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Worst PM Ever! My dog would have done a better job and he’s a raving lunatic of a puppy.

Liz Truss gone then! Not even turned up for the announcement!

This has gone as predicted. However the turnover and split votes indicate just how much the a conservatives have self imploded. This is the lowest share of the vote they’ll ever have. Starmer actually has less votes than Corbyn got. The conservatives now have 5 years to rebuild and convince people like myself that we should vote for them again.

Any chance that Labour “don’t” win this? It’s going to be a wash out isn’t it?!?

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGesCnGTj/ After the conversation about being “woke”, this made me laugh but also horrified at the same time!

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He has some ability.

If you look at the opinion polls, I’d say Lib Dem’s are likely to finish 4th. The opinion polls can be wrong though!

Do people still buy newspapers? Just curious how much of an impact it has now, compared to at years ago. Even the older demographic I’d have thought would be using apps etc to read news.

Ha, you’re not wrong. It’s not a one size fits all approach unfortunately and you’ll never please everyone. The reality is that our smallish sized island has a population that is increasing by around 200,000 people per year. When you consider where the money is leaking out of the system, the boat has so many holes in it letting water in, we basically need to build a new boat! People are living longer A lower % of the population are paying income tax The NHS is on its knees, getting a GP appointment is like playing the lottery. Companies are profiteering on construction projects and energy. Couple this with everyone having differing views on climate change and it they believe it’s important or not, then it’s a minefield.

It would be great to get all of our smartest people together and agree a way forward.

I think the reality is, none of these parties fit anyone. This labour is more right. The Tories have gone far right. The world is a mess and maybe it just needs a new approach. I’d like to think that’s something we can all agree on.

My independent is Andrew Bridgend. I can’t vote for him either

I too volunteer at my local food bank and have seen first hand the impact the cost of living crisis has had within the last two years. I don’t think the cost of living crisis can all be attributed at the door of the tories. The world is in a strange place, coming off the back of a pandemic and a war on the Eastern borders of Europe. What annoys me more than anything to be honest is how commodity suppliers, house builders, service providers, technology suppliers etc have brazenly flouted record breaking taxes. These need tackling. As a country I don’t think we’ve ever tackled the root causes of why our services are broken. The UKs population in 2000 was nearly 59m. Today we’re at 68m. Our population is higher than the likes of France, Spain, Australia, Poland, Canada, all of Scandinavia etc . It’s not all migration and people coming in boats either. We are overwhelmed with a growing population, over inflated house prices and let’s be honest, we are an island and no one wants anything built near them. Our smaller land mass is overwhelmed. We don’t have the infrastructure with the services you mentioned to cope with the number of people we have. Planning policies are a mess and have been for years. Build times are slow and I’ve witnessed them being slowed down first hand, so developers can get more money by doing the old “low volume, high price” strategy. I’m not sure any of the parties know what to do about it if I’m honest. Reform have a brutally honest approach but Rishi wanting to send folks to Rewanda isn’t exactly ideal either. We could do with spreading the population across the world a bit more but that needs to be a personal choice, not because we want people gone. That’s a whole other argument about open borders that bloody brexit made more difficult. Maybe we need to start sending criminals to Australia again

If we’re chucking out the big six to their Super league, then I’m reform the structure 1. Leicester City 2. Derby County 3. Nottingham Forest 4. Coventry City 5. Newcastle United 6. Sunderland 7. Aston Villa 8. Sheffield Wednesday 9. Everton 10. Leeds United 11. Cardiff City 12. Wrexham 13. Southampton 14. Blackburn Rovers 15. Norwich 16. Ipswich Town 17. Crystal Palace 18. Fulham United 19. Glasgow Rangers 20. Celtic

Different times though! Coming out the other end, I’ll be worse off under labour due to my personnel circumstances. It’ll all come out in the wash as I expect it to be a labour landslide in reality. Labour will need to raise money and I think they’ll realise that some of their polices aren’t sustainable with what they’ve suggested after a short period. The reality is that through all governments for the past 30 odd years, the NHS and Infrastructure spending has got worse by largely poor root cause management I’d suggest. It’s a difficult one for the NHS, as I largely think it’s overloaded. However throwing more money at it is just going to mask the problems it has. Privatising the railways was a disaster by Major, I can see A British Energy Company going the same way. HS2 is another white elephant. People won’t forgive Johnson for his antics, however in hindsight, Blair sending us to a war in Iraq was every bit as bad, if not worse than anything this government has done. Starmer is a different person though and this is a different labour. He’s not ideal, however I prefer him to Johnson and Truss, but not May or Sunak. The conservatives have a divide amongst themselves. At least Starmer sorted the divide out within labour by booting out all the Corbyn philosophers out, which in effect is strong leadership in terms of setting up a cohesive unit, even if you don’t agree with the policy etc. I’m conflicted and the likelihood hood is at this time I won’t vote for the first time, as we’ll be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I’ve still not decided. I won’t vote labour. I have some money and I’d like to keep some of it. Conservatives have been a joke of a party, I like Sunak in isolation but I can’t forgive the cluster before him. Reform feels like I’m voting for Brexit and I was against that. Even a protest vote feels dirty. No once else really exists. So I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I just hope we unearth the 2nd comings of Kaka, Kante and Seedorf for the combined price of £5m! The midfield at the moment looks bare!

Has anyone local been contacted about if the construction works? That might give us an indication on if anything is actually happening with this.

I believe it’s still being account for as a “near miss” in the accounts? If I’m honest, if it isn’t, we may as well keep him!

They were just as bad

Toney had a bet on 2-1 - so he shot over.

Toney should score

Toney has done okay and offered more physicality up front.

So you’re in the majority that has ….