The Poolie Bunker

Should the King be going to America, he is going to join in the 250th Anniversary of American Independence, what is it going to achieve ? Trump is a loose cannon so to speak and if makes a snidey comment like he did with our troops in Afghanistan the king isn’t in a position to reply.

Another assassination attempt.

A good few on the lefty forums all think it was all staged to help him in the US mid-term elections...Any thoughts,Jamie?

No idea, why should I ?

Question is Law enforcement are investigating how a suspect got a firearm into the venue where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was held Saturday, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

Trumpy keeps saying weve done this and that and obliterated Irans factorys and ships.

But I can't see any evidence.
Never any news videos or YouTube.
Just a few pictures of Ships in the sea on all the news channels.

No destruction.
Nothing.

All very strange or is there video footage I've missed!!

Jamie keeps giving this topic the kiss of life …must be after a record.

KPG was the last comment not me Snowy, maybe your a Trump lover and a closeted Farage supporter ?

Do the maths..when it settles to a certain point down the page you pop up to give it the l kiss of life with any old cobblers.

And now we have a solution - move Downing Street to Manchester! Decision making to be made by folk wearing T shirts in the Rovers Return. We are truly saved - and lucky to have a mascara wearing leader.

Eventually the country will be run from Manchester (in the NORTH…. ).
The Parliament will meet in Old Trafford only in the close season and the Royal family relocated to Wigan….till the Coronation Of King Andy 1st is crowned as King of the North.
The original Houses of Parliament will become ‘Burnhams discount Emporium and Burger Bar’ and the house of Lords will become a Bingo Plaza.to educate the Cockerneys in Northern sophistication.
The futures bright…or possibly not.

He'll do nothing for the North East that's for sure, maybe north east Yorkshire, just like when people thought Sedgefield's Tony Blair got in and did the square root of F.. all for people around here.

We won’t be classed as being in the North…he’ll probably class us as Eskimo’s.

could be a case of keeping his mancunian mates happy so he can creep back as mayor again after the 2029 GE if he lasts that long.

Dear the fella isn’t even in number 10 and your writing him off already, the right wing MSM will be waiting pounce no worries about that.

The Labour Party had written him off when he became Mayor.
Hundreds of Labour ‘MP’s’ and not one can be found to replace Starmer…..what a sad inditement ….so they start looking through their attic and find ‘Andy’…and dust him down and fit new batteries …and think they’ve cracked it.Oh dear.

Trumps finances make Farages minuscule,
US President Donald Trump made more than $1bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025.
In a 927-page disclosure, he reported $635m in royalties from an entity called Celebration Coins, thought to be behind the $TRUMP meme coin which has plunged in value since he launched it days before taking office.
He also reported over $500m in income from World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency firm founded by his own sons and the children of his special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
He earned millions more from real estate and Trump-themed items. But the White House denied he was profiting from the presidency.

Politicians making money who'd have believed it?
How much richer was Blair at the end of his Number 10 residency?
Writing Burnham off before he's in Dowing Street is forbidden but writing Farage off is OK - explain please?

Farage has been the leader of Reform,The Brexit Party and UKIP, Burnham is not a leader of any party as yet nothing to criticise him about as yet but I am sure the right wing MSM or you will be digging up the dirt on him. At least he hasn’t taken £5 million bungs first describing it as a gift, then for security and now for his services for being in politics for 26 years, he really has to make his mind up what it was for ?

Trump's billions - a White House windfall unmatched by any president, Trump made $1.4bn in the cryptocurrency industry alone, according to the mandatory financial disclosure that was made public on Tuesday.
Trump reported $635m in royalties from Celebration Coins, the entity thought to be behind the $TRUMP meme coin he launched just before starting his second term.
Puts Blair’s earnings in the shade, Blair’s fortune wasn’t made whilst he was in office but after he left not like Trump currently in office.

Very, very poor comparison lacking any logic.
Do you set a limit on how many millions a politician can make before you can criticise their millions especially when they’re pretendy socialists…..Why not give him a Sainthood, assuming he gave it all away, which didn’t.

I was stating Blair wasn’t in office when he made his millions which PTID said he was, that was my comparison. Blair made his millions after leaving office.

Wrong Blair made millions whilst in office from property deals, his fortunes have increased further since he left office.
Farage holds no governmental position does he?
It seems to me that very few politicians leave office poorer than when they entered regardless of party.

the msm would do that to anybody and not just burnham. bad news and bad publicity gets more views and sells more papers than the good stuff. he must have done something as mayor of manchester either good or bad. one positive is he scrapped there ulez scheme eventually before it started.

Really…

Socialist Blair was living in a modest house in Sedgefield before he became PM, when he resigned he owned a number of properties including 1 in Connaught Square London and an adjacent one he bought to annex it and provide a private entrance to the larger mansion, combined the houses were bought for nearly £5m. He also did a house swap during his time in office rather than a sale which avoided any Stamp Duty. When he left office his reputed wealth was reported to be around £4.5m.
Since he left office his wealth has risen exponentially through public speaking and property deals. Most of his wealth is shielded behind numerous tax avoidance walls and is held within various trusts and companies to minimise tax liabilities. It's also understood that his wealth is protected from Inheritance Tax due to the use of other tax avoidance schemes.
Some Socialist eh? Unlike Gordon Brown who gives almost all of his excess income to charities. And Blair (the man responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in illegal wars, and who's same illegal wars are at least partly responsible for the rise in terrorism globally) is far more wealthy, greedy, and power mad than Farage.

if he is using all these legal schemes to avoid and minimise tax then surely there will be plenty of others doing the same. something thats annoyed me for years as nobody seems willing to stop all these, but i guess its turkeys voting for christmas again. us PAYE slaves have no option. they get every single penny with little to refuce it.

