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I've not lived in the UK for over 15 years now so I don't read much of your press (except the odd online sports page) so I'm a little out of date on the UK political scene so I'm going to try and make a summary based on this threads post and the opinions of people voting for one of the other parties....

Tory - if you're an evil racist misogynist who hates poor people who won't work, working people who are poor and foreign people who are being here.

Labour - if you're a naive idiot who thinks that more bank holidays, higher minimum wage, and banning zero-hour contracts are good for working people

Libdems - if you're an educated intolerant bigot who loves to theorize about governing but hates pragmatic trade-offs, compromise, or any other values than those you and your mates have talked about over truffle starters.

UKIP - if you're a stupid corrupt racist xenophobic misogynist who still think you can turn the clock back to the 50s.

Greens - if you're so urbanized that you think nature is in a delicate balance and so thick that you think oil companies want to poison the world to death.

SNP - if you're a Scot that voted Remain because it's important to have unifying pan-social governments, and want to leave the UK because remote governments don't care about you.
 
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Stockholm Tiger said:
I've not lived in the UK for over 15 years now so I don't read much of your press (except the odd online sports page) so I'm a little out of date on the UK political scene so I'm going to try and make a summary based on this threads post and the opinions of people voting for one of the other parties....

Tory - if you're an evil racist misogynist who hates poor people who won't work, working people who are poor and foreign people who are being here.

Labour - if you're a naive idiot who thinks that more bank holidays, higher minimum wage, and banning zero-hour contracts are good for working people
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Nicely framed mate.
 
Stockholm Tiger said:
I've not lived in the UK for over 15 years now so I don't read much of your press (except the odd online sports page) so I'm a little out of date on the UK political scene so I'm going to try and make a summary based on this threads post and the opinions of people voting for one of the other parties....

Tory - if you're an evil racist misogynist who hates poor people who won't work, working people who are poor and foreign people who are being here.

Labour - if you're a naive idiot who thinks that more bank holidays, higher minimum wage, and banning zero-hour contracts are good for working people

Libdems - if you're an educated intolerant bigot who loves to theorize about governing but hates pragmatic trade-offs, compromise, or any other values than those you and your mates have talked about over truffle starters.

UKIP - if you're a stupid corrupt racist xenophobic misogynist who still think you can turn the clock back to the 50s.

Greens - if you're so urbanized that you think nature is in a delicate balance and so thick that you think oil companies want to poison the world to death.

SNP - if you're a Scot that voted Remain because it's important to have unifying pan-social governments, and want to leave the UK because remote governments don't care about you.
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You forgot Bob.

Bob - You love trifle.
 
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Party Hull! said:
An hour left of another hard day at work, lots of unhappy people because of another year without reward despite achieving well.

Looking forward to voting for Labour on the way home and hoping for a change of course that prevents one or two people at the top of corporations swallowing all the gains.

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Not sure if this is a wind up.
I've yet to work in a place where even one employee thinks they are overpaid, and in all of them people think they are underpaid.
I've worked in PubSec, Prisec, here and abroad in a variety of industries, owned by various nationalities.
I've also been a doley in the 80s and noughties.
For every overpaid high earner, there are ten times as many skivers, pilferers, shirkers, lazy ****ers.
What Labour have done in this GE is wind up the gullible, inflamed their sense of grievance and pointed the finger of blame at the Tories.

This is cheap, lazy spiteful politics and insults the intelligence of the electorate.
It's also highly cynical Seumas Milne-style manipulating of the masses for his own ends and aims.
He can achieve them by orchestrating unrest, grievance, 'class war'. He and his ilk care not about the masses, just overturning the Establishment.
They just want to use the people as their battering ram.
(Sorry just been down Prinny and seen all the hate-filled anti Tory stickers. What kind of sad and twisted turd prints all these 'anti' stickers? What a **** way to do politics. )
 
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originallambrettaman said:
The austerity measures haven't resulted in a drop in funding for the NHS, they always go up every year and they're going to carry on doing so.

The issue is the fact that NHS costs are spiraling, they go up by almost a billion a year and it's still not enough, we should stop developing cures for stuff to keep the numbers down...
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Or legislate for mandatory euthanasia at age 55 !
 
City Man said:
Not sure if this is a wind up.
I've yet to work in a place where even one employee thinks they are overpaid, and in all of them people think they are underpaid.
I've worked in PubSec, Prisec, here and abroad in a variety of industries, owned by various nationalities.
I've also been a doley in the 80s and noughties.
For every overpaid high earner, there are ten times as many skivers, pilferers, shirkers, lazy ****ers.
What Labour have done in this GE is wind up the gullible, inflamed their sense of grievance and pointed the finger of blame at the Tories.

This is cheap, lazy spiteful politics and insults the intelligence of the electorate.
It's also highly cynical Seumas Milne-style manipulating of the masses for his own ends and aims.
He can achieve them by orchestrating unrest, grievance, 'class war'. He and his ilk care not about the masses, just overturning the Establishment.
They just want to use the people as their battering ram.
(Sorry just been down Prinny and seen all the hate-filled anti Tory stickers. What kind of sad and twisted turd prints all these 'anti' stickers? What a **** way to do politics. )
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In the Brexit campaign what did you think of UKIP's campaign posters?
 
City Man said:
Not sure if this is a wind up.
I've yet to work in a place where even one employee thinks they are overpaid, and in all of them people think they are underpaid.
I've worked in PubSec, Prisec, here and abroad in a variety of industries, owned by various nationalities.
I've also been a doley in the 80s and noughties.
For every overpaid high earner, there are ten times as many skivers, pilferers, shirkers, lazy ****ers.
What Labour have done in this GE is wind up the gullible, inflamed their sense of grievance and pointed the finger of blame at the Tories.

