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Tory Party Watch: parts 8245–8249 & 117

Started by Absorb the anus burn, March 02, 2019, 11:16:30 AM

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Johnny Yesno


Fambo Number Mive

Of course, the establishment don't want ordinary people going to museums. They want them too busy buying stuff.

QuoteAusterity cuts imposed by central government have caused a "crisis" in England's cultural sector outside London with regional museums increasingly opening part-time and cutting staff.

Many cash-strapped local authorities choose to fund social care and other life-or-death services instead of their arts and cultural offerings, "hollowing out the sector", the Museums Association has said.

Some 14% of local authority museums and 19% of independent former local authority institutions have reduced their opening hours in the past year, while 61% of local authority museums charge admission to cover their shortfall, according to the Museums Association's 2018 report.

Overall, English council spending on culture has fallen by almost £400m over the last eight years and in shire councils culture budgets have fallen by 33%, according to the latest County Councils Network spending review.

Research by the Guardian found that Leicester council was planning to remove all four curators at its museums in light of a £320,000 cut in its arts budget, and in January Worcestershire county council cut the budget for its archaeology and archive service by 60%.

Stockport's Hat Works museum can also no longer afford to turn on its felting machines because of proposed savings of £16m in the council's budget, while in 2016 five museums operated by Lancashire council closed. Three have reopened to the general public in the past year on weekends only, with the Judges' Lodgings in Lancaster now staffed entirely by volunteers...

While more than half of UK adults go to a museum at least once a year and their wellbeing function has been championed by the health secretary, Matt Hancock, who sees them playing a key role in his "social prescribing" strategy, across the board there has been a 13% reduction in funding for museums from 2007 to 2017, according to the Mendoza review, a report on museums in England commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/07/cuts-england-museums-london-cliff-edge


BlodwynPig


jobotic

Someone in the comments took this from that story

Quotewhy is it that we white straight brits  are  treated with contempt    in uk.     

No wonder the Brexit Party are polling so well.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: jobotic on May 09, 2019, 08:08:22 PM
Someone in the comments took this from that story

No wonder the Brexit Party are polling so well.

Something wickedly sick in the minds of modern Britons.

Fambo Number Mive

Tory MP thinks the idea of paying young people properly is the same is giving them a free ipad: https://twitter.com/nadams/status/1127120880767787008

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on May 11, 2019, 02:27:52 PM
Tory MP thinks the idea of paying young people properly is the same is giving them a free ipad: https://twitter.com/nadams/status/1127120880767787008

I really hope the mauling he got in the replies is at all indicative of how people feel about the tories these days.

kalowski

Catch you on the flip side, dude-meisters! NOT! Hey kids, always recycle... to the extreme! Bust it!
https://twitter.com/MichaelDugher/status/1127187997772980224?s=09

Fambo Number Mive

I'm not sure Labour should "fear a @MattHancock led Conservative party" based on one good photo opp. It's not like he was addressing a room full of excited young Tory voters.

Fambo Number Mive

QuoteEight of Britain's 20 wealthiest hedge fund tycoons have handed cash to the Tories in the past two years, according to research.

The probe found the ultra-wealthy donors coughed up a combined total of £2.9million since the start of the 2017 general election campaign.

It shows how Theresa May's party relies on rich financiers for donations...Another of the mega-donors is Brexit backer Sir Michael Hintze – apparently worth £1.5billion and who has handed £405,000 to the party since the election.

In 2017 he was invited to a private dinner for donors with Mrs May.

Sir Michael ate with top Tories as part of the Leader's Group, a club giving donors access to Cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister if they give the party at least £50,000.

Forty-eight donors attended such meals between April and June 2018...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/eight-brits-20-wealthiest-hedge-15687314


Paul Calf

Could we scrape together 50 grand to send a VW to dinner with a top Tory do you think? I'd probably vote to send Pancs.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: Paul Calf on May 14, 2019, 10:05:29 AM
Could we scrape together 50 grand to send a VW to dinner with a top Tory do you think? I'd probably vote to send Pancs.

