What Is Happening To Our Country?

[badgerx16]

31 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I remembered it from Fergie’s autobiography and was huge news at the time. His father Louis was subject to a World in Action episode at the start of 1980 alleging shady practices in both his food business and recruitment of young players for Man Utd. Didn’t realise Peter Lorimer who ended up at Leeds was caught up seemingly in the latter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Edwards

Using condemned meat in school meals.

[Gloucester Saint]

10 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

Using condemned meat in school meals.

Nice. Easy to see how the CJD crisis came about. On the payments to kids, the more things change in football, in some ways the more they stay the same.

[Gloucester Saint]

This popped up on YouTube, just to prove politicians were idiots in the past as well. As soon as he opens his mouth, he’s jinxed it…

 

[sadoldgit]

Sad news.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2033616/whsmith-to-sell-modella-capital-new-name/amp

[The Kraken]

The WHSmith brand is not included in the sale, and the firm's travel divisions will continue to trade under the name across 32 countries, including at major airport locations, hospitals and rail stations in the UK.
 

Sounds awful. 

[Gloucester Saint]

3 hours ago, The Kraken said:

The WHSmith brand is not included in the sale, and the firm's travel divisions will continue to trade under the name across 32 countries, including at major airport locations, hospitals and rail stations in the UK.
 

Sounds awful. 

In other words captive markets.

[Lord Duckhunter]

WH Smith was a mess, absolutely no surprise they’re disappearing from the high street. Business model not fit for the modern world, only missed by a few dinosaurs  stuck in the last century. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

Looks at this absolute fucking onion…

Edited Tuesday at 11:45 by Lord Duckhunter

[Gloucester Saint]

6 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Looks at this absolute fucking onion…

I don’t care for it, even though I vote for them, but the electorate does. Look at their 2024 GE performance, Boris did loads of farting about, Farage has, whereas others get called boring.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

12 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Looks at this absolute fucking onion…

I guess he'll turn up to anything. Except meet with postmasters, of course.