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Thread 18, Big Dog Halloween Edition

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DuncinToffee · 23/10/2022 11:05

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BewareTheLibrarians · 04/11/2022 20:30

jgw1 · 04/11/2022 20:26

Misogny against both men and women should not be tolerated.

What a beautiful flashback to an only slightly less bonkers time 😁

Blossomtoes · 04/11/2022 20:34

I’d forgotten about that 😂

Notonthestairs · 04/11/2022 20:35

So had I!

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jgw1 · 04/11/2022 20:45

People had forgotten our glorious deputy Prime Minister and his wisdom?

itsgettingweird · 04/11/2022 21:14

Misogny against both men and women should not be tolerated.

These little gems should never be forgotten Grin

Notonthestairs · 04/11/2022 21:53

We all need someone to look down on and be scared of...

twitter.com/mattgreencomedy/status/1588599167324135424?s=46&t=SWPNT2rYgJj2gq6LfTqpNg

Spot on.

Roussette · 05/11/2022 02:41

"I don’t like the rhetoric..are we starting a war with these people down in Manston?”

Asda chairman Stuart Rose criticises the home secretary for visiting an immigration centre in a chinook and says his immigrant parents probably wouldn’t be allowed into the UK today #bbcqt

twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1588311260923191296?t=ENZ5tPSMwG8qjsr-vIlIeQ&s=19

It's not just us that feels like this about the Chinook message given put by Braverman

countrygirl99 · 05/11/2022 04:58

Blossomtoes · 04/11/2022 20:19

then the misogynistic 'she'd wet herself'.

Do men not wet themselves? I’m pretty sure they do.

Must admit I was surprised by the vommemt. You learn something new every day.

ClaudineClare · 05/11/2022 05:45

countrygirl99 · 05/11/2022 04:58

Must admit I was surprised by the vommemt. You learn something new every day.

I am awake early worrying about something, your typo cheered me up @countrygirl99

I think we could have a new word if we asjust the typo slightly - vomment - the vomiting or spewing of hateful comments. Example: Braverman vommented that she dreamed about sending rufegees to Rwanda.

ClaudineClare · 05/11/2022 05:46

Adjust😄

L1ttledrummergirl · 05/11/2022 05:48

@ClaudineClare I think you're onto something there.

countrygirl99 · 05/11/2022 05:53

😄 glad I've created a new addition to vocabulary. It does work doesn't it.

itsgettingweird · 05/11/2022 07:46

Roussette · 05/11/2022 02:41

"I don’t like the rhetoric..are we starting a war with these people down in Manston?”

Asda chairman Stuart Rose criticises the home secretary for visiting an immigration centre in a chinook and says his immigrant parents probably wouldn’t be allowed into the UK today #bbcqt

twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1588311260923191296?t=ENZ5tPSMwG8qjsr-vIlIeQ&s=19

It's not just us that feels like this about the Chinook message given put by Braverman

I wonder if Bravermans own immigrant parents would be allowed?

itsgettingweird · 05/11/2022 07:47

Vomment

Definitely could catch on Grin

mibbelucieachwell · 05/11/2022 08:42

Vomment is genius.

Richie Sushi's frequent use of 'compassionate' amuses me. It's so clearly a word he thinks he should use to appear to have some ethics but it reeks of disdain for the little people/losers: the people not like 'us'.

Notonthestairs · 05/11/2022 09:13

The Times has an interview with Sunak this morning, I counted at least 8 uses of the word compassionate. It must have been suggested as their buzzword. Twelve years they've been in power and now they've decided they need to be sympathetic & concerned for us. Why?

Interview contains very little information. He backed Braverman but I did note -

"He highlights reaching an agreement with France as a priority. “It’s something the president [Macron] and I talked about. It’s one of those things we’ve worked co-operatively on in the past.”

^^ as far as I am concerned that it the only policy change that will make any difference. Rwanda, chinooks, "Macon friend or foe" etc etc are for just drivel for the fruitloops in the party/country.
Diplomacy works.

What did make me smile was sunak's suggestion that the Conservatives are the party of sound economics. We know Conservatives borrow more than Labour.
We've just experienced the policies that broad swathes of the Conservatives really aspire to - remember the influx of new posters fevered defence Trussonomics? Apparently employing more gardeners and cleaners would fix the economy.
We know that they blamed austerity on Wolverhampton having too many libraries.
And still they peddle the line that we are safe with them!

Cornettoninja · 05/11/2022 09:21

Richie Sushi's frequent use of 'compassionate'

aha, so it’s a widespread Tory belief that just saying something enough makes it true. Got it.

(also loving vomment Grin)

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2022 09:47

The headline of that Times article is

The state can't fix all your problems says Sunak

Your problems, how compassionate

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Notonthestairs · 05/11/2022 09:52

As if we expect the Government to fix all our problems. Not making them worse would be a start.

Roussette · 05/11/2022 09:53

itsgettingweird · 05/11/2022 07:46

I wonder if Bravermans own immigrant parents would be allowed?

No. And she's more or less admitted so

Notonthestairs · 05/11/2022 09:55

"Your problems, how compassionate"

What strikes me is that it makes plain that they are outside looking in.

Our problems - cost of food, mortgage rates, access to healthcare - are not their problems so they have to imagine what it's like.

DuncinToffee · 05/11/2022 09:57

Tony Blair on 'compassionate conservatives'

twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1588800882996486144?t=fH2zGhVdXlGFeogjjeVDQg&s=19
Fully expect Starmer to quote this at next week's PMQs

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DuncinToffee · 05/11/2022 09:58

Exactly Notonthestairs

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jgw1 · 05/11/2022 10:07

What's the point of Sunak being Prime Minister if he doesn't want to help people who live in the UK?

mibbelucieachwell · 05/11/2022 10:09

By using 'compassionate' I assume they're trying and only sometimes failing to give the impression that the government is 'kindly' giving 'help' to poor people. They want to hoodwink the electorate into forgetting that a government, with its access to public funds created by public taxation - of the little people - not the non-doms,oligarchs and tax evading/avoiding mps and their 'think tank' aka corporate lobby group backers ought as a matter of JUSTICE to fairly divvy up public money. We rarely ever hear them use the word 'fair'.

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