By Youngian
#101192
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 1:21 pm
Boiler wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 1:09 pm Rutland did have a radio station at one time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland_Radio

But otherwise, fuck Mason.
I have a soft spot for Rutland. Nowhere that produced The Rutles can be a bad place.
(Actor who played) Barry Wom went on to run a pub in Cambridge
They're not really from Rutland :D
Rutland Weekend TV deserves another run, possibly one of the best post Python TV projects.
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By Youngian
#101195
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 1:33 pm
Youngian wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 1:19 pm 'The economy is in much better shape than Reeves first stated,' yeh carry on with that one Mr Mason that'll show Labour.
You could argue it isn't even that much better than implied. The OBR still see a 41% risk that the fiscal target will be missed, even with the extra headroom that everyone told she needed. There's a (real) story to be written along the lines of whether it's enough.
Yes argued very easily, bond rates are still higher than the European average. Rachel must have thought Santa has come early with this piffle.

Oh no what's Reeves going to do now this political heavyweight's on her case :roll:
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By Tubby Isaacs
#101204
Youngian wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 1:57 pm
Oh no what's Reeves going to do now this political heavyweight's on her case :roll:
See also Swinney's opportunistic change from praising the UK Government's Grangemouth plan to complete outrage when the UK Government became unpopular. He's a shit. He doesn't like that the unelightened English have done something about child poverty, despite having less money than he has in Scotland.

And the "misleading" done by Reeves compares rather favorably to the misleading done by his mates in the Indyref. "Oil just a bonus" etc.
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By Boiler
#101209
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 2:37 pm And the "misleading" done by Reeves compares rather favorably to the misleading done by his mates in the Indyref. "Oil just a bonus" etc.
And what would they do when the oil runs out/ICE vehicles are just a memory?
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By Tubby Isaacs
#101211
Swinney's misleading about that as well. He's trying to surf the "regional pricing" bandwagon, when the viability of Scottish renewables depends heavily on the 60m odd of people in rUK paying supplements on their bills. And indeed on rUK supplying energy for all the time that Scotland doesn't have enough because it's dark and not very windy.
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By Boiler
#101212
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 12:53 pm This indeed is pitiful.

Did the BBC even call out "40 new hospitals" as misleading? I have ignored their politics for over a decade, but I'd be surprised if they did. More likely it was "Boris Johnson will claim that..." was the final judgement.

This stuff really can't be explained away in terms of Robbie Gibb scaring everybody. It's systemic. A system that has elevated someone who should be broadcasting traffic news to Rutland to the BBC's top politics job.

I can't tell what's real and what's Memorex now, looking BTL over there?
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By Tubby Isaacs
#101215
Chris Mason will look at and think, hmmm, interesting point, who can say he's wrong?
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By Boiler
#101217
Same poster has clearly escaped from the cunt farm; or is it Poe?
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By Oboogie
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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 2:37 pm
Youngian wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 1:57 pm
Oh no what's Reeves going to do now this political heavyweight's on her case :roll:
See also Swinney's opportunistic change from praising the UK Government's Grangemouth plan to complete outrage when the UK Government became unpopular. He's a shit. He doesn't like that the unelightened English have done something about child poverty, despite having less money than he has in Scotland.

And the "misleading" done by Reeves compares rather favorably to the misleading done by his mates in the Indyref. "Oil just a bonus" etc.
Always remember that it's in the SNP's interests that Westminster is seen to be shit, the worse the better. A Farage government would be Swinney's dream come true.
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