There are so many #OriginalRollCall ers that I would vote for if they ran for election
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There are so many #OriginalRollCall ers that I would vote for if they ran for election
THANK YOU! I'll watch it back :)
I’m sorry to hear this
Starmer the most gutless politician of my lifetime: presiding over a once great and principled party that got into office with a substantial majority, he’s now unashamedly chasing after the approval of an infinitely smaller party with absolutely no principles whatsoever.
Did you go to The Bull?
For those of you that are interested, the brilliant @drlucyrogers.com was name-checked on last night’s University Challenge!
I had some really choice ones, by coincidence
Until impact, yes
Evening everyone. So who else knocked a whole 2.5 litre tin of varnish on the floor just 25 minutes before an all day meeting?
#TenMinuteReadingClub
So transparent
#OriginalRollCall Tuesday 2nd September
Central London tonight: a statuesque black woman walking arm in arm with a dumpy white guy, someone seemingly born a man dressed up in high heels and a cocktail dress with a female companion, blokes walking hand in hand, girls walking hand in hand. But most strikingly, no England flags. There’s hope
Each day I am astounded and mortified by this country’s descent into open and brazen racism I am equally astounded and mortified that rather than push back on the malign forces taking us to these dark places - an elected Labour government appears more interested in trying to learn from them
Surely supporters of flags are Poles?
Not the Daily Mash people. Totally normal news from Normal Island.
Does the President normally mark Labor Day in any way?
Just watch…
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
I wasn’t super convinced that something was seriously wrong with Trump until he tweeted this
Poland’s Mesko and France’s Eurenco have launched production of modular propelling charges for 155 mm artillery in Poland 🔗Read more: militarnyi.com/en/news/fran...
And drum bands
Racism. Next question.
On the main road through the village, about a dozen England flags have appeared. I am not pleased
Arsehole
Yes! Retuning the radio over and over to find music that wasn’t sombre!
Was doing a mountain bike race. Didn’t understand the collective madness that engulfed so many people then, and still do not. It seems to be the start of the dreadful jingoism in the country. An ex-Tory whip told me that for security Diana’s body wasn’t in the coffin that flowers were thrown onto
Didn’t you call them chavs and yobs for 20 years until you realised you could ventriloquise your posh-boy racism through them?
In a word, “backhanders”.
Same
Overly negative, I think; press regulation should have been day one stuff, single market a priority too but he hasn’t screwed everything by any means
This is the best ever opinion
It’s bloody August
Went to an Afghan pop up restaurant last night- the food was all cooked by Afghan refugees who had settled in my town Amazing food, lovely people, a great night. Thank you Oh, and fuck you Fartage
Having done the Bombard OP, where you experience what it’s like to be shelled courtesy of the Royal Artillery, I can tell you that this is definitely not for me
Worth reading the thread that contains this
It almost certainly isn’t today, but one day we’ll wake up and Trump will have died
The Ratnerification of Tesla
I think I have only two real regrets; I went to join the Foreign Legion and let my best mate from Sandhurst talk me out of it, and another that I’m not ready to talk about. But I’m addressing that one.
She will hire, like so many celebrities, ex-UK special forces people to protect her. Then when a MAGA patriot tries something, they will find out that the Brits aren't constrained by worries of 'fellow countrymen' or 'people with whom I actually agree'. It will end very badly indeed for the cultists
Just woke up thinking how scared many immigrants, asylum seekers and anyone without white skin and a British accent must be feeling right now, every time they see one of the England flags a racist cunt has put up or painted on a fucking roundabout. How the fuck did we get here?
I think the decision on how to administer it should be on the consensus of everyone involved
Leadership, from a @teamlabouruk.bsky.social politician, while the cabinet’s all on the other place pandering to racists and their client media.
Nothing happens without reason news.sky.com/story/donald...
So acc to a very agitated Malcolm Rifkind on Today we are in a national crisis re Immigration and the only solution is to leave the EHCR. - This won’t solve anything. It’s just Brexit 2.0. The absolute hysteria that has engulfed some politicians and the U.K. media is astonishing. To put it mildly.
