General Election Pre-Thread (2 of 6)

[Davkaus]

Is the emergency that nobody has been talking about him for a few days?

[bickster]

8 minutes ago, wishywashy said:

 

Farage going to run and lose for an 8th time?

He's changing his identity to Nigella, he was spotted buying the clothes in Ashfield at the weekend

[juanpabloangel18]

19 hours ago, ml1dch said:

The answer to the question "where is the money going?" is broadly "to the places that the public tend to ask for it to go"

About £100bn of freshly printed GBP to pay people through furlough almost entirely ended up in the pockets of landlords and shareholders. So there's that 

But more broadly, we have seen the biggest increase in wealth among the already-wealthy in recorded history, so asking where the money is going (and demanding a redistribution of wealth) is entirely valid 

 

Edited June 3 by juanpabloangel18

[Wainy316]

This election has just been a huge PR exercise for him.  Can't believe we've got another 5 weeks of it 

[ml1dch]

14 minutes ago, juanpabloangel18 said:

About £100bn of freshly printed GBP to pay people through furlough almost entirely ended up in the pockets of landlords and shareholders. So there's that 

Well, yes. People spend their money on goods and services. On things like their rent (landlords) and mortgage payments(shareholders). So in a time when the Goverment is preventing them from earning, so paying them not to work, the money that the Government gives them is going to be spent on things like rent and mortgage payments.

[NurembergVillan]

4 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

This election has just been a huge PR exercise for him.  Can't believe we've got another 5 weeks of it 

He's an insufferable toss pot. I genuinely can't understand how anyone can support him.

[juanpabloangel18]

2 hours ago, ml1dch said:

Well, yes. People spend their money on goods and services. On things like their rent (landlords) and mortgage payments(shareholders). So in a time when the Goverment is preventing them from earning, so paying them not to work, the money that the Government gives them is going to be spent on things like rent and mortgage payments.

While the very wealthy (who don't pay rent to anyone) had no high-end services to spend their money on during covid, so whilst they've been able to massively increase their wealth further and hoover up land and assets, living standards plummet for ordinary people and the young. Maybe one day the average voter will wake up to this and demand radical change... but doesn't seem to be on anyone's agenda weirdly

[choffer]

 

[bickster]

41 minutes ago, choffer said:

 

And his response was...

Which on the surface is a fair point until you suddenly think... yeah because they went into coalition with.... The Tory Party

[Swerbs]

 

Not going to happen but those numbers would make Ed Davey the leader of the opposition...

 

[Davkaus]

Is this real life?

If Farage stands, the numbers will get even worse.

[trekka]

39 minutes ago, bickster said:

And his response was...

Which on the surface is a fair point until you suddenly think... yeah because they went into coalition with.... The Tory Party

 

[Swerbs]

 

A better poll for the Tories..

 

[Swerbs]

Farage taking over as leader of Reform

[markavfc40]

Farage taking over from Tice as leader of Reform. 

[MCU]

The Tories are **** even more than they were.

[Davkaus]

I'll be very interested to read what that does to the polls, Sunak might not be enjoying himself very much.

[Swerbs]

Looks like hes standing now too.

[desensitized43]

Unlucky Clacton

[Wainy316]

Clacton will be the one seat I hope the Tories hold then.