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Jeremy Poynton's avatar

Clinical NPD. No doubt about it. WTF was Canada thinking? Sure, one could say the same here about Starmer - tho ' only one in five voted for him.

I' not a fan of PR, but FPTP looks doomed as a result. He has no moral mandate to do what he is doing, but as he is clearly amoral, and had no idea of what ethics requires of a polician, here we are.

One consolation being that every time he opens his mouth, he enrages even more people. I gather that 20 per cent of those who voted Labour in July now regret it. N

Me, I'd say that's way higher in rural areas.

FUBAR if ever there was. Fuck 'em all, as my wife and I say as a toast, clicking our glasses.

Yours,

Proud member of the Far Right

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Jupplandia's avatar

If that’s true about buyer regret with Labour, that would mean that only 16% of people Joe support them. Sounds about right.

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Patrick  Clarke's avatar

Support I suspect is limited to those on benefits, those employed in the public sector, gullible students and "recent arrivals"

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Jeremy Poynton's avatar

Yes. And I am still to meet anyone who admits they voted Labour. It will be the opposite of those amazing sporting events which millions claim to have been at!

(Been at one myself!!)

"The Gillette Cup semi-final against Gloucestershire in 1971 was one of the most memorable seen at Old Trafford*. David Hughes came in to bat at 8.45pm, and in semi-darkness hit 24 in an over to win one of the most astonishing one-day matches ever played."

* The original and real Old Trafford 😁😁

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/gillette-cup-england-1971-368807/lancashire-vs-gloucestershire-semi-final-416361/full-scorecard

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Patrick  Clarke's avatar

I note more and more people now seeing why I can't talk about Starmer without adding C U Next Tuesday to every remark I make about him.

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Jeremy Poynton's avatar

Been watching Starmer since his shitshow at the DPP. Knew he'd be an utter disaster as PM. Some consolation in that he is as useless as he is nasty (I suspect him to be sociopathic - no empathy, bristles when challenged, hates to b.e laughed at (Since a TV audience laughed at his 'son of a tollmaker ' bollocks, he's not used it again), and seems to be soulless. There's a blank when you look at his eyes, not the soul one would expect to meet.) and hence we may be shot of him b4 2029. Seems over 1/4 who voted Labour now regretting it. God willing. He's a bastard and far worse than Blair, who could at least pretend to be human.

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Patrick  Clarke's avatar

When I saw him put himself at the head of the "Second Referendum" campaign I'd seen all I needed to see about him. Followed up by his endless calls for earlier, longer and harder lockdowns and opposition to the ending of each of them. I particularly enjoyed that Bath publican who chased him out of his pub in 2021

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Jeremy Poynton's avatar

Aye to all. And re the Bath publican, Starmer was happy for his thugs to manhandle him

We have to make life impossible for him. Challenge him and laugh at him non-stop

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alexei's avatar

The next likely PM, Paul Poilievre, is apparently also a WEF acolyte. Will he radically change Canada's direction, we will see.

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Jeremy Poynton's avatar

Well he talks sense, unlike all the other WEF acolytes, who you can smell from thousands of miles away...

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Bettina's avatar

Ewww no, Turdeau is not good looking. He's a pastry-faced slimeball 🤮

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Jupplandia's avatar

It’s subjective to an extent but I understand a lot of women fancy him. Or did.

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Bettina's avatar

Yes, you're right! Presumably his wife did at some point! No accounting for taste, as they say.

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Writing the Wrong's avatar

On the point of Trudeau being handsome, the great unspoken drawback of democratic politics is the degree to which women writ large vote with their vagina, rather than their brain. Nothing else explains the enduring popularity of Trudeau, the insanity of unfettered abortion access, or indeed the ever-expanding global devouring-mother Nanny State than the apparently inability of most women to distinguish between what's required for sound public policy (not to mention their litmus test for the trustworthiness of public figures), and their own personal feminine instincts.

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Jupplandia's avatar

Sadly this is true. Women who buck the general trend tend to be exceptionally astute, but the general trend is for really bad emotive, dishonest and objective reality defying arguments to play much better with female voters.

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Patrick  Clarke's avatar

Listening to his "farewell" announcement it all sounded like consummate exercise in denying reality. Pretty accurately summed up his disastrous administrations, however unwittingly

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Mel Cornwell's avatar

An excellent piece, Daniel. Another one bites the dust! These bastards haven't beaten us yet...

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Jupplandia's avatar

Thanks Mel. It’s good to see them fall. 😀

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Ivor Silverman's avatar

They should make another movie about him—Flushed Away, like the turd he is.

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Ivor Silverman's avatar

I posted to quickly-Starmers the next Turd to go.

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Mrs Bucket's avatar

Great essay!

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Jupplandia's avatar

Thanks 😀😀

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alexei's avatar

Dissected to a "T".... excellent forensic analysis. Did you study psychology?

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Jupplandia's avatar

Thanks. I never directly studied psychology as a main subject, but when I did my PhD on Edgar Allan Poe I did it as a psychological analysis and read a lot of psychoanalytic literary criticism. I’m somewhat sceptical about the discipline as a whole but find it an interesting topic and tend to believe that jargon free approaches to psychology can be accurate. There’s a sweet middle ground between trite pop psychology and professional psychoanalysis where a lot of insightful commentary can be made.

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