General Election June 2017

This is all getting a bit anti the armed forces, someone's going to be along in a minute to have patriotic melt down.

Our 'Boy's' etc.....

Well, with all the stories of the army on the streets, you can imagine a parallel story to this one where UKIPers and their ilk respond to picture of troops, tanks, guns, Theresa May looking strong & stable, etc.

http://newsthump.com/2017/05/22/daily-mail-readers-wank-themselves-to-death-during-pippa-middletons-wedding/

I bet they'd be great at doorsteping dead victim's families as part of their patriotic civil duties too. If journalists went on strike that is.

Because knowing just how bereft someone's family is after they've been cruelly blown up is totally impossible to predict and those column inches won't write themselves otherwise.

being in any army is fucking awful, why someone would do it voluntarily is beyond me

john 'the shill' humphrys telling paul nuttall that ukip's election campaign is a "suicide mission". finger on the pulse, right there.

Haven't you heard the radio ad? It's the sense of belonging.

It targets lonely people by saying someone will buy them a drink if they join. Literally. It's weird.

someone will buy them a drink if they join

I'm listening...

Stealth pun. Roger Moore would be proud.

Isn't one of the 'things that squaddies do' protecting public buildings from suicide bombers

No, you're thinking of massive blocks of concrete. The explosives used by suicide bombers will tear right through the fleshy bits of a uniformed member of the armed services owing to physics.

I assume they get touchy if you use the terms "human shield" or "cannon fodder".

Right now I'm imagining those last two posts getting shared around on the equivalent of a daily mail forum.

A good one today

UKIP's effort

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ukipdev/pages/3944/attachments/original/1495695469/UKIP_Manifesto_June2017opt.pdf

They obviously know something that others don't (from page 6)

HOW BRITAIN COULD, AND STILL
SHOULD, LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION

Repealing the European Communities Act
(1972) should be the first, not the last step in
the leaving process. There is no legal or moral
obligation to use Article 50; we have the legal
right to withdraw from the EU unilaterally.

Article 50 is a trap designed to obstruct countries
from leaving the EU. The longer the leaving
process lasts, the greater the chance of the
Referendum decision being overturned. May’s
decision not to implement the decision of the
Referendum as quickly as possible, but follow a
slow route that suits the EU, is very worrying.

By repealing the 1972 Act we could immediately
take back control of key policy areas such as
immigration and border controls, fishing, farming,
trade, security and defence, and police and
criminal justice. All EU laws could remain in place
temporarily, until they are repealed individually,
amended , or allowed to stand.

Or defence.

I work for a 'murican company and my job title has the word "Defense" in it.

I've been brainwashed.

That's no excusation.

Pure insanity (the last part of the leaflet)

So they're proposing an immediate hard brexit/no-deal-is-better-than-a-bad-deal situation, plunging us into some sort of trade and political limbo/black hole?

Jesus, they're fuckin' rabid!

"Article 50 is a trap"

:):)

It's insane but it's a more pleasant and ambitious form of insanity than what the kippers/tories have on offer :)

I'm sure the whole world would be queuing up to enter into trade deals with the UK once the UK has demonstrated that it is happy to renege on prior agreements and fuck over their previous partners.

How UKIP can convince people that this is a good idea is beyond me.

UKIP's concern for the health of forrin people often goes unnoticed (from page 37)

SHOW YOUR FACE IN A
PUBLIC PLACE

UKIP will ban wearing of
the niqab and the burqa in
public places. Face coverings
such as these are barriers
to integration. We will not
accept these de-humanising
symbols of segregation and
oppression, nor the security
risks they pose.

Suggestions that UKIP is
undermining liberty with this
policy are absurd. There is no
human right to conceal your
identity. If anything prevents
liberty, it is the niqab, by
preventing women from being
perceived as individuals in their
own right. We want to open
opportunities to all women, so
that they can participate fully
in life and in the workplace.

Clothing that hides identity, puts
up barriers to communication,
limits employment opportunities,
hides evidence of domestic
abuse, and prevents intake of
essential vitamin D from sunlight
is not liberating.

How UKIP can convince people that this is a good idea is beyond me.

Because forrin.

Not that where we are is much better: if you want a new job, you don't quit your old one first.

Having "handed our notice in", doesn't leave us in a strong bargaining position.

Is it OK with UKIP if I wear a hat when it's sunny? I burn easily.

But also because physics, you can just add more squaddies until you acheive the desired effect. This also has the benefit of saving money on valuable concrete which is far more effective in intelligence operations.