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Oliver Dowden has just said everything would have been tickety-boo if Anderson had just apologised.
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Tories morphing into UKIP. Labour morphing into Tories. Good times!
Hopefully the Tories do end up like UKIP and Labour become the default cenre-right party. Room for an actual transformative party to fill the space.
Or we become a right wing distopia were you get to choose between Hitler or Franco as PM.
Or we become a right wing distopia were you get to choose between Hitler or Franco as PM.
The thing about your only principle being to remain at the centre is that you move right/left by default when a party's extreme faction takes over. Labout are currently to the right of the right of the Tory/Lib Dem coalition. Imagine that.
This absolutely nails it for me.
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Completely forgot Dowden is Deputy PM. Been keeping his head down. Can see why.
I guess since she doesn't have a future in UK politics anymore, Truss wants in on the grift-train overseas, like Farage etc.
Might work out for her, the CPAC/QAnon audience are quite gullible.
Might work out for her, the CPAC/QAnon audience are quite gullible.
Those lot think anyone with a british accent is clever so long as they aren’t trying to tax them.
That's it exactly. Queen of the morons, for the morons.
The Tories focusing on culture wars and stoking divisions, seems to be failing and back-firing.
It's only shining a light on their own record re immigration, and their huge failure to come close to meeting their own repeated, cast-iron pledges to drastically cut net migration. That in turn is angering more and more people on the right of the political spectrum and / or who are socially conservative, and persuading them to switch to Reform, stay at home or maybe even in some cases return to Labour if they switched in 2017 or 2019.
When they bang on about 'stopping the boats', many members of the 'target audience' are simply responding that they've been in power for 14 years, and are questioning why they've failed to 'tackle' that issue, why net migration has increased under their watch, and why they've repeatedly broken their own promises (they stupidly set completely unfeasible targets to keep their back-benchers, swivelled-eye loon party members and the right wing media outlets happy) to drastically cut it.
And they can't get away with blaming the 'woke, lefty opposition' (to quote their standard claptrap) for scuppering their plans, given the size of their comfortable working parliamentary majorities since 2019, on top of the fact they've been in power for since 2010.
And of course their credibility re managing the economy has been shot to pieces. So they've complely snookered themselves.
It's only shining a light on their own record re immigration, and their huge failure to come close to meeting their own repeated, cast-iron pledges to drastically cut net migration. That in turn is angering more and more people on the right of the political spectrum and / or who are socially conservative, and persuading them to switch to Reform, stay at home or maybe even in some cases return to Labour if they switched in 2017 or 2019.
When they bang on about 'stopping the boats', many members of the 'target audience' are simply responding that they've been in power for 14 years, and are questioning why they've failed to 'tackle' that issue, why net migration has increased under their watch, and why they've repeatedly broken their own promises (they stupidly set completely unfeasible targets to keep their back-benchers, swivelled-eye loon party members and the right wing media outlets happy) to drastically cut it.
And they can't get away with blaming the 'woke, lefty opposition' (to quote their standard claptrap) for scuppering their plans, given the size of their comfortable working parliamentary majorities since 2019, on top of the fact they've been in power for since 2010.
And of course their credibility re managing the economy has been shot to pieces. So they've complely snookered themselves.
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Absolutely, she's got a book coming out so she's trying to drum up interest by talking bullshit to an empty room.
Can't imagine there are many in the UK paying £28 to read this, so pop to the states and start talking about the deep state to shift a few copies.
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Damage limitation.
I thought this was poor too, but was reminded they're not allowed to write its an Islamaphobic reason because of impartiality. They were told it was over comments made by the party so that's what they went with.
They've also been under fire in the past by conservatives for not calling Hamas terrorists.
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I'm excited to be arrested for holding anti-zionist feelings in a built up area.
Avoid the 2 major parties.
Or at the very least accept that there is barely any difference between them and Starmer is more right wing than David Cameron was in 2010.
Starmer has self destructed any promises of unity in the Labour party.
Yet another broken promise.
As a pose to, get elected at all costs then enact exactly the same policies that the Tories would have. So you can feel like you've won.
Pointless.
Agreed with everything other than the collection of words highlighted.
You realize that very David Cameron is literally in this cabinet right now?
Labour. I want the tories out. That should be the goal. Starmer can leave at a later date and a more palatable leader can take over. But I'd rather that happen with labour in power than waiting another 5 years for a general election. It's that simple for me.
I wish Labour were more left wing than they are. I wish the SNP weren't hilariously incompetent at everything other than giving us free prescriptions and uni fees (and waving little plastic flags around). I wish my knob was nine inches long.
But, alas, here I stand with only eight inches of knob and the frustrating choice between the Tories again or literally the only party other than the Tories who can get elected. Anything else would be sabotage at this point
But, alas, here I stand with only eight inches of knob and the frustrating choice between the Tories again or literally the only party other than the Tories who can get elected. Anything else would be sabotage at this point
I'm still hoping Corbyn will stand as an independent.
Isnt it more tactical to vote for the biggest competitor to Torys in your constituency?
The tories would love that.
Labour have a massive lead so as random individuals on a football forum the impact is meaningless. And both Labour and Tory agree on economic policy(More austerity)so it doesn’t really matter anyway.
Voting in the next election isn’t important. Personally I’m not going walk to a voting booth in the pissing rain so guardian readers can feel happy about cutting disability benefits.
Voting in the next election isn’t important. Personally I’m not going walk to a voting booth in the pissing rain so guardian readers can feel happy about cutting disability benefits.
Did i say that it wasn't? That's going to labour in the vast majority of constituencies.
Ah my apologies. I'm new to UK politics really. I think my constituency has Lib Den as the closest rival.
Exactly the same policies?
This could just be one of those autocorrects, but just in case, it's 'as opposed to.'
So would I.
Fair.
That risks 5 more years under the Tories. Labour will do better than that and there isn't really an alternative
I absolutely love this, I love the idea that they’ve embraced the ‘sew division and social discord’ tactic, which is deplorable in its own right….but its divided their party on just how nasty they should be
Good austerity vs bad austerity.
Vs what exactly? If Austerity is required at least Labour won't be robbing the poor to pay the rich.