Labour Campaign Lead: "Right, lads and lassies, everyone's well peed off at the Tories right now and the election's right around the corner, all's you have to do is not be a dickhead for five minutes and we'll walk it." Wes Streeting, Shadow Health Secretary: Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date Labour Campaign Lead: <rips up papers, jumps from window>
Yeah, the delays and fake opposition was to buy time for the whips to confirm they had enough of a majority to defeat a motion to remove him, should the investigation turn up enough evidence.
To be honest seeems kind of pointless voting anymore. It used to be that different parties existed, now it just seems that its one huge party, thats just pretending to be different parties but no matter who wins the outcome is still the same. The politicians and their backers continue to get what they want, when they want and how they want and the general public continue to get screwed over.
I'd honestly vote for Lord Bucket Head, if he was standing in my constituency. The previous MP, despite being a Tory, actually gave a damn about his constituents, but he had to step down a couple of years beck for health issues. His successor is a cnut. Tows the party line on everything and just parrots policy bullet points in every interview, but this is a Tory stronghold so he doesn't need to try - he just needs to be physically present. I'll still vote, purely because voter apathy is the dream of governments like these and, in my opinion, if you don't vote then you don't have the right to whine about sh!tty governance.
Very much my sentiment. Overall change will have to come slowly but if you let regimes like this exist and grow they just take more and more until you can't recognise what democracy or morality is.
Spaffing about to 'help' with the cost of living the current bright sparks have suggested MOTs, by making them every two years rather than one, and removing some health and safety regulations around childcare. I mean FFS, back of a cig packet breadcrumbs for us plebs.
Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date But, remember, all these public-school-educated Conservative Members of Parliament know what's best, 'cos they're smart, see. Tweet— Twitter API (@user) date Err.. Oh. Well, maybe he's not so smart. Or he's a liar. I mean, one of the two has to be true. But at least he's not doing something really indefensible, like diddling kids while advising on a panel about how to protect kids from diddling. Not even a Tory would do that, right? Oh, Imran Khan did exactly that. While under investigation for the sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy. Of which he's now been found guilty. He promised to resign, at least. Oh, what's that? He... he hasn't resigned. Oh. Please do keep all this in mind at the polls, chaps and chapesses.
How can you really hold this view when we have had 12 years of the same party? There hasn't been the opportunity to see whether another party would be the same, or different!
There hasn't been for you perhaps but I'm 51 in 2 days time I was around when Thatcher was prime minister and the tories were having the time of their lives and when blair was in power so I've lived under conservative govements and Labour govements and I can quite honestly say that the general public saw no difference we were still screwed over the only thing that changed were the platitudes used.
My issue with that viewpoint is the balls out blatant corrupt actions of the current PM and his cronies. Deadly virus sweeping the the planet: There's money to be made there. Passing laws and breaking then and then flat out lying about it? Then, when you're called out on it... "oh, I wasn't aware I was breaking the law I have just enacted." Then this latest clown watching porn in The Commons: "I was looking at a tractor website and accidentally clicked on another site with a similar name" !?!? What was it called, Ploughers corner? Seeding the furrow? Then he goes back to it, while sitting adjacent to a female MP, as you do. FFS. Now don't get me wrong, as the main opposition, Starmer is a politician so there's every chance he's just another baby-eating scumbag with his finger in the pie, but is that possibility reason enough to abstain? Thereby effectively gifting a vote to the incumbents?
All he needs now is an illegal / questionable war in some far off dusty country to top of his pension when nominated as a peace envoy.
Johnson is in the North East. He's already had to have a tweet deleted for not knowing which damned county he's in. The North is truly valued.
Is there somebody waiting for him, on a grassy knoll? Down here in the Southwest, he doesn’t even pretend we are going be levelled up.
I find this view really reductive - clearly quality of life has gone up and down for people dramatically over this period. While there are many factors beyond the actions of individual governments, they also play a huge role in this. It's absolutely difficult to try to unpick these effects, but surely it is worth all of us trying, or else we might as well give up on each other and society in general.
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