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By *mateur100 OP   Man
over a year ago

nr faversham

Hmmm seems as though it's ok to make a promise or pledge at the time but renege on it a couple of years later on the basis that the world has chat, conditions then don't exist now etc. Before any of the usual suspects start baying for proof, watch weds daily politics on BBC. My question is why is it ok for your party to lie/flip/ or whatever you want to call it, but not your opposition!

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By *reenleavesCouple
over a year ago

North Wales

Because the opposition is the actual government?

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

It's fine for the Government to change direction too.

It just requires them to accept that is what they're doing rather than pretending otherwise.

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By *9alMan
over a year ago

Bridgend

times change & policy's may have to be altered but if you break a lot of promises it makes leaders difficult to trust

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich

If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

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What's the Government's "clear vision of what the UK" under the Conservatives?

"Forgive and forget" Truss and Johnson and now screwing all public service workers for a decade and the general population with declining public services?

Sounds like wishful thinking, Pat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

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Rishi Sunak is boring

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

Rishi Sunak is boring "

I'm all for boring politicians.

Not so keen on this boring politician's policies though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

Rishi Sunak is boring

I'm all for boring politicians.

Not so keen on this boring politician's policies though."

I agree, it wasn’t a criticism , just pointing out the poster’s hypocrisy .

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

Rishi Sunak is boring "

Deflection and whataboutery

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

Rishi Sunak is boring

I'm all for boring politicians.

Not so keen on this boring politician's policies though."

At least he has some

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

Rishi Sunak is boring

I'm all for boring politicians.

Not so keen on this boring politician's policies though.

I agree, it wasn’t a criticism , just pointing out the poster’s hypocrisy . "

Hypocrisy?

Don't you mean metaphor?

Quest of a wave?

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

Rishi Sunak is boring

I'm all for boring politicians.

Not so keen on this boring politician's policies though.

I agree, it wasn’t a criticism , just pointing out the poster’s hypocrisy . "

Fair point.

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London


"If Starmer has a clear vision of what the UK under a Labour government led by him would look like – and how different it would be to the Tory-led UK – he has not yet shared it with the rest of us.

The thinking behind his pledge to the electorate appears to be that he is not Boris Johnson and that he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn either.

Ironically, despite ridiculing Corbyn’s tenure for being focused on protest rather than power, Starmer’s electoral strategy relies on winning a protest vote! But the British people rarely elect empty suits. Even his own shadow cabinet was telling the press that he is “boring“. If he can’t even energise a group of carefully selected loyalists like them, exciting the electorate will be a huge battle.

Add to that the war he declared on the left of his own party, the unions the party was created to represent, and the lack of any ideas to fight the cost of living crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and it’s hard to imagine from where Labour will draw the supporters and campaigners required for an effective get-out-the-vote operation, particularly as things improve on the economic front. Tory voters look set to now forgive and forget the turbulent Truss tenure and return to the Tories and the polls will hopefully soon reflect this

Rishi Sunak is boring

I'm all for boring politicians.

Not so keen on this boring politician's policies though.

At least he has some "

What are Sunak's?

What's the Government's "clear vision of what the UK" is and will be under the Conservatives?

The Labour party do have some policies published. You can look them up. I like some find others acceptable and dislike others. I imagine they will have to work out much of the rest when they know what the circumstances as re closer to the election.

That's all fairly obvious.

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By *amantMan
over a year ago

Alnmouth

My biggest criticism of Starmer is over the strikes. I accept the middle road he is going down entirely. He cannot be stood on a picket line but shouldn't condemn the strikes. The ground he occupies I support entirely, I just want him to lead. Get the party to unite around red lines. Oppose driver only services on the railway, no involuntary redundancies for maintence staff in Network Rail, there's all sorts of things Labour could rally behind. Strikes aren't just because of pay, so unite around something that isn't pay. Meet the unions and come to an agreement over what Labour would accept. I agree with him on a lot but this 'the government should negotiate but don't ask what we'd accept' isn't leadership. That's the difference between a government in waiting and opposition, though his position on anti-union legislation is promising.

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By *ustintime69Man
over a year ago

london

Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?"

