Highlandmagar Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 (edited) 4 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Genuinely think the Tories will have announced corporal punishment, capital punishment, the abolition of abortion or bringing back burning people alive for heresy by the end of June. Sounds fantastic to me. Good old British values. If only they could announce that they are abolishing free education, and putting 8 year olds up chimneys and down the pits, then we could become a great nation again. And none of this communitu service. 24 hours in the stocks would soon straighten them out. And a bit of public flogging wouldn't go amiss either. Edited May 28 by Highlandmagar 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 10 hours ago, JS_FFC said: Conservatives continue to throw red meat to the boomers I'm just reeling at the news that Alan Titchmarsh avoids No Mow May. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS_FFC Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 1 minute ago, scottsdad said: I'm just reeling at the news that Alan Titchmarsh avoids No Mow May. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Farage, the Poundland Enoch Powell, has just declared on telly that the Royal Marines should forcibly return illegal immigrants crossing the Channel to the French mainland. Expect it to become Government policy by Tipping Point this afternoon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS_FFC Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Just now, O'Kelly Isley III said: Farage, the Poundland Enoch Powell, has just declared on telly that the Royal Marines should forcibly return illegal immigrants crossing the Channel to the French mainland. Expect it to become Government policy by Tipping Point this afternoon. Did you see that Farage has challenged Sunak to a TV debate on immigration? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 4 minutes ago, JS_FFC said: Did you see that Farage has challenged Sunak to a TV debate on immigration? I wonder... would that get as high a viewership than a policy debate between the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and Lord Binface? OMRLP ... "To make things fairer we will introduce a Court of Human Lefts." LB ... "All government ministers' pay, including that of the mayors, should be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years" Could be very entertaining! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 2 hours ago, Highlandmagar said: Sounds fantastic to me. Good old British values. If only they could announce that they are abolishing free education, and putting 8 year olds up chimneys and down the pits, then we could become a great nation again. And none of this communitu service. 24 hours in the stocks would soon straighten them out. And a bit of public flogging wouldn't go amiss either. They should also bring back Scurvy. Good old Blighty was more of a world power when Scurvy was a thing. Why did they have to get rid of it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 7 hours ago, Bully Wee Villa said: Genuinely think the Tories will have announced corporal punishment, capital punishment, the abolition of abortion or bringing back burning people alive for heresy by the end of June. Not sure about abortion, but they can't do the others without leaving the ECHR. I take it that's still not a vote-winner or they'd have announced it before now, rather than individually muttering darkly about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Just come to a realisation that Boris Johnson, if he were still in charge, would be less batshit than Sunak is being. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 9 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Just come to a realisation that Boris Johnson, if he were still in charge, would be less batshit than Sunak is being. Would the Conservatives be behind in the polls if Boris Johnson was still in charge? Discuss. I don't get the impression that he's anything like as unpopular in England as he should be. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 11 minutes ago, BFTD said: Would the Conservatives be behind in the polls if Boris Johnson was still in charge? Discuss. I don't get the impression that he's anything like as unpopular in England as he should be. Aye, you still see folk in the media reminiscing about his time in office as some kind of high point of British politics. After the Liz Truss fiasco there were some genuinely calling for him to be given another chance. The mind boggles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 33 minutes ago, BFTD said: Would the Conservatives be behind in the polls if Boris Johnson was still in charge? Discuss. I don't get the impression that he's anything like as unpopular in England as he should be. I reckon it would be far, far closer in the polls if he were still in charge. I've heard a few times that "Boris was doing a good job" on English TV. He never cut any ice here but down south he was quite liked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Behind, yes. Quite as far behind? Don't know. He has a cult (read: c**t) following that I really can't fathom. However he was exceptionally unpopular when he was finally binned as PM. That said, he does appear to have more simps remaining than Truss does, mostly because they think of 2019 and nothing else. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Guardian running a six main parties article. Tories, then Labour ... then LibDems (15 MPs) ... SNP (43) . Surprised? Nah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Apparently Rachel Reeves as Chancellor will have policies that are both pro-business and pro-worker. Corporation tax will alo be frozen for the life of the Parliament. No commitment to increase personal tax allowances. Seems to me that the room for financial flexibility is getting more restrictive every time Labour open their collective mouth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Does anyone think we'll ever have a genuine economically left of center government again? -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 2 hours ago, Fullerene said: They should also bring back Scurvy. Good old Blighty was more of a world power when Scurvy was a thing. Why did they have to get rid of it? They’re way ahead of you; 188 cases of it in 2022. Rickets and scabies back as well. https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/18/return-of-victorian-era-diseases-to-the-uk-scabies-measles-rickets-scurvy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 2 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said: Does anyone think we'll ever have a genuine economically left of center government again? Depends on whether or not the proles resort to violence before the military-grade AI drones are affordable and working correctly. Even then, based on current trends, the popular revolt might be based on the assumption that society isn't fascist enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Here's what I (still) fail to understand. Taxes are at their highest level. And national debt trebled under the Tories; they borrowed more than every government in history put together. So, loads of money coming in. Aside from the top-slicing to Tory donors, what has the money been spent on? Not public services. Not infrastructure. Furlough was a small part of this but aside from that, where has the money gone? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakedee Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 In an already overstretched NHS, where are these "supervisors" going to come from? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/28/national-service-young-people-beneficial-military 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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