Politics - The Non-Brexit Thread.

(04-11-2024 19:18 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Am I correct in thinking the farmers are having a protest to London on the 19th November.

If so how do they stand with bringing in their tractors into central London with the UZEL charges?

"Specialist Agricultural Vehicles" are exempt when used for Agricultural Purposes, so as long as they have a Muck Spreader attached and some spreading is done at an appropriate location *cough* they won't have to pay.

Farmers will not break the rules,they will just bend them.It is always what we have had to do.

(04-11-2024 18:01 )Snooks Wrote:  Priti Patel - Shadow foreign secretary
Mel Stride - Shadow chancellor

Stop. My sides are completely and utterly splitting with laughter .

Same as remember when Mel Stride said when he was secretary of state for the DWP that people who receive PIP get "thousands of pounds a week" when actually people on PIP receive nowhere near that.

Don't even get £100 a week on PIP

I think I just get £140 a month so that's not like I'm getting thousanda.

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(04-11-2024 19:31 )Tumble_Drier Wrote:  

(04-11-2024 19:18 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Am I correct in thinking the farmers are having a protest to London on the 19th November.

If so how do they stand with bringing in their tractors into central London with the UZEL charges?

"Specialist Agricultural Vehicles" are exempt when used for Agricultural Purposes, so as long as they have a Muck Spreader attached and some spreading is done at an appropriate location *cough* they won't have to pay.

Didn't they clog up the M25 once by just driving slowly round it? or was that the truckers?

(04-11-2024 18:58 )SecretAgent Wrote:  Farage has gone to the US again presumably to seek a Trade deal for his Clacton constituency - or is it to meet Google and ask their mapping team to show him where Claction is?

Does he not have an atlas in his car for that purpose? More than likely he will end up on Fox News giving a british political perspectve on the election.

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(04-11-2024 19:15 )Charlemagne Wrote:  He was never going to do any work in Clacton. And yet they still voted for him.

I reckon he'll be too old to stand in the next election - so I reckon he'll be looking to get into the the upper chamber somehow when next election happens.

It's reported that Elon Musk is planning to donate $100,000 to the Reform party.

^ Threat to democracy doing threat to democracy things. Expected.

(02-12-2024 12:33 )Charlemagne Wrote:  It's reported that Elon Musk is planning to donate $100,000 to the Reform party.

The story is it's $100m which would be more than the total sum of money spent by all the major parties in the 2024 election

Sounds more like it. Musk wouldn't waste his time for £100k.

More than likely will end up in Farage's bank account - which will then get closed again once they find out where the money's come from