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Post by The Doctor on May 24, 2024 21:01:53 GMT
Alas, you just know he is off to the private sector to rake in millions for not much work. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on May 25, 2024 23:21:17 GMT
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Post by Bogatan on May 25, 2024 23:26:46 GMT
Possible explanations for the past week.
1. At least one of his advisors truly truly hates him.
2. At least one of his advisors is secretly working for labour.
3. Sunak has come to hate the tory party and intends to destroy them before heading to santa Monica.
If it turns out to be all all 3 I wouldn't be shocked.
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Post by Pinwig on May 26, 2024 8:28:02 GMT
This is like some ninety year old gibbering in the corner of a care home about how things were better in the good old days.
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Post by Cullen on May 31, 2024 9:36:30 GMT
I think Rishi is trying to speed run an election defeat. Literally said WTF out loud when I saw it. This an the pension triple lock +++ clearly show the Conservatives have given up and are just in damage control mode. They've given up trying to compete with Labour and are just trying to make sure they don't lose votes to Reform. I hope it backfires massively for them. 0 seats is too good for this lot. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 13, 2024 11:09:57 GMT
He is doing his best to lose. Ducking out of D-Day events so he can go do a TV interview about how he didn't have Sky TV as a child was...a choice.
His advisors must be paddling in hot tubs of booze each day to cope with how the campaign is going.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 13, 2024 11:23:37 GMT
He doesn't care, he is going through the motions and when the Election comes in and he is ousted, he will step down as party leader, sit on the back benches until the next election and do fuck all while sponging off the system for his MP's salary and expenses.
CUNT.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 13, 2024 11:33:32 GMT
His advisors must be paddling in hot tubs of booze each day to cope with how the campaign is going. -Ralph Apart from the one who's in some trouble for betting on a July election a few days before |
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Post by Cullen on Jun 13, 2024 16:00:55 GMT
He doesn't care, he is going through the motions and when the Election comes in and he is ousted, he will step down as party leader, sit on the back benches until the next election and do fuck all while sponging off the system for his MP's salary and expenses. CUNT. He's going to be on a plane to California on July 5th. Ain't no way he's sticking around as an MP. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 21, 2024 7:38:05 GMT
Voted!
I can now ignore the noise and await the results.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 21, 2024 7:43:52 GMT
It's on my to do list for today
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 21, 2024 8:49:15 GMT
He doesn't care, he is going through the motions and when the Election comes in and he is ousted, he will step down as party leader, sit on the back benches until the next election and do fuck all while sponging off the system for his MP's salary and expenses. CUNT. He's going to be on a plane to California on July 5th. Ain't no way he's sticking around as an MP. Polls suggesting he isn't going to get the option to stick around as an MP. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 21, 2024 8:54:36 GMT
He's already registered his daughters at a US private school! The man can't stop lying!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 21, 2024 13:09:36 GMT
Civic duty done: I have voted
Moral duty done: I didn't vote Tory
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Post by that_bluestreak on Jun 21, 2024 17:45:18 GMT
y'all doing postal vote? i don't like to postal vote because a) something interesting might happen which would make me want to change my vote; b) i don't have a prefered party and rarely know who i am going to vote for or even if i am going to vote until i look down at the list of names and wonder if any of them deserves my bidecadal democratic support.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 21, 2024 17:49:35 GMT
I'll vote in person on the day. Makes me feel more like part of the 'event'.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 21, 2024 20:33:23 GMT
Yes Postal Vote. Have done for years as my illness makes me unsure if I can make it out the door on a specified day.
Who I vote for depends on a number of things:
1) where I am.
2) what sort of election it is.
If you haven't picked up my political leanings I am not a Tory voter. In a general election I vote for who is most likely to defeat the Conservatives where I am voting. Here in Pig Hill North that would be Labour as the Lib Dems don't have a hope. When I lived in SW London it would be Lib Dem as the Labour candidate didn't have a hope.
If you want the Tories out choose whichever of Labour/Lib Dems/Greens is most likely to beat them where you are.
Council elections on similar lines
In the last Euro election I voted Green as we had a very good Green MEP and the voting system in Euro elections produce results more representative to the vote.
Compromise is necessary, yes, no Political Party will exactly represent you.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 21, 2024 20:41:13 GMT
I use a postal vote because my working week is so mental it's a way of being sure I actually can vote.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 21, 2024 21:20:23 GMT
I've done postal votes for about 20 years because I got really hacked off by heckling from candidates on the way in to the polling booths. Doing it by post is significantly less hassle.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 21, 2024 21:24:42 GMT
I have never encountered a candidate at a voting booth.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 21, 2024 21:26:12 GMT
It happened every time I went to vote so I gave up and switched to postal votes. I've never looked back. Much more pleasant and private way to do it.
