Out of a 60% turnout Trump received just under 50% of the vote. That represents 30% of the total electorate. My contention is that in the average democracy 33% are thinkers, 33% are in fact stupid and the rest are indifferent. So Trump received 90.9% of the stupid vote. Which leads me to believe that the most effective way to gain the stupid vote is to field a stupid candidate with a very limited vocabulary. Making it easier for the target voters to understand. This could be known as the Boris effect, or simply the Trump syndrome. One advantage of the latter suggestion is that it adds a 2 syllable world to the 'stupid' vocabulary.
I see the latest pearl of wisdom from the loony Liebour party down at Fraggle Rock is to launch a landlord recruitment drive in an attempt to house the colossal numbers of illegal immigrants that break into the UK. The morons down at the Home office are offering landlords 5 year guaranteed full rent deals, and all at the British tax payers expense. We must assume all the luxury hotels are full and they are now targeting rental properties to house this invading army of fighting age men. This is gross stupidity and a massive burden to the hard working British tax payer, along with free homes, free phones, free health care, free dental care, free board and lodgings, free legal representation, free tennis lessons, free driving lessons etc etc, the bill for all this is immense. Meanwhile, the British tax payer has to swallow increased crime and increased bills around every corner, despite faux promises from the resident Muppet show to reduce / freeze them etc. No doubt the woke leftists who infest these boards will brand this far right and racist, but somebody has to offset the huge amount of `far left bilge` that is posted in here.
For dumb-ass MAGA's in the US, read dumb-ass Reform(ers) in the UK... Both ignorantly lapping every transparent falsehood their cult leaders spout - when if they actually had half a brain cell between them they could genuinely, but constructively oppose. There is, after all so much to criticise in how the Government acts, but their descent into believing this authoritarian/ libertarian bullshit is ridiculous.
Sheep need leading. Having been lead into the lonely, impoverished wilderness of Brexitland, they're still bleating at Shepherd Farage for more. So needy are these sheep, that even as they're being lead to the slaughter house, they will go bleating..."4 legs good, 2 legs bad". It's why the Golgafrinchans built an ark.
I think it's quite a compliment Billy, that in a world dominated by right wing media, where even the Labour Party is right of Edward Heath's Tory party. Where the left is confined to social media, where the western world has 'enjoyed' a right wing agenda for the last 46 years. A world where we can now see quite clearly the effect of a sustained neoliberal economic system in producing the greatest inequality since the 1930's, a world, like the 30's heading for authoritarian government, the last thing you need to worry about is a few lefties on a football forum.
Mate, the cost of immigration into the UK is estimated at 1% of GDP. The annual cost of leaving the EU is estimated to be at least 4% of GDP. That means that Farage currently has us in a hole of £32,000,000,000 (32 billion) EACH ****ING YEAR!! His contribution to the UK, so far, is to **** things up so badly that he makes Liz Truss look economically competent. What do you think he's going to do? The Tories couldn't make their ill conceived Rwanda plan work, without allying with Russia and Belarus, by being the only countries to withdraw from the EU Convention on Human Rights. So, to save a small percentage of the loss he created, we set fire to the human rights of the people of this country and throw our lot in with Putin and Trump? You need to go away and think this through. You are placing your faith in a lying, cheating grifter, who is an egotistical megalomaniac. Keir Starmer's got his faults, but poking the bear and then sticking this country's head in its mouth isn't the answer. I'm afraid it's down to hard work and hard, unpopular choices...neither of which Farage is capable of.
And yet the cover of the current issue of The Economist says Britain cannot afford to ignore him Yes we ****ing can. For the love of ****ing christ, just for once, can we just ****ing ignore the ****? Because the past 15+ years of enabling him has ****ed the country for decades, so maybe try something else
Have you ever considered that privately educated bankers called Nigel and Rupert aren't on the side of the working man?
Yes, I know that issues of political difference should be debated in a spirit of tolerance and understanding, but sometimes....
