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Jun 4, 2024 8:15:08 GMT
Post by greekgod on Jun 4, 2024 8:15:08 GMT
Does depend on the driver, some are right knobheads (allegedly).
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Jun 4, 2024 12:41:47 GMT
Post by glawsterwhite on Jun 4, 2024 12:41:47 GMT
Yes I remember the coach driver heading for Clacton when we were on the way to Colchester for our very first football league game … not sure if he was lost or just fancied the seaside instead IIRC we didn’t arrive much before kickoff … a hufc supporters traditional day out really …. At least we didn’t miss any goals unlike at Highbury !!
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Jun 4, 2024 13:05:07 GMT
Post by White Lightning on Jun 4, 2024 13:05:07 GMT
Yes I remember the coach driver heading for Clacton when we were on the way to Colchester for our very first football league game … not sure if he was lost or just fancied the seaside instead IIRC we didn’t arrive much before kickoff … a hufc supporters traditional day out really …. At least we didn’t miss any goals unlike at Highbury !! Leeds away in the FA Cup Replay. The M5/M42 by Bromsgrove was properly knackered up. A fair few missed our early goal that I believe went on to be the winner. Lionel Ainsworth?
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Post by Armchairfan on Jun 4, 2024 15:03:22 GMT
Didn't Boris Johnson used to drive a bus? Micheal Gove was the conductor!
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Jun 4, 2024 20:18:11 GMT
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Jun 4, 2024 20:18:11 GMT
Good grief, fishy sunak really is awful at this.
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Jun 4, 2024 20:24:42 GMT
Post by White Lightning on Jun 4, 2024 20:24:42 GMT
I don't think he is losing? I don't think the public are winning much knowledge from either of them?
The thing is there is nothing under the government that they have made better. Quite the opposite.
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Jun 4, 2024 20:57:33 GMT
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Post by Jonny Dangerous on Jun 4, 2024 20:57:33 GMT
Level on points at the moment, for me.
Neither of them are particularly impressive unfortunately. Given the Tories' track record it should be relatively easy to wipe the floor with Sunak, and - as a microcosm of his period as leader of the opposition - Starmer isn't really putting the boot in.
The format of these things doesn't really help though.
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Jun 5, 2024 6:54:08 GMT
Post by White Lightning on Jun 5, 2024 6:54:08 GMT
They are a complete waste of time.
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Post by White Lightning on Jun 5, 2024 6:58:16 GMT
The broadcasts aren't much better
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Post by Armchairfan on Jun 5, 2024 7:02:22 GMT
Well, according to The Daily Mail....... Sunak tore Starmer a new one!
Well, they would wouldn't they.
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Jun 5, 2024 9:55:02 GMT
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Post by White Lightning on Jun 5, 2024 9:55:02 GMT
The Conservative Party getting a bit of heat for the £2k tax hike claim. They have some cheek on the tax rise front anyhow.
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Jun 5, 2024 10:03:29 GMT
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Post by Barney still in B-Block on Jun 5, 2024 10:03:29 GMT
And so they should. Told a big fat lie, even after being directed not to, by the department responsible.
Desperate. Should be in prison.
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Post by eggchaserbull on Jun 5, 2024 11:04:46 GMT
The Treasury tells Sunak his £2000 Labour tax claim is not from official sources, and should not be presented as having been produced by the Civil Service. Sunak uses it in the debate; it's almost as if he tells lies. The Treasury again refutes the figures are from them, or are even official. Claire Coutinho continues to use this figure this morning, even claiming, on LBC, that it has been signed off by head of the Treasury, James Bowler. Pinnochio Party Unfortunately, the British electorate have previous on not seeking to establish the truth, or lack of it, in this party's claims. I expect the 2 tories in the shire to be re-elected. People will just hear that £2000 and nothing else. They don't realise that just the frozen tax allowance thresholds already in place will add the equivalent of 4% to the basic income tax rate. That's £900 a year on the average wage. Source OBR obr.uk/box/the-impact-of-frozen-or-reduced-personal-tax-thresholds/#:~:text=Our%20latest%20estimate%20is%20that,basic%20rate%20of%20income%20tax.
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Post by glawsterwhite on Jun 6, 2024 7:49:41 GMT
Well let’s be honest here - a lot of people are a bit thick, particularly those daily heil readers ! Over here I think the libdems might take Tewkesbury possibly, not before time as our Tory mp is a complete waste of a seat in parliament. As for Cheltenham sadly I think the sitting tory has a chance due to his public profile and the willingness of the local media to allow him to take credit for all sorts of things that cannot be easily disproved.
