I reckon he could be an editor of a similar themed paperback publication

@@MrHaveaword I'd buy it.

Satire is difficult, fact is stranger than fiction.

Well have I got news for you mate

I wouldn’t miss any episode of HIGNFY 😂❤️😂 we need more of the same 👍

Sadly (and ironically) destroyed in the minds of many as a symbol of peace by the far right, just as the swastika was once a symbol of peace.

Even poppies grew in Flanders.

Very true - a symbol of tragedy, loss and the hope of regeneration. Personally, over recent years I've detected a burgeoning dislike of the poppy because of its associations with Churchill, the world wars, empire and colonialism. There seems to be a growing distaste for democracy and a notion that dictatorial approaches allow for more compassion and remove us from the "errors" of the past. Of course these ideas are erroneous but fashionable and, therefore, I feel that the poppy will be on the decline as miscomprehensions of history become more fashionable.The fact that millions of soldiers died from all around the world fighting an insane and abhorrent dictator and the appalling regime that he lead doesn't seem to matter so much anymore. Adjusting the past to fit with contemporary tropes, now seems to take precedence.

@@crescentsi it seems very fascinating to me that you could detect people disliking the poppy because of it's associations with 'empire and colonialism', and come away with the impression that the people who dislike it for those reasons are anti-democracy Not criticising your view, per se, but I do find it interesting

@@cyber_rachel7427 They died for King and Country ...because they had no choice !

Politics do make peoples' lives better. Sadly it's the lives of party donors.

​@@brenglover72corruption makes their lives better. They should be in jail.

That one comment nails it!

It does, dont you know history, did you know how bad things were for average people before we had political representation ? Work houses ?

"Is meant to" in some childishly naive and innocent fantasy ideal perhaps. But surely few people old enough to vote expect that. In an ideal world anyone actually believing this will happen shouldn't be allowed to vote

Hislop is still one of the establishment. He's done a lot of good, but he helped demonize Jeremy Corbyn, so still more one of them, than one of us.

Hislop is still one of the establishment. He's done a lot of good, but he helped demonize Jeremy Corbyn, so still more one of them, than one of us.

well said @@Mickparrysstepdad

@@Mickparrysstepdad "demonise" = "make fun of" ? It's what Private Eye exists for

@@MickparrysstepdadHow is he the establishment? He literally mocks the establishment every week. What do you even mean by establishment? You’ve not through this through, have you?

The way they are tied to business needs to change, there is a clear conflict of interest with the current political system. I would like to see a rule set where no politician is tied to business, no conflict of interest and politicians actually prisoned for fraud and not working in the interest of the UK and her citizens but that will never change they are above the law as we have seen time after time. Making deals, policies and bills in favour of there own pockets and there business partners should be a prisonable offence. If you did what they do in a private company someone would be in prison

Iblame brexit and conservative voters

My Conservative MP wouldn’t deal with me because he demanded my private address phone number and email, and when I said he could have those as soon as he gave his to me it all went silent…

@@ouethojlkjn sounds like abrexit conservative

@@evelbsstudio It’s high time for a new Parliamentary Reform Act along those lines. Nowadays, neither the Commons nor the Executive is at all representative of the British people. We have lost our internal connections . The people are drifting - without their natural leaders. Active democracy (as we knew it 40 years ago ) has been replaced by a kind of colonial rule, run by the world’s richest men. They have no armies, they aren’t looking for territory. They just need to manipulate our economy. It’s so easy now. And the Tories are very happy to cooperate. They take the sweeteners and hold the ring for those insanely rich guys, men whose start-off capital came from the modern slave-trade : cheap, enforced , unregulated and unprotected labour in the Third World. While our own fine industries are killed off, we colonials have to buy the cheap inferior products of a rotten society. Though steeped in patriotic obligation, these Tories, proud guardians of our common inheritance have abandoned us for dirty money. Whoever would have thought it ?

