Wine Time Friday

[malvolio]

I have heard that he is not universally liked by his local party association and apparently is only ever seen in the constituency when he thinks it absolutely unavoidable.

Yeah, we got one of those as well, Mr Heappey is totally invisible 90% of the time and never respond to his constituents on anything. Still gets re-elected though.

In fact, many ministers have the same issue. I think it was Jack Straw who said he was too busy being a cabinet minister to deal with constituency matters in Parliament.

[d000hg]

Can we please stop calling a glass of wine and some cheese a "party?"

[WTFH]

Can we please stop calling a glass of wine and some cheese a "party?"

What about a suitcase of wine?

[d000hg]

What about a suitcase of wine?

Now we're talking. "Suitcase" should become how we measure wine.

[malvolio]

I must admit I'm a little confused. According to Starmer, Boris meeting some of his colleagues for a drink after work at their office is illegal and he should resign whereas Starmer meeting his colleagues for drinks at their office isn't and resignation is not even considered worthy of a response...

Perhaps it's a return to old Labour values of course. Wine is suspect, beer is perfectly fine.

The hypocrisy is infuriating.

[WTFH]

I must admit I'm a little confused. According to Starmer, Boris meeting some of his colleagues for a drink after work at their office is illegal and he should resign whereas Starmer meeting his colleagues for drinks at their office isn't and resignation is not even considered worthy of a response...

Perhaps it's a return to old Labour values of course. Wine is suspect, beer is perfectly fine.

The hypocrisy is infuriating.

You mean the regurgitated story from last year where he met 2-3 people indoors at a meeting, not an open invitation to 100 people instructing them to bring their own booze?

[d000hg]

You mean the regurgitated story from last year where he met 2-3 people indoors at a meeting, not an open invitation to 100 people instructing them to bring their own booze?

"an open invitation to 100 people" is a contradiction in terms.

[malvolio]

You mean the regurgitated story from last year where he met 2-3 people indoors at a meeting, not an open invitation to 100 people instructing them to bring their own booze?

Well yes. What, exactly, is the difference when the limit was two people...? And one was in a closed and secured area inaccessible to others while the other was in effect in a public space.

I'm not saying either was wrong (or right), just that someone somewhere needs to distinguish between reality and politics. The only real difference is that Starmer hasn't got responsibility for the country in his hands so is free to wave accusations around without personal consequences. He's the first to bleat about "one rule for them, another for us" after all.

[WTFH]

I thought the instructions were to move on from that and on to cancelling the BBC?

Anyway, here's when the S*n first ran the story:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/148264...oor-gathering/

But it had to be regurgitated to try to deflect.

[SueEllen]

I thought the instructions were to move on to that and on to cancelling the BBC?

Aren't we suppose to be talking about microfibre filters for washing machines?