UK Election Rant thread

HugalHugal Shipmate
This is a thread for rants about the UK election so we can keep the one in Purg for discussion
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  • O god(s)! Not another one....!!

    (Election, that is).

    But with any luck, the effing bastards currently 'governing' will be consigned to the outer darkness they deserve.
  • My daughter will have had 3 governments by the time she's 3 (The 2017 one was announced when she was 4 days old)
  • Ah yes, the general election, because people may have changed their minds about what they were voting for in 2017, but absolutely haven’t changed their minds about what they voted for in 2016.
    Gah.
  • Boris Johnson lying already. No one is surprised.
  • How are we supposed to take seriously anything this wretched gobshite says?
    :rage:
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    edited October 2019
    Boris Johnson lying already. No one is surprised.
    It took him this long to start?

  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    You can tell when he's lying. His lips are moving.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    How are we supposed to take seriously anything this wretched gobshite says?
    :rage:

    We don’t.

    The ‘charm’ is bullshitting, the promises are lies.

  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited October 2019
    Firenze wrote: »
    You can tell when he's lying. His lips are moving.

    But people believe him because he reinforces their prejudices. And they believe that the media are conspiring to cover up The Truth.
  • Trying to find the least worst candidate, then looking to see whether the party he or she is representing has madness in its manifesto, and starting over again as many times as is necessary, only to find that the worst candidate and party have been elected, is frustrating to say the least.

    No wonder so few people bother!
  • Firenze wrote: »
    You can tell when he's lying. His lips are moving.

    But people believe him because he reinforces their prejudices. And they believe that the media are conspiring to cover up The Truth.

    I'm not sure if people 'believe' him. It's a weird kind of postmodern relation to narratives, doesn't matter if they're true, it's whether I like them. Bit like a fairy-story. See Trump.
  • Boogie wrote: »
    How are we supposed to take seriously anything this wretched gobshite says?
    :rage:

    We don’t.

    The ‘charm’ is bullshitting, the promises are lies.

    People are like flies in this respect.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Raptor Eye wrote: »
    Trying to find the least worst candidate, then looking to see whether the party he or she is representing has madness in its manifesto, and starting over again as many times as is necessary, only to find that the worst candidate and party have been elected, is frustrating to say the least.

    No wonder so few people bother!

    Hmm. I work by "who can beat the Tory".

    It's a bit negative but it works.
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    Tragically I don’t think J R-M can be defeated in my area 😭, too many seduced by the lies!
  • Don't fret - he's so Good and Perfect that he'll be snatched up into heaven in a fiery chariot (drawn by fiery unicorns) before too long.

    Well, hope springs eternal...
  • Is it my imagination or was his constituency Labour once?
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    edited October 2019
    Is it my imagination or was his constituency Labour once?

    North-east Somerset was formed from Wansdyke and a couple of wards Bath in the eighties. Labour gained it in 1997. Wansdyke was an odd constituency, almost surrounding Bath and including towns like Keynsham, Radstock & Midsomer Norton plus parts of east Bristol. Radstock & Midsomer Norton were mining towns and they include Peasedown St John, which was built to house people from the poorer areas of Bath, when that city was gentrified.
  • Thank you for that information ss. So how did it go from Labour to a Tory as extreme as JRM?
  • Great. Another chance for the collection of misfits, liars, unemployables and slimeballs who make up a fair proportion of our MPs to be re-elected by constituents who'd put in a pig so long as it was wearing the right colour lipstick.
  • Thank you for that information ss. So how did it go from Labour to a Tory as extreme as JRM?

    He's apparently a decent enough constituency MP and that's what tends to make a difference as far as personal votes go. Until they're elected folk don't really know one face behind a rosette from another. The relative moderation or extremity of an MP has little to do with how marginal their constituency is.
  • Just reading Thatcheright's posts, wow, I hear the sound of goosesteps.
  • Yes, I thought that. Maybe the stories about the Bunker were False News?
  • I was seriously contemplating composing a reasoned response to @Thatcheright , but then I remembered what normally happens when you do that.

    He had a different name on the Old Ship, didn't he?
  • Perhaps they didn't scrape off the barnacles properly before launching (or re-launching).
  • What happens to a reasoned response?
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited October 2019
    Ricardus wrote: »
    I was seriously contemplating composing a reasoned response to @Thatcheright , but then I remembered what normally happens when you do that.

    He had a different name on the Old Ship, didn't he?

