The Political Thread

[ZenArcade]

They subscribe to the current bullshit ploy of dumping on the weak/wee bit strange etc whilst working willfully ignoring the 'elephant in the room'  that being the shysters who should be standing tall before the man have escaped in the smoke with a nice wee 5% tax cut or no tax at all. Z

[JamesC]

And in other news, Bernie Ecclestone has his bribery charge dropped by...er...paying a massive bribe.

[Modern Panther]

If anyone is interested in why Scotland might be leaving the UK, the reasons will be assembling themselves into a vague human form, answering to the name "Darling", and explaining things really slowly in a television debate at 8pm tonight.

That's only for viewers in Scotland though.  The powers that be have decided that viewers in the rest of the UK would rather watch "Love your garden" with Alan Titchmarsh. 

[ZenArcade]

Loathe to get into a Scottish Independence debate, but could things possibly be any worse if the vote was yes. At least Salmon is directly accountable, DC certainly Isn't. But I'm an outside observer and am not totally versed in the detail of the argument.

[Frank]

And in other news, Bernie Ecclestone has his bribery charge dropped by...er...paying a massive bribe

That's Germany for you. No attempt to dress things up prettily or pretend they're anything they aren't, like us or the Italians; just brutally honest, clinical, and explicit. Their pornography must be horrific, but I admire their decision to model their criminal justice system on the board game Monopoly.

[Dandontdare]

And in other news, Bernie Ecclestone has his bribery charge dropped by...er...paying a massive bribe.

Disgusting. When rich people use their money and influence to buy their way out of trouble, I at least expect them to concoct some flimsy cover story. The fatcat bastards are even to lazy to do that any more, sheesh.

A friend of my cousins did two years inside for accepting a bribe, but the guy who paid it was acquitted.

[Frank]

If anyone is interested in why Scotland might be leaving the UK, the reasons will be assembling themselves into a vague human form, answering to the name "Darling", and explaining things really slowly in a television debate at 8pm tonight.

That's only for viewers in Scotland though.  The powers that be have decided that viewers in the rest of the UK would rather watch "Love your garden" with Alan Titchmarsh.

Anyone mental enough to want to can witness the whole car crash on the STV website.

[Fungus]

And in other news, Bernie Ecclestone has his bribery charge dropped by...er...paying a massive bribe.

Yeah, hearing that headline during the news I said just that too. Quite how the BBC announcer avoided this is no doubt due to their advanced training.

Oh, and sickening.

[ZenArcade]

Just bought the pop corn.

[Frank]

Loathe to get into a Scottish Independence debate, but could things possibly be any worse if the vote was yes. At least Salmon is directly accountable

Your friends in the Republic can probably tell you how that theory works out in practice. I don't have any influence over the voting practices of my local councillor, and she lives four streets from me and I used to work with her husband. Once party politics happens, individual votes mean fuck all.

[Hoagy]

[Richmond Clements]

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2014/aug/04/scottish-independence-referendum-debate-drinking-game

[ZenArcade]

As I say l'm loathe to comment......but

[Frank]

Fuck coy little drinking games - if you're not off your head on a combination of uppers, downers, and psychotropics going into this thing you're never going to make it to the first advert break.

[ZenArcade]

Possibly, but......