General Election 2024

Travis_Bickle

Flaneur he might win us a working majority after our worst electoral drubbing in living memory.

Harvest

https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1796633766133211140?t=IroibbhWt8zQSWHTIXoBrA&s=19

cordshoes

Never underestimate the shy/guilty Tories.

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Reggie_Perrin Under FPTP we have two choices. Tories or Labour.

My very point. Nothing is more important to either party than the next election.

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Anchor My nephew is earning 100k a year and is Tory. Because he’s shit scared labour might take 20 quid a month of him yet moans like fuck his autistic son can’t get a specialist school place.

As someone who has tried to get assistance for an autistic child during both the last labour government and this Tory government I can with some authority tell you that both were equally fucking useless.

Anchor

space I wonder if this was a postcode thing as we got our eldest some useful support under Blair. The local camhs was brilliant.

doggybag

CharlieG
Ah Sam, 'What a story! God send I don't make a balls of it.'
An old and compassionate soul he had.

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Anchor I wonder if this was a postcode thing as we got our eldest some useful support under Blair. The local camhs was brilliant.

I was on a Mental Health waiting list from 2005 to 2010. I was told that there was only 6 diagnostic referral available in my area per year due to funding but there was hundreds of people on the list - and the figure was growing and I was slowly being pushed further down the list. One mental health nurse told me in all seriousness that the only way I'd get to a diagnosis, let alone treatment, was if I went and stood on a motorway bridge until the police arrived.

A few months after the 2010 election I got contacted to be told that the Tories had increased funding - I ended up getting seen and onto a treatment stream a couple of months later.

That's my experience.

My experience with my son is that unless your child has survived a suicide or killed some other cunt then you're on your own. And that hasn't much changed in the last 15 years.

Ken_Lobster

Liz Truss interview was very revealing .
We are basically voting for a puppet who isn’t allowed to deliver the policy’s they campaigned and have to toe the line of their overlords .
I have no idea who to vote for ,none of them represent me or my interests

Anchor

Ken_Lobster What about other people's interests?

People less well off? Vote to help them?

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Ken_Lobster I have no idea who to vote for ,none of them represent me or my interests

I challenge anyone to make a list of what they want the next government to do and then compare it to manifestos and election promises.

It's fucking eye opening. The Tories no longer represent Tories and Labour no longer represents Labour. Both know they have a core that will vote for them if they pinned their rosette to a pig and they are both pitching to undecided voters - not the brightest of groups. Policy for both parties is therefore directed by the gullible and pliable.

Djpekingman

Anchor Liz Truss interview was very revealing .

Fuck off. I don't believe that for an instant.

Ken_Lobster

Anchor
It is totally possible ,but still whichever that party is won’t be allowed to deliver

Ken_Lobster

Anchor
Also you may have jumped the gun there as my interests may not necessarily be best for me but for my daughters which take priority over everything in my life .

Loose_Lips

Ken_Lobster kill them at the other end.

First thing for university is to take away all personal statements.

Remove names, addresses and just use a unique number.

Want a lad from Eccles to go to Cambridge?

His best chance is getting the grades then anonymise the submission to the space and use a lottery to select everyone.

How can anyone argue against that without showing their hand?

Ken_Lobster

Loose_Lips
I agree
The lad from Eccles is no different to my daughters.
Or the other way -Rich funded British and foreign students who are bought a place,that’s an issue that I don’t see a party WILlINGLY changing off their own backs.
So …Exactly ,why would anyone have an issue with your suggestion ,except those who can afford to do the latter,the elites,politicians etc .

Anchor

Ken_Lobster Only a suggestion, old chap.

Anchor

space was this in Worcs?

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Travis_Bickle “Diane Abbott was elected in 1987, the first black woman MP. She’s been a trailblazer She has carved a path for other people to come into politics and public life. The whip has obviously been restored to her now, and she is free to go forward as a Labour candidate”
Starmer today.

Looks like Abbott has got away with again. Unlike the other pro-Palastinian candidates that are being moved aside for Pro-Israel Starmer faithfull. Wonder how many women of colour can be removed from the rolls and replaced with white middle class men before anyone cries foul.

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Anchor was this in Worcs?

Yes.

Anchor

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https://x.com/garyspedding/status/1797273835634311489?s=46&t=h-3SQI41AE9I0HbZ1y_SQw

Like this cunt. Akehurst.

Ken_Lobster

My daughter had an eye op 6 months ago .
From initial diagnosis to operation was 4 weeks.
The doctors and Nurses were superb .
That’s my only recent experience of the NHS .
I was very impressed .
This was in Notts

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Ken_Lobster I've had no issues with the NHS for the physical stuff - apart from them leaving my mother in law on a trolley for four hours after she'd obviously had a stroke and then telling her they could only reverse it if she was seen within 4 hours, but we'll write that off as fucking covid lockdown madness.

But mental health? It's where the rest of the NHS raid for funds and it's been this way for the last 40 years.

Placid

Ken_Lobster My daughter had an eye op 6 months ago .
From initial diagnosis to operation was 4 weeks.
The doctors and Nurses were superb .
That’s my only recent experience of the NHS .
I was very impressed .
This was in Notts

Hope she's ok mate

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