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Abernathy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 4:17 pm We saw the “Restore Trust” wankers off last year too. But it looks like the buggers are going to try again every year.

I think it was Tony Benn that said we have to keep on fighting the same fight, over and over again. He wasn’t talking about the National Trust, but he could have been.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance & all that. Like all bigots, they only have to win once.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 1:05 pm Excellent. I voted for the good guys.

Me, too

Good to see that Farage doesn’t qualify to be one of the party leaders that get to lay a wreath at the cenotaph.

Apparently the qualifying criterion is that a party should have no fewer than six MPs. Reform has five. Quite surprised that the frog-eyed cunt hasn’t been kicking off more about the injustice of it all.

His side lost anyway.

Meanwhile, it is Kristallnacht here in Germany. Candles are weakly flickering on the brass plaques which commemorate the families who were dragged out and slaughtered,

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 9:30 pm Good to see that Farage doesn’t qualify to be one of the party leaders that get to lay a wreath at the cenotaph.

Apparently the qualifying criterion is that a party should have no fewer than six MPs. Reform has five. Quite surprised that the frog-eyed cunt hasn’t been kicking off more about the injustice of it all.

Yes, I was rather surprised that he wasn't gobbing off and cosplaying somewhere. Perhaps he laid a wreath in Clacton?

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 9:30 pm Good to see that Farage doesn’t qualify to be one of the party leaders that get to lay a wreath at the cenotaph.

Apparently the qualifying criterion is that a party should have no fewer than six MPs. Reform has five. Quite surprised that the frog-eyed cunt hasn’t been kicking off more about the injustice of it all.

Didn't he do just that last year?

davidjay wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:33 pm

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 9:30 pm Good to see that Farage doesn’t qualify to be one of the party leaders that get to lay a wreath at the cenotaph.

Apparently the qualifying criterion is that a party should have no fewer than six MPs. Reform has five. Quite surprised that the frog-eyed cunt hasn’t been kicking off more about the injustice of it all.

Didn't he do just that last year?

I'm pretty sure his supporters did...as did Corbyn's because apparently all former LOTOs are included. NB They are not.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun Nov 09, 2025 10:35 pm Perhaps he laid a wreath in Clacton?

Walton on the Naze, apparently.

Surely Walton on the Nazi

More fitting would be at the Seelower Höhe.

Noah Smith has to go here these days. This is hilarious. Very rich bloke flies from Dublin-Heathrow-Paris to save a few quid on a direct flight. He misses the obvious purple sign saying "transfer this way", and exits the airport (allegedly a member of staff told him this, but I'm dubious). He then fucks up the transfer to the other terminal, by queuing for a paper ticket he didn't need (funnily enough, we take credit cards, Apple Pay etc). He gets to the other end, finds out that he's expected to go through departures like eveyone else. After a bit of an argument with a British Airways staff member, another staff member takes over and gets him on the plane.

Moral- Britain is fucked, apparently.

This "immigration officer" who he says told him to go the wrong way is a bit of a puzzle. Possible he's made it up, that he asked someone doing a non-customer facing job with a lanyard on, or maybe he went completely the wrong way and then just asked someone how to get to Terminal 5. Whatever it is, it's a sign that everything in Britain is shit.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 3:35 pm This "immigration officer" who he says told him to go the wrong way is a bit of a puzzle. Possible he's made it up, that he asked someone doing a non-customer facing job with a lanyard on, or maybe he went completely the wrong way and then just asked someone how to get to Terminal 5. Whatever it is, it's a sign that everything in Britain is shit.

At any one time Heathrow will have people doing a hundred different jobs for a hundred different employers. It really isn't difficult to find one who knows what they're talking about, or if you're still unsure to ask someone else.

To be fair it is a bit confusing at times.

Never thought it was a symptom of Britain being broken and I’ve experienced worst airports.

mattomac wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 11:11 pm To be fair it is a bit confusing at times.

Never thought it was a symptom of Britain being broken and I’ve experienced worst airports.

I don't think anyone actually likes the airports they use regularly.

davidjay wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 12:14 am
I don't think anyone actually likes the airports they use regularly.

No, and nobody likes changing planes.

As someone who likes to make out he's all tech savvy, you'd surely do your homework and get the transfer sorted in your mind. There are people who come out in a cold sweat at the thought of changing planes on a tight schedule, fair enough. But they'd take a direct flight, surely. He's a funny combination of doing it the hard way and not doing any work to make it easy for himself.

I see his baggage was taken off the plane. Which of course you'd expect to happen if he didn't arrive in time, because it's huge red flag. It's basically "rich bloke fucks up, gets helped out and complains anyway".

Almost like he wrote the article in advance.

Edit.

Who knew we spent £8b on economic and social research?

Nobody, because we don't. That's the total for research, lots of it being stuff that universities support for commercial reasons. If he thinks that is "highly politicized", he won't like lots of economic and social research.

I reckon there may be some more UK Stats funding in the Budget. They can add it to a list of all the other shit they inherited.