The dollar had taken a massive dip against the pound the last few weeks

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 45% (+6)
CON: 30% (-5)
LDEM: 8% (-2)
REF: 5% (+2)
GRN: 4% (-)

via @KantarPublic, 17 - 21 Nov
Chgs. w/ Sep

INJECT IT INTO MY COOOCK

‘Revealed: Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm’

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/revealed-tory-peer-michelle-mone-secretly-received-29m-from-vip-lane-ppe-firm

British public: [shrug]

Only the guardian is reporting it and suspiciously it wasnt included in "tomorrow's papers today" on either sky or BBC... Apparently this is because of "right to reply" journalist standards that the govt haven't replied to

🧐

So the UK population isn't angry about it because they don't know/haven't been told to get outraged yet

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 1 minute ago
So the UK population isn't angry about it because they don't know/haven't been told to get outraged yet
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They’ve known about the illegality of the ‘VIP lane’ for a year. They’ve known about Randox and Honeywell and PestFix and Ayanda and links to various Tory peers and MPs and their friends and families for a year.

It was reported globally, ffs. The New York Times ran the scandal as a headline report.

They don’t give a fack. The most apathetic and accepting population anywhere.

comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling tren... (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 27 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 1 minute ago
So the UK population isn't angry about it because they don't know/haven't been told to get outraged yet
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They’ve known about the illegality of the ‘VIP lane’ for a year. They’ve known about Randox and Honeywell and PestFix and Ayanda and links to various Tory peers and MPs and their friends and families for a year.

It was reported globally, ffs. The New York Times ran the scandal as a headline report.

They don’t give a fack. The most apathetic and accepting population anywhere.
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Labour need to hammer this, no use being in opposition if they don't.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/23/revealed-tory-peer-michelle-mone-secretly-received-29m-from-vip-lane-ppe-firm

Updated version.

It's the media who need to hammer it, when labour do it you get Pawl typed getting upset because of politics

I wonder if it will be mentioned on QT later?

The link I posted was published at least an hour before it was recorded.

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1595839130226802689?t=Im2Sy6CzizOcGhj6qP-FMA&s=19

BBC actually reporting this now

Byline times were on this in 2020

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 10 minutes ago
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1595839130226802689?t=Im2Sy6CzizOcGhj6qP-FMA&s=19

BBC actually reporting this now

Byline times were on this in 2020
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If memory serves, the media was awash with stories like this back then, unfortunately too many people were more worried about Covid itself.

Bojo had a way of flooding the discourse with other shiiiite too

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 10 hours, 13 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 10 minutes ago
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1595839130226802689?t=Im2Sy6CzizOcGhj6qP-FMA&s=19

BBC actually reporting this now

Byline times were on this in 2020
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If memory serves, the media was awash with stories like this back then, unfortunately too many people were more worried about Covid itself.
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Yep; this is just the latest of several. The only real difference here being the fact that it appears a peer directly pocketed a huge sum, rather than family or friends of MPs or peers.

Honestly, this happens in France, for example, and the pitchforks are out and the Palais du Luxembourg is under violent siege. Let’s see what the British public do. My prediction is moan on Twitter for a few days, then forget about it completely.

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 50% (-)
CON: 27% (-1)
LDEM: 9% (+1)
GRN: 4% (-)

via @techneUK, 23 - 24 Nov

INJECT IT INTO MY COOOCK

Secondary Care nurses announce 2 days of strike action in December.

Be nice to them.

Grinchy

https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1595775877639737345

comment by Prof Rosso Curtice - mapping SOTY polling trends in real time (U17054)
posted 10 minutes ago
Grinchy

https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1595775877639737345
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That'll upset Pawl.

Michelle Mone was never out of MSM when she was flogging bras

Super Injunction?

ULEZ zone extended to all London boroughs from August ‘23

Grate news

Comparing the media coverage of the RM strikes today..

Sky news allowed a corporate broadcast from the CEO with absoloutley no critical questioning! Just allowing him to spout his lies.

The GB news interview with Dave Ward was really good and positive coverage of the strikes, spoke about the idea of "strike fatigue" but still lamented what's being done to the postal service.

comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 1 hour ago
Comparing the media coverage of the RM strikes today..

Sky news allowed a corporate broadcast from the CEO with absoloutley no critical questioning! Just allowing him to spout his lies.

The GB news interview with Dave Ward was really good and positive coverage of the strikes, spoke about the idea of "strike fatigue" but still lamented what's being done to the postal service.
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I've noticed that members of the Shadow Cabinet are now regularly appearing on GB News, I think their coverage of the Labour conference heralded a thawing in the parties view of the channel.

Unlike many of the regulars on here they seem to have accepted that being anti woke doesn't make it a right wing echo chamber.

Does Ben Habib ever appear on GB News?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/25/soldier-david-jonathan-holden-aidan-mcanespie-troubles-convicted-manslaughter

34 years to get some form of justice for the murder of an innocent man whilst the likes of Johnny Mercer MP thinks it's a "national shame" that servicemen are held to account for actions they commit in uniform.
There is no statute of limitations for murder in civilian life yet the military think their illegal actions should be time barred.

Don't get me wrong, in this instance the murderer was only an 18 year old boy himself at the time and I have some sympathy in that he should never have been put in the position of holding a machine gun but he was an he did discharge his weapon, he has now deservedly been held to account.
The Conservative party are in the process of enacting legislation which in effect means they want to cover up these crimes.