So Rishi Sunak has unexpectedly called a General Election for July 4th. As with previous elections, I have created a poll on people’s voting intentions. I’ve put it in the sidebar, but for those reading this on a phone, which is probably the majority now, I’ve repeated it below.
There is a direct link to the poll here. Feel free to comment on the election, although please try to retain a modicum of politeness!
The results of my poll on the 2019 General Election can be seen here.
And there is a crumb of good news in that the appalling legislation for a generational smoking ban has fallen victim to the wrap-up process of dealing with outstanding bills. Obviously Labour, who have never seen a ban they didn’t like, are highly likely to revive it, but we have to take every win when we can.
Tories are over. It's existential, they've become a party of the old and failed to offer anything to the young. Ricki Soonout will be a last Tory PM. Keith is a one term shoe in and he doesn't like the booze and fags, pal, so don't expect a bone being chucked your way. Prohibition will ramp up. Tempted to build a still in the shed to keep me on the bourbon cocktails.
ReplyDeleteNo party can create prosperity because they don't understand what it is. Where minerals were once money, energy is now money, and has been since the 70s. A low energy country is a poor country. There are no rich low energy countries.
Continual slow decline is all on offer, so when Keith's lot collapses, the door opens to extremists on both right and left. The nutters have no solution but they will not have the record of failure.
The only way out is build nuclear. Clean, safe, cheap, carbon free energy. Energy is the input to every commodity, manufactured good or service. Produce a surplus and export it to Europe. Rolls Royce produce small clean nuclear reactors. Every city could have one. No less safe than a nuclear submarine in port. Where is the leader that believes in a prosperous Britain?
Badenoch or bust from where I am sat - she looks like the only person in modern frontline politics who actually wants to try and get Britain to do stuff and has the will power to force of personality it to make it happen. If the Tories are dumb enough to elect Morduant (if she even manages to retain her seat) or similar they've had it for a generation.
DeleteTories are not over. They will lose this election and probably the next one as well but England (not the UK) is at its heart a Tory country. I just hope the right-wing loons that have taken over the Tory party are gone and it can revert back to having some more sensible people in charge.
DeleteSurely the Tories' problem is not that they have been taken over by "right-wing loons", but that they are currently dominated by soggy centrist wets.
DeleteThe Tories need to throw out the left wing One Nation group and revert to true Conservatism as espoused by Margaret Thatcher. As Cookie says Nuclear is the future and every city/town should have a modular reactor from Rolls Royce,
Delete"every city/town should have a modular reactor from Rolls Royce"
DeleteAnd a nuclear waste storage facility next to the town hall
And to think we could have had Jeremy Corbyn and a transformative agenda for the country, instead we had 5 years of more managed decline. We are a tragic country.
ReplyDeleteIn other news, I see Corbyn has been expelled from the Labour Party today.
DeleteWe are a country in decline. There is no getting away from that and no political party has the power to stop it. We no longer have the empire we once ruled. The world economy has opened up and we are competing with every other country on the planet for our wealth. The UK still has a big historical advantage over many nations but this century will be all about the rise of Asian countries.
DeleteAs the country declines it’s worth us all knowing Jeremy Corbyns turnip recipe as we’ll all likely need it. Jeremy lives off it and it’s done him no harm. When Jeremy’s in charge it’s all we’ll need it.
DeleteQueue up for a day at your local peoples socialist collective grocery shop. Chop and boil one turnip on a low heat until a thin gruel is produced. Pour some into a bowl and enjoy. Top up pan with water and heat up for the next meal. Repeat. Every Xmas, as a treat, the socialist republic will allocate you a new turnip. If you’ve not been sent to the gulag. Add new chopped turnip to pan to refresh gruel.
Jeremy’s turnip recipe will help us all survive the horrors of socialism
I will not be voting as there is no party to represent me. All those on offer are effectively the same: left-wing and liberal. The Conservative Party is not in any way, shape or form conservative, right-wing or ever centrist. There is no opposition...in British politics there is officially supposed to be something called "the opposition" but there isn't currently. True opposition, such as disagreeing with covid, immigration, electric cars and transvestites is banned.
ReplyDeleteWhat does “disagreeing with Covid” mean?
DeleteYou wanna be careful arguing with Trannies, Anon. Some of them are quite big with formidable right hooks.
DeleteCovid was the common cold renamed for the purpose of making money. There is nothing new in politics; every new thing is really an old thing renamed for a financial or a political purpose.
Delete(Anonymous was me) I forgot to include two things in my list of what a true opposition should be opposing. The first is money printing; this is the single, most damaging policy of all in the last few governments and is the underlying cause of all the other horrors. No modern politician will stop it though, all are elected on the promise of immediate benefits at the cost of future unviability. Secondly, too many people have the vote. Only those who have contributed to society should have the vote, not those in receipt of public money.Again, no modern politician will ever stop this. Democracy, as we have it now, isn't working.
DeleteThe country is finished, there's no coming back from this pro-hamas progressive wokery. Keep going IDF!
ReplyDeleteYes, keep going IDF. Every country should be doing what the IDF is doing.
DeleteYou think that the Uk should be indiscriminately killing the citizens of the RoI and laying waste to Irish cities?
Deletedcbwhaley given that the British security services allegedly bombed Dublin and Monaghan in 1974 I say there more than a few people in the Uk who believe in bombardment of the ROI and majority Irish nationalist areas of NI.
