Thread 52 Sunak: The Final Countdown

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Please do. I was rather hoping you’d find your way here.

Isn't it! Is there a full moon or something? Have a nice sit down @rockstarshoes and a cup or glass of whatever takes your fancy.

Am also curious about Starmer going for 2028? I suppose if things are going well he might choose an early election.

Refresh his mandate, secure a further 5 years whilst the going is good, only PMs who are frit wait for 5 years.

(There's more I would say but I'm sitting on my hands....)

PMs who are frit wait for 5 years

Brown's biggest error was not going for an early GE.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/jun/26/gordonbrown.labour

It's easy to pronounce dreich

As long as you pronounce both a slightly rolled "r" and the soft "ch" (as in the soft ch from loch ) that is soft on the back of the throat.

d - rr - ee - ch

Easy

My South African Dad who apparently kept his accent I couldn't hear it for the 60 years until he died could even say it - and used it regularly (we do live in the West of Scotland after all )

My personal favourite Scottish word is to thole (soft "th") which means to bear [something] with reluctance (the verb always has to have an object - even if it is just it )

So bringing it back to the topic of these threads: the country will no longer have to thole the Conservatives in Government after Thursday

This might have already been posted, but it is great

https://x.com/AngelaRayner/status/1807509821400215962

That made me cry. The Labour comes team is so talented.

I ca stick ‘em any longer @prettybird I just ca stick ‘em.

I also like thrawn and throwther. Also hallirackit and glaikit.

Why a 2028 election?

But in his situation, he hadn't been elected as PM. I know we don't have a presidential system here but he wasn't the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the previous election.

Much as I won't be voting for Starmer (and never will), I do think he should use the maximum period of time available to him to make a dent in the pile of shit that the Conservatives are leaving him.

For the record: up until 1997 I had always voted either Labour or tactically to try to get out a Conservative (I moved back to Scotland in 1994). Even though I hadn't voted Labour in 1997, I still delighted in seeing the demise of the Conservative Government and the years of the damage they had caused.

Yeah. I had something in my eye too.

Hello - I've set up a General Election prediction game on this thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/politics/5108419-who-will-lose-their-seat-the-mumsnet-general-election-prediction-game

The object of the game is to pick 6 candidates who you think will lose this time. If you guess correctly, you score an amount equal to their majority in 2019. The person with the highest aggregate score wins. Enter by making your picks on the thread above. Come and have a go! 😀

That was brilliant. Gets you right in the chest. I'm from the north west and I distinctly remember how much better things were under a labour government, I remember watching my grandparents who really struggled under Thatcher and Major being lifted out of poverty in real time when Blair won in 97. Watching my local area get better under labour and then fall apart again under the tories has been horrible. It is exactly the sort of area that the tories just don't care about but I know how good it can be and I hope, I really hope that it can be that good again.

Me too, makes you yearn for some decency.

Oh no littledrummer hope she makes an excellent recovery. It's horrid watching them injured. I struggle most with watching ds struggle with muscular disability and how that effects him

Absolutely.

Labour have been given a harder time during this election campaign about what they'll do than the Tory's have been given the past 14 years of doing nothing.

The left are held to a higher standard

Twas ever thus

And from 10pm Thursday the press will savage Labour at every opportunity.

I’m not so sure. Kicking democratically elected winners isn’t a good look. The boot will definitely go in after a few months if the numbers don’t start to improve. Reeves is under a huge amount of pressure.

I'm mostly a lurker but honestly the importance of our NHS cannot be overstated. Currently in A&E with Ds (19). Massively sick & chest pains 3am Sat. Didn't perk up Sun so I brought him in at 1am last night. Blood Tryponin level 'over 2000". Waiting to find out if its dropped then will see a Cardiologist to see whether viral pericarditis or a heart event. Still in the corridor (no beds available). Grateful to be here.

@medianewbie you must be so worried. I hope your son is OK and that they find a bed for him soon.

Best wishes @medianewbie

I saw your other thread @medianewbie , I hope your DS will be ok. When the NHS works, which it mostly does in spite of the chronic underfunding etc, it is amazing and he is in good hands.