Thread 44 Starmer - Knolraap en lof, schorseneren en prei.

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If the UK didn't want tactical voting, it would use PR.

And if they won't introduce it, people will simply enact it themselves. How do you think 201 and 2015 happened ?

The will of the people in EU voting before total Brexit meant Farage was voted in every time. D'Hondt system.

Clacton voted for NF who prefers to be anywhere but there.

We have this saying in Holland about donkeys and not hitting the same stone twice, alas

I am barred from discussing he Clacton electorate 😎

Quite.

We have seen how ‘successful’ populism can be, of course.

'Een ezel stoot zich in 't gemeen geen twee maal aan dezelfde steen'.

I love the English language, but sometimes Dutch is just great.

And yet Julien Assange ....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05vey47yddo

🤣

Wales has a cunning plan to thwart Farage's planned visit next week:

😜

Has to be better than milkshakes. I abhor food waste.

This is clearly AI for the purposes of doubt. Don't feed them. Their media channels are already suffering.

I don't find this funny at all.

Awww that’s lovely pointy and it is a real testament to how he feels part of your family

An update here. DS is doing well and is laughing and joking again so that’s good. Sadly, my colleague diagnosed with cancer died last week just 4 weeks after diagnosis. All in all it’s been a crappy week here again 🙄 so Reform better not win G and D or I’m gonna have a breakdown!

A roller coaster of a week, @itsgettingweird

It really is just so lovely💕

@itsgettingweird so glad Ds is now on the mend.
Sincere condolences for your loss💐

Whose media channels are suffering placemats, sorry I don't understand! I know that it is AI, of course.

Sorry you are having an up and down week. I think G&D will do the right thing and keep Reform out.

Pleased to read about your son Itsgettingweird. But what an awful shock regarding your colleague.

Latest G&D poll. Tiny sample so huge pinch of 🧂

Good news about your DS @itsgettingweird - but what a shock about your colleague :(

Might have been clearer if the Greens hadn’t spent the whole campaign lying about the polls and suggesting they were the tactical vote when it was always Labour. They’ve managed to sway the vote like that and if it lets Reform in I’ll be fucking livid.

@itsgettingweird you've been through the mill lately. Make sure you take care of yourself as well as those around you. Your jug can't pour if it's empty.

We've a Reform councillor because the LD's, Lab and the Greens all kept fighting each other.

But what has happened to Badenoch's "New Conservatives" as she referred to her party yesterday, when asked about Plan 2 Student loans.... problem is, she was in Govt for 5 years and never mentioned the unfairness of the loans system.