“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

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

his favourite word is "actually"

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

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British Chess Set of Political figures including Big Ben and Margaret Thatcher
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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.

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.

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

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

(also, maybe time to move my money out of nat west)

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.

1 in 50 Londoners is now homeless. On average at least one child in every London classroom is homeless.

This is an absolute scandal & should be front page news. The number of homeless residents in temporary accommodation in London is now just under 170,000. 83,500 are children pic.twitter.com/1EEMSBrIUB

— Aydin Dikerdem (@AydinDikerdem) August 3, 2023

"that can't be true or opposition politicians would be constantly berating the government about it"

This is the time to really start playing on his strong record of knocking down deliveroo drivers in his SUV

― glumdalclitch, Sunday, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

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, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

if he's so keen on cars, why the fuck does he fly everywhere instead?

― NickB, Sunday, July 30, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

He luvs cars he has visited loads of them.

― Mark G, Monday, July 31, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

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, July 31, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

"I would like to buy some petrols please..."

― Mark G, Monday, July 31, 2023

Series of good posts, ILX doing what it does well!

Labour explicitly saying that people need to vote with the Conservative Party or will be suspended.

“Only last week we suspended two Labour councillors in Edinburgh because they weren’t prepared to vote for the Tories over the SNP.”

Was she supposed to say that?

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— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) July 14, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/03/budget-retailer-wilko-makes-administration-move-risking-12000-jobs There’s a Wilko in pretty much every town in the UK so this is a shock.

i was in one last saturday morning and there were plenty of empty shelves, i did wonder if they were having money troubles.

Yeah someone told me a few months ago they thought it was circling the drain & since then I’ve really noticed how understocked & understaffed the ones I’ve gone into have been

I'd never buy any paint from them again, their bathroom paint is crap. The colour and finish is awful and it's already peeling off in one spot after weeks. And the worst paint stench ever. lol, gl to them though!

I confess I don't even know what Wilko sells, they didn't exist in Scotland when I lived there.

It's probably the non-supermarket shop I use the most, that or b&m. feel like they spread themselves a bit too thinly product-wise, always seems like they don't stock things I expect them to have, and do stock a load of seemingly random stuff that nobody would expect to find there

weirdly* enough i bought a new broom at wilko a month back (nothing looked untoward)

it probably sweeps clean, but i haven't used it yet

*not very weird really, except it's the first time i've ever been in a wilko that i can remember and apparently also the last

good for cheap picture frames, i must have 10 of their postcard-size ones (although the recent one don't match the older ones, annoyingly). i might go and stock up on saturday.

and i bought a junior hacksaw there a couple of weeks ago to cut the old sofa in two so i can get it down the stairs for the bulk waste people.

They've honestly been going downhill ever since they stopped being Wilkinson, not that it was exactly amazing then either

I hate it when brands start officially adopting the colloquial names that the public confer on them, feels presumptuous in the same way as overly informal brand twitter accounts. It was all downhill for Woolworths when they started referring to themselves as 'woolies' in their adverts in the late 90s, maybe brands only start doing this when their medium-term financial viability is not looking too good

haven't seen any "Primarni" adverts yet tbf

It was not good when the Daily Mirror became The Mirror.

Somehow such a change misunderstands usage.

I'm impressed by Koogs chopping a sofa in two.

Possibly also by Mark S *sweeping clean*.

Is the Manchester Guardian worse than it used to be?

I had the old sofa doesn't fit through the door prob. Was going to saw it but was thinking if I sawed it in half the council will probably try and charge me for two bulky waste items, not even joking. So I smashed the legs off and deformed it some more with a lump hammer so it was slightly small enough for me to get it through alone, it was quite easy as well because furniture is so poorly made these days and the wood on the back and armrests of the frame was poor quality. To keep it on topic I was imagining the sofa was Kier Starmer's head so it had no chance!

I've got rid of two sofas, three beds and about half a dozen swivel chairs in the last year. A high turnover of broken furniture!

I also paint houses

Many xps, I also thought there were no branches of Wilkos in Scotland, but it appears there are now a few across the central belt.

Ok.

Rishi Sunak apparently went to a Taylor Swift-themed SoulCycle class in Santa Monica ? pic.twitter.com/J1HsFFaFzG

— J.D. Capelouto (@jdcapelouto) August 4, 2023

TS just donated what must've been hundreds of thousands to a Santa Clara food bank after her two gigs there.

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In other news, Stephen Flynn is a person.

Diane tells it like it is, UK Twitter frantically clutches pearls and calls the police

These migrants have indeed fucked off. To the bottom of the sea https://t.co/bdF2oNdAAV

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) August 9, 2023

😯

Posted today on the ‘Civil Service Jobs’ internal website. pic.twitter.com/D3eUlBTp9B

— Robin Moira White (she/her) (@moira_robin) August 10, 2023

LOL at Diane Abbott getting attacked from all quarters for "politicizing" the deaths of migrants... expect it's not really a LOL.

why is SKSQC huffing horse manure the mad jenkem xunt

that's SKRSKCMP to you

more like SKRSHRIMP

As an @Arsenal season ticket holder, there is nothing like the buzz of the first day of a new campaign.

I can feel this is the season for us... #hope #PL https://t.co/vmWbv8t1Bk pic.twitter.com/xm1McTLxHq

— wariotifo (@wariotifo) August 12, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/11/why-even-now-do-we-think-a-womans-work-is-worth-less

Was he indeed. https://t.co/F82r6xUqGO pic.twitter.com/8FEmyO4XC9

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) August 13, 2023

doesn't feel like a *great* sign for the government that a Telegtaph cartoonist is portraying Sunak and Hunt as the heirs to Liam Byrne does it pic.twitter.com/ebkY8BBeEC

— Jonn Elledge (@JonnElledge) August 14, 2023

Actually it's what I expected from, austerity forever.

Which will rub against reality, which is increasing levels of money to keep things afloat.

Meanwhile in Italol

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has doubled down on a shock decision to introduce a 40% windfall tax on banks, saying she would “do it again”

They will never get a single vote from me under this leadership. Repulsive people.

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