General election 2024

[versh]

Exactly. A common complaint is that they're "boring", but "boring" has got to be better than "exhilaratingly awful."

Also, politics as entertainment is partly why Britain and the US are in such a sorry state.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Boring is more sinister.

 

[versh]

This is all very vague. What, specifically, are you afraid Labour might do?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Well, so far they've said they want closer ties with the EU on national security, to renationalise the railways, to reform the prison system, to overhaul the planning system and to negotiate with the BMA to prevent further strikes. They've also scrapped the Rwanda policy which allegedly cost £75m per person and involved a grand total of five people.

But you said you think it'll be business as usual

 

[Mr. Tea]

This is all very vague. What, specifically, are you afraid Labour might do?

It'll be something to do with trans people, bet your bottom dollar.

 

[Benny Bunter]

This is all very vague. What, specifically, are you afraid Labour might do?

Who knows? Probably spend even more money we haven't got than the Tories have, without fixing anything.

 

[Benny Bunter]

It'll be something to do with trans people, bet your bottom dollar.

Should have known better to get sucked in to posting in the politics thread. Good night

 

[versh]

But you said you think it'll be business as usual

Yeah, and so far they're proving me wrong.

 

[shakahislop]

people are going to have to get used to talking about politics without the conservatives in charge. the way people talk and think about politics in the uk has it goes without saying changed a lot now that we're all online most of the time. the tories have been there throughout that whole period. they fill all kinds of discursive functions. it's going to be an adaptation. i watched something grow over those tory years. a structure of feeling. first on the internet and then the border dissolved and everyone was bringing their online experiences and ways of speaking into real life. a leg of that has been kicked out. something new is going to grow instead.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

It'll be something to do with trans people, bet your bottom dollar.

Says the man who can't explain how someone ends up in the wrong body.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The new Labour government is replacing the words "levelling up" with "local government" in the department's name and ministerial titles, minister Jim McMahon has said.

That's like replacing the word "banana" with "door".

'Levelling up' phrase to be erased, says minister

Jim McMahon says it was "only ever a slogan" and would be taken out of his department's name.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I'm actually quite excited about this new government. I feel like it's the part of the episode when Hannibal turns up with all the team and you know everything is going to be OK.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Just found out my dad voted Reform. I mean, but of course he did. 🤣

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Just found out my dad voted Reform. I mean, but of course he did. 🤣

You have to look at your own role in this, being such an excellent negative propagandist.

 

[Mr. Tea]

You have to look at your own role in this, being such an excellent negative propagandist.

You underestimate the radicalizing effect of a half-century of Telegraph readership.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

That man Streeting just castrated the castraters, mangled the Mengeles, blocked the puberty blockers.

You all owe Roisin Murphy a pint.

 

[IdleRich]

Sounds as though tonight's debate is gonna go really badly for Walz.