A new month, a new thread, the same old same old
My pal works in a building next to the Tory conference venue and is high enough up that they can see the snipers nearby.
Itās taking an almighty effort to not send them constant āIāve Venmoād you Ā£20 to give toā¦ā jokes (JOKES, YOUR HONOUR. JOKES).
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I definitely say this everytime they are here and I know the answer. But why, you come up for 4 days and just get shit thrown at you and beaten up outside The Paramount.
Kind of amused by recent opinion polls ranging from Labour hovering close to hung Parliament territory (24 seat majority) to Labour 200+ seat majority.
Not going to go into the full rant about the new Towns fund bribe pot, but a colleague has had a quick look and, unsurprisingly, its a full on.match to the at risk and target seats list.
Armed police emerging from a manhole on Oxford st. is still in the top 5 more unusual things Iāve seen in the city centre.
An atd is going to the Labour conference this year. Theyāre sad about it because thereās less free booze than at the Tory ones. (guntrip Iāll give you three guesses as to who Iām talking about)
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I like how the Tories say things are going to be sweet once the hard bit of Brexit/Covid/CoL/Ukraine is done and the hard bit never seems to be done but mugs still vote for them anyway because they go on about woke binmen a lot or something. Conference ought provide us some fascinating insights into the wretched insanity of the Tory mind.
New edition of New Socialist is out, if anyone wants to read some good stuff
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have the papers had a proper go at Starmer yet?
I assume at some point between now and the next election, they will drag something out to try and hurt him
reckon thereās a good chance of that knocking at least 3 points of their lead if not more
Reckon nobody can be arsed.
Everything heās done has been with the intent of keeping the commentariat, and in particular, the Times and the Sun onside, so it would be very funny if they turned around and started noticing how habitually dishonest he is.
If they want to, the press could tank Labourās polling down to 25% within six weeks, the same as they did for Johnson. When you donāt really have a popular base of support, it doesnāt take much to bring it all down.
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Reckon theyāll go for the old flip-flopper angle. Heās U-turned on basically everything he ever claimed to stand for, and thereās tons of evidence of him doing so. The Facebook ads could just be him saying one thing a few years ago, compared to the opposite now. From calling himself a socialist as an unlikeable youth, to supporting Corbyn then turning on him, to his 10 leadership pledges, to everything heās done since as an unlikeable leader
Not that what heās flip-flopped on really matters, just that he folds so easily. It worked on John Kerry in 2004 - all anyone remembers from that is āflip-flopperā, not any of the issues lol
Then thereās Saville of course - the Tories might take the high road and leave that alone, but the online gutter press certainly wonāt
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Wouldnāt be surprised if some of the CPS stuff gets trotted out again although ironically most of the time itād probably reveal Starmer seeking a tougher line on sentencing if anything.
Banger tweet from David Frost here, whatās the need for high speed rail when you can already get flights everywhere
There is no point to arguing anything anymore. That picture of Trump just sat there with all the world leaders around him is basically everything in politics now.
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Oh theyāll pick it up once itās out there - I mean like the way the official Vote Leave campaign left the thinly-veiled racism to Farage etc. They want it in play, but donāt want to be seen bringing it in
Or theyāll just shout āpaedoā for a year. Actually that one
If they do Labour should just break out that Jimmy Savile campaigning for the Tories pic every time they bring it up.
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