To finally be looking forward to a GE?

[Cadela]

The past election/PM changes have been horrendous. The visceral disappointment was awful each time.

I can’t wait to actually celebrate this year. I know, I know, Labour are going to set fire to the economy and tax everyone £3mil each and it’ll cost you 4 trillion a month to send you kid to private school, and all women will perish immediately because only Tories know what a woman is

But finally! It’s been a long fucking time coming.

You haven't read Mad Nads book? I think you would enjoy it. I can send you a copy if you like.

Oh you've ruined it now by mentioning Diane "two shoes" Abbot. Angela Raynor is ok in theory and does have an impressive story. Diane is a total hypocrite. You cannot campaign for the abolition of private schools while chosing private education for your kids I'm sorry. I know people have come up with various convoluted methods of excusing Labour MPs doing that but it just doesn't wash.

People really are showing their true colours here now trying to bang the drum for Reform. While I appreciate they did well in Blackpool and I think they did get a couple of seats in the end, they aren't looking that powerful, despite the way the media, and now people here, carry on. Lib Dems and Greens now, they did do well, but get barely a mention. The best thing Reform are doing is splitting the Tory vote, which makes be feel very kindly towards them!

And for all the crying about Angela Raynor's witty use of one of Sunak's own party's comments about him, there is still no comment about all the vile things Tories constantly come out with. I've though of another corker - when JRM said the people in Grenville Tower were too stupid to escape...Only yesterday, Braveman said Keir Starmer has 'the charisma of a peanut.' I guess that's fine though and not juvenile at all.

No I think the matter is yet to be cleared up so as I say, I'm reserving judgement and hopefully, for the benefit of the whole country, someone getting quite so close to power is clean as a whistle.

Your article is his behind a Torygraph paywall.

Greek private school system was already on the brink and fees are a fraction of those in the UK.

Apples and pears. I know you find it hysterical 🙄but as I said we’re not Greece.

How is making people aware of the original source of a quote 'mucking up fixing' the internet'?

The sun is shining. I think I might go in search of donkeys to see if they can sustain a coherrent line of reasoning for more than a few seconds.

This has been cleared up

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/labour-mp-angela-rayner-cleared-28798066

And I see you’re back on the private school fees thread crusade again.🙄

Lucky you, it is absolutely pouring down with rain here

@blossomtoes was most enthusiastic for Reform, banging their drum I suppose. Who else did to ‘show their true colours’?

I think they’re rising similar to EU parties and the issues contributing to that will continue. It’s a bit pointless ignoring what’s going on in other countries, even if we don’t see it yet, as it will increasingly impact us

That article is from March. The police investigation still ongoing re CGT and council tax evasion. As I say I really hope someone so close to power is squeaky clean as it would be a real indictment of how crap our politicians are if she's found guilty.

I can link you to the ASI and EDK report which both say pretty much the same thing as the Torygraph.
It is a badly thought out policy which will do nothing but satisfy the activists that Labour are socking it to the elite. The elite which incidentally consists of many Labour MPs as there are double the national average of privately educated people within Labour MPs

You said the wrong name. You’re meant to post endlessly about Nadine Dorries and some book

@JessS1990 has gone off to hang out with donkeys so it seems they’re given up. Others will have to pick up the effort

Yes, as I said that was the first investigation.

This is the current vague investigation

https://news.sky.com/story/tory-mp-who-complained-about-labours-angela-rayner-to-police-refuses-to-say-what-he-thinks-shes-done-wrong

Who has been banging the drum for Reform, you funny person?? Can we not talk about them now without accusations of..I don't know what it is yoir are accusing people of actually.

Exactly.

I find it hysterical that rich Tories with multiple homes and staff paid to avoid tax for them are apparantly thinking it necessary to pick apart somebody selling the only (council) home they owned several years ago.

They’re terrified of her.

Well I would say that the police wouldn't be investigating so publicly if they didn't have proper evidence, but unfortunately that is me with my rose-tinted specs on. We shall wait and see.

Ruined what exactly? To just to be clear, I was referring to her within the context of Tory party contempt for those not like them and referring to the racist, misogynistic and class-based discrimination she has been targeted with by Tory party members and their associates in the right wing press. Those facts remain regardless of her where she sent her son to school. What exactly you implying? As I’ve already said on this thread there is a much wider social context than private schools. Starmer isn’t proposing to ban them, afterall.

@Anuggetofpurestgreen Um... you were. They didn't do that well, hence Lee Anderson having a massive strop and making a tit of himself on the radio on Friday morning, which was funny.

Still no comment on horrible things Tories have said?

Ruined the theme at the start of your post being great Labour women with a great back story. I was slightly agreeing with the Angela point (although wouldn't vote for her) but then you mentioned the Abbot.

I didn't read the rest of your post. Apologies.

You went too far @Anuggetofpurestgreen you mentioned its existence

Tories seem to be good and bullying the police to look into things for them in an attempt to smear Labour. They did it with 'Keir's beers' too. Remind me what the outcome of that was? Like Keir did then, Angela has said she will stand down if she is found to have done wrong (even though she wasn't an MP at the time) so your wish for purity will be fulfilled even if she is found guilty. Imagine that - standing down/resigning because you are in the wrong?!

For some reason I keep missing replies to things I've posted in such a whirlwind and a flurry!! So I've forgotten my original point. It's a fast-moving world we live in, that's for sure!

I don't think I've engaged with any discussions about rude things Torys have said. Not interested in discussing those sorts of things as quite dull.

Oh I see now where you are coming from. I think.

I just asked what people thought of Reforms prospects. I emphasised they "are not my bag". That's as far as I think I went?? And then where Lee Anderson comes into my post I have no idea. Sorry! Mountain out of a molehill there by you I think.