LOL *NSFW* *The new Demote thread*

Your picture is from a different location, look at the paving. Got me thinking though and searching. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-fooled-specsavers-van-stranded-32428414

 

Nevermind, beaten to it.

 

Is this the model for Trump AI?

 

And, another from that wonderfully "honest" rag, The Sunday Sport:

 

Love it.

"Unemployed" (explains why he had time to come up with this creative use for explosive confectionery) Gareth was "too embarrassed" to go to the doctor about his "penile filth" but was happy to reveal all in the Sport.

Probably because he knew what their readership figures were.

 

Problem is, it's voting for the lesser of two evils rather than someone who's actually good.

 

There have been two Tory administrations in my lifetime, Thatcher and Major, and the current lot. Thatcher destroyed communities up and down the country, leaving them destitute, and instigated an economic culture that puts the acquisition of wealth above all other concerns. The most recent lot have implemented extortionate university fees, taken us out of the EU, presided over a botched pandemic response, spaffed billions on useless medical equipment from companies owned by their chums, implemented some of the most draconian and dystopian restrictions of freedoms, are happy to spend more on deporting migrants to Africa than it would cost to send them to space, and spent a decade and a half deliberately under-funding public services to the point where it takes me 8 freakin’ weeks to get a GP appointment for a medication review that’ll take 5 minutes on the phone.

If literally the only other choice was to vote for an actual literal sack of dog turds I’d still vote for that in preference to the Tories.

For what it’s worth… Labour are f’ed no matter who might be at the party’s helm. They are literally not going to have the money to fix the problems the Tories have created, and frankly I have serious doubts that they will make any real progress before the next general election. At this point they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

 

This is the problem I have every time. There's a bunch of people who, regardless of whether they win your own local seat, have no chance of gaining power (excluding coalitions but that's out of scope in the "who do I pick?" discussion).
Which leaves "who am I better off under?" as the only main driver. Because realistically, that's how everyone else is going to vote. Apart from those with their ideological heads stuck firmly in the White Fluffies.

 

There’s a solution for that: a voting system based on true proportional representation.

It wouldn’t necessarily change voting intentions in my lifetime, it might take a generation or two to be truly meaningful. But we won’t ever break this cycle of voting for either party allegiance or “the lesser evil” until we implement PR.

 

Help. Someone stop me from posting politics rants this morning.

Quick, someone post a meme or something.



Phew, there, that’s better

Edit: and it’s not a spoiler, so don’t get your knickers in a twist

 

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister who introduced Voter ID did this:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68947834

 

Moron gunna moron, or **** finds a new way to stay in the news.

The whole voter ID thing is being copied from the US Republicans, around fifteen years ago, who worked out that people without passports or driving licences make up a demographic that are extremely unlikely to vote Republican. Therefore, effectively excluding them from the electoral process is a gurt big W.