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ShredderLivesOn

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Occasional YouTuber.
Full-time curmudgeon.
Independence supporting Scotsman.

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Lucy Allan has had the whip withdrawn from the Tories, after she started openly supporting Reform candidate Alan Adams in the Telford constituency.

Lucy Allan is the outgoing MP for Telford, having opted not to stand at the upcoming election.

Amazing that none of her previous actions warranted expulsion from the Tory Party.
Lucy Allan was recorded bullying a member of her constituency office staff who had been signed off for depression, to try and force her back to work early.

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She was also caught up in "rustygate", after she fabricated a death threat from a constituent who had sent an email under the pseudonym Rusty Shackleford.
Allan added the words "unless you die" to a strongly worded email in opposition to her support of bombing Syria, to suggest she had been targeted by death threats for her politics.

The email had though been sent by a local Labour member, who showed that those words were not in the email he sent.
The Tories took no action.

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Anas Sarwar is misleading when he said that he waived his right to receive money upon becoming an MSP.
When he was an MP company records showed that between 2013 and 2015, he was paid £333,000. His wife meanwhile received £196,000. She still receives dividends to this day.

Usdaw only recently started to get involved as well. As United Wholesale previously would not recognise trade unions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxx8d0l948o

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The Tories previous position on National Service. Keep in mind this was said quite a long time ago.

All the way back on checks notes Thursday...

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There is something quite sick about a generation that took every opportunity away from young people, now telling them to either enlist in the military or do unpaid work for a country that clearly hates them.

How about bringing back well paid and secure jobs?
Final salary pensions? Or at least a pension you can live to see and live a decent retirement on?
Union rights?
Affordable housing to buy, and decent social housing to rent?
Affordable rail travel?
NHS dental care?

Just a thought.

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Rachel Johnson spoke in favour of the Tory idea of reintroducing National Service. She tried to invoke the spirit of everyone doing what was right for the nation during the pandemic.

Just a reminder. She like her brother and father, breached lockdown rules for her own selfish interests.
In her case, she traveled to her second home to play tennis.

She also said the quiet part out loud though, about this being to get unpaid labour. As she thinks it should include forcing people to pick fruit.

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James Cleverly meanwhile confirmed on Laura Kuenssberg's show that anyone who opts for the civil option of National Service, rather than enlisting in the military will not be paid for their time.

So this absolutely is about having unpaid labour to plug all the shortages the Tories have created in the emergency services.

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Jesus Christ. I thought this was a joke from NewsThump or Private Eye.

But no. Rishi Sunak really is pledging to bring back compulsory National Service.
18 year olds would be given the choice to join the military full-time, doing community service one weekend every month with the police, NHS, or fire brigade.

I always find it funny when I hear people in their 50s and 60s bang on about bringing back National Service. Because none of them ever did it either.
It was abolished in 1960.

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National Service was just the UK's name for conscription.

Presumably because they're insisting that people who don't join the military "volunteer" to work with the NHS, police, or fire service, this would all be unpaid labour.
Which I would hazard a guess is the Tories solution to solving the staffing cuts they've implemented to all of those services.

No need to pay a hospital porter, cleaner, or emergency services phone operator when you can force an 18 year old to do it for free.

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Labour are reportedly looking for a new anthem to replace 'Things Can Only Get Better' as the theme for Keir Starmer's campaign.

So I thought I could suggest a few.
Liar - Henry Rollins
I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal - Eddie Guerrero's WWE theme
Asshole - Denis Leary
Creep - Radiohead
I'm A Cunt - from the TV show Mongrels
Hate Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe

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I Think I'm A Clone Now - Weird Al Yankovic (The music video can be clips of Starmer and Blair)
Liar, Liar - The Castaways
Stuck in The Middle With You - Stealer's Wheel
March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails
Look at All Those Idiots - Mr Burns
The Imperial March - John Williams
The Muppet Show theme

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Or if he would like to win over the likes of the woman who he said had a valid point when she called into his radio show with Nick Ferrari and spouted the Great Replacement and her desire live in an ethnostate, he could always go with White Power by Skrewdriver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sY6kKcxxc

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With all the Tory MPs declaring that they're stepping down, one backbencher unfortunately is staying. And very likely to win, despite potentially being the most loathsome MP on the Tory benches.

Christopher Chope has blocked bills in Parliament on ratifying the Standards Committee's judgement against greedy lobbying shit Owen Paterson, criminalising upskirting, tackling female genital mutilation, a pardon of Alan Turing, oversight on use of force in mental health units...,

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More than 75 current Tory MPs are standing down at the General Election.

