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Dgzter 3,516 posts
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Registered 3 years ago@imamazed Because it needs the support of Westminister, and unless there is a hung Parliament (with labour & SNP joining forces) I don't see there being one.
Starmer is much less likely to agree to one than Boris or the Tory's). For Boris, getting rid of scotland guarantees tory premiership for the next 101-5 years (probably longer) given that Scotland is alot more left leaning than the England is in general. -
Graxlar_v3 10,806 posts
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Registered 3 years agoDgzter wrote:
Basically, the fact that without Scotland, we wont have another Labour government sucks. I am not blaming Scotland for that fact, but it is a fact.
Graxlar_v3 wrote:
Sorry, I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean here?
I will say, I welcome the SNP's voice in westminister as Scottish issues should be heard. I just wish it wasn't at the expense of having an effective governing body.
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Dgzter 3,516 posts
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Registered 12 years ago@Graxlar_v3
Well, you're certainly right not to blame Scotland. It's the Labour party's responsibility to convince a majority of English voters that they offer a better alternative to the Tories. -
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Registered 14 years agoGraxlar_v3 wrote:
I think the political landscape could easily change quite quickly, and make Westminster support a given. It's easy for the Tories to say no now, but things will change a lot if SNP sweep the board electorally on an explicit indy campaign again. You add to that public pressure over a couple of years and yeh, I can see it happening.
@imamazed Because it needs the support of Westminister, and unless there is a hung Parliament (with labour & SNP joining forces) I don't see there being one.
Starmer is much less likely to agree to one than Boris or the Tory's). For Boris, getting rid of scotland guarantees tory premiership for the next 101-5 years (probably longer) given that Scotland is alot more left leaning than the England is in general.
And on the electoral point, that effect has been overstated. Psephologically speaking, it's been quite well established that removing Scottish MPs from previous elections would have actually made a pretty negligible difference on final outcomes. Blair certainly would have won his 3 elections at a canter without Scottish seats. People forget, of course, that lots (a minority, but still lots) of Scottish people vote Tory. -
Gibroon 2,397 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAfter the last referendum I was happy to leave it at least 10 years. It would be another 10 years of UK government fuck ups and general screwing over everyone they can for a quick buck. Add to that the effects of Brexit really grinding this country down to lower levels of poverty. This would definitely put a lot more Scots into the bracket of nothing to lose.
I get annoyed with the SNP myself when they keep going on about another referendum. They really should have said they would review it in a few years not every few months. -
JamboWayOh 22,445 posts
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Registered 8 years agoPsychotext wrote:
Yeah this is the bullshit I had to deal with when I worked for the DWP and had to respond to constituents about where their taxes were going and I routinely was told shopping vouchers were being spent on fags and booze. God I hated that job.
DJCopa wrote:
The voucher has always worked that way. No lottery too (and a couple of other things I believe).
Just give people the voucher for the food - Caveat of no alcohol or tobacco, job done.
Degrading bullshit!
Remember, this is almost certainly because that cretininous Tory said they were swapping the vouchers for drugs / spending them in brothels.
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nickthegun 84,512 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIts to pacify the 'spend their benefits on sky, mobile phones and internet' mob.
I mean, its disgusting but endemic of a governement that doesnt believe its a governments job to do anything. Like every initiative you privatise, the minute theres a profit to be made, people will make it.
Call me weird, but people shouldnt be making money from feeding the poor. Every penny should go to, you know, food. But if you give a bastard tory 30 quid to feed someone, they will give you a quids worth of food and charge you £29 for the labour.
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DaM 17,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoGraxlar_v3 wrote:
And you have to understand that being told you are in a free and equal union, where only one partner can decide if you get to leave, just makes more people want to leave!
After Brexit, i cannot see any party leader offering a referendum as an olive branch again for a long long time.
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RyanDS 13,673 posts
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Registered 12 years agoGraxlar_v3 wrote:
I genuinely don’t understand why the Tories don’t give in on indyref. It is such a win for them, it would guarantee they would hold power forever. If I was them I would grudgingly spin it is the perfidious Scots and labour betraying the uk and then laugh as I went from 80 seat majority to 120 or whatever.
Dgzter wrote:
Basically, the fact that without Scotland, we wont have another Labour government sucks. I am not blaming Scotland for that fact, but it is a fact.
