Still sharp as a knife all these years later.
(, Fri 15 Oct 2021, 16:47, Reply)
- along with the point that prior to the prank, his [own daughter - edit: no, oops] constituent had died on ecstasy.
Bit shit for the fellah, really.
(, Fri 15 Oct 2021, 19:57, Reply)
Leah Betts died 9 months later.
am confused. Wizard, you got the beeb link?
(, Fri 15 Oct 2021, 21:02, Reply)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58928140
Would be great if it was wrong
(, Fri 15 Oct 2021, 21:12, Reply)
Which of the two deaths are you happy about? Is it both? I sort of think it's both.
(, Fri 15 Oct 2021, 21:17, Reply)
Had taken E at least a couple of times before but did way too much water having been warned not to dehydrate. Brain swelling etc.
Cake was shown in Feb 1997 (not feb 95 as I thought)
Hansard Cake question July 96
Theoretically, it might have taken him 7 months to ask an urgent question but one supposes if so and he had been int'd shortly after Betts' death, he had time to research.
fwiw, between 10 and 20 people died each year where E was involved
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 12:17, Reply)
Here is link:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58928140
(, Fri 15 Oct 2021, 22:24, Reply)
But this is the comedy sketch I keep thinking of:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b7wmRsy9g
(, Fri 15 Oct 2021, 19:20, Reply)
who spend the last few years demonizing the evil tories for being utter shits today has the headline 'how could this happen?'
(, Fri 15 Oct 2021, 23:28, Reply)
If not, you're hilariously wide of the mark
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 9:34, Reply)
Even yesterday and on wednesday they had Boris Johnson on the frontpage, complaining about how he dares to go on his holidays and how scandalous it is he's using a mate's holiday home; today it's oh dear, how sad, how could this happen.
Here's yesterdays frontpage: www.todayspapers.co.uk/daily-star-front-page-2021-10-15/
and wednesday: www.todayspapers.co.uk/daily-star-front-page-2021-10-13/
And today www.todayspapers.co.uk/daily-star-front-page-2021-10-16/
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 15:14, Reply)
The thought that The Daily Star is a hotbed of Bolshevik thought or the idea that radical Islamists read it and are influenced by it.
Once again you reveal that you have only the feeblest idea about life in this country. Its media and institutions remain a mystery to you
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 16:05, Reply)
You're in the wrong and you know it.
My point, as in contrition after abuse as with the clip Monkeon posted, stands.
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 16:44, Reply)
Some mild criticism of Boris in a mass market tabloid mainly concerned with tits and xfactor had absolutely nothing to do with this killing. Nothing. Anyone who says it did is a twat.
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 17:21, Reply)
The Daily Star is a hideous right wing prole-baiting rag that certainly encourages its readers to despise 'the woke,' 'boffins,' environmentalists, and, when referred to as 'Bozo,' Boris Johnson.
It also encourages its readers to support, when referred to as 'Bojo,' Boris Johnson.
It's basically sensationally cynical and negative about everything, including the tories, but it is firmly on their side when it comes to culture war and elections.
The British population is being encouraged to hate politicians, and the Daily Star is certainly partly to blame. The assassin was British, his political ideology does not make him less British.
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 17:08, Reply)
Also, passive aggressive reasonableness can be really satisfying.
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 21:24, Reply)
when Noel Edmonds talked about Cake.
Nobody knew why the fuck Noel Edmonds was in a studio talking about cake, but we were getting paid, so fuck it. Record whatever the idiots want, then give them the footage and take their money.
That was about 5 years before it was released.
(, Sat 16 Oct 2021, 15:54, Reply)