I'll give him 6 months, he's out of his depth and you know it!

They might keep his job open for him, then he can be the Town Clerk again.

Dear me what a pessimist you are, as soon as Starmer stepped into number 10 you constantly criticised him, what is you opinion on Johnson, Truss etc. it would be interesting to know what party you actually favour something you have never admitted to ?

From day 1 you said it's early days and Starmer needed time to sort the mess out, now he's walking away from a bigger mess how long will the parachuted in PM need?
Morgan McSweeney today admitting they weren't ready for government with no plans.

You never answered my question, you are quick to critique Labour but never reveal what party you favour, why ?
I am waiting for your answer PTID ?

As usual Snowy you jumped in with both feet with out thinking.

Have you got links for that PTID, you have a habit of making fleeting statements.Tony Blair did not make his millions from property deals while he was Prime Minister, though he and his wife, Cherie, later accumulated an extensive, multi-million-pound property portfolio after he left office in 2007.

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As usual Snowy you jumped in with both feet with out thinking.[/quote]

How can you make that statement with me just using one word…?
Explain.
Was it an AI reply…?

It's easy to find out what's what, it's common knowledge Blair did a house swap to avoid Stamp Duty rather than selling and buying.
It's also common knowledge that he bought Connaught House and the adjoining property while he was still PM.
I don't disagree that he's made a lot more since he resigned as PM, but to believe he didn't increase his wealth significantly (in working class terms) during his Premiership is unbelievably naive.

Maybe Jim Bob 52 actually is ‘naive’.

Or he's turning the usual blind eye?
Blairs net worth 1997 was believed to be in the low hundreds of thousands of pounds.
When he resigned it was believed to be between £4.5 - 5m.

No not niave PTID just wants to try and prove me wrong no matter what the topic is.

PTID as usual ‘bar stool talk’, no links but unlike Farage he declared what ever he accumulated.

You disputing the fact that I'm right just because I don't post links? Give your head a wobble.
Most politicians make money outside their MP wages, and many on all sides are as opaque as Farage about where it's from and how it's spent.

Of course i dispute your claims on many subjects as you never post a link to prove what you say in your post, yes some might be true but you need to back it up.
I did ask you not sure in what post what party do back, you still haven’t replied ?

Whereas you believe every link you dig up that eventually supports your viewpoint no matter how obscure.
Any fool can nowadays find a link to back up their theories on anything including walking on water.
Living by links is lazy.

I've said many times I'm the model floating voter, I make my mind up when elections are due based on who's likely to be the best candidate to best deliver things that'll improve my lot. I've never supported any party. For me, I think that's the right way to do it, whereas for some they are indoctrinated into the party and will support them at every election regardless of the mess they're making or of their capabilities.
I wasn't aware that the rules of the board are that you have to post a link to support everything you post on here? Does the link need to be verified before it's accepted?

It’s a private matter who you vote for but if there was a general election in the coming months who would you vote for, lbh what party ever fulfils what’s in their manifesto, I would vote Labour.
No the link needs to back up to what you post nothing to do with The Bunker, most of the time what you post is hearsay, bar stool talk I call it, a link from a reputable source in a counter argument to what I post.

Of course I post links as it backs up my argument, it’s not lazy, posters are no different, they post what suits their argument from what they read or watch on the MSM. I watch/listen to The Spectator, Talk and Times Radio both right wing media outlets but also LBC which apart from Ferrari leans to the left, Private Eye and The News Agents podcasts, a good mix of right and left politics.

Feck me, I don't know who I'd vote for as there's no election due, no manifestos to assess, no candidates to make my mind up on, whereas you by your own admission would vote Labour if they put a monkey in a dress in a Red Rosette. After the last 2 years Labour have become the most hated party in history but you'd vote for them again tomorrow (obviously after taking your balanced view from YouTube). What a joke.
Links are not compulsory as I've said, I don't need to back up my commentary with links as most of what I post is out in the public domain, and frankly I can't be arsed.

Correct me if I am wrong weren’t you calling for an election, public domain, I doubt I read or watch what you do judging by some of your comments. Links are not compulsory but they assist in getting a point across.

Jamie works on the principle of Labour right or wrong.
He will never consider changing his voting habit because that’s what it……an habit.
It involves not having to think as well as not making your brain hurt through thinking.

Diversion and deflection from Jamie the master of both and the champion of dodgy links.
Well you're wrong Jamie so stand corrected - show me a link to any post where I've personally called for an election.

Snowy I remember my grass roots unfortunately a lot of the electorate now class themselves as middle class because they live in 3/4 bedroom houses with a couple of cars on the drive albeit all afforded by debt.