news & politics:discussion

[steviewevie]

9 minutes ago, Neil said:

Ireland beat us to it. 😛 

actually Varadkar is gay too so they totally win.

[kaosmark2]

54 minutes ago, Kurosagi said:

Actually I take your point. There will always be a centrist party that try to get a majority of their own. Yep, I get that.

Except when it's a compromise between parties then *within* purist parties you'll have members arguing about the extent of being 'pragmatic' and how much it dilutes one of their purist policies versus getting another policy adopted. Parties will still need to make that balance between keeping their members happy versus selling their souls.

There will definitely be more splinter groups than that on the left I reckon!

I mean, members arguing is the cornerstone of political parties. You won't ever escape it. But I think the factionalism would stop breaking out into dominating the news cycle over eg. China going even more authoritarian dictator-for-life.

[kaosmark2]

31 minutes ago, stuie said:

Someone should check in on Nadine!

 

Has there ever been a bigger simp in political history?

[Guest]

28 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

I'd be amazed if that's the case.

To be fair I did think that straight after I posted. I wonder how many it is?

[steviewevie]

kin'ell, he's only 42 the little twat.

[Zoo Music Girl]

7 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

kin'ell, he's only 42 the little twat.

I know, this makes me feel old.

[Skip997]

18 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Whatever your polticis this is good news for the country.

Why?

[Skip997]

1 hour ago, Ozanne said:

That is something to be fair. First Asian PM is important. 

Would be i he'd been voted in by the general population, as opposed to being basically the only candidate in an internal "election"

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

Sunak has called an early election!

[steviewevie]

only joking. He ruled it out.

[Guest]

Interestingly a little while ago I saw John McDonnell say that Sunak was pushed by his team into putting the furlough scheme in place as he wasn’t going to do it. I wonder how true that is?

[Guest]

He doesn’t sound too happy. 

[Guest]

Was it it!? 

[steviewevie]

wow, short and sweet. Speech wasn't very long either.

[Guest]

That was so awkward, he just stood there at the end. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 hour ago, Barry Fish said:

Whatever your polticis this is good news for the country.

I’m intrigued … austerity 2.0 is that good news ? Maybe some short term stability but the rifts haven’t suddenly vanished … let’s see how things go over next few weeks / months and maybe make those declarations then … he’s still a fucking Tory though !!! 

[Crazyfool01]

My mp going for tongues with Rishi 

 

[steviewevie]

25 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

That was so awkward, he just stood there at the end. 

I don't know about PM, but the way he speaks I reckon he'd do well on jackanory.

(is jackanory on these days? showing my age a bit)

[steviewevie]

 

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

I don't know about PM, but the way he speaks I reckon he'd do well on jackanory.

(is jackanory on these days? showing my age a bit)

Last episode was 1996, not too far off 😂

[Crazyfool01]

47 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

 

 

[steviewevie]

yeah..people criticise Starmer for being wooden...but not sure he has to worry too much about going up against Sunak in an election campaign...

[Guest]

 

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