General Election 2024

It’ll be interesting to see how Farage does in that, he’s normally incredibly condescending towards women.

Spectator thinks the Tories' plans amount to £3k of tax
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/on-sunaks-maths-tories-will-lift-taxes-by-3000-per-household/

Now we are talking.

Oh yes. Farage will hate it*. Daisy Cooper and Carla Denyer too. Presented by Mishal Hussain.

*Edit - he won't, but he'll be much less comfortable debating women because he's a fucking dinosaur in that regard (as well as others). And what can he do about it? Complain that it's a stitch-up because he's a massive sexist?

Plus Stephen Flynn and Rhun ap Iorwerth. I can imagine Stephen Flynn taking a chunk out of him also.

Farage will struggle as he has no takes on anything when under scrutiny apart from if there is a immigration spin to it

I guess most are there to get their party elected to run the country but I sense Farage's only remit will be to get himself elected in the seat he's running in.

My sister in law gets unsold sandwiches from Pret to give kids for breakfast the day after whilst also stopping them getting dragged into county lines gangs who also recognise hungry kids are desparate kids.

She retires in 6 weeks and nobody coming after her is going to take that shit on.

That would make sense if the candidates were strangers that were randomly chosen from the population but they have been in the public eye for years and the Tories had 14 years to show what they want to do.

Apparently most the public have no idea who Starmer is as a person, so he just had to appear competent. Turns out most people aren't in general election threads online and consume a couple of minutes of general news a day

Absolutely horrendous to hear and worse that it's ignored by the press and politicians (and public - shamefully including myself here). And then worse still that the government then hammers the poor with their policies and pulls the rug out from underneath.

I've been hearing what she deals with for so long that I'm sure everybody who knows a teacher must hear the same things so it must be common knowledge, but it probably isn't.

She's done 40 years of teaching in SE London straight from Oxford University and I can only imagine she's like a boiled frog who can't remember when the water went from cold to insanity.
I'm not sure current teacher training has a "have the Met Police gang unit number to hand" training module but maybe it does.

There is a significant amount of teacher training and CPD on safeguarding from gangs.

I think every teacher in London would have a similar experience, and many go way beyond the role of a teacher in trying to cover over the wider failures in social and public services.

Did a bit more research on milkshake gate, and I was being naive.

In what sense?

She's a hero.

(edit- removed expletive)

So was it a master stroke by Starmer to let Rishi repeat this £2k tax lie knowing full well what was going to come out today ?

At time I was not happy, but now it looks like he’s got him and the story is the lie rather than anything else.

I’m looking forward to the next debate, I’m a massive Ange fan and watching mordant having to try and out crazy Nigel in there fight for what’s left of the gammon vote going to be brilliant.

I hope Mordant bring the sword.

I thought you were talking about Spurs. Pure confusion.

Lol, no I’m a Mark Robins man in that respect

#PUSB

I’ve worked in education in London for 15 years in both teaching and non-teaching roles and can echo this experience. Schools do so much more than just teach!

Faiza Shaheen now running as an independent which must be a relief to IDS
https://x.com/faizashaheen/status/1798369070657782177?t=bq4OcizL3Y2KWsWq3WtLvw&s=19

Farage gobbling into tory votes

Lab: 40%
Con: 19%
Reform UK: 17%
Lib Dem: 10%
Green: 7%
SNP: 3%

https://x.com/YouGov/status/1798391774215352616?t=xy6eVvj9anOj7J_v79NhNQ&s=19

Do people really want PR?

Do people really want PR?

Only if it means electing people who share my opinions.

Correct

I understand she thinks what was done was more than a bit shitty. But it does allow him an easy ride, when he could have been toast. He's definitely in the top handful I'd love to see lose their seat. Damn.

With PR we wouldn't have had Brexit. But it's too late now.

Best bet would be ignoring farage rather than all gang up and make him the centre of the whole thing