The state of the UK

[Brian Peacock]

Typical Dutch, dumping their shit on the rest of the world.

[JimC]

Dutch shit is the best shit...

(someone had to say it...)

[Sean Hayden]

Have you considered just bombing the cunts?

[Scot Dutchy]

Boris Shithead makes another mistake:

No 10 urged to revoke trade role for 'misogynist' Tony Abbott

Calls grow to block the appointment of former Australian PM as trade adviser

Boris Johnson is under mounting pressure to backtrack over the appointment of Tony Abbott as a trade adviser, amid growing condemnation of his misogynistic and homophobic comments and his dismissal of the climate crisis.

Facing the prospect of another potentially embarrassing U-turn, Downing Street insisted on Thursday that “no decisions” had been taken over the choice of the former Australian prime minister.

It came after the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, raised serious concerns about Abbott’s suitability for the role – misgivings echoed by human rights groups Amnesty International and Liberty, the TUC, women’s equality body the Fawcett Society, and environmental campaigners Greenpeace.

Abbott had been expected to join the Board of Trade, a historic body revived by Theresa May’s government to advise on Britain’s post-Brexit trade policy around the world.

[rainbow]

Have you considered just bombing the cunts?

Are you talking about the Tories, or the Dutch?

[Svartalf]

Nuke both from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

[rainbow]

Nuke both from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Why not exile all the Tories to Holland, and solve two problems at once?

[Scot Dutchy]

Nuke both from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Why not exile all the Tories to Holland, and solve two problems at once?

Pack them off to Africa. They will feel at home there. Then bomb them and solve a whole raft of problems.

[Svartalf]

bomb them in Africa? why? give them dog collars and bibles and the locals will take care of them but good, and save us the expense and effort.

[laklak]

Ek se boet, Suid Afrika got plenty of Dutchies already.

[Scot Dutchy]

That guy Cummings he just keep fingers out of the till.

Cummings alley's PR firm given Covid-19 contracts without tenders

Hanbury Strategy, co-founded by ex-Vote Leaver Paul Stephenson, is being paid £640,000

A lobbying and PR firm co-founded by an ally of Dominic Cummings has been given two government contracts without competitive tenders during the pandemic.

The Cabinet Office and Treasury contracts have been awarded to Hanbury Strategy, co-founded by Paul Stephenson, who worked alongside Cummings as the director of communications for the 2016 Vote Leave campaign. The other Hanbury founder, Ameet Gill, was David Cameron’s director of strategy in Downing Street.

Hanbury is the fourth Tory–linked firm to have been awarded work since the start of the pandemic under emergency rules that allow public bodies to bypass the standard procurement rules requiring an open competitive tendering process.

[rainbow]

Ek se boet, Suid Afrika got plenty of Dutchies already.

Sinews and fat, not very palatable.
No thanks

[laklak]

They're definitely on the low-n-slow side of the cook-o-meter, but the real problem is the grease. Clean-up is nasty.

[Scot Dutchy]

Another great divide. Dont have on the right uniform and you are fucked.

Britain's obsession with school uniform reinforces social divisions

Other countries don’t feel the need to strip children of their individuality

t’s September, and with it comes that back-to-school feeling that even as an adult you can never quite shake. I associate it with the delicious plasticky smell that emanates from the insides of pencil cases; cool, crisper mornings that hit you as you rush from the house trailing toast crumbs, and of course, new uniform – if your parents can afford it.

In the midst of a pandemic that has gutted the economy, this year parents are finding it all the more challenging to pay for their children’s school uniforms, the Children’s Society is warning. In March of this year, it found that the average cost of buying uniform for a child over the course of a year is now £340. No wonder some parents take out loans, getting into debt so that their child can conform to the school’s wishes, which often include having a sole supplier agreement with a costly uniform company, leaving them with no other option.

Edinburgh is a great bastion of school uniforms.

[Svartalf]

Yet we regularly have talk of ordaining school uniforms her, because the kids attending in their own clothes are regarded as deleteriously divisive, as cliques of kids who can afford to flaunt this brand or that are exclusive of those who can't of won't...