Off Topic General Election

[Charon]

Thank god we only have a politics thread once in a blue moon or red moon or yellow or green or whatever
But thank **** we do
When we closing it mods?

might as well close it at 6pm today when Starmer stops working

 

[Howdentiger2]

Well that’s not true actually. Thanks to Liz Truss’s financial experiments many of us have been utterly clobbered on our mortgages - ours was a 2.5 times increase which we can only afford by using what little capital we have. So most people feel poorer and realise what a load of liars the lot who’ve been booted out were. Nothing sweeter than seeing her ousted.

Fair point, but interest rates were never going to stay that low forever. I still stand by my point, if you want a better life...make it yourself instead of just blaming the red or blue side of the political line. Kier cares no more for you as an individual then rishi did or any PM before or after them will. Kier will help his "friends" and people that will ultimately benefit him or his "friends" just as rishi did. We'll be paying more taxes under this incoming government as well.

 

[Ric Glasgow]

Is there anyone in this country apart from the very wealthy who can really say they have been better off in the last 13 years? Seriously what have the Tories done to improve the lives of most of us, it’s been record taxes, many thousands of extra food banks, massive rises in interest rates, food prices, energy, sewerage in the water, the list is endless, one positive, anyone?

Any lazy twat I know that uses a food bank usually pops in after they've blew their wad at McDonald's...

 

[Asterix]

FYI ......That Hull North by-election on 27/1/1966 was incredibly important. The strength of the result encouraged Harold Wilson to call a general election for March 1966. Kevin McNamara beat Jessel by 5k votes..I also think Barbara Castle, the then Transport Minister, also promised the people of Hull that they would build a bridge spanning the Humber, if the people voted for a Labour win. And incredibly they did...!!!!

PS...Good luck to Keir Starmer and Labour. The country needs strong leadership in these ****ty times...A bit like Tim Walter at Hull City AFC.
Sadly, I've got a feeling the honeymoon won't last long.

Yes, we were promised, and so it came to pass, a bridge. They only forgot to tell us who would be paying for it.

 

[Off The Line]

Any lazy twat I know that uses a food bank usually pops in after they've blew their wad at McDonald's...

Sounds like they were really able to treat themselves...

 

[Ric Glasgow]

Sounds like they were really able to treat themselves...

Yes,on a daily basis

 

[Ric Glasgow]

The mocktails at the wedding I went to might suggest that drinking alcohol was not entirely absent from their lives either.

Edit: Not sure what happened to your quote there!

Were they alcoholic mocktails?

 

[Noggin The Nog]

Just seen the turnout was 60%.....4 in 10 of the electorate didn't wish to vote...What's that tell you?....No matter who you vote for the government always gets in...
Good luck to Labour. Hope they do a good job.

 

[Cityzen]

Its sad that you think our culture is alcohol.

It isn’t. But having a drink is part of it like most countries. Why should a minority say anyone at a gathering can’t have a legal drink? Yet they don’t offer freedoms they demand here in Muslim countries.

 

[Howdentiger2]

Any lazy twat I know that uses a food bank usually pops in after they've blew their wad at McDonald's...

An old school friend posted on FB the other day about being skint, needing to use a food bank and struggling to pay for a school trip for their twins..... That same person a couple of weeks before posted pics from a VW garage picking up a brand new car and has also been on a 10 day all inclusive break in Greece recently.

Some people really do need and also deserve help. But some just have a piss poor priority list

 

[Cityzen]

I agree with this entirely, the most sensible post on the entire thread!

Going by the many posts telling people about their frequent foreign holidays and trips to concerts it would appear a lot of people on here are hardly suffering.

 

[Cityzen]

Were they alcoholic mocktails?

Can anyone be more clueless?

 

[Cityzen]

Thank god we only have a politics thread once in a blue moon or red moon or yellow or green or whatever
But thank **** we do
When we closing it mods?

You mean we won’t be able to comment on all the fantastic achievements of the LabourvGovernment as they solve all our problems?

 

[Asterix]

An old school friend posted on FB the other day about being skint, needing to use a food bank and struggling to pay for a school trip for their twins..... That same person a couple of weeks before posted pics from a VW garage picking up a brand new car and has also been on a 10 day all inclusive break in Greece recently.

Some people really do need and also deserve help. But some just have a piss poor priority list

I was surprised at the number of cars at a local food bank. Maybe, not daft. The money saved dashing around food banks pays for the car?

 

[Ric Glasgow]

Can anyone be more clueless?

It appears not.

 

[Plum]

I was surprised at the number of cars at a local food bank. Maybe, not daft. The money saved dashing around food banks pays for the car?

I volunteer at a food bank, the general view is that, yes, some people try it on but it's a minority and you can't really stop it but a lot of people who need it do get it. And, either way, it's better than the food going to waste.

 

[Ric Glasgow]

An old school friend posted on FB the other day about being skint, needing to use a food bank and struggling to pay for a school trip for their twins..... That same person a couple of weeks before posted pics from a VW garage picking up a brand new car and has also been on a 10 day all inclusive break in Greece recently.

Some people really do need and also deserve help. But some just have a piss poor priority list

Your old school friend needs to take a long,hard look at himself in the mirror...Sounds like a real ****ing charmer

 

[bradymk2]

I volunteer at a food bank, the general view is that, yes, some people try it on but it's a minority and you can't really stop it but a lot of people who need it do get it. And, either way, it's better than the food going to waste.

Exactly

 

[Ric Glasgow]

I volunteer at a food bank, the general view is that, yes, some people try it on but it's a minority and you can't really stop it but a lot of people who need it do get it. And, either way, it's better than the food going to waste.

My wife used to do voluntary work in a soup kitchen for the homeless up in Partick(Glasgow) every Saturday morning.Before she set off every week I religiously gave her a £20 note and told her to buy bread rolls from Tesco...This went on for a good year until she discovered that some of the 'homeless' who grabbed half a dozen rolls on their way out lived locally and were filling their crops for nothing...Because they could!!!

Greedy Bastards!!!

 

[Cityzen]

It is if the abide by the law of this country. If they don't they're dealt with under the law of this country. Your perceived threat to this way of life is overwhelmingly paranoid and illusory.

Really?