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Post by zou on May 23, 2024 20:11:07 GMT
Tweedle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber? Post all election related stuff here to keep the other threads sane please.
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Post by John Farrell on May 23, 2024 21:21:49 GMT
Good luck - our election last year produced a government of incompetent wasters, determined to enrich the well off, stuff everyone else, and destroy our environment with it. I won't mention scrapping anti smoking measures to preserve the revenue from tobacco taxes so taxes on the rich can be cut...
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Post by andy on May 23, 2024 21:25:28 GMT
Good luck - our election last year produced a government of incompetent wasters, determined to enrich the well off, stuff everyone else, and destroy our environment with it. I won't mention scrapping anti smoking measures to preserve the revenue from tobacco taxes so taxes on the rich can be cut... I doubt any of us here are expecting much better. |
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Post by willien on May 23, 2024 21:37:50 GMT
Good luck - our election last year produced a government of incompetent wasters, determined to enrich the well off, stuff everyone else, and destroy our environment with it. I won't mention scrapping anti smoking measures to preserve the revenue from tobacco taxes so taxes on the rich can be cut... I doubt any of us here are expecting much better. Amen |
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Post by zou on May 23, 2024 21:46:17 GMT
Good luck - our election last year produced a government of incompetent wasters, determined to enrich the well off, stuff everyone else, and destroy our environment with it. I won't mention scrapping anti smoking measures to preserve the revenue from tobacco taxes so taxes on the rich can be cut... I doubt any of us here are expecting much better. In fact I'm expecting much worse. |
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Post by willien on May 23, 2024 22:07:54 GMT
I doubt any of us here are expecting much better. In fact I'm expecting much worse. Really? Bozo or Truss? |
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Post by zou on May 23, 2024 22:09:50 GMT
In fact I'm expecting much worse. Really? Bozo or Truss? Someone equally used to lying publicly. |
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Post by willien on May 23, 2024 22:30:27 GMT
Ah Well then we await the decartoonism (as opposed to the defenestration) of the Rank Bajin!
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Post by Chester PB on May 23, 2024 23:00:02 GMT
I'm already bored with the election excitement that the media are trying to generate. The only point of interest is the news that nice Mr. Farage says he will not be standing.
Although I'm sympathetic to the government's unexpected (and never planned for) problems caused by Covid-19, I am not sympathetic to the way Boris and his friends then ignored the instructions they were giving to everybody else. A chance to look responsible and efficient was wasted, but I suspect that Labour might not have managed things differently, but probably not any better.
Brexit remains, of course, probably the Conservative Party's biggest 'own goal' since Suez (no doubt members here can offer other suggestions). |
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Post by Chester PB on May 23, 2024 23:01:16 GMT
Good luck - our election last year produced a government of incompetent wasters, determined to enrich the well off, stuff everyone else, and destroy our environment with it. I won't mention scrapping anti smoking measures to preserve the revenue from tobacco taxes so taxes on the rich can be cut... It looks like you are posting this a year too soon... |
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Post by mick on May 24, 2024 6:31:50 GMT
I'm with those lovely ladies I saw on the news last night - they were already fed up with it!
Lots of public interviews asking what the person wanted from the Govt. Not one mentioned the single thing that I want - competence.
Mick
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Post by zou on May 24, 2024 7:19:11 GMT
I'm with those lovely ladies I saw on the news last night - they were already fed up with it! Lots of public interviews asking what the person wanted from the Govt. Not one mentioned the single thing that I want - competence. Mick To be fair if we are guaranteed a government which will seek to remove/weaken our rights and public services, incompetence can be a blessing!  |
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Post by geoffr on May 24, 2024 7:22:12 GMT
I'm with those lovely ladies I saw on the news last night - they were already fed up with it! Lots of public interviews asking what the person wanted from the Govt. Not one mentioned the single thing that I want - competence. Mick One need only read threads on another photographic forum to realise that many people believe that what they want will satisfy everybody else. We know that isn't true and rarely discuss wants and desires around cameras. We just get on with using whatever we are comfortable with. The same is true with politics, except possibly, the desire for a competent government. Unfortunately, as with cameras, most of the options are competent in some areas and rather less so in others. Unlike cameras, politicians don't iterate so the incompetences aren't reduced/eliminated with each new release.
I'd like a government that had a health team with experience of running a health system successfully A defence team that had some experience in procurement and recruitment as well as an understanding of what they are defending against. A finance team that has experience in spending their own money wisely and will do the same public money. The list goes on.
It is regrettable that politicians are rarely given jobs for which they have any qualifications, indeed some of the best qualified have more sense than to stand for election. At least in a democracy we get the opportunity to change our representatives on a regular basis, the process may be deeply flawed but it is better than the alternatives.
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Post by Fenris on May 24, 2024 9:05:00 GMT
The only point of interest is the news that nice Mr. Farage says he will not be standing. I'm hoping that is sarcasm! |
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Post by daves on May 24, 2024 9:43:54 GMT
The only point of interest is the news that nice Mr. Farage says he will not be standing. I'm hoping that is sarcasm! Because he's too pissed to stand upright? |
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