One man, who attended the show with his wife and friends, told the BBC the incident happened about five minutes from the end of Mr Currie’s show after the comedian had unveiled both a Ukrainian and Palestinian flag in front of the 200-strong audience.
“He started waving it around and some audience members stood up - he encouraged a standing ovation,” said the man, who wished to remain anonymous.
Parcel delivery firms will be getting hit hard by the cost of living crisis and the sad thing is other delivery firms will easily be able to absorb the Yodel contracts without needing to take on (m)any new people, so those 10,000 workers will be largely out on their ear.
I’m afraid she isn’t wrong about their existence. People ashamed of their voting. People who don’t believe they voted for anything but their own self interest. People whose family and friends “won’t understand”. Shy Tories have long been a thing.
2 things that come to mind: the Maddie McCann stories get rolled out when something needs to be distracted from, so what’s the thing we’re not meant to be paying attention to this time? And secondly; The McCann’s should both be jailed for quite obvious child neglect, they were at a restaurant when this happened, and left Madeleine back at their holiday let. Seems proper fishy that nothing happens there.
Liz Truss? Liz Truss the PM whose lasting contribution was going out before a cabbage? That Liz Truss? The Liz Truss who flip-flopped on a major policy that saw her biggest supporter ousted from the Exchequership faster than a head of lettuce rotted? Why the fuck would anyone take her seriously beyond her shelf life?
Because her being forced in to significance remains convenient for the puppeteers with their hand up her arse. They still want everything that they told her to do the first time.
Yet another moment in British politics that has flooded me with anger and upset, followed by despair that there’s nothing I can do to rid us of malevolent, hateful bigots like Rishi Sunak.
It’s not even like he was caught unawares doing his usual schtick without realising Ms Ghey was present. Not that it would be OK anyway. But Starmer literally introduced her at the start of PMQs. Grotesque. Absolutely grotesque.
For Brianna’s mother’s sake, I’m relieved that Sunak used the correct pronouns when he spoke about Brianna at the end. However, what does it say about Sunak and this bullshit, culture war transphobia that he did use the correct pronouns for Brianna?
The whole thrust of the attack was to imply that Starmer doesn’t know what a woman is but then when it’s convenient, Sunak tacitly agrees with Starmer that Brianna was a woman.
I’d almost have more sympathy for Sunak if I thought he was a misinformed transphobe. I resent him more because I don’t believe he genuinely cares, like some do. I have never had any reason to believe he thinks there is any problem with trans people. Yet, he is willing to endanger the lives of these beleaguered, threatened innocent people, for what? For the fucking Conservative and Unionist party. A reprehensible institution that has done infinitely more damage in the real world than any trans person has caused in the most batshit, unhinged nightmares of a Mail Online commenter.
It’s a good and interesting article, though I was under the impression that another contributor was all the empty city centre properties being “sat on” by large property holding companies, or as “theoretical money” by pension companies.
I’m not confident I 100% understand it, but the gist is:
In the skint run-down “lovable shithole” I live in, a fair chunk of the city centre has been boarded up for years and years. If you want to rent one of those units? Still £20k a year. It never dropped from its prime.
Why don’t they lower the rent, rather than let it sit derelict?
If they rent it out for £5-10k a year, it’s only worth £5-10k a year.
If it used to be rented for £20k a year, and nobody rents it, because nobody wants to pay that much, it’s still “worth” £20k a year in someone’s asset portfolio, and you can borrow money based on the theoretical value of the property, or sell it on to another developer/holding company based on its theoretical value.
So in theory, there’s plenty of smaller shops/businesses that would use these units if the rents were lowered to something affordable, but none of the owners want to lower the rents, as it “devalues the asset”.
Therefore we have a city full of small businesses desperate for premises, and a city full of semi-derelict boarded-up shop units.
I work for a a UK food manufacturer which did export 40% to the EU. The added costs of getting food over to EU resulted in the sales teams having to renegotiate the selling prices to EU customers. Most basically said no. Why should they pay a higher price when they can source the same type of product within the EU at a lower price. The big EU buyers stopped trading with us.
When politicians say businesses need to adapt I really have no idea what they have in mind when they say that. We are not in a position to demand customers pay more. And most businesses aren’t in a position to swallow additional costs. The only reason our business didn’t sink is because it’s part of a much larger group so was able to flatten out the financial impact by borrowing internally.
The NPP said a household living in a house in Hartlepool worth £150,000 was paying more than £200 a year more in council tax than someone in Westminster in a property worth £8m.
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