Lord Duckhunter

There’s a cigarette paper between Hunt & Reeves. Lord Call me Daves foreign policy will be mirrored by Lammy. Taxes will be roughly the same. Legal immigration will be similar, the NHS model won’t change. They are 2 checks of the same arse, with a bit of difference around social policy. They could all be in the same Blair led party. The only difference will be competence, if this lot are as incompetent, they’ll get binned regardless of whether The Tories “lurch to the left”. Judge Government by what it does, not what it says it’ll do. When you look at their “lurch to the right” on migrants, it was only the language that lurched that way, the policy was exactly the same as Starmers will be. They’ll pick the boats up, house them here and not send them anywhere. In other words exactly the same. The Tories pretended they would send them to Rwanda & Labour will pretend they’ll send them to their country of origin. They won’t “smash the gangs” anymore than the Tories. It’s all propaganda pony. I’ve been hearing this “lurch to the right” pony for years,when’s it going to happen, because I’m looking forward to it.

Fair play to Soggy for getting on his old hobby horse & parroting Nigel’s lines. & without PR in the European elections we’d probably have never heard the name Nigel Farage. So again, fair play to Soggy for going into bat for it. Although I suspect the desire to see it isn’t principled, more an opportunity to post “far right” pony when there’s 16% “far right racists” sat on the opposition benches. I’ve always been in favour of FPTP & this election absolutely highlighted why it’s the best form of democracy imo. Local people electing a representative to represent them in a Westminster, what could be purer than that? Liz Truss, JRM,the fat lazy arse with a 19k majority in my constituency, all the cabinet ministers that lost their seats, Ashworth, all booted out by local people wanting someone else to represent the local area. They would all have been on party lists or some other device and been walking into Parliament next week. The big moan about “safe seats” and “wasted votes” are only that, because the voters make them that and increasingly safe seats are becoming a thing of the past.

Dear God. You’d have thought a GE where a party on the right of the present Tory one polled 4 million votes (600k more than your beloved Lib Dems) might finally stop you parroting this pony. But no, whatever you, Fat Pang or some other dripping wet “centralist” believes (or want to believe) the Tories lost seat after seat because Reform stood against them from the Right. When your type of Tory stood against them previously (change UK) & Nigel stood the troops down, the Tories ended up with an 80+ majority. There was no fucking “lurch to the right” , had there been Reform wouldn’t have polled anywhere near 4 million votes. I’m not saying the Tories would have won, they wouldn’t have. But they wouldn’t have suffered such a hammering. Personally, I hope they do “lurch to the left”, because if they do Nigel will finally finish them off , and we’ll end up with a proper right of centre party.

They’re definitely nearing their ceiling with Nigel in charge at the moment. 100% there’s a gap for a socially conservative party, but their economic policy is too Thatcherite for the voters they’ll need. However, Europe has shown us that if the establishment don’t deal with immigration & things don’t “change” everything’s in play. The Demographic analysis of their voters this time will be interesting as Nigel claims he’s resonating with 18-24 year olds, and obviously the Tories direction will make a massive difference. Long term there will be an opening because I’m pretty sure the Tories will get wetter and pinker. Interestingly, Tice was entering into some sort of pact with SDP prior to Nigel’s glorious return. They’re way further left on the economy , and are pretty small time. But, there’s not much between the parties on 80% of policy. They want controlled borders, to leave the ECHR, they share the same anti woke agenda, want an English Parliament, PR, are against net zero targets & had “family, neighbourhood and nation”, as their tag line. Long term maybe some sort of hybrid party with a less controversial leader could emerge.

Nige stood his troops down in ‘19 & the result was a 80 odd seat majority. He’s decimated the Tories this time, done more to damage them since Tony Blair & James Goldsmith, yet he’s still on his high horse. One silver lining, at least he’ll STFU about PR for 5 years.

I don’t know about the world stage, but he embarrassed himself on Mastermind, and who can forget the infamous “we haven’t seen a policeman round here”. Anyway, today is not the day, the population has spoken & Starmer has been given the mandate to choose his foreign sec. Let him at least start the job before piling in.

