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What could possibly go wrong with that 🤔🙄

Yep. Says it all really.

I had a queen hornet crawl out from under a bench in my workshop one spring a few years ago. What a beautiful creature. She was still quite sleepy so I scooped her up and put her under a bush in the sun at the bottom of the garden to warm up. Half an hour later she was gone.

Given the choice between a man buying land for his parents' donkey sanctuary and an entitled hedge-fund wide-boy bank-rolled by his billionaire father-in-law who bet against British banks during the 2007 financial crash, I know which one gets my vote.

The Treasury is disavowing itself of Sunaks claim that Labour will cost taxpayers £2000 if elected: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jun/05/general-election-labour-conservatives-sunak-boris-johnson-tv-debate-tax-plans-d-day

Future Prime Minister.

The latest Yougov poll of voting intentions by constituency is saying Lab 45%, Con 30% in Bournemouth East. That is truly remarkable. It would be the first time in 50 years of voting in GEs here in Bournemouth that my candidate wins. I'm finding that hard to believe, and I don't want to tempt...

You need a hobby

Nigel Farage to stand in Clacton at general election after taking over as leader of Reform party https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jun/03/conservatives-equality-act-labour-general-election-campaign-uk-politics-live-3-june Well, that's going to properly put the cat among the...

I don't know who's formulating election policy at Tory HQ, but on the basis of their steady stream of crackpot announcements their manifesto is shaping up to be a doozy.

No I don't. I'm not delusional enough to think it will be all rainbows and unicorns. I just want to see the back of the Tories who have outdone any of the likely alternatives in sleaze and incompetence.

What it wouldn't do is funnel profits to overseas shareholders (cf. water companies)

Reintroduce capital punishment Introduce the guillotine rather than the gallows Chop off some heads (see my list above - post #443) I don't agree with the French much, but they got some things right. OK, OK..... that might be taking it a bit too far...

And a fat lot of good that did.

I despise the Tories. The likes of Michelle Mone who enriched herself with millions paid for faulty PPE and then denied it, tax avoiders like Nadhim Zahawi who "made a careless mistake" and avoided paying £4.8m tax, heartless monsters like Suella Braverman denying her immigrant roots, nutters...

Brilliant! 😆

For those of us who frequent Off-Topic II it's like all our yesterdays 😁

OK, artie, since you're asking: A friend of mine watched as three police cars attended an incident in Poole recently. A homeless couple were arguing in the street. No blows were exchanged, but it was getting quite loud. Someone must have complained because three cars and six police officers...