UK politics
Polling day, polling day - thankfully I voted by post last week so I don't have to decide between "do my civic duty and infect the whole polling station" and "don't, and probably be one less of the GTTO gang".
My only regret is that we won't get to see Rishi Sunak defenestrated out of one of the windows of Number Ten.
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@philpem I've yet to push past the Reform louts outside ours. I'll go again in a bit. If they're still there "just asking questions", I'll call the police.
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@ret @philpem Our local deform candidate is called "Tim Prosser". You can imagine what people call him. A very small-minded and unpleasant man, but apparently that's what some people want these days. They believe that immigrants, Jews, and the left-wing metropolitan elite "Wokerati" are the source of all their pains, and they don't have the self-awareness to realise how ridiculous that all sounds.
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@tryst @ret @philpem I ran into some 20 somethings earlier today who had totally bought the reform scam. I feel kinda sad for them because their hearts were in the right place (concerns about cost of living, the unhoused, etc) but however I tried to explain that these problems are caused by the wealthy they just didn't want to listen and kept blaming migrants.
They weren't being intimidating but they also seemed to genuinly believed what they were saying.
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@ret @renbymon @tryst @philpem I looked at the statements made by our local candidates. Most kept it to a short paragraph, if they gave one.
The reform guy bloody hell. It was a rambling essay of plastic patriot nonsense, that went on and on. The man clearly had no idea of TL:DR.
That's the kind of people they are.
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@tryst @ret @philpem
"We keep taking in asylum seekers and refugees but we don't house homeless people."
"We can do both; it's not a zero sum game."
"Where do we get the money for that??"
"Put them in unoccupied homes."
"But that's robbing from the rich!!! What if they all left?"
"The majority of wealth is tied up in assets; if they leave the country then buildings are still here. They can't physically take them out of Britain."