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[Reets]

The tories are hoping for their own 4th of July with an election called.
I hope they get decimated.
General election 2024: Rishi Sunak calls vote for 4 July – UK politics live

 

[Deadmanposting]

Was having a quiet grumble to myself about Claire Byrne having a whole piece on the UK post office scandal - like why is this on Irish fucking radio. That deal when something bothers one of your bugbears.

Then the news dropped about this election and realised RTE is going to be extra tanphilic for the next 6 weeks.

I had it so good with just the post office thing.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Was having a quiet grumble to myself about Claire Byrne having a whole piece on the UK post office scandal - like why is this on Irish fucking radio. That deal when something bothers one of your bugbears.

Then the news dropped about this election and realised RTE is going to be extra tanphilic for the next 6 weeks.

I had it so good with just the post office thing.

I saw the headline, and thought “@deadmanposting wont be happy about this”

 

[Deadmanposting]

I saw the headline, and thought “@deadmanposting wont be happy about this”

I'm a goddamn tiresome moanbag, I know it

I'm working on it. Or trying to. Or thinking about it.
One of those.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I'm a goddamn tiresome moanbag, I know it

I'm working on it. Or trying to. Or thinking about it.
One of those.

Welcome to thumped.
The tiresome moanbags are the only ones still here. You’re in good company

 

[seanc]

I didn't know anything about it until I was accosted by some journalists with a camera at about 18:00.

I was outside Westminster tube station. I demured to the offer of a voxpop.

Also:

 

[ernesto]

Such a divisive piece of shit canvassing on sending people to Rwanda. I hope he gets trounced

 

[ann post]

Like there wont be any winners really, so we can at least enjoy them losing?

 

[magicbastarder]

Such a divisive piece of shit canvassing on sending people to Rwanda. I hope he gets trounced

he doesn't fucking care. he knows he's out whenever the next GE is, so why prolong the hassle? he'll have a nice comfy boardroom chair to enjoy. or several of them.

 

[ernesto]

he doesn't fucking care. he knows he's out whenever the next GE is, so why prolong the hassle? he'll have a nice comfy boardroom chair to enjoy. or several of them.

He probably needs a little ladder to get on them

 

[magicbastarder]

Well, this is a plot twist I didn't see coming

Sunak promises to bring back national service for 18-year-olds

Labour lambasts youth policy as ‘desperate and unfunded’ and designed to make youngsters fix government-created problems

www.theguardian.com

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Well, this is a plot twist I didn't see coming

Sunak promises to bring back national service for 18-year-olds

Labour lambasts youth policy as ‘desperate and unfunded’ and designed to make youngsters fix government-created problems

www.theguardian.com

Sounds like they are taking advice from my mother after 1.5 bottles of wine

 

[MacDara]

Not to get too tinfoil hat about it, but everything the Tories are doing seems designed to ensure a loss. It’s almost too obvious. From calling for the election in the middle of holiday season, to the ‘sinking ship’ thing in Belfast, to Sunak taking a breather two days into the campaign, to this (although I grant you, this one might draw out the ‘kids today…’ crowd).

 

[magicbastarder]

It's not exactly going to attract floating voters, is it? The 'bring back national service' crowd are already Tory voters I'd say, or people who don't think the Tories are right wing enough.

Just thinking though, it'd possibly be a canny move by labour or the lib Dems to release figures on how many of their MPs got involved in volunteering or community service or the like (which is what this national service is being portrayed as) before they became involved in politics, and asked would the Tories do the same.

 

[hydromancer]

Think that is a real issue for the British Army out side of the election though. There are not too many people interested in joining.

 

[hydromancer]

YouGov MRP – Labour now projected to win over 400 seats | YouGov

Our latest UK general election 2024 MRP projects a 154 seat majority for Labour

yougov.co.uk

Colossal Labour majority predicted

 

[taubstumm]

we’re going to end up in a weird situation of a government that begins office with a colossal majority and which, at the same time, nobody is happy with. everyone knows in advance that it’s going to be the triumph of the middle managers. as strange as it is to think of now, the blair of 1997 was viewed by many as an inspirational leader and a transformative figure. nobody thinks of starmer like that.

 

[therealjohnny]

Cool Britannia mark 2
There will be a photoshoot in Downing Stretton with whoever is today's equivalent of Oasis

 

[taubstumm]

Cool Britannia mark 2
There will be a photoshoot in Downing Stretton with whoever is today's equivalent of Oasis

these people are so deeply stuck in their end-of-history 1990s-replay loop that I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply roped in actual oasis all over again

 

[nuke terrorist]

these people are so deeply stuck in their end-of-history 1990s-replay loop that I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply roped in actual oasis all over again

The Oasis bros hate Blair for the last 20 years and Noel is on record as saying they were muppets who were conned by New Labour.
Starmer is even worse than Blair and doesn't try to disguise it. Fuck all difference between him and Tories.
That was said about New Labour but now it more true than ever.

Using 'antisemitism' as an excuse to purge the left wing of Labour even involved spying on party members and telling elderly Jewish members who lost family in the Holocaust that they were being investigated for 'antisemitism'.

There was a three (hour) part Al Jazeera doc. on this about 2+ years ago based on leaked documents. Truly shocking stuff.