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"My biggest criticism of Starmer is over the strikes. I accept the middle road he is going down entirely. He cannot be stood on a picket line but shouldn't condemn the strikes. The ground he occupies I support entirely, I just want him to lead. Get the party to unite around red lines. Oppose driver only services on the railway, no involuntary redundancies for maintence staff in Network Rail, there's all sorts of things Labour could rally behind. Strikes aren't just because of pay, so unite around something that isn't pay. Meet the unions and come to an agreement over what Labour would accept. I agree with him on a lot but this 'the government should negotiate but don't ask what we'd accept' isn't leadership. That's the difference between a government in waiting and opposition, though his position on anti-union legislation is promising."

That's because he's not a leader, merely an opportunist. When he thought there was a chance Corbyn might get elected, he was as left as you like, offering full throated support for Jezza. When the electorate booted Corbyn into oblivion, he changed the act to Blairesque and is relying on Govt mid term blues to win. Few are fooled.

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing..."

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?"

Ha ha! OK, God you're bored, but is that the best you can do?

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton


"My biggest criticism of Starmer is over the strikes. I accept the middle road he is going down entirely. He cannot be stood on a picket line but shouldn't condemn the strikes. The ground he occupies I support entirely, I just want him to lead. Get the party to unite around red lines. Oppose driver only services on the railway, no involuntary redundancies for maintence staff in Network Rail, there's all sorts of things Labour could rally behind. Strikes aren't just because of pay, so unite around something that isn't pay. Meet the unions and come to an agreement over what Labour would accept. I agree with him on a lot but this 'the government should negotiate but don't ask what we'd accept' isn't leadership. That's the difference between a government in waiting and opposition, though his position on anti-union legislation is promising.

That's because he's not a leader, merely an opportunist. When he thought there was a chance Corbyn might get elected, he was as left as you like, offering full throated support for Jezza. When the electorate booted Corbyn into oblivion, he changed the act to Blairesque and is relying on Govt mid term blues to win. Few are fooled. "

Switch the names to Johnson and May and left to right and hey presto!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My biggest criticism of Starmer is over the strikes. I accept the middle road he is going down entirely. He cannot be stood on a picket line but shouldn't condemn the strikes. The ground he occupies I support entirely, I just want him to lead. Get the party to unite around red lines. Oppose driver only services on the railway, no involuntary redundancies for maintence staff in Network Rail, there's all sorts of things Labour could rally behind. Strikes aren't just because of pay, so unite around something that isn't pay. Meet the unions and come to an agreement over what Labour would accept. I agree with him on a lot but this 'the government should negotiate but don't ask what we'd accept' isn't leadership. That's the difference between a government in waiting and opposition, though his position on anti-union legislation is promising.

That's because he's not a leader, merely an opportunist. When he thought there was a chance Corbyn might get elected, he was as left as you like, offering full throated support for Jezza. When the electorate booted Corbyn into oblivion, he changed the act to Blairesque and is relying on Govt mid term blues to win. Few are fooled. "

SKS is boring, has no ideas and is an opportunist, yet he is thrashing Sunak in the polls

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Ha ha! OK, God you're bored, but is that the best you can do?

"

Gonna coin a new phrase “Patisms”

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"My biggest criticism of Starmer is over the strikes. I accept the middle road he is going down entirely. He cannot be stood on a picket line but shouldn't condemn the strikes. The ground he occupies I support entirely, I just want him to lead. Get the party to unite around red lines. Oppose driver only services on the railway, no involuntary redundancies for maintence staff in Network Rail, there's all sorts of things Labour could rally behind. Strikes aren't just because of pay, so unite around something that isn't pay. Meet the unions and come to an agreement over what Labour would accept. I agree with him on a lot but this 'the government should negotiate but don't ask what we'd accept' isn't leadership. That's the difference between a government in waiting and opposition, though his position on anti-union legislation is promising.

That's because he's not a leader, merely an opportunist. When he thought there was a chance Corbyn might get elected, he was as left as you like, offering full throated support for Jezza. When the electorate booted Corbyn into oblivion, he changed the act to Blairesque and is relying on Govt mid term blues to win. Few are fooled.