It’s important that he exposes liars and corrupt politicians but it’s all laughable as nothing changes they don’t get punished or arrested and the fun begins again just like before.

His whispering of accountability is as in a hurricane of news chatter. Nothing lasts longer than the minuscule attention span of the average smartphone glance ……. and then it’s gone.

Private Eye is the only reliable source of non-fake news in the UK

Hope your comment is satire. Hislop was one of the first to jump to mock and attack a grassroots movement that promised to change the ills Hislop makes a career out of attacking.

People talk like he cures cancer. He's just virtue signals 99% of the time.

Everyone should show the partygate videos at the next election. And that election is not very far away!

@@SilverHunterNlabour wanted harsher lockdown restrictions.

​@@andhi100 That was after the horse had bolted. I was the European hot-desk manager in 2002 when SARS was on the loose, and so I bought the WHO report on it when it was published in 2006: it contains a set of recommendations, lessons to be learned, which never were. Labour by that time was as pathetic as it is now, but the Tories had a decade to get it sorted and did sweet Fanny Addams. They retired me in 2011, I returned here, and showed what I was capable of in full view of the Savile Club, and more specifically the military faction of the Cabinet, who had known of my potential in my early 20s, which had been kept fresh throughout my time in Europe, and in full view of half of Harley Street. The diplomatic deal I landed solo, in just six hours, met Dominic Cummings search for competence, as he described it before the Covid Enquiry in October: however by that time Boris had trampled the lot of us and they discovered we're not ten-a-penny as they hoped. The employment conditions offered the "weirdos and misfits" included such juicy items as an instruction to ditch any personal relations you may have, you'll be working close to the centre of power 24/7 now - what happened to the 40-hour week? Human Rights to a family? The NHS' butts were saved at the start when, having despaired at the Civil Service, they called on the CEI, created by my father at the behest of Prince Philip, and Dad's IMechE in particular, to produce the ventilators which saved so many lives. I found them the electrics company which made the controls. But that isn't all. I'm not just a very competent economist. I'm also a legist, appointed by the Belgian Supreme Court, and by virtue of that fact, a member of the beta test panel for the StatuteLaw database, which is the rear end of legislation gov uk. I checked a suspicion I had from some equivocation Sunak made about holding the election next year, and discovered they'd sabotaged the five-year law. That was introduced in Section 7 of the 1911 Parliament Act, and deleted by the 2011 Fixed Term Elections Act. That was in turn repealed by the 2022 Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act, which states "The powers relating to the dissolution of Parliament and the calling of a new Parliament that were exercisable by virtue of Her Majesty’s prerogative immediately before the commencement of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 are exercisable again, as if the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 had never been enacted." There is no reference to the reinstatement of any other legislation on the matter, and a narrow reading of that indicates Sunak has cancelled the statutory constraint. He is free to continue this abuse ad infinitum, an was the case in the 1640s, until Cromwell put an end to it.

@@SilverHunterN Don't be too sure. Sunak pulled a fast one in 2022, forgot to reinstate the five-year mandate limit, as described below.

@@andhi100 The point is the hypocrisy my dude.

Well his old man was a greek after all, well as greek as windsors are english at least, so a bit more personal than just some spite and banter i'd say..

@@dannyboy-vtc5741 are you suggesting that the hat was a spiteful jibe from the queen? I thought it was funny. And let's face it, she wasn't wrong in what she was implying with it. The sunlight uplands are shite.

King Charles and his family are half Greek, half German, and Russian, with some Scottish and English.

​@@buchanfoulsham6314how have you reasoned that? It's not like Germany and France are racing ahead of us on the economic front now is it? So despite our dire inept "leaders" throwing as many spanners in the works as possible re brexit, plus covid, we're still about the same as Germany and France regarding economic growth. As far as I'm aware, Germany and France are still in the EU, so maybe, just maybe there's other factors at play.....