Graxlar_v3 wrote:
Sorry, I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean here?
I will say, I welcome the SNP's voice in westminister as Scottish issues should be heard. I just wish it wasn't at the expense of having an effective governing body. -
Anthony_UK 3,053 posts
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Registered 15 years agoReading up on this whole business about the school meal boxes being supplied for people at home and the fallout from them. A brief overview here, but the genuine concern is they're woeful and include bits of cheese wrapped in cling flim or grated cheese in plastic money bags.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55628428
A 2 minute Google also tells you this was all supplied by Chartwells, a private catering firm which falls under the Compass Group umbrella of companies.
The CEO Paul Walsh stepped down around a week ago, who had previously apparently donated £10,000 to the Conservative party and was a member of David Cameron's business advisory group.
Tory's gotta Tory
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Stuz359 361 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe Tories entire schtick, at least when it comes to tax cuts, is that we will spend our money more wisely than any government could and they trust us to do so.
Looking at these 'food' parcels, they maybe should have trusted those instincts. -
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Registered 18 years agoDgzter wrote:
It's not as simple as that, given the FPTP system and how the constituencies are drawn. Much like in the US, Labour could get the majority of votes but still be nowhere near power.
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Well, you're certainly right not to blame Scotland. It's the Labour party's responsibility to convince a majority of English voters that they offer a better alternative to the Tories. -
DaM 17,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoAnthony_UK wrote:
These are such pishy amounts for bribes. I'm going to sponsor our local Tories* with cheese and wine for their next fundraiser, hopefully I'll get the Festival of Brexit lanyard order.
The CEO Paul Walsh stepped down around a week ago, who had previously apparently donated £10,000 to the Conservative party and was a member of David Cameron's business advisory group.
*local Tories aren't that organised, but a few gammons who enrage social media by mistake and resign on rotation. -
DaM 17,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoDougs wrote:
Ditching FPTP is the only way I'd be convinced that staying in the UK is a good idea. It's just not fit for purpose.
Dgzter wrote:
It's not as simple as that, given the FPTP system and how the constituencies are drawn. Much like in the US, Labour could get the majority of votes but still be nowhere near power.
@Graxlar_v3
Well, you're certainly right not to blame Scotland. It's the Labour party's responsibility to convince a majority of English voters that they offer a better alternative to the Tories. -
Dgzter 3,516 posts
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Registered 12 years agoDougs wrote:
Oh, I completely appreciate the inadequacies of our electoral system, Dougs. However, the conversation we were having was whether the Scottish electorate are responsible (and can be 'blamed' for) the political preferences of and democratic decisions made by English voters, which is patently ridiculous as I'm sure you'd agree.
Dgzter wrote:
It's not as simple as that, given the FPTP system and how the constituencies are drawn. Much like in the US, Labour could get the majority of votes but still be nowhere near power.
@Graxlar_v3
Well, you're certainly right not to blame Scotland. It's the Labour party's responsibility to convince a majority of English voters that they offer a better alternative to the Tories.
Now, to be clear, Grax, to whom I was responding, quite clearly stated that he wasn't suggesting that. Rather he was lamenting the fact that we might not see another UK Labour government any time soon, which, in his (and I presume many others') view, can partly be attributed to both left-leaning and more centrist Scottish voters opting for the SNP at Labour's expense. This is, frustratingly from my perspective, a similar narrative that is pushed by a lot of anti-SNP, pro-Union leftists throughout the UK (via MSM and social media etc.), which basically boils down to an expectation that Scottish voters need to yank the iron out of the fire, so to speak, for UK Labour rather than the party itself getting its house in order and convincing larger quantities of English voters that they offer a credible alternative to the Tories. And what a lot of Labour supporters subscribing to this idea apparently fail to realize (not directed at anyone here, btw) is that this only serves to further alienate a huge swathe of Scottish voters, who feel that they're being told to get back in line in order to, in a sense, save England from English voters by a party who are seemingly willing to refuse to acknowledge the democratic will of the Scottish people. -
tadejpogacar 407 posts
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Registered 1 year agoHonestly, by this point, just take England, stuff it into a big cannon, and fire it right into space.
