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Honestly not even sure how to reply to that other than I’m sorry it’s clearly upset you so much. I don’t like either Johnson or Polanski for the record, the former did immeasurable damage to the country and the latter I fear is capable of further damage if he got near power. I’m happy to admit I’m obviously to the right of you and probably the majority of the regulars on this thread. If you want to call me far right or whatever that’s fine, it makes absolutely no difference to me or the content of the posts on here.

Obviously didn’t want to spaff his Balliol literae humaniores degree up the wall.

Because he’s chaotic and doesn’t give a shit. Privileged upbringing and entitlement.

What an odd comment. Do you think saying someone is intelligent means they aren’t a charlatan too and I support them? My own political leaning and views has no relevance to the character and intelligence of other people. Do you not think becoming mayor of London and PM is a success for someone like Johnson who wanted nothing more and was prepared to do anything to get there?

I mean lots of people have spoken to and watched him pre and post interview where he switches character and ruffles up his hair (including people I personally know), but OK.

All an act with Johnson too, he's a very intelligent man that plays a character, and to great success for him.

I haven't seen the video and can't find it, but gather this is what he said from articles? "Gutted I couldn't attend the wedding. I wanted to come, but I heard that half the guests were Welsh and, I don't know. Who knows what would have happened with all those foreign speakers there. I don't know." I don't know what the context and tone was, but just the words are bizarre. Welsh is one of the UK's languages, why would he say it was foreign? At best it was stupid - why would anyone think of saying that? It's not funny and the guy is an MP so you'd think would have some kind of filter on what he's saying in public.

I wasn't meaning to pivot and ignore. It can get a bit heavy on here sometimes, maybe I just missed it on my phone, it wasn't an intentional ignore. I replied at length to bmt above so a reply might well be in there, I can't even remember what you said now TBH. I don't have a strong opinion on drugs other than with Class A drugs (ie not cannabis/tobacco/caffeine ) their use never results in a positive impact on lives or society, and legalising everything and in some cases supplying to addicts isn't going to make anything better IMHO, we will just see more lives ruined and more zombies leeching off the state (which we can't afford already) - just look at the effect of fentanyl in the USA or black mamba here.

Absolutely amazing film, one of the all time greats.

You're spot on that leaders often have some dirt on them, although scamming people isn't a great look for any political leader. I'd suggest if someone has that in their past they are unfit to be a leader, let alone PM. Not that that stops us in this country and we elect all kinds of idiots wholly unsuited for leading a country (Johnson/Truss etc). I just can't take the guy seriously, not sure you would either if he was in another party. We're so far out from an election that the polls are kind of meaningless still, for a while it looked like Reform were nailed on for 400 seats and now they look like fizzling out into something representing way less seats. Who knows on a national level? We will have to wait and see, we only have one by-election so far in this political cycle, and there demonstratively was in Gorton and Denton. Sorry for ignoring the rest of your message, I was out and on my phone, but I'll respond now: - Re: economics, I took particular issue with this broadcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4HCjd7VA where he claimed some people go to sleep and while they are asleep they earn more "than an entire neighbourhood earns in a year". Assume on the very low end a neighbourhood is 500 houses, and assume that only one person in each house works, and they earn £30k a year (less than the national average), that's £15m a year. If someone earns that every night they are earning ~£5.5bn a year, say they have a 10% return rate that means they have ~£55bn of assets. There isn't a single person the UK with those assets. And even if there was they wouldn't be earning money for sleeping, they would have a large business employing thousands. It's just made up nonsense to demonise billionaires. If he wanted to make a point using some real figures would have been far more convincing, but it just comes across as economically illiterate. Let me also say, I HATE the idea of billionaires, it's obscene people having that money while others can't afford food or heat, obscene. But demonising them and trying to tax them even more will just result in them leaving, we know this because there are lots of examples in other countries of wealth taxes and rich people just leave, they already are leaving the UK in droves. And then people say "let them go" well, we can't afford that because they pay all the tax. Most people in the UK do not contribute - the government spends £17k/person/year, so on average anyone paying less tax than that (ie earning less than £75k/year salary) is a tax burden not contributor. If only one person in a family of 4 earns that need they need to be paying £68k/year (~£180k/year salary) in tax. Obviously I have left off things like VAT and fuel duty etc. so reduce those numbers to compensate, but the point stands. Whether we like it or not we NEED the wealthy in this country because they pay the majority of the tax. - I don't have a massive opinion on drugs other than they ruin lives and supplying drugs to addicts is not a cheap exercise - who pays for that? - If you have an issue paying your rent in London now, wait until everything is owned by the likes of BlackRock, are you expecting them to give you discount? There are lots of brilliant private landlords around that provide a service people need.

Thanks for the long reply, but unfortunately you lost me at scamming people via hypno-boobs being a non issue. If you're a die hard Green supporter I don't think we're going to find much common ground on the sanity of their policies. Fortunately I don't think most of the country consider them too sane either. Watch the "interview" with a trans woman asking Ali questions about his stance on LGBT to see the total farce and living contradiction that the Green/Islam alliance is, although it will likely win you a lot of seats at the next election, until they have no use for you anymore.

Thought Reform were going down in the polls? They’ve killed themselves off imho by becoming Tories 2.0. Labour need to take a risk to give themselves a shot at staying in government because I can’t see that happening atm without some noted improvement in people’s lives.

A second referendum doesn’t seem like a horrible idea. I reckon rejoin would win this time.

How about the party political broadcast where he imagined up figures about what the boogeymen billionaires earned for going to bed each night. At least there is some rationale as to why you don’t like landlords now.

The whole guy is a scam so I assume his new identity is too. Why is mentioning his hypnotic boobs silly? Says a lot about the man. I think their policies are infantile and not linked to reality. They come up with fantasy sound bites that sound amazing but will never happen, a luxury afforded to a party that will never be in power so can promise free money and “hope” to people. It’s the Disney version of politics based on gullible supporters and flat out lies when it comes to economics. Legalising all drugs is insane, as is wanting to abolish private landlords. And their love in with Islam is extremely dangerous, even if their own members have to jump through hoops of cognitive dissonance to justify the contradiction. I didn’t mention Farage or Badenoch.

Dave definitely had a vision but coherent isn’t a word I’d associate with him. The man is a clown.

That’s what dentists charge

It might bring down house prices to buy but will increase rental costs, and many people choose to or have to rent which puts up costs for them.

100%. But he won’t listen to me. I imagine plenty of other slum landlords have similar tenants and get away with murder. Sorry, you’re arguing less landlords will make renting prices go down? Have I read that wrong, please say I have.

I’ve told him multiple times. His rationale is that he “doesn’t want to rock the boat” as it’s so hard to even get a place. I don’t agree with him but I understand his position. There is no way it’s passing an EICR

Some people don’t have a choice. I’ve got a mate paying £1200/mo near Stockton Farm and it has a literal 12” hole in the floor in one room and dodgy/dangerous wiring throughout. The place he moved from wasn’t much better. If you don’t have £2k/mo there are a lot of awful properties out there and at relatively insanely high prices.

Probably all AI written

Never read one tbh, but countless articles around ie https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/06/indoor-wood-burning-raises-women-lung-cancer-risk-study

Log burners cause lung and breast cancer and pollute the air for everyone around you. Not an answer to your question but they need banning.

Pretty wild people are openly flying the Taliban flag in the middle of London, and celebrating the Iranian regime.