Election Year or Fear!

[Andy_Faber]

Thanks for the reminder. We both have postal votes, on the basis that we can never be certain we?re going to be in the country at the specified time, and they have to be in by May 1st.

There are no circumstances in which I would vote for Reform and being torn between Reform and Green seems odd seeing as they are virtual opposites.

I did meet the Tory candidate last week and we had quite a sensible chat, but I?ll be voting Labour on the basis that, despite all the bad publicity (some self inflicted via poor communication) I think they?ve had a reasonable start in enormously difficult circumstances and I know very little individual detail about any of the five actual candidates.

Aren?t all candidates ?very local? seeing as these are local elections? Certainly all our candidates are resident in the Derbyshire Dales.

I don't know about the local thing nationwide rA, I seldom vote in local elections but the two fellahs I met persuaded me to by their interaction and 'promises'. For detail, it was early morning and they'd chosen the same car park to meet their canvassers

I'm not partisan so not interested in party labels especially in local elections, and what they were promising were more about local matters than national (albeit local to the next-door ward, see my earlier post!). Both were very polite about their opposite numbers, they didn't go as far as a handshake, you never know who has a camera these days...

[ramAnag]

Both were very polite about their opposite numbers, they didn't go as far as a handshake, you never know who has a camera these days...

Lol…everyone! As I think I’ve said before, people used to rush to help, now they take a photo/video!

[SithHappens]

Never get to meet candidates, would it change my decision? Really don't know but I'll be voting the same way as I did last year. Which despite a certain posters views I'm an avid Starmer fan, it won't be for his party or any of those mentioned above.

[Andy_Faber]

Never get to meet candidates, would it change my decision? Really don't know but I'll be voting the same way as I did last year. Which despite a certain posters views I'm an avid Starmer fan, it won't be for his party or any of those mentioned above.

I?ve never met any candidates either til my car park bump-into.

[SithHappens]

Reform reported to be in talks with liz truss. Considering her constantly supporting Trump it seems a logical step.

[ramAnag]

Reform reported to be in talks with liz truss. Considering her constantly supporting Trump it seems a logical step.

Deserve each other…the slug and the lettuce.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Isn't that a pub?

[SithHappens]

Very unfair RA....on the slug and lettuce pub chain 😆

[SithHappens]

Talking of Liz Truss, remember the result of her visit to see the Queen. Well JD Vance went to see the pope yesterday. Nuff said

[Trickytreesreds]

Labour the patriotic party ? I havent laughed so much in years ������
This plank really thinks we all believe the guff he comes out with.
He s given away billions abroad, doing nothing to stop immigration, currently looking at surrendering more fish stocks, raising taxes more, slowly bring in his blasphemy rules. Even his own MPS are fighting for an airport in Cashmere, whilst the second capitol drowns in rubbish.

Yearh, wave that flag KIer we believe you. ����������������������

[SithHappens]

I see our Nige has been mischievous today



I think his auto correct is malfunctioning and he meant it to be Special KKK

[SithHappens]

Well said

https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/our-response-to-nigel-farages-comments

[Trickytreesreds]

Kier Starmers ex-girlfriend, is pro trans judge,

Well that explains a lot

[Trickytreesreds]

Sith, you asked about fishing earlier. This man is a snake, and if this comes out of it, another nail in his coffin.
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/starmer-close-to-post-brexit-defence-deal-with-eu-after-concession-on-fishing-rights/ar-AA1Dn52b?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[Trickytreesreds]

So, 9 months later, after all slating of Tory rule, lets have a quick recap on the tool makers son's record. Remember all his promises and things that WOULDN'T /WON'T HAPPEN?
Changes tack more times than the Olympic yachting team

And the truth behind the glossy manifesto actually looks like this ����
▪️Winter fuel allowance cancelled
▪️highest tax in 70 years
▪️highest electricity in the world
▪️fake ?22 billion black hole
▪️ 22.3% pay rise for doctors
▪️15% pay rise for train drivers
▪️attempts to join EU by stealth
▪️ Closed the migrant barge
▪️4 more years of hotels for illegals / smash the gangs
▪️NI tax rises for businesses
▪️?500 million to foreign farmers
▪️?3.4 BILLION on consultants
▪️Two tier policing at protests & riots
▪️crackdown on free speech
▪️No deportations for foreign criminals, in most cases. ECHR sorted that.
▪️let prisoners out early
▪️net zero madness spending/?11 billion to Africa climate change
▪️Carbon capture experiment
▪️solar factories on green belt
▪️oops had to cancel non Dom policy
▪️VAT on private schools backfired
▪️Softer sentences, prisons are full
▪️Free clothes for MPs
▪️Free tickets for MPs
▪️Rent free house for MPs
▪️free Pass for Ali for Downing Street
▪️introducing pay per mile
▪️Ended steel production
▪️Stopped oil and gas licenses
▪️ refused to use huge new gas field
▪️Spaffed ?8.3b on British energy
▪️Energy bills went up TWICE
▪️Palestine marches out of control
▪️Ended free speech in universities
▪️Increases in fuel duty
▪️Said “free the sausages”
▪️Fired his chief of staff
▪️Fired his energy minister
▪️Chancellor isn’t an economist
▪️Gave ?millions more to Ukraine
▪️Gave ?50 million to Syrian militants
▪️Richest pop star got free police escort
▪️made up some ‘science’ on fly wheels
▪️stopped Rwanda
▪️largest number of illegal migrants ever
▪️Didn’t change his ‘special’ pension
▪️Gave away the Chagos Islands, to a country who never owned them and paid billions to do so
▪️lost Rosie Duffield
▪️let Ukraine use Storm shadow, outside agreed boundaries
▪️revoked land wind farm ban
▪️announced Pylons near houses
▪️Banned Elon from ‘Investment Summit’
▪️misogyny would be classed as terrorism
▪️ investigated by Electoral Commission
▪️ Lord Ali under investigation
▪️Inheritance tax on farmers
▪️Lied to WASPI women
▪️Attempting to bring in blasphemy laws
▪️Gave ?500 million to foreign farmers
▪️Chancellor turned out to be unqualified
▪️highest government borrowing in 34 yrs
▪️MP investigated for corruption
▪️Banning parents from seeing curriculum
▪️Reviewing blasphemy laws
▪️stabbing up
▪️no Grooming gang enquiry
Complete chaos in under 9 months. Imagine the state of the UK after 5 more years ��