The 2017 General Election campaign

[Orang Utan]

Theresa May loses Jobseeker’s Allowance for failing to turn up for interview

Theresa May has today had her Jobseeker’s Allowance stopped for failing to turn up for an interview.

Mrs May, who is applying for the post of Prime Minister, was repeatedly warned that failing to turn up for an interview would harm her chances of receiving benefits.

Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson Simon Williams said, “It’s very simple – to show us that jobseekers are serious about a job we expect them to attend interviews and answer questions so that we can gauge their suitability for the post.

“Otherwise we assume that they’re not up to the job, or just work-shy bastards, and dock their money.

“We might have to give the job to someone else now, though fuck knows who. This is the worst shower of applicants I’ve ever seen.”

Mrs May defended her decision not to turn up, saying that she was dead busy and they never sent her a letter or nothing and anyway she sent her mate Amber along who’s dead good at interviews and aced it for her.

This needs a link:
http://newsthump.com/2017/06/01/the...lowance-for-failing-to-turn-up-for-interview/
Looks like you're pretending you've written it yourself. Credit is due

 

[LiamO]

This needs a link:
http://newsthump.com/2017/06/01/the...lowance-for-failing-to-turn-up-for-interview/
Looks like you're pretending you've written it yourself. Credit is due

looks like I cut out the article link when I was chopping all the adverts and links and cookie shite off it - cos some cunt or other would be moaning about it if I left them in.

 

[Orang Utan]

looks like I cut out the article link when I was chopping all the adverts and links and cookie shite off it - cos some cunt or other would be moaning about it if I left them in.

you just need the link, surely?

 

[J Ed]

Wow, what is going on?

 

[CrabbedOne]

On Bloomberg Top U.K. Pollsters Say Theresa May Likely to Boost Her Majority

I'm guessing getting down into that pink range based purely on bird signs. Polls are all over the place trying to compensate for screwing up on last GE in England. These estimates are based on the assumption that not enough young or poor voters will turn out once more. You never know Corbyn could deliver a Trump like shock which would be nice for a change.

 

[Smangus]

falling apart , hopes ......

Starting to grin a little bit at her obvious stress.

 

[Wilf]

This needs a link:
http://newsthump.com/2017/06/01/the...lowance-for-failing-to-turn-up-for-interview/
Looks like you're pretending you've written it yourself. Credit is due

I knew Liam hadn't written it. There was no mention of Joey Barton.

 

[Rob Ray]

Wow, what is going on?

So May sends Amber Rudd on the telly debates even though she's just lost her dad, the Sun Tweets about it hoping to draw sympathy for Rudd's terrible showing, everyone else says "fuck me that's a bit cold hiding behind a grieving daughter" so Greening's drafted in at the last minute as the stand-in for the stand-in? On the very program which just got in the news for giving May's opposite number a rough ride?

Thick of It comparisons are often overused but seriously this is like a draft rejected for being too silly.

 

[redsquirrel]

I guess there might be some cunning plan but it does give the look that she's running scared. I mean the WH audience is hardly going to be massive, but her not turning up to it is going to be a story to a much wider audience.

 

[Pickman's model]

So May sends Amber Rudd on the telly debates even though she's just lost her dad, the Sun Tweets about it hoping to draw sympathy for Rudd's terrible showing, everyone else says "fuck me that's a bit cold hiding behind a grieving daughter" so Greening's drafted in at the last minute as the stand-in for the stand-in? On the very program which just got in the news for giving May's opposite number a rough ride?

Thick of It comparisons are often overused but seriously this is like a draft rejected for being too silly.

I see may really does make the difficult decisions. Strange she gets them all wrong.

 

[J Ed]

I guess there might be some cunning plan but it does give the look that she's running scared. I mean the WH audience is hardly going to be massive, but her not turning up to it is going to be a story to a much wider audience.

She has to do the thing on the BBC the next day as well, where it will be brought up alongside her non-attendance at the other debate. It looks very weak. Is Jim Messina just giving us Clinton-scale fuck ups? Is an algorithim or something telling them to do this? The same algorithim that told Clinton not to campaign in Wisconsin?

 

[Wilf]

I guess there might be some cunning plan but it does give the look that she's running scared. I mean the WH audience is hardly going to be massive, but her not turning up to it is going to be a story to a much wider audience.

Woman's Hour is probably not a topic Labour want to return to, but they will have to now. With all this dodging interviews and mind numbing waffle when she does, there must be something they can say along the lines of: 'Brexit needs somebody who doesn't run scared, who faces up to issues. Running away isn't strong or stable'.

 

[LiamO]

you just need the link, surely?

Don't call me Shirley!

FFS. I was tring to c&P but when I pasted it, it kept showing Mr X (fb friend) and x others Like this and loads of other shit. next time I'll pm you the link and you can fuckin post it

 

[LiamO]

I knew Liam hadn't written it. There was no mention of Joey Barton.

bit nawty that Wilf . Not pwopah nawty, but nawty nonetheless.

 

[J Ed]

Has anyone considered the possibility that May might be unwell in some way?

 

[Orang Utan]

Has anyone considered the possibility that May might be unwell in some way?

she's just shit

 

[Teaboy]

Has anyone considered the possibility that May might be unwell in some way?

She looks like she is under huge amounts of stress. The times she has shown up she's rough and her body language is awful, really like she doesn't want to be there.

Hopefully its just stress from knowing she's potentially staring down the barrel of going down in history for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Teaboy]

she's just shit

This as well.

 

[chilango]

Has anyone considered the possibility that May might be unwell in some way?

She was well enough at my gym on Sunday afternoon .

 

[tommers]

Has anyone considered the possibility that May might be unwell in some way?

Had crossed my mind to be honest. Something is going on.

 

[Pickman's model]

Had crossed my mind to be honest. Something is going on.

She'll be dead by weds in a bid to get the sympathy vote

 

[Pickman's model]

Has anyone considered the possibility that May might be unwell in some way?

What a pleasant thought

 

[Smangus]

Someone said that she has type 1 diabetes, if so all this running around the country with irregular hours etc can't be helping her manage it. That's before the stress of being a complete fucking dead eyed drone, losing most of the arguments and looking like a u turn Muppet.

 

[Pickman's model]

Someone said that she has type 1 diabetes, if so all this running around the country with irregular hours etc can't be helping her manage it. That's before the stress of being a complete fucking dead eyed drone, losing most of the arguments and looking like a u turn Muppet.

If that's the case the tories will want to ditch her asap

 

[LiamO]

She was well enough at my gym on Sunday afternoon .

Wot? ou saw her working out last Sunday? Or was she just pressing flesh rather than pumping iron?

 

[Cid]

I guess there might be some cunning plan but it does give the look that she's running scared. I mean the WH audience is hardly going to be massive, but her not turning up to it is going to be a story to a much wider audience.

I suspect the cunning plan is 'if she gets interviewed she'll fuck up, so don't let her get interviewed'.

 

[Orang Utan]

I suspect the cunning plan is 'if she gets interviewed she'll fuck up, so don't let her get interviewed'.

She kind of reminds me of Pamela Doove in The League Of Gentlemen

 

[J Ed]

I suspect the cunning plan is 'if she gets interviewed she'll fuck up, so don't let her get interviewed'.

Yes, the whole thing reminds me a lot of the Democratic primaries. The more people see of May the less they like, the more they see of Corbyn the more they like him.

 

[bi0boy]

If that's the case the tories will want to ditch her asap

I'm certain even if they get a 100+ seat majority she won't be leading them into any more elections. She'll be gone a year or so after Brexit.

 

[chilango]

Wot? ou saw her working out last Sunday?

Yep.