@@andrewcheadle948 The big difference is the wealth inequality and the cost of living crisis. Britain's economy can pretend to be doing better than it really is on the ground because finance and speculative investment makes up so much of it. France and Germany are slowing organically across all sectors due to the global recession, Ukraine etc. but things are still affordable and mortgages aren't putting people into poverty. So you can quote some bigwig economic performance metrics if you want, but the reality is that poverty is rising faster in the UK than anywhere else in the developed world, whilst public services don't have the money to deliver the most basic level of care. A perfect storm of disaster for ordinary working people who don't have capital or already own their home. That simply isn't true in France and Germany where the public sector is still at the very least respectably - if no longer well - funded and although the weekly shop is between 15-25% more expensive than 2 years ago, the governments have thrown money in terms of bonuses and tax-free schemes to balance out the extra cost.

ROFLMAO - HISLOP is BBC Mainstream propaganda - controlled "opposition"

I listened to this and can't think of anything that I disagreed with. I find Ian to be very well measured poking fun out of all sides.

@@justmejustme4444 Has he ever mentioined the Fact that they are all WEF puppets including Starmer or that Truss and Sunak are unelected or Sunak is a US citizen ? or 9eleven or that 2020 Plannedemic Year had the 18th LOWEST DEATH RATE over previous 30 years !!! - Office for National Statistics. "Anything on Mainstream Media is planned and agenda driven" - Franklin D Roosevelt Please WAKE UP !!

Wankrr

He’s not been a stranger to the courts, I think he’s pretty well versed in what he can and cannot get away with saying. Kind of wish he’d set up a channel with the opposite viewpoint of the Gbeebees and Talk shite TV channels with the onus on taking the pee out of the current government. Caroline Lucus, Mhairi Black and Yvette Cooper would be excellent talking heads. I’m not gender biased, these three are the ones that have consistently spoken truth to the right wing loonies with eloquence and humour. True orators imo

....This happened to me also, ...and as Ian said... I may forget a change in planning policy, detrimental to water quality, but this won't slip my mind, ever.

Same. 😢

I didn't have it happen, thankfully, but as an expat with elderly parents still in the UK, we had conversations along the lines of 'Don't even try to come over. Once lockdown is done, you can come over and celebrate our lives then....'

Same here, and despite what they tell me I should be doing and thinking, I won't be forgetting or forgiving.

Without drifting in to an on line therapy session!!! the actual pandemic was totally tolerable, but been locked out from care home visits, but the flip flopping policy, ship show tory partying, ppe and general incompetence etc, knowing the clock was ticking, was just excruciating.

And he should get to decide!

And it should be filmed

before moving into #10 & meeting Larry ...

Just having ‘an interview’ for the job would be a start. So many unqualified duffers and intellectual pygmies going for and getting the top job.

@@seanelstob5922well, in fairness they are often qualified, more-so than your average person (and really, they are meant to be a simulation of the average person in a true democracy.. Angela Rayner would be that, and why Keir saw her as his ‘running mate’, same vein as Sarah Palin was, but just as cynical). Usually, they have held cabinet roles previously, obviously leader of the party, often Oxbridge educated, and ACA and maybe worked in banking, or the military sometimes. It’s not having any experience outside of politics that’s becoming the big issue these days - like senators in the US. They begin as political advisers straight out of Oxbridge and go on from there. It’s a problem and a bubble.

Plenty more of him out there! Try have I got news for you. Mr Hislop is great.

@@MQWalkman I already watched a few videos yesterday, he's is indeed great.

He is a national treasure

His nickname in the UK is "The most sued man in Britain". He's been fighting against the establishment for decades and is an absolute treasure.

