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Oh Andy, Andy, Andy.. just Why?

159 replies

WallowingInMud · Today 13:59

[I categorically refuse to put the word ‘lighthearted’ in the title to indicate that Im not actually traumatised. Also because saying this post is lighthearted is just as facile as holding a little bus or building a Lego haus to illustrate my point.
See below.]

I realise that I don’t need to follow Mr B on instagram but I do and I’m feeling deeply patronised:

First a little toy bus (talking about buses innit), then a Lego house (building more Lego houses to amuse the homeless), a bit of cosplay by dressing up as a Sainsbury’s man of the people (to show that you can work at Sainsbury's and a sexy uniform is thrown in) and now… throwing a cowboy hat at the camera/phone to illustrate that cowboy builders are …cowboys.

Make it stop.

AIBU

OP posts:
SoThatwasSummer · Today 16:58

WallowingInMud · Today 16:49

Do you have actual eyes? This is on his main profile feed.

Omg are you 12 !
There are loads of accounts

Æthelred · Today 17:00

Sir Keir was one of the best. The very best.

WallowingInMud · Today 17:02

SoThatwasSummer · Today 16:58

Omg are you 12 !
There are loads of accounts

No. I’m slightly older.

I am of course referring the the official blue ticcky one. Not Russel Kane or any of the other spoof chaps.

OP posts:
EnglishRose26 · Today 17:03

And don't even get me started about Louise Haigh whom is convicted of fraud. You really couldn't make this up. I would love to say they are doing a good enough job, given the stakes are so high, but even labour voters are floundering and struggling to find a single positive. It is an unholy mess and we have been taken over by the hard far left. We have every right to be horrified and furious.
They knew they would never get into No 10 without a stitch up and here we are.

Shinyhappyapple · Today 17:04

EnglishRose26 · Today 16:24

What are YOU talking about? It was the pp that said AB needed ten years not me! Ten years of this shit show will render this country third world status.

Of course the Conservatives are going to save the day again, because history teaches that every single time Labour are allowed to govern, they run the country into the ground and the debt spirals. Every. Single. Time. And here we go again.

I was very happy with the way Rishi Sunak ran the country, and I will be happier still to see Kemi Badenoch lead the helm. She is an incredible woman with real authority, and unlike these amateurs she will actually be able to lead our country out of this mess.

Edited

In the post of yours I responded to you said ‘for ten years you all have said the same’ . That people had been accusing you of being a bot for ten years. Thats what I don’t understand. If you are a Tory then for most of that ten years you wouldn’t have been speaking out against the government in place at that time. Didn’t seem to make sense to me, but it’s not that important.

EnglishRose26 · Today 17:08

Shinyhappyapple · Today 17:04

In the post of yours I responded to you said ‘for ten years you all have said the same’ . That people had been accusing you of being a bot for ten years. Thats what I don’t understand. If you are a Tory then for most of that ten years you wouldn’t have been speaking out against the government in place at that time. Didn’t seem to make sense to me, but it’s not that important.

Yes for over ten years in fact, since the whole Brexit wars first began, the fall back if you disagree with the hard left on here is to call other posters names like Bot and Racist etc etc. I am sick of it. Just for having a different opinion. It is not like they are even particularly creative with their vocabulary, it is just the same words on a loop, on repeat, like they are reading from some collective card somewhere.

I am sorry I did not understand your first question, and thought you were referring to ten years of Labour to change anything. The idea of that makes me want to call the estate agents and leave the country (as so many of other professional families and neighbours have already done) We are bleeding talent, resources and money.

PrettyLittleRose · Today 17:13

Why has the poll closed already when the thread was only posted at 2pm today....? Confused

BrandiedAromatics · Today 17:21

EnglishRose26 · Today 17:03

And don't even get me started about Louise Haigh whom is convicted of fraud. You really couldn't make this up. I would love to say they are doing a good enough job, given the stakes are so high, but even labour voters are floundering and struggling to find a single positive. It is an unholy mess and we have been taken over by the hard far left. We have every right to be horrified and furious.
They knew they would never get into No 10 without a stitch up and here we are.

Edited

I did think Darren Jones was good - he had personal experience of growing up in poverty in Bristol and wanted to use his ministerial role to address that. No one like this was retained and there is no representation in the Cabinet for the south west - which has a lot of poverty.

bafta16 · Today 17:26

EnglishRose26 · Today 16:01

😂😂
Are you for real??? You sound positively unhinged my friend. Take a breather and maybe boil up some hemp.

Burnham is a fucking disaster for this country, even worse than Starmer and that is a low bar.
It is a total shit show, and the whole country - the whole world can see what a laughing stock they are. I can't even watch them on TV, it is mortifying watching them stutter through even the most basic questions.

