Britain is going to be Tory for at least 10 years.

[Hermit]

We used to have racists in Africa, but found them hard to stomach.

I have never tried to eat a racist, so I'll just have to take your word for it. However, having eaten hundreds, maybe thousands of Negerküsse I can assure you they were easy on my stomach. Delicious, even. I am certain that they taste exactly the same when they are called Schokokuss.

[Brian Peacock]

A favourite liquorice confection from my youth, eight a penny...

[Scot Dutchy]

Remember those. How about Gollywog jam?

[JimC]

Made from real gollywogs?

[Brian Peacock]

By Royal appointment...

[mistermack]

It's art.

[Scot Dutchy]

Unthinkable today:

[mistermack]

Unthinkable today:

Fashions change :

[Brian Peacock]

Tories refuse to deny Rupert Murdoch role in Michael Gove's cabinet return.

[Brian Peacock]

Theresa May has been accused of an “absolute affront” to democracy after dumping dozens of official documents online on parliament’s last day of term, showing the police force numbers have dropped to a 30-year low and the number of soldiers has fallen by 7,000.

The government has published very little for weeks after the election but about 22 written statements and dozens of Whitehall reports were released on Thursday, just as MPs embark on their long summer break.

The tactic – known as “take out the trash day” – means MPs will not be able to scrutinise the information properly while parliament is away for the next seven weeks. The statements included a damning human rights assessment of the UK’s ally Saudi Arabia, the cancellation of the electrification of a key railway and a decision to opt into some new EU regulations on crime-fighting, even though the UK is heading for Brexit....

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... al-reports

[rainbow]

The tactic – known as “take out the trash day” – means MPs will not be able to scrutinise the information properly while parliament is away for the next seven weeks.

... so explain your complicated First World system to a poor uneducated African.

Are the MPs not allowed to read these reports while on holiday?

[Brian Peacock]

They can, but they can't scrutinise or report on them in committee or ask questions or initiate debate in the house or receive written answers for 7 weeks.

[pErvinalia]

It's a tactic to defer discussion and analysis to a later point in time during which the news cycle would have moved on to other things.

[Brian Peacock]

Also “take out the trash day” is a vile Americanism. In the Mother Country we simply call it "bin day".

[rainbow]

They can, but they can't scrutinise or report on them in committee or ask questions or initiate debate in the house or receive written answers for 7 weeks.

Again excuse my ignorance, but I'd assume scrutiny is possible, but not interrogation.

I can't believe that the average Pom has such as short attention span, that they can't wait till they're back from Benidorm to pick up on the argument.