Brexit was fucking idiotic. Every single person who was an expert in their field said it would be a disaster for their particular field and they were completely right on every count. Surprising that.
Brexit was fucking idiotic. Every single person who was an expert in their field said it would be a disaster for their particular field and they were completely right on every count. Surprising that.
I am going to enjoy Twitter relentlessly pounding him from the left over the next few years.
Well yes. But, I think we probably have to let the boomers let this play out. Then when they are all dead we can maybe move past it all, probably should have just let Covid rip on them.Originally Posted by randomlegend
Just seen that Galloway lost his seat. Lol.
I mean. He's not wrong.
That was the sort of seethe I was expecting last night, he's bang on as well mind.
He's got some brass neck to call any other government a "circus".
How we have let Ed Balls become some sort of enduring thing in the national arena should be the source of yet further deep national shame.
I don’t know much about the man but it’s possible he might have been half decent in a sea of shite.
Indeed. I've no idea about him. He may well be full of shit, but if he was saying the things he said he was saying, then it's a shame we didn't hear more from him, because that's the first intelligent thing I've heard from a Tory mouth in about 6 years.
Steve Baker was the Minister of Sound and right about most things, but then he seemed to have a MELTDOWN over actually being in government and/or retaining his seat full of foreigners. That speech might be a dead cat bounce of sorts.
This Farage press conference.
That Steve Baker clip (I quite like him, he was decent as NI Minister and genuinely seems intelligent and thoughtful even if I disagree with him on many things) really shows up what passes for political journalism in this country. The standard of it is absolutely atrocious. It might well be the biggest problem our political system faces.
How much scrutiny did Starmer face during this campaign? They basically cheerled him into Downing Street (as they did Boris in 2019).
Reform must be secretly delighted that they only won a few seats. The more they won the more weirdos and spastics would have come along for the ride, where as this gives them a few years to find some 'respectable' people. That or Farage and Richard Tice fall out before the latter defects to the Conservative Party.
There's no market for decent journalism anymore. People refuse to pay for it, ergo where we are.
Don't they get some sort of funding / establishment with this many MPs?
And yeah, I was thinking if it was going to be 13 as per the exit poll, at least 5 of them would have been complete retards. With these four they have three experienced campaigners and Rupert Lowe can't be a complete idiot, so it should be a disciplined place to start.
There's two seats left to declare, one of which is a recount and Farage seemed confident they were going to win it so they'll probably have five.
We need something like Reform here. That vote is far too splintered at the minute.
Do the Tories have to pick a leader and shadow cabinet from however many MPs they have left? If we thought they were scraping the barrel before...
Ben Habib sounds mentally ill on Question Time. He also sounds scarily similar to Tony Blair which is throwing me off.
Yeah, it's utterly ridiculous that we gave 105,000 Visa's for care workers in a single year. Complete madness.
He definitely has a touch of the Mr Burns about him, but he's made the most sensible point on immigration (and the wage suppression it causes when done on a mass scale).
It's either that, or treat care workers well and pay them a decent wage. What do you want, Harvey Yevrah? Do you want vulnerable people to be looked after or something?
Proper civil service thinking goes into that. Pay British people less, and then it costs more to support all of the foreigners and their dependents/descendants as well as the British people not working because of them, but because that all Comes Out of a Different Pot, the Treasury can put it down as a saving.
Is there any way to stop that? It seems to infest every aspect of the public services and is equal parts maddening and baffling.
Cultural change. At the moment saying "we need people in work and off benefits" is treated as if you said "I want to kick the disabled in the face". We need a complete change in mindset, because firstly, most people out of work aren't disabled, and secondly, many disabled people COULD work.
We also need to force employers to increase wages, and that includes cutting off their access to imported labour from the third world that is willing to work for a pittance. It's insane that you can have someone working full time and STILL be on benefits because their wage is so low.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c16jpl6707eo
He should refuse to have his picture taken from the front.
Head looks like a Disney animated villain.
Oh, and we need to fuck off whatever is insentivising employers from hiring 4 staff on 10 hour contracts over giving one person a full time job. That shit needs to stop. The number of tenants I have stacking 3 or 4 jobs and working horrific hours is all kinds of wrong.
It'll be the employment protections a person on a full time contract would get as opposed to a casual one. Unless they close that loophole Labour are about to make this much worse by scrapping the two years you had to be employed to take your employer to a tribunal for unfair dismissal.
I see Tony Blair is straight out of the woodwork touting his fucking ID cards again.
Probably has a company all ready to go with the conteact for them.
Fucking Jacqui Smith, the corrupt old cunt, is back too.
Also, only found out today that Sue Gray's son is a Labour MP now.
They're every bit as incestuous and corrupt as the tories.
Labour wrote the book on corruption.
The Grown Ups are Back. He looks so Prime Ministerial.
Are we hoping for an outright far right victory in France for the lols?
That is the hope, yes.
They'll get what?, 30% of Congress? Then everyone will just pile against them, so they will be as good as useless.
100%, but not for the lols.
I’ve not really kept up on the French this time around, is the RN popularity all because of immigration? I can’t imagine they’re being backed over economic literacy.
Been declared maximum risk of violence if it happens.
They're so dangerous that we will smash things if they win!
Should that read *Muslim violence*?
Left wing absolutely smashed the right and suddenly there’s nobody posting about it.
The Republic is saved!
Still baffling why Macron decided to call this election.
Did mbappe not tell everyone in a press conference not to vote for the far right mongos? That influence
He is best buds with Macron allegedly.
Le Pen tried to box with Mbappe and realised her hands were too short to box with god. My goat
Unless Macron has some plan to come out the other end of it with all the credit/none of the blame it sounds like a massive suicide pact.
Interesting there are an alleged 60 Reform candidates that got nearly a quarter of a million votes between them that no-one can verify are real
They'll all be paper candidates that do exist somewhere but didn't campaign. This is actually the most plausible reason for Sunak having called the election when he did, to stop Reform having time to get their shit together, although as it turns out they did alright.
Didn't help that one of their real guys looks like an AI generated person.
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