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Which UK politician (past or present) do you feel the most visceral hatred towards right now?

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bibbitybobbityyhat · 15/01/2019 21:24

Me: 1. David Cameron although of course it is a very close run thing with 2. Boris Johnson and 3. Nigel Farage - nuff said.

  1. Jeremy Corbyn - but actually I can't bring myself to hate him all that much for not putting up a strong Labour campaign against Brexit because he never pretended he was a Remainer himself. He is and always has been pro-Brexit from a different angle. He probably shouldn't have been elected leader in the first place.

I've voted Labour in the GE for the entirety of my voting life (since 1983) but at this moment I don't actually feel any anger towards Theresa May - I rather grudgingly admire her. She knows her time as leader is short lived. I have yet to see anyone saying anything tangible about how they could have done it better!

Dh and I are both passionate, passionate Remainers. But we can't support a second vote - it will result in the most horrendous civil unrest! Anyone who thinks the 48% who voted to leave the EU will just quietly accept a different result from a second referendum is deluded.

And so I come back to most visceral hatred for a political figure just now = Cameron for putting us here. It sickens me to the pit of my stomach, thinking of him living his rarified, cosy, massively over-privileged Eton-educated life in Chipping fucking Norton, earning millions as a public speaker off the back of his very short time in politics, running away from the mess he created. What a complete and utter ARSE.

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OhTheRoses · 17/01/2019 23:15

It's got to ne a toss up between Michael Heseltine and Suzanne Evans for me. And Cromwell.

Littlepleasures · 17/01/2019 23:20

Thatcher. For selling off social housing resulting in the screwed up housing market now where even people on average wages are at the mercy of the whims of private land lords if they’re not lucky enough to have family money to get on the housing ladder. In the early 80s, my first terrace house cost double my yearly wage. Now, the average terrace house is about 6x a comparable wage. I despair when I see ex council houses being rented out by private landlords for almost double that charged for similar by council/housing associations with no security of tenure or fair system for the return of said deposits (£80 for replacing 3 lightbulbs anyone?) A stable home is a basic human need. If you work your arse of for 40 hours a week and still can’t afford a decent home there something rotten in our society. The rot started with Thatcher.

TheWomanin12B · 17/01/2019 23:23

Cameron and May. Pure rage runs through my veins. I think between them they will have destroyed the country.

Any of the ERG lot, Farage, Banks, the Wetherspoons scarecrow (not a politician sorry) all induce the same hatred in me. So full of anger towards them. I wish I was a blissfully unaware numpty.

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TheWomanin12B · 17/01/2019 23:25

*not politicians, that should say.

Brexit has shown us that overall we have a disastrously poor calibre of people working as MPs in this country.

Izzabellasasperella · 19/01/2019 09:09

Absolutely agree Littlepleasures

Schmoobarb · 19/01/2019 10:07

I cannot think of David Cameron without remembering someone on here describing him as having a face like a freshly wanked cock

Grin

I actually didn’t mind Ed Miliband but I once heard him described as looking like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit has swallowed his own head Grin

Lessstressedhemum · 19/01/2019 10:20

Thatcher, she broke my country and ruined the lives of so many people I knew. Her policies drove lots of men I knew to suicide. Plus, I was a single mother under her tenure. That was an experience that I wouldn't wish on anyone.
Swiftly followed by Ian Duncan Smith. Horrible, evil, two-faced man. Oh, yes, and Ian Paisley, Gerry Adams and Martin MacGuinnes, all f whom have had a profound effect on the lives of my Irish family.

Queenofthedrivensnow · 19/01/2019 10:21

Thatcher

haverhill · 19/01/2019 10:25

What Littlepleasures said. And many other reasons.

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