Just walked around Albert Dock. Never seen so many people looking uncomfortable in suits.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/03/theresa-may-tory-conference-boris-johnson-marina-hyde

Glorious stuff from Marina Hyde, even by her sky-high standards.

From the BBC

fucking useless [...] government

Feex

David Cameron wants to make a comeback. We know what'll happen. He'll appear on stage, try out some new stuff, then the crowd will start demanding he just plays the greatest hits.

I’d quite happily vote Green in the local elections if they had put up someone that wasn’t a children’s poet.

Ours is a nurse who works full time in the local hospital.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/nov/11/nursery-fees-rise--as-free-childcare-pledge-backfires

I am not surprised.

The research reveals it is predominantly better-off families who are benefiting from the extra £1bn a year set aside by the government to fund free childcare. While the majority (58%) of families who earn £45,000 or more have taken up the offer, just a quarter (26%) of those earning under £20,000 have done so, suggesting childcare remains unaffordable for many low-income parents.

Why is a nurse a better politition than a writer?

Are they quitting their job to become a councillor or do it on top of a full-time job?

Lord Berkeley:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the case for the disestablishment of the Church of England.

Lord Young of Cookham (Con):

My Lords, none.

... if people really knew what we were saying and doing, they would think we had lost our marbles.

Christ, the bar is getting low. Maybe I'll ask for one.

Well, it is all disgusting and vile and I am Very Angry yet sad about how the country ended up here.

We're certainly on on our way down the shitter, but who is responsible? The tories of course, aided and abetted by the press (the right wingers naturally).

And the Labour party

We should be a country that treats the doctor from Poland in the same way as a doctor from Pakistan.

Diane Abbott has really fucked me off, again.

Bobby (not his real name), who looked around five, came along with his mum and younger sister. As a couple of sausage rolls were bagged up for them to take home, he leaned towards me and asked: "Do you have any turkey please so we can have a Christmas dinner?"

I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. It's not just the horror of a child being hungry and needing to rely on charity handouts. It's that a little boy had already worked out that his family were a little bit different from everyone else's. He knew most people would be sitting down to a feast of turkey, potatoes and veg on Christmas Day and he probably wouldn't.

On another occasion I heard a little girl whisper to her mum that she was "really hungry" as she eyed the iced cakes on the table next to her. On another it was a young boy, about 11, standing by his disabled mother as she cried about the situation they were in.

Chris Grayling has defended his decision to award a £13.8m contract to charter extra ferries to a “start-up” company that has no ships, as part of no-deal Brexit preparations.

"At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, ... it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?"
"Plenty of prisons..."
"And the Union workhouses." demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"Both very busy, sir..."
"Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."