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[TrachyBlue]

I’m looking forward to when these Starmer/Reeves supporters are personally affected by their right wing policies. At the moment all I hear are things like sod the pensioners and sod the women. You lot will be affected negatively sooner or later.
Can you not see what’s in front of you? They are at best as bad as the Tories.

 

[TrachyBlue]

I voted for a party to try & undo the cluster that the Tory party have left us for the last 14 years. Something they’re not suddenly going to sort out in 5 minutes.

The alternatives were the Tory Party again, the Greens/Reform with their dreamworld manifestos, the LDs who despite having a decent manifesto are still undoing damage from the coalition.

That or we could have voted for a party whose leader pretended to be a cat on national television.

I voted Green. Do you honestly think that socialist policies are “dreamworld”?

 

[Kurt.]

I voted Green. Do you honestly think that socialist policies are “dreamworld”?

Do you honestly believe the greens are worth a vote ?

 

[TrachyBlue]

Do you honestly believe the greens are worth a vote ?

When my conscience won’t allow me to vote for Labour for the first time in my 55 years, then yes.

 

[Xizor]

I voted Green. Do you honestly think that socialist policies are “dreamworld”?

Nobody said 'policies'. It's surely understood that parties with no realistic shot at the big chair are free to put whatever they want in their manifestos without having to worry about how deliverable it is?

 

[Rita_Poon]

D:ream's fault all this, labour needed a catchy poppy song to race up the charts along side like back in the good old days. Something up tempo to clap along to...

 

[Xizor]

You lot will be affected negatively sooner or later.

Let me just quickly check the last 14 years to see how negatively affected I've been (especially as I was in the public sector for a significant chunk of that time).

 

[TrachyBlue]

Nobody said 'policies'. It's surely understood that parties with no realistic shot at the big chair are free to put whatever they want in their manifestos without having to worry about how deliverable it is?

No other party can get in until people change the view that there are only 2 options. I won’t ever not vote and I can’t in all conscience support either right wing parties so I voted Green.

 

[Xizor]

D:ream's fault all this, labour needed a catchy poppy song to race up the charts along side like back in the good old days. Something up tempo to clap along to...

Something about toolmakers? I looked up blacksmith songs but they seem to be a bit folksy. There's 'Hi Ho' from Snow White, but it's probably strictly about mining (and easy to stick alternate unflattering lyrics to).

 

[TrachyBlue]

Let me just quickly check the last 14 years to see how negatively affected I've been (especially as I was in the public sector for a significant chunk of that time).

Ye, and I assume you rightly criticised them.

 

[Xizor]

Let no man bear false witness that I've ever given the Tories an easy ride for the utterly shameful chaos they inflicted on us*. I've also never voted in a way that would increase their chances of holding seats and staying in power.

* I might have praised the odd Tory MP who stood up for democracy over their successive PMs trying to bulldoze Brexit through the Commons. Don't think I ever waxed lyrical over Rory Stewart like a lot on the Left seemed to, but Oliver Letwin tried to find a solution back in the day (and paid the price for it).

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

The decision to bring state pension age for women in line with that of men was originally made in 1995. It was not implemented until between 2010 and 2018. I struggle to believe that many of those affected were unaware of the changes, or claims that they did not have adequate time to prepare.

I’d also point out that many of these women would have bought homes at a time when the gap between house prices and the average salary were much lower, and will be in receipt of generous defined benefit pensions; things that those expected to foot the bill for any compensation could only dream of. There’s a good chance many us won’t even get a state pension upon retirement.

The whole thing feels a bit spurious, and lots of those still in work and struggling against the soaring cost of food and essentials, increasingly unaffordable rents and house prices, and crumbling public services, will have little sympathy.

 

[Eidean]

I voted Green. Do you honestly think that socialist policies are “dreamworld”?

I don’t believe Socialist Policies are dreamworld no.

What I said was theirs & Reforms manifestos, in a climate after 14 years of Tory disaster, was fantasy.

There wasn’t the money for either of their manifestos. Dreamworld.

 

[TrachyBlue]

I don’t believe Socialist Policies are dreamworld no.

What I said was theirs & Reforms manifestos, in a climate after 14 years of Tory disaster, was fantasy.

There wasn’t the money for either of their manifestos. Dreamworld.

This myth that there is no money is dubious at best. There is money and it’s in the wrong hands.

 

[Rita_Poon]

This myth that there is no money is dubious at best. There is money and it’s in the wrong hands.

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hancock's local pub landlord
whoever* owns this chap...

Go-between paid £21m in taxpayer funds for NHS PPE

A US jewellery designer struck "lucrative" deals with the Department of Health at the start of the pandemic.

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