Tag: UK
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Tractors, Elections And Protest
Monday, 2 May 2022 WHILE the UK remains successfully distracted by the allegations that Tiverton and Honiton MP, Neil Parish, viewed porn while in the House of Commons, two important pieces of legislation finally passed through the House of Lord with barely a whimper from a media who prefer to toady to the Tories rather […]
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F You 2021…
Well screw you 2021, you gave us two new Coronavirus variants, a bunch of nutballs in the form of anti-vaxxers and now you have taken Betty White from us on the very last day. We knew you had a trick up your sleeve, but even we didn’t expect it to be this shit. So 2022, […]
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Dodging Bullets For The Captalist Cause
I dodged the COVID bullet this weekend and it was a bullet with my name on it. After a weekend away at Christmas camp with cadets one cadet (unmasked and unvaxxed due to medical issues) tested positive for COVID-19, they were in my group for the entire weekend and while I was masked for 99% […]
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Another Day on Batshit Island
IT is difficult keeping up with the latest shit show in the UK, last week Boris Johnson made Liz Truss the Foreign Secretary and thus began a series of events which will lead to the inevitable downfall of the country to hands of the ever-fickle Pork Markets. Dominic Rabb was somehow demoted and yet promoted […]
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Who’s Freedom Is It Anyway?!
Self proclaimed purveyors of free speech, GB News, have condemned presenter, Guto Harri after he ‘took the knee’ on air in support of England footballers who suffered racial abuse after the Euro 2020 finals. In a statement release on Twitter, GB News said that it was “an unacceptable breach of our standards.” Yes! There you […]
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The Cowardly Lion
In a normal, well run country, any Prime Minister would have sacked Matt Hancock for the scandal of his extra marital affair and his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. But this is not a normal, well run country and we have Boris Johnson as our Prime Minister so it was bound to […]
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Hancock Half Cocked
After increasing pressure, including from his own party, Health Secretary, Matt Hancock has resigned. The resignation comes a day after The Sun newspaper published pictures of him kissing his adviser in what was deemed a ‘breach of Covid regulations’ In a video statement released on Twitter (June 26, 2021), Hancock said: “Those of who make […]
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Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey…they elected the Creationist
Edwin Poots, Agriculture Minister in the Northern Ireland assembly, has been elected to lead the Democratic Unionist Party after the resignation of Arlene Foster. The MSP for the Lagan Valley beat rival, Sir Jeffery Donaldson, by two votes for the top job. Members have rushed to social media to wish him well in his new […]
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The 1 percent
Healthcare unions have denounced the 1 percent pay increase for NHS staff. The recommendation by the Department for Health and Social Care to the NHS pay review body comes after a year of unprecedented pressure for the service and its workers. 1 percent, 1 fucking percent! It’s almost as though the government have thought ‘You […]
Nicola Gale 