sparky88 Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 The folk saying 'don't vote for the Labour because they are blue tories' remind me a lot of the 'vote for brexit because it makes independence more likely' guys 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 2 minutes ago, sparky88 said: The folk saying 'don't vote for the Labour because they are blue tories' remind me a lot of the 'vote for brexit because it makes independence more likely' guys The Tories are the blue Tories. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 3 minutes ago, sparky88 said: the 'vote for brexit because it makes independence more likely' guys Who were they? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 (edited) 22 minutes ago, KirkieRR said: Who were they? @Granny Danger He loves this being pointed out. Edit: 1 hour ago, Crùbag said: Labour now giving mixed messages on whether they would welcome Nigel Farage into the party FFS! I reckon they could've done wonders for Hitler's image. After all, it was the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as the fascists like to point out when it's temporarily inconvenient to own him. Maybe a bit too left-wing for Sir Keef, though. Edited May 9 by BFTD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 1 hour ago, Crùbag said: Elphicke angling for a seat in the House of Lards apparently. Mind you, Labour vowed to abolish that a century ago... You can't rush these things... They'd also have to come up with a means of supplying the political parties' favoured sons and daughters with an income in the event that the pesky commoners in the electorate have the unmitigated gall to fail to re-elect them. Very difficult to abolish a trough when so many of your pals are feeding in it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 10 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said: You can't rush these things... They'd also have to come up with a means of supplying the political parties' favoured sons and daughters with an income in the event that the pesky commoners in the electorate have the unmitigated gall to fail to re-elect them. Very difficult to abolish a trough when so many of your pals are feeding in it. Presumably the idea would be to just send them all home and pay them an agree-upon figure until they all die. Shouldn't be much, considering they only get an allowance and expenses Irrelevant anyway as, if historical Labour governments haven't abolished the Lords, this one coming in certainly isn't going to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHF-23 Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Will certainly be storing this one in the ol' back pocket for the next time I see some donkey brain talk about horseshoe theory 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 2 hours ago, sparky88 said: The folk saying 'don't vote for the Labour because they are blue tories' remind me a lot of the 'vote for brexit because it makes independence more likely' guys How many independence supporting voters do you know who voted for Brexit ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 10 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said: How many independence supporting voters do you know who voted for Brexit ? I know a few. Wanting more political independence but remaining in the EFTA isn't that mental a preference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniakes Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 (edited) 2 hours ago, BFTD said: @Granny Danger He loves this being pointed out. Edit: I reckon they could've done wonders for Hitler's image. After all, it was the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as the fascists like to point out when it's temporarily inconvenient to own him. Maybe a bit too left-wing for Sir Keef, though. Many of Hitler's socioeconomic policies. Unironically, *are* far too left wing for Blairite Labor: Nationalized industries, subordinated oligarchic influence, infrastructure building, focus on helping young families with children, free education & activities etc etc. Edited May 9 by Maniakes Spelling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 4 hours ago, Suspect Device said: I know a few. Wanting more political independence but remaining in the EFTA isn't that mental a preference. Perhaps they should have addressed what the actual options were on the ballot paper and didn't project wishful thinking into the equation. Three steps back and none forward wasn't a great outcome. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Labour are now getting moist at possible relations with Trump... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 2 hours ago, Crùbag said: Labour are now getting moist at possible relations with Trump... As long as they keep the pants with DNA on them, they can tie him up in the courts for years by threatening to sell the story to the papers! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Imagine Elphicke looked for a seat in exchange for crossing the floor. Imagine Labour found one in Scotland for her (I know there aren't any particularly safe seats for Labour here) and the Branch office were told by London to put up with it.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 3 hours ago, tamthebam said: Imagine Elphicke looked for a seat in exchange for crossing the floor. Imagine Labour found one in Scotland for her (I know there aren't any particularly safe seats for Labour here) and the Branch office were told by London to put up with it.. Then again if she went from being MP for Dover to MP for Durness then that would be some sort of record. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HTG Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Of course Braverman is calling for an end to it as she'll be in opposition - you wouldn't hear a peep from her if she was likely to be in govt for another 5 years. Dreadful look for Labour though and easily resolved by adding "at the moment" to the end of the sentence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 6 minutes ago, HTG said: Of course Braverman is calling for an end to it as she'll be in opposition - you wouldn't hear a peep from her if she was likely to be in govt for another 5 years. Dreadful look for Labour though and easily resolved by adding "at the moment" to the end of the sentence. Another thing that ought to make potential Labour voters in Scotland have a wee think. If you are espousing policies to the right of "popular Tories" (that is to say, popular within the Tory party), the chances are that they are the wrong policies. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Anyway, if they really are seven points ahead of the SNP we'll have to get used to Anas looking puzzled, as always, and wondering how that happened, and Jackie Smuggy Smugchops Baillie grinning like a smug dug with two smug tails. Grim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laid Back Maverick Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 You’d have thought Labour would have learned their lesson after the last time they parachuted Melanie Ward into Fife https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/politics/election-2024-new-kirkcaldy-candidate-melanie-ward-comes-full-circle-with-labour-4626748 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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