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this may be a boring election and a foregone conclusion.
DeleteIt contains something worth observing as it'll remain in British politics for years to come. Sectarianism. It's a nasty thing as we've seen from Irish politics, but it's now a feature of UK politics. In future elections you may wonder where it came from. it started here, on the fringes with Galloway & Farage stirring their pots. As the centre implodes, they are spotting their chance.
I think what is most likely is a speeded up rerun of 1997 and the New Labour years, albeit in very different economic conditions. A landslide victory on the back of voters wanting the Tories out rather than anything Labour is promising, a continuation of most of their policies in office, and then a steady erosion in electoral support, opening up opportunities for the far right to re-emerge as a serious political force. The only real questions are the number of seats which the Tories will be reduced to and the willingness of their new leader to cooperate with parties to their right, or risk being replaced by them.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't the enthusiasm for Starmer that there undoubtedly was for Blair in 1997, though. The sentiment is overwhelmingly just one of exasperation with the Tories. The entire General Election could the Blackpool South by-election writ large - greatly reduced turnout, and Labour winning by default due to Tory voters either staying at home or switching to Reform.
DeleteYes, and then eventually Labour cocks everything up so the Conservatives get back in, who cock everything up and so Labour gets back in, repeat ad infinitum, each causing irreversible damage. We need rid of both parties, neither of them represent what the majority of us want.
DeleteThere is a political realignment under way across the Western World that the British FPTP system is slow to catch up with. Look at the results of next month's Euro elections. The Tories should have read the runes after demolishing the Red Wall in 2019, but they didn't.
DeleteI see Labour are now pledging to allow votes at 16, while at the same time they will never allow those who are currently 16 to smoke legally at any time in their lives.
ReplyDeleteThat will allow 16 year olds to vote for the party that will allow them to smoke.
DeleteOur democracy is wonderful
Eh? Surely they won't be allowed to smoke whichever party they vote for.
DeleteThat is what is so wonderful about our democracy. Two people can tell the other 66,969,998 how to live their lives
DeleteI think 16 year old should be able to vote. If they are old enough to pay taxes, they are entitled to have a opinion as to how that money is spent.
DeleteSome child stars aged under 16 pay income tax. And any kid that buys sweets from a shop pays VAT. The voting age should be aligned with the general age of majority. Reducing it to 16 is a blatant attempt to fix the electoral register for political advantage.
DeleteYoung people don't vote. They can't be bothered.
DeleteSo it'll make no difference.
If it did, we'd all be living off Nasty Jeremy's turnip recipe instead of watching the fag end of Rickys attempt to appeal to geriatrics.
The issue is not so much that young voters will sway the outcome, but that politicians will feel compelled to court them by offering free unicorns and other such unrealistic nonsense.
DeleteI'd love a free unicorn
Delete"Blatant attempts to fix the electoral register" - Labour wouldn't do that, they have principles, as seen yesterday when classy feminist and MP for Palestine Angela Rayner visited a mosque in Ashton.
DeleteIn Liverpool recently the Unicorns were drinking very well at the Vines. I had four pints.
DeleteDon't worry, lads. I won't be as bad as little Ricki. But who would?
ReplyDeleteI may not be one for pubs, but my deputy Ange assures me she knows all about pubs. Spends a lot of time behind the wetherspoons bins "poling" by all accounts. She'll make sure all pub goers can get a pint of venom to pass out with.
I know the local CAMRAs loved nasty Jeremy, but he's a bit busy with his terrorist mates in Hamas at the moment. You'll have to make do with me for now.
Heartily sick of it already, and we’ve only just begun, as Karen Carpenter so eloquently sung. Tory Tommy Tugendhat will be returned in Tonbridge & Malling, primarily because the anti- conservative vote will be split amongst the Lib-Dems, the Greens and Labour – waste of time voting for them in Sunny Tunny!
ReplyDeleteProportional representation would be a much fairer system, but as the two major parties have so much invested in “first past the post”, that’s never going to happen.
I’m looking forward to being out of the country in 8 days’ time, although no doubt the TV news channels will be full of it. I just need to remind my tele-addict wife there is an “off button” on the TV remote, and then I can forget about the whole shebang for 16 days.
Good to see Nigel Farage threaten the French with war! Send in the marines! Brexit is unfinished, let Nigel finish it on the beaches of Normandy!
ReplyDeleteBrexit won't be complete until Normandy. Ponthieu & Calais are returned to England!
Rishi's plan to conscript the remoaner youth for the inevitable war with France is genius. Conscript all remoaners! Teach the gormless lot some patriotism. Knock it into them, in the army,
DeleteBut he's not going to conscript them into the army, he's going to have them picking litter off roadside verges at the weekends.
DeleteRishi's problem is the half a*sed nature of what he does. He needs a bit of red meat, full whack toryism about him.
DeleteConscript all the kids into the army! Remove citizenship for remoaners! Send the remoaners to rwanda along with the immigrants! All these rainbow lanyard guardian lefties can fend for themselves in the desert. A Britain for those that love Britain, the King, best bitter and tea and crumpets!
Please note that I have rejected a few comments that were either offensive, silly or consisted of ridiculously exaggerated and unfunny parody. If you can't say something vaguely sensible, best not to bother.
ReplyDeleteNow that Nige has thrown his hat into the ring it should liven things up a bit!
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