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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Oh feck off. How does he know what the country wants, he doesn't even have a mandate!
I don't know if I'm being naive but this feels absolutely ridiculous even for the Tory party. They have obviously lied for the last few years repeatedly but to invent arguments (meat tax, war on motorists, 15-minute cities) to then say that only the Tories will fight against them is surely a new low? Glad to see political commentators seem to be actually calling them out on these rather than the more obscure lies that they have let slide in the past.
Sophie Ridge did a bit, but the likes of the Sun had a verbatim graphic of those different made up things Sunak was saying he's fighting and it'll resonate with the Sun/DM/Tel readers any beyond. The BBC isn't going to call them out.
I'm finding Braverman's increasingly dangerous anti-immigration rhetoric far worse though. It's incessant, increasingly vituperative and is only going to stoke hatred and likely violence. She can shove her racist British values up her fecking arse.
I legit will move to another country if this happens, the country will go so far down in the gutter if they do and equality of the rich and poor will be so much further apart, I can't wrap my head around how people have access to all info online but still stupidly fall for intelligence insulting lies and laughable loony conspiracy crap.
Back in the day, people used to say the absolute bedrock Tory vote was 30%. It couldn’t go lower, that was your basic swivel eyed hardcore base. Well, that’s not true anymore, it’s more like 25%. All this shite is designed to get them to that 30% but it won’t get them any further. There is no majority in being BlueKip, they are dead as a party of government maybe for good.
What is that British way of life, be anti brown skinned immigrants, hate anyone on any type of benefits and be able to make a 3 course meal out of 30p?
America is half full of that type. People believe what they want at this stage
I saw something on social media saying he is going to struggle in an election campaign. Him and Truss were used to campaigning in front of friendly activists during their campaigns. They have never undergone questions during an election campaign. This robotic approach just isn't going to work.
So much for free speech.
They're more concerned with appeasing themselves and those in the party than the actual public, namely the hard right. The term 'out of touch' is bandied around a lot, but the lack of opposition and sequential internal elections has led to them losing all awareness of the UK population. The public are a complete afterthought in their rhetoric and policy, and hopefully the Tories will get a very big shock in the near future.
This is fecking despicable, why are GMP getting involved in what essentially amounts to private security for the conference? That bloke wasn’t breaking any laws.
To tough a job rooting out the nonces and rapist's in their ranks, much easier to be hired goons for the Tories.
Apparently that is the Tory Chair of the London Assembly.
I wish I could share your confidence. The popular support for policies like Rwanda suggest otherwise to me and they have the full force of the press behind them.
I think it will be a hung parliament. Starmer's weak and he will be slated every day in the papers til the election.
She is literally describing Tory voters.
A hung parliament leading to a coalition with the Lib Dems requiring electoral reform would be the best outcome, even if the prospect of this version of the Tories polling 30% or more is depressing. The rhetoric is going to get even uglier over the remainder of this parliamentary term on the basis that the Tories have nothing positive to offer and ministers with leadership ambitions are playing up to the party membership (who by now are either in a nursing home or make Nick Griffin look soft on immigration).
I hate him.
Their GE campaign is going to be a huge cesspit of cuntery.
Honestly, Suella worries me. As someone who's wife is on a visa here and someone who just has a conscious, she is someone who is trying to make the UK worse than the US through it's division. She is creating hatred for people who weren't born here or have a fecking brain cell
There are many people on prominent roles in the Tory party that are terrible human beings, but Suella is possibly the one who most clearly can be defined as a textbook fascist. No hyperbole, no loose labelling, none of that, just a 1930s fascist brought to the 2020s with a few minor tweaks here and there.
I keep hoping I bump into her in Manchester so I can call her a rancid cnut and possibly throw a milkshake on her. She is vile.
Oh, I think it will.
During the debates (well, the single debate with pre vetted questions for no more than 30 minutes) Sunak will refuse to answer questions and respond with made up tales about how they're going to stop Starmer from eating children. When Starmer responds with "no I won't eat children, what a stupid fecking thing to say" the main headline will be "Starmer refuses to apologise for eating children."
Then Johnno the painter/decorator who can't read more than five words without getting a headache will see the headline, decide that Labour are scumbags who caused all the problems of the last decade, and vote Tory. And Cynthia the posh cnut, who was always going to fecking vote for the Tories anyway, will say "I WAS a floating voter but now I have no choice but to vote Tory because Starmer wants to hurt my grandchildren, who I don't actually give a shit about anyway otherwise I wouldn't vote fecking Tory in the first place, but hey ho."
Just look at the embarrassing shit today and then see how it's all being reported (if it even is).
In fairness, Starmer may easily become pro-eating children when somebody suggests to him that not eating children might be a bit socialist.
We genuinely have the worst media on the planet.
And onwards to Leeds by hot air balloon.
I'm off to tell Beth Rigby about how I became the first man to drive from the UK to Australia, I just switched to a plane at Heathrow.
The Tories:
Going hard right to try and recapture that Brexit energy that served Boris so well was very predictable. It's so depressing how cynical the Tories are.
Like with Corbyn, individual policies can poll well at the same time as people not believing the package. People aren't buying the package and the polling is pretty clear on that.
I think labour are on for a solid win, because people don't just want a change of government, they want to hurt the bastards. All starmer has to do is not fcuk up, which he is, to be fair, doing.
Yep. I don't understand it myself, surely someone there is reading the tealeaves. I personally think deep down they know they are fcuked, and are just securing their base against a challenge from the right. They are petrified of Reform because they don't know how to be anything else than what they currently are. So they keep tacking right. They got rid of all the MPs who did.
It is going to take 10 years for them to learn the lesson that British elections are always won from the centre. God knows how this lot can get from where they are to where they need to be with all the UKIP baggage they are now carrying.
Party of alternative facts