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Have you read the comments section?
Lol. We live amongst them.
Lol. We live amongst them.
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Have you read the comments section?
Lol. We live amongst them.
Lol. We live amongst them.
Hmmm. Yes, of course.
Depressing. Least there's football on today!
Depressing. Least there's football on today!
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hmmm. Yes, of course.
Depressing. Least there's football on today!
Depressing. Least there's football on today!
Not a bad explanation, but let's be honest, the opposition currently is pretty poor.
Playing devil's advocate, surely now is the time for a clean slate and a break from the nonsense which came before?
I can't help but think a pro-EU, one nation Tory party would mop up?
Playing devil's advocate, surely now is the time for a clean slate and a break from the nonsense which came before?
I can't help but think a pro-EU, one nation Tory party would mop up?
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Not a bad explanation, but let's be honest, the opposition currently is pretty poor.
Playing devil's advocate, surely now is the time for a clean slate and a break from the nonsense which came before?
I can't help but think a pro-EU, one nation Tory party would mop up?
Playing devil's advocate, surely now is the time for a clean slate and a break from the nonsense which came before?
I can't help but think a pro-EU, one nation Tory party would mop up?
(Can't believe I'm saying that lol).
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
(Can't believe I'm saying that lol).
Exactly.
Trouble is, the 10-15% hardcore REF voters, like MAGA, will make ANY excuse to justify/explain away any negative press. I speak from experience.
We just have to hope the 10% or so fence sitters are gradually turned off and return to Tory.
Trouble is, the 10-15% hardcore REF voters, like MAGA, will make ANY excuse to justify/explain away any negative press. I speak from experience.
We just have to hope the 10% or so fence sitters are gradually turned off and return to Tory.
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Exactly.
Trouble is, the 10-15% hardcore REF voters, like MAGA, will make ANY excuse to justify/explain away any negative press. I speak from experience.
We just have to hope the 10% or so fence sitters are gradually turned off and return to Tory.
Trouble is, the 10-15% hardcore REF voters, like MAGA, will make ANY excuse to justify/explain away any negative press. I speak from experience.
We just have to hope the 10% or so fence sitters are gradually turned off and return to Tory.
This was SO obvious literally years ago though.
Any party must offer something substantially different to the others. Copying others narrows your market....
Any party must offer something substantially different to the others. Copying others narrows your market....
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This was SO obvious literally years ago though.
Any party must offer something substantially different to the others. Copying others narrows your market....
Any party must offer something substantially different to the others. Copying others narrows your market....
At the very top though?!
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
At the very top though?!
As with Braverman, thoroughly dislikeable individual.
How on Earth did they both rise to the upper echolons of the Tory party?
How on Earth did they both rise to the upper echolons of the Tory party?
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
As with Braverman, thoroughly dislikeable individual.
How on Earth did they both rise to the upper echolons of the Tory party?
How on Earth did they both rise to the upper echolons of the Tory party?
The hilarious thing is they've been convinced they ARE the victims, the oppressed, everybody else other than them is having a beano.
Ask them, when was the last time you were personally affected by small boats? Any of your family?
Answer: nearly always never.
Ask them, when was the last time you were personally affected by small boats? Any of your family?
Answer: nearly always never.
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The hilarious thing is they've been convinced they ARE the victims, the oppressed, everybody else other than them is having a beano.
Ask them, when was the last time you were personally affected by small boats? Any of your family?
Answer: nearly always never.
Ask them, when was the last time you were personally affected by small boats? Any of your family?
Answer: nearly always never.
Same thing here, I've basically taken to not engaging with good friends because it's become ridiculous.
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Same thing here, I've basically taken to not engaging with good friends because it's become ridiculous.
It's genuinely ludicrous, isn't it?
You can't take their opinions seriously. They hate LAB for being anti business, but Brexit cannot be undone?
Make it make sense.
You can't take their opinions seriously. They hate LAB for being anti business, but Brexit cannot be undone?
Make it make sense.
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It's genuinely ludicrous, isn't it?
You can't take their opinions seriously. They hate LAB for being anti business, but Brexit cannot be undone?
Make it make sense.
You can't take their opinions seriously. They hate LAB for being anti business, but Brexit cannot be undone?
Make it make sense.
Badenoch is so staggeringly bad.
I'm ALMOST at the point were I hope for a sane, competent Tory leader to put them out of their misery (and hopefully to head off REF).
I'm ALMOST at the point were I hope for a sane, competent Tory leader to put them out of their misery (and hopefully to head off REF).
