Nigel Farage has confirmed he won't be standing in the election on 4th July. However, I can confirm that he will be appearing on BBC Question Time at least 17 times between now and election day.
So the people who have successfully drained the UK economy of untold Billions, have successfully pushed the country towards totalitarianism, are now a laughing stock because of a song choice?
I really wish we'd stop falling for these tricks. Them using that song can't have been anything but deliberate. What political pundit wouldn't know how it was used in '97 at the last great transition from Blue to Red?
If these people are as stupid as we think they are, then we're stupider for thinking it. That was pure PR, designed by Establishment to focus us on the collar of dog they want next. The Tories will "lose" because the powers allow it.
We can see through Boris Johnston mussing up his hair and his deliberate buffoonism play-acting, but take a press conference held in the pouring rain as some kind of clouseau-esque incompetence? That was Pantomime. Theatre. Illusion.
Now there’s a GE on the way, recommendations for UK politics accounts and politics commentators who actually regularly post here (not just sporadic broadcasting or accounts that have been inactive since 2022) would be fab, if anyone has some. (Don’t worry – I won’t flood feeds with any of this stuff, although I may be a bit giddy on the night of 4 July, unless polling radically shifts before then.)
@craiggrannell Possibly worth following the #UKPol, #UKPolitics and #GE2024 tags for a bit (or skimming through them) to see who you'd like to follow more permanently.
The Government spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, is to investigate the growing scandal over carer benefits that has plunged tens of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers into debt after they unwittingly breached benefit rules.
I have just found out that the US election is on 5 November. This, together with the Tories calling one on 4 July, is a terrible, terrible joke on us proles, right?
Also announced today:
“UK visa applications from foreign health and care workers drop 76% as new Home Office changes take hold”
We have a huge number of vacancies in healthcare, this is not good #ukpolitics
If you're not sure about if you have valid ID for getting to vote (because of the Tories bullshit voter supression laws), then just apply for a postal vote.
Oh goody, The UK gets to change the collar on the dog yet again from Blue to Red instead of changing the animal. And the cycle grinds on and on and on and nothing meaningful ever changes and we still have the same arguments and inequalities we saw when we were born, when our parents were born and their before them.
If Voting Mattered, if Voting Changed anything, they'd criminalise it like they've done with Protests.
I don't want the Tories merely "out". I want them jailed. Tried and Imprisoned for all the financial theft. I want the current system dismantled and rebuilt until it serves the interests of the people. Devolve power right across the UK. Break up Scotland to give Orkney and Shetland their own governance; they suffer in exactly the same way Scotland does from Westminster.
Do the same for England's North East.
Give the Welsh their Independence.
Unify Ireland.
Let's see if the Nations of The Isles can become true friends and partners instead of indentured servants to a parasitic nest of Fascist Imperialists. Let's get Voting back to being something we can be proud to take part in again, proportional and representative instead of this FPTP nightmare choosing between cat-shit and dog-shit every time.
Let's encourage new parties to grow in the ashes of Labour and the Lib-Dems (let's root out and destroy the Tories for all time until even the idea of becoming one is simply unthinkable). Let's embrace the other nations of the world instead of always looking inward and treating them like unwanted faecal matter.
Let's work to improve life and standards for everyone in the country, not just the bankers and billionaires and idle riche. Let's invest in ourselves, our infrastructure, our education, our futures. Let's tackle the energy problems. The pollution problems.
Fuck Elections, man. They mean nothing. I want them to mean something again and sticking another tick in another purple piece of paper for candidates that barely represent me isn't doing it for me.
I don't know how anyone else feels about their personal security being in the hands of someone who can't (a) read a weather forecast or (b) use an umbrella for the biggest announcement of their career so far, but I'm not confident in their ability to keep me safe.
As I was saying a couple of days ago, if the pattern holds of running against the incumbent PM, at the general election @CountBinface will be running in the Richmond and Northallerton constituency.
I wonder what policies the Count can come up with for North Yorkshire. Making the two National Parks join up at Great Langton, perhaps? (-:
@smach it's one of our few good points.
But, we've been waiting for this moment for at least two years and didn't know when it would be until a very small and wet man announced it outside of No 10 a few hours ago.
Our election is a forgone conclusion that heralds little change for the better, I hope yours isn't like that.
Okay, UK folks, it's on. Few of the choices are great, but the Tories have to go. Make sure you're registered to vote. Set up a postal vote if you'll be on holiday on July 4th. Make sure students are registered in the place where they'll be then, as uni terms will be over. Make sure you've got suitable ID. Especially make sure to do all of this if you are in a marginal constituency, cos that's where the election is decided. #UKPolitics#GE2024 https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need
Brexit, harder to import/export. Cost of food going up.
Can't get a GP appointment.
Can't get a dentist appointment
NHS on verge of collapse.
Raw sewage in our rivers, lakes, and seas.
Cost of living crisis.
etc.
But no, it's all about immigrants, trans people and a labour woman who possibly didn't pay a £1.5k tax bill over ten years ago.