Great to see Nige finally get a seat, and he proved to be a man of his word by decimating the Tories. Pleased for Tice as well, he could have thrown his toys out of the pram when Nige returned but knuckled down & got his rewards. Glad to see that twat Elwood getting binned in Bournemouth & pleased for IDS, although that was a bit of a fluke. He could have easily settled for a place in the lords, but stood up to be counted. Although I don’t share his politics, Parliament needs people like Jon Ashworth so it’s disappointing he’s lost to some Gaza loon. As someone who wishes the sweaties would fuck off, I’m dissatisfied with the SNP efforts as well. locally, fuck me, I’ve got a labour MP. I posted yesterday that a couple of polling station workers said something was happening locally, but never in a million years did I think we’d get a labour MP. A combination of taking voters for granted, Reform standing a paper candidate who didn’t really campaign & didn’t even live in Poole, and the complete fucking shafting Poole has had following the Tory led BCP merger, has cost Sir Robert his cushy seat. Although I posted if Symes is worried the Tories really are in trouble, it is quite unbelievable. Still, in a strange way it’s restored more faith in our democratic process. The bloke, the local party, & the local Tory council, did fuck all the 28 years I’ve been here, thinking they didn’t need to. I think they know differently now. Nige has been fighting against FPTP for a number of years, but on this I fundamentally disagree with him. Local people sending someone to Westminster to represent them is the purest form of democracy imo. Let’s see if this Labour bloke can do something for the Town & stick up for us. Fucking hell if he sorts out a new bridge to replace the ridiculous white elephant we’ve got at the moment, even I might vote for him in 2029.

Sweaty blaming the Tories for SNP result 😂

Davey is a massive cock Womble but there’s no need for the son dig. All I’ve read for years is how we need adults in the room, how we need serious politicians to address serious issues. Yet this fucking clown has got away with the most pathetic low grade campaign in living memory. Pound shop Boris who only got away with it because he’s on the “right” side. Fucking hell from Jo Swinsons massive tits, to a massive tit.

Just nipped round to vote. Told I’d already voted, which I hadn’t. Luckily I knew one of the birds there who said she’d seen my son & Snap Dragon earlier , double checked and some dope had marked me off instead of son. Shambles. She’s been working polling day for years & said they’d been “ very busy”. Older sons Mrs is working another polling station & she told him it’s the busiest of the 3 GE’s she’s worked. Bit strange if there’s a big turnout as Sir Robert has a 19k majority, was a Brexiter & was quite hardline anti lockdown, so in line with a lot of the voters round here. Despite being a bit of an arse, and a fucking yes man, don’t see what’s driving the apparent possible large turnout. If he’s in trouble, the Tories will end up with about 50 seats.

I wouldn’t know. I went to school under Grocer Heath & Wilson.

Agreed 100% . Both for private individuals & companies. Companies should be incentivised to offer health insurance to ordinary Joe’s.

Lefties, not pinkos. Get it right….

Soggy & Nige on the same page..

I wonder why 🤔 traipsing round hour after hour, come rain or shine. Pounding the streets day after day, stuffing leaflets in letter boxes that people don’t want, is one thing, being stuck listening to you discuss politics, quite another.

Fucking hell, what a load of old pony. There’s probably more checks and balances than in any other democracy.

Interesting???

Brendan O’Neil pretty much summed it up. No surprise you’re fully signed up, “tosser class” indeed. “ I can think of no better insight into the cant of the tosser class than the fact they seem to think their annual five-day party in the mud deserves better protection than the nation itself. That they accord more moral weight to their right to listen to LCD Soundsystem than they do to Britain’s right to exercise sovereign dominion over its borders. ‘How dare those Tory scum try to stop the boats?!’, they no doubt mumble over a Camden Hells in the Avalon Inn while not a hundred metres away some security bruiser in a hi-vis vest is barking into a walkie-talkie: ‘Security breach on Fence 4!’ “Then there was Ros Atkins of the BBC djing on the Stonebridge Bar stage. Honestly, it was like a mid-life crisis put to music. He even played a drum’n’bass version of the BBC News theme tune. If that sounds like the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever heard of, that’s because it was. The sight of fortysomething Glasto people waving banners emblazoned with the letters ‘BBC’ as they jived to the music that kicks off every BBC news bulletin was borderline surreal. From dancing topless to the Kinks in 1970 to worshipping the state broadcaster as some kind of sun god of truth in 2024 – ladies and gentleman, Britain’s middle class.”

Yeah, now festivals are full of middle class tossers thinking they’re edgy. I reckon Little Stevie had a result avoiding that pretentious pony.

Why wasn’t he there, couldn’t he find the stage?