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[Rita_Poon]

Why? If he despairs at the way the Tories have gone, what is wrong with that?

That said, pretty sure its a typo.

Partisan politics, those that have enabled the shysters to do the harm they have need reminding, with as much respect and kindness as one can muster.... ofc

 

[roydo]

Partisan politics, those that have enabled the shysters to do the harm they have need reminding, with as much respect and kindness as one can muster.... ofc

Indeed. Its why I dont box myself into a corner. I loath the modern Tory party, but I didnt always. I quite like my local Tory MP. I hope he knocks on my door at election time.

Partisan politics? It was you that hoped the phrase was incorrect. Pretty partisan that.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I've said it before but I remember reading as a child stories of profiteering and hoarding during WW2 and as being not completely yet jaded by life being appalled by people's greed while countless innocents needlessly died.

Slightly different circumstances but it appears human nature has not changed. It's sad but anger is what's needed not sadness.

Things need to change, people need to be held to account.

I'm not bound by political parties, I'm bound by a moral compass and a sense of fairness.

We need a change, I don't see any party delivering that, only least worst options. I hope someone will come along worth voting for but is the system and populism making this increasingly unlikely?

I have no idea. I want someone I can stand behind and think this person only thinks of the country and not themselves. Is that thinking out of date? Did it ever even exist?

Been mentioned before but Labour could pretty much run on a mandate of looking to enforce political accountability that would be popular amongst different voter groups whilst at the same time spotlighting Tory nepotism and cronyism.

Unfortunately, that appears to be seen as some sort of wild creative thinking and instead they’re too scared of saying anything in case they get accused of being a Trotskyist.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Indeed. Its why I dont box myself into a corner. I loath the modern Tory party, but I didnt always. I quite like my local Tory MP. I hope he knocks on my door at election time.

Partisan politics? It was you that hoped the phrase was incorrect. Pretty partisan that.

I was accosted by a bunch of early 20's (20 year olds, not the roaring 1920s) recently at the local elections, and asked who I was voting for, I lied and told them I'd already voted (this wasn't at the polling station) so they followed up with who I had voted for, I said very much not the tories, they weren't pleased and one asked why, I couldn't help myself, I said the last 13 years of corruption, lies and embezzlement. The senior of the group tried to hammer me with a diatribe about starmer and labour. I laughed.
It was only afterwards I considered whether they were confronting many others a quarter mile from the polling station and if there were more groups (these were a four) out on militia watches.

Re your last line, I don't know what it means. Perhaps I needed more smiley faces in my post to suggest the element of levity that I suspected, like you, it was just a lost term thrown into the post and not a surreptitious giveaway.

As far as dorries today prompted to resign by another council, I wonder what column inches that non story could have been commit to instead...

 

[roydo]

Re your last line, I don't know what it means. Perhaps I needed more smiley faces in my post to suggest the element of levity that I suspected, like you, it was just a lost term thrown into the post and not a surreptitious giveaway.

Fair enough.

 

[summerisle]

'Culture Wars' strategy going well I see.

 

[Cool_Blue]

I hope this is an accidental slip.

it’s the mask that has slipped

 

[spectateur]

'Culture Wars' strategy going well I see.

It won't make any difference in the overall situation of the country.
It's like choosing between vanilla and mint ice cream.
It's all ice cream.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Sunak inadvertently makes a lot of policy decisions that benefit his family, making quite the habit of it.

Sunak's family firm signed $1.5B deal with BP before oil and gas license announcement

JUST two months before Rishi Sunak opened hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, an IT firm founded by his…

www.thenational.scot

UK PM Sunak breached parliament's code of conduct inadvertently - watchdog

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did not properly declare his wife's shareholding in a childcare company which stood to benefit from new government policy but the failure was inadvertent, parliament's standards watchdog said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I hope this is an accidental slip.

Paid up Labour and union. Still. Hanging onto unionised workforce for all.

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Asylum backlog rises to record high - figures

The number of asylum applications has also increased by almost a fifth in a year, the Home Office says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sunak struggling with another one of his promises, I'm flabbergasted, did not see this coming.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I think it did. Thatcher, for all her faults, wasnt in it for her. Nor Major, nor John Smith, (Best PM we never had imo). Brown, whilst flawed imo, neither.

I am like you, no affinity to any "ism". To me, its the man in the mirror thing. I am far from perfect, but I know I am honest, loyal, and cannot be bought. Being a slave to money ( not working, but spiving), makes you just that. A slave.

Think Thatcher would spin in her grave if she saw what has become of her party she represented in government anyone past Hague have been reprehensible selfish charlatans who have steadily got worse as they have followed populism. Doubt she would share the same air as Johnson or Sunak weak sniveling men with no convictions.

 

[Huyton Layne]

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Nailed on the Tories are going to be routed at the election, the trough is getting bigger to manage their exit.

MPs' severance pay to double at next general election

Former MPs will be paid for four rather than two months while they close down their offices.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Blue 1]

Lib Dems did it too in Somerton & Frome.