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[Spiritwalker]

5 hours ago, TamworthFoxes said:

What you on about you plum?

No one will admit they voted for Brexit?

I will happily admit I voted for it and will give you two glorious reasons why.

 

1) It did, and still does, live in the head rent free of the loony left 5 years on. This alone makes it worth it. As shown by how frequent it is brought up in this thread. (Also known as the left wing echo chamber)

 

2) It was great to see the stupid/thick/uneducated/far right/racist/clueless (delete or include as per your preference) vote together and give the superior, educated people a bloody nose when they were not expecting it.

 

So don’t think you talk for the majority, always remember the silent majority are lurking about just ready to give you another reminder when you least expect it. (See point 2).

It’s costing this country billions, you must be so proud.

[Guest Bilo]

5 hours ago, TamworthFoxes said:

What you on about you plum?

No one will admit they voted for Brexit?

I will happily admit I voted for it and will give you two glorious reasons why.

 

1) It did, and still does, live in the head rent free of the loony left 5 years on. This alone makes it worth it. As shown by how frequent it is brought up in this thread. (Also known as the left wing echo chamber)

 

2) It was great to see the stupid/thick/uneducated/far right/racist/clueless (delete or include as per your preference) vote together and give the superior, educated people a bloody nose when they were not expecting it.

 

So don’t think you talk for the majority, always remember the silent majority are lurking about just ready to give you another reminder when you least expect it. (See point 2).

 

[Spiritwalker]

5 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Couldn’t you have just gone on a march or made a placard !

 

At the risk of opening a can of worms, voting leave in 2016 wasn’t a terrible thing to do per se-  just  terrible timing.  In 2030 it might have been great timing.  
 

ah well -  it got rid of Cameron and Osborne.  Some will see it as worthwhile for that alone.  

and gave us May, Johnson and Truss

[Guest Bilo]

It does look suspiciously like Starmer is playing Trump very well so far. 

 

 

[Tommy G]

13 minutes ago, Bilo said:

It does look suspiciously like Starmer is playing Trump very well so far. 

 

 

How so? He is sucking up to Trump and the handshake outside was like a pupil shaking a headmasters hand! 

Edited 27 February 2025 by Tommy G

[Guest Bilo]

4 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

How so? He is sucking up to Trump and the handshake outside was like a pupil shaking a headmasters hand! 

 

[leicsmac]

I'm not passing judgement either way yet. But I do hope that Starmer has an effective plan here.

[WigstonWanderer]

40 minutes ago, Bilo said:

 

As funny as this is, on a serious note, the idea that the current pro-fascist political movements sweeping the world are down to older people is totally wrong. I’m now in my 70s and frequently find myself banging my head against the wall try to explain what’s wrong with Trump to younger people. There’s a load of Trump-curious youngsters around and it it truely saddens me that they can be so gullible.

[Tommy G]

21 minutes ago, Bilo said:

 

Try and have an educated debate without assuming anyone who has a view other than rimming SKS is a reform voter. 

[Guest Bilo]

1 minute ago, Tommy G said:

Try and have an educated debate without assuming anyone who has a view other than rimming SKS is a reform voter. 

At some stage, like him or not, there has to be the admission that he knows what he's doing.

 

He was the Shadow Brexit minister of a failed Corbyn-led Labour Party five years ago and I shudder to think what odds you'd have got on him ever becoming PM.

 

He then won the Labour leadership election, completely outclassed the Corbynite left, went in hard on Partygate against Johnson when people thought it was just Westminster chat and destroyed him and then went on to win a landslide election victory after seeing off Truss and Sunak.

 

You don't have to love the guy to see him as a clever, strategic and shrewd operator.

[Guest Bilo]

The gammons are getting very upset tonight. 

 

Dare I say that it might be because the super-patriots are gutted that the British PM hasn't had the disaster in Washington they were hoping for? 

[Dunge]

He seems to have caught Trump in a jovial mood and there certainly haven’t been any disasters. In fact it looks like the closest we came to any disaster was “probing” questions from our own press. Which anyone who remembers the Covid press conferences won’t come as a surprise.

[Clogger_]

Anyone who finds themselves hoping for the PM to come out of negotiations with POTUS badly at this vital time for our national interest, should have a good hard think about *why* they've ended up in that state.

[Clogger_]

2 minutes ago, Dunge said:

He seems to have caught Trump in a jovial mood and there certainly haven’t been any disasters. In fact it looks like the closest we came to any disaster was “probing” questions from our own press. Which anyone who remembers the Covid press conferences won’t come as a surprise.

Peston - urgh, it's not about you. The fat guy from the S*n - how should I put this? - does not seem to have our country's interests at heart.

[Clogger_]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

How so? He is sucking up to Trump and the handshake outside was like a pupil shaking a headmasters hand! 

Confirmation bias at play here!

[Guest Bilo]

8 minutes ago, Clogger_ said:

Anyone who finds themselves hoping for the PM to come out of negotiations with POTUS badly at this vital time for our national interest, should have a good hard think about *why* they've ended up in that state.

It's pretty simple - they hate the country's PM more than they love the country. A strange position for self-described patriots.

 

In terms of Reform, they know that their limited and policy-free message will be ignored completely if the country becomes more prosperous, better governed and there is a greater sense of optimism. Populists and extremists get nowhere unless there is widespread discontent.

[Clogger_]

1 hour ago, Kisnorbo fox said:

Careful with this post, its full of looney left on this forum. This post will be removed by admin before long. Only Labour voters allowed here.

Give it a go - see if you can get yourself "cancelled"!

[Guest Bilo]

Just now, Clogger_ said:

Give it a go - see if you can get yourself "cancelled"!

Weird how 'tHe SiLeNt MajOriTy' are:

 

a) Not even remotely close to being a majority. 

b) Never shut the **** up.

[Clogger_]

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

Try and have an educated debate without assuming anyone who has a view other than rimming SKS is a reform voter. 

If intended as a joke, well done, quite funny ;-)

[Dr The Singh]

57 minutes ago, Bilo said:

The gammons are getting very upset tonight. 

 

Dare I say that it might be because the super-patriots are gutted that the British PM hasn't had the disaster in Washington they were hoping for? 

What are gammons?

[brookfox]

Don’t know why but I love the invite for Trump from the King. Keep your friends close and all that. Such blatant sucking up!  Plays to his ego, offers him something no other country really can, and if it helps our hand in negotiations I’m all for it! Like it or not he’s here for 3yrs.

[Zear0]

4 minutes ago, brookfox said:

Don’t know why but I love the invite for Trump from the King. Keep your friends close and all that. Such blatant sucking up!  Plays to his ego, offers him something no other country really can, and if it helps our hand in negotiations I’m all for it! Like it or not he’s here for 3yrs.

We hope

[Jattdogg]

Trump can piss off. Useless human being, terrible president, terrible person.

 

Canada till i die, suck it!

[Clogger_]

3 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Trump can piss off. Useless human being, terrible president, terrible person.

 

Canada till i die, suck it!

We are all Canada ;-)

[Super_horns]

BBC in a bit of bother about a documentary they made and weren’t aware of the relatives and what connections they had to HAMAS.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3374xm65mvo.amp