2024 Election thread
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You'd get a little jittery when you found out they're a bit partial to international novichok use.
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Must be the threat of novichok that's making Farage come out with such shit then.
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The Mail turning on Farage is a really interesting development
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Come on, Farage’s links to Russia go way back.
It’s an open secret the far right get a lot of money from Russia.
(and as I keep saying, the media try to reflect what parts of society think, not dictate it)
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I'm sure Sunak's betting on turning this around (from the latest Savanta poll):
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Meh, stuff like this will help shape the image people have of Farage. It could be on page 10, instead it's on the page that even people who don't read the mail will see when they visit the shops. I think this has been the best news for Sunak all election.
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And then he goes and spoils it with another Party member getting investigated by the gambling commission
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Bought and paid for.
Maria Zakharova is the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Don't really understand why the Conservatives didn't just point this out the moment he said he would stand.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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It sums the election up that the Labour Party started spending serious ad money when they saw the odds narrowing on a July 4 election….because the Tories, and chief data officer specifically, were placing bets, yet the rest of the Tory Party was caught off guard.
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I would leave them rather exposed given their own behaviour.
Labour won’t mention it because of Corbyn’s sympathies.
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Exactly.
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Well we've done our postal vote, can we turn off election news now?
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Labour don’t need to mention it anyway as Reform votes are good for them.
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Absolutely mind boggling Sunak hasn’t sacked the gamblers.
Get them in the office and ask them “did you gamble on the election date?”
Either they admit it and you immediately march them out the door, or you hang them out to dry and announce “when I asked him if he’d gambled he said no, so I will leave it to the gambling commission to see if he’s lying or not”.
Absolutely pathetic leadership. Even I have sacked people for unprofessional behaviour. It’s not hard.
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There's circular feedback between what people think, what the media focus on and and what people think.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
He just wants it to go away until after the election. It's been standard practice in the current Tory Party: just try to keep kicking the can down the road by stonewalling with a "I can't comment while there's an investigation going on", in the forlorn hope that the miscreants will be magically absolved.
I suspect that there are enough cases coming out that it would be catastrophic to sack them all as they emerge, but it's equally catastrophic just to keep this rumbling up till election day, with it looking like weak leadership (which it obviously is).
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One of the supposed cases seems to have been someone betting on several dates, which suggests they don't understand how betting odds work more than it does fraud.
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There's an article in the Sunday Times today with this in it about the Question Time atmosphere towards Sunak:
"One young man summed things up towards the desperate, tired end. “Is there any policy you can offer me that would positively impact my life?” he whinnied. The sense of hurt entitlement and rage: me, me, me."
Imagine wanting politics to do at least one thing that might improve your life. The cheek of the rapscallion.
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“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Do the young not realise they are there to be sacrificed at the alter of a comfortable retirement?
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Tobias Ellwood - now there is a proper old school Tory.
On the BBC Radio 5 breakfast show at around 09.50 or 1 hour 50 mins into the programme on BBC Sounds if your to scroll through, there was a very interesting interview with him, in which he basically said the government have been a bunch of arse-kissing, incompetent, sycophants.
Not news as such, but I think he earned some respect from me, but then again he may be at risk with an 8800 majority in 2019, so may be talking out of a sense of liberation.
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Farage obviously rattled, (sueing Zelensky lol) but a curious detail there - mentioning he’s using Carter Ruck.
They get a lot of airtime in the book Kleptopia (https://www.google.com/search?q=kleptopia&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari) as the favourite law firm of Oligarchs and other former soviet union dictators; known for its viciousness and willingness to use the law as a weapon.
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People should just keep making Russian jokes every time they are on screen with him.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Pretty sure that someone saying someone said does not meet the threshold of libel.
Also not sure how picking a fight with Ukraine helps him.
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Aye, let's have Niggly Fartrage in court courtesy CarterFuck (copyright PrivateEye) and let's see his history of dodgy sources back pocket £ filling exposed. Poostain's efforts to destabilise W Europe, NATO et al are clearly evident/evidence.
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It would also be quite fun bringing up all his Russian connections in a court of law.
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using carter fuck to sue the mail and/or zelensky, that'll go well
farage showing his true nature
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It would also be rather lovely if they could use confiscated Russian funds to pay the lawyers.
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