General Election 2024
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Nic Robinson
Moderator
I think in the last 15 minutes, Starmer has been better. Sunak just a shallow spiv.
To be fair, they're both rubbish.
To be fair, they're both rubbish.
Ponty
pfm Member
The polls read what they do because people want ‘change’. They ain’t going to get it though.
Tony L
Administrator
Tories are filth. Utter scum. Everyone else needs to play as dirty. Nothing should be off the table. I want to see attack ads using specific MPs ‘interests’, earnings, donations etc etc. Expose these grifters as what they are. Labour are just so cowardly.
If I was running the Labour campaign everything would be about the £billions the Tories have stolen or wasted. Just present a detailed itemised bill in poster and TV ad format. List everything; page after page after page of theft and waste; £37 billion on track and trace, £50 billion Liz Truss budget, £x billion covid fraud etc etc etc. After that start on Infosys, start on Frank Hester, start on bogus peerages etc…
wow&flutter
pfm Member
Yup, not quite as bad as the two choices over the pond but not great is it! Sunak talking over Starmer and the presenter in his true entitled fashion.
ff1d1l
pfm Member
I'm getting deja vu....didn't they do this last time?I see the Tory press office account has renamed itself 'Tax Check UK' like it's some kind of independent fact checking service. Desperate.
Brian
Eating fat, staying slim
Yep. Entitled is the word. Can Sunak be even more patronising and rude?
robs
should know how this works by no
There's no winner here, they are both, to roughly the same extent, just amplifying what most people think is wrong with politics these days....just BS from both mouths.
How many more times are both going to refer to their parents and the future....people are concerned with now.
How many more times are both going to refer to their parents and the future....people are concerned with now.
wow&flutter
pfm Member
Unfortunately Labour don’t have the balls to do it, just like the Democrats.
Sunak reinforcing his “I’m just a normal bloke, I understand what your going through” stance (arse!).
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Reports that GB News presenter, Taxpayers Alliance organiser and part time MP Philip Davies has bet £8000 on losing his seat.
Nothing illegal in that I guess but a bit galling that an MP who has called for disabled people to be paid less than minimum wage will be trousering a profit.
Nothing illegal in that I guess but a bit galling that an MP who has called for disabled people to be paid less than minimum wage will be trousering a profit.
tones
Tones deaf
On a peripherally related topic, there was a rather good podcast on the Belfast Telegraph website today on Britain's most consequential politician of the 21st century so far, Nigel Farage. The interviewee made some very interesting points, such as the British/American fondness for someone rougish - think Trump and Johnson. Such people get away with far more than more normal people can. He also mentioned Farage's ability to connect with ordinary folk, something which many politicians would run a mile to avoid doing, and his ability to give answers in a few minutes. However, the interviewee also said that, if he were elected in Clacton (which he thought highly likely), he would make a lousy MP, since he really couldn't be bothered with improving the local rubbish collection and similar constituency problems, but would much rather grandstand.
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Labour should rename their account **** Check UK.
Tony L
Administrator
I’ve never understood how anyone could be taken in by Farage. I just see a public school millionaire fascist doing a really poor LARP of a man in a pub. Dick Van Dyke was more convincing in Mary Poppins.
Nic Robinson
Moderator
The only pairing less effective than Sunak and Starmer are Kuenssberg and Myrie. I'll be watching C4.
Tony L
Administrator
I popped quickly over to Sky and I’m now watching someone review new Doom maps on YouTube! The thought of watching Tory Kuenssberg wouldn’t enter my head.
Minio
Kind of Sort of Not really...
If you want the pensioner vote, that looks like a reason.
Alex S
carbon based lifeform
Sunak was rude and shouty. Most viewers don’t like that. They were both bad in different ways, although Starmer improved and gave a better closing statement.
What was interesting was Sunak’s leap as far right as he could get away with. It looked like he’d given up on Labour and was trying to get back some Reform votes.
What was interesting was Sunak’s leap as far right as he could get away with. It looked like he’d given up on Labour and was trying to get back some Reform votes.