This is cheap, lazy spiteful politics and insults the intelligence of the electorate.
It's also highly cynical Seumas Milne-style manipulating of the masses for his own ends and aims.
He can achieve them by orchestrating unrest, grievance, 'class war'. He and his ilk care not about the masses, just overturning the Establishment.
They just want to use the people as their battering ram.
(Sorry just been down Prinny and seen all the hate-filled anti Tory stickers. What kind of sad and twisted turd prints all these 'anti' stickers? What a **** way to do politics. )
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Whatever you think of Corbyn or Labour, to level this at the Labour Party in the face of what has happened in the election so far, is beyond bare faced cheek.

Linton Brown Crosby’s campaign is the epitome of what I’ve highlighted in your text.

The Tory campaign has been void of detail and has centred around Corbyn’s being some kind of pacifist terrorist, soundbites like : a magic money tree being bandied about and simply pure negativity. A downright insult to the electorate.

Ideologically, people have their differences, I know, but what you’re saying is right up there, if not beyond, with the pure bullshit espoused on this thread.

The Tory’s entire campaign has been dirty as **** and it’ll probably work.
 
Leon T Trout AFC said:
Whatever you think of Corbyn or Labour, to level this at the Labour Party in the face of what has happened in the election so far, is beyond bare faced cheek.

Linton Brown Crosby’s campaign is the epitome of what I’ve highlighted in your text.

The Tory campaign has been void of detail and has centred around Corbyn’s being some kind of pacifist terrorist, soundbites like : a magic money tree being bandied about and simply pure negativity. A downright insult to the electorate.

Ideologically, people have their differences, I know, but what you’re saying is right up there, if not beyond, with the pure bullshit espoused on this thread.

The Tory’s entire campaign has been dirty as **** and it’ll probably work.
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I'm not sure it will. If they'd run any sort of half decent campaign and offered any reason to have confidence, I'd probably have voted for them. I along with a good number of others I know haven't.
 
Leon T Trout AFC said:
In the Brexit campaign what did you think of UKIP's campaign posters?
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Honest answer: don't remember them. Had my mind made up on best outcome. In Brexit I was very focused on what the main Leave/Remain arguments were (according to the official party viewpoints).
IMHO, most politicians of most parties failed to read what was irking millions of Leave voters. It was shocking to see how much out of touch they all were in their London bubble. It was a real wake up call for them and the media, who singularly failed to take the pulse of low wage provincial Britain.

But back to your question. Please feel free to post a pic of the one (s) you have in mind.
 
City Man said:
Honest answer: don't remember them. Had my mind made up on best outcome. In Brexit I was very focused on what the main Leave/Remain arguments were (according to the official party viewpoints).
IMHO, most politicians of most parties failed to read what was irking millions of Leave voters. It was shocking to see how much out of touch they all were in their London bubble. It was a real wake up call for them and the media, who singularly failed to take the pulse of low wage provincial Britain.

But back to your question. Please feel free to post a pic of the one (s) you have in mind.
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You're completely right. I can't remember seeing a single reference about the m words during they Brexit campaign, but they all voted leave anyway.
 
Leon T Trout AFC said:
Whatever you think of Corbyn or Labour, to level this at the Labour Party in the face of what has happened in the election so far, is beyond bare faced cheek.

Linton Brown Crosby’s campaign is the epitome of what I’ve highlighted in your text.

The Tory campaign has been void of detail and has centred around Corbyn’s being some kind of pacifist terrorist, soundbites like : a magic money tree being bandied about and simply pure negativity. A downright insult to the electorate.

Ideologically, people have their differences, I know, but what you’re saying is right up there, if not beyond, with the pure bullshit espoused on this thread.

The Tory’s entire campaign has been dirty as **** and it’ll probably work.
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Both main parties are probably using the same agency in their race to the bottom, I'm sure when the knives come out, the other side rolls out another dirty dig in the ribs. No quibbling about that.
As I said elsewhere on this thread, I try and switch off when I feel unfiltered propaganda is coming my way.
Corbyn makes me feel very uneasy when I clap eyes on him. He seems to be the type of shady character you might expect to find lurking in John Sheridan's down Anlaby Rd back in the late 70s. Empathises with the masses but is utterly remote from them in outlook, values, interests and temperament. Possibly wears desert wellies and socks and is fan of Thurstan Binns, and frequents Humberside Theatre down Spring St.
Other politicians who gave me the creeps include: Redwood of the Tories, Anne Widdicombe and Cyril Smith.
Expect scathing propaganda from head office, but not hate-filled stickers down Hull's entertainment strip posted by local Avenues bedsit zealots.
It's just not on, Leon.
 
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City Man said:
Both main parties are probably using the same agency in their race to the bottom, I'm sure when the knives come out, the other side rolls out another dirty dig in the ribs. No quibbling about that.
As I said elsewhere on this thread, I try and switch off when I feel unfiltered propaganda is coming my way.
Corbyn makes me feel very uneasy when I clap eyes on him. He seems to be the type of shady character you might expect to find lurking in John Sheridan's down Anlaby Rd back in the late 70s. Empathises with the masses but is utterly remote from them in outlook, values, interests and temperament. Possibly wears desert wellies and socks and is fan of Thurstan Binns, and frequents Humberside Theatre down Spring St.
Other politicians who gave me the creeps include: Redwood of the Tories, Anne Widdicombe and Cyril Smith.
Expect scathing propaganda from head office, but not hate-filled stickers down Hull's entertainment strip posted by local Avenues bedsit zealots.
It's just not on, Leon.
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The Tories are the masters of dirty tricks. They have virtually all of the print media onside too carrying out their propaganda.

Agree with the other creepy ****ers you mention though.
 
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