When will this shit end?

[Fuzzy Afro]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

hard earned assets my arse.

^^^ Comments like this are exactly why the left wing will never win in the UK 

[steviewevie]

Cheaper to prevent pandemics than 'cure' them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54721687

[steviewevie]

Just now, Fuzzy Afro said:

^^^ Comments like this are exactly why the left wing will never win in the UK 

because people are worried about their hard earned assets?

[onthebeach]

8 minutes ago, Quark said:

Oh for fuck's sakes, not another one.

Chuck in Danny Kruger bringing his mum in and I'm starting to spot something of a pattern.

No - it looks though we’ve escaped that one

[Fuzzy Afro]

4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

because people are worried about their hard earned assets?

Exactly. People are afraid that the big bad lefties will

come and take away their nice things. 

[steviewevie]

2 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Exactly. People are afraid that the big bad lefties will

come and take away their nice things. 

well, after the economic armageddon we're about to go through there won't be many people with nice things left.

[steviewevie]

10 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Cheaper to prevent pandemics than 'cure' them

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54721687

Preventing pandemics could be more than 100 times cheaper than tackling their deadly effects, a report says.

It calls on people to stop encroaching on wild land and eat less meat - to cut contact with animals carrying viruses or bacteria that could infect humans.

The report says governments must work together to avoid future pandemics, and must swiftly contain outbreaks.

It warns that, without a co-ordinated global plan, more will die from future pandemics more dangerous than Covid-19.

[Fuzzy Afro]

1 minute ago, steviewevie said:

well, after the economic armageddon we're about to go through there won't be many people with nice things left.

Eh, not really. The middle classes will be largely unaffected by the economic Armageddon. 

[st dan]

17 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

No he didn’t. He won because the north felt ignored over their Brexit vote and wanted it done, whilst the south was very afraid of a far left PM that would strip away at their hard earned assets. I voted for Labour because I was very pro second referendum but I completely get why Boris won a thumping majority. 

Us on here are having an open discussion about politics, and by even bothering to engage in such discussions, we are instantly more involved and invested in politics than a lot of the public who vote.
I’m gauging my options from the people I have on social media who I went to school with many years ago (I only still have them as ‘friends’ for a laugh) who were voting because they didn’t like Corbyn and how he conducted himself. Let’s be frank, he is fairly dull in comparison to Johnson. And Boris does come across as charming and likeable to the person on the street, who doesn’t take a real interest in politics. He’s the funny guy swinging holding the Union Jack flags who rugby tackled that child, and fouled somebody in he charity football game. 
Whilst you are correct that some did vote for the political reasons you mention above, a LOT of the voting public are very naive. You only have to listen to news reports when they go to places like Darlington as to why they didn’t vote for Labour/Corbyn. A lot of them sadly haven’t got a clue. 

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Eh, not really. The middle classes will be largely unaffected by the economic Armageddon. 

we'll see.

[efcfanwirral]

8 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Exactly. People are afraid that the big bad lefties will

come and take away their nice things. 

isn't that exactly what turning a hard capitalist country into a socialist one would do? (the type the hard left Corbyn worshippers want I mean). Not take everything away, but chip away at their money with taxes etc a lot more aggressively than before?

[Fuzzy Afro]

1 minute ago, efcfanwirral said:

isn't that exactly what turning a hard capitalist country into a socialist one would do? (the type the hard left Corbyn worshippers want I mean). Not take everything away, but chip away at their money with taxes etc a lot more aggressively than before?

One friend of mine was genuinely terrified of McDonnell as chancellor because his family own multiple homes and McDonnell wanted to go after home ownership. They were going to get the first plane out the country if Corbyn won. 

[steviewevie]

2 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

One friend of mine was genuinely terrified of McDonnell as chancellor because his family own multiple homes and McDonnell wanted to go after home ownership. They were going to get the first plane out the country if Corbyn won. 

ugh

[SheffJeff]

19 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

isn't that exactly what turning a hard capitalist country into a socialist one would do? (the type the hard left Corbyn worshippers want I mean). Not take everything away, but chip away at their money with taxes etc a lot more aggressively than before?

