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Another good thread on not voting:

This is my fault. I met Farage back in the 2000s and did the classic “got your nose” trick, but for the country. In my defence it was awfully funny. I know we’ve got prison capacity issues, but I don’t understand why we don’t instantly deport foreign criminals.

I’d see art like startup culture anyway. You either let people live for free for a couple of years while they figure out if they can make it work, or you rely on the whims of stupidly rich patrons to decide what gets made and it’s probably made by the friends and family of said stupidly rich people.

It’s all been a bit crap and half hearted though, which to be fair is hugely patriotic of us. I think some of it can just be rebranding/repackaging existing laws. The one that always sticks out to me is benefits rules around “illegals immigrants” and the Facebook memes about them all getting...

Well that’s why we’ve got what we’ve got now is exactly that sentiment. But there’s an argument it’s a better way to spend money on the arts than throwing grants at privately educated non binary otherkins to put on a one person show about the traumatic stress of Brexit or whatever.

Yeah student grants, JSA, cheaper housing especially in cities where the scene is big (Brighton, London, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool). Basically the ability to live off the state in one way or another while eating noodles and playing back rooms.

But they’ve assuaged public concern with lots of talk of immigrants committing to Danish life or going home, prisoners not released if their country won’t take them back, etc. I think they’re quite robustly secular with stuff like hijab bans as well. Otherwise normal social democrats afaict.

Fair, I was 20 and voted Monster Raving Looney Party for the lols so wasn’t exactly plugged in to the political zeitgeist

Yeah I was the only person under 60 in my polling station. Probably why I got grabbed for an exit poll lol

2010 was anti Labour, 2015 was anti Clegg, 2017 was anti Brexit and 2019 was anti Corbyn. I can’t remember the last pro anyone election.

Like Brexit, Reform is about tax cuts for Farage and his mates and nothing else.

Flip flop. Numbers again. I thought it was about the message of illegal immigration? I agree on Denmark though. A template for how to handle the far right.

The economy can’t be as bad as the last 14 years, the last 8 especially. It doesn’t need sweeping reform it needs basic competence. We are so far off other countries in basic stuff, all a new govt has to do is basic tried and tested developing country economic strategy stuff and we’re laughing...

What do you make of the theory that the best policy for the arts is a generous benefits package that allows people not to work and that’s why the 60s-90s were so good for British talent?

Nuneaton used to be didn’t it? Polling I saw put Labour and Tories neck and neck so wouldn’t be surprised.

Just got exit polled in Beduff, must see North Warwickshire as a bellweather.

Thibk that’s one of the better original ones not one of the biased ones that’s popped up recently.

No. Pls stop.

Id expect it to be more than half. Like always.