Politics

[Casino]

Also on the radio, a woman who says pension/insurance companies have 200 billion over the next few years to invest in projects

If only the govt will start building stuff

 

This supermajority looks like just what the country needs if we dont need to pander to the blue rinse brigade holding MPs to ransom

[Manchester_whites]

20 minutes ago, Cheese said:

It's starting to look like Reform stood candidates who don't even exist... Surely not?

Helen Burns was one. Never had any meetings, never went to the count. No social media. No one knows her. Very strange but there have been others

[Ani]

37 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said:

We had an 'All Staff call' from our new minister today, she spoke well (and looked well) and she sounded enthusiastic taking us forward, that will do for me

I know lots of people do not agree with things the new Govt will do but their approach is already seeming to be light years ahead of what we have had.

An 'All Staff call' , visiting the devolved assemblies, sitting down with junior doctors, immediate action on wind farms, appointing experts to roles. 
 

So far they are very much Football Ventures, the old lot were more Ken Anderson. 

Edited July 8, 2024 by Ani

[Mounts Kipper]

1 minute ago, Ani said:

I know lots of people do not agree with things the new Govt will do but their approach is already seeming to be light years ahead of what we have had.

An 'All Staff call' , visiting the devolved assemblies, sitting down with junior doctors, immediate action on wind farms, appointing experts to roles. 
 

So far they are very much Football Ventures, the old lot were more Ken Anderson. 

The mantra from Starmer is also excellent, he said Labour are here to serve.

While we all know the Tory party been self serving for years.

It’s refreshing to feel the wind of change, they’ll be stuff i don’t agree with but at least it feels like a grown up government. 

let’s hear some movement towards renationalising the rail, power, water etc. 

[Cheese]

5 minutes ago, Manchester_whites said:

Helen Burns was one. Never had any meetings, never went to the count. No social media. No one knows her. Very strange but there have been others

It can't be true, surely. What if she'd won?

[Ani]

3 minutes ago, Casino said:

Also on the radio, a woman who says pension/insurance companies have 200 billion over the next few years to invest in projects

If only the govt will start building stuff

 

This supermajority looks like just what the country needs if we dont need to pander to the blue rinse brigade holding MPs to ransom

Relaxing the rules on Pension Funds investing money into projects is fine unless a few of the projects go tits up and people's pensions start reducing.

 

Not sure if the rumours Farage has not turned up for his first day, but if it is it has shown he really does have social media dancing to his tune. 

 

[Spider]

14 minutes ago, Casino said:

A 'planning consultant' just been on the radio

Amongst other hurdles, he has to get 2 years of bird surveys done for a new wind farm

Its 12 months even for a replacement unit

And dont mention bats!

At least they’ve made a start.

Promising whispers about the heat pump upgrade push 🥰🌹

[Casino]

5 minutes ago, Ani said:

Relaxing the rules on Pension Funds investing money into projects is fine unless a few of the projects go tits up and people's pensions start reducing.

 

She wasnt asking for rule changes

You will know more than me, but it was just her saying nowts been built so nothing to invest in

 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

33 minutes ago, Cheese said:

It's starting to look like Reform stood candidates who don't even exist... Surely not?

I wouldn't at all put it past them 

In the majority of seats, the only aim was to split the Tory vote

Create an AI-generared candidate, pursue an aggressive social media strategy targeting the voters in that constituency, job done

I wonder if Julie Pattison was one? 👀

[tomski]

16 minutes ago, Manchester_whites said:

Helen Burns was one. Never had any meetings, never went to the count. No social media. No one knows her. Very strange but there have been others

Helen Burns feels like a name you’d use for a made up person😂

[Cheese]

5 minutes ago, tomski said:

Helen Burns feels like a name you’d use for a made up person😂

 

 

[deeane Koontz]

She passed from tuberculosis

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

If it is true, I wonder if the vote in those constituencies would need to be rerun?

[Manchester_whites]

Mark Matlock is another 

[Cheese]

1 minute ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

If it is true, I wonder if the vote in those constituencies would need to be rerun?

They would.

[MancWanderer]

25 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

The mantra from Starmer is also excellent, he said Labour are here to serve.

It’s refreshing to feel the wind of change, they’ll be stuff i don’t agree with but at least it feels like a grown up government.

it’s where I’m at

Didn’t vote Labour due to the boundary change meaning I had no idea about the candidate so reverted to my norm of Lib Dem

They are in for the term so let’s see what they achieve. Hopefully mainly good. They will fuck up along the way for sure. But we need to give them a chance and rightly criticise when they get it wrong 

Feeling a wind of change early on sums it up well for me

[Casino]

Voters need id and candidates dont even need to exist

Sort it out, Starmer

 

Surely this would be election fraud and if linked to the owners of the company, theyd be in hot water

[Sweep]

5 minutes ago, Casino said:

Voters need id and candidates dont even need to exist

Sort it out, Starmer

 

Surely this would be election fraud and if linked to the owners of the company, theyd be in hot water

If it is true then yes, surely it's not though

[Sweep]

18 minutes ago, Manchester_whites said:

Mark Matlock is another 

Katherine Hales another, allegedly. 

[tomski]

Imagine not being able to even get a real person to be a candidate.

impessive stuff. 

[Cheese]

18 minutes ago, Sweep said:

If it is true then yes, surely it's not though

It can't be true. Even for that mob, this is way too batshit.

[Sweep]

Just now, Cheese said:

It can't be true. Even for that mob, this is way too batshit.

It won't be, but even if it was, their thicko racist supporters would find a way of spinning it so that it's acceptable 

[Casino]

Well, tice is on with peston later

The question will get asked, surely

[Cheese]

3 minutes ago, Casino said:

Well, tice is on with peston later

The question will get asked, surely

I predict it will be the usual "Look, we're a new party (even though we're not, we've just re-branded), and we don't know every single one of our candidates" line that Farage wheels out whenever one of them is outed as a racist.

[Ani]

If it was true, and Reform get money based on the number of votes surely that would criminal fraud ? 
 

It is like in the Untouchables when Capone gets done for wire fraud.