The Politics Thread

And what could possibly go wrong with having a Prime Minister with severe money issues that can't keep it in his pants?

 

Well, if you're going to put it like that....

 

The trouble with conservatism is you never run out of other people's money

 

To be fair to Bodger, he could pay out his entire PM's salary to nannies and still not be able to cover all of his kids.
What's that saying about not having kids you can't afford or something...?

 

Sharpe theme tune intensifies...

 

Can't be bothered to argue this.

 

Apologies to anyone in Hartlepool with a double digit or higher IQ.

So.... no apologies to anyone in Hartlepool.

 

Gee, I wonder who Centrist Twitter is going to blame...

 

There's no bargaining with stupid though... Hartlepool was 70%+ Pro-Brexit. They still believe it will be a success, despite every evidence to the contrary: Liberty Steel, Fishing industry etc.
There's 'stupid' and then there's 'diminished responsibility'.
No effective, coherent opposition just exacerbates the situation.

 

Starmer certainly didn't help matters with his one-man shortlist that gave the local party 'Nam flashbacks to late stage Blairism

 

A town that believes Nadine Dorris any time is a lost cause. But believing her when she says Johnson created 180k new jobs in a town with a population of 90k takes stupid to a whole new level...

Labour should have either invested in an all-out aggressive anti-Tory PR media, billboard campaign or just not bothered to fight the seat and saved their energy.

 

The thing is it honestly feels like they've done the latter

More than anything else, whoever advised Starmer that what Labour needed to do to win back the vote is to wave flags and say how proud they are to be British honestly needs to be fired, because not only is that the bread and butter of Tories who are gaslighting voters into thinking the country isn't **** with them in charge, but this can be directly linked to the Tories ramping up their virtue signalling with massive flags, busts of Churchill and portraits of the Queen in their offices for every Zoom call in the last few months

And it has to be said, that's not the only reason why Starmer's advisors should be sacked, because in the last month we've also had
- Starmer's Easter message being delivered outside a church that's big on gay conversion therapy, and it's hardly an obscure fact as Theresa May was criticised in 2017 for using that exact same church on the election trail
- Visiting that pub in Bath with the Covid denier landlord which ended up with the image of Starmer's heavies jostling with him, which could have been avoided if they either did a little research or, at the very least, sent a staffer into the pub half an hour ahead of time to see if it was run by somebody sane
- Pulling out of a Ramadan event because one of the speakers at the event had in the past been critical of Israel's occupation of Palestine which makes Starmer look terrified of the Board of Deputies raising hell that somebody might have a differing view to theirs

Can those three examples be blamed for the expected defeat in Hartlepool? Honestly, no - but the problem is there is a pattern of Starmer's advisors either being grossly incompetent that they keep making absurdly bad calls like this, or his advisors know exactly what they're doing and should be sacked for directing Starmer down multiple wrong paths that undermine the party as a result

 

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I notice the Tory tubthumpers have conveniently forgotten about how we were threatening to starve Ireland into submission last year...