OneGuyFromBarlick

I saw this phrase on the BBC News site the other day. I think it was an article about `smart' devices or similar:
...our intelligent discs are bristing with brilliant control...
At first I thought they meant to write `bursting' but then I decided to check in case it was yet another new trendy word. This web page appeared...and I hope the BBC meant bursting and not this! Urban Dictionary

Oh Dear Peter. I don't think we needed to know that but well spotted for catching it......

Dame Angela Eagle at PMQ's

"This year the Tory party has given us five education secretaries, four chancellors, three prime ministers, two leadership contests. The partridge has had to sell the pear tree to pay for the gas.”

Nice one David. I've always seen Angela as one of the good guys. She's never been rabid Labour just sensible.... Same stable as David Young really..... The Party doesn't matter.

A long time ago back in the 90's when we were choosing a candidate to be our PPC we had both Eagle sisters, Angela and Maria who applied to represent Pendle CLP. I think we started with about 20 applicants. I think Angela got as far as the hustings but we chose Gordon to be our PPC and then got him elected. Angela and Maria were successful elsewhere.

Those were the days when individual constituency parties got to run their own selections. It's more centralised now and any hopefuls have to get on the national long list first and are then centrally selected for areas. We may get the opportunity of a short list of three but will have had no involvement in their selection. We have had a couple of hopefuls who have come to our branch meetings and have been generally making themselves know around the CLP, going on local canvassing sessions and events etc. There is no guarantee that either will get on the long list let alone appear on our allocated short list.

This is a case of the central party thinking they know better than the local branches that do the work. We should have a PPC in place already but we don't. If push comes to shove in a snap election we will get an imposed candidate.

No way to run a raffle.

Guess who said this. . . .


"One way to take your mind off the rigours of athletic exertion is to recite poetry. I now have a pretty stonking repertoire. In 35 mins I can do the first 100 lines of the Iliad, the first 100 lines of the Aeneid, the first canto of the Divine Comedy and the whole of Lycidas. I am pretty much word-perfect, though I might hesitate over the names of all those flowers towards the end of Lycidas and I am not sure a real Italian speaker would enjoy my version of Dante. But I have at least been able to meditate on these amazing works of art.

I guessed and then Googled. My guess was right.... The Buffoon. It was the excessive use of classical references that did it!

Andrew Rawnlsey says -


"Doctors assessing people for signs of dementia have traditionally asked their patients: “Who is the prime minister?” Some health professionals report that they stopped using that question this year. There has been so much manic mayhem at the apex of politics that it has been a struggle to keep up even for those in full possession of their faculties."

Very true. But Mr Sunak wants us to forget all that. Pity he hasn't got one of those memory erasers like the X men use....

Stanley wrote: ↑19 Dec 2022, 04:08 Very true. But Mr Sunak wants us to forget all that. Pity he hasn't got one of those memory erasers like the X men use....

Unless I have already been zapped it was the MIB (Men in Black) that had the memory erasers.

You're right Ian. I am not an expert on such things.....

Or you have been zapped.

A little known fact -

"If all the pies Holland’s makes in a year were laid out one after the other, the line would stretch from Accrington to the North Pole."

That is definitely essential knowledge!
I can remember the days when at Gisburn the Hollands Pies buyers were always the best men in the market for old sheep.

Tripps wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 16:26 But I have at least been able to meditate on these amazing works of art.

The truth is he probably doesn't know his art from his elbow!

"We think that inflation will fall rapidly".
Bailey at the Bank of England.
Really?

"She wrote: "While the government was focused on investigating what had happened and taking action to remedy the situation, political and media commentators cast an immediate verdict blaming the mini-budget. "Frankly, we were also pushing water uphill. Large parts of the media and the wider public sphere had become unfamiliar with key arguments about tax and economic policy and over time sentiment had shifted leftwards. "Regrettably, the government became a useful scapegoat for problems that had been brewing over a number of months.""

In a 4,000-word essay in the Sunday Telegraph, Liz Truss stood by her plans to boost economic growth, arguing they were brought down by "the left-wing economic establishment". So she is arguing her policies were correct and sensible. Everybody else was wrong and out of step.

"Nobody ever committed a crime after being executed."
See THIS news item from Sky News.
"Rishi Sunak's controversial new deputy party chairman said he would support the return of the death penalty because "nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed". Outspoken Ashfield MP Lee Anderson was handed the senior government position during the prime minister's reshuffle on Tuesday. The move raised eyebrows given his history of controversial comments, including questioning if food bank users have genuine need and criticising England football players for taking the knee in protest at racism. In an interview with The Spectator magazine a few days before his surprise appointment, Mr Anderson said he would back the return of capital punishment. Asked whether he would support the return of the death penalty, Mr Anderson told the weekly magazine: "Yes." He added: "Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed. You know that, don't you? 100% success rate.""
This is all we needed after this government re-introduced transportation for migrants. I keep saying that the Tories secret project is to take us back to the 19thy century. How much more evidence do you need?

‘Boris Johnson is a man of integrity,’ Levelling up secretary Michael Gove agreed on Sophy Ridge on Sunday. When questioned on the show this morning about whether he thinks the former prime minister is a man of integrity,

Mr Gove replied: “I think that Boris is someone who puts the country first, yes,”

Pass the sick bucket. . . . .

My mind goes back to Gove stabbing Johnson in the back not that long ago. There are some politicians who I distrust completely, Gove and Johnson are two of them. There is a very long list of others.......

Pinched from the 'comments' elsewhere -


"It used to be the case the news reported what was happening and you decided how you felt about it.

Now it tells you what you should feel about something and you have to decide whether it even happened or not".

That's very perceptive, news reporting often is like that in these enlightened days.

Tripps wrote: ↑04 Apr 2023, 19:58 Pinched from the 'comments' elsewhere -
"It used to be the case the news reported what was happening and you decided how you felt about it.
Now it tells you what you should feel about something and you have to decide whether it even happened or not".

Very true and very sad. On radio and TV add to it the overlay of music or what I'd call synthetic noise designed to make us `feel right'. Even Attenborough's `Wild Isles' has the beautiful photography spoilt by dramatic LOUD music painted over it. I'd rather hear the sounds of nature itself and often that's simply silence. But we now have generations who've grown up without silence and it frightens them.

Tripps wrote: ↑04 Apr 2023, 19:58 "It used to be the case the news reported what was happening and you decided how you felt about it.

Now it tells you what you should feel about something and you have to decide whether it even happened or not".

Also I would add when a statement is made do you understand what they have said?
Take the recent example of the Dover chaos, the buffer zones have been cleared. What does that really mean to the traveller sat in the que?

We are on track with our programme but I can't give any end date. Sounds a bit like me becoming a millionaire by putting a pound (£) a week away.

In my view its become perfectly acceptable for MPs to tell porkies or misrepresent facts as long as they do it outside parliament.

plaques wrote: ↑05 Apr 2023, 11:37 Take the recent example of the Dover chaos

I've tried to find if the passport examination of the coach passengers was done by French Customs, but in Dover. I read that understaffing by the French was a major factor in the delays. Not easy to find out. Almost as if 'they' don't want us to know.

My son and his family travelled to France last Friday - but from Portsmouth. they had no delays. I phoned him and asked if that was the case, and got the far from helpful reply "I think she was Irish".