October politics thread - counting down to doom in weeks and days

[GoFasterStripes]

Is anyone going to make any real policy that has impacts beyond Brexit at any time soon?

[shinymcshine]

Boris dodging a committee hearing and asking for a delay of 5 or 6 months.

Total brasser.

[anon19035908]

Haven’t got a clue pal, I’m mainly here to make mediocre jokes and find out what’s going on from the clever kids.

[urbanfox]

I see they’ve changed the message on the matrix signs on the Motorways and it’s irking me no end.

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[Icarus-Smicarus]

I didn’t realise he’d made his deal shit enough to lose the support of Kate Hoey. Great work Johnson!

she’s a massive NI unionist though, she’s good mates with the DUP so no surprise she’d vote the same way as them. how she ended up in Labour still baffles me.

[Icarus-Smicarus]

if you’re a renter in Northern Ireland your landlord usually has to pay the rates on the house which includes the water charges. 1-0 tenants

(obviously landlords can just factor this in to the rent but rent is pretty cheap here tbh)

[Icarus-Smicarus]

in the republic they protested againt water charges HARD until the government gave in.

[Icarus-Smicarus]

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easier to just go to Schuh or somewhere surely

[harru]

Pros : free water!!!

Cons: it’s undrinkable!!!

Boil water notice issued for 600,000 people in Leinster

[Icarus-Smicarus]

yeah but who cares about Leinster pricks anyway

[harru]

All the bottled water is selling out and I think I’ll have to wait to get to work in the southside tomorrow before I can properly brush my teeth

[Icarus-Smicarus]

I’ll have to wait to get to work in the southside tomorrow before I can properly brush my teeth

thought northsiders had to do this every day already

[Icarus-Smicarus]

seriously though it’s probably just Pat Spillane trying to poison the Dublin team

[1101010]

Tory source adds: Corbyn has made clear that he has hidden several tonnes of gunpowder beneath the HoC, he plans to end the protestant menace and install the pope in place of the Queen

Dawn Foster would certainly approve.

I mean. Privatising water. The brass neck of it.

(The Twitter thread under that explains how it’s not 27%, FWIW.) But as I understand part of privatisation was about trying to generate cash to pay out on all the gold-plated pensions they’d given staff who hadn’t done the decent thing and died aged 64 as well as all the other shit.

[Kallgeese]

I’ve been studying Irish Water as part of my course in college and it’s a fucking joke. The whole organisation should be scrapped at this point.

Those water protests were great though. Glad they worked.

[BodyInTheThames]

What with all the climate/pollution issues and the sheer number of cars in the UK I’d have thought that the most profitable and least fundamentally bad privatisation would be roads

Why has that never happened in the UK when it’s pretty normal in Europe ?

[cutthelights]

In October? Next level

[Kallgeese]

@BodyInTheThames genuinely thought you were riffing on this there.

[BodyInTheThames]

maybe I was

unconsciously liek

[thewarn]

Thats an interesting quote