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05-10-2024 , 07:45 AM
funny story today about warrington council refusing to give their auditors the financial information needed to complete their audit*

this is another of those councils who racked up billions of debt secured against future council tax receipts and handed it to people who look like this:



in the latest fiasco, a member of warrington council described a monaco-based hedge fund manager, who recieved tens of millions of pounds of warrington council money (and who blew through it with dodgy SPACs and 2 + 20 fee arrangements), as 'the lionel messi of investing'

now i can quite understand why a bunch of retired policemen and teachers fancy spending their dotage playing investment tycoon with billions of pounds of local council borrowings, i mean it sounds like great fun, but can someone please kindly request that they stop doing it

*of the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019. they are five years behind schedule.
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05-10-2024 , 01:30 PM
No surprise that the disreputable authoritarian Goodwin who claimed to be an independent pollster should do this.

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05-10-2024 , 01:43 PM
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05-10-2024 , 01:44 PM
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05-10-2024 , 03:23 PM
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Starmer clearly wants to be PM of some kind of coalition government with the only aims of a) maintaining the status quo and b) doing bad things more competently.

He's looking more and more like some kind of plant (and I don't mean of the vegetable variety, though that also applies).
Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt called him a radish (red only the outside) and said, 'I am not about to defect to the opposition benches. They wouldn't be interested in me, I'm too left wing,' which was quite smart.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-b1156672.html

I did think, on account of earlier reports, that Mordaunt, despite her Sword Lady cachet, was irrelevant because she'd lose her seat at the GE, but it now appears from local polling that she may be one of the few select Tory survivors of the upcoming apocalypse.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/po...ection-4611588

Kemi Badenoch might hold on in Saffron Walden as well. Could be quite an interesting Tory leadership contest, though it'll remain pretty academic until the presumed Labour government's wheels come off, and we don't know how soon that might be. Reform UK replacing the Tories looks a stretch at the moment.
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05-10-2024 , 03:29 PM
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The GE could make the SNP's position at Holyrood look a bit anomalous until the ScotParl elections in a year's time.
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05-10-2024 , 06:35 PM
I don't think that republicanism is on a downer. Nationalist parties are still in power in all 3 devolved nations. When people see what Starmer's vision really is, it will become clear that Westminster is irreparably broken. Independence will be the only way to escape the insanity.
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05-11-2024 , 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
Leader of the Commons Penny Mordaunt called him a radish (red only the outside) and said, 'I am not about to defect to the opposition benches. They wouldn't be interested in me, I'm too left wing,' which was quite smart.
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05-11-2024 , 07:48 AM
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I don't think that republicanism is on a downer. Nationalist parties are still in power in all 3 devolved nations. When people see what Starmer's vision really is, it will become clear that Westminster is irreparably broken. Independence will be the only way to escape the insanity.
It’s clearly on a downer in Scotland at the very least. I can definitely see it roaring right back if the Starmer government proves unpopular.
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05-11-2024 , 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by YellowBentines
I don't think that republicanism is on a downer. Nationalist parties are still in power in all 3 devolved nations. When people see what Starmer's vision really is, it will become clear that Westminster is irreparably broken. Independence will be the only way to escape the insanity.
The SNP are definitely on a downer in Scotland. They're also onto their 3rd leader in the past year and a half.
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05-11-2024 , 03:26 PM
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I don't think that republicanism is on a downer. Nationalist parties are still in power in all 3 devolved nations.
No, Wales has a minority Labour government (which is not nationalist). NI is joint Sinn Fein-DUP. (The DUP is not nationalist.) The minority SNP nationalist government in Scotland may be coming to the end of its lease for the time being.
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05-12-2024 , 05:08 PM
Another corrupt, fascist **** about to join Labour.

