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To be glad we are finally getting an election

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frankentall · 22/05/2024 16:50

Rishi due to tell us at 5pm what the date is - smart money on 4th July perhaps pressaging his inevitable departure for the USA.

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cavalier · 23/05/2024 11:52

WithACatLikeTread · 22/05/2024 17:23

Sorry but I think you have unrealistic hopes of what Labour will do. I fear many are going to be disappointed.

(Not defending the Tories obviously)

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I agree … all Incan see is women not having safe spaces .. more strikes because he bows to unions, higher taxes
sheeesh .. I’m dreading it but I’m going to get the popcorn out for next 5 years … the honeymoon will come to an abrupt end and he will be under so much pressure to deliver 🤣 he will get the scrutiny that he so gleefully dished out to the Tories … I’m here for it 😁

WoshPank · 23/05/2024 11:20

frankentall · 23/05/2024 11:15

To the people asking "why now?" - Rishi isn't stupid - he can see he's fucked and there's no real prospect of anything getting any better soon, from his point of view, the sooner he can fuck off and count his millions (plus pension and security for life paid for by us as well as lucrative speaking engagements, the memoirs etc etc), the better.

I agree.

He's now stayed long enough for the length of tenure not to be embarrassing. In 20 years time when he's doing whatever prestige gig, it'll be Rishi Sunak UK PM from 2022 to 2024. It doesn't make any difference to him if it says 2025 instead.

BIossomtoes · 23/05/2024 11:20

Why now? California Dreamin.

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frankentall · 23/05/2024 11:15

To the people asking "why now?" - Rishi isn't stupid - he can see he's fucked and there's no real prospect of anything getting any better soon, from his point of view, the sooner he can fuck off and count his millions (plus pension and security for life paid for by us as well as lucrative speaking engagements, the memoirs etc etc), the better.

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frankentall · 23/05/2024 11:08

Martinii · 22/05/2024 23:51

I hoped labour would get in in 2010, so they could clean up the financial shitshow they left. I'm curious to see how they'll handle things now without a healthy economy to inherit...

They didn't leave a financial shitshow though.

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cornflakecrunchie · 23/05/2024 11:03

Basically, I don't think it would matter if Larry the number 10 cat got voted in. There still won't be enough money to make huge changes. My boomer generation are getting older, & while I'm barely costing the NHS anything, lots are.. you'll have to wait for all of us to die off!

Shetlands · 23/05/2024 10:47

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Prawncow · 23/05/2024 10:45

Brumhilda · 23/05/2024 05:08

I can’t believe the childish naivety of anyone who thinks it’s going to get any better.

If they just sat quietly in a room doing sudoku for the next 5 years it would be a vast improvement.

pointythings · 23/05/2024 10:24

Brumhilda · 23/05/2024 06:44

Brexit was never delivered.

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Honest question: what did you expect Brexit to be then?⁹

JSMill · 23/05/2024 08:47

Did they consider the added pressure of potentially thousands of extra people applying for postal or proxy votes? It's obviously summer holidays in Scotland but people in other parts of the UK who don't have dcs in school will also be on holiday.

littleteapot86 · 23/05/2024 08:17

Lovethistimeofyear · 23/05/2024 01:34

We will be out of the country during the election.

I am in Scotland.

Do I need to download the Scot.gov postal vote paperwork or can I use the Uk Gov online form due to it being a general election?

I applied on the UK Gov website yesterday. Was surprisingly straightforward.

Pretty appalling though they have made it during our school holidays. I will also be out of the country.

Willyoujustbequiet · 23/05/2024 07:23

AlcoholSwab · 23/05/2024 02:44

And replace them with more of the same.

Only a complete mug would delude themselves otherwise.

Starmer certainly ticks the self serving and morally bankrupt boxes quite nicely and, given his performance at the CPS, he's fucking inept too.

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Don't be so ridiculous.

Unless you have a crystal ball you can't possibly know how they will do.

That level of arrogance is what's delusional.

Brumhilda · 23/05/2024 06:44

Walkden · 23/05/2024 05:20

"I can’t believe the childish naivety of anyone who thinks it’s going to get any better."

Too right, the carnage from Brexit hasn't even fully landed yet!

Still the Tories seemed to be hellbent on accelerating the countries decline, rather than managing or slowing it...

Brexit was never delivered.

Soukmyfalafel · 23/05/2024 06:42

Brumhilda · 23/05/2024 05:08

I can’t believe the childish naivety of anyone who thinks it’s going to get any better.

D:ream thinks it will 😂

keffie12 · 23/05/2024 05:22

I just want my country back (and not in a 30-Anderson way). I want my country back. The one before Cameron opened his big gob in 2016.

I didn't like how it was going then under the Tories, so 14 years all together,

It was a country that wasn't perfect but wasn't like this populist elite Bullingdon club grandchildren of Margaret Thatcher shower of who have turned this country into a laughing stock.

The only country ever to put sanctions on themselves and a government who wants to now take us out of the ECHR set up after the war to protect people.

Margaret Thatcher would be turning in her grave now at what her "silver spoon grandchildren" have turned this country into.

I was bought up in a Tory blue family. I haven't voted for Tory since 2010 and never will again. Neither would any of my family if they were still here.

For those of you interested, have a listen to this podcast with Kier Starmer. You will be surprised by the quiet man background. He isn't from an afluent background. There's far more to him than people realise

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/keir-starmer/id1454408831?i=1000552160665

Walkden · 23/05/2024 05:20

"I can’t believe the childish naivety of anyone who thinks it’s going to get any better."

Too right, the carnage from Brexit hasn't even fully landed yet!

Still the Tories seemed to be hellbent on accelerating the countries decline, rather than managing or slowing it...

Brumhilda · 23/05/2024 05:08

I can’t believe the childish naivety of anyone who thinks it’s going to get any better.

keffie12 · 23/05/2024 04:58

frankentall · 22/05/2024 17:18

Someone is playing Things Can Only Get Better by D-Ream in the background

That's Steve Bray, the stop Brexit man

x.com/snb19692/status/1793321440474808687?t=wAEjdyJMRQjacrU8vH6uCQ&s=19

Mamai100 · 23/05/2024 04:21

KimberleyClark · 22/05/2024 18:17

And mine. Apart from Iraq.

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Mine too.

AlcoholSwab · 23/05/2024 02:44

Willyoujustbequiet · 23/05/2024 01:27

Get the self serving, morally bankrupt, utterly inept bastards out.

And replace them with more of the same.

Only a complete mug would delude themselves otherwise.

Starmer certainly ticks the self serving and morally bankrupt boxes quite nicely and, given his performance at the CPS, he's fucking inept too.

Lovethistimeofyear · 23/05/2024 01:34

We will be out of the country during the election.

I am in Scotland.

Do I need to download the Scot.gov postal vote paperwork or can I use the Uk Gov online form due to it being a general election?

Willyoujustbequiet · 23/05/2024 01:27

Get the self serving, morally bankrupt, utterly inept bastards out.