Chuka’s Mandy Mistake
Chuka Umunna has been upping the pressure on Dave over Sunday trading laws, accusing ministers of misleading Parliament and writing to the holidaying PM to demand clarification. Last night he snorted:
Could you imagine Labour's fmr BIS Sec,Peter Mandelson,allowing another cabinet minister to dictate policy on his brief as Pickles is doing?—
Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) August 14, 2012
Clearly Chuka has forgotten all about Labour’s attempts to deregulate Sunday trading restrictions, when old boss Gordon Brown tried to force the then Trade and Industry secretary Alan Johnson into adopting the policy. The FT reported at the time:
“Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are tacitly supporting deregulation of Sunday shopping to allow 24-hour trading for large shops, according to a leading industry lobbyist. The lobbyist insisted there were differences between Mr Brown and Mr Johnson. “Gordon Brown wanted to include deregulation in the Budget, but Alan Johnson put the brakes on,” he said.”
And they weren’t even in Coalition…
Labour. Hypocritical c*nts. As always. About everything.
‘Last night he snorted’…
Hey man, it was only grass.
Chukka Uppee strikes again, what an excellent ad for the Labour Party.
Ambition in a wise man is admirable. Ambition in a fool, is not.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9473917/Climate-committee-chairman-Tim-Yeo-under-pressure-over-industry-links.html
HT Bishop Hill blog…
You’re either in front of Bishop Hill…
Bashing the Bishop again?
More stroking his figure.
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/8/15/yeo-must-go.html
Why should the state tell me when shops cannot open due to some crazy belief in sky fairies
I might want something to eat on Sundays
Get in the queue behind me.
You big fat oik!
Sky fairy or no sky fairy, Sunday is the one day small businesses have an advantage over the destructive might of low-pay McJob Tescbury’s.
The Internet is ki*lling the high street, Dave’s plan is to finish it off.
(2nd attempt to post this highly controversial comment.)
I just had one modded for pointing out we live in a democracy. This modding is getting silly
Right on.
Every day is like Sunday.
And yet, six out of seven days are more unlike Sunday that like Sunday.
85% catholic ” sky fairies” here too that do not restrict their belief to just attending church on Sunday. Hence, all shops may open 9.00am to 9.00pm every day if they wish to..
My guess. Portugal. In France its 85% of the population who worship the god of sitting round on your arse drinking wine. So the shops are nearly all shut.
Yup. Same here.
destructive ???
You mean efficient. I’m sure you normally chose to maximise the amount you get charged for commodities because you’re an idiot.
No, I shop at small independent stores, which often sell the same items as supermarkets, but at less than half the pr*ice.
Idiot.
So… Are you saying Tesco stores are popular because everyone in the country is an idiot?
Or are you saying they are herding people in at gunpoint?
Because they don’t prefer to shop in the stores you want to force them into shopping in.
For one day each week – ONE DAY – the small (and often cheaper) guy has an advantage over the giants with their giant advertising budgets.
Is it really so much to ask that the small (and often better value) player is given a bit of a break? (Let us not forget that this was – after all – government policy until, apparently, this week.)
What you’re saying, AC1, is these small – cheaper – players, that lack the marketing might of Tescbury’s, should be crushed, so I, like all the brainless drones in this country, will have less choice and have to pay more.
(2nd attempt to post – this is insane).
http://archipelago-of-truth.blog.co.uk/2012/01/12/the-tinned-tomatoes-of-doom-12439516/
You make some good points. Tesco is often more expensive
He’s not given a “break” he’s taking a CHOICE from potential customers.
If you cannot understand that then I think there’s not much chance of any agreement.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
This “advertising” drivel sounds akin to the left’s “false conciousness” sillyness.
Not really true, and precisely why their are Tesco Express and the like, as below a certain Sq. footage even the big guys can stay open.
Think our Sky Fairy Luddite is annoyed that he can’t force people to not shop when the sky fairy representative claims they’re not allowed to. They should go to the sky fairy representative’s building instead.
Customers not being attracted to the high street is killing off the high street.
Maybe you’re one of those people who rails against all those put out of work tilling the land by the Ox and Plough….
You know, AC1, Tat was right – you really are a spastic.
Ha,
You best keep lobbying the state to support your brand of sky fairy.
Tat ain’t about. He’s freewheelin the streets in earnest training for the forthcoming games.
Because there are so many people who believe in Sunday being a different sort of day from Monday or Saturday. In a democracy, that is how things are supposed to be if there is a large group of people who comprise a significant lobby for something. Of course, they should be ignored if they want to get out of the EU.
There must be more to life than getting and spending money. Then, if you’re an atheist, perhaps not.
Even athiests need to give it a rest sometimes
Uh oh.
I guess you’d go out and kill people if God didn’t tell you not to?
I guess you would go on making guesses whatever anyone said
No. Its a rather silly and extreme example. Go on, give us your shittest assumption then, see if you do any better than Waad.
I assume you are trying to be funny?
I don’t think killing people is funny.
I don’t think that a christian believing that non-christians are mindless cattle is funny either.
Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were all staunch atheists; probably also Hitler.
Stalin trained as an orthodox priest in Tbilisi. He believed in God. But he believed himself to be God, with the power of life and death over millions.
Oh no, I really don’t want to into this line but:
Hitler seems to have believed in a god that said everything was all right. As religion of some sort was the default position of everyone else in history, they killed loads of people too. There always seems to be some excuse for killing when leaders want to do so.