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Badenoch is so staggeringly bad.
I'm ALMOST at the point were I hope for a sane, competent Tory leader to put them out of their misery (and hopefully to head off REF).
I'm ALMOST at the point were I hope for a sane, competent Tory leader to put them out of their misery (and hopefully to head off REF).
In their own way, GRE and REF (I despise REF) are making arguments more convincing than the two (arguably three) traditional parties.
The other two feel as though they're offering a continuation of the last 40 years, which many are fed up of.
The other two feel as though they're offering a continuation of the last 40 years, which many are fed up of.
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
In their own way, GRE and REF (I despise REF) are making arguments more convincing than the two (arguably three) traditional parties.
The other two feel as though they're offering a continuation of the last 40 years, which many are fed up of.
The other two feel as though they're offering a continuation of the last 40 years, which many are fed up of.
Better Q is - how badly must LAB be disappointing that GRE membership is rocketing and LABs polling continues to be poor - if the opposition (GRE or REF) is as bad as you say they are?
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Better Q is - how badly must LAB be disappointing that GRE membership is rocketing and LABs polling continues to be poor - if the opposition (GRE or REF) is as bad as you say they are?
To be frank, it AMAZES me that people look at me puzzled when I make this point.
There is no counter argument.
There is no counter argument.
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
To be frank, it AMAZES me that people look at me puzzled when I make this point.
There is no counter argument.
There is no counter argument.
Makes me laugh a little seeing businesses complain about minimum wage increases.
What you're saying is that your business model can't function without paying staff poverty wages?
It is hard for business right now, but wages aren't the problem IMO.
What you're saying is that your business model can't function without paying staff poverty wages?
It is hard for business right now, but wages aren't the problem IMO.
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Makes me laugh a little seeing businesses complain about minimum wage increases.
What you're saying is that your business model can't function without paying staff poverty wages?
It is hard for business right now, but wages aren't the problem IMO.
What you're saying is that your business model can't function without paying staff poverty wages?
It is hard for business right now, but wages aren't the problem IMO.
I like Davey, but the LDs seem unable to grasp the current opportunity, given how awful the current opposition is, to grab the public's imagination in the same way REF and GRE are.
There is a chasm currently for a sensible, centrist party to mop up. Why is this not materialising?
There is a chasm currently for a sensible, centrist party to mop up. Why is this not materialising?
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I like Davey, but the LDs seem unable to grasp the current opportunity, given how awful the current opposition is, to grab the public's imagination in the same way REF and GRE are.
There is a chasm currently for a sensible, centrist party to mop up. Why is this not materialising?
There is a chasm currently for a sensible, centrist party to mop up. Why is this not materialising?
I see your point, but assuming some voters pass away between GE's and REF will lose some votes, it effectively means for every voter they had in 2024, they need to find at least one more.
There's surely a reason it hasn't happened in our lifetimes?
There's surely a reason it hasn't happened in our lifetimes?
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I see your point, but assuming some voters pass away between GE's and REF will lose some votes, it effectively means for every voter they had in 2024, they need to find at least one more.
There's surely a reason it hasn't happened in our lifetimes?
There's surely a reason it hasn't happened in our lifetimes?
See, I've just got this feeling that REF can not and will not get the 8m or so votes required to get even close to a majority.
UKIP/BREX/REF have always hovered around 15% at their peaks with maybe 3/4m votes.
Where do the other 4m come from?
UKIP/BREX/REF have always hovered around 15% at their peaks with maybe 3/4m votes.
Where do the other 4m come from?
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
See, I've just got this feeling that REF can not and will not get the 8m or so votes required to get even close to a majority.
UKIP/BREX/REF have always hovered around 15% at their peaks with maybe 3/4m votes.
Where do the other 4m come from?
UKIP/BREX/REF have always hovered around 15% at their peaks with maybe 3/4m votes.
Where do the other 4m come from?
This is very true. I'm disappointed in LAB but the idea they're as bad as CON or REF is ridiculous.
Unfortunately it seems unlikely at this stage they'll get a second term.
Unfortunately it seems unlikely at this stage they'll get a second term.
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This is very true. I'm disappointed in LAB but the idea they're as bad as CON or REF is ridiculous.
Unfortunately it seems unlikely at this stage they'll get a second term.
Unfortunately it seems unlikely at this stage they'll get a second term.
From the Telegraph LOL!
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
From the Telegraph LOL!