Noxville posted:

Oh for fucks sake

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/876864093751259140

Noxville posted:

Oh for fucks sake

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/876864093751259140

hookerbot 5000 posted:

TinTower posted:

My local greasy spoon does a Full English for £4.

Also, yep, terrorist white dude does look kinda thumbish.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

did you forget Fleetwood? I mean, my great grandma lived there and even 10 year old me found it boring. Southport I went to once to watch Slough play in the 1998 FA Trophy Semi Final 2nd Leg. They delayed the kick-off by half an hour because no fucker was there, decided that 150 of us Slough fans needed 20 cops and 4 on horseback to keep us in line, and the school which shared a border with the ground had a barbed wire fence to keep the students in. Needless to say, we lost due to the most offside goal ever and started our plummet towards true non-league obscurity and not even Sophie Howard can make it better

Rumda posted:

No-one remembers Fleetwood that hasn't lived there. It's even part of my local constituency and I don't remember it.

hookerbot 5000 posted:

It's a bit scruffy and the elephants are more cartoony than they should be but I like how it turned out.

And thanks to people who said nice stuff about the Absolute Toy

Gorn Myson posted:

Brexitters will claim that this is Corbyn's fault for "dividing the country".

coffeetable posted:

got me wondering what the gdp of various british cities is

code:

London			£43,629
Milton Keynes		£41,581
Edinburgh		£36,963
Belfast			£35,023
Glasgow			£32,305
Bristol			£30,850
Peterborough		£27,745
Nottingham		£27,645
Leeds			£27,466
Derby			£27,266
Portsmouth		£25,236
Brighton & Hove		£24,989
York			£24,499
Bournemouth and Poole	£23,787
Southampton		£23,535
Liverpool		£22,790
Cardiff and Glamorgan	£22,783
Luton			£22,766
Birmingham		£22,307
Coventry		£22,165
Leicester		£21,812
Greater Manchester	£21,626
Tyneside		£21,566
Sunderland		£20,728
Wakefield		£19,837
Sheffield		£19,833
Kingston upon Hull	£19,803
Plymouth		£19,762
Stoke-on-Trent		£18,926
Swansea			£18,577
Wolverhampton		£18,179
Bradford		£17,892

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_cities_by_GVA

reckon that's rolls royce holding derby up

minema posted:

My fiancee just saw one of the red texts and I had to find all the others to show him too. Now he's rolling around the bed laughing hysterically, which is dangerous because he has the shits and I'm in the splash zone

He says "fattermore's legal fees" was the highlight

Kurtofan posted:

long hair rools!

spectralent posted:

fortunately the collective head-trauma the country seemed to have suffered from the brexit vote seems to be wearing off. Hopefully at some point in the next few months people are going to start seeing some sense in poll-swinging amounts.


How the gently caress is brighton such an expensive place to live

quote:

The Conservative council responsible for the tower block where at least 79 people died in a fire described by the mayor of London as preventable has stockpiled £274m of reserves and offered rebates to residents paying the top rate of council tax.

According to the latest accounts, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ran a budget surplus, which Labour councillors have claimed was being used as a slush fund to bribe voters with a rebate close to elections.

A draft statement of Kensington and Chelsea’s accounts for 2016-17 disclosed that the council has an “AA” credit rating and a financial standing described as robust, with “usable reserves at 31 March 2017 of £274m (£300m at 31 March 2016)”.

The council has been relieved of responsibility for taking care of the survivors of the disaster, having struggled to cope with the aftermath of the deadly blaze. A new Grenfell fire response team, made up of representatives from central government, the British Red Cross, the Metropolitan police, London-wide local and regional government and the London fire brigade, will now coordinate efforts.

In 2014, the council decided to hand back £100 to residents paying the top rate of council tax in 2014 after a claimed “overachieving efficiency drive”, a decision criticised in a letter to the Guardian following the high-rise fire.

The rebate was paid weeks before local elections which returned a Conservative council, the author of the letter wrote. “Austerity, K&C style: you give to the rich while taking from the poor (nobody with discounted bills or claiming council tax support was eligible to share in the bounty of the town hall blue-chips).

“As the toxic ash of Grenfell Tower’s vanity cladding falls over the neighbouring streets, we are left with the acrid truth in our throats: regeneration in the Royal Borough is in fact a crime of greed and selfishness,” the author wrote.
Labour councillors have said the refund was a form of bribe handed to wealthy voters just before the local elections. Robert Atkinson, leader of the council’s Labour group, told a budget meeting this year that the Tories were “bribing the electorate with its own money” after the council “systematically and deliberately created underspends”.

Before the fire, residents of the tower block had protested about cuts to the housing budget. In 2015, the council paid £5m from its reserves to help establish Opera Holland Park, formerly a department of the Kensington and Chelsea, as an independent charity.

Last year, housing officials in the borough took about £55m in rent, but invested less than £40m back in council housing.

Regarde Aduck posted:

In the south by the coast.

Regarde Aduck posted:

In the south by the coast.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Jesus loving Christ.
The Guardian says


Snidely Whiplash would be blushing in shame.

nothing to seehere posted:

So is Portsmouth and no-one is queuing up to live there.

communism bitch posted:

I love that we caved to the barmy brussels bureaucrats on the first day of negotiations.

BRITANE STRONG

Itzena posted:

We're going to end up with a deal that's basically "You effectively stay in Europe but you don't get any rebate, you don't get any opt-outs, and you don't get any representation. Now pay us" and I will laugh and laugh and laugh.

TACD posted:

How did you all do Breakfastchat with nary a mention of white pudding? Get your heads in the game.

Lobster God posted:

https://twitter.com/annajleach/status/876758653386338304/photo/1

spectralent posted:

fortunately the collective head-trauma the country seemed to have suffered from the brexit vote seems to be wearing off. Hopefully at some point in the next few months people are going to start seeing some sense in poll-swinging amounts.


How the gently caress is brighton such an expensive place to live

Lobster God posted:

https://twitter.com/annajleach/status/876758653386338304/photo/1

Lobster God posted:

https://twitter.com/annajleach/status/876758653386338304/photo/1

vodkat posted:

its within an hours commuting distance of the city, is an actual nice (and the most liberal) sea side town.

if you have the $$$ who wouldn't want to live there?

Lobster God posted:

https://twitter.com/annajleach/status/876758653386338304/photo/1

vodkat posted:

holy gently caress, lets just take minute to appreciate that the majority of under 64s don't think capitalism is a good thing

Mulva posted:

I love how basically all those lines trend down, because people just like things less as they get older evidently?

Skarsnik posted:

I always knew Cardiff was pretty badly racist but the last few election results kind of gave me hope

Turns out hope is a lie and all that

Mulva posted:

I love how basically all those lines trend down, because people just like things less as they get older evidently?

vodkat posted:

holy gently caress, lets just take minute to appreciate that the majority of under 64s don't think capitalism is a good thing

Arsenic Lupin posted:

I realise the question answers itself, but why in God's name did Chelsea think it was a good idea to profit on social housing by dint of skimping on repair costs? Since when is social housing supposed to make a profit?