UK Politics

[GhostOfMaurice]

12 hours ago, philipsteak said:

 

Same.

Genuinely incredible the new and awful ways that people  work out to be c**ts to each other.

 

Having said that, is it actually a thing or is it a thing that some people think is a thing. If you see what I mean.

 

Yeah, like racism.

 

Just joking 🏳️

[Neil]

19 hours ago, lost said:

Sue Grey, Toby Young, Luciana Berger  seem to be the big names.

aso thangham debonaire, and marvin rees (ex mayor of bristol, so sh*t we vo0ted to ,abolish his job.

[steviewevie]

Toby Young is the one that gets me...dumbarse libertarian tit.

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

CBI says economy is f**ked and it's all Rachel Reeves' fault. Not sure she'll still be chancellor by next election.

[lost]

Yep U.K debt starting to look very dodgy. Well above Liz Truss now on yield.

 

One of the money week writers thinks a 1960's style sterling devalution is incoming.

Edited December 23, 2024 by lost

[steviewevie]

They should have just reversed the NI cut, etc forever.

[steviewevie]

Good job they dropped that highest growth in G7 pledge/mission/milestone/somethingorother.

[steviewevie]

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Edited December 23, 2024 by steviewevie

[steviewevie]

Scenario: Reeves reverses employer NI rise because growth, says only option is to put up income tax, everyone goes apeshit, resigns.

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

what a c**t

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

Kemi is fighting a losing battle against Farage on the same terrain...he has the vibe, policies don't matter anymore.

[steviewevie]

Only Boris can save them now.

[steviewevie]

We now seem to be in a multi party PR like parliamentary system but still with a FPTP voting system...and the real big winners since the election are Reform. Greens not making any gains, they need a single leader, and someone who catches the mood...which is maybe impossible because the mood is not progressive left liberal green, the mood is anti establishment anti migration anti woke anti green conspiracy riddled social media fueled bile..and Farage is the only human like leader despite Ed Davey's desperate attempts to be that fun guy...but at same time Farage is a Trump/Orban fan c**t and this could be his undoing...or project him to PM depending how things play out.

Not much to be cheerful about really, when we really need to coalesce around fighting climate change...just have to hope science saves us.

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

More In Common have done an MRP...

 

[steviewevie]

So have JL Partners

[steviewevie]

caveat...4 years till next election, could get a lot worse for Labour.

[steviewevie]

Problem is despite big majority Labour are already going to be worried about next election which is going to probably mean lots of silly desperate short term stuff and not proper long term things which are actually good for the country.

[steviewevie]

also...one of my new year's resolution is to stop following the news and caring about any of this sh*t...so maybe I'll go a bit quiet on here which I know will be devastating news for you all.

Or I'll break it like I break all of them and keep boozing and keep posting into the void.

[lost]

 

[steviewevie]

35 minutes ago, lost said:

 

a request from Alba?

 

Elon Husk can f**k off.

[kaosmark2]

On 12/28/2024 at 7:29 PM, steviewevie said:

also...one of my new year's resolution is to stop following the news and caring about any of this sh*t...so maybe I'll go a bit quiet on here which I know will be devastating news for you all.

Or I'll break it like I break all of them and keep boozing and keep posting into the void.

Not a New Years' resolution, but a thing I've been doing for my own mental health since August is to stop following the news too closely. It's a large part of why I'm not really posting/reading here as much. I've deactivated my twitter account, I'm looking at news less, I've removed all social media from my phone, and I'm trying to spend more time looking/thinking about things I can impact/control, not just depressing news that I can't do anything about.

 

Also, the "polls" side I just don't care about when an election is 4 years away. It's not news, it's just attempting to sport-ify politics. Instead I've started watching actual sport a bit more where I can disconnect from it the next day.