@marty
Fuck them and enjoy this brother… 
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING 
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Potential Labour voters found their economic commitments too much in one go and it played straight into the hands of the press, allowing them to play their usual Reckless Spenders card, fear being the strongest emotion - McDonnell admitted he got it wrong.
Yup and the North is realising right at this moment what it means to vote tory in the North and be governed by tories from Westminster thinking that if only we vote for them maybe they give us a crumb, nope, they take more of your county cash and local government Air.
Country’s in a real mess for the next 4 years, wait till austerity 2.0 hits or what they’ll be calling as “We can’t leave the debt for the children” policy of stripping out more from public services, after the deliberate culling of our old.
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Most people don’t vote because of facts or policies, they vote because of feelings, or for which they like the most. Your average voter liked Gordon Brown right up to the moment he “chickened out” of calling an election. The public view of him went from a prudent winner to a cowardly loser overnight. He was done from that moment.
This could well be the moment Johnson goes from good bloke who the public like and trust to posh bloke that the public hate.
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Not to anyone who reads the daily mail
or the express
or the telegraph
or the sun
or the metro
or the times
or gets their news from personalised facebook ads
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Some of those rags have recently been seen criticising Johnson for the first time, a sign that they’re placing a foot in both camps in readiness for a timely switch if a change in public mood seems imminent.
This is beginning to feel reminiscent of the early/mid 90s during the Major sleaze years, politically, though a retrace is always possible.
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My next door neighbour’s 90 year old father died in a local care home last week from the Covid. He hadn’t been able to see him for 6 weeks.
He is normally a very reserved quiet bloke, and I’ve never heard him spout any political views. He is fucking incandescent about Cummings and Johnson
Oh they mad, twitter is lit.
That’s a good point. Being still an influence at the next election seems unlikely now, but how moribund and incapable of changing things Major’s lot seemed for years might be a glimmer of hope. Whatever else is the case between now and the election they are not going to change their spots.
(Can add that Hollande’s presidency felt like that here for years. He was just done politically, completely toxic and it was not a result of the electorate having any change of principles, just deciding that the man was a pointless idiot. Fingers crossed)
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This is pretty insane. Though the mail are such inveterate bootlickers that even in a supposedly slam piece they refer to two of the most idiotic lazy and morally vacuous people in the county as bold and brazen or as a svengali.
Great news about the diet!
https://mobile.twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1264625453379321859
https://mobile.twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1264620639287156737
The donors have gotten what they wanted already. We’re most likely crashing out of Europe headlong into a “low regulation Singapore style economy” just like in their dirtiest sex dreams. They don’t need classic dom anymore they don’t even really need Boris anymore. I wonder if the svengali hasn’t figured that one out yet…
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Less than six months ago the Tories won with 44% vs Labour’s 32%. The market is predicting as fast a decline in popular support as I can remember for a new government since the pre-Falklands early 80s, when they slumped to 20% behind in some polls after winning in 1979 by 44% vs 37%; this despite the most recent polls giving the Tories a 12-15% lead now.
Some of the right wing trash press seem to have woken up to this, and I can’t remember a chorus of condemnation, which includes the clergy and prominent Conservative figures, as strong and diverse since the 80s.
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Retweeted by JK Rowling
https://mobile.twitter.com/LettersOfNote/status/1094970662828101632
so in the land of entitled pricks Johnson was King. I keep being reminded of how Cameron regarded him as totally unsuitable for PM. Oh the irony.