Especially as it seems most of them don't have good enough eyesight to read the small print.
They all lie so much that they have no idea what's what anymore.
It'd be nice if just one of 'em came out and said "Yeah, he acted like a bit of a tit but he shouldn't lose his job over it" Just an acknowledgement to his wrongdoing.
There's some postponed elections next year, and they shouldn't be burning through good will before the new year and some possibly tough times of a different variety. The government is safe for years but Boris still has to keep his side happy and feel like he's in control.
They'll worry about voter intention nothing else really. If Labour starts catching up or surpassing it means Boris will be ditched long before next election unless something radical happens.
Well, here i am at tesco click and collect same as every tuesday. Theres a sign saying stay in hour car and they’ll take your name then put shopping in your boot.
Except nobodu takes your name, so everyone gets out of the car, uses the touchscreen. Those that follow the rules dont get their stuff because they get left behind. As soon as the staff member brings your shopping people just walk up to the staff member and just talk to them from a few feet away. One womans doing it and shes got a newborn babyin her arms!
Do people not know what 2 metres looks like? edit: the fucking staff member who came to my car window fucking didnt
Except nobodu takes your name, so everyone gets out of the car, uses the touchscreen. Those that follow the rules dont get their stuff because they get left behind. As soon as the staff member brings your shopping people just walk up to the staff member and just talk to them from a few feet away. One womans doing it and shes got a newborn babyin her arms!
Do people not know what 2 metres looks like? edit: the fucking staff member who came to my car window fucking didnt
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I will see you next year as we scrabble for turnips post no deal and super-mutated corona virus Mk3.
The Turnip soup kitchens at the workhouse will hopefully have free wi-fi
I'm sure the UK Politics thread will be revived after this goes away. This thread is mostly the same people and it has replaced it to some degree (kinda like the Brexit thread did last year) because it's the biggest political issue around atm.
And yes, before a certain Tory/Brexiteer complains about it again, Coronavirus is also a political issue as well as a health one.
I'm going to assume that's Animal crossing related and not the porn actress, google brought up a few options.
PerfectionJust realised who Johnson and Cummings remind me of:
Yep, the Brexit threads were huge, understandably so. UK PoliEra is still around, and BritERA could probably do with a reboot.
Well if the porn actresses turnips on the side I guess that works as well
Getting like that down here near St Ives, summer is going to be heaving
Yeah I didn't mean it was dead entirely it's just uh, less active with this thread going.
All the poeple not indoctrinated and smart enough to see other countries handling of this, already keep asking why aren't we as good as New Zealand, South Korea etc. Everyone else is deluding themselves in cold comfort that we aren't as bad as America.Meanwhile...
Coronavirus: No new deaths in Republic of Ireland
Ireland's chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said the Republic has "suppressed Covid-19 as a country".www.bbc.co.uk
I wonder if there'll be a point when certain people look at how other countries have handled this, and think...that could have been us.
Give it five years and a public inquiry will rip into this and all the sycophants will have switched allegiances by then and will be ripping into the old wrong government and completely disregarding their support for them in the past
British exceptionalism trumps all. Britannia Rules The Waves.
I have to say that as someone who has posted on era and gaf I've never felt more part of a community on either forum than when it comes to UK politics.
The lyrics to our national anthem are so bad. Who uses the word “never” three times in a sentence?
The government is run by the same donor class as those who fund the GOP. Cummings was their chosen man, Johnson the vessel. We are literally being run by a bunch of white supremacist libertarians. People have not grasped this yet. The UK is a shambles, we have fallen far. Yet this is not the end. It will get much much much worse before it get's better. The systemic collapse and breakdown of the US political system is a guide to where we are headed in this country. First past the post makes such a thing possible in both countries.
I don't think you can compare the UK and US electoral systems so directly (however broken FPTP may be), on account of the electoral college in America. While in 2019 the Conservatives did not win a majority of votes, they did win more votes than each other party; in 2016 in America, by contrast, the Republicans actually lost the popular vote.
The last 2 Tory absolute majorities were obtaines with less than 50% of the vote.
In the last election, Tories got an 40 seat majority with only 43.6% of the vote (which accounted for 365 seats). Labor only had 202 for a 32% of the vote. Lib dems got 11 for 11.6% of the vote.
Edit: In the previous election the tories had a seat majority with 42.4% of the vote. Their 42.4% of the vote was 317 seats while the Labor 40% was only 262. A difference of 55 seats for 2%.
There is a disproportion on the "Tory" win.
I'm not denying that the Tories didn't win a majority of votes overall, but they won more votes than each other party. They were the largest party. That this translates into a disproportionate count of seats is different from being voted in while not being the most popular party.
I agree that the system is broken, but I think the US and UK systems are broken in quite significantly different ways.
Yeah, the winning party getting fewer votes and more seats doesn't happen often, i think 51 was the worst example if i remember correctly.
I mean, the problem is that FPTP can lead you to wins even when having less votes because of differentials in small areas. In the previous election against May, 2% accounted for 40 seats difference.
The same "well, the party that won disproportionally at least won the vote!" could have been said about the US electoral system before Bush or Trump (as the winner of the electoral system tends to be the one who gets more votes).
But if you want to have a better example, the US house (which is a similar system as the UK parliament although more problematic due to politicians being able to control part of the seat distribution) often has the Dems needing to win 52%+ of the general vote to carry it due to gerrymandering / problems in the differentials. Which is a similar case in the UK.
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The lockdown is based on whatever interpretation of the rules is the right one for you! Official government advice is to do whatever the fuck you want
This is being picked up in a few places now.
Dominic Cummings 'added' coronavirus warning to year-old blog post in April
DOMINIC Cummings has been caught adding references to coronavirus to a year-old blog post on pandemics – after boasting in yesterday’s press…www.thenational.scot
He's such a pathetic loser you wonder why they try so hard to keep him around.
Boris approvals down from +44 to -1 in two months.
I know it seems like the Tories get away with everything and people have short memories but I don't recall such a quick decline in approval ratings like this before. Maybe with May but, as we know, she never recovered. This might not be the end of the Tories but Boris could be in trouble if he doesn't sort it out.
I know it seems like the Tories get away with everything and people have short memories but I don't recall such a quick decline in approval ratings like this before. Maybe with May but, as we know, she never recovered. This might not be the end of the Tories but Boris could be in trouble if he doesn't sort it out.
Ah, I hadn't known that had ever happened!
I'm still not convinced by the use of comparing our system to America's, except for general issues surrounding rural/urban divides.
First past the post is the primary reason why right-wing parties pushing ethnonationalist policies are able to coral a plurality from a minority position. The majority of people did not vote conservative yet we have a hard right government with absolute power. It is a manifestly absurd situation. It is the primary reason why the US is ultimately fucked because of the Senate (Wyoming = CA) and is the reason why this country has had so many years of Conservative rule. Generally speaking it is much harder for the far right to win in a PR system. Even if they win they will need coalitions.
No we are more fucked than the US. People really have not realised this yet.The US has demographics on it's side and can wrestle control of the executive branch and the House. The judicial system is fucked though. The UK doesn't have the right demographics, it is much more susceptible to falling under the thumb of ethnonationalist rule (Brexit says hi!). They are using the US playbook of culture wars.
I thought people found it just digging by accident, but Cummings actually told people to read his blog and then they found it.
It's even more pathetic than i thought.