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[leicsmac]

The official White House Twitter account is like an edgy teenage incel being as offensive as he can to piss people off.

 

Where is any kind of decorum, or even the appearance of it?

[Md9]

19 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

The official White House Twitter account is like an edgy teenage incel being as offensive as he can to piss people off.

 

Where is any kind of decorum, or even the appearance of it?

It’s shocking and you know all the maga morons would be really pissed off if it was any other administration doing it 

[urban.spaceman]

Don’t you ****ing DARE invest in our local communities with clean renewable energy. 

 

[Zear0]

Just now, urban.spaceman said:

Don’t you ****ing DARE invest in our local communities with clean renewable energy. 

 

And hilariously Miliband can overrule them both and do as he pleases.

[leicsmac]

7 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Don’t you ****ing DARE invest in our local communities with clean renewable energy. 

 

 

6 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

And hilariously Miliband can overrule them both and do as he pleases.

...how badly do some people want the world to burn in the same of their own self-interest?

[Trav Le Bleu]

5 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

 

...how badly do some people want the world to burn in the same of their own self-interest?

I'd say, take their pylons away and the electricity they provide.

[Guest Bilo]

14 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Don’t you ****ing DARE invest in our local communities with clean renewable energy. 

 

In other Lincolnshire news, new mayor Andrea Jenkyns wants to sack diversity officers from the council. There is, however, a slight problem with this.

 

They don't exist.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farage-reform-council-diversity-officers-local-elections-lincolnshire-jenkyns-b2744308.html

 

And then there's this.

 

Looks to me as though LCC is about to make LCFC look well-run. The joys of populism.

[Lionator]

27 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Don’t you ****ing DARE invest in our local communities with clean renewable energy. 

 

Solar farms I half understand although disagree. Pylons and battery storage tho, absolute insanity. Acceleration to the Dickens era.

[urban.spaceman]

16 minutes ago, Bilo said:

In other Lincolnshire news, new mayor Andrea Jenkyns wants to sack diversity officers from the council. There is, however, a slight problem with this.

 

They don't exist.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farage-reform-council-diversity-officers-local-elections-lincolnshire-jenkyns-b2744308.html

 

And then there's this.

 

Looks to me as though LCC is about to make LCFC look well-run. The joys of populism.

100,000 people voted for her. 
 

****ing lunatics. 

[Guest Bilo]

6 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Solar farms I half understand although disagree. Pylons and battery storage tho, absolute insanity. Acceleration to the Dickens era.

Quite honestly, I think Reform making an absolute balls of local councils is the only way that their voters will learn. 

 

It's very easy to point out everything that Labour and the Tories are doing wrong and offer nebulous promises of 'we'll do it better' via vague policy ideals and statements, but actually doing it is a whole different ball game.

 

Thanet Council gave UKIP control a few years ago and it turned into a complete bin fire. The council is now Labour-held and their two MPs are Labour and Conservative with Reform coming a pretty distant third in both seats. 

[Lionator]

5 minutes ago, Bilo said:

Quite honestly, I think Reform making an absolute balls of local councils is the only way that their voters will learn. 

 

It's very easy to point out everything that Labour and the Tories are doing wrong and offer nebulous promises of 'we'll do it better' via vague policy ideals and statements, but actually doing it is a whole different ball game.

 

Thanet Council gave UKIP control a few years ago and it turned into a complete bin fire. The council is now Labour-held and their two MPs are Labour and Conservative with Reform coming a pretty distant third in both seats. 

I disagree, I think they’ll just blame central government and people will lap it up. Council funding is terrible as it is and these areas will need higher amounts of social care funding due to age. 

[Guest Bilo]

12 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

100,000 people voted for her. 
 

****ing lunatics. 

Living in Lincolnshire, there are a few things going on.

 

The unpleasant stuff first - Lincolnshire has lots of small towns with a mix of the elderly, poorly educated and low income people who felt completely let down by a Tory government that promised much and delivered very little and, frankly, won't touch Labour because The Sun, The Daily Mail and their social media feeds tell them not to.

 

With the Tories a letdown and Labour not even considered, it doesn't take much for a right-wing populist party to come in and say that 'your towns are on their arse because of immigration and the main two parties' and be believed. Often enthusiastically.

 

They do have a bit of a point, though. Boston, Skegness, Gainsborough, Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Scunthorpe have all been in decline for years. And it's easy for a bad faith party to tie this to immigration because some of them have gotten worse since the expansion of the EU and the European migration crisis, with the very visible effects of migrants in Skegness hotels and growing EU migrant communities in places like Boston providing an easy scapegoat. The reality is obviously far more nuanced and involves brain drain, North-South divide, globalisation and a decade-and-a-half of underinvestment outside London, but these don't hit as hard as 'immigrants done it' to a population with relatively low information living at the sharp end of a failed system.

