Politics

[Drog]

First two were no good for him were they? A man of the people with integrity and honesty (I believe) ) is no good to those two parties is he? Plus I think he'd rather slash his own wrists than be a Liberal!

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

I will be voting Reform, particularly in light of the government's new plan which will hit the press tomorrow about paying failed asylum seekers to go to Rwanda.

 

[goozburger.]

Well he’s been in three parties so far. Who next for him, the Liberals?

That reminds me of those MPs that created a new party a few years ago. The name escapes me. Independence party or something. It was Chukka Umunna, the Tory lady who got harassed going into parliament, etc. They were quite big names. Vanished off the face of the Earth! Political suicide and not sure what they're up to now.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Well he’s now got a much better paid job. Good bank that Chase lot.

In 2021 he became an investment banker at JPMorgan Chase, as Managing Director of its Environmental, Social, Governance(ESG) advisory group in London.

 

[Drog]

As the old saying goes.... "It's not what you know that counts, it's who you know".

 

[goozburger.]

Also, in democracy, it's your vote that counts. In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

Good one that, isn't it?

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Also, in democracy, it's your vote that counts. In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

Good one that, isn't it?

And in socialism it’s your union that votes. And in Blackburn with regard to the Muslim vote it’s the local councillor that votes.

 

[Drog]

Local Imam more like. That Rochdale by election was a proper fixed result. "Rochdale Borough Council have confirmed that 13,460 postal votes were cast in the Rochdale by-election, 43.2 percent of the votes cast and more than 12,335 received by winner George Galloway."
It's absolutely bloody scandalous and has to be stopped. Whats the point of needing ID to vote in person when that bollox is allowed?

 

[goozburger.]

George Galloway is the biggest opportunist in British politics today. Anne Widdecombe said Galloway's victory was won on the back of a problem that the UK is barely involved with, but she is unconvinced he will actually do anything to improve Rochdale.

Galloway will be gone from Rochdale as quickly as he arrived. This was purely a protest vote that will grow tired when those who voted for him realise that nothing has changed.

I don't hold a great deal of love for today's Paxton-wannabe journalists and media outlets that are full of instant fluff and nonsensical drama, but I felt a little bit afraid for the Sky News reporter that was interviewing Galloway after his victory. His supporters slowly, but surely, surrounded him and started waving in his face and getting a bit aggeressive. You could tell the reporter was intimidated and feared what could have happened. Some form of physical assault from Galloway's angry mob wouldn't have surprised me.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

I absolutely love this clip. Just listen to what this true visionary is saying, I wish she was around now and in charge.

 

[Drog]

Here's another that we all thought we knew better than. Brain the size of a planet too. .....

Immigration having been many times the number that even Enoch envisaged. Would that we could put the clock back.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Ah the minister for health who in 1961 proposed more care in the community for mental health patients and indeed closed many already built professionial establishments. Drog your hero wasn’t always right you know.

 

[Drog]

Who is?

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

 

[Drog]

Press and media all showing stills of innocent waves to the crowds from an open top bus as nazi salutes in a combined bid to discredit Reform. This is one of Lee Anderson with Blackpool's prospective reform candidate Mark Butcher by the Mail, who appear to be pulling out all the stops to help the Tories out of the hole they have dug for themselves over the past decade. Pathetic isn't it?

 

[Drog]

Sunak and co still don't get it do they? Shameful southern gits.

 

[goozburger.]

They should get rid of the silly catchphrase and ministerial title. Simplify it. Have a Minister for the North. Or how about a Prime Minister for the South and a Prime Minister for the North. I'm not thinking it through, but it's always the same, isn't it? Regardless of whether the Tories or Labour are at the helm, the south makes mistakes, and the north pays for it. Split the treasury budget or something. Sod London.

 

[Drog]

London is awash with Labour voters so the Tories have nowt to lose.

 

[goozburger.]

London is awash with Labour voters so the Tories have nowt to lose.

So is Manchester. So is, in usual circumstances, the so-called Red Wall. Labour has nothing to do with the north being neglected.

And neither are the Tories. The problem is think tanks directing lazy policy-making. Just say whatever the people want to hear. Three-word slogans. They work, too. Err... Anything else?

There is rarely any substance behind the words and catchphrases. It is high time a government paid due care and attention.

 

[Drog]

Tories set for worst election result, major poll suggests

Rishi Sunak’s party could be reduced to just 98 MPs, according to a seat-by-seat analysis by Survation

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