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Wales whataboutery deflection
Wales whataboutery deflection is it now – that well-known independent state with it its own laws and revenues. But somehow it’s me clutching at straws.
What a weak position to have to resort to – that and a “poor little me” out group. You clearly have no argument to make in relation to last night’s post.
Finally, some Labour / UK whataboutery from me – Labour (and as noted above the Tories) have not in the last 25 years been at all good at picking talented, winning party leaders. Thousands of people would have enjoyed better, more prosperous and longer lives in this country had Labour found a good successor to Blair/Brown all those years ago.
how much has happened despite
how much has happened despite them, not because of? I guess if you conform I.e. are working, educated, able that list might have some resonance. Ordinary people? People who have problems?
interest rates, inflation – continuing strikes in rail, health – yet tonnes of money to throw at stopping the boats
demonising Just Stop Oil – this is a major long-term failure by those who may live long enough to see its consequences. I know you will whatabout on China, etc but I reject your distraction (ditto inflation in Germany or wherever ) It’s great about renewables, but now being undone with more gas and oil announced.
Health – that would be why there is unprecented industrial unrest? Consulants AND trainees on strike. Staggering waiting lists for treatments many will die waiting and no serious recovery plan in sight. NHS dentistry now pot luck. How many new hospitals promised was it?
Active travel, but now it’s “we’re on the side of the motorists” £2 bus fares – a great little idea but doesn’t form a strategy for a little island that is grinding to a halt on current trends.
poo and other nasties in the sea – this is basic stuff, as is policing – no serious plan to address either.
the whole ongoing “boats” debacle – pandering to bigots, Bobby Stockholm, multiple court cases, demonising of leftie lawyers per Cugel’s list of fascist tendencies.
pandemic – PPE-gate, Partygate; the worst possible leader we could have had at the outset of the pandemic – equivocated for a month on lockdown.
Peroguing of Parliament – stopped only by the Supreme Court and the Good Law Project. A really dangerous moment – I hope a one-off.
Liz Truss – and whatever it was happened there – after a leadership contest that took all summer. 30p, Nadine Dorries – she is right re zombie govt.
The flags (seem to have largely gone now) fad.
All founded on the pack of lies and house built on sand that is Brexit.
Ferrari 812 owner dubbed
Ferrari 812 owner dubbed ‘entitled’ as £250,000 car parks in St Ives seafront police bay
One person joked there’s a new unmarked police car in town
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/ferrari-812-owner-dubbed-entitled-8719856
I think she genuinely
I think she genuinely believed that capitalists and capitalism would behave admirably over time if you entrusted public service to them. Perhaps those she knew herself gave her grounds for this – but over time, people move on, interests change, money and investment factors and profit motive return to type.
Back most of us go to the serfdom of the Industrial Revolution – it’s all there in Dickens, Mrs Gaskell, even Austen.
The abiding message from this government is “you’re on your own” – no guard or platform staff on your train to turn to, no nurse, doctor or care worker in your hour of need, no police when you become a victim of crime.
quite a quite a lot there
quite a quite a lot there that Cugel cites that I don’t notice you arguing with.
It’s standard driver “poor
It’s standard driver “poor little me” stuff “what about cyclists passing me within 1.5 metres” stuff, it’s the “all lives matter” stuff.
As the Lisa Simpson meme says, “none of your problems are down to people on welfare” – but it is, they insist, “there’s only so many hospital beds, only so many school places, look at the terrible people coming to take those away from you.”
What examples of anti
What examples of anti-semitism under Corbyn’s leadership actually are there?
Good whataboutery on the Nazi party of Germany. Like Brexit, the party cause is whatever we say it is – there are a few loose MAGA type basic principles, but it seems to me a lot of it about creating this situation/atmosphere where folk with ideas that appeal no matter how bizarre or heinous get an airing and get to put this stuff into practice.
