Off Topic Politics Thread

I will vote Labour as I always have done and always will. Not a problem here in Hornsey and Wood Green, where the only challenge to the excellent incumbent will come from the Lib Dems.

I would have no problem voting tactically to get the Tories out, if I lived in that sort of constituency; but I’d have to hold my nose to vote for Jo Swindon’s Liberals. And I lost all my respect for Vince Cable, after he privatised my old employer, the Royal Mail. An exercise in economic dogma that amounted to industrial vandalism.

Still - anything to get this rotten shower of Tories out.

 

Just seen good interview with Emily, from Facebook, that I can’t seem to load on here.
Have settings been adjusted, or is this connected to me having to rescue my Facebook account earlier today, from a potential hacked sign on, in Islington (Jezza? I’m on your side mate).
She asks the question if Buffoon has read the ISC report, then comments about the lack of pictures probably means that he hasn’t.

 

A comment lifted from FB on the Guardian's tory and russian money article. It sums the present incumbents up perfectly take a bow Mr Ord

David Ord "Boris Johnson can't go out in public because he's getting booed and heckled wherever he shows his face, and his minders are keeping him away from as many interviews and debates as possible because they're all to aware that he's shockingly unprepared, utterly ignorant of stuff like facts and details, liable to make up absolute nonsense on the spot, or to just start spouting blatant lies.

Tory Chairman James Cleverly is so cowardly and irredeemably thick that he'd rather sit cowering in a different room, than face Kay Burley's questions.

Michael Gove only serves to rile the public with his obnoxious, coked-up, plastic-faced, infinitely disingenuous, far-right goit act.

Sajid Javid, the reckless junk bond trader that Johnson has somehow decided to put in charge of the entire UK economy, hasn't been seen for weeks. Perhaps he's too busy drawing up plans to deport his own father to please the extreme-right to bother contributing to the general election campaign?

The haunted pencil figure of Jacob Rees-Mogg, like Lord Snooty but with the sinister whiff of fascism about him, is unlikely to be allowed in any more studios this election after insinuating that the Grenfell fire victims deserved to die because they were too thick to disobey fire service instructions and run into dark, smoke filled corridors.

Liz Truss is perpetually on the verge of another weirdly unhinged rant about imported cheese, or using barking dogs to scare away drones. Anyone with any sense would keep her away from the public eye for the duration of the election.

Priti Patel with her perpetual smirk, her open contempt for ordinary working Brits, and her desperate pining to be allowed to execute of innocent people to 'send a message' about how tough she is.

Alun Cairns, who was told that his former adviser deliberately sabotaged a rape trial, concealed the information from the party, and then lied that nobody in the Tory ranks knew about the rape trial sabotage when his former adviser was picked as an election candidate.

And then those absolute chancers who have been promoted exponentially above their abilities like Dominic Raab ('where's Dover?') and Gavin Williamson ('Russia should just shut up and go away!').

Rory Stewart was one of the very few sympathetic and relatable figures in the Tory ranks (to 'centrist dad' types at least), but he's been driven out of the party altogether because he wouldn't do as he was told, and Johnson simply can't bear to have anyone in the party who clearly has infinitely more eloquence and charisma than he does.

Amber Rudd was Theresa May's reliable and ever-willing dogsbody, always prepared to step up when things got difficult, or take the fall for May's racist Windrush scandal, but she's quitting, standing down from parliament in disgust at how awful the Tory party has become.

Philip Hammond is quitting too. Ken Clarke says he'll be voting against the Tories. Oliver Letwin (probably the most intelligent MP in the Tory ranks) is out. Even Boris Johnson's brother Jo has had enough of the lying, and cheating, and pandering to the extreme-right ultranationalist demographic.

There's basically nobody left in the Tory ranks with any talent whatever, and they've resorted to hiding from scrutiny for fear of being exposed as the grotesquely incompetent charlatans they are ...

But they're still not dead as a political party purely because a significant demographic of mainly-English, mainly well-off, mainly middle aged or older, utterly selfish "I'm Alright Jack" swine who just love to bow, and scrape, and grovel before their Tory lords and masters, no matter how malicious, incompetent, cowardly, and blatantly unfit for office they are.

It's an absolute tragedy because Britain deserves so much better than this".

 

My niece has written to her daughter's primary school saying that should any Tory parliamentary candidate including Johnson plan to visit the school during the general election she must be informed immediately so that she can remove her from the school for the duration of the visit as she does not want her daughter to be exposed to lying, ultra right wing politicians hell bent on destroying her daughter's life chances. Bravo and well done especially as her dad voted for Brexit and is a deferent Tory voter.

 

It's truly amazing how the Tories have transformed this country in three and a half short years. In June 2016 we lived in a country that, while certainly riddled with inequality was generally calm and relatively at ease with itself. Now we are on the brink of ripping ourselves apart. Family members are estranged, siblings, parents and children marooned on either side of an unbridgeable divide and the UK appearing to be heading for a bad tempered break up. Well done Dave, Theresa and Pfeffel.

Regional polls just out: awful for Labour , the percentages are virtually halved in Midlands and The North. If these don't change we are looking at a 50% fall in their seats.

 

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Unfortunately, the damage has been done by the daily mail and all of the horrendous propaganda that passes for media in this country.

 

Do you think the Tory party give a stuff about you and me and everything else, They only care about themselves and staying in power and putting the public under their thumb.....Rees - Mogg said the other day that there are people like himself who were born to rule and there the majority are born into being peasants and that is how it should be,,,,The Tories have always been corrupt it is part of their philosophy and i thought Thatcher and Cameron government were bad but we have a PM now that has surpassed everyone and is a real danger to mankind and he smirks while telling so many lies he dont care as he knows the Tory controlled media will back him all the way as they dont want Corbyn coming after them for billions in back taxes......Here is everybody's chance to destroy this evil party and i hope we will....or more austerity will follow....

 

Yes

 

Came across this video from February.

 

If the British people are stupid enough to vote for Boris Johnson then they will deserve all the **** they get as a consequence.

Me I couldn't give a ****. I have stockpiled so much tinned and dried food that my spare bedroom looks like Sainsbury's and as I have to pay bedroom tax for it I might as well put it to good use.

 

so it seems you believe some of the things you read just not all?

 

A new challenger for the title.

 

Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber

 

Thanks St B nicked it.

 

Care to expand on that? Obviously I do though don't we all? Do you believe what you read in the Old Testament for example?

 

simple no I don’t........why because I don’t read the Old Testament..........although some might argue I don’t read at all..........

 

Every school has at least one kid like this.