General Election 2024

Summat to do with labour plans on pet food banks. Looks like the cat out of Shrek.

From my recent conversations with right wing people it’s central to their (bluntly facist) self image that they are the True Conservatives- and despite their strongly held views on Muslims they’re Centre-Right.

She’s singing to the demographic which she is part of.

Fisting LTNs. OK.... I mean I'd watch it....

According to Wikipedia he made £17m when sky was sold to Comcast

it goes further back than that, in the 80s the child poverty action group ran a feature in their newsletter itemising precisely the hell children in the uk now face as the consequences of voting tory, it’s headline was ‘you have been warned’

Alexa, what is cognitive dissonance?

For any of you undecideds in Orkney

Wasn't he the guy who lost his shit on Come Dine With Me?

My mate voted labour now you can't move for transexuals.

Guess they come over on the small boats

This is so true.

How stupid do you have to be to judge someone by the colour of their skin or where they were born?

Always blows my mind when I break it down like that.

Ignore - Sky CFO's share options discussed before I posted!

Braverman with the zingers the day before election

Suella Braverman says today that the prime minister’s attacks on racist views expressed by Reform candidates has less force because the party he leads - and she aspires to lead - kept Frank Hester’s millions. Quite extraordinary attack on the eve of polling day, in the Telegraph. She says “whatever the ‘smartest men in the room’ may privately think, the public are not in fact mugs”.

https://x.com/Peston/status/1808400785631289455?t=oo6aHrvk9gABDB8jpiBdMw&s=19

I watch ITV & have holidayed in Spain so I reckon I'm ok.

My grandad was arrested in the 1974 miners strike, my uncle played Rugby League professionally and I have short vowels... so I reckon I'm okay.

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Who'll tell her, you or me?

He’s going to be on some cash salary plus bonus and options scheme that would see him on over a million a year I’m sure.

I'd have thought it would easily cover that - the CFO is the second highest job after the CEO, which will have a huge salary at Sky.

This article suggests he was paid c.£9m (admittedly including shares) for the 2015 salary year:

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/sky-chief-executive-jeremy-darrochs-pay-packet-swells-169m/1365846

He was the Sky CFO from 2008 -> 2018. He must be loaded. I've no idea why anyone would think that it's appropriate for someone of that level of wealth to be an MP

@Dammit and @christianSpaceman - I replied before reading all the chat about his share options.

Fair's fair, he's done well for himself. But I agree - not really MP material, but look at our current PM... £9.5m in his back pocket.

Everyone knows cats are tories

Who'll tell her, you or me?

Oh, she knows.

Something something Rees Mog

Bit late for work this morning. I've been kneeling before the Marxist scammers.

So is it going to be five years of editorial of how Labour have ruined the country and thrown away all the great successes?

No one seems to bat an eyelid round here that our previous sitting mp upped sticks and moved the midlands and this guy was parachuted into one of the safest seats in the country.