Elections and politics

Things can only get wetter?

out_of_step said:

I can feel a "current government" metaphor forming

I can think of some.. 

Here we go...

It's the middle of the 0, on a slant, looks like an eye...

The Eye Sees All? 

Either that or it's the work of the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet.

In which case, it's probably inspired by a cat's eye!

Number said:

obscure and arcane

I can feel a "current government" metaphor forming

Yes....agreed.....I'm thinking it must be some sort of obscure and arcane font....you know the sort of thing.....sounds like a thing that will get answered, to me, by the hive brain?!

I have always thought the 0 on the door looks a bit wonky. 

Edit : not wonky.  Skewed. 

Watching the door of No.10 isn't that interesting...

He'd better come out at 5! 

So now we have to wait over ten minutes for him to tell the whole country what we already know.

Whats with all the build up...."the PM is set to announce..." etc etc it's pretty much been said. Get on with it Rishi!

Delightful. 

GE on 4th July.

Heralding Sunak's return to the States

I concur 

Well I do think it's good to get on with it under the circumstances

It appears that Sunak may be about to call a GE this afternoon. 

I thought we English were bad with the potato famines etc, but even we didn't actually take your own country out from under your feet and fly/bus/boat in a set of new people to replace you!.

I've seen some of the videos about what is happening in those formely nice little irish villages and coastal towns right now.

We Irish have twice had referenda to leave the EU and these were totally ignored by the Irish government and by the EU, as it was a requirement of our constitution - then we had referenda on abortion and on gay Marraige, partly aimed at young Irish people abroad including here in the U.K. to “get the boat to vote” but this latter referendum on gay Marraige was deliberately deceptive (as an older Irish gay man, I would have voted “no” on this had I been given the chance) - but what really bugs me in this internet age (aside from what happened with Trump) is that we Irish abroad (the Irish Diaspora) are still not allowed to vote in Irish elections and referenda despite holding Irish passports once we are longer than 5 years living outside Ireland and in fact, even before Brexit, the process for renewing an Irish passport from outside Ireland has been deliberately and needlessly made more difficult which I have experienced in my 22 years living in the U.K. despite visiting extended family and friends in Ireland frequently 

entertaining.

The situation is far worse in my native Ireland compared to here in the U.K. where the corruption runs far deeper with both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and where Marxist Sinn Fein have turned out to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, having betrayed the Irish people - in our country’s long and tragic history, it has involved much suffering and armed rebellion but it has also involved much corruption, including by some figures within the Catholic Church after 1916 and after 1921 - other minor parties have not been able to stem the tide of corruption and in many cases, have added to this corruption, which Irish politics has always been defined by - there are many TD’s in Dáil Éireann from the Taoiseach down whom I totally despise as traitors to the Irish people 

I Sperg said:

I've seen a few peoeple turn up here expressing the most crappy of attitudes, and morph into productive and useful members.

It's good.   

I agree.  I'll put up with 50 bots and 50 asshats, if I think there is a chance of finding a diamond (or watching a diamond form) amongst it all.

Good things do happen here.