Blue_Mike
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 17, 2024 11:10:56 GMT
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Post by peekconfusion on Apr 17, 2024 11:18:12 GMT
It's incredible how one person can be so lacking in self-awareness. She seems to genuinely think she's some kind of right-wing rockstar. It's utterly baffling.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 17, 2024 11:28:24 GMT
Haha, I still think he's a pig fucking wankstain, but that's not a bad response.
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 17, 2024 11:37:05 GMT
No answer to what is the point of Liz Truss question, can't think why...
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Post by Vortex on Apr 17, 2024 11:37:11 GMT
Terrible politician, unseasonably successful career, inscrutably broken personality. She's genuinely the most fascinating politician I can think of, and she's absolutely fucking horrible in every way. There's quite an interesting discussion of her personality on this week's TRIP podcast. Stewart of course worked as a junior minister under her and has some first-hand insights. Ha! Going to have to listen to that now to hear the stories.
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Post by apollo on Apr 17, 2024 11:46:17 GMT
Just looking through the London subreddit as going to London tomorrow or friday (and wanted to see the current problems) saw this thread about London mayors, thought people here might like it and laugh at them
https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1c5q8wv/london_mayor_candidates_wtf/
Also there is page to the Britain first chud, fuck that idiot and the reform twat too. Also a few CEO as indies that sound like they are full of shit
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Post by askew on Apr 17, 2024 12:20:47 GMT
Wew
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Post by Reviewer on Apr 17, 2024 12:36:01 GMT
That Taran Gulati’s business hasn’t existed for 8 years. He’s a ceo of nothing.
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Post by askew on Apr 17, 2024 12:37:05 GMT
It's one of those ceremonial positions: once a CEO, always a CEO.
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Whizzo
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 17, 2024 12:39:25 GMT
I'm so glad someone wants to eliminate knife crime, I'm sure all the other candidates want it to continue.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 17, 2024 12:39:52 GMT
When they mention "local families" and "our people", they mean white, English people right?
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 17, 2024 12:42:25 GMT
I like how 'DEI' is now just shorthand for the N word.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 17, 2024 12:42:31 GMT
Also I will give them due to the fact that the last time I was in London I couldn't move for bumping into yet ANOTHER Islamist. They were everywhere. In my burger, clogging up the tube lines, dominating the queue lines for the London Eye.
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 17, 2024 12:48:07 GMT
It's why you should always carry some bacon in your pocket when visiting London, it keeps the Islamists away. Come to think of it pretty much everyone avoids you... they must all be Islamists!!
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Post by apollo on Apr 17, 2024 12:54:59 GMT
It's one of those ceremonial positions: once a CEO, always a CEO. no doubt one of the linkedin lunatics as well
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Post by JuniorFE on Apr 17, 2024 12:58:53 GMT
Chopsen - I don’t disagree with any of that it’s just that whatever her major malfunctions were previously, they are worse now. Academic, really. She was a fuckhead before and she’s a fuckhead now, it’s just that she seems to be in her ‘gorging on toblerone and living in a travel tavern’ era. Excuse you, Toblerone is a tool of love and I will not have you taint it! We do that enough here in the forum as it is
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 17, 2024 13:11:06 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 17, 2024 13:13:02 GMT
Liz Truss wrote:
What, really fucking short?
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 17, 2024 13:14:58 GMT
Here's hoping it never happens to find out.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 17, 2024 13:17:12 GMT
It's almost certainly just me , but "Stop the Woke" sounds like a phone-in game you'd see on Live and Kicking, where the contestants have to shout "up!" or "down!" to make a janky sprite move around a screen.
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 17, 2024 13:20:34 GMT
Truss doesn't understand... well, lots of things, if we're being honest.
In this particular instance, she doesn't get that in order to become a right-wing populist, you have to be popular in the first place. Her own party can't stand her, never mind anyone else!
They only picked her over Sunak 'cause in the minds of a bunch of racist assholes, white woman > brown man. I doubt more than a handful of them expected her to succeed, even if they did (naively, as it happened) think she'd outlast an iceberg lettuce.
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JonFE
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Post by JonFE on Apr 17, 2024 15:23:58 GMT
Damn, one must savor the moment, not gobble it up like that
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Post by Duffking on Apr 17, 2024 16:02:53 GMT
Speaking of the ULEZ shit, does anyone even own a car that would result in a ULEZ charge? Our current 2015 moderately large diesel car doesn't trip it and neither does our 2006 inefficient shitbox.
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 17, 2024 16:09:06 GMT
I discovered my 2008 diesel was subject to ULEZ charges at 03:00 as I put my trip to the parking I'd booked at Heathrow into Google Maps on my phone. Cue me having to create an account on the TfL site, put in my credit card and really wish we'd booked the parking under the reg of my mate's car as his car was fine.
