Leader Watch

So basically the two things wrong with Gary Lineker in Regworld were his failure to get a booking and that he used to kick a ball about. I would have thought him retweeting this article would have featured higher.

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexit-is-about-the-rich-rees-moggs-of-britain-not-anyone-else-1-4896702?utm_content=buffer4f596&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Anyway, as I’m sure AJ will remind us, neither Lineker or Sadiq Khan have thrown their hat in the ring for Tory leadership, so probably best to move on.

In the past you have advocated sending young people to fight (and die) in a war as a solution to society's problems. Above you suggest that only heroic feats in wartime are worthy of respect.
Just what is the connection between your glorification of war and your supposed Buddhist beliefs?

                (Another) Day With Esther





And so a great many old aged pensioners will suddenly find that one of the few enjoyments they have in life, watching the telly, now comes with a large bill attached. The equivalent to a £3 a week cut in their pension so someone said (those competent at maths might know if that's true or not). But just consider how carefully announcements such as this are planned and timed. Remainer May stepped down as Tory Party leader last Friday. Slap this licence fee bill on the old now, and who do you blame ?  Well the BBC don't care, they get sackfuls of complaints every day of the week anyway. Remainer May is on her way out, so she's no longer interested. Last week we were heralding all the old folk as heroes, the brave generation of D-Day that saved us from the Nazis, then the very next week it's 'Oi you old buggers, we've decided to take your free telly off you' . Praised to the skies last week, quick to take their money off them a few days later.

With a few more of the candidates to become PM launching their campaigns today, you'd have thought a few of them might have been tearing a strip off the BBC in more robust fashion. But most of them steered clear of the subject.....but not our fearless Esther, who let the greedy BBC have it with both barrels. Lining the pockets of the already super rich Lineker & Co, at the expense of frail and hard up pensioners....Esther was not impressed, and made her views abundantly clear. No quibbling if the lovely Esther becomes Prime Minister, the free TV licence will be restored to all those over 75.






From a local perspective we're naturally keeping an eye on the Saj Jav/Riv Mac dream ticket. A cabinet position for our Kev if Saj is the surprise winner ? Well the official Javid for PM video was released today....and Sadiq Khan doesn't appear in it. Probably for the reason Stewart rightly pointed out, that Khan is a Labour man, and won't be involving himself in this Tory leadership battle. Saj goes around to his Mum's house, and no, he doesn't say 'Mum can my friend Kevin stay for tea ?' Although by the look of Old Ma Javid's onion bhajis, Kev wouldn't turn down an invitation.



Only 2 minutes long, but a slick video offering from Team Javid/Foster.









 

I see that a lot of these poor OAP's have said they will rather go to prison than pay the licence fee...which is quite ironic, because they will actually get free tv there! 


This country is so far down the shitter, it will shortly be entering an Australians arse...think about it! 

I have no problem with people who tried drugs when they were younger...I smoked a bit of the funny stuff myself! 

The tobacco and drinks companies cause a lot more misery than a druggy ever did! 

McVey last with 9 votes and eliminated.

Boris may not be everyone's cup of tea...but he's head and shoulders above the rest of them!