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But on the flip side we know rest and recuperation aids workers and fuels productivity.

So? I would personally look at more statuary annual leave than bank holidays but you will have them bleating like they do over minimum wage.

Burnham is 'people pleaser' with 'airy fairy' plans, says Kemi Badenoch

No comment.

There's nothing quite like intelligent political debate, and I'll let you complete the joke.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2026 4:54 pm Burnham is 'people pleaser' with 'airy fairy' plans, says Kemi Badenoch

No comment.

He'll be a mad Marxist by this time next week.

In the same interview, Badenoch claimed

This isn't a popularity contest.

Showing a worrying misunderstanding of electoral politics.

Just another example of the parallel universe the hard right live in ( I think we all agree here that is no centre right). In the Mail today, Andrew Neill was claiming that no prime minister in history has had less of a public mandate than Burnham. Just complete and utter bollocks but he said it and thousands lapped it up as gospel.

Where Neill is concerned, the sentence "go back to your château and STFU" comes to mind.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2026 8:02 pm Where Neill is concerned, the sentence "go back to your château and STFU" comes to mind.

"Go back to your château - in France. And STFU - in French!"

Fixed that.

Rosvanian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2026 7:42 pm Andrew Neill was claiming that no prime minister in history has had less of a public mandate than Burnham.

I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
What is a "public" mandate?
Burnham's mandate is the same as Starmer's - the 2024 manifesto which the public voted for. All manifestos are published i.e. made public - there'd be no point in them otherwise.

So I'm guessing Neil is referencing that Burnham is entering No10 without winning a GE - exactly like most PMs.

In the last 50 years only Wilson, Thatcher, Blair and Starmer entered Downing Street thanks to the public's vote.

Just like Burnham, Callaghan, Major, Brown, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak were all made PM by their parties - all constitutionally fine because they had mandates from their manifestos which had been voted for by the public.

David Cameron entered Downing Street because he had the backing of the LibDems, effectively Nick Clegg elected him - not the public - which I reckon means he had less of a public mandate than any other PM despite having just won a General Election.

Neil understands all of this of course, he's hoping his readers (the public) don't.

TLDR: Andrew Neil is a cunt.

Oh well, that's alright then.

That woman really needs bringing down a peg or two.

And adult social care.

How the hell is Andy Burnham going to get cross party support on social care when Kemi can't even grasp the basics (in a completely gaffe-free way of course)?

A former neo-Nazi activist who was convicted of harassing a Jewish MP has withdrawn as a Conservative election candidate after his selection prompted an outcry from Jewish groups and others.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine said on Wednesday he had withdrawn from next year’s local elections, and that Kemi Badenoch had instead offered him a role as an advisor to her party’s culture and integration commission, specifically focusing on how young men become radicalised.

I'm sure Kemi thinks this is very clever. Shouldn't people be appointed to advisory positions because they're the best people at the job? Not because their appointment gets the leader out of an embarrassing situation?

But remember, Kemi doesn't make gaffes.

"You'd really like him if you only met him".

Joshua Bonehill-Paine first came to light when he told lies on the internet. His Crewkerne Gazette tells lies on the internet. That doesn't sound very rehabilitated to me.

And... through the looking glass we go.

Kemi Badenoch described Reform UK as “woke” as she again ruled out a deal with Nigel Farage’s party.

I mean, not doing a deal = good. Not doing a deal because you’re trying to make out you’re *more* hardline than the hardline headbanger party who take on your headbanger rejects (and thus risking losing any moderate types you may still be clinging on to) = bewildering.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2026 12:00 pm I mean, not doing a deal = good. Not doing a deal because you’re trying to make out you’re *more* hardline than the hardline headbanger party who take on your headbanger rejects (and thus risking losing any moderate types you may still be clinging on to) = bewildering.

The Tories have a Nazi, do Reform have a Nazi? I think Badenoch might have just won the "Who's most hardline" willy waving contest.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2026 12:59 pm

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Thu Aug 06, 2026 12:00 pm I mean, not doing a deal = good. Not doing a deal because you’re trying to make out you’re *more* hardline than the hardline headbanger party who take on your headbanger rejects (and thus risking losing any moderate types you may still be clinging on to) = bewildering.

The Tories have a Nazi, do Reform have a Nazi? I think Badenoch might have just won the "Who's most hardline" willy waving contest.

34 former pupils of Dulwich College would suggest they do.