Govenrment is there to protect us from foreign invasion (or untoward influence, rather than troops landing at Hastings), to protect us from the worst effects of big business, while ensuring the country is prosperous, ensure justice and protect people from crime and the mob; I would argue that in modern times there is stuff to do around health and well-being, safety.
Can you honestly say the Tories have succeeded at any of that on any level in the past 10 years? Do you believe they ever will, or have I with my O level, A level*, degree in politics, post grad certificate in policy admimstration and lifetime career in public service got the wrong definition of what the public should expect?
* OK, the A level was a bit shit – blame girls, or rather a girl.
Hey look, I get it – you don
Hey look, I get it – you don’t like the ideas around active travel and you don’t want to adopt them – you will keep putting obstacles in the way and minimising what is possible.
It takes effort, you don’t want to make any; it requires thought, but that is too much to ask: taking the car is at individual level easy – we’ve spent the last 60 years making it so. Taking the car is easy so long as you do not become frail – in yourself or in your wallet; if you do succumb to frailty, can’t keep up the payments, then you are thrown out of the club, left to feed on the scraps left by the rise of the car.
For what it’s worth, Exeter has done pretty well in preserving its suburban train services – better than say Taunton, Guildford, Swindon as examples. I also get stuff like ‘public transport is so expensive” – it’s £2 by bus at the moment. Get a 1970s or 60s bus timetable book from Ebay for your locality – see for yourself what has been destroyed by cars.
“This right-wing stuff works
“This right-wing stuff works by allowing/enabling significant privileged groups to to think of themselves as the downtrodden underdog and here is a way to fight back.”
You didn’t include the
You didn’t include the opening words of the article:
A GOOD Samaritan motorist
I therefore sentence you to one bent Presta valve stem. In arriving at this sentence, I have taken into account your previous good behaviour, but be warned if you appear before me again, stiffer penalties such as a drivetrain clunk on every other pedal stroke are available.
“Quicksand? Honey, you worry
“Quicksand? Honey, you worry too much”
“No, this bus doesn’t go to
“No, this bus doesn’t go to Hay on Wye, you need the number 68.”
7 PEOPLE INJURED AS RENT A
7 PEOPLE INJURED AS RENT A CAR CRASHES INTO A PACKED BAR TERRACE IN CORRALEJO
Dad punched driver to floor
Dad punched driver to floor in brutal A34 road rage attack in front of his kids
Stephen Cartwright, 41, of Bentilee, has been spared jail at North Staffordshire Justice Centre
District Judge Ian Barnes said: “It was a needless and senseless incident. People often when they get into vehicles their personality seems to change.
“The independent witness saw the victim pull in front of your vehicle and he got out first. However, you got out and punched him.
“Clearly your frustration and anger got the better of you and you struck him with force. You did not need to get out of the car.
Woman’s angry note to drivers who keep parking across her driveway
The householder has decided to take matters into her own hands and has been leaving them furious notes on windscreens
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/womans-angry-note-drivers-who-8719043
Man comes home to find ice cream man ‘weeing outside his house’
John Federici ‘disgusted’ that driver appears to drive off without washing his hands
“I’ve had people ask me have I not got better things to do, but it’s not the point. Hygiene should be a top priority.”
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/man-comes-home-find-ice-8715780
couldn’t leave Stoke without posting that last one – it’s still quite early, but I think it’s a strong contender for winning the internet today.
Driver to ‘withhold council
Driver to ‘withhold council tax’ in protest at £180 pothole compo claim snub
Michael Meigh has had to shell out £180 to repair his Audi A3 after hitting a Smallthorne crater
The dad-of-five, from Smallthorne, said: “Duddell Road is like a little rat-run for people who know the back streets and it’s not like it’s not used often.
We’re in a cost of living crisis at the end of the day and I need that money.
“I’m not going to let this drop and I’ll take it to the small claims court if needs be. I just get wound up by it dragging on and on.
