UK General Election 2024

[zorkan]

Farage has stood 7 times for MP before, not 8.
He is also now the king of the milkshakes.
Or is it a fake?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq5Kn2eoDJE

Depending on how you cost it, Labour's tax bombshell is £2000 per person.
The Tory press loved that after the TV debate last night.
I got so bored I switched channels to watch the women's football.

[Tank]

Ok it will be 8.

[zorkan]

Glad to see an interlude today with the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Just like to say, incredible people were around on 6th June 1944.
We owe so much to them.

[Tank]

Hear hear.

[Icarus]

Hear! hear! indeed. A lot of Brits, Canadians, and Americans payed the ultimate price.

[Tank]

And Sunak leaves the commemoration services early to campaign. What an f'ing dick!

[zorkan]

I was moved to dig out my old copy of D-Day by Stephen Ambrose.
In over 500 pages he describes the whole day from beginning to end.
Based on 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there.
It finishes with a quote from Eisenhower when he says that people will do anything for freedom.

On the other hand Sunak came, saw, left early.
A man who wants to re-introduce national service for 18 year olds, but prefers to go home for a TV interview.
Clearly, no sense of duty or history.
Like D-Day, this will be remembered.

[Tank]

Yes it will.

[Tank]

Last night there was a TV debate with the 7 biggest party contenders represented. Scotland has its own parliament and can make its own specific laws. The scottish government is dominated be the Scottish National Party (SNP). It's an odd setup.

What I hadn't really realised until last night was just how arrogant, partisan and selfish the SNP are. Their representative was simply an arsehole.

[zorkan]

While the other parties attack each other, the SNP will say anything to undermine the English and the Westminster Parliament.
Nigel Farage acted like a black hole sucking in the audience's attention.
He reminds me of either a toad, frog, newt or duck.
Maybe a meerkat or bald eagle.
https://theweek.com/uk-news/52852/viral-world-what-caught-fire-internet-week

Cruel. On the animals.

[Tank]

It was a farce from beginning to end

[zorkan]

It was 7 ducks in a row.
Perhaps it needed a bit of egg throwing like before previous elections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g52QtvyDg4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6z0LLGQt0

[zorkan]

Man helps Farage cement his reputation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsVh7KTrheI

[Tank]

Pity he missed. Farage is a complete and utter arsehole. You know he has set up Reform as a Ltd company not a mutual and he's the MD. Thus all the proceeds go through him. It is also rumoured that to avoid having to disclose donations to the electoral commision that he is getting lots of small donations rather a few bigs ones he would have to declare.

[Tank]

Just watched Kia Starmer for an hour and he's talking a good talk. Richy Sunak was almost in tears on Sky News last night as the interviewer took him apart.