General News Thread

[leicsmac]

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]

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?

Edited 8 hours ago by Parafox

[Wymsey]

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.

Edited 8 hours ago by Wymsey

[deep blue]

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]

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.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

One confirmed dead in that crash, bloody awful

[Zear0]

A train im sure the majority of us have been on over the years. Looks horrendous.

[Wymsey]

The fatality was the train driver.

[Anorak]

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