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Who is playing "things can only get better"?

149 replies

ssd · 22/05/2024 17:19

Good on them

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StormsAreNeverNamedAfterMe · 22/05/2024 18:45

Steve Bray, & it was excellent 😆

LaurieFairyCake · 22/05/2024 18:45

Proper belly laugh at it Grin

Well done them

Enjoy a generation in obscurity cunts

RafaistheKingofClay · 22/05/2024 18:47

Steve Bray. The man who the Tories have written all sorts of anti protest legislation to remove. I believe he’s just been issued an order by the police and is currently banned from all roads around Whitehall. But he’s been waiting for this moment for a while.

SpaghettiWithaYeti · 22/05/2024 18:48

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 22/05/2024 17:57

It's not genius it's immature. I absolutely won't be voting Tory but blasting out music from the nineties while due electoral process is taking place is just look at me behaviour.

Throwing parties at downing street while small children weren't allowed too strikes me as substantially more immature

SpaghettiWithaYeti · 22/05/2024 18:49

RafaistheKingofClay · 22/05/2024 18:47

Steve Bray. The man who the Tories have written all sorts of anti protest legislation to remove. I believe he’s just been issued an order by the police and is currently banned from all roads around Whitehall. But he’s been waiting for this moment for a while.

He needs a knighthood

Dollenganger333 · 22/05/2024 18:49

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 22/05/2024 18:40

@Dollenganger333 I work in the public sector it would be like punching myself in the face

It’s good that you realise this. Can’t tell you the number of police officers I know who vote Tory 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hobsonchoice · 22/05/2024 18:50

That song is the opposite of an anti-depressant for me. Things got worse, not better. Before anyone comes at me accusing me of being a "Tory Bot", check my username.

Blackcats7 · 22/05/2024 18:52

I have it poised at the ready and a bottle of bollinger (and I never normally drink at all) in the fridge bought specially.
I remember driving to work on the morning the results were announced in 1997 and feeling so happy. I was a nurse working in a social work team at the time and absolutely everyone was over the moon that day. Can’t wait to feel that way again. It’s been so long.

RafaistheKingofClay · 22/05/2024 18:53

Some people might also remember him playing the Benny Hill theme tune as Boris resigned / left.

user1471453601 · 22/05/2024 18:53

@ssd to answer your question, I don't know his name, but it's the same bloke who played the theme tune to the Benny hill show when Johnson resigned.

I get why some posters think it's purile and silly to do it, but it made me smile. And I've had little to smile about recently. Guess that makes manually too. I'll take that. Silly at my age feelings like a win 😂

larkstar · 22/05/2024 18:54

Anyone that thinks Labour will sweep into power and be in a position to change much is mistaken - the problems with the economics of this country run far deeper than just who is in office ATM. I'll be happy to see the Tories ousted but anxious about how quickly the disillusionment will set in.

Simonjt · 22/05/2024 18:55

Sir Steve Bray

Twotooto · 22/05/2024 18:55

I was so confused when I heard this as assumed Rishi had picked out some background music and that this was a very odd choice. I caught on eventually, and it did make me chuckle.

Blackcats7 · 22/05/2024 18:56

larkstar · 22/05/2024 18:54

Anyone that thinks Labour will sweep into power and be in a position to change much is mistaken - the problems with the economics of this country run far deeper than just who is in office ATM. I'll be happy to see the Tories ousted but anxious about how quickly the disillusionment will set in.

Edited

To quote a famous tory (!)
It is not the end nor the beginning of the end but it is the end of the beginning.

SpaghettiWithaYeti · 22/05/2024 18:56

larkstar · 22/05/2024 18:54

Anyone that thinks Labour will sweep into power and be in a position to change much is mistaken - the problems with the economics of this country run far deeper than just who is in office ATM. I'll be happy to see the Tories ousted but anxious about how quickly the disillusionment will set in.

Edited

I am well aware of that but the arrogance of the Tories in the last 5 years has been astounding

(I am a floating voter, some of my family were Tory party members but all left as the likes of Boris etc caused them to no longer recognise or want anything to do with the party)

impressivelycunty · 22/05/2024 18:57

Things can only get wetter...

hobbledyhoy · 22/05/2024 19:06

Gave me a great laugh. Standing in the pissing rain to a Labour soundtrack, gave me some hope, something that's been missing from this country in the last 14 years.

0hisee · 22/05/2024 19:07

Been dancing around to the kitchen to that song while I cooked the dinner! Feeling positive!

Dollenganger333 · 22/05/2024 19:08

SpaghettiWithaYeti · 22/05/2024 18:56

I am well aware of that but the arrogance of the Tories in the last 5 years has been astounding

(I am a floating voter, some of my family were Tory party members but all left as the likes of Boris etc caused them to no longer recognise or want anything to do with the party)

Exactly. When the Tories were flouting lockdown rules whilst criminalising any other person who did, there were many people unable to say goodbye to dying loved ones.

Even the Royal Family did not behave that way.

RoseAndRose · 22/05/2024 19:10

I guess it's some superannuated Blairites

I don't want a repeat of the Blair years, and would prefer the Yazz version to the Blair co-opted DReam cover version

4thJuly · 22/05/2024 19:16

RoseAndRose · 22/05/2024 19:10

I guess it's some superannuated Blairites

I don't want a repeat of the Blair years, and would prefer the Yazz version to the Blair co-opted DReam cover version

Was it a cover?

Countrylife2002 · 22/05/2024 19:17

Blackcats7 · 22/05/2024 18:52

I have it poised at the ready and a bottle of bollinger (and I never normally drink at all) in the fridge bought specially.
I remember driving to work on the morning the results were announced in 1997 and feeling so happy. I was a nurse working in a social work team at the time and absolutely everyone was over the moon that day. Can’t wait to feel that way again. It’s been so long.

I’ve already explained to dd (15), who is taking politics a level next year, how election viewing goes. Bottle of Prosecco on ice (for me), lots of snacks, lots of cheering every time a cabinet minister loses his seat.
CANNOT WAIT

ssd · 22/05/2024 19:18

The most ridiculous thing i heard today was a Conservative minister saying if you vote for the Conservative party you will get change, if you vote for Labour you will get more of the same.

Doesn't he know Conservatives have been in government for 14 years?

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Countrylife2002 · 22/05/2024 19:19

They should rerelease that song. Wouldn’t it be incredible if it was played everywhere