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[Hancock] looks like your sisters first boyfriend with a car

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More likely this:

https://twitter.com/DChristieProf/status/1409036159334879232?s=19

https://goodlawproject.org/update/yesterdays-court-hearing/

Genuine question… when they say ordered the government to pay 75% of the costs, that’s the taxpayer right?

Yes

Charlie Brooker line, IIRC?

Yes, unfortunately. It should be paid from those responsible salaries really.

Strictly speaking, it's public money. 'Taxpayer's money' ceases to be taxpayer's money when it's paid in taxes. It then becomes public money. The phrase 'taxpayer's money' has been a sleight of hand used by rightwing organisations to try to force politicians to lower taxes. It should always be avoided.

Needless to say, the Government playing fast and loose with public money to cover their arses is unacceptable.

You say that, and I appreciate it's a trusted adage, but I came across a 60cm long dead fish on a beach recently and its guts had rotted and fallen out of its arse and its head looked mostly ok. Explaim that one if you can!

I will, if you tell me how one explaims things. :)

Sarah Vine has written a piece for the Mail on Sunday about politicians' marriages. At the same time there is a rumour that Michael Gove has left her and moved in with his, male, political advisor.

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The Gove is gay/bi thing has been rumbling on for a while. At least since 2015. Last time I saw something about it was a rumour that Gove had been in a relationship with Dominic Cummings. Cummings' wife Mary Wakefield wrote an article about the (false) rumour in the Spectator.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-husband-s-gay-affair-with-gove/amp

And what are the consequences for these people when they break the law?

I don't know.

It blows my mind.

They’re all Social Darwinists: they think it’s the natural order for the strong to dominate the weak, they are the strong, the rest are the weak. The laws they create are meant to manage and mobilise the weak, aka the workforce aka human cattle, not to be applied equally to them. Their notion of the Social Contract isn’t that everyone comes together and agrees to bind themselves by the same rules; it’s that they will allow the weak to exist relatively peacefully within the system they design for them, in exchange for submission and tributes.

Of all people Diane Abbott? There's a rumor about her having a donated second brain cell transplanted into her brain, just in case the first suddenly stops working...

Good job you weren't asked to be the donor, eh?

I wonder why it is that highly intelligent black female Labour MP Diane Abbott is routinely dismissed as thick as mince by the right wing press?

I can't be expected to know everything tbh ;)

I assume for similar reasons to humble, kind and generous black footballer Raheem Sterling being singled out for villification by the same media outlets.

Exactly.

Got into Cambridge (her dad was a welder and mum a nurse - both left school at 14)
First black woman MP
Longest serving black MP

Perfect response.

I think this succinct summary is sadly entirely true.

would rep

would neg

It was slightly tongue in cheek tbh. There’s no chance of anything happening.