General Election 2024

Who got your vote?

  • Labour

    Votes: 147 54.2%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 5 1.8%

  • Lib Dem

    Votes: 25 9.2%

  • Green

    Votes: 48 17.7%

  • Reform

    Votes: 11 4.1%

  • SNP

    Votes: 5 1.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Independent

    Votes: 8 3.0%

  • UK resident but not voting

    Votes: 18 6.6%

  • Spoiled my ballot

    Votes: 3 1.1%
  • Total voters
    271
  • Poll closed .
Status
Not open for further replies.
Mike Smalling said:
I wonder if he knew immediately how stupid that sounds, or if he's really so out of touch that he thought it was a good answer.
Click to expand...
I'm guessing he's trying to come up with the 90s equivalent of, "buy a house v or give up the daily Starbucks or the Netflix subscription," decision that the Tories keep suggesting now.

As a rough approximation his parents would have to give up Sky + Sky Sports for fifty years to pay for one year's fees at Winchester.
 
jojojo said:
I'm guessing he's trying to come up with the 90s equivalent of, "buy a house v the daily Starbucks and Netflix subscription," decision that the Tories keep suggesting now.

As a rough approximation his parents would have to give up Sky + Sky Sports for fifty years to pay for one year's fees at Winchester.
Click to expand...
I’m wondering what made his brain decide “famously” was appropriate? Did I miss childhood Sunak not having Sky going viral previous to this clusterfeck of an interview?
 
Pexbo said:
I imagine that’s her first step towards defecting to Reform. Hoping the Tories kick her out and she creates PR at the same time.
Click to expand...

She's taken £5k from Reclaim too. She is basically bending over for the grift right now.
 
Longshanks said:
He did hold the line at electoral reform, we had a referendum on changing to AV. The public overwhelmingly voted to stick with FPTP.

Granted AV is pretty crap and complicated and some form of PR would of been much better.

I'm fairness to clegg and 2010, what could they do? Not join a coalition and leave a weak minority Tory government in power and find that absolutely nothing gets done, as the country crashes into further debt and recession. Or join in with the Tories hold them back from there worst policies manage to enact some of your own policies and actually be a part of easily the best government of the last 14 years.

By 2015 the country was in a much better place than it was in 2010 there was a decent fiscal recovery happening, then kicked the libs into touch gave the Tories a couple of majorities, voted for Brexit, left the EU and utterly screwed ourselves over all while labour was attempting it's left socialism phase that got them absolutely nowhere.

If only we had stuck with the lib dems somewhat, maybe we could have avoided the chaos of the last 8 years.
Click to expand...
That is a very generous view of what the Lib Dems accomplished imo.
 
TBF, we were poor as hell when I was a kid but we still had at least the basic Sky TV. I still resent my Mum not doing a couple of extra shifts at the supermarket so I could go to Winchester.
 
McGrathsipan said:
He is even worse than the lettuce!

|
Click to expand...

i've been wanting to post something similar. Rishi is actually much worse at "day to day" politics and campaigning. But Truss cost the economy 30 billion and almost crashed the markets in one speech so she still wins. :lol:
 
When I was a kid there was no Sky TV.

There were only 3 channels.

They were all in black and white.

They weren't on during the day.

And often just showed the Test Card.

I should have been able to go to Winchester with all the money we saved by doing without.
 
Does anyone believe he wants to win? I'm sure he'd rather not be known as suffering a humiliating defeat but I'm convinced he has no interest in winning.

He's already been PM and he's loaded so why the feck would you want to carry on. He's basically working his notice period and having a bit of fun with it.
 
A few people have pointed out that lots of rich/posh types did not have Sky TV for reasons of class distinction, not because they couldn't afford it. So Sunak is being disingenuous there (what a surprise).
 
WPMUFC said:
i've been wanting to post something similar. Rishi is actually much worse at "day to day" politics and campaigning. But Truss cost the economy 30 billion and almost crashed the markets in one speech so she still wins. :lol:
Click to expand...

I kind of fancied her too. That glint of incompetence!
 
Reiver said:
The hard up families I work with all seem to have Sky. I don't think it's a good indicator of poverty.
Click to expand...
Full package or just the basics stuff? Having sky isn't that big of a deal but having all the channels is definitely a sign of wealth :lol:

On a sidenote, I had sky growing up, we were definitely poor but my mum and brother literally did nothing and cooked all the meals so it didn't seem it I guess. I remember asking my mum on 2 or 3 occasions if we're poor out interest because I myself didn't feel it, and shed just reply "there's food on the table isn't there?"

She cut that shit off when I got a little older because unfortunately we're not Tories.
 
This one on one format is so much better than that shit show ITV served up.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.