Seems ConDems have crashed down south as expected with Labour making pretty big gains. 

Be interesting to see how things pan out in Scotland but presumably given it is STV there won't be any councils where a party has overall control.  Apparently heading for the lowest turnout in years up here but then you'd hardly know there was an election on where I stay.  No posters or billboards and I only got one leaflet through my door which was Tory, which is bizarre given in my ward I'd imagine they'd do well to get even 4th on 1st preference never mind get anywhere near a seat.

 

Don't suppose it means much so far away from a GE but already had Tory MPs demanding Callmedave is more right wing after UKIP success in the south and comedy figure Lebit Opik demanding Nick Clegg resigns as leader of the Lib Dems (but seemingly stay on as Deputy PM).

Also glad to see that so far nobody has voted in favour of Mayors in various English cities. Total waste of time and money and nothing more than a celebrity driven ego trip (see B. Johnston and K. Livingston)

I'll jump in the freezing pool with you Anas, don't worry. After three, okay?

8 hours ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

He clearly had support  from somewhere and agreed to break rank first to have a pop at Starmer and then it all backfired on him.

Did the same thing not happen with Douglas Ross, when Johnson was PM.

I am sure someone else will break rank, as I think this whole Mandleson story still has more to come in the coming days, I think that's why they holding off.

Starmer is a sitting duck and someone is waiting for the right moment to finish him off.

Only a matter of when.

 

 

Sarwar is looking at taking a hiding in May and is trying to shift the blame. Yesterday was purely an act of attempted self preservation and a very poorly executed one. 
 

I suspect the reason that nobody else put their head above the parapet is that they also know that Labour are likely to lose in the upcoming coming by election and have a terrible result in May elections so they are as well leaving Starmer in place to take the blame and punt him afterwards. 

Just saw Wes Streeting described as ‘The offspring of Ruth Davidson fucking Thomas the Tank Engine’ 

Anyway, it looks like it was him that encouraged Sarwar to commit political seppuku. 

Sarwar should resign, he really shot himself in the foot there.

Jim Ratcliffe can go take a right good fuck to himself. We’re surely reaching the ‘heads on spikes’ part of end stage capitalism 

This is a prick who played hungry hippos with uk taxpayers cash, then points the finger at immigrants? Its amazing that folk still fall for this pish 

Unfortunately enough people have already fallen for it, this just emboldens them. Even in the reporting of it, you need to go a lot further into the story than any flag shagger has the attention span for to see that he was spouting a load of absolute bollocks. The headlines are framed at the insensitivity (triggering the "woke agenda" numpties) rather than the inaccuracy.

Not the same Jim Ratcliffe who lives in Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK?

What a patriot.

3 hours ago, swaddon said:

Not the same Jim Ratcliffe who lives in Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK?

What a patriot.

The guy who got the Pom Poms out for Brexit to make everything shitter, then fucks off because everything is shitter and he’ll have to pay money he won’t notice going missing on schools n stuff* 

Im so bored of billionaires offering up their opinions. The only people worse than them, are the plebs who rush to defend them. 

 

* ye ken… 

 

18 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

The guy who got the Pom Poms out for Brexit to make everything shitter, then fucks off because everything is shitter and he’ll have to pay money he won’t notice going missing on schools n stuff* 

Im so bored of billionaires offering up their opinions. The only people worse than them, are the plebs who rush to defend them. 

 

* ye ken… 

 

He's sorry......... if his comments have offended anyone.

What a guy.

21 hours ago, swaddon said:

Not the same Jim Ratcliffe who lives in Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK?

What a patriot.

A big backer of Brexit, but moved a proposed car factory from the UK to Europe, because it was cheaper.

Still though, he is loaded, so he must be right...

 

He's nowhere near as bad as Newcastle's owners who like beheading people.

Rupert Lowe has started a new political party, to rival Deform.

They used to say that the left couldn't win elections, as their vote was too fractured. 

Who knew their was so must choice for unhinged racists now.

 

Edited February 14Feb 14 by TheDonbytheDee

Sir Keith Starmer has told Europe that it must be ready to fight. I'm not quite sure who we're fighting though.

We've went back to the 1930s.

 

Rupert Lowe splitting the spud vote is good news for the rest of us 

On 14/02/2026 at 12:57, TheDonbytheDee said:

Sir Keith Starmer has told Europe that it must be ready to fight. I'm not quite sure who we're fighting though.

We've went back to the 1930s.

 

Russia who have been struggling for four years to take back their territories from the Ukraine are supposedly a huge risk and if we don't stop them now they'll be up for taking the rest of Europe. I think not. Every government that wants to look strong needs a bogeyman and it would seem Starmer and his EU bum chums have chosen Putin. I'd train my cannons on America. That's where the real trouble makers are to be found. 

The Alba party don't have the funds to contest the upcoming Holyrood elections.

 

Suppose that's good news for the SNP and all nationalists. No split vote. 

A collection of utter spuds. They had the smoothest brains in politics 

7 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Suppose that's good news for the SNP and all nationalists. No split vote. 

How it should be.

Lot to be said for only having two political parties. One of each side. Personally I'd quite like there to be only the one but you don't get away with that these days. 

 

Nigel Garage on a jolly in the Indian Ocean (think that's where it is but I can't be bothered doing an internet search) how ridiculous.

None of the right wing cranks who are making such a massive fuss over the Chagos Islands sketch had even heard of the place before and now it's all about helping the Chagosians.

University of Wikipedia glecks.

 

 

Dangers of trying to form a 'society' when every resident has their own agenda

The book this references is 'A libertarian walks into a bear' by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

 

Glad I'm not in Mexico at the moment. What a place. 

4 hours ago, tom_widdows said:

Dangers of trying to form a 'society' when every resident has their own agenda

The book this references is 'A libertarian walks into a bear' by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

 

That was great 😀

On 21/02/2026 at 22:33, Bukta Bertie said:

Nigel Garage on a jolly in the Indian Ocean (think that's where it is but I can't be bothered doing an internet search) how ridiculous.

None of the right wing cranks who are making such a massive fuss over the Chagos Islands sketch had even heard of the place before and now it's all about helping the Chagosians.

University of Wikipedia glecks.

 

 

The wanker got to the Maldives and was told Chagos was out of bounds for him as it’s a military island and he disna have the credentials. The idea of his arriving by a small boat and being telt to fuck off delights me.