And you prefer who?

EnglishRose26 · Today 17:27

BrandiedAromatics · Today 17:21

I did think Darren Jones was good - he had personal experience of growing up in poverty in Bristol and wanted to use his ministerial role to address that. No one like this was retained and there is no representation in the Cabinet for the south west - which has a lot of poverty.

No, that isn't right apparently the roads are paved in gold 'in the south' and they will be paying for it with eye watering taxes.

AB did a 'tour' of the nation, as he has no clue where anywhere is, apart from Dover, and they are all racist in Dover because they haven't set out bunting and a welcome stall for all of the medics and surgeons jumping in boats from Northern France to serve the NHS for the next forty years.

EnglishRose26 · Today 17:29

bafta16 · Today 17:26

And you prefer who?

Kemi Badenoch, she in a superior league of her own. Eloquent, intelligent and a great leader. She is the only chance we have as a country.

WallowingInMud · Today 17:38

EnglishRose26 · Today 17:29

Kemi Badenoch, she in a superior league of her own. Eloquent, intelligent and a great leader. She is the only chance we have as a country.

Have you checked out her Insta? It’s mostly not patronising but it is dull

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EnglishRose26 · Today 17:43

WallowingInMud · Today 17:38

Have you checked out her Insta? It’s mostly not patronising but it is dull

Yes!! Please give me dull, and steady and intelligent!

We do not need circus animals and stupidity. We need a strong pair of hands that can navigate us out of this appalling mess. Badenoch is one of the most intelligent, grounded and articulate leaders we have, if she can bring together a talented cabinet (and I am sure she will) then she could be amazing, and just what we need.

Do we need the far left? No
Do we need the Far right? No

We need experience and expertise, and a cast iron will now to get immigration under control and the economy motoring.

EasternStandard · Today 17:47

WallowingInMud · Today 17:38

Have you checked out her Insta? It’s mostly not patronising but it is dull

Is it? What were you after as not dull?

BrandiedAromatics · Today 17:48

@EnglishRose26 if she can bring together a talented cabinet

..yes, it would be a very big if .... the OTT Victoria Atkins? How about Chris Philp? You see we've had these before ... never again, please.

ETA And will KB let Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt back in?

WallowingInMud · Today 17:54

EnglishRose26 · Today 17:43

Yes!! Please give me dull, and steady and intelligent!

We do not need circus animals and stupidity. We need a strong pair of hands that can navigate us out of this appalling mess. Badenoch is one of the most intelligent, grounded and articulate leaders we have, if she can bring together a talented cabinet (and I am sure she will) then she could be amazing, and just what we need.

Do we need the far left? No
Do we need the Far right? No

We need experience and expertise, and a cast iron will now to get immigration under control and the economy motoring.

Now I feel that I am veering off topic, my beef being the use of certain props to liven up our PM’s insta feed.

But…

It’s many years of Conservative Party policies coupled with nutters at the helm in Russia and the USA that got us in the mess we are in.

Mr Starmer and then Mr Burnham as PM are trying to unravel the mahoosive pile of poo left behind by your lot. It takes more than a couple of years to sort that sort of stuff out. It really does.

From where I am standing all that I can see Kemi doing is slag off the opposition (I refer you to her insta feed to verify this) without at all acknowledging that she’s in the team of the guys that effed it up in the first place.

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EnglishRose26 · Today 17:55

EasternStandard · Today 17:47

Is it? What were you after as not dull?

Lego and anything that looks attractive to the under 5s and the hard of learning.

Kittyninja267 · Today 17:57

WallowingInMud · Today 13:59

[I categorically refuse to put the word ‘lighthearted’ in the title to indicate that Im not actually traumatised. Also because saying this post is lighthearted is just as facile as holding a little bus or building a Lego haus to illustrate my point.
See below.]

I realise that I don’t need to follow Mr B on instagram but I do and I’m feeling deeply patronised:

First a little toy bus (talking about buses innit), then a Lego house (building more Lego houses to amuse the homeless), a bit of cosplay by dressing up as a Sainsbury’s man of the people (to show that you can work at Sainsbury's and a sexy uniform is thrown in) and now… throwing a cowboy hat at the camera/phone to illustrate that cowboy builders are …cowboys.

Make it stop.

AIBU

I haven't seen any of what you are talking about, it sounds bit cringe worthy but at the same time it is a new approach, we need the younger generation to engage with politics in a positive way and if this gets new people's attention then why not lol
Can't knock him for trying, would be worse if he was just hosting parties for the gang in downing Street

EnglishRose26 · Today 18:00

WallowingInMud · Today 17:54

Now I feel that I am veering off topic, my beef being the use of certain props to liven up our PM’s insta feed.