We split the 25 quid I ended up getting charged.
If I'd still been in my last job I'd have had to change cars as I would have been regularly going to a site inside the zone.
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Post by minimatt on Apr 17, 2024 16:18:58 GMT
no doubt our euro4 diesel monstrosity would fall foul but (a) even if it emitted rainbows & happy thoughts from the exhaust there's no way i'm driving into central london and (b) the moment leccy/low emission cars chonk enough to tow the occasional horsey box fall into our second hand price range it's getting swapped
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Post by gamingdave on Apr 17, 2024 16:42:19 GMT
My 10 plate (Octavia VRS Estate) isn't ULEZ compliant, but I use it very little these days - at least in London. The main one is collecting the kids for weekends which is one of those annoying public transport trips - an hour on two busses if the connection isn't perfect, 50 mins on the tube as you have to go in to come back out then walk at either end - but can be done in 25 mins in the car unless it's rush hour.
It has made me change my behaviour, as I used to use it for doing a big shop mid-week but now tie those in with the kids run.
A car in London is a luxury you rarely need, and I had thought about getting rid and just using Ubers for the kids, but then I do use it 3 or 4 times a year for a London-Northumberland round trip, maybe a couple of festivals and a trip to the Lakes, plus some trips to the south coast.
To upgrade to a similar would cost 10k+ I don't have and despite having over 100k miles on the clock it still runs fine. Electric isn't (yet) and option for me as second hand cars that can do the 300mile trip up North are few and far between, plus I have nowhere to charge one.
I slightly begrudge the charge, especially as I believed at the time buying a diesel was the more environmentally friendly choice, but I am not going to argue with science and accept that changes over time.
What I do find annoying is Islington Council's constant upping of parking charges with a (ever increasing) diesel surcharge. They argued the last price hikes didn't do enough to deter people owning offending cars, so they have jumped up again. It's a charge on top of ULEZ, but one I pay when not actually using the car.
When it comes to potential London mayors, ULEZ isn't part of the decision process though. If it was, I wouldn't have anyone to vote for though, as all of those saying to scrap it have awful (or no real) policies in general.
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 17, 2024 16:43:13 GMT
ULEZ extends nearly to the M25 in places, I'm fine with that I just wish Google Maps on my PC had pointed it out when I'd looked at the trip but it didn't until I was on my phone in the early hours of a Monday morning sitting in the car.
Strangely enough the same friend had a trip from T5 again a couple of months later and the shorter stay parking he booked was outside ULEZ, not that it mattered with his two year old car anyway.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Apr 17, 2024 17:15:06 GMT
I have to pay £9 every weekday to enter the Bristol CAZ in our 11 plate diesel. They rolled it out in such a way that the whole of south Bristol has to go through it if you want to get anywhere north in the city, lest you go via the Clifton Suspension Bridge of all things... which is what we do on the weekends and in itself has a £1 toll each way, and often turns a 15 min journey into a 40 minute one...
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Post by zephro on Apr 17, 2024 17:25:42 GMT
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Post by technoish on Apr 17, 2024 18:25:11 GMT
My 10 plate (Octavia VRS Estate) isn't ULEZ compliant, but I use it very little these days - at least in London. The main one is collecting the kids for weekends which is one of those annoying public transport trips - an hour on two busses if the connection isn't perfect, 50 mins on the tube as you have to go in to come back out then walk at either end - but can be done in 25 mins in the car unless it's rush hour. It has made me change my behaviour, as I used to use it for doing a big shop mid-week but now tie those in with the kids run. A car in London is a luxury you rarely need, and I had thought about getting rid and just using Ubers for the kids, but then I do use it 3 or 4 times a year for a London-Northumberland round trip, maybe a couple of festivals and a trip to the Lakes, plus some trips to the south coast. To upgrade to a similar would cost 10k+ I don't have and despite having over 100k miles on the clock it still runs fine. Electric isn't (yet) and option for me as second hand cars that can do the 300mile trip up North are few and far between, plus I have nowhere to charge one. I slightly begrudge the charge, especially as I believed at the time buying a diesel was the more environmentally friendly choice, but I am not going to argue with science and accept that changes over time. What I do find annoying is Islington Council's constant upping of parking charges with a (ever increasing) diesel surcharge. They argued the last price hikes didn't do enough to deter people owning offending cars, so they have jumped up again. It's a charge on top of ULEZ, but one I pay when not actually using the car. When it comes to potential London mayors, ULEZ isn't part of the decision process though. If it was, I wouldn't have anyone to vote for though, as all of those saying to scrap it have awful (or no real) policies in general. You'd be cheaper renting a car for a couple trips a year. That's the approach we are taking. Cycling and public transport for almost everything, then , Ubers and rental cars for other trips. I mean, getting a minicab to the airport is pretty much the same price as parking on location.
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