Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
TRUFFLES AT MILL A warning to any talk radio broadcaster foolish enough to suggest that deliberately misleading misinformation was the driving force behind the “will o’ the people” Brexit vote; your switchboard will soon be jammed by calls from apoplectic…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
LET THE HARD BREX BEGIN Like the perpetual threat of a shower, PM Theresa May appears to be always on the verge of bursting into tears, even during our delightful spell of summer weather. On her recent Brexit-related trade mission…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
Open Letter Dear Hastings Borough Council. Do you think there might be the flimsiest chance you could do something about the 16 bars of tinny, inept, patronizing, ghastly, amateurish “music”, the repetition of which you appear to think will soothe…
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PRITI OBVIOUS The MP and fake, Priti “Vacant” Patel, whose shameless ambition knows no bounds, guested on “Question Time” last Friday. She appeared comfortable with the fact that the only response to her repeated failure to negotiate the greasy pole…
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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Perhaps one should blame the current trend for acceptable obfuscation and bare-faced mendacity in politics for the Lewis Carroll situation we find ourselves in in Hastings? In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, an…
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THE UNDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Mrs. May has ordered that members of the cabinet remain locked in the headmistress’s office at Chequers until a ‘solution’ to the insoluble question of the Dog’s Brexit has been reached. This has allegedly produced, thanks to…
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PAINTING THE TOWN GOLD According to Adam Stephens and Finbarr O’Connell, of Heritage Lottery Fund-appointed administrators Smith & Williamson LLP: “After careful assessment of all offers received for the pier, the successful transfer to Abid Gulzar, the owner of Eastbourne…
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SEA CHANGE – AS GOOD AS A REST? Empty office buildings in Havelock Rd, ‘business parks’ that decimate areas of outstanding natural beauty whilst remaining unfinished and deserted, and the still undemolished Queensbury House, a tatty multi-storey 1960s eyesore which…
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BORIS’S JET I’m not referring here to the inept Foreign Secretary’s ability to urinate over high walls, useful though that might be. No, this is something quite different. Boris Johnson has now demanded that he be provided with his own…
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CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED RICH Lobbytroll’s already limited capacity for tolerating precocious children was seriously breached recently when the BBC broadcast a 1982 archive recording of a 12-year-old child bragging about his stock market investments. When the little horror was…