2024 Election thread
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That's true but I believe in a strong opposition keeping everything in check. We need a strong opposition though...
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 -
He got / gets stick for being boring but was a decent PM in difficult circumstances and seems like a decent person.
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I think being boring was actually a plus point, as far as good government and surviving with a tiny majority was concerned.
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If boring means taking parliament seriously I’ll buy it. That seems a long way from what we saw this week.
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I think it depends. Is the incompetence of modern politicians fleeting or is this going to be a lasting issue. Starmer does appear to be reassuringly boring at least.
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Hopefully the main objectives for the first Labour term is just to unshit everything, and make everything just a bit less awful.
Don't need some mental culture wars bullsh!t.
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Galloway getting elected in Rochdale against no official Labour candidate and deciding his victory is a sign that Labour supporters will ditch the Party nationally. The guy certainly has a high opinion of himself, it will be amusing if he loses the seat again in a few months. Not sure what the concern of the Reform candidate was about it not being ‘free and fair’.
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Funny how sh!tholes that get treated badly by public services and politicians don't help themselves with voting in sh!thole people.
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Look on the bright side - Galloway party intends to stand in many more Labour held constituencies and hopefully will split the leftiebollox vote.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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Not a great day for lefties, is it? Judging by your reaction at least 😉
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yes, yes that's what I meant.
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yep, they then end up voting for extremists who want only to exploit things for their own/funders' benefit
see: brexit, trump, putin, orban, etc., the gullible end up worse off than before
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I'm sure the citizens of Gaza will feel utterly relieved that a reality show contestant has been elected as an MP for Rochdale.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Not sure how you work that out when the winner was a real Leftie and Labour had withdrawn support for their candidate (even then the Tory candidate only scraped a thousand or so more votes and got beaten by the Independent candidate despite there being no other right leaning candidate on the ballot).
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To think it was Cyril Smith's constituency for 20 years.
What happened to the LimDem vote?
Gorgeous George will create some fun at Westminster no doubt. He's utterly mad though.
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Is the bright side that in a small majority it could be a Galloway/Labour confidence and supply agreement, or would Galloway be propping up Rishi.
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Doesn't the first sentence help answer the second?
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He doesn't generally show up to parliament to vote very often, so no real prospect of either.
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When he left politics, there was a huge void to fill.
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I'm assuming that you are talking about Cyril there? 🤣
Although George is no lightweight either.
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 -
Just in case anyone is unsure of Galloway's loyalties, during the Syrian Civil War he was happy to post a load of pro-Assad propaganda. Bombing Arabs is obviously only bad when Israel does it.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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He's a proper wrongun and it reflects very badly on the residents of Rochdale that they voted him in.
The local, presumably Muslim community are not doing themselves any favours voting that prick in. The fallout from the grooming scandal is already very problematic for them, what do the think Galloway is going to do to help?
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It is stretching the definition of party a bit and won't make the blindest bit of difference to the Gaza situation.
But it's still not a good day for lefties 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I would guess that on the grooming side of things, they either think it's not an issue. Or they think that the wider community shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of a few wronguns.
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Isn't George Galloway a leftie and he won by a country mile?
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I tried pointing that out earlier. Galloway is a proper Leftie. It really would be bad for most of us if the Workers Party of GB won the GE!
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Think we can agree that Galloway is left wing. Total tankie sh*tstirrer, but definitely left wing. He won. I think he'd call that a good day.
The only guy who did better than expected is Mike Tully. Your man was down 19 percentage points since the previous election. Even Reform were down on their previous showing.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0
