V8Granite wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 9:34 pm
Not a great look if you are over-stressed after just 3 months in the job!!
They should lead with that, not personal attacks.
They didn’t know that yet, they just suspected it because a child in a bad fitting suit was telling them to believe them that they’d solved all the problems (though clearly not - back in the real world).
If a 22 year old in ill fitting PPE turned up on your job site and told you that you were all doing it wrong and he had a new way that was far better, your response would be to believe him, change direction and not even question any aspect of him or his appearance?
It doesn’t matter that he looks like a child and can’t even buy the right size PPE, you should never judge a book by its cover. You should (against your better judgment) simply believe he is right then review it once finished, but never, ever refer to his struggle to even dress himself correctly.
No, we listen to what he has to say as we get a lot of very awkward nerdy people doing gas combustion. We may have to hold the spanner's but they know what they're talking about.
I'd get to know them before taking the piss out of the overly clean PPE and lunchbox
V8Granite wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 8:13 am
No, we listen to what he has to say as we get a lot of very awkward nerdy people doing gas combustion. We may have to hold the spanner's but they know what they're talking about.
I'd get to know them before taking the piss out of the overly clean PPE and lunchbox
We should hate positively like Steve Hughes says.
Dave!
and if that kid is the one holding the spanners whilst telling you that you’ve been doing it wrong? Because that is the case here - he declared in May 25 that the people before them had been doing it all wrong and they’d found £26m saving. Obviously by Dec 25 that had turned into a £23m overspend….
This isn’t some new highly educated engineer with a new technique, this is a kid in his dads suit predictably fucking up the figures.
sounds more like the disaster - the suit was just a hint that it might be a used car dealer scam on the horizon!
Yes. So not a saving at all. Whoever Dave! got that story from was being disingenuous and/or thick. Like - I could save a lot of money by not paying my mortgage. Genius huh ?
They claimed that they'd saved £26m through "efficiencies", which impies getting the same outcome for less input. What they actually did was cut services like transport for disabled kids (or more accurately, charging the poorest for the service who used to get it for free - so it's technically not a cut in legalese, but less people will use the service) and increasing the barrier for entry for vulnerable children, like those at risk of sexual exploitation, to get secure housing away from risky situations. Which again, technically isn't a cut legally because it's just less people using it, but it's a cut in reality. Similarly, there's 'efficiencies' in SEN education spaces - by making them harder to get into, and putting special education needs kids in normal schools, without increasing the schools funding to accommodate that.
The reason they don't talk about Leicesters 'efficiencies' any more is the same reason they don't talk about 'reducing council tax' any more, because they fucking lied about it and were found out.
It's quite funny how they frame him getting a bit grumpy about being asked his real name when in character as if that's not anything any other performer would do.
If you were interviewing Hacker T Dog and you shouted down behind the chair "Hoi Phil, how you doing?" he'd call you out for being a dimwit, too.
He made the same point on Newsnight, as I quoted earlier in the thread - why would you invite a character on if you intend to try to deconstruct it? The implication being, if you want to deconstruct the character, invite Jon Harvey. Something which he has refused to do, because Binface is the point of this, not Jon Harvey.
Watching the right wing (or at least right-leaning owned) press (spectator, spiked, Telegraph etc) try to attack Harvey by claiming he's a left wing establishment BBC stooge is one of the funniest things I've seen in my fucking life. The far right particularly, can't stand their god-kings being mocked, and the whole country is laughing right now.
Sidebar: That said the MRLP have been proper twats about this by election too, not realising they're spoiling an opportunity to do the funniest thing by splitting the protest vote. They've had thousands of comments asking them to stand down, and they've had what they describe as 'robust debate' with people - if 'robust debate' is copy pasting the same message ("Binface is welcome to stand down") to every single comment. Seen a lot of people say they're never supporting them again, which is also quite funny. Shooting themselves in the foot, like their alleged old pal Farage.
Beany wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2026 6:01 pm
In his very, very mild defence, I think that's pretty normal for such people at such events with cameras rolling.
The outfit clinches it - The classic English gentleman abroad: It's David Niven. It's Stewart Grainger. It's Nigel Havers. It's a green (blue) blazer. The look? 'Imperial Leisure'.
