Off Topic Politics Thread

By the way, Angela Rayner is magnificent on Question Time.

 

Called out Farage for the racist twat he is.

 

I was really hoping she was going to lamp him, the utter ****.

 

Omg just seen that Stanley Johnson attack on the British public as illiterate on Gogglebox. Hilarious old toff reveals attitude of toffs shocker! The Gogglebox crew were pretty scathing.

Is there a glimmer of a last minute swing or will the 40 year old white van men get the old racists a majority?

 

My son had some concerning symptoms over the weekend. Already seen a GP who recommended to book a paediatrician. They weren’t taking bookings! Did we go to A&E? Hell yeah! Six hours later he was seen.

 

Did he get a nice cosy seat on the floor or was he upgraded to a table perch?

 

Tea trolley!

Joking aside, nothing serious fortunately.

 

Double like. One for the joke and one for the good news.

 

By the way, under the new Tory system we can now give multiple likes.

If I give you one like, remove it and give another that is two likes. It also works with nurses, hospitals and Christmas presents.

 

A little bit of Brexit fun, with bad language. An apology to Scotland.

 

More needed Chilcs over the next days let's hope the younguns get out in force. The tory and gatemouth farage fails both.

 

If I was Corbyn I’d make Angela chief attack dog and get her to follow Johnson around, biting lumps out if him every time he opened his lying mouth.

 

If they want a female replacement for Jezza then she's the one. You can guarantee they will unerringly pick Rebecca LB to lose the 2024 election.

 

They are actually flat mates, they could probably fight it out privately, although I know which one my money would be on!

 

FairPlay Billie.

 

If that is true you have to ask the question, why is he so unpopular? After the last ten years Labour should be wiping the floor with the Tories, instead they are trailing behind in the polls. If Labour fare badly in this GE, it will be because of Corbyn, McDonnell and to a lesser extent Abbott.
Quite a lot of you have dismissed criticism of Corbyn as a right-wing smear campaign that only the gullible, the lazy or the stupid would believe. But maybe a lot of people have good memories or have researched properly. There is plenty of info out there that at the very least should make people question his suitability as PM. IMO, the claims of peacemaker in the various conflicts he's been involved with defy belief. He has only shared platforms with organisations that fight the state. Never has he been in peace talks involving both parties.http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2015/08/0...r-peace-in-northern-ireland-is-total-fantasy/

What it boils down to is what sources do you believe but as I said, there is plenty of info out there and too much to dismiss as propaganda. And it was out there long before the election debates started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/0...xtremists-ira-hamas-hezbollah-britain-labour/

Surrounding himself with the likes of John McDonnell and Diane Abbott only further undermines his credibility.

McDonnell......His relationship with the IRA is dubious to say the least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McDonnell

Abbott......Her comments on race and the IRA are particularly damning IMO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Abbott

You may feel inclined to dismiss all the above but there are a lot of people who were around at the time of the events mentioned in the links and witnessed Corbyn's behaviour first hand. You may also feel that this post is from a Labour hating Tory voter but I'm neither. This is purely about Corbyn and why he stops onetime Labour voters (including me) voting for him.
Please don't tell me, as I have previously read, that you should be able to look past Corbyn and vote for the policies because it's not going to happen while he's in charge.

Finally, Corbyn and Brexit.
If there is one thing on this thread that gets the blood boiling for most of you it is Brexiteers. There have been some pretty strong words used here to describe them (racist,selfish,stupid etc) but not once have I seen these terms used to describe that well known Brexiteer Jeremy Corbyn.
Kind, honest, decent even likeable are mentioned quite often but never racist or selfish or stupid, why do you think that is? Some double standards going on here I think.

If Labour do get elected this week, please disregard this post.


.

 

Hi Beddy.

My nan - who passed away in January - had severe Alzheimer's disease, as well as losing control over her organs in her final weeks. She wasted away in the end but in the process she used to soil herself in corridors and waiting rooms and have breakdowns that sent her running through the hospital because there was no place to put her and not enough people to look after her. Not a bed, not a seat, not even a trolley. Sometimes patients on her ward would finally get one and then end up rotating out of it because someone else then needed the space too.

I should add that my nan was a very proud employee of St Margaret's Hospital in Epping, as well as working in other postings around London and Essex for the NHS until her retirement.

And, since then, my dearly departed nan's partner has been awaiting treatment for an abscess on his head. He is elderly and has been waiting for months to get it removed. It has, for some time, clearly been in quite a terrible state. His operation has now been cancelled so many times that his blood has become poisoned, he's lost grasp of who he is, where he is and what he's doing and has gone from really good health to what is now multiple weeks in hospital. He remains there now.

He is, thankfully, now on a ward. But that didn't stop him ****ting himself in a corridor because they had nowhere they could put him to begin with.

It's happening. Stop kidding yourself.

I feel so sorry for all the hard-working people in the NHS who keep things ticking along as best they can. They deserve better.

 

In all this ****-storm I am increasingly feeling like asking Santa for a huge - let's get a straight 100 - Tory majority which takes my brilliant local MP with it. Labour should be out of sight, and I agree totally with the view that Corbyn and his gang of sycophantic loonies must shoulder a portion of the blame. He is such an easy target for the Daily Mail, and seems intent on making it easier.

In all of this, I begin to wonder whether we're back in the 90's when Major and his almost totally useless bunch - yes, I do give him credit for Northern Ireland before anyone shouts - led us so deep into the mire that the 1997 Labour victory seemed to mark the end of the Tory party.

Only when Johnson and Farage stand among the smoking ruins of the UK economy; when Foodbank queues stretch to the horizon; when A&E arrivals will dream of a place on the floor; when we re-visit "Gis-us-a-job" unemployment (although screened by a huge rise in so-called 'flexible working'); when kids don't get taught and our public transport resembles that of a war-torn banana republic will the voters realise that they have been conned.

Oh ****. What am I saying. They'll still blame Corbyn!

 

This summarises it perfectly for me, I'd vote labour this time round but I just don't trust Corbyn as a statesman or a leader. To say that all of Corbyn's problem's in the polls is because of right wing media bias is reductionist, unless the left get more media savvy then they will always languish behind.

Having said this a Corbyn Govt. is still infinitely more palatable than the Johnson alternative

 

I had to take myself to A&E in May, after I slipped over at work and fractured my elbow. Arrived at 7.00pm, got seen at 1.30am by an exhausted doctor with red eyes.

He examined me and said he didn’t think there could be anything broken because if there was I’d have been in more pain. At that point I guessed he was so tired he had failed to realise I’d already been X-Rayed. So I told him, he looked up the X-Rays on his computer and discovered there was a fracture, to the outside of the elbow.

I don’t blame the doctor for the miss-diagnosis, I’m pretty sure he was the only one on duty on a very busy A&E ward and he really was exhausted. I don’t blame the Whittington Hospital either, on my subsequent visits to the fracture clinic there I received excellent care. I blame the Tories, 100%.