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Reply | SooKnackered
at 21:07 26 Jun 2024
CCHQ have changed their twitter handle to ‘Tax Fact Check’ and are pretending to be independent while tweeting lies.
I think I’m going to pull an all nighter on election night and watch them implode with great delight. |
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Reply | COV away
at 19:56 26 Jun 2024
Done it the last two years - really good trip.
Stayed at the Ramada. Easy access to the train station and hasn’t been too much dosh. |
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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 13:11 22 Jun 2024
The parallels with Trump just keep on coming.
Wait for the debate. Anything he doesn’t want to answer he’ll call the moderator names of call the question boring. |
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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 07:30 22 Jun 2024
I expect this to get a lot of traction over the next few days and you’re right, many of his supporters won’t like seeing themselves aligned with Trump.
I’d say holding such an opinion is far worse than say, a huge error of judgment in leaving a D Day event… |
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Reply | Question time leaders special
at 19:14 21 Jun 2024
Different situation, Cat.
The Reform candidates were rushed through and I believe they’ve lost three already. Farage says he’ll sue the vetting firm.
You’ve definitely identified a rogues gallery but there’s no way my local reform candidate would have got through any other parties vetting. |
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Reply | Question time leaders special
at 08:03 21 Jun 2024
Yep. There's absolutely no accountability for the crazy things he says.
A little part of me thinks the best thing would be for Reform to win about 30 seats and watch Farage spend the next 5 years trying to defend the lunatic stuff his poorly vetted MPs spout out in the HoC. |
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Reply | Question time leaders special
at 21:51 20 Jun 2024
He’s a bit of an acquired taste.
Talks a lot of sense on some things but his style is pretty decisive. |
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Reply | Question time leaders special
at 21:50 20 Jun 2024
I’m not sure about that.
Farage has been on Question Time 10 times in the last 10 years. For some of that he’s been out of frontline politics too. |
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Reply | Votes for Prisoners and 16 yr olds
at 20:39 20 Jun 2024
You can join the Conservative Party at 15 and have full member voting rights, including voting for a leader. |
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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 17:49 20 Jun 2024
The dereguation of the banks was Thatcher, wasn't it? |
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Reply | Labour less popular now than under Corbyn?
at 17:45 20 Jun 2024
I think you're right about optimism but I think we've been ground down.
I disagree with you about poorly placed optimism. From 1997 up to the global ficnacial crisis we had good times. Low NHS waiting lists, roads without potholes, you could swim in the sea, houses were afordable, free higher education, smaller class sizes to name a few.
Unfortunatley it looks like some hard years are ahead.
I may well have been partly my age too but I think I may end up looking back at the Blair years as the best quality ones of my life. |
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Reply | Labour less popular now than under Corbyn?
at 16:43 20 Jun 2024
That'll be an interesting measure.
The 1997 election that was seen as an historic landslide saw Blair get 13.5 million votes. The population has grown since then so that'll have be taken into account when the 2024 results come in. |
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Reply | 🔴🔵🟡🟢⚫️ Who are you voting for ?
at 11:58 20 Jun 2024
Firstly, I think that extra tax needs to be generated to fund priorities so it’s a case of asking if this is the right way to do it. In this specific instance I’d say that adding VAT to private school to pay for 6500 extra teachers in the state system is a pretty good idea (providing that the recruitment is targeted on both areas as subject in need)
Then it’s looking at the arguments against it, most of which I don’t agree with:
1. The people who it will affect are not wealthy, it’s those who scrimp and save that will lose out.
I don’t accept that you’re not wealthy if you’ve been able to afford £40k a year to send two children to private school. That means you’ve been able to save more than the teacher teaching the class will earn in a year. Or the salary of an average policeman. Or junior doctor.
I’d add that private schools have increased in cost at a crazy rate recently. When was the outrage then? Why weren’t people up in arms for the parents who could only pay £36k last year?
2. Numbers will fall and private schools will have to close.
Maybe, but you’d have to have a look at the numbers. Private school have been closing steadily and consistently for decades so maybe they should look at their offer. Birthrates are falling and this is due to continue so you expect the numbers going in to decline as they are in state schools.
3. State schools won’t cope.
Yes they will because of the falling birth rate. The system absorbed 20,000 Ukranians with ease. In fact, this will help state schools overall
4. Private schools have charitable states dur top their out reach work supporting state schools.
No. They do hardly anything in my experience. |
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Reply | 🔴🔵🟡🟢⚫️ Who are you voting for ?
at 07:33 20 Jun 2024
From a purely personal point of view WR, the shadow education Secretary of State is very impressive, the policies for schools moving forward are excellent (bar two crazy daft ones which I can live with for the overall direction of travel). |
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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 21:37 19 Jun 2024
Do you think he actually wants to be Prime Minister?
I don’t. Not for one second. |
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Reply | These idiots JUST STOP OIL
at 21:22 19 Jun 2024
I don’t understand what they’re trying to achieve.
We’re a pretty broad church on here yet their actions are universally thought both pathetic and infuriating. |
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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 21:17 19 Jun 2024
I don’t think they’re bigoted or racist, just wrong.
Farage has put all of ills of this country onto immigrants and that’s just so simplistic.
Your example of the benefit scrounger we all know is important but raises two points for me.
1. That we all know one leads to many people dramatically overestimating the bill for benefit fraud
2. How many of these people we all know are immigrants? |
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Reply | 🔴🔵🟡🟢⚫️ Who are you voting for ?
at 18:04 19 Jun 2024
I saw quite a nice analogy today for those thinking of not voting.
‘A political party is a public bus not a taxi. It won’t take you exactly where you want go but it may be a stop that’s closer to your desired destination.’ |
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Reply | Nigel Farage
at 18:02 19 Jun 2024
You’re right IMO.
But in any civilised society there needs to be a socialist safety net. When times are tough the size of that net is what causes angst.
This sees the rise of the populist right who build enemies to blame. They presents benefit figures as supporting scroungers and in some (too many) it is the case, but the benefits bill is far larger for those in work than not. A vast portion of the benefits bill going out is the state pension but its rarely mentioned.
This gets people riled up allows the likes of Farage to say things like this and be believed:
Straight out of the Trump playbook.
I can understand a vote for Reform as people would like to put some disrupters in the the HoC, but Reform to be in charge? Don’t be daft. |
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