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leicsmac

leicsmac

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8 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

There’s an election coming mac 

he knows which way the wind is blowing 

it’s rhetoric for his base - he has no say over the military 

 

him and his mate smotrich are going to be struggling to go abroad on holiday for a considerable time! 

But the military are apparently happy to listen to his rhetoric and carry it out if they wish. And some of them certainly appear to be of the same mind. 

 

I've grown far too familiar with words of war becoming acts of war over the past few years to simply dismiss what a man like him is saying. 

 

Do agree he's rapidly losing friends outside his immediate circle, though. 

Parafox

Parafox

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9 hours ago, AKCJ said:

The bloke responsible for pushing a toddler into a crocodile enclosure needs to be strung up.

Have you read the whole factual report?

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Wymsey

Wymsey

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7 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Have you read the whole factual report?

It's hard to say if he had deliberate intention to try and kill the poor kid, or if any mental disorder he may well have had affected his actions/thinking at the time.

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deep blue

deep blue

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11 hours ago, Sampson said:

I don't think greens are a protest vote either. I think they're a clear voice that a certain proportion of the voters are a bit sick of the right wing economic system we've had pretty much unabated in the UK since 1979. While we of course don't know Burnham's policy the fact he's actually talking about more state intervention and you've got Tony Blair calling him far-left because he talked about inequality makes me think he's going to actually offer a more social democrat economic policy more akin to both Labour and the Tories largely believed in 1945-1979 and win back those Labour voters.

 

I'm Portsmouth South and here we have a LibDem run council and usually have LibDem MPs and they're generally very popular here and many like what the LibDems do here on a local level. They swept up here at the locals, we did go Labour for a few years, but I think it'd be hard to shift the LibDems in many of these parts of the country.

 

The Greens and LibDems actually have a 25-30% between them in all the polling. If Labour could win some of those votes back they could still win 2029 but i also dont think its as simple as them being protest votes either. LibDems especially are very popular in certain parts of the country because of their councils and local mps.

 

What would be more interesting would be if Greens and LibDems formed some kind of voter pact either between them or with Labour. I mean there's definitely the votes there to easily beat Reform if they're distributed right. But I think it'd probably mean Labour and LibDems both giving up of the economic policy of Thatcher and Blair and re-finding their social democratic roots.

Good and interesting post, but I find your view that the LibDems ever had economic policies that were anywhere near to Thatcher's rather weird.

Sampson

Sampson

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1 minute ago, deep blue said:

Good and interesting post, but I find your view that the LibDems ever had economic policies that were anywhere near to Thatcher's rather weird.

I'm surprised some would find it weird. I mean the Orange Book Liberals of Clegg, Davey and Cable have always been open Thatcher/Blairites, the Orange Book itself was largely all about a movement away from social liberalism and towards economic liberalism of small state, lack of government interference in the economy, privatisation and cutting taxes and the only time they ever got power was during probably the most brutally capitalist government in post ww1-British history during the austerity years of tge coalition government even if Clegg argues they would've been even more cutsto government sprnding without the LibDems (not saying it isn't true).

 

Their last couple of elections have had a few bits about reversing a few high end tax but never really any ideas about raising income taxes ir re-nationalisation of industry and are still certainly a long way from their more social democratic ideals under Ashdown and Kennedy.

st albans fox

st albans fox

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5 hours ago, Anorak said:

Two passenger trains colliding? That's a colossal f##k up. 

Possible that one was stationary and the other ploughed into it.  Is it true that safety systems mean that trains cannot  travel on the same track when heading in opposite directions or is that only possible with electric powered units ?  Clearly here we have trains heading in the same direction so most probably a signalling or driver fault. 

MonkeyTennis?

MonkeyTennis?

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1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

Possible that one was stationary and the other ploughed into it.  Is it true that safety systems mean that trains cannot  travel on the same track when heading in opposite directions or is that only possible with electric powered units ?  Clearly here we have trains heading in the same direction so most probably a signalling or driver fault. 

I travel into Leicester almost every day on that line. The new Aurora trains EMR have been rolling out have loads of electrical issues and keep breaking down. It's one of them involved, so it could possibly be a fault. Awful. 

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Sly

Sly

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I wish it triggered a general election every time a party in power decides to change its leader.

 

So many people vote on the person, rather than the party. 

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Sampson

Sampson

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2 hours ago, Sly said:

I wish it triggered a general election every time a party in power decides to change its leader.

 

So many people vote on the person, rather than the party. 

I agree and I think 20 years ago it would've done, but there's been too much precedent set by both Labour and the Conservatives thatthey don't have to sadly. 

 

Brown made the mistake of not calling one when he should have when he was in his honeymoon period and ahead in the polls and May made the opposite mistake of assuming it'd be an easy win in her honeymoon period but people got a bit pissed off calling one so soon after the previous one.

 

But I think there's a chance Burnham will call one within a year or becoming PM if he gets the honeymoon bounce in the polls. I've said all along - Labour's big mistake was their manifesto was too defensive, and all about what they won't do because they were too scared of being attacked by the Tories on anything. So Burnham is quickly going to find his hands are tied by Labour's defensive manifesto - If he actually wants to bring about some of the things he's hinted at - re-industrialisation, redistribution of wealth towards de-industrialised northern cities, PR, closer ties with Europe etc. then he's going to need a new election and a mandate to enact that stuff.

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kenny

kenny

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Trocarero on fire today.

 

Mountain warehouse at thurmaston shopping centre.

 

Got to be Vlad. He hates us.

 

Bet he buys lcfc and deliberately buy shit players on big contracts FM style next.

Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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On 19/06/2026 at 19:41, Parafox said:

Have you read the whole factual report?

I suspect his carers will be in far more trouble.

 

I frequently see people who clearly have a learning disability out with carers who are constantly on their phone rather than actually doing their job.

 

Having said that, those with learning difficulties can often act suddenly and erratically and they can often be difficult to stop physically if they've a mind to do something.

 

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Raj

Raj

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1 hour ago, kenny said:

Trocarero on fire today.

 

Mountain warehouse at thurmaston shopping centre.

 

Got to be Vlad. He hates us.

 

Bet he buys lcfc and deliberately buy shit players on big contracts FM style next.

Apparently  the Trocadero fire was arson.

 

I dont live too far from there, disturbing 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8dk5yg2ggo

 

 

Lionator

Lionator

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2 hours ago, kenny said:

Trocarero on fire today.

 

Mountain warehouse at thurmaston shopping centre.

 

Got to be Vlad. He hates us.

 

Bet he buys lcfc and deliberately buy shit players on big contracts FM style next.

We’re literally at a stage where our fans would take Putin as our owner over Top tbf. 

FoyleFox

FoyleFox

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19 minutes ago, bovril said:

So that'll be 6 PMs in the 10 years since Brexit, 5 in the last 4 years. 1 out of those 6 became PM through winning an election. 

It's starting to have the longevity of the Watford managers job. 

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