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To be furious with the Joke Party?

302 replies

IClaudine · 27/03/2024 09:18

Jonathan Gullis a party chair.

The ridiculous, lying, AI generated videos with the American B movie voiceover.

Blaming the sick and disabled for the state of the economy.

Meanwhile, children are going to school hungry, in dirty clothes and tired as they are living in conditions that don't enable proper sleep. The NHS is crumbling.

The Tory government is no longer a functioning government. It is a corpse, shambling towards its final demise.

AIBU to be furious and sickened and to wonder how on earth anyone could now bring themselves to vote Tory?

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ExtraOnions · 27/03/2024 09:21

He’s just awful … really barrel scraping, but, there is nobody left…they are leaping from the sinking ship.

After the election the Conservative Party need to work out what they stand for, and spend some time rebuilding - you can’t keep the “fringe” Right happy.

BestIsWest · 27/03/2024 09:35

Schoolchildren being taught in tents.

IClaudine · 27/03/2024 09:45

BestIsWest · 27/03/2024 09:35

Schoolchildren being taught in tents.

I didn't know about that, Bestiswest. Shameful.

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countrygirl99 · 27/03/2024 10:00

And that video about London where they had used scenes from New York! Have they given the PR work to a school kid on work experience?

IClaudine · 27/03/2024 10:03

Yes, and the voice over saying "when Khan seized power" - since when did being democratically elected mean seizing power?

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IClaudine · 27/03/2024 10:06

I would love to hear from people who are still going to vote Tory. Even the most die hard Tory voters seem to be turning away from them.

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KimberleyClark · 27/03/2024 10:07

They know what a woman is though.

JessS1990 · 27/03/2024 10:13

IClaudine · 27/03/2024 10:06

I would love to hear from people who are still going to vote Tory. Even the most die hard Tory voters seem to be turning away from them.

I was just musing on the fact that it has been quite a while since anyone has posted that they think the Tories are in with a chance at the next election.
Have they all given up?

NavyKoala · 27/03/2024 10:14

According to a bunch of people on this site, it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you say "woman = adult human female".

Pieceofpurplesky · 27/03/2024 10:26

KimberleyClark · 27/03/2024 10:07

They know what a woman is though.

Yet still manage to treat us like shit.

IClaudine · 27/03/2024 10:31

Despite what you see on this site, I honestly don't think many people who wouldn't normally vote Tory will vote for them based on the "they know what a woman is" issue.

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Hoppinggreen · 27/03/2024 10:34

KimberleyClark · 27/03/2024 10:07

They know what a woman is though.

Sadly I have gone beyond caring about that now.
I consider myself GC but I can't support the only party that seems (on the surface) to "know what a woman is"

Validus · 27/03/2024 10:59

BestIsWest · 27/03/2024 09:35

Schoolchildren being taught in tents.

Where is that?

ManchesterBeatrice · 27/03/2024 11:40

KimberleyClark · 27/03/2024 10:07

They know what a woman is though.

Aye and they treat them proper well 🙄

SerendipityJane · 27/03/2024 11:44

BestIsWest · 27/03/2024 09:35

Schoolchildren being taught in tents.

I was taught in a series of mobile classrooms plonked on the playing fields at primary and in the playgrounds at high school.

AdamRyan · 27/03/2024 11:49

Really interesting how little commentary this thread has got compared to the threads about Labour.

I'm unsure if this means most people agree so much they are not longer interested and not commenting.

Or if MN is well out of whack with the population and mainly Conservatives who don't want to comment.

Or what's going on. Weird.

Westfacing · 27/03/2024 11:49

His majority is only 6,000 so he'll be out at the GE.

I've just heard that Tory HQ have released another dodgy video, this time about Birmingham!

I think they're sneakily trying to imprint ideas into peoples heads, before they then have to withdraw/edit.

AdamRyan · 27/03/2024 11:53

Westfacing · 27/03/2024 11:49

His majority is only 6,000 so he'll be out at the GE.

I've just heard that Tory HQ have released another dodgy video, this time about Birmingham!

I think they're sneakily trying to imprint ideas into peoples heads, before they then have to withdraw/edit.

You should watch it. Its like some kind of US conspiracy theory/docudrama style. I thought it must be designed to do something I don't understand, it's so weird. Kinda Trumpian

DuncinToffee · 27/03/2024 11:56

More on that video

https://x.com/olivermiocic/status/1772919210433286205?s=20

EXCLUSIVE: Conservatives once again use video from the USA in another campaign video about Britain.

Although the voice-over says "Birmingham, 2024" the stock video at the 2-second mark was filmed in New York and is at least three years old.

JessS1990 · 27/03/2024 12:00

AdamRyan · 27/03/2024 11:53

You should watch it. Its like some kind of US conspiracy theory/docudrama style. I thought it must be designed to do something I don't understand, it's so weird. Kinda Trumpian

Someone is paying money for these videos to be produced.
Does that someone have MUG written across their forehead?

notproofread · 27/03/2024 12:10

IClaudine · 27/03/2024 10:06

I would love to hear from people who are still going to vote Tory. Even the most die hard Tory voters seem to be turning away from them.

I think a problem is that die-hard Tory voters will abstain/spoil their ballot paper rather than admit that Labour/LibDems are a better option and would do a better job.
There are mainstream TV presenters, e.g. Kay Burley, let alone biased propaganda like GB News and Daily Mail, who push a rhetoric that Labour wouldn't do any better and have been pushing this for years (e.g. all through the pandemic). That leaves both die-hard Tory voters and new 'red-wall' Brexit Tory voters feeling there really is no better option and that all the parties are equally bad, which is untrue. Obviously, depending on who the second party is in your constituency, a vote for Labour/LibDems is going to be a massively better choice and outcome.
Earlier today I was feeling really sorry and sad about the current generation of teenagers/early 20s whose childhoods/young adult lives have been blighted by 14 years of Tory rule. No wonder their mental health is widely appalling, perhaps irreparably.

cardibach · 27/03/2024 12:11

YAdefinitelyNBU
I am, as they say in these parts, ragin’, tampin’, fumin’.

Outoutoutshout · 27/03/2024 12:12

KimberleyClark · 27/03/2024 10:07

They know what a woman is though.

Give over with this bullshit.

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