This is an excellent exchange from this year between Ian Hislop and Jon Stewart ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qJKAnY6khKSq2Gg.htmlsi=Er99Z1NgGdI08MvI

Party first, mates next, country last

There is also the then head of the Met, who screwed up and got John Charles DeMeizes killed, was censured for obstructing the still unsolved Daniel Morgan case. Then she, who knew Boris from University, got put in charge of the already problematic Met. The most policed street in the UK and no one saw anything? Clearly if reported upwards it stopped there, or they were ordered not to report anything. Either way, the only one with the authority to do that is….. With or without Malthouse’s instructions.

Be reasonable. One or two of the SPADs were fined 50 quid. Back in Blighty, youngsters, throwing snowballs/ having a few friends round were fined 10,000 quid ( A years wages for some) And the Treasury refused to pay extra for deep cleaning ( which they specified) after the parties.. Some of the cleaners died. As I say, be reasonable. Kit Malthouse is a rich and influential person and obviously no blame attaches to him or any of his little schoolfriends .

who

I find it amazing that in a country where you have people literally begging for food amongst other things the Tories have brought us there's such a fuss over that party, what happened to the expenses thing?-that was quickly forgotten about

I'd rather an apocalypse

Great answer!@@shortandopinionated

​@@mickodillon1480I think Short and Opinionated needs a dictionary as apocalypse is clearly not the answer .

No it isn't but it was funny @@annewalden3795

Headless horseman

Who will you be voting for, or will you abstain?

@@johnking5174 tactically, so it will be Liberal Democrats here. I have in the past been unhappy with manifestos and abstained. Not being a socialist I would not vote Labour either. I remember the complete madhouse UK was in 1979 and the folly of Gordon Brown and lets sell all the gold of when the price is low as we are short of cash. Then his governments sabotaging of the next government which I bore witness to myself. It would not surprise me if this current government would do something similar.

The honesty comes from NOT being a politician.

Daily? There’s always something hilarious these days 😅

He publishes it every fortnight, available for as little as £1.73 per issue!

That's expensive toilet paper. @@fang_xianfu

Good idea. Monthly roundups with an annual end of year review would be most amusing and informative.

With how quickly things are going wrong it seems as if this should have been recorded on New Years Eve!

It was absolutely pathetic how people who hated the Tories their whole life suddenly obeyed their every word, and all it took was fear of death. The British people are feeble.

@@johntaylor8463 I think it’s really funny that people who voted Tory their whole lives suddenly turned against them because they were believing conspiracy theories and antivaxxers on Instagram rather than actual science.

@@johntaylor8463 The idea that keeping physical distance from people who might be infected with a respiratory virus will reduce your chance of catching that virus is pretty basic science which I think a majority of people already understood to be true before covid appeared. Same thing with being in unventilated indoor spaces increasing your chance of catching a respiratory virus from somebody. A lot of the guidance about social distancing was good, albeit already widely understood common sense. The problem that most people will have had with situations like 'partygate' is that the Tories were not following their own advice, and not displaying the basic common sense that a majority of the UK population was displaying. It shouldn't have surprised people though, given that Boris had managed to almost die from covid having managed to catch it while being obese, both of which (catching covid and being obese) should have been easily avoidable for somebody with the access to medical expertise that the prime minister has.

​@@johntaylor8463idiot

@crazytechlab you’ve summarised partygate perfectly. I can’t imagine the suffering huge swathes of the UK public endured whilst No10 was turned into a roller disco whilst we were locked away in our homes to save the NHS. It should never be forgotten just how bad they behaved whilst 10000s of their citizens died alone in hospital.

HISLOP is BBC Mainstream propaganda - controlled "opposition"

​@@poplife123Yes, the opposite of Farage.

@@poplife123 Some treasures can become tarnished.

Don't let the Tories know that, they'll try and sell him off!

@@poplife123 More likely some ally will lay a claim to him and our glorious leader will then do his very best to insult them and look even more stupid than he already does!

Indeed, long may he carry on -- but it's interesting that 30 years or more ago there was an undercurrent of feeling that he was the upstart who had somehow conned the Eye old guard into getting them to believe he could run the magazine, and that it would never work: well he's resoundingly proved that wrong! So the thing is, who can keep that essential publication going long after IH is no longer with us?

