Off Topic Politics Thread

Somewhere along the line, we became a nation of pusillanimous pisswits, it’s true.

I blame The Sun and The Mail for terrifying their readers for decades, with spurious threats about whatever that month’s chosen enemy was (Trade Unions, immigrants, woke lefties etc)

 

On a side note, can we swap wife's in Chandlers Ford and is there an obligation to pick her back after? Asking for a friend

 

I swapped my wife. All I got was a broken fishing reel, I felt cheated, didn't get a rod with it.

 

"Over the last 30 years there have been historic errors made, on a horrifying scale, the disastrous right-to-buy policy without replacement, on treating homes as financial assets, and on Nimbyism enshrined in planning law - causing unaffordable housing, severely damaging family formation, cratering birth rates, and creating a dependency on mass immigration to sustain our economy and care system. It is very big, scary stuff. I wish we didn't have to face it, but we must..."

I'll miss out the extreme pantie ***ting bit at the end. The screed is like smearing it on the walls, while wearing a monocle.

 

Fair enough. People can draw their own conclusions from your posts and my reply.

 

You'll have to ask Thumwood. I can't tell you your friend what the rules are.

 

Don't forget the flag shagging, far right, fascist Nazi extremists that are everywhere. We have a number of posters on here who have expressed their concern about the safety of their wives. No one, including you, suggested they were pusillanimous pisswits for their fear of spurious threats. In fact there were sympathetic noises about how awful it must be for them.
I'm not suggesting their fears are not real but the double standards on here is pathetic.

Oooh, flag shaggers =

Extreme religious nutters with previous =

I blame the BBC, The Guardian and the Daily Mirror.

 

It’s ironic really: for an institution accused of being “woke,” the last time I looked the Beeb was being run by Tim Davie, a former Tory council chairman, while the former press secretary and political adviser to five Conservative PMs, Sir Robbie Gibb - owner of the ultra-conservative Jewish Chronicle - sat as an influential governor.

Yet people insist the BBC is shorthand for their idea of a baked-in leftist organisation. Post-Thatcher, they've usually bent toward establishment narratives rather than challenging them. They have some ethnic presenters

Surface things: some diversity, socially liberal presenters, a bit of mild cultural pluralism - rather than any shift in it's core editorial behaviour.

While it turns out some people want to see and almost feel the beer-stained patina of a certain Question Time regular’s spin-off show - “Farage: Live!" presented from a pub-styled studio - three times a week on GBeebies.

 

I blame the taxi driver source for the gatemouthed gobshite Faridge's assertion that London would be under sharia law.

 

Labour's decision to extend voting age down to 16 looks set to spectacularly backfire as things stand. Also the talk about reform's appeal being old folks seems to be off by a long margin! Gen Z boys men overwhelmingly putting Reform / Farage out ahead while it is the Millennials and girls women that hold true to the mantra we are constantly told about younger folks much less likely to support Farage!

The interesting thing for me, looking at it neutrally and genuinely interesting, not because of any bias is the reform/green numbers. It is showing that the 31-35 age group is the most likely to vote for the Tory/Labour "uniparty" and least likely to vote for extremes (reform/green) whereas in the young men numbers they seem to favour outright anarchy a lot more than the old guard! but the young women bracket is not as far behind as we have been led to believe!


https://archive.ph/2025.10.22-13051...reform-uk-most-popular-party-among-gen-z-men/

 

Yeah its interesting how things change or develop. I was surprised the first time younger women decisively became Labour’s strongest demographic was only in the 2017 election. 1997 being first time overall that more women voted Labour than Conservative.

 

I guess boys/young men are much more risk takers, sense of adventure, mischevious etc?

 

I think this is because women are generally more intelligent.

I find this post interesting because this is precisely what Radio 4 reported in Europe back in the summer. Younger women are more likely to vote Green in other countries too. The Far Right gets it's support from young males.

I can see the Greens making progress in the next election. The SNP seem rejuvenated too. Good news if you suoport progressive politics.

 

For once I tend to agree with this. I think the next election could see the Tory/Lab total being absolutely smashed up. Maybe only a third of the vote going to the big 2 parties combined. People are moving outward and voting for the Loons on the left and right instead.