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05-13-2024 , 08:51 AM
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funny story today about warrington council refusing to give their auditors the financial information needed to complete their audit*

this is another of those councils who racked up billions of debt secured against future council tax receipts and handed it to people who look like this:



in the latest fiasco, a member of warrington council described a monaco-based hedge fund manager, who recieved tens of millions of pounds of warrington council money (and who blew through it with dodgy SPACs and 2 + 20 fee arrangements), as 'the lionel messi of investing'

now i can quite understand why a bunch of retired policemen and teachers fancy spending their dotage playing investment tycoon with billions of pounds of local council borrowings, i mean it sounds like great fun, but can someone please kindly request that they stop doing it

*of the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019. they are five years behind schedule.
They torched a fortune on an energy company too, the people of Warrington must have been so thrilled.
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05-14-2024 , 06:18 AM
Creep pseudo-pollster cited by a deplorable here talking about "National citizens"

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05-14-2024 , 02:07 PM
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They torched a fortune on an energy company too, the people of Warrington must have been so thrilled.
All a bit Degsy Hatton, isn't it? 'A Labour council A LABOUR COUNCIL!' as Neil once put it.
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05-16-2024 , 04:57 AM
Labour's 6 pledges... well ok, but not a sausage about the environment. We're heading for Waterworld, aren't we.
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05-17-2024 , 05:04 AM
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An Essex businessman who won government contracts paying his firm £3.5m a day for transporting and accommodating asylum seekers has been named among the 350 richest people in the UK.

Graham King, the founder and majority owner of a business empire that includes Clearsprings Ready Homes, which won a 10-year Home Office contract for housing thousands of asylum seekers, was on Friday named alongside King Charles III, the prime minister and Sir Paul McCartney on the Sunday Times rich list of the wealthiest people.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...imes-rich-list
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05-17-2024 , 08:10 PM
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No, Wales has a minority Labour government (which is not nationalist). NI is joint Sinn Fein-DUP. (The DUP is not nationalist.) The minority SNP nationalist government in Scotland may be coming to the end of its lease for the time being.
I've read this over and over and I can't understand it but since Plaid Cymru have cancelled their co-op with Labour, what I said is no longer correct. I think the snp problem is about leadership rather than Scots becoming less patriotic. If you can't see what is happening in NI or you think that the DUP are credible then I feel sorry for you. Their leader raped his own daughter (allegedly) and they all voted against stopping arms sales to israel. They're still just as disgusting as they were during the troubles.
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05-18-2024 , 03:50 AM
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I've read this over and over and I can't understand it but since Plaid Cymru have cancelled their co-op with Labour, what I said is no longer correct. I think the snp problem is about leadership rather than Scots becoming less patriotic. If you can't see what is happening in NI or you think that the DUP are credible then I feel sorry for you. Their leader raped his own daughter (allegedly) and they all voted against stopping arms sales to israel. They're still just as disgusting as they were during the troubles.
Are you trying to claim here that nationalism is a sign of patriotism? If you are then I think I see a flaw in your thought process.
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05-18-2024 , 06:19 AM
No. I am claiming that individuals are being rejected in Scotland but the ideology is not.
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05-18-2024 , 06:39 AM
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No. I am claiming that individuals are being rejected in Scotland but the ideology is not.
You are implying that people who aren''t nationalists are less patriotic. That's the words you used.
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05-18-2024 , 07:05 AM
You know what I meant. I agree that people who are not nationalists are less patriotic but that's a separate issue.
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05-18-2024 , 07:20 AM
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You know what I meant. I agree that people who are not nationalists are less patriotic but that's a separate issue.
So Scottish nationalists (or speratists) are more partiotic than the rest of the population. That's a helluva statement, and patently ridiculous.
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05-18-2024 , 07:45 AM
I'm not claiming that you can't sing the anthem just as loudly or passionately in the 6 nations or something. Politically, you can't seriously claim that unionists have Scotland's best interests at heart.
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05-18-2024 , 07:48 AM
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So Scottish nationalists (or speratists) are more partiotic than the rest of the population. That's a helluva statement, and patently ridiculous.
They are very patriotic toward their nation (Scotland)
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