Peter Cook would conclude that he was a cant and would go and get his huge nailed boots .

The problem with that idea is that it relies on nothing ever changing and your country encountering no challenges. You can only successfully conduct the humdrum, day-to-day politics of providing services in a humdrum, day-to-day world. The desire for that politics feels more like a longing for the “simpler” days. But there never were simpler days. The world is a vastly different place now as it is at every other time, and people are asking new and difficult questions of governments in the UK and overseas. It’s no solution to limp on with the ideas and systems of the 20th century - they’re the ideas and systems that have gotten us to this point to begin with. Ido understand the yearning but it isn’t what the UK or other countries need anymore. I’ll let you know if I figure out exactly what we *do* need.

Naive take

Don't hold your breath!

We need people to come together more than ever now. It's desperate.

All the parties in every democratic country are going through the same problem. Parties are more concerned with being ‘conservative’ or being ‘left wing’ then they are with being a government for the good of its people. Both sides are playing a pathetic culture war wherein the right is always moving more right to create an illusion of progress and the left have to crawl right in order to appear less extreme.

They are bound to show us after the next election, Neither party are a viable vote this is only an informed opinion at this point

I think it should be (in a Clarkson voice) 'How hard can it be?'

@@fatbelly27 the hardest thing... in the world

Name one thing the Tories have done in the last 13 years apart from gaslighting the people, broke the country along devises line and then trash the economy. I'm guessing you want them for another 5 years?

​@@deeingalaplike Things did get better from 1997, but I'm 100% certain things can only get a lot worse if the con-servatives remain in power

It's immigration. Wake up.

In Wilson's first government Barbara Castle tried to ring fence NI contributions into a separate account to fund future generations of pensions, health care etc. It was never legislated, largely because of concerted and vicious opposition by the Tories and Insurance companies.

They're not running the Country ~ THEY'RE RUINING THE COUNTRY.

yes,,he did a great show with Jon Stewart chewing US and UK absurdities

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how is covid British govt fault?

They did well getting the injections covered

@@lynnedelacy2841 at least they and their chums made a healthy profit from it, thats all that counts after all.

​@lynnedelacy2841 The tories did well, not blocking the border, doing all lockdowns very late, and doing partygate, then blamed the queen's death for cost of living crisis happening. Even with the vaccines being distributed, NHS were the ones physically giving the injections out for free. Imagine paying hundreds just to get a vaccine from a private GP instead.

​@@funbegins2371because of opening up and getting people to socialise caused a second out break. Also they actively did things that endangered lives of vulnerable people.

I have read it since the late 80s. People thought I was weird lol. Sadly we lost cartoonist Tony Husband a while back, he lived in my town & popped in the local.

HM official Opposition!

it's a great shame that it's not available online as I live in Turkey now. I used to read it back in Britain.

I am so sorry. It was a terrible time.

It's awful and it's not forgivable.

Do not let this go. This isn't an issue that "with time" will fade. They deliberately partied at the expense of the publics health. You are one of thousands who have experienced not only the loss of a family member but you had to give up the time and space to grieve. I work in mental health and understand that funerals and time for family to come together and grieve is the biggest healing factor one can have. I'm a lib dem but i don't care what party you are from, if you willfully show the amount of disrespect the Tories did in 2020-2021 you deserve nothing from the British public. Not a seat in parliament, not a public pension. I hope you are now able to grieve for your loss without it impacting you too much. Just know that although you may have missed out in things during the lockdown you saved countless other families going through the same trauma you have gone through. It won't help to heal you but it may just give you a reason to keep going when times are tough. I'm always available if things are hard and you need someone to talk to. Good luck with the future :):)

I support your views and give condolences for your suffering. At the same time I lost my mother and a dear Aunt (who died alone and in a nursing home). the restrictions at that time were a first in history whenever before did our dearly beloved die without the succour of loved ones being by their side and Ushering them on their final journey... it was Sinful and unforgivable for our leaders to have partied at that time. shame on anyone who belittles the impact on your family esp the suffering of your dear parents.

