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For all of you disappoimted voters

31 replies

Leaannb · 13/12/2019 01:25

Just remember it could always be worse.....We still have Trump and will still have Trump in 2020. So eigjt years of a complete arsehole

So feel to point fingers and laugh your asses at your American cousins from across the pond

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Fatasfooook · 13/12/2019 01:26

Eh?

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Leaannb · 13/12/2019 01:26

I swear I can spell....Eight

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Leaannb · 13/12/2019 01:28

Just be thankful you arent having to deal with Trump for 8 years

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AlunWynsKnee · 13/12/2019 01:37

We're in our 9th year of a Conservative led government. Boris Johnson is more of the same.

ThePants999 · 13/12/2019 01:41

OP does have a point. Yes, we're going to have at least 14 years of Tories, and BJ is a mini-Trump, but Cameron and May were nothing like Trump.

Tookseveralnamechanges · 13/12/2019 01:43

He even looks like trump.
It could be worse. We could be allowed guns :-/ that scares the shit out of me

Frozenfan2019 · 13/12/2019 01:47

YABU you can vote him out next year. We have 5 years of this.

I feel sick

confusedandemployed · 13/12/2019 01:47

I'm clinging to the theory that in modern times the US has led socio- political change and that Trump will be dumped out of office. Hopefully via impeachment then arrested, but I'll take an election loss.

If not, yeah. We're fucked until a modern day Truman or Attlee rocks up.

safariboot · 13/12/2019 01:51

You get midterms and a separate Congress though. We're looking at one party virtually guaranteed the executive and the legislature for the next 5 years.

HuggedTrees · 13/12/2019 01:53

Agree with the OP. At least we get health care and can access objections here and our politicians aren’t rewarded for coming out against gay marriage!
Under his eye.

rhubarbcrumbles · 13/12/2019 02:16

Trump and Johnson are as bad as each other.

PurpleDaisies · 13/12/2019 02:19

Boris is what you get if you send Trump to Eton.

VanyaHargreeves · 13/12/2019 02:20

Biden stands a chance

Also Trump is getting impeached

Meanwhile Britain is potentially heading for total chaos when we leave the EU

Politically it's the worst and most extreme we've ever had it. Right Wing Extremism has become the norm and the Current Left is a waste of space lacking a decent leader now OR a decent heir apparent when he goes. So effectively there is no opposition

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 13/12/2019 03:07

It's not a consolation that you have Trump, that my home country is going to end up with another thatched fucker for the next 5 years, and that my adopted home country has just such another one in charge who is currently acting like fucking Nero while the country burns.

It is no consolation in the slightest that 3 of the wealthiest, most powerful countries in the world are heading more and more towards plutocracy - increasing the financial divisions within the populations, rewarding the wealthy with tax cuts and more money while taking as much as possible from the poorest and most vulnerable.

It makes me sick to my stomach that this has happened yet again. I will not be laughing when the NHS dies and is sold off piecemeal to the hounds of the health insurance companies - I will be crying, because no one outside of America wants the American health system, yet that's what both the UK and Australia are heading towards.

Who benefits? Only rich people. Poor people can go fuck themselves or die of starvation or illnesses they can't afford treatment for.

It's just disgusting.

ilovesooty · 13/12/2019 03:36

Oh well. My disappointment is being tempered by watching Raab squirming while trying to explain his reduced majority.

ILearnedItFromABook · 13/12/2019 03:40
Hmm
PurpleDaisies · 13/12/2019 03:41

Oh, if only he’d been beaten by someone called Count Binface.

ilovesooty · 13/12/2019 03:45

And Swinson has lost her seat.

Mummyoflittledragon · 13/12/2019 04:35

What??? Dfod. At least trump will go and you’re not brexiting anywhere or seeing the potential break up of your country.

IJumpedAboardAPirateShip · 13/12/2019 04:39

I’m a Brit who lives in the US.

The impeachment process will do nothing except ignite his base and guarantee him another term. Boris is terrible but the impact globally of Trump staying in doesn’t bear thinking about

itwaseverthus · 13/12/2019 04:43

I love winning! Called Brexit, Trump and tonight. The world is not mumsnet thank god.

MiniGuinness · 13/12/2019 04:47

How is it a consolation? Right now Brexit and austerity measures (UC etc) and all the rest are ensuring that the U.K. is massively fucked. The US has always been far more divided/racist/misogynistic. How is it that different since Trump came in?
I live in the US btw.

Prevegen4U · 13/12/2019 04:48

Trump will be reelected in 2020 and he will be putting at least one more Justice on the SCOTUS and those are lifetime appointments. He's doing a great job and we are ignited! Good times.

user764329056 · 13/12/2019 05:06

ThumbWitch, you’re right

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 13/12/2019 05:57

I may be a tad over-emotional as am tired and in pain, but ThumbWitchesAbroad’s post made me cry. It is too true. Crap.

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