But back to you. If somehow you lost faith, do you think you’d suddenly want to rush round making money on a Sunday instead of taking it easy?
wasn’t Hitler advised by Indian astrologers ?
There is, unfortunately it seems for some people the “more to life” is the need to make decisions for other people, they often attempt to mask their bad intentions by claiming to be helping people! or it’s for the Sky Fairy.
We will close all shops, especially ones run by intelligent looking people for seven days a week. Music shops we will simply destroy.
So I am a hypocrite! So what’s new?
Sundays are a social construct
So is practically anything you care to mention. Possessing that knowledge, however, does not take forward any discussion as to how to live our lives forward one iota. it is, if anythin, a discraction. Let’s leave it to the French to wave their hands about in cafes, shall we?
Fascist
Fascism is a social construct.
I have seen insects act in a fascist manner
Social construct is a social construct.
Yep. its nice to sit round eating jam and drinking tea at your granny’s house.
I always feel that jam works best when it is spread on something.
Posh bastard
Caesar adsum jam forte
Yawn
another straw man argument
Do I give a flying F**k?
Chukka is simply using the traditional quiet period to be heard as he is simply a gobshite
Labour MP
See – Hypocrite
It seems to be ages since I’ve heard any good music from a charming young french exponent of the art. Can you supply any Guido?
What a bigot
According to many people flapping thier hands abour in the cafe next door, she is a social construct.
I only did one hour a week of french at school is (Tubes D’un Jour) as filthy as it sounds?.
I do hope you are referring to Alizee. **DROOL**
Mais oui! … elle est merveilleuse … merci beaucoup!
and on the 7th day Gordon rested
and on the 6th, the 5th, the 4…..
He just fucked it all up………….
Vazeline is my hero.
Just for once, could the Big Money, political donor interests not get their way on this?
Hear hear
How much are you willing to pay for that to happen?
I’m a chariot of fire.
You mean Charlatan of Fyffe
Chalfonts of fire?
Try deep heat.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chalfonts
the poli’s were so naive that they didn’t realise that the small business lobby (seedy corner shops & property speculators) just wanted the Sunday restriction so that they could sell out to the bigger supermarkets at a higher price?
the decline of the small shop has continued, their service to consumers is dismal,
may they get what they deserve
My corner shop sells dodgy booze and fags under the counter from the EU and elsewhere just like many other corner shops. That really helps doesn’t it?
Most are run by ‘enrichers’ who don’t give a fuck.
Sounds like they are offering a service that the public wants
Chukka, yet another dumbed down labour MP.
How exactly can you dumb down a Labour MP?
Unless you can turn them into phytoplankton I cant see how this can happen.
Give me a break … I was rejected by Labour selection committee as being too intelligent.
I was accepted as just right.
We formed a trade union in 1896 as our phytoplankton brothers were being exploited by the bosses.
I got a judge led enquiry into the evil manufacturers of bleach products.
I led them from the front. I created one of the most oft remembered leadership cries “into the bleach dear friends!”
Independence for Whales!
I spotted a strange looking welshman in wellies coming my way should I be worried? It wasn’t so much the intimidating wellies that concerned me, but the lack of any other attire.
Onlooker “Are you shearing?’
No get your own
TV man just came to my door. I told him to fuck off. I am rather pleased with myself.
Expect many many letters
That is all.
Well watch a blank screen then.
Far better than watch the BBC.
Discrimination!
The word you are looking for is WACIST!
Good for you, they came a knocking last month at our place we just ignore him as it’s always the same guy. He comes around once a year and we get letters every month and that’s it, the BBC have had nothing from me in over four years.
Its our turn to come round next.
Oh for the days of the old Sinclair.
We can show endless repeats of Isla in her prime if you want.
I explain to them that television is a representation of the Beast as fortold in Revelations, it propagates lust, greed and sexual excess. I then offer them a bible and invite them to kneel on the doorstop and join me in prayer.
Works every time.
LOL
+666
Usual unresearched hypocritical shite we hear time and time again from slack gob Chukka
Why don’t you just fuck off Chucka, we don’t need a second rate baby Obama Wannabe, that bandwagon left the station yonks ago
I could offer him a job within his capabilities.
This Chucky ephemeron is not worth getting out of bed to comment on.
how long before he’s the new labia leader
how long before he’s the new pwime minifter
staying in bed or not staying in bed will not delay his rise to power catguvnah
I say you jolly chaps! Can’t a chap have a moment to chillax in the Sun? What?
Anyway, tell Mr Chuckyermoney, that speaking as a jolly democratically elected Top Dog of the Tory Party – freedom, free enterprise and all that, – I do so agree with him and would he please ask Nick for a ruling.
On another note, Sam wants to go topless but I’ve said it’s against the religion here.
Still no sign of Hose.
LOL Dave
http://news.sky.com/story/972736/peeping-tom-spared-jail-over-olympic-swimmers
“Crosbie, 25, hid in a cubicle and when asked questions replied in a high-pitched voice, pretending to be a woman.”
I hope you’re not suggesting that the ambitious Chuka is grandstanding rather than trying to protect the working hours of the downtrodden.
Look man, I need de crisp suitz and that means the lads in the tailoring shop have to do a bit o’ sweating an’ overtime. The workers shouldn’t be exploited , but well my suitz is needed big time an’ I don’t wann spend too many spondulicks, so theyze gonna have to do the time an’ it ain’t no crime.