 

They see towns that were once bustling with independent, locally-owned craft shops replaced by empty units, charity shops, bookies and Polish supermarkets. They see once attractive seafront hotels that had families all summer becoming tired, dilapidated and filled with Albanians and Eritreans who, because of years of government failure on border control and migration policy, mill around all day with little to do except hope they won't get deported. It really doesn't take much effort for a rabble of shysters to blame it all on foreigners, but the reality is governments failure in terms of protecting the high street, failing to maintain border agreements post-Brexit, the previous government being obsessed with performative cruelty over pragmatic solutions and the current government offering little in the way of hope and inspiration that things will get better. 

 

At that point, all Reform need do is offer the moon on a stick. By the time people realise they've been sold a pup, as with Brexit, it's too late. Damage done. The only positive is that we can get rid of Reform in Lincolnshire after four years once they have inevitably made a complete mess and hope that the same people realise that they aren't the answer at national level either. But the government needs to learn and fast, because the alternative is much, much worse.

[Guest Bilo]

21 minutes ago, Lionator said:

I disagree, I think they’ll just blame central government and people will lap it up. Council funding is terrible as it is and these areas will need higher amounts of social care funding due to age. 

Not so sure they'll be interested in the nuances of the relationship between central government and the council, honestly.

 

If they see potholes going unfixed, council taxes going up and bin collections going belly up, they'll blame the council. 

 

This is a long one, but see this video of Skegness residents going mad at the PARISH COUNCIL over immigration and hotel use.

 

 

Scratch that, give you a more edited one as well. How that didn't turn into a riot is beyond me.

 

 

 

Edited 4 May 2025 by Bilo

[Kinowe Soorie]

Lucy Powell seems nice.

[bovril]

2 minutes ago, Kinowe Soorie said:

Lucy Powell seems nice.

I'm glad she made the comments because it brings out into the open what much of our political and media class believe - that a lot of the outrage over the grooming gangs and the subsequent cover up is simply concocted or whipped up by bad faith actors. 

[Guest Bilo]

3 minutes ago, bovril said:

I'm glad she made the comments because it brings out into the open what much of our political and media class believe - that a lot of the outrage over the grooming gangs and the subsequent cover up is simply concocted or whipped up by bad faith actors. 

Concocted, no. Whipped up, yes.

 

Hence their silence when the grooming gangs have surnames like Smith instead of Khan.

[Md9]

Such a mystery wonder who he is closer to 

[Parafox]

9 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Don’t you ****ing DARE invest in our local communities with clean renewable energy. 

 

 

This man is an affront to politics and that's saying something.

 

He is obnoxious, arrogant, borderline racist. Pretty much Reform's equivalent of Maga's Vance.

 

If you want to know what Reform will look like if they get a majority in Parliament, unlikely as that might be, he is it.

 

Nasty.

Edited 4 May 2025 by Parafox

[Md9]

Surely this is just a parody account at this point 

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, Md9 said:

Surely this is just a parody account at this point 

... does the incel intern running that account know what a red lightsabre means?

[Md9]

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

... does the incel intern running that account know what a red lightsabre means?

Who ever it is clearly think they are funny and trying to wind as many people as they can. Once every one realises the red lightsaber they will probably just say it orange to match the colour of his skin 

[MaidstoneFox]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

... does the incel intern running that account know what a red lightsabre means?

Whether he knows or not, he's holding the right one.

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

... does the incel intern running that account know what a red lightsabre means?

Wookie mistake.

[urban.spaceman]

2 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Wookie mistake.

Made my day  

 

[Jon the Hat]

15 hours ago, Bilo said:

Not so sure they'll be interested in the nuances of the relationship between central government and the council, honestly.

 

If they see potholes going unfixed, council taxes going up and bin collections going belly up, they'll blame the council. 

 

This is a long one, but see this video of Skegness residents going mad at the PARISH COUNCIL over immigration and hotel use.

 

 

Scratch that, give you a more edited one as well. How that didn't turn into a riot is beyond me.

 

 

 

I think a lot of the reason people are so angry is because they keep getting told that what they see with their eyes is not really happening, and that they are elderly, poorly educated and low income people like that means they don't count and their concerns do not deserve to be addressed by their politicians.  As you say it is then really easy for people who appear to be listening to get their vote.  Which then the mainstream politicans use to belittle them further - often implying they are racist too - instead of actually looking at the issues.