Some of which are understandable, as they're retiring due to age. So this would include the likes of Theresa May, Bill Cash, and candidate for the dumbest MP in the Commons, John Redwood.

Others appear to be getting out to avoid embarrassment of losing their seats, or are set to flee to a directorship somewhere.

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Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng for example is someone who really should have an eye kept on his next move once he steps down.

He and then Prime Minister Liz Truss (remember her?) hosted a dinner for Tory donors who were wealthy hedge fund managers, right before his infamous mini-budget that crashed the UK's economy.

Those hedge funds made a lot of money betting that the value of the pound would collapse. One in particular was the hedge fund owned by his former boss Crispin Odey.

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Kwarteng was also among a number of MPs caught in a sting by Led By Donkeys, where he offered his services to what he thought was a South Korean company, for the sum of £10,000 per day.

Spare a thought for one MP who is stepping down though, which is Douglas Ross. The poor soul decided that he can't handle working three jobs on a part-time basis, so is scaling back to two. He's already had to downsize from four jobs.

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Douglas Ross is of course the leader of the Scottish Tories. He became leader (well, branch office manager to be more accurate), in 2020, having been an MP for three years.

The only problem is that DRoss wasn't a sitting member of the Scottish Parliament. So when he became an MSP at the 2021 Holyrood elections, he refused to step down as an MP and trigger a by-election.

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This was on top of his refusal to step down as a councillor in Moray. The council position he would finally step down from at the 2021 local government elections.
Ah but wait, that's just three jobs. There is another which DRoss values apparently more than all of his political gigs, which he's treated as very well paid part-time work.

DRoss has missed important debates and votes at Moray, Holyrood, and Westminster, because they all took a back seat to working as a professional football referee.

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Diane Abbott will not find out the outcome of the Labour Party inquiry into her conduct until the 4th of June.
Which is the last day for candidates to be declared for the election.

She might be safer announcing that she'll stand as an independent. As she's more than likely to win in Hackney either way.

I have no doubt that Labour would likely reinstate her, as Blair did Ken Livingston after he stood as an independent for the first London Mayoral election and won.

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A fine start by both branches of the Tories to their General Election campaigns.

Rishi Sunak asked a group at a media event if they were looking forward to the football this summer.
Which was met with awkward silence, as it was in Wales.

Keir Starmer meanwhile launched his manifesto in Kent, as he wants to focus on the right-wing talking point of small boats.
Of the two Kent based Labour MPs, only Natalie Elphicke was invited to the launch.
Rosie Duffield was snubbed.

Was this Tory over TERF?

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Which MP and/or candidate are you most looking forward to losing when results are declared on the 5th of July?

For MP, it has to be Lee Anderson. The man has been along with the likes of Jonathan Gullis, the embodiment of how low the bar has sunk in UK politics, that a clown like him could be given such a prominent role.

For candidate, I'm picking Alan Reid. Former Lib Dem MP standing in Argyll & Bute.
And that's a personal one. I've taken delight at each of his electoral failures since 2015.

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The reason I enjoy Alan Reid losing at every election, is because of a disgusting letter he sent to a French constituent who had questions about the 2014 independence referendum.

It read, "You are a foreigner. I am not your MP".

I take issue with that for a variety of reasons.
The big ones are that he actually WAS said French person's MP. As MPs are there to represent everyone in the constituency, regardless of eligibility to vote.
And my partner is also a foreigner.

So yeah. Fuck him.

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Sunak taking swipes at Keir Starmer.

This is not the most statesmanlike calling of a General Election that I've ever heard from a Prime Minister.

Usually the Prime Minister would set out their own stall, and talk about their own record, and vision for the future.
This might actually be worse than BoJo the Clown's 2019 speech.

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As well as registering for a postal vote, it's worth making sure you have photographic ID.

There's a list of accepted ID here, as well as a link to apply for a Voter Authority Certificate.
https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need

Veterans ID still will not count. Something the Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer apologised for and said he would aim to rectify. But was denied, as broadening the accepted ID would allow more students and younger people to vote.

Senior citizens can use travel cards. Youngsters can't.

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The fact that the press is waiting in front of the door to 10 Downing Street in the rain for Rishi Sunak to announce the General Election, makes me wonder whatever the Hell happened to that press briefing room that they spent £2.6 million on?

Oh that's right. BoJo the Clown decided he didn't want to do 'White House' style press briefings after he kept getting awkward questions.

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@Nicovel0 Since Starmer is no doubt going to be the next Prime Minister, I hope for once he keeps a promise, and they do open the books on the dodgy contracts received by Tory donors during the pandemic.

Although I won't hold my breath.

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