Transfergraeme
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Transfergraeme
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Politics (if only we had a government that actually understood the real world). Business (trying to get our business back to where it was before Brexit). "Woke" in the "treat people as you would want to be treated yourself" sense! Cricket (not the 100)
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That could and should have been done in 2017! Indeed didn't Starmer at one point support that (against Corbyn).
Farage stood down all his 2019 GE Brexit Party candidates in any seat they could have won to ensure they had no involvement in Johnson's "oven ready deal" going through parliament and being inflicted on the UK. Farage (or his paymasters) carefully ensured that he and his party could not be blamed.
But (as the table above reminds us (and I admit I'd forgotten) they actually voted to leave the CU and SM - the reversal of which would go a long way to improving the situation.
So were Corbyn and his "entourage"
I'd forgotten they'd actually voted against staying in CU and SM - that really leaves them in a hole - at least where they abstained they can (to an extent) criticise.
There is, as I understand it, no VAT on membership of a political party, but given the way Reform is set up do they qualify for the usual rules - their "members" have surely given money to a company for "services" (whatever they might be) not to a political party of which they are members?
That's the Northern Ireland that the then leader of his party/PM Sunak (Burghart was Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office at the time) described just 30 months ago as having the best of both worlds?
Fair point - although I thought there was some dispute whether it was Peru or Chile - but didn't they come to the UK/Europe via European settlers/invaders in (what became) the US?
Fish and chips - Portuguese Jewish originally.
Sunday roast - presumably including potatoes originally from the US
Full English - presumably including "non-English" tomatoes and baked beans?
Chicken tikka masala - invented in Birmingham by Bangladeshi chefs.
She's ignorant as well as narrow-minded!
Really want to give this a 50-1-1000-2.71828 (to mix my maths a bit!)
Just had the results of the BBC's viewers survey completed by 872701 people!

The most significant finding: "43% of you say the BBC is effective in being independent from the government of the day – which 91% of you say is important".

It won't change anything but at least they now know we know!
Russia was just a very well paid "side-hustle".
His job was to act in the best interests of the UK.
At least George (useless) Eustace was honest enough to admit this whilst still an MP.
Every (men's and women's) football and rugby club's first aid kit has tampons in it - very useful if you get hit in the face and need to staunch a nose bleed!
Johnson's Brexiteer rantings were a performance for personal gain - he neither wanted nor expected Leave to win.
Most people "consuming" standard MSM would never have seen any of this so it's not surprising recall is low. The Labour Party have (not for the first time in their history) a major comms problem.
A substantial part of the increase in civil servants since 2016 is replacing functions previously carried out by EU "unelected bureaucrats". In fact the UK has employed (according to govt figs) 104,000 civil servants to do the work that 34,000 EU civil servants did for the UK + 27 other countries.
If the other parties stopped talking about Farage and concentrated on creating and disseminating policy that would appeal to the "average" UK citizen Reform would wither and die because they have no credible answers to any of the important questions facing the country today (including immigration).
The option would be to employ interviewers with sufficient knowledge and/or who do some research.
The old maxim of an interviewer never asking a (factual) question to which they do not already know the answer would serve the audience (and the long term reputation of the BBC) well.
I think I can see someone who isn't looking out of one of the windows in the background.
It's also rarely mentioned that Johnson scrapped THRCC within weeks of coming into office and that a number of the recommendations of Exercise Cygnus were not put into place (according to one senior official because to do so would have caused widespread panic amongst the population)
The problem is that over 25 years we have had Lab, Con and Lib/Con/coalition govts - which means that if a politician mentions this they can't claim all the credit - and as we know politicians only announce good news if they think they can claim the kudos and not just say "something good happened"