I'm sorry for the loss of your brother. Like many others, I will never vote Conservative again after the absolute shambles they have made of the country over the last few years. I can't say that I have liked any Tory PMs that have been in post since they were last elected. Rishi Sunak is too motivated by money - his background is in finance and he and his wife are multi millionaires. His main concern during Covid was the economy. His 'Eat Out To Help Out' scheme' was designed to bring money in to the economy. He was advised against it but continued anyway, helping to spread the virus among crowds of people queuing to get in to eateries. He failed to understand the concept that if people are ill or dead, then they aren't contributing to the economy. He scrapped stamp duty on house purchases, forcing the values of properties (of which his personal portfolio is worth £millions) to increase exponentially, forcing first time buyers out of the market, and making it impossible for some buyers to purchase property in their local area. When he had the chance to reinstate the stamp duty, having seen what a mistake it was to scrap it, he didn't. All he could see was how his personal fortune was increasing as a result of it, so he kept his policy in place. He keeps saying that his government is tackling the immigration crisis, while providing accommodation for those who arrive illegally. They end up staying, further increasing the strain on resources such as housing, education, healthcare and increasing his personal wealth as a result. As Ian Hislop points out, Rishi just does not have a clue how anything works. As a result, we have rampant inflation, with many people striking, struggling to find a place to live, unable to heat their homes properly or feed themselves. Liz Truss was out of her depth for the short time she was in office, while Boris Johnson and David Cameron were liars (although at least David Cameron had the decency to step down after losing the Brexit vote). I did feel sorry for Theresa May, as she was given a tough time and had difficult situations to deal with, but again, a proper decisive 'leader' with a strong team behind them may have coped better. The country is a worse place as a result of this terrible government and people will never forget the actions of the politicians or the lies they have told about their own actions. Meanwhile, members of the public suffered as a result of obeying laws instilled by the government while the politicians openly broke their own laws, then lied about them.

And it is all being done by design. No mistakes are being made. Our politicians are no longer in control of anything. They are pawns to the 'higher ups'.

I agree. I'm 76. I wish I could be apolitical but I can't. Its too important. I'd still take Wilson over Starmer any day.

I saw Boris on HIGNFY Boris tried to argue a point then proved his argument was rubbish- all by himself - what a berk🤪.

Read a book called Chums by Simon Kuper

@@exigency2231 Just had a look at it's revues. It's now in the basket. 7% of the British population are privately educated but over 80% of board members come from the private schools. Not a level playing field to borrow one of their sayings.

No shit

@@dh1380 My last line was meant in the satirical format of HIGNFY

Me too, haha.

This also foments the 'they're all the same' sentiment.

if you got rid of corruption and incompetence in politics labour, the green party and the other left wing parties wouldn't exist anymore

That's how they like it.

​@@Omegon8536Curious why you left the Tories off that list. They're just as bad.

@@residentenigma7141 I don’t think many people actually do like Donald Trump or this fantasy land he pushes. Just me.

So long, and thanks for all the fish! D.

Yes, I just clicked on and realised heck, i did this a year ago too. Excellent commentary, we need as much of this as we can find.

I think a minute of Ian should be served instead of after dinner mints in order the cleanse the soul.@@richardkell4888

I watched last years one recently not realising it was a year old🤣

😂😂😂😂

Sorry for your loss, the government must be held to account for their mishandling of the pandemic.

So sorry... perhaps, you could have a memorial service for her at a special time, such as her birthday.

​​@@AA-hg5fkno-one will be "held to account" (lol!) for their de-humanising behaviour and you know it. But post away on social media all the same.

