Our Success is in our members who value our strength as a valued community.
Forum Statistics
Forums65
Topics76,497
Posts1,034,106
Members14,886
Most Online80,173
Apr 25th, 2025
Who's Online Now
11 members (Alex_Macmillan, 2 invisible), 3,676 guests, and 485 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters
sunnyside 45,164
MattLFC 22,315
Mark 21,269
granny 17,811
_Ste_ 16,347
Newest Members
Littlehaven22, BluePeter, David_Roberts, PostNB, Gemnm
14,886 Registered Users
New General Forums
Cammell Laird Film - Old Ships & Hardships
by David_Roberts - 16th Jul 2025 5:03pm
Cammell Laird Film - Old Ships & Hardships
by David_Roberts - 16th Jul 2025 5:00pm
Subscriptions to posts?
by nickaxe - 5th Jul 2025 12:33pm
Moan about the Weather Page
by RUDEBOX - 1st Jul 2009 1:31pm
New Wirral History
Hoylake Parade School tragedy
by chris58 - 16th Jul 2025 5:30pm
Removed Mother from Grave
by bert1 - 29th Jun 2025 6:44am
Park Primary School Circa Mid to Late 1960s
by _natabb96 - 26th Jun 2025 9:33pm
Birkenhead Union Workhouse
by bert1 - 28th May 2025 1:50pm
Top Posters(30 Days)
bert1 12
bri445 2
Topic Replies
Pay and Display ... Or Not.
by diggingdeeper - 18th Jul 2025 12:53am
Mobile Welder Wanted
by Grosvenor - 17th Jul 2025 6:46pm
Hoylake Parade School tragedy
by chris58 - 16th Jul 2025 5:30pm
Cammell Laird Film - Old Ships & Hardships
by David_Roberts - 16th Jul 2025 5:02pm
boxing club well lane
by bert1 - 12th Jul 2025 4:45am
Chat : Wirral Pubs Past & Present
by diggingdeeper - 10th Jul 2025 12:57am
132 Central Hotel
by joney - 8th Jul 2025 9:02am
White House, Childer Thornton
by bert1 - 8th Jul 2025 7:38am
July
M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
Top Likes Received (30 Days)
bert1 1
Philip 1
Top Likes Received
bert1 29
casper 4
Mark 4
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Page 2 of 3 1 2 3
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 2,390
Likes: 4
Forum Master
Offline
Forum Master
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 2,390
Likes: 4
Well he's not going to admit anything is he? almost to believable, I love my country and we need to look after everybody even the non Tory voters really laid it on with a ladle,even a little bit of how he has fought so that everyone is treated fairly boohoo if he really felt that way, why the last minute admission? wouldn't respond properly to AM when the brexit question was put to him, he became evasive.

Google Ads
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,520
Likes: 33
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,520
Likes: 33
Originally Posted by granny
As I watched the budget this week, and as George Osborn was giving his speech, the BBC clearly gave a view of Iain Duncan Smith, standing and watching Osborne as he delivered the budget.

However, IDS has told Andrew Marr this morning, that the picture was not of him on that day, as he wasn't even there for the budget, he was at a funeral !!


He wasn't there at the Budget, he might have been present at the follow up budget debates.


Attached Images
budget.jpg

We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

https://ddue.uk
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 19,446
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 19,446
Originally Posted by casper
Well he's not going to admit anything is he? almost to believable, I love my country and we need to look after everybody even the non Tory voters really laid it on with a ladle,even a little bit of how he has fought so that everyone is treated fairly boohoo if he really felt that way, why the last minute admission? wouldn't respond properly to AM when the brexit question was put to him, he became evasive.
Sickening to watch. Right wing paper reports are very interesting.

Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 17,811
Likes: 3
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 17,811
Likes: 3
Originally Posted by diggingdeeper
Originally Posted by granny
As I watched the budget this week, and as George Osborn was giving his speech, the BBC clearly gave a view of Iain Duncan Smith, standing and watching Osborne as he delivered the budget.

However, IDS has told Andrew Marr this morning, that the picture was not of him on that day, as he wasn't even there for the budget, he was at a funeral !!


He wasn't there at the Budget, he might have been present at the follow up budget debates.



He was clearly shown during Osborne's budget speech,standing in position , arms folded , by the BBC live televised programme. which is the same picture that has been displayed in one of the newspapers. All I can say is that BBC did a brief fill in when they took the camera's off Osborne. I remember thinking to myself, 'well, he doesn't look happy about that '.


Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
~Chief Seattle
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,520
Likes: 33
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,520
Likes: 33
Originally Posted by granny
He was clearly shown during Osborne's budget speech,standing in position , arms folded , by the BBC live televised programme. which is the same picture that has been displayed in one of the newspapers. All I can say is that BBC did a brief fill in when they took the camera's off Osborne. I remember thinking to myself, 'well, he doesn't look happy about that '.


