Politics 2024/25 General Election Voting Intention (2022)

[Scouse]

Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election

Other planned changes include expanding voter ID to include bank cards and moving to automatic registration.

www.bbc.co.uk

I feel like this is going to backfire massively.

It's Labour's version of gerrymandering.

 

[Gwadien]

I picked China because it's the obvious one. But pick a country.

I know people will choose the cheapest thing, rather than ethically buy - which is why we should regulate. That's the whole point of governments.

Not in a capitalist democracy it's the duty to get the cheapest shit possible, and be the furthest away from the bottom of the capitalist pyramid as possible.

 

[Gwadien]

It's Labour's version of gerrymandering.

So many reform votes though, maybe that's the point, split the vote.

As for gerrymandering, play the game so long as its allowed. Atleast we're not the US!

 

[Scouse]

As for gerrymandering, play the game so long as its allowed. Atleast we're not the US!

Principles, dear boy.

If Starmer shows no adherence to principles then it shows that if he was in the US he'd do exactly the same.

Which brings me on to my next post, and the principles that Labour have absolutley abandoned...

 

[Scouse]

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag

Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

www.theguardian.com

 

[Scouse]

Gawd damn this is why I hate Labour - their wholesale adoption of Orwellian Newspeak:

Diane Abbott suspended by Labour Party after racism comments

MP Diane Abbott is suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.co.uk

Now, I hate Diane Abbot as much as the next guy. But saying that racism that people of colour experience because everyone can see they're people of colour, and racism that white people experience when they're members of a minority - e.g. travellers or jewish people - are different experiences is just plain true.

Labour are calling her antisemitic for pointing out this truth.

This is wholesale mind-capture and the use of language as a cage to make thought-crime impossible.

 

[Scouse]

Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’

Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban

www.theguardian.com

Don't hold up jokes from Private Eye or plod'll wang you in clinky.

Free speech in the UK.

Vance is a cunt. But even broken clocks are right twice a day.

 

[Gwadien]

For a solid 3 minutes I believed the article said 'Ian Hislop calls for the arrest...'

 

[Scouse]

I mean, I might get this printed on a t-shirt and see how many people try to start fights with me

 

[Scouse]

Big miscarriage of justice this, posted about it a fair few times:

City traders have rate-rigging convictions quashed

Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo who served time in jail have fought for 10 years to clear their names.

www.bbc.co.uk

What really needs to happen is that the government and banking heads who knowingly were doing this need to go to jail. From the PM, to the BoE head and on down. They threw these guys to the wall.

 

[Embattle]

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I mean, I might get this printed on a t-shirt and see how many people try to start fights with me

They'll only possibly start a fight with you if you don't include Welsh translations.

 

[Scouse]

Aaand, slow clap for Labour:

UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house

Marianne Sorrell, a retired teacher from Somerset, says she is ‘very traumatised’ after arrest at Cardiff rally

www.theguardian.com