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Two very rich men, in a fireside chat, place a £1,000 sporting bet on whether one of them can effect a punishment on people desperately seeking refuge, within a mutually-agreed time.
A Dickensian tale?
No - it’s Britain in 2024.
And the men are Rishi Sunak & Piers Morgan.
Appalling beyond words. The arrogance, the cruelty, the lack of empathy or morality. It's sick!
https://x.com/independent/status/175...ZQyp-iO2wYo4Kg
I remember a time when governments had no money to house our homeless people, and they still don't.
It's not that surprising though.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
What’s that got to do with the United Kingdom’s Prime Miniature making a sick £1,000 bet on sending people to Rwanda? WTF has happened to this country’s politicians?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Mortimer and Randolph Duke.
They've rented out nearly every 4-star hotel in Britain to house homeless people.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
Good news for the hospitality industry then :thumbup:
i'll have a tenner middle class marxists clutch their pearl necklaces
What a ridiculously pompous post.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
He didn't actually do a bet. FFS! The faux outrage is so ridiculous
I saw it as an attempt by Morgan to pin down a slippery Sunak. I'm guessing they both know it's unlikely to happen, and I tend to agree with that assumption.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Sunak has been backtracking this morning. 'Not a betting man'!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Makes him look even more remote, incompetent and slippery. In a hole and getting his butler to carry on digging!
He bet big on vaccines before the pandemic was even a thing, and he made himself a fortune. It's definitely one for the coincidence theorists!Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
They literally shook on it..Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
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That's rich coming from the King of outrageQuote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Crying over the disgusting treatment of ex soldiers by the lefty Palestinian protestors .....that turned out to be the words of a complete liar
Put a sock in it you tory tart
Not even a rented house, as Serco are paying over the odds for long-term contracts on buy-to-let properties that include all maintenance costs, and returning the house to it's original condition at the end of the contract. So the only thing a landlord has to do is check their bank balance at the end of the month. Nice work if you can get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
Thats who i was thinking of :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
You pair are embarrassing FP.
And yet he feels the need to say he was taken by surprise by the offer of the bet - is that really a good thing for a PM to say?Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68214641
I wasn’t too bothered by the original story, but this “explanation” only makes things worse.
Seems Sunak also repeated his claim that Starmer supported causes he appeared as defence counsel for - it’s going to be a very dirty election as one side has nothing positive to fight on.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...da-plan-labour
Makes what worse? This is a text book case of left-wing faux outrage on twitter (and examples exist of right wing faux outrage too!).Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Nothing happened. There was no bet. The pomposity of people to get angry over this when there is so much serious stuff going on is absolutely beyond.
"he betted on people's lives!" No he didn't. It's a lie.
You are such a liar. I always thought you were just disingenuous, but you are lying here.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
There was a bet, why did Sunak feel the need to justify himself if there wasn’t?Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
I feel a song coming on ...Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
"Men of Harlech, march to glory, victory is hov'ring o'er ye".
He repeatedly said he wanted to get people on the planes. At no point does he confirm a bet. And if he did, it is in no way a representatation of the story in how the OP posted it.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Honestly, it's pathetic. The twitterification of politics is turning this country into total dopes.
I can't believe you support the Amritsar massacre. Outrageous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Global warming innit. The less people there are alive, the better it will be for the planet and the very rich people :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
The BBC story I posted a link to said he agreed to the bet and he shook on it or perhaps you just don’t believe it because it’s the BBC - although Lord knows what agenda they’re serving by making those details up :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
You were crying like a wolf about the disgusting behaviour of the Palestinian protestors up in Edinburgh attacking the poor old ex soldier who was selling poppies and was assaulted according to the daily mail .....and you .....which is where you got the storyQuote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
But it was all a lie by the ex soldier who it turned out had never been a soldier at all .....never mind been beaten up by lefties for it !
You were given plenty of opportunities to hold your hand up but your ego you simply wouldn't allow you to be wrong
You vanished recently again to cover your arse
And here you are again
Whinging about others doing exactly what you do , absolute joker
Liar LiarQuote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
That's you
You old queen
The bloke is a tory lying boreQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Waste of oxygen
If you shot him dead he would come back in your dreams saying you had missed
Hopefully he has another dramatic flounce and vanishes again to give us a break
Maybe you could link to some of the posts you have made denouncing right wing faux outrage? I am sure that would bat away any suggestions of bias and settle everybody down.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
When I suggested that the farage bank account saga, that had his particular section of the media carping for weeks, was faux outrage, you didn't seem to have the same opinion.
I'll give Piers Morgan some credit here, how else do you draw Sunak in? Objectively it is pretty clear that the Rwanda policy is a distraction/election strategy and was never intended to actually work. Sunak gains more political capital on it not working than flights actually taking off.
Sunak admitted yesterday his government had failed to hit nhs targets whilst criticising the nhs in the devolved government's
He is the best hope the Tories have got
Unless they sack him
You're never gonna get that promotion at CCHQ to join the big boys btl on The Guardian, James, with efforts like this. This is why they've got you on an alt. forum football message board for a mid-table championship side.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
^This^ should be getting more love. What a classic!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Apparently, Politics Live played part of an interview with “I’m not a betting man” Sunak on Test Match Special where he described how he was once doing his normal hedge fund work on one screen while spread betting on an England test match on another.
Dear God I never thought for one minute when I posted this, that Sunak could sink any lower.
Well today he’s only gone and done exactly that.
Just call an election and put us all out of our misery you absolute clown.
It could be in 13 weeks time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
Politics is dirtyQuote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
When Gordon Brown off camera had a go at the old woman from Rochdale complaining about immigrants the daily mail , sky and the rest had a field day
Today Sunak , with the mother of the young person murdered over her transgender status in the public gallery , made a joke about starmer and his apparently confused view over man or woman etc
Starmer looked astonished 😲
I don't think sunak is a spiteful man but he's a hopeless idiot and the labour party should go for the throat on this
They of course need to be careful as the sanctimonious conservatives will accuse him of making political capital out of tragedy but I am afraid the conservatives have been masters of the dirty politics game for years and years and this is country for old men as they say
Well if rhiannas father wants an apology from starmer then even the oily conservatives on here are going to find it difficult to slip out of this oneQuote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
BBC News - Rishi Sunak faces calls to apologise over trans jibe to Starmer at PMQs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68229785