it was shaaps that expedited the roll out of ulez in London, and that's a lot of what people are pissed about, the speed of it
https://www.onlondon.co.uk/letter-from-grant-shapps-shows-that-government-proposed-enlarging-london-congestion-charge-zone/
― koogs, Friday, 21 July 2023 17:42 (two years ago)
People hate breathable air, good that labour addresses these concerns
― Grandall Flange (wins), Friday, 21 July 2023 17:46 (two years ago)
i'm sure every single person crying about ulez absolutely relies on their car and has no option to use public transport
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 July 2023 18:44 (two years ago)
tfw a prospective Labour govt is actually going to be worse than the Tories. In some ways a detestable glazed ham like Starmer with a dreadful voice is probably a good thing because whoever is in his place - it will be the same party machine policy makers and influences driving the direction and this cunt has hung parliament written all over him.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 21 July 2023 18:48 (two years ago)
yeah since we're going to hell anyway i hope they stick with this absolute machine of unintentional comedy
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 July 2023 18:49 (two years ago)
Unfortunately conspiracy theorists have got a hold of it too, I've had a "discussion" with one of them in my work.
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 20:47 (two years ago)
https://news.sky.com/story/vomiting-blood-and-shaking-uncontrollably-funding-cuts-leave-addicts-left-to-fight-disease-alone-12928915
Just watching Yvette Cooper looking extremely uncomfortable about having to blame Tory austerity measures for these figures - you could tell even saying the word "austerity" stuck in her craw. Of course, thereafter, not promising to spend any more money on the problem and instead vaguely talking up linking addiction treatment to improvements in crime prevention. Vile.
Also I saw Ed Miliband the other day talking about the climate crisis having obviously been briefed to make sure he namechecked Starmer and Rachel Reeves. Somebody just shoot that guy and put him out of this misery.
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 28 July 2023 07:20 (two years ago)
lonely guy, thinking baout freedom
Talking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher’s old Rover. Earlier I spoke to @Telegraph about how important cars are for families to live their lives. It’s something anti-motorist Labour just don’t seem to get.And it’s why I’m reviewing anti-car schemes across the country. pic.twitter.com/0OiKhFLjc3— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) July 30, 2023
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 30 July 2023 11:56 (two years ago)
this photo is making me laugh so much, he looks like a little boy whose parents are letting him sit in the front seat of the family car while it remains stationary in their driveway, pretending to drive
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 30 July 2023 12:00 (two years ago)
brrum brrum
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 30 July 2023 12:01 (two years ago)
miming turning the wheel round because he's been sternly told that he's on no account to actually touch any of the controls
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 30 July 2023 12:07 (two years ago)
is this a metaphor for his Prime Ministership?
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 July 2023 13:05 (two years ago)
I could be wrong but does Sunak seem to only have one mode - grinning like an idiot, an uber-consumercapitalist smiley everything-is-great facial expression all the time? Cameron had his serious face, May had her stern face, Johnson had his vicious scowl. Sunak is the totemic sunny face of late authoritarian capitalism all the time. I find him more botlike than May even
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 30 July 2023 13:11 (two years ago)
LOL this is so fucking pathetic and transparently desperate it makes the Labour Party seem competent.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 July 2023 13:16 (two years ago)
Families, families, familiesfamilies
families
No-one else needs a fucking car
― moribund new dance craze (Matt #2), Sunday, 30 July 2023 13:38 (two years ago)
Starmer next week all like I have always loved cars more than anything, here are some pictures of me in or near cars throughout my life, under labour all motorists will be allowed three no-questions-asked vehicular homicides a day
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 30 July 2023 13:57 (two years ago)
Kieth drinking a pint of leaded petrol
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:01 (two years ago)
this "own the tree-huggers" race to the bottom is not really a good idea
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:06 (two years ago)
treehuggers, lightweights who can't deal with air pollution, fuck the lot of them
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:16 (two years ago)
I'm sure they're getting all this garbage from focus groups but I just don't believe any of this is actually popular with the general public.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:19 (two years ago)
a good chunk of people have an unhealthy emotional attachment to cars
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:21 (two years ago)
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 30 July 2023 14:57 (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is the time to really start playing on his strong record of knocking down deliveroo drivers in his SUV
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 30 July 2023 21:06 (two years ago)
in some ways the grim as fuck 2017 Theresa May govt that pissed its majority away was more progressive than the Labour Party in 2023.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 30 July 2023 21:28 (two years ago)
if he's so keen on cars, why the fuck does he fly everywhere instead?
― NickB, Sunday, 30 July 2023 22:00 (two years ago)
He luvs cars he has visited loads of them.
― Mark G, Monday, 31 July 2023 07:41 (two years ago)
Unfortunately his feet don't reach the pedals yet so he has to rely on other people to drive for him.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Monday, 31 July 2023 08:19 (two years ago)
"I would like to buy some petrols please..."
