Off Topic Lord Mayor

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bradymk2 said:
Youre honestly whats wrong with the whole political system

What the **** does blair have to do with anything being discussed


Politics like a football team

Both should be jailed
But talk about avoiding the subject
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Don't they do history at your school?
 
Gone For A Walk said:
I think the issue is that you and a couple of others on here are just so far out of touch with what a groundswell of the general public believe and feel.

Of course Brexit hasn't been delivered in the way most of the people voting for it wanted, nor the way it could have been. Of course illegal immigration could be halted (or, to be technically correct, at least kept to minimal levels, there will always be a trickle obviously); not that the focus should be kept putting back near enough soley on this one topic, as important and scandalous as it is.

The support for Reform (real change) is no longer a small minority that the lazy stereotypical insults of denial and dismissal can be thrown at. It's across ages, sexes, intellect, class, backgrounds, and it's for FAR more reason than just the lazily trotted out lines previously used.

That groundswell is rapidly increasing and hopefully continues until the rotten 2 party politics and the 'establishment' of recent decades is replaced and overhauled. What I suspect we'll now see is Starmer and Badenoch (or whoever replaces her) shift their positions and 'principles' in a bid to simply survive. That might not be a bad thing if it changes things in this country toward what Reform (read 'growing swathes of the general public') want to see happen, but it isn't really the right answer as, like with Brexit, with many of them like Starmer it's not what they really want.

This week could well prove to be a turning point for Reform, and a tipping point in politics generally, as the public see that Reform have moved from being what some saw as a pesky nuisance to being a proper, serious alternative that can actually replace what we've suffered. As the saying goes, you need to 'wake up and smell the coffee' of why there's this groundswell of support. Don't just dismiss it, but understand it and accept it's for real; hopefully it now becomes a tidal wave.
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This 'groundswell' reminds me of supporters on here, thinking they know better than the manager.
 
Gone For A Walk said:
It must be one hell of a big rock you are living under.
Just go on google and type in 'Reform Policy' as a starter.
Open your ears, eyes and mind and please stop being ridiculous.
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To be fair they definitely have policies.
One of which will set this area back hugely and cause significant job losses or at least stop significant job increases in the area.
That’s their opposition to NetZero.
I’m not actually a supporter of it myself particularly, but selfishly if the current Govt are giving cash to achieve it then as the area that creates the biggest amount of carbon in the UK they’ll get the biggest bang for their buck by pouring the Billions of pounds that Reform rightly highlight into jobs and investment in our area…and so I hope they do.

That’s the area that Luke needs to do what he said he will do and not follow the national party line.
 
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Am I right in thinking the new mayoralty for Hull and East Riding has quite a bit of money to spend locally? Heard conflicting things about it being around £2 million or a lot more than that.
 
Kalman II said:
Am I right in thinking the new mayoralty for Hull and East Riding has quite a bit of money to spend locally? Heard conflicting things about it being around £2 million or a lot more than that.
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There's a budget, it's much bigger than that but not a lot in infrastructure terms.
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
It must be one hell of a big rock you are living under.
Just go on google and type in 'Reform Policy' as a starter.
Open your ears, eyes and mind and please stop being ridiculous.
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They very often don't have a position on any of the key issues that aren't immigration related. Last election their manifesto was tiny, and comparisons of each party's policies just had an empty box for Reform in a lot of cases.
 
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PLT said:
There's a budget, it's much bigger than that but not a lot in infrastructure terms.
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Not enough to fix every pothole in Hull or public works I imagine but doesn’t the mayor have the power to enforce sale of certain property to the councils?
 
Kalman II said:
It’s very barebones for a national party with aspirations to be His Majesty’s Government. The Yorkshire Party’s manifesto is probably more in-depth.
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some of those pledges are great and all
but there's absolutely no depth to them

each one is essentially summarised in a couple paragraphs

no substance, its literally just paper talk
 
Kalman II said:
Am I right in thinking the new mayoralty for Hull and East Riding has quite a bit of money to spend locally? Heard conflicting things about it being around £2 million or a lot more than that.
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£13m a year for 30 years

Peanuts

The bigger prize is if the Mayor can unlock/encourage additional funding from Govt, like the potential £15Bn in net zero investment
 
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Charon said:
oh dear, did the bad man win - whether you can cope with it or not we've moved on from the politics of the seventies and the 'up the workers' nonsense - we we're the fastest growing economy in the G7 until Two Tier Tool took over and ****ed it up - we had interest rates back at 2% until Two Tier Tool ****ed it up, we had started to sort out immigration and had a deterrent until Two Tier Tool ****ed it up - so rather than complain about the bad man look at the present incumbents and why they are so unpopular - total lack of experience at managing business / the economy, non stop lies about smashing gangs, £22 billion non existent black holes, then giving public sector above inflation pay rises, - don't know what a woman is and failure to protect women, attacks on pensioners and the disabled, accepting gifts / bribes / concert tickets / executive boxes, the list goes on and on - spunking taxpayers money on airmiles, promising £300 reductions on energy bills, they've actually gone up - incomprehensible policy on net zero, one minute we don't need fossil fuels, then we do, then they don't want to rely on imported fossil fuels then they refuse to give licences in the north sea so we have to import them - then they promise change and start claiming we want it faster - but all the change they've done so far has made everything a lot worse and finally all this crap about fully funded, fully costed - that's the biggest lie of all - and then you wonder why people have had enough and look for something better - the sad bit is people with your views have infiltrated the teaching profession and are abusing kids and indoctrinating them with left wing **** and producing a generation of imbeciles who even think terrorists are the good guys in the middle east and the victims are the bad guys - yes, people have had enough and that's exactly why Two Tier Tool was given a bloody nose
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Cityzen said:
I think his appearance in an age where people are judged on these things goes against him. I have heard a lot of people say how intelligent he is. A lot of stuf I have read him come out with comes across well.
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You're absolutely right, but his role in a terrible government and the Brexit change of opinion will always count against him. He was supposedly a very engaged and decent MP, who did a lot for environmental issues. But we're always judged by what we did wrong.
 
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