With their own parliaments you mean ! One labour and one SNP mmm…

I was disappointed to see the headline which alluded to Keegan swearing and reading that she'd used the word 'ar*e'.

Genuinely hoped she'd referred to a group of peoples as a 'bunch of c*nts'. That would have made our politicians far more relatable for me. Alas.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

So all of a sudden all the schools found this problem at once. Most schools have some sort of building/ decorating/ waste of money vanity s*** going on every summer holiday. Are we to believe this is the first time any of them knew about this issue. If the work is big enough it needs consultants and architects etc. not buying this as anything but a banked article to deflect from something. Whether it’s the financial news being not so bad or something else. ULEZ who knows but something stinks.
Remember 9/11 “ a good day to bury bad news” !

As I posted earlier - this has been a bomb waiting to explode and suddenly it has - the year before an election - quelle surprise!
Successive governments of both parties have kicked the can down the road and here we are.
I suspect that the problem is nowhere near as bad as the media states but nonetheless it most certainly will be when modern day standards and regulations are applied to buildings nearly 60 years old (in some cases).
The cost over the coming 5 years will be huge and needlessly so.
It could have been dealt with far more cheaply starting in '96/'97 and running on from there.
Labour have no right to moan - since the first report it is 13 years each to Labour and Tory and none of them have done well.
As for the Civil Servant claiming budget cuts by Rishi - go back to bed you politicised arse - that is where you have spent every working day since covid anyway!
I detest the politicised Civil Service!

Edited by The Dolphin (05 Sep 2023 8.24am)

My secondary school was demolished about 50 years ago to make way for a housing estate.

The authorities obviously decided that this esteemed place POF learning for the likes of Jeff Beck, Roy Budd, Edward Woodward and Sir Eddie George was not worthy of an upgrade. It was tatty even in the early 60s.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

This concrete was a quick and easy cheap way to build back then.
However, like a lot of building back then no one thought of the long term future and so they built piles of s***e.
It was understandable I guess but it just piled up problems for the future.
If only Governments would plan for the long term and say that they are doing it so that future governments would have to continue along the same road we might not be in this mess.
This is just one small example of messes that politics creates, especially when the people in charge do not have a clue what they are doing - I include large swathes of the public sector in that statement as well - not just Ministers and their overpaid, idiotic advisors!