General News Thread

Barbados today announce plans to ditch the Queen and become a republic next year

Good for them. Who in their right mind would want to be connected to us now, we've got a government that are not to be trusted.

Now where do we start with Chris Grayling?



First of all he was Transport Secretary and I've heard that job referred to as Transport Muggins. Everybody and his wife thinks that they could make the trains run on time. Whenever he was grilled on BBC Parliament he gave a plausible account.
But then again there was the number of cock ups and how they appeared so dire, 'gave a ferry contract to a firm with no ferries'.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/fa...id=BHEA000

But now he's getting £100,000 a year for a very part time job. What I want to see is his letter of application. Assuming there was one. Surely Hutchinson realise he's toxic. OK, so he's done the job, he knows, he's been there etc, etc . Trouble is hire him and you make yourself look stupid.

Hi Mr. Whoever's going to buy the Beverley.



https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/au...id=BHEA000

I don't mind if it's scrapped. It is the last one but the Victor's a V Bomber so please have that instead.



https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/raf-marham-...-1-6504843

OK so the dance/disco/soul lot have got:

Radio 1
Radio 1 Extra
Say 2/3rd's of Radio 2
Some of Radio 3
Some of local radio, the rest's chat
Strictly Come Dancing and it's associated empire

Against that there's the odd time that Ken Bruce plays Do Anything You Wanna Do by Eddie and The Hotrods so yes it's all gone Pete Tong

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/mp...id=BHEA000

I've always had the greatest faith in Ofcom.

Police officer shot dead in custody suite by handcuffed suspect named

The police officer shot dead inside a south London custody suite by a handcuffed suspect armed with a revolver has been named as
Matiu Ratana. He was 2 months away from retirement he was 54.

^BBC news just reported that it's another "known" scumbag who had been referred to a De-radicalisation programme.

It's all getting to be so fucking predictable.

The usual bluff, & bluster in PMQ's

I see two billionaire brothers from Blackburn had bought ASDA from Walmart for 6.8 billion

They are petrol station tycoons and after seeing the prices they charge expect ASDA's to start rising.

I think that will hit Asda in their pockets (tap, tap)