So, July the 4th it is, then.
Rishi Sunak kicked off the Tory General Election campaign with an attack on Labour’s economic credentials tonight, just hours after shocking Westminster with a July vote.
The Prime Minister hauled his Cabinet to east London for a rally with party loyalists where he launched an attack on Sir Keir Starmer’s record, asking: ‘Who do you trust?’
The answer to which is ‘none of you fuckers.’
So we will now be inundated with weeks of campaigning and impossible promises as these shitbags try to bribe us with our own money. At the end of which we will troop into the polling booths as if it makes a damned bit of difference, because on July the 5th, things will carry on exactly as they are right now – we will still be royally shafted by these bastards – plus ca change…
I hate them. I hate them all.
Write “I do not consent” in ink on the ballot. These have to be counted as an objection, rather than spoilt vote. If there’s enough in each constituency, there’s no mandate.
Looks like a ‘Hail Mary’ to me – in which case the Tories (and the country) really are in deep shit.
Apathy party looking quite appealing at the moment.
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
As you said in the last week or two, Mr L, it’ll probably be a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party. At the 2019 election, the “Conservatives” had 44% of the vote, while Labour had 32%. For the sake of argument, let’s assume that in the coming election those positions are reversed – Labour get a 44% vote share and the “Conservatives” receive 32% of the vote. Putting those figures into a swingometer calculator gives a result with Labour ten seats short of a majority.
There really is very little enthusiasm for Sir Kneelalot. There was plenty for Blair back in ’97, but hardly any for Steer Calmer now (except among the Guardianistas, of course). So this election will not be a repeat of 1997. Apathy will be a significant factor, I think.
A hung Parliament is probably the best we can hope for, leaving them at each other’s throats.
But that leaves the civil service in control – openly!
Or hung from the nearest lamp post.
Pretty well everybody I know just wants an end to this remorseless anti white, anti British, anti humanity, anti anything and everything decent and good cancer that seems to be politics.
Apathy and cynicism is all that most people admit to, with a covering of humour, but I think the anger many feel is real (it certainly is with me!)
@Simon Maxwell
Yes, I think that is perfectly plausible and it may well be the best outcome (“best”! Is that what we’re reduced to?)
The general narrative is der sturmer winning and winning with a significant, or at least workable (“workable” for that freak show!?) majority.
But then, in 2016 staying in toytown Austria-Hungary, was a cert wasn’t it?
Mark, I’ve been doing some more messing about with the swingometer calculator. If you enter the exact figures from Blair’s ’97 victory (Labour: 43.2%, “Conservatives”: 30.7%, “Liberal Democrats”: 16.8%), you get Labour nine seats short of a majority.
I think the opinion pollsters have got this election badly wrong (just as they got the 1992 election wrong, and I think also one election within the last ten years). Some recent polls have Labour as high as 48%. Nope. I can’t see that happening. Bear in mind that in the last 50 years of general elections, Labour has never had a vote share higher than Blair’s 43.2%.
For what it’s worth, since it was announced, NOBODY I know, work with, meet casually has said a single word about an election, which was not the case in 2019. Then it wasn’t a major topic but it was at least acknowledged.
Yes, it’s only been a day, but still. Not a peep.
Thinking about it a bit more, the whole topic seems have dropped out of the everyday conversations and discussions I routinely indulge.
It’s only in forums like this that I raise the topic, or find anywhere I can express genuine opinions. It seems to have left the face to face world completely and it’s only with the anonymous behind online labels that I am able to make points without my blood turning to superheated steam! (Not that my blood pressure is where it should be as I type now).
Since the farce of the post 2019 tory fiasco, dumping Boris and ending up with rancid arsecrack. Well, I think that’s when the final vestigial, subatomic scrap of belief that there was honesty in the major political parties finally disappeared.
It really wasn’t much of a scrap, but when it went, I found that I was no longer able – directly face to face with anybody – to speak the words “labour” or “tory” without choking on my own bile.
FUCK ME, how viscerally do I loathe these creatures!
I’ve been voting anything but Uniparty for the last 30 or more years, ever since it became obious there wasn’t a fag paper between the parties, save a handful of back benchers, who proved their un-worth by all but a couple mincing out of Andrew Bridgen’s debates on damage from all party parliamentary endorsed medical experimentation on the public.
I’ll be voting anything but Uniparty again and hoping, probably in vain, that enough of the electorate have woken up before demographics and possible juggling with voting ages and methods makes stopping the complete destruction and overrun of the country mathematically impossible.
I don’t watch any telly but happened to see the drowned rat standing outside number 10 via a youtube video, if there was ever a glimpse of just how far our nation has gone down the toilet the vision of sunak wet through in his primary school shiny suit was just perfect.
Nothing sums up this loser better than being incapable of thinking to wait for an interlude in the rain before going out. As well as standing behind a giant lectern to remind us how small he is physically and we now know, mentally.
He’ll fly out to California or whatever the day after the elections to enjoy his millions whilst we’ll be paying for their mistakes.
Like Mr L, I hate them with a passion.
“I hate them. I hate them all.”
They hate you so it’s only right that you hate them back.
Any one but LibLabCon! But not the Greens obviously. It could be that this election surprises us by being really interesting. We can hope.
From Wikipedia:
“A Judas goat is a trained goat used in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared. Judas goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and onto trucks.”
Arguably the main parties (and some of the others too) have been, or are willing to be, political Judas goats leading us wherever the Masters of the Universe want us to go. But what to do about it?
“Never hate your enemies. It spoils your judgement.”