2024 Election thread
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Meh, if those other countries are competing for our young people (for want of a better phrase) then the UK is gonna get compared like it or not.
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Has always been so. It is a good move for some. Others come back. There's a lot to be said for "home" and Europe has a lot that these other places don't.
I personally have a tinge or regret that I didn't try to stay in North America, but very little that I didn't try to get a job in the US. I think the pros and cons are more subtle than you think.
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Is there evidence supporting a brain drain? If there is, does it apply to specific sectors? The increase in population of the UK is certainly evidence that more people want to live there than leave there.
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Am I imagining it, or is this a step down the Trumpian Road?
There's no evidence whatsoever that the SNP would be adversely affected (in fact, it is likely to be the opposite, due to the demographics of postal voting Vs the demographics of SNP support), and it's not even clear how many, if any, voters will in reality be unable to vote.
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Ditto here.
The grass can be greener on the other side, but you have to move there for a sustained time* to make an informed personal decision. I'd encourage all young people with the option to take it. More come back than may be apparent.
*5 years in my case. Changed my whole life, and outlook. Was the best period of my life yet I still came back. Times, desires and wishes change over time.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Exeter & East Devon tactical vote advice/position now probably more realistic... could do with (but probably won't get) some constituencly-level polling to see where it's heading, so that the #gtto majority can prevail.
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Absolutely.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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He's so much better when being genuine.
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Maybe there is a real Rishi Sunak behind the facade.
It would have been genuinely interesting if he could have changed course when he got in and not had to try to justify the nonsense of the loons on the right. At the time I suggested a reset of stealing the growing mildly pro-EU-friendly majority couldn't make their position any worse, and would have pulled a rug from under Labour. But he chose to hector us about how they just had to be more Brexity and loony.
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Meh, I managed to live abroad (albeit for a short period of time) and I agree the differences Re subtle, and that it's a complex blend of pros and cons. I think currently the pros outweigh the cons in a lot of situations, but obviously other views are available.
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As much as it's a shitty thing to victim blame, I can't help but feel that the Tory party have played their part in the shitification of British politics.
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He's not. He talks a lot of bollox but he's no Farage
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Indeed, if you are in that age window when you can. Even then, when the rellies get old, you have to hope there's a sinking left behind.
I'm all for retiring where the house prices are lower, mind you.
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He is. Who did he appoint as his Home Secretary? After she had to quit in disgrace the first time?
He’s a hardcore Brexiter who doubled down on the Rwanda scheme.
His main policy “success” was just showering the country with money and paying their energy bills.
The only thing that sets him apart from Farage is a) he doesn’t actively hate brown people himself and b) he’s genuinely anti Putin.
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HiRiskAnus' main claim to fame is 'Eat Out to Help Spread It About'
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The difference is that Sunak is a politician operating within the framework of Parliament. Farage and his bag carriers are not interested in governing (whatever he claims) it is just a confidence trick to encourage people to pay him for 'membership'.
Sunak is not a very effective politician, extremely poorly advised and I disagree with almost all of his policies but he is still a politician rather than a grifter.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I don't think he does. Reform core is racism and grievance farming: "everything is s*** and it's all foreigners' fault". They have no plans or ideology beyond what Farage thinks this week.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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We’ll have to disagree then. I think he basically thinks that, albeit a more nuanced version, and he just appoints the Braverman’s of this world to take the heat.
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I think he’s just weak and was beholden to the right wing loons. Braverman was probably an agreement for their support. He’s had more flak from the right since she got sacked.
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I think he's sold his soul to the devil, and is too weak to admit he's not the all-powerful intellectual he's thought himself to be who can balance the racism he's allowed in the Tory Party and the racism of which he's been on the receiving end.
I think Alastair Cambell gets it about right here:
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That’s exactly how I think people get him wrong. His instinct has always been very right of the party
if you go on policy not vibes he’s an authoritarian populist spender
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My take on Farage is fairly simple. He has learned his greatest trick from Trump in how to convince enough of the electorate that he is "one of the people" out to help "the people". Neither of them are, they are nothing more than grifters.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Whatever the case (you might well be right), I'll be extremely happy when he's gone. To California, probably.
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Taken a while, but things are catching up with DUP
On these numbers they may lose 3 of their 8 seats, including their leader's seat in East Belfast
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Doesn’t look like there’s been much change. Is that just the paper being late to the story and they’ve already lost a lot of vote share?
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Comparison to the last poll, rather than the last election.
Compared to the last GE they're down 10 points or a third of their vote. They polled a bit better in the Assembly elections but transfers on STV and superb vote management meant they retained all but 2 seats
As the Tories are finding out, there's nowhere to hide under FPTP
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Meh, he "achieved" lots before the rise of Trump.
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