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Wokeness, ironically, is destroying parties on the left of the political spectrum. In the UK, the Tories win the working class vote, and Trump secures a 16% swing in favour of the Republicans from the lowest income bracket in 2016. Yet, the same working class voters who swung for Trump viewed...

Agreed. But, the constant threat of an SNP-Labour coalition does have an impact on the electorate, particularly in 2015. The party needs a breakthrough somewhere, at the minute it’s just haemorrhaging votes in its traditional safe seats.

See my last post for Germany. PR worked well when the FDP played king maker. The 2010s seen them lose a lot of votes and have ceased to have enough influence to form a government with the CDU or SDP. Now, with the rise of AfD (Alternative for Deutschland) and Die Linke (an offshoot of the old...

I disagree with proportional representation (PR). With first first past the post (FPTP), the unequal outcomes leads to majoritarian governments. To use 2019 as an example, whilst I’m against Brexit, the electorate voted Conservative and to ‘Get Brexit Done’. The large Tory majority has broke...

Earlier in the thread, I spoke of Blue Labour... These graphs suggest that adopting more socially conservative, Keynesian centre-left economics could really be a vote winner and route back to power for Labour.

Jonathan Pie is a gem. For me, the re-reading Orwell’s ‘1984’ and other text has never felt more relevant, or important at this moment in time.

I agree with this. Thankfully, I’ve been working normal hours, even had extra overtime offered because the company I work at is doing very well. My routine has been messed up a lot working from home. I was waking up at 5:30am, walk the dog and go to the gym before work. Now I roll out of bed...

I seen this shared on FB, rolled my eyes and scrolled passed it before the news broke RLB had been sacked. What’s really pushed me away from Corbyn, RLB and the left of the party is their seeming lack of awareness of politics and power (as a concept) outside of their echo chamber.

Having worked in security at uni, I can tell you that you get taught ‘by the book’ restraints and methods of dealing with conflict. Which, for the large part, work well and are effective. There are times, that this training goes out of the window. Like I said in a prior comment, I’ve seen...

That’s certainly my thinking atm. There isn’t much in life that will give you a guaranteed return of 25%. That said, I’ve got a good amount to play around should I decide to get in the market. However, I’d like to be in a position to buy a house in the next 2-4 years (on my own). Would an...

Ok, assuming that it is the case. US police aren’t learning this from Israeli secret services - they’re being trained by their own police departments. That still doesn’t account for similar instances of police brutality in US that predates these kind of seminars/conferences delivered to US...

It is a direct quote and the original article I shared with you had the excerpt where Maxine Peake made the claim that the move was learnt from Israeli special services. Here is the unedited, original quote, from the original Independent article which RLB shared. I’ve attached a screenshot...

I want to get into stocks and shares, and my disposable income is about to double now I’m out of my overdraft. I’m 25, so looking to get on the property ladder. I have a LISA and I max that every year. The guaranteed government bonus of 25% initially made me stick to a standard cash LISA (1%...

It hasn’t been confirmed whether Derrick Chauvin had attended such a conference. This is besides the fact that there is a history of codified use of neck restraints long before these seminars/conferences happened. Therefore, the claim that these neck restraints being used by the police is the...

The neck restraint policy was in place before any Israeli training was given to Minneapolis police. It is also unclear if the officers involved had even attended such conferences given by Israeli security forces. In short, it’s a red herring. The time and place to bring up such seminars by...

Some polls taken from Labour members showed Corbyn as the most popular Labour leader ever. Predictably, Blair was v unpopular too. It does seem that some sections of the Labour membership view the party was a campaign group rather than a party of Government. This is anecdotal, but on Facebook...

George Thomas should’ve stayed with us when we got relegated. I said this at the time, and despite the nice pay packet, he’s wasted 3 years of his career playing kids football in his 20s.

In the 2019election compared to 2017, Labour offered the worst of both worlds. Ambiguity on Remain pushed a lot of voters to Lib Dem and the Greens, hence their increased vote % at the expense of Labour too. Getting Brexit done was a pertinent issue for those working class voter who voted Tory...

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He was shite, we’ll take him off your hands for cheap, we’ll even come pick him up and take him off your hands. No business being the Championship whatsoever...