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I couldn’t sleep last night, worrying about a Reform government

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Cluborange666 · 01/08/2025 09:15

I am really worried. I think they’ll wreck the economy. I’ve got a few years left to pay off my mortgage from my job that deals with immigrants. I don’t want our pensions to tank. I don’t want my sons’ lives to be messed around. I worry about more racism, the more ‘voice’ that Reform get. I live in a very multicultural city and non-white people tell me that they are experiencing more overt racism. It makes me feel very insecure about the future.

wish Labour would do more to show that they are on the side of ordinary people as I think that’s what is driving this (I’m a Labour voter). I don’t think the creation of Your Party will help, just give Reform more advantages.

Sigh. Happy to be told I’m unreasonable as I think the future looks bleak.

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EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 15:54

Isobarre · 02/08/2025 15:52

Yes and anyone can deem their posts irrelevant.

Sounds great. The attacks have mostly been from Labour likely why that word was used.

Isobarre · 02/08/2025 15:56

EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 15:54

Sounds great. The attacks have mostly been from Labour likely why that word was used.

Could you please write in sentences. The deciphering of your riddles hurts my head.

Jennps · 02/08/2025 15:58

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 14:56

Interesting to see Yaxley-Lennon has joined Advance UK. He calls Farage "the establishment".

I wonder if any of the Yaxley-Lennon loving contingent of Reformites will follow his lead and desert their far right party for a far-far right one.

Edited

By doing so he just made Reform even more electable. You’d have to be politically illiterate not to see that.

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 15:59

Anyone not Reform has been insulted on on this thread and referred to as "shivering pansies".

Pansy was a homophobic term of abuse when I was young. Pansies are now used to mark sites of homophobic attacks, so the flower itself it has been reclaimed in a way. Which is nice.

EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 15:59

Isobarre · 02/08/2025 15:56

Could you please write in sentences. The deciphering of your riddles hurts my head.

Oh no how terrible. I’m not surprised @twistyizzyhas described various Labour posters that way. They have a tendency to go on the attack.

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:00

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 15:32

Maybe just leave 'em to it @goldenbear Everything you post will be piled on.

Oh wait, call 999. Report a pile on.

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 16:02

Jennps · 02/08/2025 15:58

By doing so he just made Reform even more electable. You’d have to be politically illiterate not to see that.

I thought us lefties were the only ones to dish out insults.

Thanks for disproving that theory.

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:02

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 15:59

Anyone not Reform has been insulted on on this thread and referred to as "shivering pansies".

Pansy was a homophobic term of abuse when I was young. Pansies are now used to mark sites of homophobic attacks, so the flower itself it has been reclaimed in a way. Which is nice.

Ah the victimhood bingo continues. So now if you don’t agree with rabid lefties, they’ll move onto calling you homophobic when the racist tag starts to bore them.

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:03

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 16:02

I thought us lefties were the only ones to dish out insults.

Thanks for disproving that theory.

Huh, what?

Isobarre · 02/08/2025 16:03

EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 15:59

Oh no how terrible. I’m not surprised @twistyizzyhas described various Labour posters that way. They have a tendency to go on the attack.

Well of course we wouldn't expect you to be surprised. Hence the irrelevance of your posting on the matter.

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 16:03

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:00

Oh wait, call 999. Report a pile on.

Now, now. I got a thorough telling off earlier for posting snarky comments.

EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 16:04

Isobarre · 02/08/2025 16:03

Well of course we wouldn't expect you to be surprised. Hence the irrelevance of your posting on the matter.

Well of course you’d find it irrelevant. So what?

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 16:05

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:02

Ah the victimhood bingo continues. So now if you don’t agree with rabid lefties, they’ll move onto calling you homophobic when the racist tag starts to bore them.

I know gifs are frowned upon but

I couldn’t sleep last night, worrying about a Reform government
Isobarre · 02/08/2025 16:06

EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 16:04

Well of course you’d find it irrelevant. So what?

Too tedious by far.

EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 16:06

Isobarre · 02/08/2025 16:06

Too tedious by far.

Absolutely ditto.

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 16:06

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 15:32

Maybe just leave 'em to it @goldenbear Everything you post will be piled on.

I am now taking my own advice.

Goldenbear · 02/08/2025 16:07

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:02

Ah the victimhood bingo continues. So now if you don’t agree with rabid lefties, they’ll move onto calling you homophobic when the racist tag starts to bore them.

Don't know how old you are obvs but I'm mid 40s and it was definitely a homophobic insult in 90s London, I thought that was common knowledge.

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:07

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 16:05

I know gifs are frowned upon but

I think your keyboard is broken from all the fierce, somewhat obsessive pounding. You’re posting incomplete and incoherent sentences now.

ThePhantomoftheEcobubbleOpera · 02/08/2025 16:08

Well, I'm out, I am resigned to an afternoon of wrestling Ikea flat pack.

EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 16:08

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:07

I think your keyboard is broken from all the fierce, somewhat obsessive pounding. You’re posting incomplete and incoherent sentences now.

I think they forgot the cutting gif.

Goldenbear · 02/08/2025 16:09

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:07

I think your keyboard is broken from all the fierce, somewhat obsessive pounding. You’re posting incomplete and incoherent sentences now.

Says the Bonds Broker...

twistyizzy · 02/08/2025 16:10

Isobarre · 02/08/2025 15:37

You call Labour supporters rabid. Is that okay?

I didn't call all Labour supporters rabid though did I? Goldenbear has attributed certain characteristics to all Reform voters
I didn't say that just by being a Labour supporter = rabid

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 16:10

EasternStandard · 02/08/2025 16:08

I think they forgot the cutting gif.

It wasn't a cutting gif it was a King Robert gif. It is under inspection but hopefully it will clear MNHQ soon.

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:11

Goldenbear · 02/08/2025 16:09

Says the Bonds Broker...

You are obsessed after all. I’d be flattered, but unfortunately being followed by someone who lacks basic knowledge of the topic they are posting about is more creepy than flattering.

Jennps · 02/08/2025 16:13

PandoraSocks · 02/08/2025 16:10

It wasn't a cutting gif it was a King Robert gif. It is under inspection but hopefully it will clear MNHQ soon.

No idea who Bob is or if whatever convoluted graphic you’re sharing is even funny (probably not), but to be witty, you have to land the joke with timing. Otherwise the joke’s on you, like now.

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