Politics

[Zulu]

1 hour ago, Spider said:

Fine by me.

As we know, I’m a fan of people who are able to change their minds though.

 

It makes the world an even more dangerous place, I suspect. We're sliding into a major confrontation and it won't be pleasant, I fear.

[Zico]

5 minutes ago, Zulu said:

It makes the world an even more dangerous place, I suspect. We're sliding into a major confrontation and it won't be pleasant, I fear.

Climate migrants are next 

When Africa and the middle east get too hot and all that comes with that like drought and famine they're going to want to get out to cooler climates 

[jmjhb]

1 minute ago, Zico said:

Climate migrants are next 

When Africa and the middle east get too hot and all that comes with that like drought and famine they're going to want to get out to cooler climates 

Perhaps why the EU has jolted to the right en masse 

[Mounts Kipper]

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

So folk can actually vote democratically for political parties with right leaning agendas that want to curb immigration and remain within the EU at the same time??

Cor blimey. Who'd ave thunked it.

All those bit part players having a say eh.

But will it change anything in the EU… they don’t usually listen in Brussels, just plough on regardless… and that’s why we’re out. 🇬🇧 

Edited June 10, 2024 by Mounts Kipper

[jmjhb]

Also, because WW2 is rapidly fading from living memory, we forget about the horrors of war and what led to it etc...

[gonzo]

9 minutes ago, jmjhb said:

Also, because WW2 is rapidly fading from living memory, we forget about the horrors of war and what led to it etc...

Indeed. However folks major angst is against Muslims and Islamification etc spawned by migration.

That lot are more far right than any fucker.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

An interesting thread on tax (and seemingly inevitable tax rises):

 

[London Wanderer]

1 hour ago, Zico said:

Climate migrants are next 

When Africa and the middle east get too hot and all that comes with that like drought and famine they're going to want to get out to cooler climates 

If the ocean currents hit a tipping point then we’ll end up crossing the channel as well. 

[Winchester White]

6 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

An interesting thread on tax (and seemingly inevitable tax rises):

 

Furlough needs paying back.

[Zico]

25 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Furlough needs paying back.

and the PPE spends

[Cheese]

9 hours ago, Winchester White said:

Furlough needs paying back.

To ourselves...

Sunak likes to speak about it as though it was his own money, and he was being generous. Every penny the Government spends is OUR money. Nobody is sending the bailiffs round to get it back. Nobody seems bothered that he wrote off £10Bn of PPE fraud.

Edited June 11, 2024 by Cheese

[only1swanny]

33 minutes ago, Zico said:

and the PPE spends

They need people looking at inefficiency 

They've done it in schools and stretched it as far as they can, huge inefficiencies in other gov funded areas and the daft PPE spends show how easy it is to take advantage. 

[Cheese]

True patriots.

[bolty58]

9 hours ago, Zulu said:

Are you two comfortable with the EU voters apparent shift to the right then? Genuine question.

He's right about his posts being drivel though so fair play.

Thank fuck I only see a small amount. Condescension overload otherwise.

[bolty58]

6 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

But will it change anything in the EU… they don’t usually listen in Brussels, just plough on regardless… and that’s why we’re out. 🇬🇧 

Hasn't von der Liar already said that all of the centre parties must coalesce to limit the effectiveness of the right in the EU parliament? Missing the point as they always do.

[Spider]

The Lib Dem manifesto is decent.

Shame they’ve no chance.

 

[Spider]

4 hours ago, bolty58 said:

He's right about his posts being drivel though so fair play.

Thank fuck I only see a small amount. Condescension overload otherwise.

We get to see all of yours.

Theyre useful for knowing what isn’t going to happen.

[Not in Crawley]

10 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

But will it change anything in the EU… they don’t usually listen in Brussels, just plough on regardless… and that’s why we’re out. 🇬🇧 

Actually it won't change much because the EU elections are huge - overall the EU is still pretty centre right rather than far right. I'm not dismissing what happend in certain counties but there is the context of the actual EU election process which some seem to have forgotten or a bit of a misunderstanding of how the EU works. Which is unsurprising.

[Not in Crawley]

7 minutes ago, Spider said:

The Lib Dem manifesto is decent.

Shame they’ve no chance.

 

At this stage I'm not sure he can actually read.

[tomski]

9 hours ago, Cheese said:

To ourselves...

Sunak likes to speak about it as though it was his own money, and he was being generous. Every penny the Government spends is OUR money. Nobody is sending the bailiffs round to get it back. Nobody seems bothered that he wrote of £10Bn of PPE fraud.

I concur on that last bit. They’ll literally chase a fake benefit claimant till the death (no issue with that) but how casually he wrote that fraud off was beyond pathetic. Will have something to do with contracts they handed out. That i am sure of.

[Mounts Kipper]

1 minute ago, tomski said:

I concur on that last bit. They’ll literally chase a fake benefit claimant till the death (no issue with that) but how casually he wrote that fraud off was beyond pathetic. Will have something to do with contracts they handed out. That i am sure of.

The money was wrote of in my opinion because it was given to what the Tories consider there voter base, big businesses, small independent businesses etc, chasing this money would be counter productive and lose them votes… self preserving shithouses… just like the business people who took the money even though they didn’t need it or could afford to pay it back. Hope Labour Party go back over the hand outs and start to take action to get the money back. 

[Spider]

[Farrelli]

23 minutes ago, Spider said:

He is a closet racist. Just this week he has said Rishi Sunak doesn’t understand our culture and one of his reform candidates has been praising Hitler. Every argument about the UK problems is about immigration. A vote for reform is a vote for more division. 

[Not in Crawley]

7 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

He is a closet racist. Just this week he has said Rishi Sunak doesn’t understand our culture and one of his reform candidates has been praising Hitler. Every argument about the UK problems is about immigration. A vote for reform is a vote for more division. 

He hasn't got any policies - that's what I find so odd. He's a disrupter, actual governing isn't what he can do.

[gonzo]

2 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

He hasn't got any policies - that's what I find so odd. He's a disrupter, actual governing isn't what he can do.

Playing devil's advocate, do we not need folk like him on both sides to drum up actual issues that are close to people that main political parties handle with too much care to avoid losing votes?