I'd send you



Fambo Number Mive


BlodwynPig

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on May 14, 2019, 02:53:39 PM
Some of the replies to that tweet.

"You've doubled the national debt, moron" is a classic.

Fambo Number Mive

Someone has altered a Labour leaflet to show Corbyn as Hitler if you scroll down

"Durham Ex-Tory"

kalowski

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 34% (-1)
CON: 25% (-7)
LDEM: 15% (+4)
BREX: 10% (+10)
UKIP: 4% (-3)
GRN: 3% (-1)
CHUK: 1% (+1)

Shoulders?-Stomach!

In these circumstances I would take that as a base to begin an election campaign.

jobotic

Quote from: kalowski on May 14, 2019, 04:00:08 PM
Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 34% (-1)
CON: 25% (-7)
LDEM: 15% (+4)
BREX: 10% (+10)
UKIP: 4% (-3)
GRN: 3% (-1)
CHUK: 1% (+1)

Hard remainers polling more than hard brexiters. NO NO NO

biggytitbo

Hang on, I thought Nigel Farage was going to become the pm, sell the NHS and instigate the fourth reich?


Or do you get now that the EU elections and a general election are very different things?


Anyway, this is more important - James '4 ovens' brokenshire claims he has 2 ovens whilst stood in front of his 4 ovens https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/james-brokenshire-ovens-two-four-picture-a8913971.html


Is there anything politicians won't lie about?

jobotic

It was Paulie who suggested he'd become PM, not anyone with a brain.

Farage doesn't need to sell of the NHS, the Tories will, Widdecombe was a Tory, you still voting for her?

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Quote from: biggytitbo on May 14, 2019, 11:03:36 PM
Hang on, I thought Nigel Farage was going to become the pm, sell the NHS and instigate the fourth reich?

Fuck's sake.

You are voting for Nigel Farage you dimwit.  Stop trying to frame it as anything but extreme ignorance on your part.

The fact that you're refusing to see that you are wrong doesn't mean you get to lecture us.  It means you are a dunce.

Paul Calf

Quote from: biggytitbo on May 14, 2019, 11:03:36 PM
Hang on, I thought Nigel Farage was going to become the pm, sell the NHS and instigate the fourth reich?

Anyway, this is more important - James '4 ovens' brokenshire claims he has 2 ovens whilst stood in front of his 4 ovens https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/james-brokenshire-ovens-two-four-picture-a8913971.html


That is not 'more important'. Try again.

biggytitbo

Quality posts ^!


A vote for the brexit party is a protest vote at a meaningless election against overturning a democratic vote everyone agreed to have and abide by. It's not a vote for Nigel Farage for PM or any other policy other than leaving the EU. Everyone else in the country appears to get this other than you for some reason.

Paul Calf

Quote from: biggytitbo on May 15, 2019, 08:11:03 AM
Quality posts ^!


A vote for the brexit party is a protest vote at a meaningless election against overturning a democratic vote everyone agreed to have and abide by. It's not a vote for Nigel Farage for PM or any other policy other than leaving the EU. Everyone else in the country appears to get this other than you for some reason.

No, a lot of people do not subscribe the the theory that voting for far-right Nazi sympathisers happy to deploy fascist imagery in election campaigns has no consequences.

Try again.

Paul Calf

"Ahahahaha! It's just you who thinks this! Everyone else gets it and you don't!"

Odious majoritarian bullying. Fortunately, you're shit at it.

NoSleep

Quote from: Paul Calf on May 15, 2019, 08:32:25 AM
"Ahahahaha! It's just you who thinks this! Everyone else gets it and you don't!"

Odious majoritarian bullying. Fortunately, you're shit at it.

What did you expect from a Paul McCartney fan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudnMLzZjTg

Paul Calf


NoSleep

Is that "urgh" for David Cross or the arsehole he's clearly playing?