Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Treat meat eaters like smokers, warns Jeremy Corbyn's new vegan farming minister Kerry McCarthy

I think i might go and live in Syria .

Mr Corbyn also said that he would scrap Margaret Thatcher's anti-unions strike laws, which could see the return of flying pickets and 'solidarity strike action'. Asked if he would scrap Mrs Thatcher's anti-strike laws

A friend of mine once watched Jeremy Corbyn try to rape an owl. This was the early to mid-1980s. The Labour leader used to come round to my squat in Leytonstone and we’d sit cross–legged on the floor, sniffing glue from a large plastic bag, and listen to Camper Van Beethoven’s ‘Take The Skinheads Bowling’. Jeremy was on the periphery of our little clique and we were suspicious of him because he was posh. Sometimes, when we were passing the glue bag around, we’d miss him out from sheer spite. Eventually this friend of mine — I won’t name him — told Corbyn that if he wanted to join our gang, rather than just sit there on sufferance, he’d have to pass an initiation test. He had a choice — he could either take a left-wing black woman, any left-wing black woman, on a motorcycle tour of the German Democratic Republic, or rape an owl. He looked out from beneath his fecund and autonomous beard and said, fairly promptly, ‘I’ll rape the owl.’

He had to break into an owl sanctuary somewhere to procure the owl. He turned up in Leytonstone a few days later with a rare and rather magnificent giant scops owl, renowned for its haunting call of ‘whuuuah, whuuuah’. My friend accompanied Corbyn and the owl into a bedroom, while we lay about downstairs in a narcoleptic stupor. I didn’t want anything to do with this initiation rite, as I have always liked and respected owls, and felt that this was an infringement of their liberty. Anyway, seemingly ages past. We heard, from upstairs, an occasional rather panicked ‘whuuuah, whuuuah’ and after a while Jeremy and my friend came back downstairs, Corbyn looking morose and my friend cackling with glee. ‘He couldn’t do it! He’s out of the clique!’ Corbyn shook his head and just said: ‘I’ll have to take some black left-wing woman to Czechoslovakia, I suppose.’

‘East Germany!’ we all shouted, as one.

JB,

Put you cap on the pavement.

I am sure some will help you buy a ticket to do so, even if it is only halfway.

You can walk the rest!

The mother Victim, JB and a few others miss.

Mind she still has an eye on you and Manuel.




I wonder if she is still in a Tax haven like Austria doing deals for her son?

What a beauty !!!! she would have the EU all sorted out ,they wouldn't mess with Maggie .

Nobody with any sense would want to touch her.

Labour seen as more divided, extreme and out of date under Corbyn, poll suggests

The negative findings include:

1 - A striking increase in the number of voters seeing the party as divided (75%, up 32 points since April), extreme (36%, up 22) and out of date (55%, up 19).

2 - Corbyn having worse ratings than Ed Miliband in April on being a capable leader, being good in a crisis, having sound judgment, understanding the problems facing Britain and being out of touch with ordinary people. On all these measures except for being out of touch, David Cameron also beats Corbyn. But although Corbyn’s ratings are lower than Miliband’s on these five measures, the differences are small.

3 - Corbyn has a net satisfaction rating of -3. According to Mike Smithson, this is worse than for any Labour leader from the time of Michael Foot in their first Ipsos MORI poll.

Well, lots might say, that Corbyn is so crap at present, that the only way to go is 'Up'.

When he next appears on TV at PMQT, look out for the tidiness of his neckwear.

IMHO, if there is improvement, then it will indicate he is beginning to develop a conciousness about his image - and further, doing something about bettering it.

not quite .... the stylists will have got him by the scruff

Exec.

I remember in market-places David Cameron look-alikes selling pre-wrapped Xmas presents.

When the punters took them home they were as empty as Wavy Davy.

Many a dress up spiv and business man are flashy on the outside and rotten at their core.

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I must admit watching your Dave's talking about EU and Immigrants makes me and others cringe.

At least Corbyn looks and appears honest.

I hope he isn't corrupted by his opposition.

fred - i don't think JC is any more corrupt than you, but i think he lives in a similar cloud-cuckoo land

A vegan as shadow farming minister? What a plonker LOL!!!

merely an oxymoron

Don't forget, Corbyn is a vegetarian.

Channel 4 news:-

55,000 Homeless people in UK, 40% increase in 5 years. Not counting those people who choose or otherwise to sleep rough.

Jeremy Corbyn becomes first Labour leader ever to score negative debut poll rating
He is the only Labour leader to score negatively on his opening Ipsos-MORI poll, putting him behind Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband

By Kate McCann, Senior Political Correspondent2:38PM BST 24 Sep 2015
Jeremy Corbyn has become the first Labour leader to score a negative poll rating on his debut, Ipsos-MORI has confirmed.
The left-wing firebrand scored minus three - worse than every other party leader since 1980, including Ed Miliband.
His rating was also worse than the Conservatives Iain Duncan Smith and William Hague.

Jeremy Corbyn knocks back frontbencher's suggestion to launch campaign against eating meat
Labour leader says people should be allowed to eat meat after MP's suggestion for anti-smoking style campaign against it triggers backlash

By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Correspondent5:14PM BST 24 Sep 2015
Labour’s shadow cabinet has split over whether people should eat meat after Jeremy Corbyn knocked back comments made by his new shadow environment secretary.
Mr Corbyn said people should “carry on eating meat” if they wished after Kerry McCarthy proposed an anti-smoking style campaign to decrease meat consumption.
Ms McCarthy’s comments, which were made before she took up the role, had triggered a backlash from politicians and the farming community.
Owen Patterson, the former environment secretary, told The Telegraph the idea of campaigning to stop people eating meat was “completely ludicrous” and would undermine the countryside.


Meanwhile National Farmers' Union (NFU) said it wanted to meet Ms McCarthy at the “earliest opportunity” to understand Labour’s stance towards the community.
It comes after comments Ms McCarthy made to the Viva! life, a magazine for vegans, earlier this year resurfaced in the media.
“I really believe that meat should be treated in exactly the same way as tobacco, with public campaigns to stop people eating it,” said Ms McCarthy, a staunch vegan.
"Progress on animal welfare is being made at EU level ... but in the end it comes down to not eating meat or dairy.


"The constant challenging of the environmental impact of livestock farming is making me more and more militant."
Asked about the comments by ITV News, Mr Corbyn contradicted the suggestion by encouraging meat-eaters not to change their habits.
“I am a vegetarian. I personally don't eat meat and haven't for a very very long time,” Mr Corbyn said.
He added: “I think meat eaters, if they wish to carry on eating meat, that's up to them to do so. I don't stop people eating meat indeed many people that I know very well eat meat often in front of me and I tolerate it with the normal decency, courtesy and respect that you would expect from me.”

It is the latest shadow cabinet split after contradicting positions on scrapping Trident nuclear weapons, leaving Nato and bombing Isil in Syria emerged in recent days.
Mr Corbyn and his aides have played down the significance of differing views among senior Labour MPs, saying he backs a new democratic style of policy making.
Ms McCarthy’s comments were criticised by Mr Patterson, who was Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs between September 2012 and July 2014.
“Equating meat, which brings protein, pleasure and prosperity to consumers to tobacco, which does lead to health problems, is completely ludicrous,” Mr Patterson told The Telegraph.
“It just shows the Labour Party is completely and totally out of touch with the countryside.”