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  • Started 7 months ago by Baldcyclist
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  1. Baldcyclist
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    Been tutting at monitor for half an hour and then this:

    "...that in future we raise the smoking age by one year, every year - that means a 14 year old today will never be legally sold a cigarette".

    Wow, lets hope that actually goes through parliament!

    Posted 7 months ago #
  2. neddie
    Member

    If he can do that, he can also raise the driving age by one year every year, thus eliminating another destructive scourge on society

    Posted 7 months ago #
  3. neddie
    Member

    I will do whatever is necessary to stop the boats.

    (That is code for: if necessary, Sunak is prepared to withdraw from the European convention on human rights)

    Yep, you heard that right! You will have NO HUMAN RIGHTS. Which means essentially that people can go around killing each other

    Posted 7 months ago #
  4. CocoShepherd
    Member

    Who in their right mind would vote for a party that has promised to get rid of everyone's human rights. Actually insane. No doubt they'll still mop up 25%+ of the UK vote though. The T*ry party: one of the wonders of the modern world. For all the wrong reasons.

    Posted 7 months ago #
  5. Morningsider
    Member

    This is quite funny in the Manchester Evening News:

    Government pledges to extend Metrolink line to Manchester Airport... where it already exists

    Posted 7 months ago #
  6. chdot
    Admin

    After days of frenzied speculation over the future of the flagship levelling up project, Sunak confirmed he was axing the Birmingham to Manchester line and would use the £36bn of savings to fund a number of other transport schemes, described as “Network North”.

    Cameron led a torrent of criticism of the announcement, which it emerged was made without consulting the cabinet, parliament, local councils or Network Rail, saying it passed up a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

    “It will help to fuel the views of those who argue that we can no longer think or act for the long-term as a country; that we are heading in the wrong direction,” he warned.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/04/sunak-sparks-tory-civil-war-with-scrapping-of-hs2-manchester-leg

    Posted 7 months ago #
  7. chdot
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    And he pledged some of that money would go directly towards improving Scotland, saying the Tory Government would “connect our Union with the A75, boosting links between Scotland and Northern Ireland”.

    https://archive.ph/rsyTC

    Scotsman

    Posted 7 months ago #
  8. chdot
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