― Mark G, Monday, 31 July 2023 08:34 (two years ago)
he had to borrow a car for that petrol station forecourt photo op recently.
in other news:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/29/mirrors-description-of-matt-hancock-as-failed-health-secretary-not-inaccurate-says-watchdog
hancock complained over the mirror describing him as 'failed health secretary and cheating husband who broke the lockdown rules he wrote' and other things, but ipso has just said that none of it was inaccurate.
― koogs, Monday, 31 July 2023 08:55 (two years ago)
Failure is just success that hasn't happened yet.
― nashwan, Monday, 31 July 2023 09:26 (two years ago)
Love how Lab's incoherent reading of Uxbridge has created the space for this to happen.
500 people in Uxbridge protested about a car charge and now our children and grandchildren all have to die, sorry I don’t make the rules https://t.co/jszqa2dHEn— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) July 31, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 July 2023 10:03 (two years ago)
some people will see this as a story about one guy's hypocrisy, but really it's about how actually-existing drugs policy is a charade that nobody seriously believes in https://t.co/SJPHzMRZAk— Jon Stone (@joncstone) July 31, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 July 2023 22:46 (two years ago)
Stats for melts going Green
🚨 NEW: Labour confirms that they will uphold all new oil and gas licences granted before the next election.Labour's Thangam Debbonaire reaffirmed on Newsnight that Labour will keep any licence granted before the party comes to office. https://t.co/KQYtqyL4mD— Stats for Lefties 🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) August 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 09:24 (two years ago)
Not only shameless but stupid on all levels.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 09:25 (two years ago)
pitiful claim that they don't want to create uncertainty for businesses, when unequivocally saying "we will revoke all these new licences" would create certainty
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 09:41 (two years ago)
we don't wait to create uncertainty that we might be anything other than craven bootlicking cunts who will allow international business interests to pillage the environment until every last human on earth is drowned, burned or starved
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 10:15 (two years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2YP1F5XwAs_9SQ?format=jpg&name=large
shocking news if true, lol
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 18:04 (two years ago)
Jimmy Saville on a Tory Poster next year 😎
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:29 (two years ago)
i mean it wouldn't be the first time
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:30 (two years ago)
Once the food supply chain is fucked those oil contracts will be cancelled so fast.
South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seenUnbelievable temperatures up to 38.9C in the Chilean Andine areas in mid winter ! Much more than what Southern Europe just had in mid summer at the same elevation: This event is rewriting all climatic books pic.twitter.com/QiiUKllWWP— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) August 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 08:07 (two years ago)
Ok
Exclusive: Rishi Sunak’s plans for a Great British chess revival- Gov will financially back England’s chess teams for the first time- 100 chess boards to be rolled out in parks- drive for more chess in state schoolshttps://t.co/KgO8oGfOZt— Ellen Milligan (@EllenAMilligan) August 2, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 13:41 (two years ago)
After seeing off Jack from Guilford too
.@RishiSunak talking in averages to a guy who has a specific problem. He's telling Jack from Guildford, who is facing a mortgage rise from £1500 to £2800, that he should be aware that actually the average mortgage is going up from £800 to £1000.@LBC @NickFerrariLBC— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) August 2, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 13:43 (two years ago)
his favourite word is "actually"
― conrad, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:31 (two years ago)
for a guy who's all about the importance of teaching maths in schools he seems to have a poor grasp of how averages work
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:34 (two years ago)
https://theartofantiquing.com/products/margaret-british-chess-set
British Chess Set of Political figures including Big Ben and Margaret Thatcher$270.00 USD
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:40 (two years ago)
I was taught chess at state school. I was rubbish I suppose but enjoyed it a lot as a kid until we had our first match vs another school and saw a chess clock for the first time which is something our teacher had never used with us or told us about . we were v v confused. and lost.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 20:21 (two years ago)
considering who their major donors are this is a good opp for Kieth to diverge from the tories for once and make the case for online poker.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 20:31 (two years ago)
NEW: NatWest closed bank accounts for Jamaican people living outside the UK earlier this year, I've been told. 100s have been affected it is claimed, including a 92 year old man who has not had his state pension since January 2023.— Nadine White. (@Nadine_Writes) August 2, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 21:17 (two years ago)
lol at the idea that NF is going to be the saviour of a ton of immigrants who can't get an account / have been debanked
― koogs, Thursday, 3 August 2023 02:35 (two years ago)
(also, maybe time to move my money out of nat west)
― koogs, Thursday, 3 August 2023 02:37 (two years ago)
Some former Bank of England ghoul on Sky News lamenting high wage rises and low unemployment rates. It's how they all think but tend to avoid saying out loud.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 August 2023 06:39 (two years ago)