PMQs - strange attitude towards redundancy payments - or am I a retard

chewmylegoff

grizzly1911 wrote: »

It may be unacceptable but she is probably right, even though left. Quite possibly a transient phase.

Women of a certain age need to be treated with kid gloves.

How old was Thatch at her height of power?

Don kelvar helmet and body armour and await incoming bombardment, for sexism, rants.

I am far more concerned about the fact that Dianne Abbott is the best person Labour can rustle up to be shadow health secretary. Her use of the word demented doesn't concern me at all (at least in relative terms).

michaels

Dictionary.com for retard

Slang: Disparaging. a. a mentally !!!!!! person.

b. a person who is stupid, obtuse, or ineffective in some way: a hopeless social retard.

So the OP suggests that he can not understand why someone who leaves an employment prior to a rendundacy payment being made to employees should expect to get the redundancy payment as it would appear to be common sense that a rendundancy payment would only go to those who are made redundant. He also suggests that to him this is so self-evidnet that if he is wrong he must lack a basic level of understanding such as that suffered by someone who is stupid or obtuse.

Who is insulted here?

Mr._Pricklepants

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I am far more concerned about the fact that Dianne Abbott is the best person Labour can rustle up to be shadow health secretary.

I thought Andy Burnham is shadow health secretary?

chewmylegoff

Mr._Pricklepants wrote: »

I thought Andy Burnham is shadow health secretary?

I'm sure angry pirate meant shadow public health minister and so did I, honest.

angrypirate

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I'm sure angry pirate meant shadow public health minister and so did I, honest.

Sorry. My apples for that.

How could I forget Andy Burnham. Labour's front bench are so difficult to forget as they all are so charismatic*.

*As some people find it difficult to detect sarcasm on this forum, I just wanted to clarify that this statement is me being sarcastic. I think the entire Labour party front bench have the charisma of a damp squib. That is not to say the Tories are oozing in it, although they do have marginally more - maybe likened to that of a slightly moist squib.

purch

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I'm sure angry pirate meant shadow public health minister and so did I, honest.

I find the word 'shadow' offensive when used to describe Dianne Abbot :eek:

angrypirate

purch wrote: »

I find the word 'shadow' offensive when used to describe Dianne Abbot :eek:

Not meaning to offend anybody, but is that because she is of African descent or because she's fat (I was thinking we could term her the eclipse public health minister)?