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Recent political stuff:
- The vote to see if Britain should adopt Alternative Voting has failed.
- Lib Dems lose lots of councils and councillors, whilst Labour make the majority of the gains in England.
- The Scottish National Party do really well in the elections.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 3rd 2023 at 11:15:30 AM
Team Rocket Boss.
Didn't Piers Morgan get punched by someone?
I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.
Jeremy Clarkson I think?
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.
Figure of Hourai
Yup. Which goes a long way to show just how loathsome Piers Morgan is, in that he can bridge political divides so well to make people want to punch him.
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Team Rocket Boss.
I've heard unsavory rumors and comments from him, but I imagine that's barely scratching the surface.
I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.
Herald of Lunar Tierce
Piers Morgan. That man has a creepy obsession with Meghan Markle didn't he? Even claimed that she ghosted him, though knowing him, he might've made that up.
"Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work."-Skulduggery Pleasant
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Didn't he actually storm off a set and get fired after being called out on his bullshit as well?
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on May 25th 2023 at 2:00:17 PM
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Team Rocket Boss.
No wonder he got punched without any real consequences.
I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.
Figure of Hourai
We foisted him off on US media for a bit, but sadly he came back.
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Herald of Lunar Tierce
The same could be said of Nigel Farage, who unfortunately has a cushy career as a presenter for GB News.
DrunkenNordmann: That actually happened. A co-host called Piers out on his obsession with Meghan Markle and he threw a bitch fit by leaving the set of his own show.
Edited by VapourSoulOS on May 25th 2023 at 2:14:01 PM
"Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work."-Skulduggery Pleasant
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
Yeah, and it ended up in a really weird moment where Fox News tried to hold up Morgan as a martyr to “cancel culture” (bleh) because he DARED to criticize the royals and…voluntarily left his own show live after one of his co-hosts criticized him for his own behavior towards Harry and Meghan.
Why the hell do you care about this, Tucker Carleson? You even admitted in that same segment that there’s no damn reason for people across the pond, much less YOU of all people, to care.
Also, I was better off not knowing how Tucker Carleson actually sounded and having Seth Meyer’s impression of him as his voice in my head.
Edited by fredhot16 on May 25th 2023 at 8:54:35 AM
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.
Herald of Lunar Tierce
The irony being that people like Piers Morgan, Nigel Farage, Tucker Carlson and all these right wing grifters being the types who love to cancel other people but cry foul the moment the same thing happens to them.
As anyone knows, they believe in free speech but only when it applies to them. Their detractors and anyone on the left (or left of them) aren't allowed to have free speech because then they would accept that free speech goes both ways.
"Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work."-Skulduggery Pleasant
Sir David Brewer, Lord Mayor of London 2005-6, died on Sunday, his 83rd birthday.
Doctor of Doctorates
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65774184
Labour MP suspended over unspecified but apparently very serious allegations. Handy timing for the Conservatives as a distraction/what-about but Labour can at least point to the suspension being quickly enforced compared to Conservative dawdling in similar situations.
(Though of course this does not make the behaviour itself any less repugnant.)
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."
Government to launch legal action in attempt to retain Johnson WhatsApps
Ministers have launched an unprecedented high court bid to avoid handing over Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries to the government—commissioned public inquiry into the handling of Covid.
In a move immediately condemned by bereaved families and opposition MPs, the Cabinet Office told the inquiry, headed by the retired judge Heather Hallett, that there were "important issues of principle" over passing information that might not be relevant.
Johnson said on Wednesday that he had given unredacted material to the Cabinet Office and urged it to share it with the inquiry. But the department is concerned this would set a precedent that could lead to Hallett demanding the WhatsApp messages of serving ministers — not least Rishi Sunak.
A spokesperson for the inquiry said Hallett was formally served notice of the Cabinet Office's plan to seek judicial review of her demand for the material at 4pm on Thursday, the deadline she had set for the evidence to be provided.
The Cabinet Office's letter to the inquiry said the legal process was being launched "with regret and with an assurance that we will continue to cooperate fully with the inquiry before, during and after the jurisdictional issue in question is determined by the courts".
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So in other words, the Tories are worried that their dirty laundry will be aired out and hope that Rishi Sunak won't be caught in allegations of corruption and sleaze.
Basically, the government set up a public inquiry to conduct an evidence-based investigation into the government's handling of COVID and are now going to court to try and stop the inquiry from *checks notes* gathering evidence to investigate the government's handling of COVID.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
Johnson is going to give what he can directly the commission which is hilarious. Presumably he thinks it'll reflect and his rivals and the current government as much or worse than it will on him.
I can only assume that there's a large number of skeletons in this closet, if the Conservatives are trying so hard to keep it closed.
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
Today is the 70th anniversary of Elizabeth II's coronation. Yesterday was eight years since the death of Charles Kennedy.
Princess Eugenie announced today that she gave birth for the second time on Tuesday.[1]
The Lord Morris of Aberavon, Secretary of State for Wales 1974-9, died today aged 91.
Col. Bob Stewart DSO MP has been charged with racially aggravated abuse, following an incident outside the Bahraini embassy in December.[2][3]
Edited by TommyR01D on Jun 5th 2023 at 1:26:13 AM
Oxfam International took down the video they made for Pride month due to an image showing a group of hateful bigots and seeing similarities between the ugly hateful terf woman in it and JK Rowling, and how it’s known she threatens to sue anyone who criticizes her in the UK.
Edited by OmegaRadiance on Jun 6th 2023 at 9:36:17 AM
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.
Disasturbator
cowards!
New theme music also a box
They’ll be reuploading it later, though who knows what will be changed.
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.
* was sure ** was joking but… apparently not? * know * often say "**** could be an Onion article title" but **** could literally be an Onion article.
Flippé de participer à ce grand souper, je veux juste m'occuper de taper mon propre tempo.