UK General Discussion Thread: mayy lmao

[rpryor03]

Grayling in Transport

I was honestly expecting something higher for him. Maybe he'll get DPM or FSoS?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So Leadsom to deal with the end of CAP. Amusing.

[Ronnie]

This article detailing the exchanges, real or imagined, between May and the cabinet ministers she sacked is very amusing:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/14/talk-to-the-hand-leadsom-theresa-mays-perfect-first-day?client=safari#

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

OK, I understand the rationale of including a prominent Brexiter into the cabinet, but Foreign Secretary is a f**king joke.

"Hey, Barack, do you still have that genetic Kenyan hatred toward Britain?"

"Hey, Edrogan, did you like my poem about you screwing a goat?"

[Derpist]

OK, I understand the rationale of including a prominent Brexiter into the cabinet, but Foreign Secretary is a f**king joke.

"Hey, Barack, do you still have that genetic Kenyan hatred toward Britain?"

"Hey, Edrogan, did you like my poem about you screwing a goat?"

Well, one of those comments might actually be a positive now.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

OK, I understand the rationale of including a prominent Brexiter into the cabinet, but Foreign Secretary is a f**king joke.

"Hey, Barack, do you still have that genetic Kenyan hatred toward Britain?"

"Hey, Edrogan, did you like my poem about you screwing a goat?"

Well, one of those comments might actually be a positive now.

Funny how things can change rapidly.

[Phony Moderate]

Sam Allardyce to be appointed England football manager. What a year.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

More importantly that means Sunderland need to find someone else. Last rumour I heard was Moyes...

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

OK, I understand the rationale of including a prominent Brexiter into the cabinet, but Foreign Secretary is a f**king joke.

"Hey, Barack, do you still have that genetic Kenyan hatred toward Britain?"

"Hey, Edrogan, did you like my poem about you screwing a goat?"

I bet Kerry needed a drink after having to defend him at that joint press conference the other day.

[Cassius]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/20/female-mps-should-be-allowed-to-breastfeed-in-commons-says-repor/?WTmcid=tmgoff_soc_spf_fb&WT.mc_id=sf31384280

Some professor commissioned to produce a report on reforming parliamentary procedure and predictably it's a pile of wank... and also predictably endorsed by John Berkcow.

[Hnv1]

Sam Allardyce to be appointed England football manager. What a year.

Fat Sam is the BoJo of football mangers

[Silent Hunter]

He used to manage West Ham and he did get a lot of complaints about being a long-ball merchant.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Sir Antony Jay (one of the co-writers of Yes Minister; he was the right-wing one) has died aged 86. Kind of apt that he died on the same day as what I suppose we must call Traingate. Think he would have been amused anyway...

[Silent Hunter]

Yes. Rest in Peace, Sir Antony.

As to Traingate, I was on a much more crowded train than that from Leeds to London one time - I was returning from an event in Harrogate earlier than my reserved train from York. I chose to fork out the £25 to upgrade to First Class. Interestingly the trip out to York saw me delayed by twenty minutes and miss my connection, resulting in a total delay of an hour. Virgin Trains East Coast then took ages to give me my full refund, but they did compensate me with £100 of travel vouchers.

Also, in other cases, I have seen people haven't taken their reserved seats and sat down in them myself.

Also, I strongly suspect the VTEC people saw he was sitting in the vestibule (which people do even when there are seats available if they have a lot of luggage) and realised the PR problem hence the shuffling about.

Train crew knows more about PR than Leader of the Opposition. Go figure...

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Keith Vaz in male escorts shocker!! (According to Mirror)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

We all just lost the Keith Vaz game.

[Beezer]

Did somebody order a washing machine?

[Phony Moderate]

And 2016 continues: http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37483344

[Slow Learner]

Diane Abbott is Shadow Home Secretary.

no jeremy
what are you doing
stop

[Clyde1998]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37637954

Unilever are in dispute with Tesco over pricing. Unilever supply popular products such as Lynx, Dove, Sure, Flora, Hellmann's, Magnum, Lipton, Ben & Jerry's, Colman's, Marmite, Persil, Surf, Pot Noodle and Simple. That's a huge number of popular products that Tesco won't be stocking for now...

@ITVJoel: "Unilever told Tesco it wanted to up its prices by 10% due to weak £. Tesco refused and so, as of today, Unilever is not supplying them."

@BethRigby: "What's fascinating about #Unilever/Tesco row is that #Tesco boss (Dave Lewis) worked at Unilever for 27 years. Poacher turned gamekeeper"

[Ban my account ffs!]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37637954

Unilever are in dispute with Tesco over pricing. Unilever supply popular products such as Lynx, Dove, Sure, Flora, Hellmann's, Magnum, Lipton, Ben & Jerry's, Colman's, Marmite, Persil, Surf, Pot Noodle and Simple. That's a huge number of popular products that Tesco won't be stocking for now...

@ITVJoel: "Unilever told Tesco it wanted to up its prices by 10% due to weak £. Tesco refused and so, as of today, Unilever is not supplying them."

@BethRigby: "What's fascinating about #Unilever/Tesco row is that #Tesco boss (Dave Lewis) worked at Unilever for 27 years. Poacher turned gamekeeper"

NO MARMITE!?!?

I'm sure a compromise will be reached.

[IceAgeComing]

so Brexit has one good thing coming for it then

[parochial boy]

British people are outraged that their vote has consequences...

Of course, it's the fault of those evil Dutchies of Unilever, so all the more reason for leaving the fascist EU.

[Phony Moderate]

Of course (from a consumer POV) the supermarkets have their 'own brand' versions of all of these products and they pretty much all taste/work the same as the Unilever versions. The only noteworthy difference is that Unilever's packaging is prettier.