On the whole I’m not keen on MP’s joining a different party, if they want to do that there should be a by-election. I know it’s legal and many have done it on all sides, to me it just doesn’t sit well. As I posted earlier this reminds me of the beginning of the SDP in the 80’s. They’ve now Morphed into the Lib Dem’s.
I can’t understand how someone can switch parties. Surely you join a party whose policies align with your own views? I suppose a switch from the Conservatives to Reform is a small step to the right, but some switch from Labour to Tory and visa versa - which is a complete change of ideology. How can you passionately believe in and campaign for one ideology and then do the same for a completely different one? I think at different stages of his political career, Winston Churchill was a member of Labour, Liberal and the Tories(?) going from memory - not googled.
PM Keir Starmer calls urgent No10 press conference for this afternoon Effectively the Office for National Statistics (ONS) keeps finding more and more people who have migrated here. Three times they have announced a net migration figure for last year, and they have rounded it up again by 166,000. The system is broken, or incompetent. We do not know who lives here, we do not know where everybody is living, and what they are doing, so we also can't know what they cost. This should be astonishing, but it is not, the Tories lost control of the borders and immigration.
I am a committed Conservative, as I've said before I'm middle of the road, I am one of those that voted for the party I have always believed in, I publicly admit the last 5 years have shamed the way we have been governed and can understand the silent majority deservedly booting us out, I have never voted Labour, have always thought Labour and the wild bunch are liars, confidence tricksters and just plain thick, the first 5 months have shown how inept and backhanded they are but they are our legally elected and democratic government and that is our democracy in action and long may it be. I am proud I did not vote or allow a bunch of thickoes like Starmer and co to influence my vote, I chose my path and will continue to walk it, Farage and his bunch are not my kettle of fish, I admire his Brexit contrbution and understand the people that have switched to Reform and I guess I am now a minority member on here because I never voted in the recent petition, there was no point for me personally. I'm old now but hope to be around long enough to vote this bunch of wombats out but it is their right for 5years to remain, they won't get inside of my head and I am determined to live an enjoyable and normal life, I just want our nation and people to progress in a happy fashion.
Apparently there are over 1,000,000 people living in this country who cannot speak Englsih 73% of children in East London don't speak English The are many terror cells actively operating in the UK Looking at the laisse faire attitude by all recent Governments I'm not surprised They have all lost control and lost the plot, and what's worse, there is no genuine will to stop either the small boat crossings, or legal immigration How many more innocent people will be sacrificed at the altar of multiculturalism I wonder ?
Easy Jet and Ryanair are both cutting domestic flights after the budget when Air Passenger Duty was increased by another £2 per person per flight on each leg of journeys. A return trip will now cost £32 just in APD, and that's without the actual cost of the flight, or luggage, insurance, parking/Taxi etc etc It's Tax upon tax upon tax with this lot of thieves. A what a great way to put people out of jobs, stop tourism between cities, and reduce the profits of both airlines and airports and everything associated with the travel industry.
This country has been broken for years and I’ve been planning and dreaming of a retirement in Spain ever since I was 40. The suicidal vote in 2016 fkd that up for me. All we need now is WW3 and then the ****storm will be complete. Successive Conservative and Labour governments have dismally failed us. We keep flip-flopping between them hoping that one of them will fix the country. They won’t. Our country has been in decay since the 1960s. First Labour nationalised our heavy industries in the 1970s along with savagely self-damaging our transport network (Beeching) then Thatcher sold them all off to mainly foreign buyers in the 1980s - including old railway land, thus ensuring that they can never be reinstated and made us heavily dependent on foreign imports. Even our electricity power stations are owned by the French - (EDF) who also own the Severn Bridge!! Thatcher sold the family silver to European and foreign investors - many of whom we are now ‘divorced’ from now we have left the EU. We have had a collective desire to shoot ourselves in the foot. I can’t honestly think of any good thing that any British government has done since the early days of Tony Blair (before we shot ourselves in the foot again with the Iraq war). It’s been disaster after disaster after disaster. I shudder to think what the next disaster is just around the corner……
Same but Labour, think Tories on the whole look out for the well off. My view is we are better off thinking of the good of the whole, rather than just what is best for me. Those are my values, which I believe are more akin to Labours values. More than anything else I believe in Democracy. As I see it that means whoever wins a free election has won the right to govern for the allotted time, If it was reversed and the petition was for a Tory government to be removed and it was successful I’d vote Tory. I remember when the Brighton bombing happened and half the Tory government were wiped out there was tall of an election taking place, I can genuinely say I would have voted Tory. It probably would have made my hair curle but I would have done it.
been either TORY Labour or Independant last election nothing to lose or gain just voted for Green ... lib dems a waste of time!?
The railways can be renationalised. Railtrack the land and structure is now owned by network rail (the state). The operating of the services can be taken back into state control by allowing the service contracts (franchises) to run out, and not renewing them. The Government intends to allow passenger service contracts to run out and for the state under Great British Railways (GBR) to run them. Due to the UK leaving the EU it is possible to renationalise our entire network as the UK is no longer restricted by EU rules - First/fourth railway package. Coincidently this was announced today - First railway renationalisation Act receives Royal Assent | Railnews | Today's news for Tomorrow's railway
I have to say I was leaning towards the Greens. I quite like their approach. Last thing I’d have thought was we’d vote the same way
Since Thatcher in the 70’s till this time 2024, other than a brief spell Blair/Brown we’ve had Conservative rule, look at the state of things, and yet some people still blame Labour
It has been a disaster but 13 years of Labour gave us war, serious debt, the kick off of mass imigration, pension raid and 75p oap pension increase, they sold off our gold, don't let us be to holier than thou.
Same as Wiz voted Tory all my life-would never vote the clowns in-but Tory's are no different today that is why people want change. That is why i voted @reformuk as they seem like they care for our people and our country. People we need change give them a go -bookmark this they will win the next election.