    Deano. Boasted that he once spat in Artburt Scargill's pint. Scargill's no mate of mine but it doesn't speak well of him. A thoroughly unpleasant piece of work; probably posts here when he's been banned from the pub for boring people to death.
  • Is this Deano? Heil!
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Currently I'm torn between the part of me which is wondering what his local party would think of his most recent comment in Purg (an open admission that the Tory campaign will lie) and the part of me which is just happy to let him take all the rope he needs...
  • Hail Spode! (Let the reader of P G Wodehouse stories understand).
  • Just pondering: how does one tell an idiot from a troll? Or is it time to channel brother Gamaliel again and just say "both/and not either/or"?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    When it comes to wankgannetry and cockwomblage, I don't think Gamaliel's in the same league as Thatcheright.
  • Nowhere near...
    :wink:

    Meanwhile, here's DeanoSpode in action:
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=ShRf1svMcuA
  • I am wondering if his username reflects the fact that he appears to be veering to the right of Margaret Thatcher...
  • Piglet wrote: »
    When it comes to wankgannetry and cockwomblage, I don't think Gamaliel's in the same league as Thatcheright.

    I wasn't suggesting that, just drawing on his favourite aphorism and wondering whether it might apply in this case.
  • Maybe.

    Or maybe not.
  • I don't see the point in engaging, he posts to get a reaction. I assume he's allowed on the boards for historical reasons.
  • Hahaha! Farridge has announced he intends to piss full flow into ABdPJ's cornflakes unless he drops his deal and commits to a no-deal Brexit. Got to be a good 15-20% of the public willing to buy the horseshit he's selling. Enough to screw Piffle, not enough to win any seats. I'm suddenly feeling a lot more optimistic about this election.
  • Hahaha! Farridge has announced he intends to piss full flow into ABdPJ's cornflakes unless he drops his deal and commits to a no-deal Brexit. Got to be a good 15-20% of the public willing to buy the horseshit he's selling. Enough to screw Piffle, not enough to win any seats. I'm suddenly feeling a lot more optimistic about this election.

    Let’s hope exactly that happens.

    Endorsement by tRump won’t help de Pfeffel either.

    Things are looking up.

    👏🏼👏🏼

  • Barnabas62Barnabas62 Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host, Epiphanies Host
    It's the Trump effect, is all. Farage is keeping the right side of his "friend". Who, knowingly or unknowingly, is helping the Putin destabilisation project.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Trump just can’t help himself cam he?
  • Hahaha! Farridge has announced he intends to piss full flow into ABdPJ's cornflakes unless he drops his deal and commits to a no-deal Brexit. Got to be a good 15-20% of the public willing to buy the horseshit he's selling. Enough to screw Piffle, not enough to win any seats. I'm suddenly feeling a lot more optimistic about this election.

    It could do just that. Boris's seat, Uxbridge and South Ruislip, isn't the safest Tory seat (maj, c 5,500) and from what I have gleaned, the British Asian vote, which is not negligible there, is volatile, plus the ever-present Gammons, could both turn on Boris. He could then spend more time with his families.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    sionisais wrote: »
    It could do just that. Boris's seat, Uxbridge and South Ruislip, isn't the safest Tory seat (maj, c 5,500) and from what I have gleaned, the British Asian vote, which is not negligible there, is volatile, plus the ever-present Gammons, could both turn on Boris. He could then spend more time with his families.
    Now that really would be something to look forward to.

  • I think an awful lot will depend on how people end up seeing things.

    If they see them as "big brave Boris tried to get us out of the EU but those nasty folk in Westminster stopped him", then he's back in.

    If they think it's a case of "Boris promised to get us out but broke his promise and can't ever be trusted again", then it's much more of a contest.
  • Not for his families, I think...
    :grimace:
  • And then there's "Boris voted twice against the WA, so who was blocking Brexit?" I realize that this wasn't true Brexit, so we await the immaculate form thereof.
  • The Church of The Immaculate Brexit

    Supreme Leader, Head Cook, Bottlewasher, and Bum-wiper*:
    His Mighty and Mendacious Holiness - NIGGLE the GARBAGE!


    (*Well, he'll have to be - there won't be any Horrid Brown Semi-People left to do it for him).
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited November 2019
    I am intrigued puzzled amused gob-smacked flabbergasted at any link between Immaculacy and the above-mentioned "gentleman" (you will realise that I use this word both figuratively and reluctantly).
  • Yes, indeed, but I was referring to the immaculate nature of The Great God Brexit, and not to that of His Vicar on Earth (who is but an unworthy Worm, and No Man, as are we all).
  • Dangerous talk indeed! As the late Mr. Paisley would have said (or, more probably, yelled): "No Popery!"
  • is that the stuff that looks like dried up leaves and tree back which has been doused in an awful perfume ?
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