It seems I'm a hard left Corbynite which I'm not ashamed of but surely any future Labour policy will include taxing the rich more aggressively?    

[SwedgeAntilles]

Me checking UKPol twitter after a long afternoon of meetings

[parsonjack]

47 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

A friend of my sister has been invited to a “zoom wedding” next month and her husband is a virtual usher tasked with ushering people into virtual breakout rooms to speak to each other.

 

I think a little bit of me just died inside when my sister told me that. 

Good grief....that's the online equivalent of nervously scanning the table plan to find your sharing with 4 strangers and an ex-partner you publicly cheated on.

Edited October 29, 2020 by parsonjack

[Crazyfool01]

1 hour ago, gooner1990 said:

Oxford moving into Tier 2 on Saturday...

Hopefully the only bad news about Oxford ... 

[Tartan_Glasto]

53 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

A friend of my sister has been invited to a “zoom wedding” next month and her husband is a virtual usher tasked with ushering people into virtual breakout rooms to speak to each other.

 

I think a little bit of me just died inside when my sister told me that. 

I have a Zoom wedding on Saturday but it's just a case of going on Zoom to watch the ceremony then that's it. No ushering or breakout rooms thankfully.

[steviewevie]

Public hysteria 'more harmful than the virus' say Tory policy critics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/29/public-hysteria-more-harmful-than-the-virus-say-tory-policy-critics

[Ozanne]

35 minutes ago, st dan said:

Us on here are having an open discussion about politics, and by even bothering to engage in such discussions, we are instantly more involved and invested in politics than a lot of the public who vote.
I’m gauging my options from the people I have on social media who I went to school with many years ago (I only still have them as ‘friends’ for a laugh) who were voting because they didn’t like Corbyn and how he conducted himself. Let’s be frank, he is fairly dull in comparison to Johnson. And Boris does come across as charming and likeable to the person on the street, who doesn’t take a real interest in politics. He’s the funny guy swinging holding the Union Jack flags who rugby tackled that child, and fouled somebody in he charity football game. 
Whilst you are correct that some did vote for the political reasons you mention above, a LOT of the voting public are very naive. You only have to listen to news reports when they go to places like Darlington as to why they didn’t vote for Labour/Corbyn. A lot of them sadly haven’t got a clue. 

For me this was summed up the day after the 2019 GE, when Sky News interviewed a couple from a newly won Tory seat in the North. The couple said they voted Tory for change, they wanted to see some change so voted for the party that’s been in power for a decade. The Tories have managed to convince people that all the ills of the 2010s weren’t their fault but because of others. It’s incredible how they’ve done and how some buy it. 

[Quark]

9 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

Good grief....that's the online equivalent of nervously scanning the table plan to find your sharing with 4 strangers and an ex-partner you publicly cheated on.

That's pretty much what happens to me & Mrs Q at weddings. We'll talk to people, so we get put on a table with all the dull people that no-one knows. We get to sit there having really boring conversations about what people do for a living and where their kids go to school (full disclosure: we don't care) while we can see / hear our actual friends having a blast on the group tables.

Fuck weddings.

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Quark said:

Fuck weddings

I quite agree as a singleton ... I hate the bloody things  ...fortunately don’t go to so many ...  

[priest17]

7 minutes ago, Quark said:

That's pretty much what happens to me & Mrs Q at weddings. We'll talk to people, so we get put on a table with all the dull people that no-one knows. We get to sit there having really boring conversations about what people do for a living and where their kids go to school (full disclosure: we don't care) while we can see / hear our actual friends having a blast on the group tables.

Fuck weddings.

How many dull tables do you have to be placed on before you start to wonder if you're also dull...

[Quark]

Just now, priest17 said:

How many dull tables do you have to be placed on before you start to wonder if you're also dull...

You've read enough of my posts on here. I'm hilarious.

[Fuzzy Afro]

8 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

I quite agree as a singleton ... I hate the bloody things  ...fortunately don’t go to so many ...  

Back in my single days weddings were great.....