General Election 4th July ...

I can't stand Farage. I ****ing loathe the ****. There are few places in the world I would like to be in less than that pub in that moment. I can practically smell the lynx body spray and the erectile disfunction medicine from 10,000 miles away.

But I agree with what Alco is saying to an extent. Farage at very least pretends to understand and represent a segment of society. Sunak and Starmer represent no one. They represent their parties, sure. They represent a vague, difficult to understand and quite abstract vision they have for the country but they will put away once elected.

The main parties would be well served taking a lesson from Farage, he has a vision and he will stand by that vision. I applaud him for having the nerve to put his flag in the ground and say this is what I am, this is what I stand for.

It's a shame that I find him and his vision grotesque.

 

That has to be the worst abuse of power I’ve ever seen.

 

I feel like Starmer and specially Sunak would actually be scared to be around those people, Farage for whatever some people think about him, has never had a problem getting along with normal people, this makes him appear normal.

I've long said we have no good politicians left, no honest to god people with strong convictions, willing to be honest and go against the grain and speak well doing it, I didn't mind the SNP and Welsh bloke on those GE panels a couple of weeks back, I could see potential there but I hated their policies.

 

People don't stand for much other than self-interest and personal wealth generation nowadays, top to bottom.

 

Will Farage ever be an option . . . . for anything

What a guy

 

Thought Starmer was really good last night on QT. Tackled issues head on.

The current mob will be out on their ear soon enough.

 

The only information I have had through the door is from labour, not a thing from any other party.

I appreciate where I live is traditionally a labour stronghold, but to not even make an effort is poor imo

 

I had to Google to find out we have 7 candidates. Never heard of any of them , know nothing about them , whether they are constituency born etc. No leaflets , no posters in windows and certainly no door knock . How can they expect our support .

 

Same as me, but in a Tory held seat and they've been the only ones to knock so far. Shame really because I reckon it's up for grabs.

 

I accept its pretty sown up here, but just seems like no one apart from labour even bother / care

 

No knock on door, but leaflets from Tories, Lib Dems, Labour and Reform.
The recent by election we had 8 leaflets from Labour alone and a knock on the door.
I'm reliable informed that she not been seen locally since.

 

Labour are obviously going to walk it, which I'm glad for, but I do find Starmer completely uninspiring. He floundered at one point when he made some comment about it being bad that politicians wouldn't put timescales to their promises and was then almost immediately asked to give a timescale on something he was promising (I think it was about NHS waiting lists), and then tried his best to not give an answer. I think he struggled too with the question about him having said Corbyn would make a great PM. When he realises that he's in a sticky spot like that, he just looks like a scared rabbit in the headlights.

 

Farage is the archetypal snake oil salesman.

 

Our boundary has changed and I don’t understand how we get two leaflets from two candidates from the same party?

 

Outstanding from James.

 

I'd gladly take an uninspiring, boring leader at this current time as we need someone to settle the markets and get us back on the rails rather than come up with grand ideas. I absolutely despise the debates mind, nobody can put a time scale on the NHS or controlling immigration as there are too many moving parts. Especially for a new government wanting to hire additional nurses and create a border force. That won't be done over night. The debates are like a channel 4 reality series.


Like you say the Tories are done for but as for Reform, Farage just pretends to stand for the average Joe whilst the party tax plans massively benefit the higher earners. I'd put money on Farage jumping to the Tories in the next couple of years. He is absolutely incendiary and his comments about Putin show this.

 

Sadly I don't think there's an easy fix nor any real stability on the cards in the next few years, a boring leader for calmness now will look like inactive and useless 18 months into his tenure.

 

Do you think he'd have been in that pub, wearing an England shirt, if there wasn't an election upcoming.

I don't tbh, I think he's pretending to be like those people.

And I doubt he'd be with other normal people who don't support him tbh ...

... not all football supporters in pubs are Farage fans.

There was someone on the Jeremy Vine phone in who really excited about Farage running for election mainly because of 'the boats'. When they were asked what his solution was the response was "Errr ...." When they were pressed they said that Farage would bring back 'the Boris factor' and put some entertainment back into politics.

That's fair enough, it's democracy and everyone is entitled to their opinion, whatever that may be.