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It's like watching a football team fighting over who's going to take the penalty.

Apparently Man U fans really are as useless as everyone says https://metro.co.uk/2022/11/10/first-picture-of-driver-who-deliberately-blocked-ambulance-on-999-call-17739078/

Elon's Twitter fuckups are a great spectator sport: https://twitter.com/bestofdyingtwit

(The person running this account is also responsible for the excellent https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor)

Voting for The Green Party (Rayner too) makes a difference. They achieve things, as opposed to some in here 😉

a million times yes, was worried the ft would be mean but no

Voting for The Green Party (Rayner too) makes a difference

According to a recent article in the FT, about 60% of votes cast in the last general election had no influence on the election result at all.

I get that this person is awful, but what the fuck is with that article? It reads like harassment and doxxing of someone that has already been tried and sentenced.

Voting for The Green Party (Rayner too) makes a difference. They achieve things, as opposed to some in here 😉

Here it doesn't, it's a nailed on labour seat, but I do it anyway in the hope they are the second biggest party and that makes the labour MP think a little. I did vote labour when Corbyn was in charge to show some kind of support there, although I obviously wasn't voting for him, and in the by-election after the very popular local MP died in case the next one wasn't as popular, but he walked it. I vote for green councillors too but it's also all labour here by a margin.
None of that makes me a swing voter though because whatever I do doesn't matter so no one is gunning for my vote, swing voters are in the marginal seats and generally ones that could go either labour or Tory, so labour think they need to be Tory enough to convince the arseholes to go with them and the Tories are more Tory to make sure the arseholes stay with them and don't go full ukip or BNP, so they all end up pandering to arseholes rather than everyone else. That's why I was hoping with the Tories being predicted to completely flop, labour could sideline the arsehole vote and concentrate on decent stuff.

Let's get starmer out first.

Internecine warfare for life. Tories forever!!!

in the hope they are the second biggest party and that makes the labour MP think a little

This works to an extent (not necessarily enough) with the SNP in Scotland with the Greens being the next largest pro-independence bloc. Would it work with a single MP once elected? Questionable (but would be the ideal, IMO - as MPs should take heed of their constituents' wishes).

Yeah, it's a pretty pointless exercise TBH.

They even managed to drop the neighbour, who described him as a bit of a cunt, in it.

Unless of course, there are several Christines who he's thrown bricks at...

It's like the daily hate in 1984.

She’s a real person, she’s had a regular life and gone into politics for the right reasons.

She’s no scum bag private equity Eton snake oil selling shyster

I don't disagree with any of that (although you could say the same about Starmer), I just don't think she'd win an election.

on this weeks alexi sayles imaginary sandwich bar, he does a funny bit on kier starmer

Ima say he’s not a fan.

How come there are almost no posts until you get to the aggressive sign up request?

On the Rayner discussion, why can't Starmer articulate the parties position as well?
https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1591395601828425728

Not many posts yet because it's a new account.

The account owner doesn't get aggressive. Maybe the aggression you perceive is from other people? Or maybe you're having a conspiraloon moment?

Think they mean the twitter sign-up thing. I've found it responds to how much you scroll down. Click the "more posts" with minimal scrolling to keep the sign-up thing at bay.
Edit: I think it might have just changed across the board to encourage signups (lol)

^yeah that.

Maybe I just need to bite the bullet and reset the password on the twitter account I set up in 2010 to troll a colleague.

If you sign up and then read it in a Windows browser it hardly bothers you at all. It's fifty times less annoying than reading it with the Android app. It's well worth it for all the good stuff you can get, so long as you follow agreeable people. It still seems like it's fulfilling the internet's original purpose, i.e. free information sharing and the enlargement of minds. I suppose Elon will change that. Grab it while you can.

Not attacking you directly, but I really hate this attitude from people.

And I know you weren't saying this, but the idea of not voting for or supporting a person (who I potentially agree with and who I personally like) because I don't think they can win an election, is quite self defeating in my opinion.

Hefty in reply to @dicki

Ima say he’s not a fan.

blistering attack ! and a proper rant
it's such a great radio series everyone should have a listen if you haven't already