National News Sir Keir Starmer

Sharp Edges said:
Diane Abbot has stuck the knife in already. Why cant these people see they are the problem and not the solution?

The labour party is finished until the stench of Corbyn, momentum, and Anti semitism etc are extinguished. They might have to go backwards to go forwards and somehow leave the loons to their own echo chamber and form another party.

Its really not a good place to be when a political party has zero opposition, especially one as average as our current government.
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with people like Diane Abbot at labour they wont be in power for awile .
 
QR said:
No they can't and the vaccine roll out has been excellent (as I've said on here before - thank you NHS) but... the late lockdowns, plural, leading to one of the worst death rates amongst first world countries?
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You’re convoluting two different things. What do they have to worry about?... a global pandemic. Yes it’s great about the vaccine programme but if they are anything like me then they are worrying about the bigger picture and how long the pandemic will impact our lives. You asked a simple question and you got a simple answer.
 
Essexyellows said:
Happy days, especially watching the twitterati in meltdown.................. they count votes not tweets. :)
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I'm aware of your love-in with Twatter :), but fair to say that platform is part of the wider social media circus. Just listening to a group of young voters on the radio describing their first voting experience, and they were adamant that ALL of the information they made a voting decision on came from social media, and the number of likes / re-tweets etc had a big influence.

I have a 19 year old nephew at University who is independent-thinking and definitely capable of deeper intellectual thought than I am. He is heavily influenced by the number of 'followers' particular online leaders, and even product lines, have. It's the world we now live in and the most effective users of social media - including Twatter - will reap the rewards.
 
Pete Burrett said:
I'm aware of your love-in with Twatter :), but fair to say that platform is part of the wider social media circus. Just listening to a group of young voters on the radio describing their first voting experience, and they were adamant that ALL of the information they made a voting decision on came from social media, and the number of likes / re-tweets etc had a big influence.

I have a 19 year old nephew at University who is independent-thinking and definitely capable of deeper intellectual thought than I am. He is heavily influenced by the number of 'followers' particular online leaders, and even product lines, have. It's the world we now live in and the most effective users of social media - including Twatter - will reap the rewards.
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Hardly independent of thought then?
The fact that youngsters actually think that social media matters is a scary thought.
Glad I`ll be long gone before we all become droids.
 
Essexyellows said:
Hardly independent of thought then?
The fact that youngsters actually think that social media matters is a scary thought.
Glad I`ll be long gone before we all become droids.
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Think you might need to define what independent thought is in the world according to Essexyellow.....
 
Sheik djibouti said:
Think you might need to define what independent thought is in the world according to Essexyellow.....
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Not being "influenced by the number of followers" somebody has is a good starting point.**

**unless they are voters. ;)

More good news locally the PCC went to second preference after the Conservative candidate only got 49.23% of the vote.

Result just in.

Rupert Matthews (Con) - 135,566

Ross Willmott (Lab) - 102.211

Conservative majority : 33, 335

🇬🇧🇬🇧(y) cue more "jingoistic flag shagging" or as Conservative voters call it ............. winning.
 
I see that nice man Sadiq Khan managed to win as London Mayor again.
No doubt he will be demanding more taxpayer support for TFL whilst fleecing the motorists that come in and letting homeowners there pay minimal council tax
 
Essexyellows said:
Not being "influenced by the number of followers" somebody has is a good starting point.**
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So I suppose being completely independent of thought, you're not influenced by what anyone else says??

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Come off it you're the first to leap into your "Comical Ali: defender of the Tories" outfit at the first hint of criticism

You've posted some hilarious pro-Brexit and pro-tory stuff on here - truly eyewatering funny:ROFLMAO:

Not indoctrinated.....no sireee:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Sheik djibouti said:
So I suppose being completely independent of thought, you're not influenced by what anyone else says??

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Come off it you're the first to leap into your "Comical Ali: defender of the Tories" outfit at the first hint of criticism

You've posted some hilarious pro-Brexit and pro-tory stuff on here - truly eyewatering funny:ROFLMAO:

Not indoctrinated.....no sireee:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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Many years of experiencing the alternatives kind of establishes how you agree with a party or not.
Pro-Brexit and Pro-Tory absolutely.
However I would also like a viable opposition to the Government and a good working trade relationship with Europe, like the Common Market was.
Unfortunately to get the majority of what you want sometimes comes at the cost of other things.... a bit like driving a Jag, luxury but a hefty fuel bill.
 
And this is where you and I will always fundamentally differ as your outlook is all about what you want. Mine is about what is best for all and most of all for those already without, knowing that I am luckily capable of providing myself with a comfortable existence without having to put me first.

The jag is a good analogy. You often find jag drivers look down their nose at other road users and have and over-inflated sense of their own importance.

Was it the Paul Whitehouse show that featured a character played by Mark Williams, whose punchline was "excuse me...I couldn't help noticing that we appear to be considerably richer than yow"

He drove a jag.
 
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Pete Burrett said:
I'm aware of your love-in with Twatter :), but fair to say that platform is part of the wider social media circus. Just listening to a group of young voters on the radio describing their first voting experience, and they were adamant that ALL of the information they made a voting decision on came from social media, and the number of likes / re-tweets etc had a big influence.

I have a 19 year old nephew at University who is independent-thinking and definitely capable of deeper intellectual thought than I am. He is heavily influenced by the number of 'followers' particular online leaders, and even product lines, have. It's the world we now live in and the most effective users of social media - including Twatter - will reap the rewards.
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Scary isn’t it.
 
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