Super-Twat

[rafletcher]

A bit late, but Ronnie “I know my worth and the Saudis will pay me it” O’Sullivan.

[Polar Bear]

Tory MP Andrew Griffiths, for this gem

You're going to get Keir Starmer in No.10, the most left wing government we've ever had as a country, & an illegal immigrant amnesty.

delivered to BBC Breakfast this am.  Sir Keeves more left-wing than Attlee or Wislon?  Even the notion that he’s further left than Mister Tony Blair would be the product of a supremely twatty mind.

It would appear to be part of tory strategy now to claim that Labour will be the commie high tax regime that we should all fear neglecting to acknowledge that theirs is actually a fascist higher tax regime ...

At least they have a plan for something at last even if it is to blatantly lie and scaremonger about their opponents.  Oh, nothing new there then ...  🤔

[citoyen]

Anyone who voted for Ben fucking Houchens.

[Efrogwr]

Anyone who voted for Ben fucking Houchens.

Yes. He and his mates are are a disgusting bunch of bastards.

[toontra]

Anyone who voted for Ben fucking Houchens.

You really have to wonder what some people have in place of brains.  In this case you can only assume it's some variety of Stockholm syndrome where they learn to love their oppressor, who whispers sweet words while robbing them blind.

[Efrogwr]

Kemi BadEnoch for promoting the bullshit (from the IEA) about the alleged lack of effect that having an Empire had on Britain. And the bollock brained wankers who thought it up.

[chrisbainbridge]

Total nonsense. 2 examples. Library provision in lowland Scotland, all built by empire returnees.
Cotton printing industry in Lancashire built on cheap imported cotton.

[Efrogwr]

Total nonsense. 2 examples. Library provision in lowland Scotland, all built by empire returnees.
Cotton printing industry in Lancashire built on cheap imported cotton.

Your second point; the cotton was cheap because it was grown by slaves. The export market was greatly expedited by the destruction of local industries in the stolen countries. In particular, weaving in Bengal.

[Beardy]

And the cotton mills, like the wool mills on the other side of the Pennines, were worked by low paid immigrants who were brought in specifically from the empire.

[chrisbainbridge]

Total nonsense. 2 examples. Library provision in lowland Scotland, all built by empire returnees.
Cotton printing industry in Lancashire built on cheap imported cotton.

Your second point; the cotton was cheap because it was grown by slaves. The export market was greatly expedited by the destruction of local industries in the stolen countries. In particular, weaving in Bengal.

Exactly.
Beardy, not so sure about the cotton industry in Lancashire/Derbyshire. I understood it was local workers some of whom may well have been pushed off their land but still local.  Happy to be corrected if you have a reference. I grew up in Lancashire/ Derbyshire and my father ran several cotton printing mills.

The main point though is that all of this is clearly available information.

[Efrogwr]

Total nonsense. 2 examples. Library provision in lowland Scotland, all built by empire returnees.
Cotton printing industry in Lancashire built on cheap imported cotton.

Your second point; the cotton was cheap because it was grown by slaves. The export market was greatly expedited by the destruction of local industries in the stolen countries. In particular, weaving in Bengal.

Exactly.
Beardy, not so sure about the cotton industry in Lancashire/Derbyshire. I understood it was local workers some of whom may well have been pushed off their land but still local.  Happy to be corrected if you have a reference. I grew up in Lancashire/ Derbyshire and my father ran several cotton printing mills.

The main point though is that all of this is clearly available information.

chrisbainbridge is correct about displaced rural people becoming urban factory fodder, but that was mostly in the18th/19th centuries. The Enclosures were one of the causes of displacement.
Beardy's point really applies to the posr WW2 period.

[mrcharly-YHT]

"Kemi Badenoch said X"
Therefore, X == false

She's a walking, talking spreader of disinformation and lies.

[SoreTween]

Mark fucking Harper again.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/10/uk-floating-bus-stops-cycle-lanes

[toontra]

Rod Ismay (Post Office) - for expecting anyone to believe a single word he said to the enquiry today.

He might have got away with it, but the Post Office eventually had to disclose documents they'd been withholding, several of which contradicted evidence Ismay had given - under oath - to the enquiry last year.  Damn those pesky emails (that he'd forgotten to delete along with all the others    )

[JellyLegs]

"Kemi Badenoch said X"
Therefore, X == false

She's a walking, talking spreader of disinformation and lies.

Unfortunately she has been my MP for the last decade or so.  I am unsure she has ever visited the constituency, certainly not my neck of the woods.  have given up writing to her as all she does is ignores the questions raised and spouts the Government line in a copy and paste response.  A complete and utter waste of money, if ever I saw one.   Most upsetting is the thought that she is somehow still likely to be my MP after the next election which kind of makes me want to nominate en masse the electorate of the Saffron Walden constituency as super twats.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Mark fucking Harper again.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/10/uk-floating-bus-stops-cycle-lanes

In London, which has the highest number of floating bus stops in the UK, statistics for 2020-22 showed that of 623 pedestrians injured after being struck by a bike, 0.6% of them – four in all – were hit at floating bus stops. None of these incidents appeared to have happened at a designated crossing point.

Over the same period, 11,400 pedestrians and 15,000 cyclists were injured after being hit by motor vehicles.

Yeah, but we don't need no stinking facts.

[barakta]

To be fair, I have to say that blind and visually impaired people are unhappy with floating bus stops and are likely to avoid travelling in their areas or may not report being hit or abused by people on bikes because they don't feel they will be believed.

We need to find something more blind friendly.

[ElyDave]

They have those in Cambridge as well, I'm always nervous when cycling past them

[rogerzilla]

Almost all "solutions" that involve getting bikes off the road introduce new dangers.

Segregated lanes at roadside: used for parking, drains, drain covers, out of drivers' consciousness at junctions
Shared use paths: dogs, pedestrian morons, tree roots, ice
Cross-country paths: unsuitable surfaces, muggers

The road is almost always the best option and all these alternatives give drivers an excuse to behave worse towards xyclists.

[fd3]

@jellylegs, sounds like the sort of thing a local campaign would work on, promote the message that she's in it for her ministerial career and isn't representing locals on local issues.  Should get traction and is a good news story.

[JellyLegs]

@jellylegs, sounds like the sort of thing a local campaign would work on, promote the message that she's in it for her ministerial career and isn't representing locals on local issues.  Should get traction and is a good news story.

Unfortunately I live in one of the safest Tory seats in the land.  The next election really would need to be a wipeout of never before seen proportions before she needs to worry about any campaign I could mount.  It’s one downside of living in a beautiful part of rural Essex that I am pretty much on the boundary of 4 constituencies, 2 safe Tory havens and two that are based on large conurbations with very different priorities / needs to my village so none even vaguely represent me.