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The Lennon song was about an American yuppie who stayed in an Ashram but found time to shoot tigers. He stayed in a bungalow.
Bungalow Bill Wiggins was the toyboy of Joan Collins, so-named because he had nothing up top.
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[Politics] Bungalow Badenough
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Bungalow Bill Wiggins was the toyboy of Joan Collins, so-named because he had nothing up top.
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Those desperate to believe (red bad blue good) are, of course, a sub-genre beyond redemption.
Greg Bobkin
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I always thought she had lofty ambitions...
She’ll be gone by the party conference, hopelessly out of her depth
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I try not to get involved in political discussions on here, but we do seem to be saddled with a bad lot all round. The last politician I really admired was John Smith who, had he lived would, in all liklihood, have implimented a written Constituition.
Bungalow’s constituency home is located on the edge of my village, just along the lane from me. Putting doubts about her intellect to one side for one moment, she appears to have more than enough going on upstairs when it comes to living accommodation.
A pointless thread has value if it triggers reflection.
As for your reflections, you make it sounds like neither of the two main parties are fit to govern.
I made some comment yesterday about the halcyon days of Heath vs Wilson.
In fact those days were no different from now, with two sides attempting to sell their version of the impossible to a needy electorate.
In some ways I hope this is just same old same old.
We certainly have the uninspiring same old labour, Blair without charisma,
not remotely red in tooth or claw.
And the right will always hate them, no matter what.
The trouble is the blue team.
The blue team is hardly irrelevant.
But they are lost, with a hopeless leader.
So the question is whether this will allow a small private company masquerading as a political party to emerge here,
like the socialists (national) emerged from the askes of broken politics in Germany in the 30s.
I hope the tories don't stick with BB, but replace her with someone grown up, so they can hold labour to account.
Sooner rather than too later.
It’s a good thread,I meant debating the current or future performance of Badenoch feels pointless right now.
You’re right, I don’t think ANY of the parties are fit to govern.
You raise the spectre of 1930s Germany wisely. All the warnings and the answers are there in history. We ignore them at our peril.
Nobby Cybergoat
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I think Badenoch will survive and fight the next election. They have no successor at all. The talent pool has dried and intelligent tories aren't coming back anytime soon. Even if they bin her off, it will just be for someone who is no better
papachris
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It's funny that in the UK politicians frequently lose jobs for extra marital affairs etc where across the Atlantic the supreme leader thinks of this sort of behaviour (and worse) as a badge of honour
Dulwich Hamlett regularly play in from of crowds just shy of 3k, which is pretty remarkable for an Isthmian team. They are also probably the most left wing supporter base in the country and very St Pauli in ethos. And as for no one knowing about them they reguarly get media interest and write up. So pretty poor analogy really.
Dulwich Hamlet: London's most hipster football club
For Dulwich Hamlet fans, supporting their team is a philosophical pursuit. It’s about fighting fascism and homophobia while eating bratwurst and knocking back the craft beer. Katie Forster joins the hip crowd
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Strategically, she should be keeping very quiet indeed on eligibility for UK citizenship. The optics are horrendous for her. I expect Farage and Co. to absolutely rip two tier Badenoch apart on this.
What awful judgement. She should concede the hard right area of politics to reform and swing her attention to the centre right and centre (where elections are won). It is said that she has awful listening skills and is very stubborn and never admits that she is wrong so the woman ain’t for turning. She’ll never be PM in a million years thank god.
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I agree. I was having a bit of fun with it.Dulwich Hamlett regularly play in from of crowds just shy of 3k, which is pretty remarkable for an Isthmian team. They are also probably the most left wing supporter base in the country and very St Pauli in ethos. And as for no one knowing about them they reguarly get media interest and write up. So pretty poor analogy really.
Dulwich Hamlet: London's most hipster football club
For Dulwich Hamlet fans, supporting their team is a philosophical pursuit. It’s about fighting fascism and homophobia while eating bratwurst and knocking back the craft beer. Katie Forster joins the hip crowd
A mate of mine is a Hamlet season ticket holder and also goes away. They have amazing support.
That said, clearly a 'smaller' club than the other, even if infinitely more lovely (including their kit).
You can't get away with anything on NSC anymore, with so-called experts on everything everywhere
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If he had lived labour may not have gone down the agressive presentation-management restructuring that Mandleson deemed so necessary.
At the time I felt Mandy was wise.
Today, I fear it has helped foster the bullshit culture that has infused labour and tory, to a lesser extent liberal and green..
and which is the entire content of the various Farage vanity and money-making enterprises.
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interesting development today I thought. Kemi said nobody needs emergency voice coaching on Christmas Eve (hard to argue with that)… and after all the questioning of Sir Keir in the house apparently he didn’t stand on the floor of parliament and give a direct answer to whether the rules had been broken.
Perhaps (in full lawyer mode) he was not prepared to mislead parliament as Boris did so there could be more to this story than first we thought.
Perhaps (in full lawyer mode) he was not prepared to mislead parliament as Boris did so there could be more to this story than first we thought.
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Prog off!
The Dulwich quip is fun, but in football terms, Reform are potentially( I fear) more like the original Wimbledon who came from nowhere and were successful to a degree by stepping over the line in acceptable behaviour. Moving the Overton Window on and off the pitch?
Thus intimidating refs , clomping goalkeepers, delighting in complaints about bending or breaking rules, grabbing Gazza by the balls, beating up Liverpool in a cup final. Standing up to those elites? A series of "interesting" ownership arrangements bankrolling it whilst assets were sold and attempts made to move the club to another country but in the end browbeating the weak FA regulators into moving the club to a different county instead.
And of course, this kind of approach couldn't succeed forever and the Bletchley Stealers ended up back in the bottom division with hoodwinked fans disappointed . Sounds a lot like Brexit.
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Very well put.
Kemi Badenoch criticises people getting British passports when arriving in the UK
Just like she did
When her mother flew from Nigeria to the UK, give birth, and then fly back to Nigeria, where she grew up till the age of 16
Kemi Badenoch really needs to up her game and do her research
Another poor performance at Prime Minister Questions today #PMQs.
Badenoch: “The govt is recruiting a new chief inspector of borders, who lives in Finland & wants to WFH, this is not serious”
Starmer: “He was appointed in 2019 by the last govt, he then worked from Finland. He’ll now be working from the UK full time”
#PMQs #PoliticsLive
A brief selection from BlueSky.
Seems she isn’t very good at PMQs.
Just like she did
When her mother flew from Nigeria to the UK, give birth, and then fly back to Nigeria, where she grew up till the age of 16
Kemi Badenoch really needs to up her game and do her research
Another poor performance at Prime Minister Questions today #PMQs.
Badenoch: “The govt is recruiting a new chief inspector of borders, who lives in Finland & wants to WFH, this is not serious”
Starmer: “He was appointed in 2019 by the last govt, he then worked from Finland. He’ll now be working from the UK full time”
#PMQs #PoliticsLive
A brief selection from BlueSky.
Seems she isn’t very good at PMQs.
aolstudios
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Listened to PMQs today.
She was utterly embarrassing. Repeatedly. Again.
I actually felt a little sorry for her. Truss level ineptitude
severnside gull
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After today I think “bungalow” is way too high a ceiling……basement maybe.