SKS is boring, has no ideas and is an opportunist, yet he is thrashing Sunak in the polls "

For once, I totally agree with you. But the polls change like they did in the early 90s.

IPSOS polls Spring 1990 - Labour 24 points ahead

Spring 1992 - Conservative victory with a working majority

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My biggest criticism of Starmer is over the strikes. I accept the middle road he is going down entirely. He cannot be stood on a picket line but shouldn't condemn the strikes. The ground he occupies I support entirely, I just want him to lead. Get the party to unite around red lines. Oppose driver only services on the railway, no involuntary redundancies for maintence staff in Network Rail, there's all sorts of things Labour could rally behind. Strikes aren't just because of pay, so unite around something that isn't pay. Meet the unions and come to an agreement over what Labour would accept. I agree with him on a lot but this 'the government should negotiate but don't ask what we'd accept' isn't leadership. That's the difference between a government in waiting and opposition, though his position on anti-union legislation is promising.

That's because he's not a leader, merely an opportunist. When he thought there was a chance Corbyn might get elected, he was as left as you like, offering full throated support for Jezza. When the electorate booted Corbyn into oblivion, he changed the act to Blairesque and is relying on Govt mid term blues to win. Few are fooled.

SKS is boring, has no ideas and is an opportunist, yet he is thrashing Sunak in the polls

For once, I totally agree with you. But the polls change like they did in the early 90s.

IPSOS polls Spring 1990 - Labour 24 points ahead

Spring 1992 - Conservative victory with a working majority "

It isn’t 1990

It isn’t 1992

SKS isn’t Neil Kinnock

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Ha ha! OK, God you're bored, but is that the best you can do?

Gonna coin a new phrase “Patisms” "

If that's 'Gonna' from a 47 year old man, why would you want to sound like a much younger person?

If it's from the much younger partner on the profile, it's still cringeworthy

But 'patisms' that's great . You might change your mind after a few patisms to something more sensible!

You can say you got it off Pat!

Grammar klaxon : it's not a metaphor or hypocrisy

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"My biggest criticism of Starmer is over the strikes. I accept the middle road he is going down entirely. He cannot be stood on a picket line but shouldn't condemn the strikes. The ground he occupies I support entirely, I just want him to lead. Get the party to unite around red lines. Oppose driver only services on the railway, no involuntary redundancies for maintence staff in Network Rail, there's all sorts of things Labour could rally behind. Strikes aren't just because of pay, so unite around something that isn't pay. Meet the unions and come to an agreement over what Labour would accept. I agree with him on a lot but this 'the government should negotiate but don't ask what we'd accept' isn't leadership. That's the difference between a government in waiting and opposition, though his position on anti-union legislation is promising.

That's because he's not a leader, merely an opportunist. When he thought there was a chance Corbyn might get elected, he was as left as you like, offering full throated support for Jezza. When the electorate booted Corbyn into oblivion, he changed the act to Blairesque and is relying on Govt mid term blues to win. Few are fooled.

SKS is boring, has no ideas and is an opportunist, yet he is thrashing Sunak in the polls

For once, I totally agree with you. But the polls change like they did in the early 90s.

IPSOS polls Spring 1990 - Labour 24 points ahead

Spring 1992 - Conservative victory with a working majority

It isn’t 1990

It isn’t 1992

SKS isn’t Neil Kinnock "

Right on cue when the grammar klaxon went off!!!

#Questofawave

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy "

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it."

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine! "

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

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over a year ago


"It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people's grammar were just plain annoying. Now there's evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (OCD/ODD). Researchers are calling it Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.

But... but... you did this one last week! And it was then taken down

GPS?

Sat Nav?

Pat Nav?

"

Ha, that is very good

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Ha ha! OK, God you're bored, but is that the best you can do?

Gonna coin a new phrase “Patisms”

If that's 'Gonna' from a 47 year old man, why would you want to sound like a much younger person?

If it's from the much younger partner on the profile, it's still cringeworthy

But 'patisms' that's great . You might change your mind after a few patisms to something more sensible!

You can say you got it off Pat!

