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Not for compulsory voting. Your right to vote should also be your right to not vote. I would encourage everyone to vote though even if it’s just to spoil your ballot paper. I’ll be voting Labour this time simply because it’s the tactical vote to get the Tories out. Although if it doesn’t work...

Sunak has just said that no flights to Rwanda before the GE. Labour has said no flights under them so the charade is over. Let’s see if we can get a refund and spend it on the NHS instead.

Who’s your current MP?

Naa. They just love Sunak so much that they’re doing everything that they can to hold onto him for a few extra months.

I “switched” during the Corbyn era so unlikely. The only MP I’ve ever emailed is my current MP and only a handful of times. I’m not the stalking type.

Rumours abound that Tory rebels are putting in letters of no confidence in an effort to stop Sunak calling a GE.

Ministers cancelling trips and appearances to attend a cabinet meeting this afternoon. Allegedly.

He’s not going to get better timing than now so he’d be stupid to wait. Labour clearly suffered a small but possibly significant backlash at the locals because of their stance over Gaza, they’ve just announced that inflation has fallen to a 3 year low and strong rumours of a cut in interest...

We need a new “Brazillian” sensation. We’ve got a song going spare.

It was always obvious what the real rationale was for voter ID but… https://bylinetimes.com/2024/05/22/leaked-memo-voter-id-students-johnny-mercer-veterans/

Love flying, just hate being locked in a tube with other people for hours on end. I always get stuck either next to me or the row in front or behind with coughy McCoughs a lot or two old dears talking about all the medicine they’re on.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word reason used more ironically. Reason suggests justification, the leader of Israel is now officially facing war crimes which suggests that UK weapons are being used unjustifiably. They’ll be excuses and to the latter of the meaning.

And the excuses will still come as to why we’re supplying Israel with Arms.

Or get the plebs to pay the mortgage on your second home only to sell it and pocket the profit without paying windfall tax on those profits to the tune of £5M like 4 Tory MP’s allegedly have.

Now that is a good question that needs answering and thus far there nothing more from Labour than a few sound bites about freeing up cash to councils to build new social housing. Undoubtedly needed but when you look at the statistics on average the cuts equate to about 25% in real terms since...

Firstly I’m not going to say that they couldn’t have done more to protect the country from the effects of a world banking crisis caused by the toxic mortgage industry in America because they certainly could have. For instance under Blair they relaxed controls on bankers which made the UK banking...

It was an economic decision. The choices were get the people that crashed the world’s banking system to pay for it or get the plebs to pick up the cost with austerity.

I don’t think it even needs us all to pay more, it just needs those earning the most to pay their fair share by closing tax loopholes. Let’s get everyone paying the tax due to the latter of the law rather than letting those with enough wealth deciding for themselves what’s within the “spirit” of...

Some of that thought is due to our GDP struggling to recover to pre pandemic levels. IIRC it was only at the end of 2023 our GDP finally recovered to pre pandemic levels. We’re still down on 2010 as a percentage and the fact is we need to be spending more to recover from austerity.

Also when has voting ever been anything other than voting for the least stinkiest shit. Shouldn’t be like that but that is the reality.