-Ralph
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Post by Nigel on Jun 22, 2024 11:15:24 GMT
Campaigning within polling stations is not allowed. Campaigning outside is, as long as it doesn't impede voters.
I like to vote in person. It feels like I've made an effort and contributed. This year, I'll be voting at a different polling station for the first time, which I'm looking forward to. Ooh, actually, no. My first vote, in the devolution referendum, was at a primary school, while I think every election since it's been at a scout hall. But I will be in a different ward this time.
Generally speaking, I vote for the candidate rather than the party and have voted for several different parties over the years. Last time, having trouble deciding between the existing MP and another candidate, the deciding factor was that the MP's office was above my shop and I thought it might be useful to keep the MP as my neighbour! As it happened, she was ousted after years of service and the new MP (who I wasn't considering voting for) has been a bit rubbish - and is standing in a different constituency this time! The office upstairs is now a flat.
This year, I'll be voting to get rid of the Conservatives. Regardless of political leanings, I think it's hard for someone to deny that it's time for someone else. The parade of Prime Ministers alone is farcical, let alone any other issues.
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Post by Cullen on Jun 25, 2024 10:08:25 GMT
We'll have a new Prime Minister next week! I prefer to vote in person if I can. Feels like I'm more involved if I do somehow. I'll be voting Labour as I think they are the only credible option. I think they could have been more ambitious in their manifesto given their lead but hey ho.
Would like it if the Lib Dems make it into opposition but I've got a feeling that won't happen on the day - reckon the Tories will end up with around 100 seats (would love it if it was fewer). I think the only other party I'd vote for is Green but can't because of their stance on nuclear power. I honestly think that global green movement's stance on nuclear over the last 40 years has been extremely damaging for climate change and has perpetuated fossil fuels use. We could have decarbonised the grid by now if we'd invested in nuclear.
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Post by Cullen on Jun 25, 2024 10:10:44 GMT
He's going to be on a plane to California on July 5th. Ain't no way he's sticking around as an MP. Polls suggesting he isn't going to get the option to stick around as an MP. As much as I'd love it, there ain't no way he's losing his seat. I'll eat Paddy Ashdown's hat if that happens. |
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Post by that_bluestreak on Jun 25, 2024 18:12:16 GMT
I have never encountered a candidate at a voting booth. me neither. which is a shame, i always have something to say to them. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2024 8:46:41 GMT
I haven't found any of the campaigns to be very inspiring so I am quite apathetic about what happens in Thursday. I have voted, but more out of a sense of duty than thinking anything will change (whoever gets in).
I also find it quite baffling and frustrating how the parties seem to have amnesia over the two biggest events in the last parliament: Brexit and the pandemic.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 1, 2024 11:25:48 GMT
Every party seems afraid of alienating some section of the voting public this election campaign. None of them will end up pleasing anyone. Except Reform of course. Their whole reason to exist is to unite the few by alienating other.
Really stuck on who to vote for. We had an excellent local MP who is standing again and I would vote for him but his party's national behaviour and statements keep putting me off.
Minimal chance Reform, Tories or People's party will get in around here against the previous MP so I have the luxury of 'choice' here and not to have to tactically vote. Suspect I will vote for an alternative and then write to the local MP when/if they get back in with my concerns.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 3, 2024 11:19:51 GMT
Last day of full campaigning. Thank fook. This tedious nonsense needs to be put to bed.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jul 3, 2024 17:16:17 GMT
Had the last of my leaflets through the door yesterday. British Workers Party (not sure if socialist, but not facist at least) Labour, and Reform... If this is the field (likely along with at least one more facist of some stripe, probably the EDL, and the "British Anti-LGBQT League" (Family Party) I have a fairly invidious choice tomorrow - hold my nose and vote for the only party with a chance of unseating the Member's Perpetual who are returned in all their blueness regeneration after regeneration. Or vote for the unknown person whose policies on anything other than road-repairs and Gaza are unclear, or spoil my ballot because everyone else on the paper looks to probably be a fascist of one stripe or another.
Ah well, by 07:10 tomorrow I will have done the deed and can await the results.
Karl
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 3, 2024 21:31:59 GMT
Chimps in trees.
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