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MarkUK
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Date Posted：2024-05-22 05:07:53Copy HTML Let's have a new page for the UK and US Elections 2024. Ours has been called early for 4 July. Labour will win and Sir Keir Starmer will be Prime Minister on 5 July ending 14 years of Conservative government. My guess is that the Labour majority won't be as large as some are predicting (over100 seats) more like 30-50 perhaps. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-05 11:59:13Copy HTML The danger with highlighting the failures of the previous government is that you inherit the supposed difficulties and have to sort them out as you promised to do. They'll have a short honeymoon in which they'll blame a lack of progress on the "14 years of Tory misrule" but in the end they'll have to come up with their own answers. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-05 02:03:18Copy HTML The Reform party had a much higher percentage of the national vote than the Liberals yet they got 70 seats and Reform got three, such are the vagrancies of our system |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-05 02:27:52Copy HTML Starmer winning is just one more nail in Britain's coffin. Benefits are set to rise, which are guaranteed to go largely to the muslim population, as more of them are on them. Over here we have a government funded child benefit scheme, whereby you get a monthly amount out of the national purse for your child up until they are sixteen. It used to be for every child but was finally cut down to two because muslim families are prone to huge families and it was costing a ridiculous amount, with millions of it going straight to Pakistan every month. Add to that a sizeable east European population that did the same thing at the time and it's an eye watering amount. I predict that will change and apply to all children again. Years ago you could only collect unemployment benefit for one year maximum. That was scrapped and once again a huge amount of muslims are claiming unemployment payments, most notably the women, who are stay at home wives and will never go to work. The conservatives were supposed to stop all of these many giveaways but failed miserably and Labour simply won't entertain any of them as they never saw a muslim arse they couldn't kiss. It's forecast that by 2050 white British will be a minority in our own country. I think it might be a little longer but one thing's for sure, we will have a muslim Parliament in my grandkids lifetime. The political classes have wilfully given our culture away, a culture 1000 years in the making. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-05 06:12:41Copy HTML More headlines from the colonies. Starmer vows to steer GB into "calmer waters." Feel better now, Major? |
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-05 06:30:13Copy HTML Reform have finished with five seats, a good start. I've consoled myself today by watching Emma Radacanu at Wimbledon, she's looking good in every sense of the word.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-05 07:03:04Copy HTML Watching now. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-05 07:56:28Copy HTML Statistics reveal that the Reform partly got over half a million votes more than the Liberals yet they got 71 seats and Reform got 4. Sounds awfully undemocratic to me but we do live in an addicted two party system that only tolerates a third party loser. Fact is, 4.000.000 people are represented by just four MP's. Labour get 34% of the vote and get 64% of the seats whereas Reform get 14 % for just 1%. The Liberals get 12%, 2% less than reform yet get 11% of the seats. Is this democracy? It does sound a little strange to say the least but we are addicted to the two party system, just like the Yanks and none of them like intruders. However, if we had a proportional representative system Reform would have got 94 seats. Reform came second in just over 100 seats with a third of the national vote with a fraction of the candidates, despite the nation's media assassination campaign against them. This to me is entirely due to the Nigel Farage effect and I'm not at all surprised. What happens now? Well, this is a massive victory for Islam, as the Labour party are their prison bitches, a section of political society that never saw a muslim arse they couldn't kiss and really, are just canon fodder to Islam. The footprint and political power of Islam is now destined to soar, spread and influence many more aspects and institutions of British life, unopposed. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-06 12:15:47Copy HTML More headlines from the colonies. Starmer vows to steer GB into "calmer waters." Feel better now, Major? Further to the last....................They say it was a landslide. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-06 07:30:45Copy HTML We had a vote on whether to adopt a form of PR in 2011 and the country said no. Bear in mind that if Reform were to get many more seats under PR so would the Liberals and the Greens. A recipe for confusion and an unworkable coalition. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-06 10:20:24Copy HTML Watching now. It's raining at Wimbledon................what a surprise. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-06 11:26:12Copy HTML The two main courts are under cover, so play there will begin soon. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-06 01:12:24Copy HTML There was a runoff election held in Iran this week & a reform candidate won there too, Major. So, the Iranians are right there with you. I can't pronounce or spell his name, too many consonants. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-06 06:47:07Copy HTML A reformist in Iran is quite the same as in the civilized world. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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shula
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-08 01:49:38Copy HTML Le Pen was supposed to win the election in France, but I don't think she did.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-08 05:36:39Copy HTML No, a bit of a stitch up over there to keep her party out, all within the rules though. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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shula
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-10 05:23:51Copy HTML I think all politicians play within the rules because they have none.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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pbandrew3rd
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-07-18 03:45:45Copy HTML I think all politicians play within the rules because they have none. Well they certainly don't if you are a Republican and the whole world sees and has condemned them for it. They for a long time haven't been able to travel out of Country and soon it will be or out of State or their own homes. Now you have the Iranians threating to assassinate Trump for killing one of their top dogs when he was last driving the bus. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-08-07 08:48:13Copy HTML A view from the US on the Democrats chances now you know who you're voting for? Harris/Walz v Trump/Vance. From here the race looks a lot closer than it was. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-08-07 09:27:20Copy HTML I agree with Mark, the election will be close with a choice of two crappy candidates. |
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pbandrew3rd
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-08-20 08:56:18Copy HTML A view from the US on the Democrats chances now you know who you're voting for? Harris/Walz v Trump/Vance. From here the race looks a lot closer than it was. Did you get to see the Demo conference on CNN tonight yet?? Trump is having a fit already over the crowd size. I forecast a Democrat victory in November. Anyone willing to bet that I'm wrong??
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pbandrew3rd
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-08-20 09:02:14Copy HTML .
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tommytalldog
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-08-20 10:58:45Copy HTML Biden in exile. Forced out by a political junta. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-08-20 11:46:01Copy HTML Too close to call I'd say, all it could take is for one to make a major gaffe and knowing who you've got either could blow it. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-08-20 12:12:53Copy HTML I've got the feeling both camps are saving a few late turds to throw |
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MarkUK
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Re：Elections 2024 Date Posted：2024-08-20 12:36:04Copy HTML I would have used the phrase "damaging revelations" but I know what you mean. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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