Mailwatch(ed) Forum

Youngian wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 6:40 pm Thankfully I can't think of many recognisable replacement names that would fit RL's demographic, Richard Madeley, Eamon Holmes?
The Fleet Street generation below Littlejohn from a similar background (done a bit of showbiz and politics) like Matthew Wright, James O' Brien or Susie Boniface certainly aren't getting a Mail gig.

Garry Bushell would do the job.

Gary’s more chilled these days. Maybe he met a young hottie into yoga and scented candles.

He's still doing the line about Labour being anti-working class straight white bloke. That's enough for the Mail.

As a white working class man, few things piss me off more than arsehole right-wing opinion writers declaring how white, working class men should think and behave.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... -Alli.html

Farmers, NHS, WFH and racism.

Farmers is the main bit - all the talking points from the last few days, plus some digs at Steve Reed (MP for Lambeth, including Clapham Common, nudge wink etc) and Rachel Reeves for wearing footwear. Labour all metro luvvies, spiteful hunting ban, and a Fools and Horses reference that seems to sum up Fargle's standard countryside outfit.

NHS trying to save money by preventative methods. Waste of money, call themselves skint, clog up A&E, that's what it's there for.

999 dispatchers working from home. Must be slacking off. Why aren't they at a desk? WORKER MUST BE AT DESK.

Fireworks.

I wrote last week about councils banning Guy Fawkes Night fireworks. A number of readers have asked if the ban extends to Diwali celebrations, currently taking place across the country. Thought not.

Cunt.

Suicide rates among our farmers, already alarmingly high, are predicted to soar. So much for Labour's posturing about Mental Elf.

Food production, which has fallen from 78 per cent of our needs after World War II to just 62 per cent today, will collapse further, making us increasingly dependent on foreign imports.

He hasn't even bothered to check anything about the suicide rates of farmers, he's just assuming they top the league like Sweden as he heard somewhere 35 years ago (in reality farmers are not the top jobs for suicides and Swedes don't top national suicide rates). 'Predicted to soar' doing a lot of work there before trivialising their mental 'elf' anyway.
And yes food imports have risen, that was the plan you voted for in 2016, dickhead.

Littlejohn bangs on about Labour politicians knowing nothing about farming but I wonder how many farms he has actually visited in the last 30 years. In the area where I live farming has changed a lot in the last 30 years with more and more farms diversifying. The issue seems to be tat young people simple don't want to work in farming.

A friend of mine who works as a stand up comedian recently did a gig at a young farmers event, as part of his routine he asked how many people in the room were farmers, in a room of 200 plus people only about half a dozen of them identified as farmers.

In a local village which has a dozen or so farms, one farm now just grows sun flowers and pumpkins and makes money by selling sunflowers and pumpkins and charging people to take pictures in the field. One farm now makes most of it's income from glamping and another is a farm shop and cafe. By diversifying many of these farmers are making more money and working more sociable hours. We also have a number of farms locally that have become solar farms because many elderly farmers are happier making a regular income more minimal effort.

I, along with @Youngian , am a regular, if not devoted, listener to Farming Today. This summation is reflected in their output, although it is difficult to judge just how many are actually farming rather than using the land for non-agricultural purposes.

Which then begs the question, what is farming? Does that include cheese-making and when does a certain number of cows or goats need to be on the premises before HMG has the cheek to ask (or not) for a contribution when these multi-million assets are passed on?

Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:21 pm

Suicide rates among our farmers, already alarmingly high, are predicted to soar. So much for Labour's posturing about Mental Elf.

Food production, which has fallen from 78 per cent of our needs after World War II to just 62 per cent today, will collapse further, making us increasingly dependent on foreign imports.

He hasn't even bothered to check anything about the suicide rates of farmers, he's just assuming they top the league like Sweden as he heard somewhere 35 years ago (in reality farmers are not the top jobs for suicides and Swedes don't top national suicide rates). 'Predicted to soar' doing a lot of work there before trivialising their mental 'elf' anyway.
And yes food imports have risen, that was the plan you voted for in 2016, dickhead.

Hands up all those Mail readers who think we should be more self-sufficient? Keep them up all those who'll forego bananas, oranges and round-the-year salads.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... urned.html

Fucking loving it, the cunt.

davidjay wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 11:03 pm

Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:21 pm

Suicide rates among our farmers, already alarmingly high, are predicted to soar. So much for Labour's posturing about Mental Elf.

Food production, which has fallen from 78 per cent of our needs after World War II to just 62 per cent today, will collapse further, making us increasingly dependent on foreign imports.

He hasn't even bothered to check anything about the suicide rates of farmers, he's just assuming they top the league like Sweden as he heard somewhere 35 years ago (in reality farmers are not the top jobs for suicides and Swedes don't top national suicide rates). 'Predicted to soar' doing a lot of work there before trivialising their mental 'elf' anyway.
And yes food imports have risen, that was the plan you voted for in 2016, dickhead.

Hands up all those Mail readers who think we should be more self-sufficient? Keep them up all those who'll forego bananas, oranges and round-the-year salads.

Self sufficient meat would be fun. No lamb in the British spring? No doubt teh Muzzies are banning Easter.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:04 am https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... urned.html

Fucking loving it, the cunt.

Rather you than me, mate. The few bits of commentary I've read make it quite clear that for the likes of Littlejohn, O'Neill etc., they're not too concerned about making people's lives better than making the lives of those people they despise (all of the regulars on here, for example), worse.

At one point he had a dig at Harris for "not yet conceding", which as I recall she did sometime on Wednesday. Besides, his hero wasn't that good at conceding 4 years ago.

Minor whinge in the grand scheme of things. His fucking team won and are making sure everyone knows it.

All that fuss over something that doesn't concern him because, as he often tells us, he lives in the UK.

Another point I noticed - he claimed today that his father (ex-met police, then worked on the railways in Peterborough) opened a factory in Ohio in the 70s.

My dad opened a factory in Canton, Ohio, in the Seventies. I can remember going to a Fourth of July party for the staff at the plant in 1978.

We've commented before on his father's exit from the fuzz, its timing, and Dickie's penchant for propah old school Laahndaaan villains. Where does a cop taking early retirement get the cash together to open a factory in America?

And how did a trainee reporter get the money to nip over for a holiday?

davidjay wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 11:23 pm And how did a trainee reporter get the money to nip over for a holiday?

From his parents?

When my parents first moved to the States I was on a low wage. They paid for me to fly over for holidays the first couple of years they were there.

Freddie Laker?

A lot of the earlier generations of soul DJs have Freddie to thank for their record collections. Dollar bin tunes were rare grooves and Northern obscurities over here.

It's all a bit tenuous. Freddie Laker made it easier but from memory you couldn't just nip over there for a bit of a holiday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... on_desktop

Americans are contemplating moving to Britain. Some of them are slebs, so Dickie does his never heard of them routine, before saying that they should stay out because Trump's going to cut their taxes.

Maybe - just maybe - it's not all about the money, eh?

He's also on a mission to soften us up over private healthcare. Apparently the doctors are always on strike, and his mother's "modest" health insurance was perfectly sufficient for her when she got ill once.

He's enjoying his little moment of yah boo sucks, it's June 24th 2016 all over again for him.

Still a cunt, mind.