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@Mark rn

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They don’t need to, only the mindless want to vote for a calamitous Truss budget on steroids…

Please direct me to your post where you lambasted Theresa May for not being prepared to work for 4/5 years round the clock.

"This thread is also about the largely hidden links between Reform UK & a powerful network involving opaquely-funded think tanks, shadowy PR firms, the Evangelical Christian Right, fossil fuel interests & media baron Paul Marshall, & how they conspire to shape public opinion."

Our General has had a hiring freeze in place since before Covid in almost all departments. Capital projects have been on hold or slashed while target failures are so commonplace it’s a new normal. Black alerts happen on an almost daily basis with constant breaching. My wife is a senior manager, 12 hour days are now the norm, 24hr shifts frequent, as she covers the positions of two staff who have not been replaced for three years. The situation is not improving on a national basis, even if you think it is at your site, and I don’t believe it’s a money-only solve and never claimed it was.

The NHS, education, the police - all the services - functioned under the last Labour government. Families had a safety net and support, homelessness had been driven down; society functioned. That’s not something that can be ascribed to the UK under any ensuing Tory PM. Cameron’s austerity was an ideological drive to wreck society for everyone but the entitled and affluent. Something Sunak returned to “on steroids” - quite how that is laudable and places him above Starmer beggars belief. Sunak promised integrity but has spent his time in office pushing culture wars, racism and division - laughable that he ends it whining about being called a p***. Nothing works. Fourteen years of Tories, the party of fiscal competence, and everything is broken, we are at record levels of debt, and they’re all making out like robbers with pockets stuffed full of cash. Russians in the Lords, Mone laughing on her boat, the only words that should be associated with all five administrations is ineptitude and corruption. Nothing works. Clearly that isn’t important to those of you with cash to circumvent life’s inconveniences. Maybe that’s why it’s so easy for Tories to point a grubby finger at Muslims knowing that the thick and the racist will leap on it. It’s not just incompetent, it’s plain evil. Constantly driving a wedge between sections of society to cover up for permanent failure in office. I spent a chunk of this fvcked up period observing it close up, privy to the influence being exerted from Tufton St. The venal self interest, the wanton stupidity, the alcohol - always with the alcohol - flowing as freely as the coke. Every policy idea created not for the benefit of the country but for the individual or a company. Nothing fvcking works. The food bank (itself a bastardisation that stands for the pseudo Dickensian era we now live in) I volunteer at is on its knees, unable to cope with demand. The homeless shelter I volunteer at faces similar pressures because needs can’t be met. This is vile. This is because of May and Sunak as much as Cameron and Johnson. This is certainly because of Truss. Society functioned under Blair and Brown, now it’s like we’re living in a version of Down And Out In Paris And London. You may have no worries about turning on the heating, the same can’t be said for the families where they go without food to pay for school shoes. Other countries invested, we penalised the worst off, the weakest, because we were led by cvnts. And some seem to think that going even more extreme, become even more selfish and stupid is the answer - absolute d1ckheads. You come across as a decent sort, but excuse me if I don’t care if you’ll be worse off under Labour. You won’t be left cold, homeless and hungry - and that’s been the direct impact of fourteen years of selfishness and hate. Because nothing fvcking works.

Politics was just more serious back in the good old days

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And yet the idea of having people play tennis on a GP circuit while cars fly between them would have me watching Formula 1 tennis in a shot - in the same way I'd like to see synchronised swimming at Sea World with killer whales and sharks.

Oh look, Fürage has another fascist to deal with. What a shocker. https://novaramedia.com/2024/07/01/is-this-reform-uks-most-shameless-candidate/

Getting a tad more fraught over the weekend, I sense. It’s been all good sport till then but humours appear to be being lost now.

No, I am a fictional character that leant on the keyboard and posted by mistake. Bye.

Debs, Jon, Oz - all lovely people (except Jon) - but I don’t reckon you should have a vote in a country where you no longer reside. Just like I don’t believe anyone over 67 should’ve been allowed a vote in the referendum.

Oh look, poor Andrea, she didn’t realise Banks, Tice and Fürage have a history of being lying shits. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-leadership-tory-bribery-election-b2571527.html

It was jokes

I don't think the Tories won the last couple of elections because people didn't really believe in Starmer, tbh.

Very impressive seeing as I've done my best to influence people away from voting for him by being arrogant and patronising. I need to up my offensive game.

Poppies new owners making a barrowload of signings and talking up promotion this season. Lavs says we can enjoy a much better one compared to this time last year - but then that isn't going to be difficult!