Grammar klaxon : it's not a metaphor or hypocrisy

"

Oooh get you (clutches cushion and pearls for added outrage). I dunno, I kinda like trying to keep hold of my youth. I might still tell my friends that I will “rock up at [insert time]”. Not down with the kids enough to get away with “chillax” but I do still say “cool” a lot. Not yet the oldest swinger in town but maybe one day?

Nah I’m gonna be watching out for your Patisms (and the other fellas)

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ? "

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton


"It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people's grammar were just plain annoying. Now there's evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (OCD/ODD). Researchers are calling it Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.

But... but... you did this one last week! And it was then taken down

GPS?

Sat Nav?

Pat Nav?

"

that is very good, made me LOL bruv!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

"

No they haven’t

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Ha ha! OK, God you're bored, but is that the best you can do?

Gonna coin a new phrase “Patisms”

If that's 'Gonna' from a 47 year old man, why would you want to sound like a much younger person?

If it's from the much younger partner on the profile, it's still cringeworthy

But 'patisms' that's great . You might change your mind after a few patisms to something more sensible!

You can say you got it off Pat!

Grammar klaxon : it's not a metaphor or hypocrisy

Oooh get you (clutches cushion and pearls for added outrage). I dunno, I kinda like trying to keep hold of my youth. I might still tell my friends that I will “rock up at [insert time]”. Not down with the kids enough to get away with “chillax” but I do still say “cool” a lot. Not yet the oldest swinger in town but maybe one day?

Nah I’m gonna be watching out for your Patisms (and the other fellas) "

So no change there then

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Ha ha! OK, God you're bored, but is that the best you can do?

Gonna coin a new phrase “Patisms”

If that's 'Gonna' from a 47 year old man, why would you want to sound like a much younger person?

If it's from the much younger partner on the profile, it's still cringeworthy

But 'patisms' that's great . You might change your mind after a few patisms to something more sensible!

You can say you got it off Pat!

Grammar klaxon : it's not a metaphor or hypocrisy

Oooh get you (clutches cushion and pearls for added outrage). I dunno, I kinda like trying to keep hold of my youth. I might still tell my friends that I will “rock up at [insert time]”. Not down with the kids enough to get away with “chillax” but I do still say “cool” a lot. Not yet the oldest swinger in town but maybe one day?

Nah I’m gonna be watching out for your Patisms (and the other fellas)

So no change there then "

I’m nothing except consistent, innit?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

No they haven’t "

15 tories

12 labour

So I stand corrected, you were close enough

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

No they haven’t "

Oh dear, wrong again

Alex Cunningham,

Margaret Hodge,

Barry Sheerman,

Harriet Harman,

Alan Whitehead,

Ben Bradshaw,

Wayne David,

Paul Blomfield,

Rosie Winterton,

Margaret Beckett,

Jon Cruddas,

Colleen Fletcher.

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

No they haven’t

15 tories

12 labour

So I stand corrected, you were close enough "

Urgent Google event there eh?

Did you ever Google metaphor

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

No they haven’t

15 tories

12 labour

So I stand corrected, you were close enough

Urgent Google event there eh?

Did you ever Google metaphor "

No,

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Ha ha! OK, God you're bored, but is that the best you can do?

Gonna coin a new phrase “Patisms”

If that's 'Gonna' from a 47 year old man, why would you want to sound like a much younger person?

If it's from the much younger partner on the profile, it's still cringeworthy

But 'patisms' that's great . You might change your mind after a few patisms to something more sensible!

You can say you got it off Pat!

Grammar klaxon : it's not a metaphor or hypocrisy

Oooh get you (clutches cushion and pearls for added outrage). I dunno, I kinda like trying to keep hold of my youth. I might still tell my friends that I will “rock up at [insert time]”. Not down with the kids enough to get away with “chillax” but I do still say “cool” a lot. Not yet the oldest swinger in town but maybe one day?

Nah I’m gonna be watching out for your Patisms (and the other fellas)

So no change there then

I’m nothing except consistent, innit?"

