I didn't know that.

What a boy!

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comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 5 minutes ago
Many years ago I was I was in Dublin when they were having a tribunal into Charles Haughey, a professional politician with a yacht, a private island, mansions, racehorses and wads of cash.
The bit that really sticks in my mind, he was flying to Paris to get custom made Charvet shirts and going on TV telling the Irish people that times were tough and they needed to tighten their belt.

Proper corrupt pooitician,not like these lightweights nowadays.
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That's the proper way to do it
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This is all true

Cant swindled the country

“We are living way beyond our means”
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Also we still have him a state funeral
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Ye mean “left yis in a state” funeral?

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 3 minutes ago
I didn't know that.

What a boy!
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I remember him the cant. One of the most divisive figures in Irish political history. I was only a kid in the early 80s when he made that speech

Loads of folk especially down the country loved him. Why????

Sounds like he was your Bojo (just better at it)

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 3 minutes ago
Sounds like he was your Bojo (just better at it)
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Bojo was like Hartlepool and haughey Real Madrid

As expected; the conference votes to have the winter fuel allowance cut reversed.

They’ll be ignored by their own party.

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 1 minute ago
As expected; the conference votes to have the winter fuel allowance cut reversed.

They’ll be ignored by their own party.
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https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/ageing/articles/livinglonger/changesinhousingtenureovertime

74% of pensioners own their own home. 29% of pensioners own assets of £1m plus. Evidence, albeit anecdotal, of pensioners saying they don't need WFP and put it towards holidays, meals out and the grandkids.

https://ilcuk.org.uk/ageing-populations-forced-to-increase-state-pension-age-to-71-by-2050-to-maintain-dependency-ratio/

While those of working age won't have housing as an asset to rely on and a longer working life, if state pension exists in 20 or so years.

Pensioners are a protected demographic politically as they are more likely to be politically engaged and more likely to vote. They are also more likely to vote conservative. Hence why we are in the current situation of paying millions to pensioners who don't need it whilst cutting child tax credits for a 3rd child for workers who do need it.

How to be a shadow Tory in three easy steps;

1. Pick a topic from the front pages of right wing media
2. Don’t do any research whatsoever
3. Whinge about it ad nauseam in faux outrage
4. Repeat daily whilst pretending to suddenly care about other people

Four even

comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 12 minutes ago
How to be a shadow Tory in three easy steps;

1. Pick a topic from the front pages of right wing media
2. Don’t do any research whatsoever
3. Whinge about it ad nauseam in faux outrage
4. Repeat daily whilst pretending to suddenly care about other people
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The same right wing press outraged about WFP that told workers stuck in private renting, unable to get on the property ladder, to give up Netflix in order to buy a house.

It's a funny old world

Repeat daily whilst pretending to suddenly care about other people
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This is my favourite one.

I didn’t see this media scrutiny when the Tories cut the £20 universal credit and took away free school meals from children.

I didn’t give a flying fvck about vulnerable people for 15 years, but suddenly I do and I do so very loudly indeed.

Look at the new cronies running the Spectator now

https://x.com/frasernelson/status/1838931813986598987?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Why am I seeing Kier Starmer and sausage memes today?

Because he looks like a sausage in a wig

Annie's cheered me up.

Apparently as soon as I turn 66, I'll become fabulously wealthy.

The trade off is I'll have to vote Tory.

It speaks to the character of someone when they make overly simplistic comments about people based on their voting decisions.

Similarly, this idea that the balance the ‘right and left’ system we have in our governance isn’t an important part of achieving progress as an economy is somewhat misguided… ignorant, even.

But such is the way of social media. A lack of tolerance, an entrenched view and a binary thought process.

These people are to be pitied more than anything.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 37 minutes ago
Because he looks like a sausage in a wig
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Is that the reason??

comment by 1manontherun 7-0 (U4291)
posted 50 minutes ago
Why am I seeing Kier Starmer and sausage memes today?
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Because he seemed to accidentally say sausages instead of soldiers in his speech.

*hostages

👍🏼

comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
I didn’t give a flying fvck about vulnerable people for 15 years, but suddenly I do and I do so very loudly indeed.
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You don't give a fvk about them at all, that's why you spend Friday and Saturday nights taking tax free money off alcoholic gamblers

Bye

comment by onepostandbye (U23201)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
I didn’t give a flying fvck about vulnerable people for 15 years, but suddenly I do and I do so very loudly indeed.
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You don't give a fvk about them at all, that's why you spend Friday and Saturday nights taking tax free money off alcoholic gamblers

Bye
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You’re half right.

I’ve just noticed your only other post from that account was also dedicated to me.

Must have mugged you right off at some point and humiliated you. Sorry about that and hope everything is okay at home.