Quite
It's not that it's onerous - I'm generally up and about at 0645 anyway, it's that it's grown and I'm only a minor cog these days- I'm stifling it a little
My thoughts are that I like it as a collective, not as a cult; I quite like the idea of being that Tuesday Guy, and someone else being the Friday Jo or whatever. Guest editing, if you like...
This question should be the first question for every man, woman and child in the country
#R4Today reported Blunkett and Jack Straw calling for a suspension from or decoupling from the EHCR. Even a suspension is an absolutely dreadful idea; employers will in that period find a way to renegotiate your contract. When will Britain learn that if you have something already, don’t give it up?
Average British voter in 2015: "Brexit sounds good to me. It's going to make us all rich, and there won't be as many Polish plumbers around." Average British voter in 2028: "Leaving the ECHR sounds good to me. It's going to make us all rich, and there won't be as many asylum seekers around."
I have to say that the flag types are largely my age; back in ‘84 we had a series of (justified) strikes by teachers over pay. At the time, I loved it - but it definitely affected our education. I think that is playing out now - lack of critical thinking, poor exam results etc
Congratulations to the lunatics currently running the Telegraph on their latest move in the continued quest to find a columnist crazier than Allister Heath.
Eldest has a school trip to NYC this December and I can’t see how the trip will pass a risk assessment
Good, you must be relieved
Fingers crossed for you
#OriginalRollCall Thursday 28th August
It’s always the wrong Americans that get shot
Today is the last day when sundown is after 8pm until 2026 :-/
It’s that time of year when I get all sundown West-y
This is where the UK is too 👇
Imagine being the only person in the room to believe this is sincere
The real drain on your life isn’t crossing the Channel in a dingy…
He has FOUR MPs. Two of them had CONVICTIONS FOR ASSAULTING WOMEN. But I guess we’re all cool with now, given America elected a pedophile to run the show.
I generally believe it should be about the community and not one individual (me) so if everyone is happy to do it among themselves, I'll do some cameos when I get there first, and otherwise be another member of the cast
Hello #OriginalRollCall ers, was ill this morning, so feel free to have a lie in
If I were Labour Prime Minister, I would simply criticise the bloke pushing mass deportations.
Good man. I think I’ll do likewise
Quite
There’s a flag of St George on the A246. The feeble-minded are everywhere it seems
I’m old enough to remember Gordon Brown as PM, when racism was bad
You can only do what you can do…
#OriginalRollCall Tuesday 26th August
I’m sorry for your loss
There should be GCSE and A Level qualifications in critical thinking. It's what underpins everything else. It needs to be taught and people need to be good at it. Employers should demand good passes from new hires.
Where does one find US tourism data?
Credit to @russincheshire.bsky.social for putting all the compelling evidence together
They said there was precedent in Europe. ‘39-‘45, remember?
I thought this was way cool. It’s a fire hydrant painted in Starry Night by Van Gogh in Kirkwood.
Outstanding work Kate
I’ve got the worst earworm, so you can have it too share.google/R2i7LLMU1TCd...
Americans: why are you putting up with this?
Flags appearing in motorway bridges etc are a distress signal from someone hopelessly out of their depth in the modern world
Seems like, in America, the tougher you talk and wish to be perceived, the more likely you are to be terrified of the absolutely ordinary
Look out for your elderly relatives. You wouldn’t let them drink poisoned water; so dont let them absorb poisoned news
Woah the Canadian PM said boots on the ground in Ukraine isn't off the table That's a pretty huge statement
100%
Awesome, thank you so much
A posthumous and "unsparing" memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall. "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice" is scheduled for release Oct. 21.
Thank you - I have the DVD set, but I think it would be a while can of worms…
Most children inherit next to nothing
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
How about gunboats to stop idiocy and racism? news.sky.com/story/is-it-...
Cheltenham had a literary festival some years ago, that was very awkwardly branded
❤️
Brideshead - my favourite book
I’ve got god knows how many streaming channels, and what I actually want to watch is the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, to recall how things were before we were a nation of knuckle-dragging racists
Thank you Penguin Clothbound Classics, because I don’t already spend enough apparently
It is 10 years to the day since the Shoreham air crash. I was on that road just over 40 minutes before the impact.