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IRWATWO 949 posts
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Registered 1 year agoSpeaking on behalf of space, I'd like to say keep your pox-ridden shithole cuntry down there and don't pollute the heavens .gif)
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askew 22,605 posts
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Registered 15 years agohttps://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1349126296111116288?s=20
Rainbow coalition please. Just fucking do it. -
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Registered 14 years agoDaM wrote:
Conversely, a move to a pure form of PR would truly unlock the bigot potential in the UK - along with Euro/National election split there's also a purely electoral reason UKIP made such strides in the European elections and got nowhere in general elections. Too easy to blame FPTP for all our woes. Once you accept the general principal that areas of the country can be out of step with overall consensus you can probably make more meaningful tweaks to our democratic system.
Dougs wrote:
Ditching FPTP is the only way I'd be convinced that staying in the UK is a good idea. It's just not fit for purpose.
Dgzter wrote:
It's not as simple as that, given the FPTP system and how the constituencies are drawn. Much like in the US, Labour could get the majority of votes but still be nowhere near power.
@Graxlar_v3
Well, you're certainly right not to blame Scotland. It's the Labour party's responsibility to convince a majority of English voters that they offer a better alternative to the Tories.
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Tomo 18,829 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI'm quite anxious about the two new upcoming news channels NewsUK and GBNews. We're more divided than ever and creating more divisions via the media is concerning - it sounds eerily close to mimicking the US news model. I guess there is a chance they actually turn out to be good, but I'll be very surprised if they're not basically LBC on telly. A nice public forum to get angry and riled up.
I hope they just disappear into obscurity without any viewers, but there's some serious journalistic chops behind both. -
askew 22,605 posts
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Registered 15 years agoGBNews has the ring of a mock national broadcaster which would feature in Children of Men. -
DaM 17,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoimamazed wrote:
Yes, that did worry me in the past, the propensity of English people to embrace facism. Before they essentially took over the Tory Party.
Conversely, a move to a pure form of PR would truly unlock the bigot potential in the UK - along with Euro/National election split there's also a purely electoral reason UKIP made such strides in the European elections and got nowhere in general elections. Too easy to blame FPTP for all our woes. Once you accept the general principal that areas of the country can be out of step with overall consensus you can probably make more meaningful tweaks to our democratic system. -
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Registered 10 years agohttps://twitter.com/MarcusRashford/status/1349310804064137218?s=20
A footballer is essentially this Government's most effective opposition, and I say that as someone who thinks Starmer has done pretty well since taking over.
Full credit to Mr Rashford, he absolutely represents the best of us, but the fact he can achieve more as a footballer, says so much about the state of media reporting in this country. Clearly, when he amplifies an issue the PM feels obliged to respond. -
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Registered 15 years agoThe state of this shit from Hancock. Peak Tory.
https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1349280495914393600
muddyyfunster wrote:
Ha... you could read the PM's comment as him FUCKING HATING the fact that they've been shown up on Twitter over this.
https://twitter.com/MarcusRashford/status/1349310804064137218?s=20
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tadejpogacar 407 posts
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Registered 1 year agoLOL owned:
Starmer turns to food parcels. Why should anyone be happy with what’s being provided?
Johnson says he is not happy with them. He thanks Marcus Rashford for highlighting the problem. He claim Rashford is doing a better job at holding him to account than Starmer.
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simpleexplodingmaybe 16,065 posts
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Registered 5 years agoPM says Rashford is doing better job at holding govt to account than Labour
https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1349329038649778179?s=20
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Tomo 18,829 posts
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Registered 18 years agoPsychotext wrote:
This is absolutely toe-curling. It's like Paxman-Howard all over again :x
The state of this shit from Hancock. Peak Tory.
https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1349280495914393600
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Tomo 18,829 posts
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Registered 18 years agosimpleexplodingmaybe wrote:
Really stupid diversion tactic. Bring it back to political point-scoring to whip up the voter base and completely sidestep the point of all of this.
PM says Rashford is doing better job at holding govt to account than Labour
https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1349329038649778179?s=20
So is this an admission that his govt is a shitshow by the PM?
Also, Starmer has been pretty restrained this year I think. Given the gov a lot of leeway due to the challenge they're facing. This is basically an invitation for Labour to lay into the government properly.
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Between Brexit and now Covid it feels like we’ve had an opposition who’ve largely backed the government on a macro level on the big issues for about 5 years
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