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Come on Sunak, just call the election. Its an open secret your wife hates living at Downing Street and has been making plans to move back to California.
 

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BBC reporting there's a big tory meeting planned for next week. Attendees are expected to present ideas for something to privatise. The backup plan is deciding which country to pick a fight with, though sources understand that there's some reluctance with this plan as most of the countries that the gammons have heard of would be too tough for us these days.
 

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Add to that its clear ULEZ wasn't the electoral minefield everyone thought it would be. Turns out people like having cleaner air in their neighbourhoods and around their workplaces and green spaces.
ULEZ is a stealth tax. Khan's record in London is deplorable. Not sure I can point to anything good that he has done. A sad state of affairs that there was no decent opposition
 

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Genuinely very happy to see the Labour vote significantly drop in the Muslim population and that the Greens have made large gains. Some positive news in what has been 7 months of sadness over Gaza.

The Muslim voting block is a very big one, and yet doesn't feel anywhere near as influential or organised as say the Jewish voting block in America is. I'm very glad to see that people backed the Greens who very early on called for a ceasefire.

In London, Khan winning was always pretty likely in my view. He's insulated from the Gaza stuff because he's always strayed from the Labour line, and I expect most Londoners are actually pro less polluting cars. Of course the Conservatives fielding three terrible candidates in a row hasn't helped them. You don't need another Boris but just some regular professional guy with no history of xenophobic comments would've helped them tremendously, something all of the last three have failed to be.
All the Tories needed was someone like Rory Stewart. He would have wiped the floor with Khan.
 

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ULEZ is a stealth tax. Khan's record in London is deplorable. Not sure I can point to anything good that he has done. A sad state of affairs that there was no decent opposition
Nothing stealthy about it - it factually gives cleaner air in London.

is the tax on cigarettes a stealth tax?
 

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Nothing stealthy about it - it factually gives cleaner air in London.

is the tax on cigarettes a stealth tax?
it's a stealth tax. They're ending the EV exemption on congestion charge in London. Why? Because it was never about cleaner air. It's a tax on people to make more money for the council.
 

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Andy Street losing for about 1500 votes in West Midlands has to be one of the biggest Tory failures in recent times, considering they were so keen to bring in the first past the post system
 

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it's a stealth tax. They're ending the EV exemption on congestion charge in London. Why? Because it was never about cleaner air. It's a tax on people to make more money for the council.
Believe it or not, the best way to make money from car use is to reduce it, not to tax it. The externalities stemming from private car use are way more costly than whatever taxes they offer, including ulez, ved and fuel duty.
 

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Then on top of that, he's turned London into a fecking cesspit. Lawlessness, knife crime, gang culture, divisions and lack of social cohesion, expensive transport.

it's hard to believe that he could have done a worse job. Yet gets a 3rd term
 

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ULEZ is a stealth tax. Khan's record in London is deplorable. Not sure I can point to anything good that he has done. A sad state of affairs that there was no decent opposition
Thankfully London seems to disagree with you. Most of us here appreciate having cleaner air. He's by no means a perfect mayor, but a breath of fresh air (literally) compared to the clown that preceded him as well as the clowns who are offered as an alternative.
 

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Then on top of that, he's turned London into a fecking cesspit. Lawlessness, knife crime, gang culture, divisions and lack of social cohesion, expensive transport.

it's hard to believe that he could have done a worse job. Yet gets a 3rd term
Let me guess, black cab driver?
 

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it's a stealth tax. They're ending the EV exemption on congestion charge in London. Why? Because it was never about cleaner air. It's a tax on people to make more money for the council.
The clue is in the name, I'd have thought.

Still exempt for ulez charge though.
 

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Then on top of that, he's turned London into a fecking cesspit. Lawlessness, knife crime, gang culture, divisions and lack of social cohesion, expensive transport.

it's hard to believe that he could have done a worse job. Yet gets a 3rd term
How do you manage to go into every CE thread and be the worst poster in it?
 

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Pretty disastrous for the Tories all round, lovely stuff. I'm still weirdly pessimistic about Labour's chances of winning a majority though, mostly because there's no guarantee of a Labour comeback in Scotland.
 

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Pretty disastrous for the Tories all round, lovely stuff. I'm still weirdly pessimistic about Labour's chances of winning a majority though, mostly because there's no guarantee of a Labour comeback in Scotland.
Only thing that could stop Labour is Labour themselves. Mind you they're seemingly trying really hard to self-implode, especially with some of their comments on their typical voting demographics.
 

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"You and your paper can feck off."
I'm intrigued about how you know this?

I'm getting tired of politicians paying lip service to this when it applies to certain groups, whereas with others they are magically able to find out who the person is immediately and do something about it. They seem to only ever do anything about it when the public are paying attention, otherwise it just gets swept under the rug.
Which bit?
 

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Then on top of that, he's turned London into a fecking cesspit. Lawlessness, knife crime, gang culture, divisions and lack of social cohesion, expensive transport.

it's hard to believe that he could have done a worse job. Yet gets a 3rd term
Next you'll be saying he's a fan of drill
 

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These donkeys think they are entitled to Muslim votes with nothing in return.
 

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Then on top of that, he's turned London into a fecking cesspit. Lawlessness, knife crime, gang culture, divisions and lack of social cohesion, expensive transport.

it's hard to believe that he could have done a worse job. Yet gets a 3rd term
Cry fecking more :lol:
 

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How do you manage to go into every CE thread and be the worst poster in it?
Ok. If I said, Khan has done a fantastic job in London. Has made transport cheaper, built lots of affordable housing and made the city safe from knife crime and burglars.

Then this would be better for you?
 

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These donkeys think they are entitled to Muslim votes with nothing in return.
You’re getting worked up over nothing. Peston has nothing to do with Labour. He’s just speaking historically.
:lol:
AKA, this is Sunak’s mess and I’m not interested in cleaning it up.