Election Year or Fear!

[MadAmster]

Reports on some news media pointing the finger at the helicopter pilot.

Merely passing on what I've read. No opinion either way. I'll wait for the INQUIRY report.

[ramAnag]

Reports on some news media pointing the finger at the helicopter pilot.

Merely passing on what I've read. No opinion either way. I'll wait for the INQUIRY report.

Very wise, and given your son’s occupation I’d imagine you have better access to informed opinion over this one than most on here.

[MadAmster]

Gaza. Trumo wants to own it. Nothing to do with the huge amount of oil there off the coast, of course?

[swaledale]

Anyone who has anything other than distaste and horror at Trump, after the last week or so is either terminally dumb or a closet fascist.

[SithHappens]

Gaza. Trumo wants to own it. Nothing to do with the huge amount of oil there off the coast, of course?

We should send him Gazza instead, he's always well oiled.

[MadAmster]

We should send him Gazza instead, he's always well oiled.

Lol. This one gets a like.

[SithHappens]

Anyone who has anything other than distaste and horror at Trump, after the last week or so is either terminally dumb or a closet fascist.

I'd expect as Reform are at 26% on the polls that means a minimum of 26% are supportive of Trump.

[Andy_Faber]

I'd expect as Reform are at 26% on the polls that means a minimum of 26% are supportive of Trump.

I can confirm, from an event I went to the weekend before last (a gig not a rally!), where there was an almost fervid support for Reform, that support for some of Trump's policies is high but most who expressed an opinion think he's bonkers. To even out the observation, I was at another event earlier the same day (another performing arts type event) where there were two anti-Trump rants/speeches from the stage and it appeared to be a right of passage (most in attendance were young aspirants to performing roles) to berate Trump and anyone within two or three degrees of seperation.

All a bit depressing, I go to loads of 'conventional' music gigs (classic rock/prog and the like) partly because no-one offers any opinion beyond how good the band is and if the beer's 'off'

[Trickytreesreds]

As an individual, Trump is awful. Yet folks just don't want to face up to why he got elected.
The last cabbage in the job brought about so much chaos, the majority had had enough of it.
Trump shouts, I put this country first and thats what they want.

The same thing is happening here, and as much as the soft left here don't want to hear it. There are reasons behind it similar to the USA.

The UK has had for the last 25 years, 2 parties, that puke bile at each other , yet are practically identicle in policies and dragging this country backwards.
The pilot scoffs every time, yet the public are showing their anger.

Everything from massive population increases/ green madness/ costs of living/ crime and attrocities. to the latest slurping by Labour to softening towards blasphemy laws.

I am still amazed here, how some people called the Tories run by the hard right when nothing was further from the truth. They were every bit as soft as Labour is now.

[ramAnag]

As an individual, Trump is awful. Yet folks just don't want to face up to why he got elected.
The last cabbage in the job brought about so much chaos, the majority had had enough of it.
Trump shouts, I put this country first and thats what they want.

The same thing is happening here, and as much as the soft left here don't want to hear it. There are reasons behind it similar to the USA.

The UK has had for the last 25 years, 2 parties, that puke bile at each other , yet are practically identicle in policies and dragging this country backwards.
The pilot scoffs every time, yet the public are showing their anger.

Everything from massive population increases/ green madness/ costs of living/ crime and attrocities. to the latest slurping by Labour to softening towards blasphemy laws.

I am still amazed here, how some people called the Tories run by the hard right when nothing was further from the truth. They were every bit as soft as Labour is now.

Tricky, you might want to consider the following.

1) Trump won a two horse race with 49.9% of the vote. What he ‘shouts’ resonates with fractionally under half the electorate and appalls the rest.

2) ‘Puking bile’ at each other isn’t something that suddenly started happening politically at the turn of the 21st century. It’s been going on for as long as I can remember.

3) Just seven months ago Labour overturned a huge Tory majority and were elected with their own even bigger majority. How does that fit in with your reasoning?