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Are we happy with the general election result?

Billy87

Just wondered if people on here are happy or unhappy at the general election result last week? I stayed up most of the night to watch the results come in. 

It would be wonderful if we could have a calm, logical, reasoned political discussion on here that doesn't result in anger, name calling and the mods locking the thread

Come on guys lets prove we can do it! 

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  • I see that after voting to implement Proportional Representation in 2022, Labour have now pushed the idea off until after the next election

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/17/labour-divided-over-calls-to-scrap-first-past-the-post-after-landslide-win

    his [Starmers[ leadership team have dismissed any chance of action [on implementing PR], saying people would be “kidding themselves” if they believed it would find any bandwidth within a first term of government.

    It sounds like they are not even supporting their own policies now they have a supermajority.

    Snouts are firmly in the trough with their curly tails waving at the electorate. Who could have predicted it?

  • in reply to Iain

    I DID!!

    Can I choose a different prize to thermo-nuclear destruction?

  • in reply to I Sperg
    I Sperg said:
    Can I choose a different prize to thermo-nuclear destruction?

    congratulations contestant - you get the alternative prize of living in a police state where the slightest inappropriate statement will result in cancellation of your human rights. Wink

  • in reply to Iain

    I can LIVE with that... 

    Edit, or if it goes full "pol pot" at least I can die giving someone some lip or other form of pushback...

    Being vapourised instantly along with my cats, O/H and the local airfield, and everything else inside the fireballs radius without being able to do anything, simply because instead of doing business with the Russians, our leaders chose to do more "coldwar" after the USSR collapsed, is just bloody pathetic and annoying...  

    I was hoping that we'd take advantage of their economic and organisational problems to trade our political help and freindship for hordes of URAL 650 motorcycle outfits at dirt cheap prices, and some of the other truly awesome and weird stuff the soviets produced, but nah, we, (by way of the "leaders" we "vote for" I am told) chose more conflict...  

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  • in reply to Iain

    I can LIVE with that... 

    Edit, or if it goes full "pol pot" at least I can die giving someone some lip or other form of pushback...

    Being vapourised instantly along with my cats, O/H and the local airfield, and everything else inside the fireballs radius without being able to do anything, simply because instead of doing business with the Russians, our leaders chose to do more "coldwar" after the USSR collapsed, is just bloody pathetic and annoying...  

    I was hoping that we'd take advantage of their economic and organisational problems to trade our political help and freindship for hordes of URAL 650 motorcycle outfits at dirt cheap prices, and some of the other truly awesome and weird stuff the soviets produced, but nah, we, (by way of the "leaders" we "vote for" I am told) chose more conflict...  

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