Yea bro

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By *heshbifellaMan
over a year ago

Nantwich


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

No they haven’t

15 tories

12 labour

So I stand corrected, you were close enough

Urgent Google event there eh?

Did you ever Google metaphor

No, "

I'll try to help then. Man meets woman in hotel off swinging site. But they just have a few drinks and a giggle. Man gets home and wonders 'what have I metaphor'

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By *ustintime69Man
over a year ago

london


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

No they haven’t

15 tories

12 labour

So I stand corrected, you were close enough

Urgent Google event there eh?

Did you ever Google metaphor

No,

I'll try to help then. Man meets woman in hotel off swinging site. But they just have a few drinks and a giggle. Man gets home and wonders 'what have I metaphor' "

Have you been at the Tory marching powder again? You seem very sparky for a Sunday afternoon

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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago

Brighton


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Ha ha! OK, God you're bored, but is that the best you can do?

Gonna coin a new phrase “Patisms”

If that's 'Gonna' from a 47 year old man, why would you want to sound like a much younger person?

If it's from the much younger partner on the profile, it's still cringeworthy

But 'patisms' that's great . You might change your mind after a few patisms to something more sensible!

You can say you got it off Pat!

Grammar klaxon : it's not a metaphor or hypocrisy

Oooh get you (clutches cushion and pearls for added outrage). I dunno, I kinda like trying to keep hold of my youth. I might still tell my friends that I will “rock up at [insert time]”. Not down with the kids enough to get away with “chillax” but I do still say “cool” a lot. Not yet the oldest swinger in town but maybe one day?

Nah I’m gonna be watching out for your Patisms (and the other fellas)

So no change there then

I’m nothing except consistent, innit?

Yea bro "

You’re right it does sound cringey!

Although surely “Yeah Bruv” is more accurate? We aren’t Americans after all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is it just me or is anyone else starting to think Pat sounds a bit rattled?

Which version of Pat?

Even if these are separate individuals they are all expressing aspects of the same personality type.

What I find interesting is the accusation that not supporting this series of incompetent governments makes someone a leftie/socialist/ labour supporter.

When you view the number of Conservative MPs who have resigned the whip or been forced out of the party or are saying don't vote for a party they don't recognise, it's an "interesting" perspective to be pushing...

Happens on a cross-party basis all the time. Notice how you didn't opine on the biggest Labour exodus since 1981, when a group split from the party to form their own, the doomed Social Democratic Party.

Yes, in 2019 Labour MPs Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Grapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffrey, created 'The Independent Group'

Ego-busting MPs do it all the time, but the left excel

Typical lefty hypocrisy

I wasn't on this site or able to vote when the SDP was formed. It was the correct thing to do and it ultimately merged with the Liberal party.

The Conservative party should have done the same thing instead of screwing everybody over to solve their internal problems with the Brexit referendum.

I didn't think that it was wrong for those Labour party members to leave when they thought that it was heading irrevocably in the wrong direction under Corbyn. It turned out badly for them as they were just not adequately organised and moderation doesn't get people as agitated as fear and anger and outrage.

So, that screws your argument.

The point still stands that these last few Conservative administrations have been incompetent, corrupt and progressively more nasty, and their own former leaders and elected representatives are calling them out on it.

And what screwed your argument was you'd forgotten about this exodus and thought you'd won the thread with your Tory exodus routine!

It is 2023, not 1981 or 2019, how many tories have decided not to stand at the next GE ?

Something like a dozen.

A dozen Labour MPs have also confirmed that they are not standing at the next election

No they haven’t

15 tories

12 labour

So I stand corrected, you were close enough

Urgent Google event there eh?

Did you ever Google metaphor

No,

I'll try to help then. Man meets woman in hotel off swinging site. But they just have a few drinks and a giggle. Man gets home and wonders 'what have I metaphor' "

Good, but not as good as your Pat Nav effort

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By *rDiscretionXXXMan
over a year ago

Gilfach


"It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people's grammar were just plain annoying. Now there's evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (OCD/ODD). Researchers are calling it Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS."

Does that mean that people will stop complaining about us, and saying that we're 'just arguing about semantics'?

After all, no one would want to make fun of someone else's disability, would they.

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