Whatcha this space ! Cameron's return is for one specific reason only. The continued enrichment of the Sunak Family Empire, via a quickly cobbled together trade agreement. Just stating the glaringly obvious!!!!!!

@@alanread4763 indeed. Sunaks fil buisness was fined many millions due to vis irregularities. He was also being investigated for lobbying impropriety to the tune of 6 mil. Nothing in the media.

Let's not limit the corruption to those unelected puppets

Speaking as an American, you have no idea how ludicrous that suggestion is. Time Magazine? Honor a labor leader? Hell will freeze over first... I agree though, Lynch has done great work for the RMT.

@@redlion145 Taylor Swift

Merry Christmas!

Living "below the poverty line" but still have internet somehow, and a device to watch UKposts. Right. How about you give us a break?

Your apparently small minded soul will no doubt be distressed that free internet access is available to pretty much anyone at a public library.

​@@frontenac5083 Congratulations on the flamboyance of your ignorance of the actual exigencies of actual poverty.

You breathe air and have a pulse and yet you still complain? The entitlement! The victim mentality! How dare you complain?​@@frontenac5083

Spoilt brat of a billionaire who marries another non dom tax avoiding billionaire, he’s always going to be in touch with the common people…

The people who thought that he would be a perfect PM are the shadow dwellers in the WEF and DAVOS gang. Sunak is just a useful employee to them. A middle manager.

I think it was that Truss was SO awful there was a strong feeling of “any port in a storm” … and maybe you are right, we should have expected him to have a go at being even worse …

The electorate has the memory of a flea. Sunak presided over all the corruption of Covid loans and contracts.

At least he didn't go full Brosnan

The most interesting and thought-provoking videos on UKposts usually start at ten minutes. 😉

Also, Remembrance Day has become hugely militaristic. People forget that nowadays the victims of wars all over the world are civilians - women, children and old people just trying to live their lives in peace. And all the time we are selling huge quantities of powerfully destructive weapons to all sorts of unsavoury regimes.

Israel,Saudi Arabia,to name but two

I think there's this sense of pride that some seem to be associating with the Poppy now as well, which is also absolutely not what it's about. We Poppy Appeal tagline "lest we forget" is not about remembering with pride, it's because those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

I was recently in my dentists waiting area nervously waiting when the chatter from the two receptionists caught my attention- they were comparing who has the better poppy one was a sort of fake diamond stone pin on brooch and the other was a oversized plastic shiny version of what we normally see, I was sat there thinking they simply don’t get it - took my mind off approaching procedure!

I rarely wear a poppy, but do subscribe to the charity on a monthly basis.

@mandaqu. I hadn’t noticed that. Thanks for the reminder. Ian is a treasure, but very occasionally, he slips back into “journalism’ - like the above.

The give away was Cruella's appointment right after she was sacked for lying and yet another security breach

@@RobBCactive Demonstrated he had no intention to stand up to the far right of the party... and allowed the cartoon villain to be performatively cruel

@@zoranblackie5921 yes, exactly and I pointed it out at the time to too, to an Oxford prof who praised Sunak's start. There was another ERG appointment which showed he was not making a clean break from the swivel eyed loons

really. and what exactly is wrong with Sunak's time as PM? because last time i checked, the sky hasn't fallen down yet.

@@zoranblackie5921 you know why they're called the far right? because so far, they've been right

About time! Contrast the right wing media to Private Eye.

Yes, him and Christian Woolmar.

It worked incredibly well and the only place now with a railway like that is Japan. Not proud-making really.

Considering we invented the railway's or founded them

fuck that, stop the war on cars and invest of roads

Tbf it's been garbage since Angus Deayton left

​@@BB-nl4rl who?

He can though..

Married to the woman whose father owns Rwanda.

Did you mistake it for a 'cute pug dog' video?

@@jeffsimon9594 Nice that you find him cute. Each to their own I suppose.

@@jeffsimon9594 No...Silly!

Same.