And milles better than the politics in neighbouring Myanmar.Geoff_Burns wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 8:20 am If you want a proper tragicomedy, try following Thai politics. It's a fine mix of Machiavelli and Kafka, with a lot of Monty Python and League Of Gentlemen . . .
Taking the piss out of politics
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In one sentence you have described pretty much every one of the misbegotten denizens that lurk within Westminster.
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I 'love' that the tory press is whipping itself into a real froth over this, whilst far too many of our populace qualify for a food rather than a posh nobs bank.
Not entirely the most self aware people on the planet.
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One of those rare cases where a privileged individual’s misfortunes has a huge, potential, benefit for everyone else. A bank will no longer, if everything goes to plan, be able to close an account without giving a reason. Not liking your views won’t be enough, unless they claim you are a tourist, sorry, terrorist.
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The BBC and the Conservatives (same thing, really) are loving it. Wall-to-wall Farage and nothing about Johnson's flagrant disregard of a High Court ruling to hand over his phone/WhatsApp messages, and most other important political news stories.
If I were to do something similar I'd have been arrested for contempt of court long since, but hey, let's talk about Farage's 1st-world problems because the King's bank doesn't want to deal with a xenophobe, a racist, and a fucking grifter.
If I were to do something similar I'd have been arrested for contempt of court long since, but hey, let's talk about Farage's 1st-world problems because the King's bank doesn't want to deal with a xenophobe, a racist, and a fucking grifter.
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One final comment on the above - As Farage is currently crowing about the apparent apology from Nat West, owners of Coutts, perhaps it's about time that we - in the spirit of "doing the right thing" - received an apology from the frog-faced fuckwit for all the lies he told about Brexit, and pretty much every other pie the agitating fascist nicotine stained amphibian wank-sock has his dirty little finger in.
For the hard of understanding - I cannot abide the creature who somehow manages to look like an ailing amphibian, yet embrace the personality of an enraged poisonous reptile. I'd call him a cunt, but he lacks both the depth and the warmth, to carry that description off.
For the hard of understanding - I cannot abide the creature who somehow manages to look like an ailing amphibian, yet embrace the personality of an enraged poisonous reptile. I'd call him a cunt, but he lacks both the depth and the warmth, to carry that description off.
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Not a fan then?slinger wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 4:07 pm One final comment on the above - As Farage is currently crowing about the apparent apology from Nat West, owners of Coutts, perhaps it's about time that we - in the spirit of "doing the right thing" - received an apology from the frog-faced fuckwit for all the lies he told about Brexit, and pretty much every other pie the agitating fascist nicotine stained amphibian wank-sock has his dirty little finger in.
For the hard of understanding - I cannot abide the creature who somehow manages to look like an ailing amphibian, yet embrace the personality of an enraged poisonous reptile. I'd call him a cunt, but he lacks both the depth and the warmth, to carry that description off.
Politicians seem to have an absolute immunity from responsibility, get it wrong and you can retire on a nice pension or you can resign, sit it out for a few years then come back and have another go. If politicians went to prison when their ideology proved wrong they might not be quite so keen to play around with things they don’t understand.