The Guardian used this picture which is from the previous July's budget speech.


Attached Images
2019.jpg

We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

https://ddue.uk
Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 17,811
Likes: 3
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 17,811
Likes: 3
Have you spent all day trying to prove me wrong here DD ? I must have been on cannabis having psychotic episodes.


Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
~Chief Seattle
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 3,621
Forum Guardian
Offline
Forum Guardian
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 3,621
I too watched the Andrew Marr interview and thought IDS conducted himself well and his answers /explanations made sense to me .If hes lying through his teeth , then I would like him as my lawyer if ever I get in trouble lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sOhp5HObW8

Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 4,044
Forum Guardian
Offline
Forum Guardian
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 4,044
Think a lot of us have worked in jobs and at some point had a rough deal--we plod on dutifuly for years till finally we do an IDS. He is probably just fed up of politics--as he said the final straw.

Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 17,811
Likes: 3
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 17,811
Likes: 3
He was the one in 2013 who said he could live on £53 per week after housing costs. Not much compassion then !

I suppose he could if he had his army uniform and boots supplied,plus camp fire with burger and beans every day.

lamethrower


Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
~Chief Seattle
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,520
Likes: 33
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,520
Likes: 33
Originally Posted by granny
Have you spent all day trying to prove me wrong here DD ? I must have been on cannabis having psychotic episodes.


Quite the opposite, the media have been playing tricks by tying the wrong budget with the wrong pictures. Its a trick they often use.


We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

https://ddue.uk
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 211
Addict
Offline
Addict
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 211
Look out, George!

"Ross Hawkins, BBC political correspondent

George Osborne: chief tactician and patron, a man whose word makes or wrecks careers.

That was the view of many Tory MPs for a very long time. Now, many doubt he will ever be their leader, or even the chancellor much longer."

Joined: May 2012
Posts: 2,390
Likes: 4
Forum Master
Offline
Forum Master
Joined: May 2012
Posts: 2,390
Likes: 4
From detested right wing hatchet man, to socialist reformer/ hail fellow well met in one easy move, Cameron giving him support what a sterling chap, while putting the knife in ( he has presided over our welfare reforms over the past few years) we will carry on with reforms for the benefit of all one nation all in it together, stop it Dave! no one believes you any more, you and your mate thrown to the wolves by a caring socialist Tory, sounds like a plot from the Twilight Zone.

Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 19,446
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 19,446
Noticed Gideon had Chicken Tonight? Lol

Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,520
Likes: 33
Wiki Master
Offline
Wiki Master
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,520
Likes: 33
Originally Posted by casper
From detested right wing hatchet man, to socialist reformer/ hail fellow well met in one easy move, Cameron giving him support what a sterling chap, while putting the knife in ( he has presided over our welfare reforms over the past few years) we will carry on with reforms for the benefit of all one nation all in it together, stop it Dave! no one believes you any more, you and your mate thrown to the wolves by a caring socialist Tory, sounds like a plot from the Twilight Zone.


I can't how it can be as yet but this stinks of some sort of manipulative plot that they are all in on. I will wait for future announcements and then start putting the jigsaw together.


We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn

https://ddue.uk
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 211
Addict
Offline
Addict
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 211
Surely not this compassionate Conservative Party! Cameron's words, not mine.

Page 2 of 3 1 2 3

Moderated by  Mod 

Link Copied to Clipboard
Random Wirral Images

Click to View Topic.
Newest Topics
Pay and Display ... Or Not.
by diggingdeeper - 18th Jul 2025 12:53am
Mobile Welder Wanted
by Grosvenor - 17th Jul 2025 6:46pm
Hoylake Parade School tragedy
by chris58 - 16th Jul 2025 5:30pm
Cammell Laird Film - Old Ships & Hardships
by David_Roberts - 16th Jul 2025 5:02pm
Family Alldis
by Alldis - 2nd Jul 2025 6:15pm
For Sale & Free
Member Spotlight
Tranquil
Tranquil
Wallasey
Posts: 131
Joined: March 2012
Today's Birthdays
There are no members with birthdays on this day.
New Wirral Info
Pay and Display ... Or Not.
by diggingdeeper - 18th Jul 2025 12:53am
Family Alldis
by Alldis - 2nd Jul 2025 6:15pm
Montpellier Crescent
by robin47 - 8th Jun 2025 4:36pm
News : New Topics
Cammell Laird Film - Old Ships & Hardships
by David_Roberts - 16th Jul 2025 5:02pm
Lucy Letby
by diggingdeeper - 16th Dec 2024 7:16pm
New Enthusiast Forums
Mobile Welder Wanted
by Grosvenor - 17th Jul 2025 6:46pm
Popular Topics(Views)
10,435,949 CW Chat room thread
5,669,821 WIKI WALK CHAT
4,485,598 Spotted!
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5