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The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 09 Dec 2024, 09:19
by Come On You Irons
There. Resident WHO political commentators and gurus can knock yourselves out in here and conduct your endless bickering. All other threads will be locked.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 21:36
by SurfaceAgentX2Zero
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 17:45
Caught between the flag shaggers & those who say you can’t say Christmas without being arrested
Ironic
Angry middle aged men overload
Er, no. KCC have asked that flags not be flown from lamp-posts that will also be carrying Christmas lights. They have said that whilst flags and lights can't go on the same poles due to H&S bollocks, there is no question of forcibly removing the flags.
So that's another thing you've made up today.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 21:17
by Mike Oxsaw
Come On You Irons" wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 20:34
I'm interested to know why the plastic Aussie, champagne communist Sven refers to Reform and right wing citizens as "gammons".
To me gammon is a racist slur given it's a pejorative term expressly targeted as white citizens with a right wing political persuasion.
Care to apologise for your racist slur, Sven?
Care to censor that poster for his use of a racist slur, Mods?
I'm more than happy that the only response people who have differing views to mine is (attempted) personal insults, proving that they have no better solution to offer.
The solution though, needs to be fit for purpose, matching what I want now - today - not what someone thinks I should want now or what I wanted 5/25/50 years ago.
On the politics front, the only party talking along those lines is Reform; they're not perfect but have only had a few years to seek that perfection, unlike the existing political parties, who have had decades, or even centuries, to work out what it is the people (voters) really want.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 20:52
by only1billybonds
The BBC just can't stop themselves can they.
Been caught red handed deliberately 'doctoring' footage of Trump to make it look like he as ordering his followers to march and create mayhem at the Capitol.
Refund the shitshow, shouldn't have to be forced to pay for such a stinking corrupt organisation.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 20:34
by Come On You Irons
I'm interested to know why the plastic Aussie, champagne communist Sven refers to Reform and right wing citizens as "gammons".
To me gammon is a racist slur given it's a pejorative term expressly targeted as white citizens with a right wing political persuasion.
Care to apologise for your racist slur, Sven?
Care to censor that poster for his use of a racist slur, Mods?
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 19:48
by BRANDED
I'd like Reform to cancel all spending and close the fucking shit down.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 19:29
by Mike Oxsaw
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 19:13
Not putting up lights
Thats usually cancelling Christmas in Gammon world isn’t it?
If it was a Labour council you’d be out painting another roundabout
Putting up Christmas lights or funding a care home.
Yep. I can see why that would be an impossible choice for some.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 19:24
by Massive Attack
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 19:13
Not putting up lights
Thats usually cancelling Christmas in Gammon world isn’t it?
Nope. That's definitely not a thing I'm aware of in the UK that Christmas is cancelled if some lights do not go up for any reason.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 19:13
by Fauxstralian
Not putting up lights
Thats usually cancelling Christmas in Gammon world isn’t it?
If it was a Labour council you’d be out painting another roundabout
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 18:23
by Mike Oxsaw
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 17:50
Reform have taken over a number of councils
What in their running of those makes you think they would make a competent government?
Any news on a costed economic plan?
Taking power away from the state = which, in reality really dictate what happens in the country - will allow Reform to begin to price what solving many issues will cost.
While the state continue to conduct a policy of civil disobedience (that they would never allow the general population to undertake) nothing will change.
It's the unelected bureaucrats who need nailing, but the unions & do-gooders will never allow that to happen, even if their reticence borders on being traitorous.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 18:10
by Massive Attack
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 17:50
Reform have taken over a number of councils
What in their running of those makes you think they would make a competent government?
Any news on a costed economic plan?
Reform Councils have proven they can successfully save a shit load of money in a short space of time, whereas Labour have achieved the opposite with taxes set to rise thanks to Reeves incompetency with our finances.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 03972.html
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 18:05
by Massive Attack
So they haven't cancelled Christmas then?
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 17:50
by Fauxstralian
Reform have taken over a number of councils
What in their running of those makes you think they would make a competent government?
Any news on a costed economic plan?
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 17:46
by Come On You Irons
This is a shocking government but the Tories weren't much better.
Both sides of the Uniparty are incompetent, lying charlatans.
The Tories consistently promised to get net migration down to the tens of thousands. They lied and did the opposite (increased it to record levels).
Labour promised not to raise income tax, NI or VAT. They lied and did the opposite.
Labour promised to "smash the gangs". They lied and illegal immigration is at record levels.
Vote Reform.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 17:45
by Fauxstralian
Caught between the flag shaggers & those who say you can’t say Christmas without being arrested
Ironic
Angry middle aged men overload
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 17:32
by Massive Attack
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 17:13
Kent County Council (Reform) cancelling Christmas
How are they cancelling Christmas?
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 17:23
by Lee Trundle
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 17:13
Kent County Council (Reform) cancelling Christmas
No Christmas lights going up due to lamp posts covered in flags
Safety issue, innit
Reckon we've got 4 more years of pathetic articles like that to sully Reform, Sven (which you'll lap up).
I don't think it's going to work, though.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 17:13
by Fauxstralian
Kent County Council (Reform) cancelling Christmas
No Christmas lights going up due to lamp posts covered in flags
Safety issue, innit
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 13:51
by SurfaceAgentX2Zero
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 13:10
Serious question …
All this talk by Rachel from Accounts about low productivity in the UK
In this modern world of services & finance etc how do they actually calculate productivity given most people don’t work in factories knocking out widgets these days?
With modern technology I imagine most office based people are far more productive than they ever were
I think if you allow half the population to skive from home and the other half to do a four day week for a full week's money, then productivity will drop off a tad.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 13:31
by Mike Oxsaw
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 13:10
Serious question …
All this talk by Rachel from Accounts about low productivity in the UK
In this modern world of services & finance etc how do they actually calculate productivity given most people don’t work in factories knocking out widgets these days?
With modern technology I imagine most office based people are far more productive than they ever were
Very few people actually make anything of worth these days, anything that adds actual wealth to the economy.
The most money seems to be "created" through adding, then pocketing, commission to the little stuff the UK actually creates as it moves through the supply chain from creator to consumer.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 13:10
by Fauxstralian
Serious question …
All this talk by Rachel from Accounts about low productivity in the UK
In this modern world of services & finance etc how do they actually calculate productivity given most people don’t work in factories knocking out widgets these days?
With modern technology I imagine most office based people are far more productive than they ever were
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 13:03
by Mike Oxsaw
Someone sent me this earlier:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/737105
Not sure if it's real/matters...
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 11:31
by BerlingtonBertie
Maybe stop sending arms/money to Ukraine and sink any incoming boats in the channel. That would be a good start and save a few quid. Fucking ponces and nonces running the UK since the 90’s.
A great nation ruined by incompetence and do gooders.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 11:17
by WHU(Exeter)
Fewer people working harder, paying more, for more and more not working.
Still it's great to know that all those taxes are being spent wisely, and the state of public bodies is in such a great state and doesn't lend itself open to jaw dropping incompetence on an almost daily basis.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 11:17
by Tomshardware
zico wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025, 10:24
Read this earlier, not sure if it's true, maybe someone can clarify?
"When Tony Blair came to power the national debt was 25% when he left it was 65%. The Conservatives had spent the last 14 years trying to pay of that debt that Labour had accumulated and also paying for a pandemic. Under Starmer 91% to 97% national debt in 18 months."
Blair spent it on Education Education Education.
Re: The Official Politics Thread (enter at your own risk)
Posted: 04 Nov 2025, 11:02
by violator
Surprised she didn't blame it all on the flags...or VAR