Who wants to take a bet on what they will invite The People to bring back first?

[ReanimatedSGB]

Workhouses or the death penalty? I can see the People's Government deciding that either or both would be a good way to further entrench their power...

JacquesHammer
That is truly scary!

And before anyone shouts me down
Too late.

I lived in abject poverty for years as a full time working single mum with 15% interest rates so everyone was losing their homes left, right and centre. I then went on to be no better off AT ALL under a labour government.
Oh I SEE ... when you personally are A Feckless Poor, it's the Government's fault, huh @madcatladyforever ..?
(Although I am having difficulty reconciling "abject poverty" with home ownership, 15% interest rates or not - but far be it from me to accuse anyone of exaggerating to pump up their own personal narrative of "I did it my way, so anyone who didn't or can't deserves the scrap heap". Are you absolutely sure you know what 'abject' means, MadCat, or is it just a knee-jerk piece of phrasing you picked up somewhere?)

I'm doing quite well now thanks to persistence and my own hard work
But when you decide, through a mere act of will, to no longer be A Feckless Poor, you take all the credit yourself?

I expect Norman Tebbitt was very proud of you dear.
And your shaky anecdote OBVIOUSLY trumps any facts or recourse to actual statistics & data about the causes of ever-increasing UK poverty, so hurrah, & let's all just Get On Our Bikes!

MPs that aren't posh twats but locals who people have put their faith in is a brilliant outcome to the election

What if they are local and a posh twat?

I think there will be some truly disappointed people in a few years’ time, when they realise that neither BJ not Brexit made their lives any better and they are in fact worse off than ever.

I do sincerely hope I’m wrong though. I’m no egomaniac - I would love to be proven wrong.

there will be some truly disappointed people in a few years’ time, when they realise that neither BJ not Brexit made their lives any better and they are in fact worse off than ever

I imagine they'll still find a way to blame labour and the "remoaners". If only Labour had fielded a decent candidate, if only The Remoaners had made it easier to hard Brexit blah blah blah!

I hope that the Conservatives listen to people in the North and give us more autonomy over decision making.

If they let Whitehall decide what the North needs without much consultation, then that is going to be a fuck up.

The Conservatives are going to have to talk to many MPs in the North and many councils and Mayors - who aren't Conservatives.

I hope they listen.

Ban Referendums.
All of them. Everywhere.

Shame the water cannon he bought when he was mayor of London were sent for scrap when he was told they were illegal. They would really have come in very handy when the food banks run dry and people try to storm number 10.

Still. no doubt we'll have lots of Boris bike stations across the country, so lets be thankful for small mercies.

The bikes are really good fun, kept in handy spots and a great way of beating the traffic. Which I know isn’t what you’re hoping to hear, but I thought you might like to hear from someone that uses them regularly.

The bikes actually are quite a nice thing. The introduction of the bikes would not be too bad a legacy for Fucko the Clown. Unfortunately, they don't really outweigh the watercannons, the blatant contempt for anyone who isn't wealthy, white and male, the dishonesty, the utter incompetence and the ruthless pursuit of power.

the utter incompetence and the ruthless pursuit of power.

Which is it? Because Boris doesn’t seem to have shown much incompetence when he squashed Labour like a bug

i am very interested to know what happens following an MP being found guilty of fraud during their campaign.

JacquesHammer, nothing.
People have demonstrated how little they care about the morals of politicians.
And when things go wrong, they will say it's labour's fault.
Why, some already are! Boohoo JC made me vote blue against my conscience because he was rubbish.
Or they will say that Tories have failed to deliver because the Labour spoilt everything years ago and the damage is done.
And fail to deliver they will.

The Tories will be very good for the North (and I write that as someone born there who has voted Tory since the 1980s). We have the first Tory MP in Bishop Auckland (my father and gradnfather's home town) since 1935 now. Good luck to them.

From today's FT
" That will be followed by a Budget in February or March. Sajid Javid, chancellor of the exchequer, will earmark tens of billions of pounds from a £100bn infrastructure fund — spread over a five-year parliament — for the midlands and north". www.ft.com/content/0acabafa-1f4c-11ea-b8a1-584213ee7b2b

I really hope against hope that we don't get a referendum on capital punishment. I have no doubt, it would be strongly pro bringing it back. Parliament has traditionally been anti capital.punishment ( because they know it doesn't work) , although the population is strongly pro as a whole. I have always trusted parliament to keep protecting us from ourselves on this but nowadays I have no idea. They might well do this in a bid for popularity.

The bikes are really good fun, kept in handy spots and a great way of beating the traffic.
ffs. Boris called them Boris Bikes but the idea and spending in the infrastructure was all done before his time as mayor. I think it.may have been Ken Livingstone's idea

He just parachuted in after the hard work had been done and with clever marketing took the credit as he always does.

JacquesHammer, nothing
People have demonstrated how little they care about the morals of politicians

I mean legally! At the very least I’m assuming some hefty compensation?