General News Chat

[Bojangles9]

Oops will have to apologise to my neighbour, if he wasn’t awake already I just woke him.

Hahahahahahaha **** you Truss. That was pure drama. The will she won’t she turn up. The slow hand clap. The long list of candidates.

Pure theatre. Worth staying up just for that. Brilliant.

[TheDeeDon]

That was a grand night, all in all, apart from a wishy-washy win for a wishy-washy “Labour” party. Whether in Aberdeen or Keith, I’m still “represented” by a gormless idle wänker sucking on the “hated Wastemonster” teat.

Heavy defeats for the cruellest of Tory regimes, the pretendy radicals of the canny, nest-feathering London wing of the Sporran party, and a decent win for Jeremy Corbyn who also put a flech in Harriet Harman’s lug.

Now here’s Lesley Riddoch speaking her usual bull.

Ever felt you’ve been cheated?

Two homes min? That nae a Tory thing?

[TheDeeDon]

From what I read earlier it was Reform that was fighting for the Liz Truss seat. Glad the main part of what I read was true though.

From pork markets to crashing financial markets, it's been a fair come down for Truss.

[Bojangles9]

From what I read earlier it was Reform that was fighting for the Liz Truss seat. Glad the main part of what I read was true though.

From pork markets to crashing financial markets, it's been a fair come down for Truss.

Laugh every time they refer to her as a former Prime Minister. Akin to calling Ryan Christie a former Aberdeen player - nae really.

Astounding stat that Sunaks seat the only ex PM one still Conservative.

[TheDeeDon]

Douglas Alexander back at Westminster as an MP.

Labour must have been scraping the barrel bring him back.

[TheDeeDon]

She will have a lot to say on who is to blame for her and the Tories results last night and she will take not one bit of responsibility for it.

[57vintage]

Two homes min? That nae a Tory thing?

Dinna be daft. I can barely afford the inadequate box I Biden I still have a modicum of “influence” in Banffshire’s Jewel, having been politically involved out there since 1970. The crowded political ‘middle ground’ though is demotivating. It’s like watching the Inverness Masons or St Perth.

Interesting to see that the Kiltoes’ original breakthrough area (1974) in ‘teuchterland’ has once again become the heartland of radicalism since the central belt pinkoes have returned to the rinsed-of-socialism Labour Party.

The incompetence of cronyist career politicians will, of course, continue.

Don’t get fooled again.

[TheDeeDon]

**** the idiots of Scotland! Voting to end Free prescriptions & wanting to be taxed fir a 2nd bedroom. Lunatics! I'm done! Adios.

Don't be so despondent min. It was always on the cards. Once you win power there is only one way you can go and that is down and that's all that has happened. The SNP vote held up quite well up here overall, just the FPTP doesn't give a true reflection.

To be honest, I'm more interested in the election up here in 2026 and believe that Starmer will have shown what little he stands for by then and the press will have turned their attack on him. Hopefully the SNP concentrate on important stuff instead of gender shyte.

[57vintage]

If I’m still around to witness it, the interesting thing about 2026 will be the entitled deposed MPs from yesterday looking for a constituency nomination or place on the second vote list, and the non-fraternal squabbling that is guaranteed.

[TheDeeDon]

Labour win 37 seats up here with 36% of the vote with the Lib Dems winning 5 on 9.3%.

It makes no sense to me and said the same thing when the SNP won 56 seats.


The same in the overall UK vote. Labour have won over 400 seats, but are only polling around 35%. The Tories won around 365 seats in 2019 and were polling around 42%. I read somewhere online that Labour got more votes overall in 2019 than they have in 2024. No idea if true, but madness if any truth to it.

Sadly we will never see any reform of the system as it suits the two main parties well.