General Election 2024

Who the fuck let Rishi play football in front of cameras?

No sign of him unfortunately..I want one of the Mogg Out posters in our hallway but I have been overruled.

Is he escorting him to do some volunteering at the local hunt?

IKR?! I don't know whether it's actually a genius move in a way. Bumbling Boris esque keep him in the news cycle for better or worse shenanigans?

Steve Baker complaining about the national service policy just being dumped on him and then immediately going on holiday to Greece is the kind of thing I'd do.

Is it the nanny’s day off?

Must be take your kids to work day?

I think they're off to cremate some plague victims?

Grave robbing most likely.

He is a fucking idiot.

Oh, and also an estate agent

Checks out

JRM to younger: "Cum puer eram..."

Indeed although revelation only confirmed the initial throbber hypothesis

National service makes sense if you need to build a big pool of people who could be rapidly mobilised for a future war. People who did NS one or ten years before can be called up, have refresher training and be ready to fight within weeks. Their skills and mental and physical characteristics are a known quantity, so the generals can build them into war scenarios. But this requires long term planning and investment, which the Tories wouldn't do. And it's become irrelevant for the UK because our possible future wars will need specialists with years of technical training, not dogsbodies who have only served long enough to learn marching, rifle shooting and living in a hole in the ground. We're not going to be invaded so we'll never need 50,000 people to live in trenches.

Provided future wars involve dropping from a plane into a landscape littered with different weapons and ammo a la Fortnite then my teenagers each have about 10 years of technical training.

Tories during covid: "Let the elderly die"
Tories now: "We need old people for the vote"

That's why they're retraining in cyber.

Honest question, who actually benefitted from the UK leaving the EU in 2020?

It definitely wasn’t the elderly, who I suspect were the most leave voters, duped into thinking ‘we got our country back’ and err.. ‘why are there so many migrants working for the NHS’

Indirectly, China and Russia benefited. China economically, Russia politically/militarily.

duped into thinking ‘we got our country back’

Willingly duped. A bare minimum of critical thinking was required to figure out that Leave wouldn’t save the UK £300 million a day for the NHS, but they refused to do the mental work to think and instead leaned into voting with their biases and most base emotions.

And I won’t even get started on the dumbfuck emigrants who live in Spain and still voted leave.

who actually benefitted from the UK leaving the EU in 2020?

People who shorted British stocks.

£300 million a day! Not worth the bus it’s printed on.

How about, (on the edge of my circle of acquaintances), a dumbfuck, naturalised, Leave-voting Spaniard, with just the sole UK passport, who nearly timed out when he had 'to go home' to care for his aged, widowed father?

Maybe they'd have a head start when training as drone pilots? The US military talks a lot about hiring gamers but I suspect that's just a line to get high schoolers to enrol.

The quadruple lock is here.

Labour has won the endorsement of a coalition of business leaders who have said that a “new outlook” is needed so the UK can “break free” from a decade of economic stagnation.

In a letter to The Times, 120 executives say that the economy has been “beset by instability, stagnation and a lack of long-term focus” as they say the election represents “the chance to change the country”.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2d36453f-0229-49ae-bd0f-2b2137c6ac9c?shareToken=0a1a424a3fefaff6f497012ca4bbf05c

Why are they spending £2.5bn to buy votes they already have?

Weird strategy so far of bribe people who would already vote for you and drive away those you need to win over