General Election 2024

[flatandy]

So, the Tories blew millions on a totally silly and daft scheme?

[perrykneeham]

We'll never know now. Starmer's first fuckup. Naive.

[mids]

It was a brilliant scheme and was on the cusp of being a roaring success until Keith buggered it up.

[perrykneeham]

It was great. Starmer's been nutmegged, by himself. He's gone from chump to chupm.

[flatandy]

It was a scheme that the Tory government appear to have spent a hundred million + of your money in order to achieve absolutely nothing. And even if they'd removed 50,000 asylum seekers (rather than zero) it would still not have begun to address the actual problem of the piss-poor processing of asylum claims (and removal of those whose claims turned out to not qualify).

[perrykneeham]

Small steps. We'll never know now. Starmer's bungled it.

[moggyonspeed]

Whatever. <yawn>

[mids]

Inkompetence.

[perrykneeham]

Yet less good news for Labour's popular mandate .... "The Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank found that just 52% of UK adults cast their ballots on 4 July, which is the lowest since the vote was extended to all adults over 21 in 1928."

[mids]

A staggering rejection of the PM.

[perrykneeham]

Yeah, and now the whole not-so-easy-as-we-thought narrative has started. Wes Streeting really does come across as an inadequate little man. He sounds like a hairdresser trying to explain a bad perm to a Saturday girl.

[Repat Van]

Jul 12, 2024 6:33:45 GMT perrykneeham said:

Yet less good news for Labour's popular mandate .... "The Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank found that just 52% of UK adults cast their ballots on 4 July, which is the lowest since the vote was extended to all adults over 21 in 1928."

*Shrugs*.

And still more popular than the Tories.

[flatandy]

It's a rejection of all of Britain's mainstream right wing parties. And immense rejection of Labour, Tories, Reform and Lib Dems. Britain really needs a center-left party to go into coalition with the Lib Dems and Greens.

[voice]

I think I'll call my memoir "Richi Sunak, my part in his downfall"

[Repat Van]

So Farage missed his first opening of Parliament to go to run to Trump’s side?

What a weirdo.

[voice]

Did anyone really expect him to ever be there?

I expect winning a seat was huge disaster for him as it cuts into his grift.

[perrykneeham]

Grift is an odd concept. All politicians rely on patronage to some degree, I suppose. That might be their local powerhouse, the unions, big x, y or z, the City, the Estabiishnent, the EUstablishment, the Unions, the Mosque, the tribal homeland, etc.

I wouldn't put Farage quite in the top spot for grift. I reckon Bozza has a reasonable claim, with honorable mentions for David Miliband and Nick Clegg. The absolute don of griftology is, without doubt, Tony Blair.

[mids]

In the absence of any sort of relationship with the incoming US Prez, it probably makes sense that the adults (Boris, Big Nige) try to salvage Labour's ruinous mess.

[mids]

The Grifters. That was a good film. Anjelica Huston said Los Angeles with a hard G in it. Annette Benning got her kit off too.

[perrykneeham]

Four million UK kids in "poverty"? Oh do fuckrightoff.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn081lyqw44o

This is blatant spivvery: massively overinflate the number of kids that need help and then, when half of them can be seen to be no longer in the "poverty" that they never were, claim victory on what,but with "more work to do".