How Simon Case still has a job is beyond me.
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How Simon Case still has a job is beyond me.
Internship available in local MPs office. Must be comfortable with fast paced environment and spending time under the bus...
They are all so vacuous it hurts.
And half the posters in the Kier Starmer thread
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Anyone following the council election results? Tories getting flogged as expected.
Nah, if you listened to the radio you'd know that this is just a blip and people reacting to the Covid lockdowns. Also something to do with them hating Liz Truss. I've been reassured by independent think tank operator Tarquin Smythe-Worthington-Flimflam-Smythe that the Tories will win the next election so Labour voters shouldn't be motivated to persuade others to also vote for them. In fact, it's such a done deal that the Tories will win the real election that all Labour voters should just stay at home and draw pictures of Starmer clubbing a seal.
It's great to see the Tories suffering catastrophic results tonight, that go well beyond merely wanting to give the governing party a kicking. From what I've seen, many of the Tory councillors are even worse than their MPs (which is saying something), with plenty of racist, homophobic, transphobic etc. comments and behaviour from them in general.
Also I'm pretty optimistic that there will be pretty successful and co-ordinated anti-Tory tactical voting at the next GE. The Tories were already terrified about that when they lost those 2 by-elections, one to Labour and the other to the Lib Dems on the same night not long before Johnson resigned. Clearly Corbyn and Swinson despising each other preventing it from being remotely successful in 2019, but there is no such hostility between Starmer and Davey and plenty has changed since then.
Also I'm pretty optimistic that there will be pretty successful and co-ordinated anti-Tory tactical voting at the next GE. The Tories were already terrified about that when they lost those 2 by-elections, one to Labour and the other to the Lib Dems on the same night not long before Johnson resigned. Clearly Corbyn and Swinson despising each other preventing it from being remotely successful in 2019, but there is no such hostility between Starmer and Davey and plenty has changed since then.
Voters will always vent their frustrations at the local elections, a sort of protest vote, before coming back to their usual votes come the real thing (GE)
I'd love the greens to become a real party. FPTP really does preclude most of these things, so they'd have to cleave hard. Not easy.
Disaster result for Sunak. Boris the Cnut will be licking his lips.
Nah a lot of this has been attributed to Johnson and Truss.
It's chicken and egg. If people want PR they're going to have to support a smaller party and grow it to the point it holds the balance of power. Trouble is too many use FPTP as an excuse for not supporting a smaller party. But they're never going to get what they want until they do.
I’m going to accuse any neighbours I don’t like of being an anti-monarchy PROTESTOR and laugh when the gulag arrives.
These days you can't even plan a peaceful protest or they'll throw you in jail.
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Peaceful protests that government ministers said wouldn't land you in jail, no less.
I couldn’t believe my ears when I saw it on the news. Disgraceful.
Interesting thread on why my local council is the only one yet to declare, totally nothing dodgy going on at all.
Nish Kumar doing a politics podcast with Coco Khan.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/may/07/nish-kumar-twitter-podcast-pod-save-uk-hold-front-page
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/may/07/nish-kumar-twitter-podcast-pod-save-uk-hold-front-page
I’m beginning to hate Sunday morning political shows. These guys play fast and loose with our intelligence. You can’t even call it spin.
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God she's actually a minister? I had to google her. At least Ridge actually challenges her absolute nonsense claims.
I'll have 10 of everything this guy is on please:
I like the "it will terrify voters" when what he really means is "we'll make sure it terrifies voters in the lead up to the election."
Andrew Bridgen has joined the Reclaim Party, led by Laurence Fox. Perfect fit for him.
At the end with the speaker.All this twat does, is push this note around from nigh on 12 years ago. Embarrassing.
He needs to pay that big legal bill of £800k. Ironically his shift in his opinion on all things covid conspiracies, and mixing with clowns like Fox, was timed almost immediately after his £800k debt was announced. It's almost like someone is allegedly bank rolling him to spout these opinions and to join this party to push a certain narrative.
Rishi S-u-turn
12 years ago when Labour were still in power;
1) my salary kept up with inflation
2) I had a local library
3) I could get a dentist appointment
4) I had hair
I've lost all of those things under a Tory government. Perhaps Mr Sunak would like to explain why these tragedies have occured under his government's watch?
He’s also ignoring all of the models that showed that, had Brown and his Chancellor (I forget the name) been allowed to continue their plans for recovering in the wake of the ‘08 crash, that we’d have been in a far better economic position than after austerity.