[davidjay]

All this "Brexit was never done properly" guff. What does it mean and what else did they want? We left the EU, we weren't in the Customs Union, we had no trade deals when we left. What more, apart from yuman rites, did they want?

[Tubby Isaacs]

His argument seems to be "Singapore on Thames". Which would have been quite the bait and switch from the Leave campaign.

I don't know about Singapore on Thames, but the financial journalist Christopher Fildes once described the City of London (semi-seriously) as "Hong Kong West". Making the Durham coalfield into the new Docklands might have been a bit of a challenge, even for Paul Marshall's "brave" politicians.

[Bones McCoy]

His argument seems to be "Singapore on Thames". Which would have been quite the bait and switch from the Leave campaign.

I don't know about Singapore on Thames, but the financial journalist Christopher Fildes once described the City of London (semi-seriously) as "Hong Kong West". Making the Durham coalfield into the new Docklands might have been a bit of a challenge, even for Paul Marshall's "brave" politicians.

Singapore on Thames implies the rest of the UK as Malaysia.

It's unlikely to be the good aspects of Malaysia.
Malaysia through the eyes of the on Thames brigade.
A place to go to gamble, taste exotic foods, decompress.
A big and cheap tourist service economy.

[Andy McDandy]

Their vision is entirely the fag end of the empire. FILTHs and old coasters getting wrecked on gin while watching the money roll in from the plantations as they sell produce back to those who farmed it, and threaten the staff with a good sjambokking.

[The Weeping Angel]

[AOB]

Farage has reported Alaa Abd el-Fattah to the police for some old Tweets. Those old schoolmates of Farage should do likewise. Seriously. And the next time Reform and anyone on the right bring up Lucy Connolly and the rest of them who got apprehended for tweets, they can be reminded Farage isn't averse to getting on the phone to the cops for tweets he doesn't like either.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... ful-tweets

[Boiler]

You mean, like a certain whiny journo?

[Bones McCoy]

Farage has reported Alaa Abd el-Fattah to the police for some old Tweets. Those old schoolmates of Farage should do likewise. Seriously. And the next time Reform and anyone on the right bring up Lucy Connolly and the rest of them who got apprehended for tweets, they can be reminded Farage isn't averse to getting on the phone to the cops for tweets he doesn't like either.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... ful-tweets

Is this Hurty Words?

[Andy McDandy]

He knows what people will say. He's spreading whataboutery and moral equivalence like one of his beloved farmers throws shit. And he'll tell everyone that it doesn't matter if you're 99% perfect, or 1% - either way, you're not spotless, so you can't accuse him without your own past being dredged up. Meanwhile his followers will say "at least he's honest" and on we fucking go...

[The Weeping Angel]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... derbyshire

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Reform UK-led council plan to shut eight of its residential care homes has been condemned as “a betrayal of local people”.

Days before Christmas, Derbyshire county council announced that the homes would have to close after a proposed sale fell through.

The closures have prompted a backlash and have echoes of the furore in Lancashire where the Reform-led council is planning to close five care homes and five day centres and move residents into the private sector.

Mick Coppin, a regional organiser of the GMB union, said the Derbyshire plans put vital services and more than 200 jobs at risk.

“These closures are nothing short of a betrayal of local people and staff,” Coppin said. “Derbyshire county council did not stand before the electorate last May pledging to shut care homes.