2024 Election thread
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He got Starmer chatting to Zelenskiy at the D-day celebrations when they hadn't originally been invited. That looks like reasonably competent diplomacy - at least compared to having to stand in for your boss because he's left half way through.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
As much as we all admire visionaries like Boris, hopefully Patrick Vallance will understand that small modular nuclear reactors make more waste than large nuclear reactors and that nuclear fusion is still as many years away as it was when I was born, so can focus GB Energy on things that will actually work.
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They can't fix them.
Agreeing alignment on food and veterinary regulations mitigates the checks etc in both the Irish Sea Border and English Channel
As I've said for years we're paying a high cost for the freedom to diverge from regulations, which we've no interest in diverging from. Let's stop doing that.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
So you'd be advocating quietly converging regulations, but with "EU" crossed out and "GB" written on in crayon?
I'd tend to agree, anyway. And best way to less friction across those borders is mutual trust, so not being a dastardly liar with no regard for international laws and treaties is needed. That'll take a few years though.
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That's just whataboutery now. Let's focus on the current incumbent.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It was an election Stevo - pretty much whatabout Labour, or whatabout the Conservatives.
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Oh c'mon, the current shitstate of the country is all the fault of Angela Rayner, innit.
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I had a walk out this morning and don't see any new house building, so they're already failing on that policy.
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One thing Farage couldn't possibly have expected
Implacable pressure from his right constantly accusing him of betrayal and backsliding
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Might be worth a bit of context there. Funnily enough I don't subscribe to the Belfast Chronicle.
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Thought you would defend a fellow user of the term 'Tory Scum'.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Last line of first paragraph pretty much sums up Farage.
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That's Milliband's job. And the first thing is to work out a plan for the grid.
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Well, he looks like one of those new pylons in human form so it kind of makes sense.
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That's over and now Labour are trying to run the show, so time to critique them.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
also lammy reportedly has a much better relationship with usa (dems+reps) than cameron
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0 -
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Yeah, MAGAs will consider the UK is now communist.
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enough of this "we all", at no point have i ever admired johnson, let alone regarded him as a visionary
i always regarded him as a pompous, lying, windbag, later revising that to venal, traitorous, pompous, lying, windbag
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0 -
I think you missed the sarcasm!
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Had he managed to get any of his projects built then maybe I might give him some credit for being a visionary. But the Boris Airport island, the Boris Bridge to Ireland and the Boris Garden Bridge are all still very much paper projects.
Meanwhile the only long term political policy success I can think of is the Boris Bike, which was a Ken Livingstone thing which Boris successfully had named after him instead
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Jim Allister was an MEP who left Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party because they were soft on the Union
He's been a one man opposition to the NI executive for years and combines the forsenic intelligence of a KC, a massive work ethic, an implacable belief that he's right about everything, an inability to work with anyone and a nose for betrayal.
If he sits with Reform, there'll be a split in the party within a year.
Yous are going to love him.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Just listened to a podcast with a few ex political strategists, and one said that the best way to do political forecasts is to look at what had happened before. Farage doesn't play nicely with others, so the prediction is for Reform to split rather than the Tories. It would make sense, because Reform aren't a serious party. Oh, wait.
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Will he be able to break through and get media coverage?
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The reason none of those things got built is because they were all bad ideas, and the sort of thing that would only get done in North Korea or Saudi Arabia.
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Liz Truss has to be the star of this election.
Two years ago she was foreign secretary and had a 50% majority in her constituency. To lose all that purely through her own actions is historic levels of incompetence.
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The rise and fall of Liz Truss has parody comedy written all over it. Armando Iannucci couldn't have dreamt it.
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 -
Lib Dems take the last seat to declare. 72 for them.
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Leaves the SNP one short of the 10 seats needed to unilaterally leave the UK.
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That might change after November...
Meetings with some European leaders might be a bit awkward as well.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
