Separate Moan Thread About The Election

Why?

 

He's built his entire political career on doing that. Without the EU to bash for decades up to 2019 (and intermittently since), he wouldn't be a household name or have any media coverage at all.

 

Pragmatism

 

So, do you think the Tories should always be in power and there should not be general elections, @Banana Man?

I would recommend the book A Decade In Tory by Russell Jones. It goes through all the ways in which they failed the tax payer from 2010 onwards. The scale of incompetence and self-serving is quite breathtaking. It made me want to cry.

 

And yet Tony Blair and Bigot Woman Brown did even more damage before them.

Electing an inferior party to avoid a single party system isn't democracy, and it isn't what's best for the country.

All I read is what the tories have done wrong, how will Labour be better ? And I want policies, not just nondescript nuance socialist ideologies.

'Getting the tories out' isn't a policy, yet it's all the lefty virtue signallers seem to think you need to run a country.

 

I'm not sure Farage is blaming the EU in this election, he is just taking advantage of the fact that all the other parties are just saying more of the same.
Labour, "grow the economy" but how, "smash the gangs" but how? Scrap planning.

Conservatives, "we are over the worst", Yeah?

Greens, just cost us money on stupid schemes.

Lib dems, lessons on how to be a Boris lookalike.

I could understand the obsession with Farage if he was Trump in America and likely to win, but I dont think he will, so why is everyone so obsessed, its weird.

 

The public cost of change to a new party forming a government is huge. It's not worth it based on Labours weak manifesto, just because the sitting government are shyte.

 

A single party system is a dictatorship and soon descends into totalitarianism.

You are hearing about all the Tories have done wrong because they have made such a monumental ****-up of everything. (* - insert expletive of choice).

 

I agree, I did not realise how many households are actually singletons and it's not just in the UK. Oslo, Berlin, Paris and Sweden all have one thing in common, 50% of households are single occupancy due to the change on how we go about our lives. The trouble with such a high number of single occupancy, it increases the carbon footprint, making it difficult for governments to meet net zero.

I read an article yesterday and one person households are the biggest consumers of energy and land. They consume 38% more products, 42% more packaging, 55% more electric and 61% more gas compared to an individual in a four person household. I don't know how much of those figures are true, but even though I knew single occupancy households was on the increase, I did not realise about the carbon foot print issue that comes with single occupancy.

 

He won't say anything about the problem of extreme wealth. So the distraction technique works in favour of the people who run the country via whichever politicians happen to be in "power". If he became a threat to them, he would be dropped from view immediately.

 

I'd agree both have been incompetent, using public money poorly, even frivolously. There ought to be long term accountability for politicians who squander millions on schemes and wheezes that are ill-thought through and doomed to fail. Instead, they stroll away with a peerage and their personal fortunes intact.

 

Well it's only fair to let the other team have a go occasionally and then we can have righty virtue signallers and a lefty government complaining about how biased the Radio 4 is.
Then in 5 years we can let the tories have another go, but I wouldn't bet on it unlike them.