Jon the Hat Posted 23 April 2021 Share Posted 23 April 2021 I am recalling a trip to London on the train to a psychology conference in Westminster Central Hall. We went in the morning, then ended up in the pub for lunch and sort of stayed there until the train back at about 5pm. Many pints later someone nearly fell off the platform at Waterloo and an investigation followed... Teacher wasn't even with us but no doubt got in all kinds of shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrefelderFox666 Posted 23 April 2021 Share Posted 23 April 2021 Bonus point to anyone who can explain the connection of the photo with the headline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxile5 Posted 23 April 2021 Share Posted 23 April 2021 2 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said: I reckon the kids would be split egging him on/trying to protect him/absolutely terrified about 20/10/70. The best bit for me is: "After being aggressive to one pupil, he kissed the boy's forehead and told him "you're all right"' Unreal behaviour. Loose cannon. Twelve years experience too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
String fellow Posted 23 April 2021 Share Posted 23 April 2021 22 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said: Bonus point to anyone who can explain the connection of the photo with the headline. Canada goose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiberalFox Posted 23 April 2021 Share Posted 23 April 2021 24 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said: Bonus point to anyone who can explain the connection of the photo with the headline. Is the woman called April? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxesDeb Posted 23 April 2021 Share Posted 23 April 2021 Best school trip I ever went on was to Paris in the 90's when I was 16. The hotel the school booked was in the middle of the red light district, although obviously we had no idea where we were, and we were allowed to do pretty much whatever we wanted to at night. Cue lots of wandering around innocently exploring late at night, with all sorts of suggestive behaviour coming our way. When we returned to the hotel having dodged all the brothels our teachers would buy us drinks at the hotel bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jattdogg Posted 24 April 2021 Share Posted 24 April 2021 10 hours ago, KrefelderFox666 said: Bonus point to anyone who can explain the connection of the photo with the headline. We have the indian double covid variant here now so i expect more cases for sure. Put myself in the astrazeneca waitlist as they opened it to 40+ here. Prefer pfizer or moderna but fook knows when my age group will get that. Heck, with india not shipping their astrazeneca anymore it might be just as long as the other ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemunky Posted 24 April 2021 Share Posted 24 April 2021 10 hours ago, Jattdogg said: We have the indian double covid variant here now so i expect more cases for sure. Put myself in the astrazeneca waitlist as they opened it to 40+ here. Prefer pfizer or moderna but fook knows when my age group will get that. Heck, with india not shipping their astrazeneca anymore it might be just as long as the other ones I put in on the 21st. Still waiting to hear back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jattdogg Posted 24 April 2021 Share Posted 24 April 2021 18 minutes ago, spacemunky said: I put in on the 21st. Still waiting to hear back. Ya i wasnt sure if i wanted the astra so didnt til yesterday. I already knew it was full and unlikely so probably wont happen. I am not the guy who is trying to sign up at the microsecond the lists or site opens either That only sites i do that with is foxestalk and pornhub 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tuna Posted 24 April 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 24 April 2021 That's quite a hustle! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheLeagueFox Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 Children's TV legend Dame Floella Benjamin has said she's "thrilled" that a new stage musical is to tell the story of her arrival in 1960s Britain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56818967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 Frontline Nurse fined £10,000 for 1% pay protest https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/24/law-firm-takes-up-case-of-nurse-fined-10000-for-1-pay-protest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buce Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 Johnson faces MPs’ fury over Downing Street sleaze claims Labour urge Speaker to summon senior minister as poll reveals 40% of voters think Tories are corrupt Labour is aiming to force a senior minister before parliament this week to account for the growing sleaze crisis engulfing No 10 – amid growing cross-party uproar over a collapse in standards at the heart of government. The Observer understands the opposition is hoping to persuade Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker, to grant an urgent question on Monday that would mean a senior minister – most likely the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove – being summoned to the Commons to account for the crisis, explain steps being taken to end it, and take questions from MPs. Demands for action grew on Saturday after Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings made a series of allegations relating to his former boss, including that he had been plotting an “unethical, foolish, possibly illegal” plan to get Tory donors to secretly fund the refurbishment of the No 11 flat in which he lives with his fiancee and their young child. The government has since said Johnson has himself paid the £58,000 bill, but it remains unclear whether he paid directly, or received a loan from the party or a donor. Labour has also raised the question of whether the correct tax has been paid on the refurbishments and any potential gifts. In a letter to the prime minister, the shadow cabinet office minister Rachel Reeves said there should be full transparency around the funding of the refurbishment. “Any external financial aid to a prime minister’s lifestyle must be fully declared at the time and, as the ministerial code makes clear, real and perceived conflicts of interest must be avoided,” she said. The Electoral Commission has said it is still seeking answers from the party over whether any sums relating to the work should have been declared under the law on political donations. At the same time Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon said nothing less than a full public inquiry was required: “The stench of sleaze that is surrounding this Tory government is becoming quite overpowering. There are very serious allegations being levelled at Boris Johnson and his government, including by people who worked closely inside it. As someone who has recently been subject to far reaching inquiries and scrutiny, I say a thorough investigation is needed here, given the range and seriousness of the allegations.” Her party is calling for all of Johnson’s email, text, and call records to be made available for scrutiny. With less than two weeks before local elections in England, and elections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, the opposition parties are now determined to increase the pressure on Johnson and the Tories. The latest Opinium poll for the Observer suggest the issue of sleaze is cutting through, although it is not – so far – affecting the parties’ standings. Almost four out of 10 voters think Johnson and the Tory party are corrupt. Some 37% describe Johnson as mostly or completely corrupt, compared with 31% who say he is clean and honest. Even more – 38% – say the Conservative party is corrupt, with 31% saying it is clean and honest. But the poll – taken before news of Cummings’s declaration of war on the prime minister – puts the Tories 11 points ahead of Labour (44% to 33%). The sleaze row will also be centre stage on Monday when the country’s top civil servant is expected to be quizzed over the identity of the person who leaked details of the government’s second national lockdown in England last year. Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, is likely to be asked to verify the claim in Cummings’s blog that Case had concluded the leak did not come from Cummings, but “all the evidence” pointed to Henry Newman, a former adviser to Gove who now advises Johnson. The inquiry into the affair has never been published. No 10 sources have defended Newman against the claim. Case is also set to be asked to confirm Cummings’s allegation that Johnson considered stopping the inquiry because Newman is a friend of the PM’s fiancee Carrie Symonds. Johnson has denied the claim. Cummings has said he has “definitive” WhatsApp messages with “very senior officials” about the issue. He is rumoured to have audio recordings from his time in government, along with reams of WhatsApp messages and emails. Cummings is now understood to be gathering material for a potentially incendiary appearance before a select committee next month examining the government’s response to the pandemic. He is known to have pushed for more severe restrictions to be imposed more quickly than they were. On Saturday, Downing Street, which is understood to have briefed newspapers on Thursday that Cummings was behind the leaks about texts between Johnson and Dyson, declined to repeat the allegation and said it could not comment on matters that were subject to leak inquiries. Senior Tories joined in the criticism with former attorney general Dominic Grieve describing the prime minister as a “vacuum of integrity”. Conservative MPs are furious the party appeared to have provoked Cummings by accusing him of leaking, thereby creating a crisis out of a difficult but manageable series of allegations. One former cabinet minister, now a backbencher, said Johnson had brought the crisis on himself by employing Cummings in No 10 in the first place. “My first thought when I heard of Cummings’s explosion was ‘who could have predicted it?’ The answer is everyone. Everyone told him not to take Cummings into Downing Street because it would end like this. Now Cummings has one and a half years of secrets from the heart of power to spill out at moments of his choosing. All this was completely avoidable.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/24/johnson-faces-mps-fury-over-downing-street-sleaze-claims Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Falling Foxes Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 I can never really understand your average working class person ever voting Tory, but the trouble is, these type of sleazy, possibly corrupt administrations are more likely when you have an unelectable opposition - as was the case with Labour under Corbyn and, going back a few years, Michael Foot. Massive Tory majorities inevitably follow, which mean less accountability and a feeling that they can try their hand at all sort of shenanigans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie1999 Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 On 23/04/2021 at 17:08, KrefelderFox666 said: Bonus point to anyone who can explain the connection of the photo with the headline. Is the woman carrying her glasses case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpe's Fox Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said: I can never really understand your average working class person ever voting Tory, but the trouble is, these type of sleazy, possibly corrupt administrations are more likely when you have an unelectable opposition - as was the case with Labour under Corbyn and, going back a few years, Michael Foot. Massive Tory majorities inevitably follow, which mean less accountability and a feeling that they can try their hand at all sort of shenanigans. Your left bashing theory doesn't really stack up when the most high profile Conservative "sleaze" stories were under the time of John Major's narrow majority up against Blair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie1999 Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said: I can never really understand your average working class person ever voting Tory, but the trouble is, these type of sleazy, possibly corrupt administrations are more likely when you have an unelectable opposition - as was the case with Labour under Corbyn and, going back a few years, Michael Foot. Massive Tory majorities inevitably follow, which mean less accountability and a feeling that they can try their hand at all sort of shenanigans. The problem is that working class parties aren’t represented working class politicians. Who would you go for a pint with, Boris or sir kier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr The Singh Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 1 hour ago, yorkie1999 said: The problem is that working class parties aren’t represented working class politicians. Who would you go for a pint with, Boris or sir kier? Pint with Diane Abbott sir?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facecloth Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 https://www.insider.com/josh-fight-draws-hundreds-to-lincoln-nebraska-battle-over-name-2021-4?utm_source=upday&utm_medium=referral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie1999 Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 2 hours ago, Dr The Singh said: Pint with Diane Abbott sir?? Only if she wore her shoes on the wrong foot. Be a laugh and half 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 25 April 2021 Share Posted 25 April 2021 2 hours ago, Facecloth said: https://www.insider.com/josh-fight-draws-hundreds-to-lincoln-nebraska-battle-over-name-2021-4?utm_source=upday&utm_medium=referral Won by a five year old ......if there wasn’t a pandemic then this would be a cute story ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Finnaldo Posted 26 April 2021 Share Posted 26 April 2021 6 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozleicester Posted 26 April 2021 Share Posted 26 April 2021 ANZAC day is almost the Oz equivalent of Remembrance Day.... The Front page of todays newspaper (we only have one paper in WA) was a story of a lone veteran who chose to march even though the state had been put into emergency lockdown and ANZAC day marches were cancelled. They got it COMPLETELY WRONG, this was just an anti lockdown anti government racist homophobe... but the front page ran... they took the "story" off their website 12 hours later. Media is a disaster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Fox Posted 26 April 2021 Share Posted 26 April 2021 I wasn’t sure whether to rep your post with a laugh or cry response. I really have zero trust in the media any more. Take a photo, write a narrative that the image appears to support and sell the story... what’s the old saying “don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story” It’s absolutely shocking the amount of fact checking that goes on now before they go to print. Not sure if it’s always been like this and we haven’t had the resources at our disposal to call them out on it, or it’s getting worse and worse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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