But…

It’s many years of Conservative Party policies coupled with nutters at the helm in Russia and the USA that got us in the mess we are in.

Mr Starmer and then Mr Burnham as PM are trying to unravel the mahoosive pile of poo left behind by your lot. It takes more than a couple of years to sort that sort of stuff out. It really does.

From where I am standing all that I can see Kemi doing is slag off the opposition (I refer you to her insta feed to verify this) without at all acknowledging that she’s in the team of the guys that effed it up in the first place.

Andy is not my PM, like most people, I have never even heard of him before now, and my god things are going from bad to absolutely beyond terrible with Labour. I have never seen such an incompetent government. It is truly frightening.

Your beef is spot on, and no one wants to be treated like an idiot, but the hard left nanny state has a total ambition to reduce everyone's intellect to zero (easier to control) and ensure they flatten all talent and ambition in the name of woke. The hatred they have for this country and anyone that is capable is palpable and obvious from their juvenile, patronising posts. Literally treating the country like we are all morons. This is not cool, and shows Andy's total lack of skill, experience and expertise.

EasternStandard · Today 18:04

WallowingInMud · Today 17:54

Now I feel that I am veering off topic, my beef being the use of certain props to liven up our PM’s insta feed.

But…

It’s many years of Conservative Party policies coupled with nutters at the helm in Russia and the USA that got us in the mess we are in.

Mr Starmer and then Mr Burnham as PM are trying to unravel the mahoosive pile of poo left behind by your lot. It takes more than a couple of years to sort that sort of stuff out. It really does.

From where I am standing all that I can see Kemi doing is slag off the opposition (I refer you to her insta feed to verify this) without at all acknowledging that she’s in the team of the guys that effed it up in the first place.

Tbf part of your lot’s demise was depressing everyone with Starmer blaming everyone else for two years. Hence being ceremonially ousted.

WallowingInMud · Today 18:09

EnglishRose26 · Today 18:00

Andy is not my PM, like most people, I have never even heard of him before now, and my god things are going from bad to absolutely beyond terrible with Labour. I have never seen such an incompetent government. It is truly frightening.

Your beef is spot on, and no one wants to be treated like an idiot, but the hard left nanny state has a total ambition to reduce everyone's intellect to zero (easier to control) and ensure they flatten all talent and ambition in the name of woke. The hatred they have for this country and anyone that is capable is palpable and obvious from their juvenile, patronising posts. Literally treating the country like we are all morons. This is not cool, and shows Andy's total lack of skill, experience and expertise.

I wouldn’t go that far. I’m pleased they are trying. I just want ‘my guys’ to do it better.

Thankfully no one has asked me what better looks like. I bet they’re focus grouping the hell out of all these posts and I’m hoping that those focus groups see sense and realise that you don’t have to patronise to avoid being dull. It’s up to the eleventy million social media managers in the PM’s team to work out what that looks like.

As for moronifying our nation I would say that the opposite is true. But that’s another discussion for another day.

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AJLOAL · Today 18:10

Eh??

Livelovebehappy · Today 18:11

The mans an absolute clueless idiot. And someone who none of us voted for but now have to put up with until the next election. Instead of focusing on the big issues, he's arsing around with insignificant piddly stuff.

Kittyninja267 · Today 18:17

EnglishRose26 · Today 18:00

Andy is not my PM, like most people, I have never even heard of him before now, and my god things are going from bad to absolutely beyond terrible with Labour. I have never seen such an incompetent government. It is truly frightening.

Your beef is spot on, and no one wants to be treated like an idiot, but the hard left nanny state has a total ambition to reduce everyone's intellect to zero (easier to control) and ensure they flatten all talent and ambition in the name of woke. The hatred they have for this country and anyone that is capable is palpable and obvious from their juvenile, patronising posts. Literally treating the country like we are all morons. This is not cool, and shows Andy's total lack of skill, experience and expertise.

Kemi is another tory up her own arse

ArabellaScott · Today 18:20

WallowingInMud · Today 18:09

I wouldn’t go that far. I’m pleased they are trying. I just want ‘my guys’ to do it better.

Thankfully no one has asked me what better looks like. I bet they’re focus grouping the hell out of all these posts and I’m hoping that those focus groups see sense and realise that you don’t have to patronise to avoid being dull. It’s up to the eleventy million social media managers in the PM’s team to work out what that looks like.

As for moronifying our nation I would say that the opposite is true. But that’s another discussion for another day.

People are quite happy with 'dull' as a PM.