Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

People have been making stuff about starmer ever since the election. No he's not ****ting himself, he's handling it well i think.

Loads of people saying ever since the election , I'll give him a year, they are still saying, I'll give him a year. They will still be saying the same this time next year.

All those rumours on X, people claiming big news coming out about him, never happened, just a load of old tosh too.

I think you’ve touched on one of the biggest problems we’re likely to face over the coming years, Sith…the impact of social media.

I caught a little bit of Ian Hislop on the radio this morning saying how bizarre it is that people are now saying they mistrust the mainstream media but are quite prepared to believe what they read on X etc.

Without wishing to reignite any previous spats we see it on here, where people claim things that can’t be substantiated or are just purposefully untrue. It’s the modern day equivalent of ‘I heard a bloke down the pub saying…’ only much more organised, far reaching and actually orchestrated by the likes of Trump and Musk etc.

Like you I’m still waiting for that big news we’ve been promised for a while now. You’d think if it’s that big and of such consequence we’d have heard it by now.

[Ramshank72]

Ian Hislop saying that is like Ronald MacDonald finding it bizarre that people don't trust the meat in his burgers, but are quite happy to trust the meat in a Greggs sausage roll. Some of us don't trust either, and regret it when we do take a curious nibble.

[ramAnag]

Ian Hislop saying that is like Ronald MacDonald finding it bizarre that people don't trust the meat in his burgers, but are quite happy to trust the meat in a Greggs sausage roll. Some of us don't trust either, and regret it when we do take a curious nibble.

Ha,ha. Nice analogy, although personally I do like Hislop.

[Andy_Faber]

Ian Hislop saying that is like Ronald MacDonald finding it bizarre that people don't trust the meat in his burgers, but are quite happy to trust the meat in a Greggs sausage roll. Some of us don't trust either, and regret it when we do take a curious nibble.

More insightful than most of the previous 100,000 words on this thread. You should put some of your utterances to music

[Trickytreesreds]

People have been making stuff about starmer ever since the election. No he's not ****ting himself, he's handling it well i think.

Loads of people saying ever since the election , I'll give him a year, they are still saying, I'll give him a year. They will still be saying the same this time next year.

All those rumours on X, people claiming big news coming out about him, never happened, just a load of old tosh too.

I'm no fan of starmer, but apart from the odd gaffe (I mean even the most died in the wool labour supporter must have face palmed over sausages), i think he's had a decent first 6 months, yes I think WFA removal was done wrong, but not all decisions will be popular or agreed with.

Meanwhile Farage sees local councillors quiting because of his leadership. Perhaps seeing his sucking up to musk to try and get him back onside is too much for them.

errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm has it escaped you, that a lot more councillors have resigned because of Starmers leadership than reform?
Close to home as well, Amber valley


The reform councillors who quit, were appointed by the local leader without vetting and were under investigation. Rules are rules.
Dog whistled you was, as Yoda will say

[ramAnag]

errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm has it escaped you, that a lot more councillors have resigned because of Starmers leadership than reform?
Close to home as well, Amber valley


The reform councillors who quit, were appointed by the local leader without vetting and were under investigation. Rules are rules.
Dog whistled you was, as Yoda will say

Don’t think he was. Might it not have more to do with Labour having about 6500 councillors and Reform having around 50?

[Geoff Parkstone]

Ah you do understand percentages now, when it suits

[Trickytreesreds]

Don’t think he was. Might it not have more to do with Labour having about 6500 councillors and Reform having around 50?

Nope, most of them were due to muslim issues over Israel. You count them

[ramAnag]

Ah you do understand percentages now, when it suits

Always have done, GP. Just didn’t want to disappear down one of your arithmetical rabbit holes last week.

[Trickytreesreds]

The reality of listening to this charlatan is sinking in. Lies upon lies. Starmer's Labour, helped into power by voters' frustration with 14 years of Conservative government, has suffered a number of early setbacks including an outcry over ministers accepting freebies and the fallout of a badly received tax-raising budget.
The YouGov poll, which surveyed 2,279 people over the past two days, said only 54% of people who voted Labour in the last election would do so again.

A reform/ con alliance will be the end of Labour

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...ty-2025-01-14/