" Cameron knew it would mean the death of the Conservative party forever."
Which Sunak has achieved in a matter of months, whilst at the same time, crashing the economy and leaving it all wide open for Labour. Top man.
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I agree, another once in a lifetime vote, perhaps?
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Well, I think Liz helped a bit… 
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Being punished for having an opinion, its rife and its very wrong. 
Coming to us all very soon…
There’s another thread in The Speakeasy, so don’t want to necessarily detract from that…but…I do hate the ‘news agenda’ that is forced upon us…
There’s so much going on in the world, and indeed the country…and the whole “BBC Presenter” debacle is top story.
As I am merely a pleb and pawn in their game I have decided to care less about the environment. To care less about the cost of living crisis. To care less about…well, everything…and pour my attention and energies in to the most important story out there…about some man or woman l, maybe or maybe not, having a relationship with another consenting adult…and one of them happens to be in the television.
I no longer need to worry about the scorched earth. I no longer need to worry about the rainforest. I certainly don’t need to worry about plastic in our drinking water. The Ukraine war is yesterday’s news. BP making £4billion pounds PROFIT per quarter is merely a distraction . And it simply doesn’t matter about nurses having to use food banks. Oh, and I got I nice dividend from my Thames Water shares last week.
The news doesn’t suck. We seem happy to suckle at the breast of the media’s saggy t#t.
The only thing I can think of more important than this BBC news story is… #whereisphilipschofield.
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There needs to be a revolution in the media. It’s lost its way. News has long been heading down the ‘entertainment’ road and too many outlets now seem increasingly intent on fuelling division and anger. Analysis has given way to stoking the herd mentality in pursuit of profit or power. The mainstream has lost much of its credibility. Not always, justifiably and the extremes of the political spectrum are the worst culprits, but people are buying in to it, which I find particularly disturbing.
That’s what I think, anyway. 
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Spot on, Daniel. So many important things going on in the world, and we get served up this dross to stop us thinking about the things that matter and doing something about them.
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The casual tossing aside of honesty in reporting means that I don’t trust much in the “news”… sensationalism takes precedence over reality to sell the wares of media moguls.
This rings true… “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
— Mark Twain
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“If you use a pseudonym you’re transformed”-Patrick W
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The government passes your TV licence tax to the BBC. The BBC is therefore an employee of the government. The government instructs the BBC to set up a new smokescreen. The smokescreen hides the real problems. The sheep are satisfied. The government thinks it’s off the hook.
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Don’t think it works quite like that, perhaps you’d prefer Fox news or Russian state Television 
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I bet it does…
Should’ve left them till the tide came in, may be tow them out the next day.
I’d have posted that in This Made Me Laugh.
I did think about it…
But this is not the first time it’s happened, there was another at Trevaunance cove only a few weeks ago. Makes me wonder if those idiots should be let loose in a vehicle? Always seems to be BMW’s and Audi’s. 
City folk 
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They think that because they’ve got posh cars and loads of money they’re entitled to go anywhere. Wrong…
It’s just a shame that the tide didn’t come in.
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They are not real posh, they got Audi but didn’t pay for the quattro option 
But there’s 3 of em, couldn’t they pull each other out then? Lazy. 