UK General Election 2024

[zorkan]

Bald headed 'geezer' here is the Tory.
Long haired 'git' is Labour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0-leRNxhmg

Now you should tell the difference.

[Icarus]

Looks like a Brit version of the American sit-com: All In The Family. The bald gentleman is the double of Archie Bunker. 

[Tank]

All in the Family was based on Till Death us Do Part.

[zorkan]

Rishi Sunak's hedge fund history contributed to the taxpayer paying out £45,000,000,000 to bail out the Royal Bank of Scotland in the financial crisis.
Should he pay what he profited back?
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-labour-demands-answers-rishi-103940153.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALRrulXbbAwpGHV1838WGAnzAEyOD1O5SrT8bhmjH_k2N6H9bYj0Aq515adKchhpVnL0Hpu7sskiwFOr9VuhtWuQqefXtX1dUcsubzZXOf7XjIJTxMiEOtxysmaOdzLaSdjTs7p1r0u9thCuN-VbuaP75moV-uKQkewaEqmVGyIq

Cold side of Keir Starmer:
Should he pay what he profited back?
https://www.politico.eu/article/labour-keir-starmer-brush-french-police-over-illegal-ice-creams/

[zorkan]

Approaching the finishing post and all the runners and riders are falling.
Tory scandals get worse by the day.
Labour tripping up as well.
The one policy parties are exhausted.
There was a time when politicians were at least expected to have high standards, now anything goes.
The public are merely pawns in their game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLj3j_N-l38.

[Tank]

It's getting to be a complete bun fight. I and my wife do a postal vote so we have already done the deed. If this parliament runs full term we'll both be 69 when we vote again!

[zorkan]

Think I'll become a floating voter.
Will I need to go to sea?

[Tank]

There are quite a few small boats in the channel

[zorkan]

Hope that Reform UK don't use me as target practice.

"Reform activist was recorded saying migrants trying to cross the Channel in "small boats" should be used as "target practice".

[zorkan]

Quite like Sunak when he gets angry.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-snaps-warns-journalist-33102378

[Tank]

Quite like Sunak when he gets angry.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-snaps-warns-journalist-33102378

Yes. For the first time he actually looked honest in his delivery.

[zorkan]

Getting personal with regard to Sunak's grandparents.

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-28/farage-reform-campaigners-using-racist-slurs-are-the-odd-exception

[billy rubin]

you people have a comedic government. but at least it doesnt yet equal america's choice between a dotard and a devil.

[zorkan]

Confess to not having heard the word dotard. Had to look it up.

So now it's coming up to make your mind up time this side of the pond.
What we have we so far?

In the blue corner:
Rishi Sunak. A man who thought the D-Day commemorations stood for Disrespect Day.
Intelligent man without star appeal.
If elected will come under big pressure from the Tory right.

In the red corner:
Keir Starmer. A man who probably gets lost on the London underground.
Intelligent man but again without star appeal.
If elected will yield to the Labour left.

The Lib-Dems, formerly known as the Liberals led by Ed Davey.
They are a "Let's wait and see" party with no clear ideas.
They are always both for and against any policy.
Even they don't know what they stand for.

Yellow corner:
The SNP. Can only vote for them in Scotland.
They change their leader every few months.
An independent Scotland will re-join the EU, and everything will come up roses.
Other nationalist parties in Scotland, Wales and NI are available.

Green corner. The Greens!
They have either one leader, several leaders, or no leader.
Anti-car, pro-Palestine. The party of immigration and sky high taxes.

Reform UK:
Far right party led by Nigel Farage who both loves and hates Europe.
Disrespectful to all of the above.
See link below.

It seems that I might have to vote for the lesser of the evils.
Tory. May god rest my soul.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c727xz2kkgjo
 
 
 

[Tank]

In the red corner:
Keir Starmer. A man who probably gets lost on the London underground.
Intelligent man but again without star appeal.
If elected will yield to the Labour left.

If, and it's a big if, Labour get a big enough majority Starmer could be in a position to sack 100 lefty MPs and still have a huge working majority. It'll be interesting times for sure.