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Post by White Lightning on Jun 6, 2024 8:25:15 GMT
The Treasury tells Sunak his £2000 Labour tax claim is not from official sources, and should not be presented as having been produced by the Civil Service. Sunak uses it in the debate; it's almost as if he tells lies. The Treasury again refutes the figures are from them, or are even official. Claire Coutinho continues to use this figure this morning, even claiming, on LBC, that it has been signed off by head of the Treasury, James Bowler. Pinnochio Party Unfortunately, the British electorate have previous on not seeking to establish the truth, or lack of it, in this party's claims. I expect the 2 tories in the shire to be re-elected. People will just hear that £2000 and nothing else. They don't realise that just the frozen tax allowance thresholds already in place will add the equivalent of 4% to the basic income tax rate. That's £900 a year on the average wage. Source OBR obr.uk/box/the-impact-of-frozen-or-reduced-personal-tax-thresholds/#:~:text=Our%20latest%20estimate%20is%20that,basic%20rate%20of%20income%20tax. Another stealth tax that is damaging is the ever increasing number of retail businesses that are becoming card only. This is making it more and more challenging for the working man in the construction industry to launder money gotten through cash jobs. No wonder the economy is growing.
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Jun 8, 2024 22:49:46 GMT
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Post by Andrew on Jun 8, 2024 22:49:46 GMT
Yes I remember the coach driver heading for Clacton when we were on the way to Colchester for our very first football league game … not sure if he was lost or just fancied the seaside instead IIRC we didn’t arrive much before kickoff … a hufc supporters traditional day out really …. At least we didn’t miss any goals unlike at Highbury !! Leeds away in the FA Cup Replay. The M5/M42 by Bromsgrove was properly knackered up. A fair few missed our early goal that I believe went on to be the winner. Lionel Ainsworth? Correct, got there very early to drink cask Tetleys in the Peacock
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Jun 9, 2024 9:00:44 GMT
Post by White Lightning on Jun 9, 2024 9:00:44 GMT
Leeds away in the FA Cup Replay. The M5/M42 by Bromsgrove was properly knackered up. A fair few missed our early goal that I believe went on to be the winner. Lionel Ainsworth? Correct, got there very early to drink cask Tetleys in the Peacock One of their great badges back in the day.
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Post by eggchaserbull on Jun 12, 2024 15:08:58 GMT
Is anybody else watching the election news each day and feeling as though they're watching repeats of Monty Python?
Rishi Sunak causing tears at the heartstrings with the admission that he was denied Sky TV* when he was growing up; I was expecting him to carry on and say: "...we never had a cup. We used to drink out of a rolled up newspaper..."
"...I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work 29 hours a day at mill, and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work..."
I expected him to finish off with, "...you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you"
Reform seem to be anti-everything, they're even anti their close political peers the Tories. Reminds me of the Judean People's Front, the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Popular Front
Finally, there's our old favourite, Jacob Grease-Smaug doing his impression of Nigel Incubator-Jones from the upper class twit of the year sketch.
* - I know how he feels; when I was growing up we had a TV that could only receive BBC 1 and ITV, not even BBC 2. To make matters worse, I had friends who lived up the college who could also receive TWW (one for the older forum members).
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Post by Saul Goodman on Jun 12, 2024 15:14:22 GMT
You forgot to mention that Starmer's old man was a toolmaker.
Other than that, a pretty fair summary.
And unfortunately, yes, I too remember TWW. That old frontrunner of entertainment, Television Wales and the West. It transmitted 1958-1968 & was succeeded by Harlech Television. 🫢
TWW Television Weekly was printed at Berrows House when I worked at the Hereford Times. 😃
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Jun 12, 2024 16:57:39 GMT
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Post by tigerfeet on Jun 12, 2024 16:57:39 GMT
Is anybody else watching the election news each day and feeling as though they're watching repeats of Monty Python? Rishi Sunak causing tears at the heartstrings with the admission that he was denied Sky TV* when he was growing up; I was expecting him to carry on and say: "...we never had a cup. We used to drink out of a rolled up newspaper..." "...I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work 29 hours a day at mill, and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work..." I expected him to finish off with, "...you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you"[Pedant]The Four Yorkshiremen sketch wasn't Monty Python, it actually comes from "At last the 1948 show".[/pedant]
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