuchars
Dowd / Billy Dods - please email me at albaba at gmail dot com if you're interested in writing a short blogpost about the closure for this series:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/the-cuts-get-personal
... or could put me in touch with someone who might be.
Cheers
― Alba, Monday, 25 July 2011 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does ilx just not have a norway massarcre thread? Or am I being dense looking at sna?
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Monday, 25 July 2011 17:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
2011 Oslo/Utoeya Norway attacks
― Gukbe, Monday, 25 July 2011 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cheers.
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Monday, 25 July 2011 17:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
What an amazing old duffer:
A DISTINGUISHED barrister has called on Theresa May to ban “left-wing” marches in Piccadilly after damage to the Ritz at anti-cuts protests earlier this year.John Beveridge QC (pictured) co-founder and chairman of amenity group the St James’s Conservation Trust, said such marches attracted “ragtag” protesters who “become violent and urinate all over the place”.He added: “I have written to the Home Secretary, who has responded in the usual pusillanimous and ambiguous way, that these marches should be sent on routes that don’t take them past Fortnum and Mason and Cartier and the Ritz, that pass ordinary shops that won’t so inflame them. There’s no fun for them in attacking Safeway or Costcutter, but they love beating up the Ritz. “The Home Secretary should have a bit more political guts and say that this type of march must be diverted elsewhere.”
John Beveridge QC (pictured) co-founder and chairman of amenity group the St James’s Conservation Trust, said such marches attracted “ragtag” protesters who “become violent and urinate all over the place”.
He added: “I have written to the Home Secretary, who has responded in the usual pusillanimous and ambiguous way, that these marches should be sent on routes that don’t take them past Fortnum and Mason and Cartier and the Ritz, that pass ordinary shops that won’t so inflame them. There’s no fun for them in attacking Safeway or Costcutter, but they love beating up the Ritz.
“The Home Secretary should have a bit more political guts and say that this type of march must be diverted elsewhere.”
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 06:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
ahem, safeway haven't existed in the UK for a decade or thereabouts?
― i'm not a lawyer, but i play one on a messageboard (stevie), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 07:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Think the 73 year-old barister might be a little out-of-touch.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 07:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Personally I want my protesters to be urinating everywhere!
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 08:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14315442
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
can't wait for the next series of the thick of it:
Steve Hilton, David Cameron’s enigmatic strategy director, has startled colleagues by proposing the abolition of maternity leave and all consumer rights legislation, as part of an initiative to inject life into Britain’s sluggish economy.Mr Hilton’s crusade against employment legislation also saw him suggest that Mr Cameron just ignore European labour regulations on temporary workers, prompting an exasperated exchange with Jeremy Heywood, Downing Street’s permanent secretary.“Steve asked why the PM had to obey the law,” said one Whitehall insider of a meeting in March to discuss the government’s growth strategy. “Jeremy had to explain that if David Cameron breaks the law he could be put in prison.”Mr Hilton is highly admired by Mr Cameron for his original thinking, but the shaven-headed policy guru’s friends admit that three-quarters of his ideas fail to get off the drawing board – to the relief of colleagues.
even the FT raising an eyebrow there.
― joe, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
but they love beating up the Ritz.
If you're blue and you don't know where to go toWhy don't you go where lefties have fitsBeating up the Ritz.
― Keep shouting sir, we'll find you (DavidM), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
holy shit the thick of it best come back now
― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 28 July 2011 07:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
That Thick of It special must have been thrown off course so many times in the last 18 months or so. The level of rewriting going on must have been ridiculous.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 July 2011 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/07/blue-labour-conservative-mood
These people are the most appalling cocks.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 July 2011 10:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was going to say this is probably not the thread for it but it looks like the victim might have been a serving soldier, which means the spurious bullshit around this story is going to off the scale.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:27 (Yesterday) Permalink
like
"Radio Clyde News @RadioClydeNews 59sPolice are treating the killing in #Woolwich as a terrorist attack"
― The Parvenu Fucktard (onimo), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:34 (Yesterday) Permalink
Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak 4mPolice are treating the killing in #Woolwich as a terrorist attack
Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak 44sSky sources: #Woolwich killing was likely a politically-motivated Islamist terrorist attack
oops xp
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:37 (Yesterday) Permalink
@BOYADEE
Mate ive seen alot of shit im my time but that has to rank sumwhere in the top 3.
You'd think/hope a (possible) decapitation and double shooting would be in your top 1, fucking miles ahead of #2.
― The Parvenu Fucktard (onimo), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:38 (Yesterday) Permalink
That twitter TL is quite something, indeed
― Random ASMR Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:40 (Yesterday) Permalink
Remind me not to hang about with that Boyadee character (xp)
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:41 (Yesterday) Permalink
According to Nick Robinson, "Attack was "filmed" by the attackers, and was almost certainly carried out by Islamic terrorists."
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:43 (Yesterday) Permalink
"almost certainly" = just enough wiggle room to allow you to say all kinds of shit with no clear facts
(we should maybe have a rolling UK news thread)
― The Parvenu Fucktard (onimo), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:45 (Yesterday) Permalink
Indeed
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:46 (Yesterday) Permalink
NIck Robinson, Cheshire twat.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:46 (Yesterday) Permalink
BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking 1mPolice believe #Woolwich attackers shouted "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for God is Great) UK government sources tell @bbcnickrobinson
martinbrunt @skymartinbrunt 9m#woolwich Witnesses say killers posed for photos and waited for police, equivalent of suicide attack.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:48 (Yesterday) Permalink
This Just In: Rolling UK News Thread
howzat
― The Parvenu Fucktard (onimo), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 16:50 (Yesterday) Permalink