The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[Ax^]

hmm what the point of 7 way debate if it's just going to be an hour of people shouting over each other

 

[Artaxerxes]

hmm what the point of 7 way debate if it's just going to be an hour of people shouting over each other

It would be improved by weapons yes.

The debates have always been a waste of time that the press get way to involved in being excited about.

 

[Ax^]

damn did they all get told to claim it down during the break

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Entertaining in a car crash way.

 

[Ax^]

ah seeming as this is penny "pick me as next leader" highlight reel it entertaining enough

Rayner should of been grilled more before wandering into a bear pit

Farrage doing his normal stick " immigrants immigration bad" why is penny and no one else hitting him on the plan to privatise the NHS into a health insurance model"

 

[Elpenor]

had an election communication from the vermin today.

all about 'a bright new future'

umm - who's been in office for the last 14 years?

and 'keir starmer needs you to vote lib dem' along with some bullshit about labour is going to increase taxes, put national insurance contributions on pensions, introduce a national ULEZ scheme, and force through Angela Rayner's French style union laws'

wtf?

at least she's got the name of the constituency right this time...

those mostly seem seem like good policies to me

 

[Ax^]

jebus the days ,sass was the only Tory on the boards

 

[hitmouse]

An upper class twit calling his daughter 'Tsarina' with no clue about the irony of that is the best thing I've seen in a while.

Somehow, I think the family deciding to call their daughter Tsarina is possibly less ridiculous than the Telegraph deciding to pick said family as the relatable face of everyday hardworking Brits driven into exile by Labour's deranged tax plans.

 

[Ax^]

last few years has been labour bringing up your tax and bills

 

[brogdale]

last few years has been labour bringing up your tax and bills

Mordaunt malfunctioned

 

[Ax^]

farrage getting the last word here

 

[two sheds]

Wiki says Starmer's mother had Still's Disease, doesn't mention his dad leaving. Stranger though:

From 1986 to 1987, Starmer served as the editor of Socialist Alternatives, a Trotskyist radical magazine. The magazine was produced by an organisation under the same name, which represented the British section of the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT).[19][20]

 

[Ax^]

hmm well at least this election will highlight the number of Brexit voter who were racist

farrage offering not other opinions during this

voting percentage will be interesting

 

[Wilf]

What even is a tool maker? Like I get that they make tools but fifty years ago even that wasn't done by some bloke sat in a workshop, it was done in a factory. So did he work in a factory? Or did he own the factory? I feel like I know both too much about his dad and also not enough. Schrodinger's tool maker.

His mum was a nurse. Like I get they nurse people...

 

[Elpenor]

What even is a tool maker? Like I get that they make tools but fifty years ago even that wasn't done by some bloke sat in a workshop, it was done in a factory. So did he work in a factory? Or did he own the factory? I feel like I know both too much about his dad and also not enough. Schrodinger's tool maker.

From toolmaker to rulemaker

 

[PR1Berske]

jebus the days ,sass was the only Tory on the boards

Broad church, this forum.

 

[The39thStep]

This is the real debate

 

[ska invita]

would be nice to see photo evidence of at least one person happy to see him

 

[Serge Forward]

would be nice to see photo evidence of at least one person happy to see him

Rest of the pub giving the weirdo in the beanie a swerve while wondering who the fuck he is.

 

[Ax^]

Broad church, this forum.

true but people believe the vermins ballocks openly is relatively new

 

[oryx]

Wiki says Starmer's mother had Still's Disease, doesn't mention his dad leaving. Stranger though:

He should have purged himself by now!

 

[JimW]

Worth popping back for Jim? See which one persuades you?

They do a great pint. The Labour candidate is about as good as you can hope, local GP long been campaigning about deprivation and health. Got that Remainer lot Volt too I see.

 

[JimW]

My grandad waa a toolmaker, at what was then Vauxhall's in Luton. Reserved occupation during the war as they shifted to making tanks, though he was probably a bit old to serve by then. Chief shop steward too but AEU so not very militant.

 

[two sheds]

My grandad was a toolmaker

You've kept that quiet

 

[JimW]

You've kept that quiet

Ashamed nan wasn't a nurse.

 

[Humberto]

I assume all the comedy has been wrung out of it today but Sunak saying he didn't have Sky Tv!

This the man who asked a homeless rough sleeper if he was 'in finance' because that's the only way he can relate.

And the 'well not working class' shite.

I think he's sewage, which is ironic. He loves polluting the country with it!

 

[smokedout]

Upper middle classes don't generally put their hands in their pockets for the good of the system beyond the direct interest of their own sprogs, if a school is in trouble they just go for another one.

These rose tinted views of the past are really weird to me. Most of us here are from the generation who were pretty much left to our own devices and roaming the streets from about age 10/11. Attendance at my upper school was pretty much voluntary, you might get in trouble the first time knocking off but if you carried on noone really cared - in fact it was pretty much encouraged if you were disruptive. Most kids at my school left at 15/16 and quite a lot of people left home not long after.

There's been a massive social shift in how we view the role of schools, the supervision and independence of children and young people, parenting styles and the age at which kids can be seen as mature enough to make decisions and fend for themselves (which is mostly a good thing although the narky teenager in me isn't so sure). But still people come out with this we looked after our kids properly in my day not like these young woke slackers. Anyway off topic etc but I just don't get it, it's like they lived a completely different history to me

 

[smokedout]

This is the real debate

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I'm warming to him tbh. He's old, probably a bit of a drinker, sounds a bit lonely, decided it would be fun to use the election as an excuse to get out of the house and a get pissed every day for a month. Fair play.

 

[_Russ_]

These rose tinted views of the past are really weird to me. Most of us here are from the generation who were pretty much left to our own devices and roaming the streets from about age 10/11. Attendance at my upper school was pretty much voluntary, you might get in trouble the first time knocking off but if you carried on noone really cared - in fact it was pretty much encouraged if you were disruptive. Most kids at my school left at 15/16 and quite a lot of people left home not long after.

There's been a massive social shift in how we view the role of schools, the supervision and independence of children and young people, parenting styles and the age at which kids can be seen as mature enough to make decisions and fend for themselves (which is mostly a good thing although the narky teenager in me isn't so sure). But still people come out with this we looked after our kids properly in my day not like these young woke slackers. Anyway off topic etc but I just don't get it, it's like they lived a completely different history to me

Oh absolutely, plenty of crap parenting in the past too......though arguably different sorts of crap prevailed

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'm warming to him tbh. He's old, probably a bit of a drinker, sounds a bit lonely, decided it would be fun to use the election as an excuse to get out of the house and a get pissed every day for a month. Fair play.

If you have to spend time in Sutton Coldfield you may as well spend it wankered