Politics

[Rayvin 5129]

I do think charging up local councils from time to time is a good idea but ffs, there are other options. You don't need to drop your knickers to the Tories every time anything remotely annoying happens with Labour.

[Monkeys Fist 41406]

I’m not saying that Tory canvasser/candidate definitely is a fiddy kiddler, but he is. 

 

 

 

Allegedly. 

[NJS 4270]

Don't they realise their council performs miracles in the context of the cabal? 

[Monkeys Fist 41406]

2 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

 

After everything that's gone on since Johnson got the job man, these fucking dickheads think now's the time to start voting Tory. The place could use a tactical nuke. 

 

Same bloke, isn’t it? 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-44004241

Called sunderland a “post apocalyptic shithole” and Diane Abbott a “filthy, bulbous pig”. 
 

Perfect. 

[Alex 34192]

Incel tbh

[Monkeys Fist 41406]

1 hour ago, Alex said:

Incel tbh

Bisexual Incel- neither men nor women would touch him. 
 

Bincel. 

[Gemmill 42879]

Macron defeats Le Pen. Looks like 58:42.

[Isegrim 9580]

Thank god.

[ewerk 29580]

Still worrying that there was 42% of the nation willing to vote for the cunt. Slightly less than the percentage of cunts in the U.K. though.

[Isegrim 9580]

13 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Still worrying that there was 42% of the nation willing to vote for the cunt. Slightly less than the percentage of cunts in the U.K. though.

You will get amount of idiots everywhere nowadays, especially if it’s a direct choice between two candidates.

I did fear that the amount of people on the far left unhappy with Macron and buying into some of Le Pen‘s sweateners and people abstaining because they couldn’t stomach to vote for either candidate would play into the hands of the fascist lady.

[ewerk 29580]

Nah, there’s definitely 48% of the U.K. who are utter cunts.

[Isegrim 9580]

 

[Monkeys Fist 41406]

4 hours ago, ewerk said:

Still worrying that there was 42% of the nation willing to vote for the cunt. Slightly less than the percentage of cunts in the U.K. though.

Personal experience leaves me unsurprised - a lot of French folk are right-wing, racist cunts. 
 

 

[Alex 34192]

I’ve been quite vocal on wanting electoral reform (as have many on here) with our fptp system being unfit for purpose, undemocratic and also polarising views at a time when politics is highly toxic and divisive. But a presidential A v B style election seems worse (or at least as bad) in that regard 

Edited April 25, 2022 by Alex

[ewerk 29580]

I suppose their system is similar to FPTP in that it keeps extremists out. Le Pen was within 5% in the first round but Macron won easily in the run off.

[ewerk 29580]

Though of course you could argue that our current government are the extremists.

[Toonpack 8760]

27 minutes ago, Alex said:

I’ve been quite vocal on wanting electoral reform (as have many on here) with our fptp system being unfit for purpose, undemocratic and also polarising views at a time when politics is highly toxic and divisive. But a presidential A v B style election seems worse (or at least as bad) in that regard 

 

True to a point, but you don't get someone with 43% of the vote getting an unassailable 80 seat majority and the power that brings. The most votes win, as it should be.

[Rayvin 5129]

17 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Though of course you could argue that our current government are the extremists.

 

I was thinking about this earlier - if Le Pen is "far right" then surely the Tories are as well. Which policies does she have that are further to the right of the Tories? She's not even extreme enough to go for Frexit.

[Alex 34192]

As an aside I thought it was quite funny seeing that snivelling shit Oliver Dowden  on telly defending the PM over Partygate. His reasoning for it being not in the public interest was basically Ukraine. His next step was to list his achievements. Namely the vaccine program and ‘getting Brexit done’. And that was it  

[Monkeys Fist 41406]

2 hours ago, Alex said:

As an aside I thought it was quite funny seeing that snivelling shit Oliver Dowden  on telly defending the PM over Partygate. His reasoning for it being not in the public interest was basically Ukraine. His next step was to list his achievements. Namely the vaccine program and ‘getting Brexit done’. And that was it  

Did you see Sam West’s response to Dowden’s St.George Day flag wanking? 

 

They really are thicker than castle walls. 

[Alex 34192]

14 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

Did you see Sam West’s response to Dowden’s St.George Day flag wanking? 

 

They really are thicker than castle walls. 

That’s what happens when you refer to quote of the day desk calendar instead of knowing the actual source / context 

[ewerk 29580]

See also: Boris Johnson.

 

 

[scoobos 297]

On 24/04/2022 at 15:05, Rayvin said:

I do think charging up local councils from time to time is a good idea but ffs, there are other options. You don't need to drop your knickers to the Tories every time anything remotely annoying happens with Labour.

Lol Rayvin, its always your posts I quote - soz!

I dont know if "changing up local councils from time to time" is actually a good idea, given that the government can now directly control the funding they give. It's all sewn up - give a Tory council vote when Tories are in power and they will give them extra funding , taken from the non Tory councils (And honestly, until the system changes, I think Labour would do the same).

I'd be happy to hear the last paragraph is bollocks and be pointed to some rules for protection, but I don't think its coming.

There's no strategic value in funding a Labour council for the current government, but every reason to make cuts .

Edited April 26, 2022 by scoobos

[scoobos 297]

On 24/04/2022 at 23:57, Monkeys Fist said:

Personal experience leaves me unsurprised - a lot of folk are right-wing, racist cunts. 
 

 

FTFY
 

[Rayvin 5129]

Honestly I don't think councils are structurally fit for purpose anyway so it's more of a symbolic thing. I wouldn't vote Tory at a local council election because it suggests that my vote condones all manner of fucking nonsense that is happening at the national level.

 

It's the same reason I won't vote Labour nationally until they move back to a pro-EU stance, if they ever do.