Westminster Politics 2024-2029

Then remember this. As a minister, she earns circa £144,000 a year. Her partner is an old etonian banker, and they have a house in her cosntituency and a £4 million property in London.

Guess who pays the energy bills at her london home? That would be you and me, she claims it on expenses.
To be honest, I find the whole expenses issue a distraction. They’re pretty much all at it, even the ‘good’ ones, but in the grind scheme of things we’re talking pennies. If a politician is doing their job and actually making life better for ordinary people they can claim whatever the hell they want as I far as I’m concerned.

But Kendall isn’t making life better for people, she’s making it worse. She believes in punishing poor people for the crime of being poor, like IDS before her. Not only is it cruel, it’s economically illiterate.
 
I'm just glad I'm so many years deep into this shit, I can just make out the light at the end. I have nothing but the utmost sympathy for the poor feckers that are coming out of school now into this hell scape, to be tormented by these demons.
She can feck RIGHT off. She has no idea how hard it is for people like me.
 
I'm just glad I'm so many years deep into this shit, I can just make out the light at the end. I have nothing but the utmost sympathy for the poor feckers that are coming out of school now into this hell scape, to be tormented by these demons.

She starts by defining "the COVID Generation" and then goes on the typical RW tangent of lazy kids. Wow I wonder if the name "the COVID Generation" refers to some life altering event that swept the globe? :nervous: I wonder if some life altering event that highlighted how existence on earth is literally random and nature does not care about what humanity thinks would impact the children coming out of schooling into jobs and careers. Maybe....just maybe understanding that life is fleeting may have an impact on what young adults want to do and it's not about working on the whole, it's about "how long am I going to be stuck doing meaningless shit waiting for the next economic or humanitarian disaster to come along" that stresses them the feck out. These people live in a bubble where they apply 1960s work and life progression to 2020s reality.

I worked in a field that both mainstream parties in every western nation would never dare criticise. COVID came along and then 2023 to now, there have been mass resignations, whole new departments set up to deal with "medical retirements". You'll never hear a peep out of any government calling these 30-50 year old people "stressed out" and "just get over it, that just work".
 
Jenrick voted against stopping sewage being released into our water and repeatedly attacked environmental activists. The man deserves nothing less than to be buried alive in medical waste landfill.
 
This scumbags base will lap that shit up, yet the same people will be over in Benidorm come the summer expecting every local to speak to them in pure English. Where’s my fackin burger n chips?! I ain’t eatin that forin muck!
As repulsive as Lowe is, does the Spanish state provide and pay for the warm weather and fackin burgers or do Brits attend the venue as invited by the state?

Weird Venn diagram of Benidorm hating Brits and left wingers pretending they care about working class Brits
 


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Cowardly, all things like this do is make undecideds think "Well, if they're copying Reform, then Reform must be right".

Cowardly is the right word. It's been a feature of neo-liberal politics for a generation. Delegate responsibility as far from you as possible. Easiest way is to palm it of to the markets like the above, and that comes with the added benefit of keeping donors happy.

Politics is now just a bunch of middle-managers who are able to play the "stay on script" game against politics journalists that try to catch them out for no other reason than to gloat about it. Just a carry on from their university debating society days that they've never moved on from because they never left the bubble to gain life experience outside.
 
Cowardly, all things like this do is make undecideds think "Well, if they're copying Reform, then Reform must be right".
Yep it’s strategy that never works at stopping the right.

Also the next election is years away and labour currently have a massive majority there’s really no excuse. Which probably means we should question do they genuinely care about this topic or was it simply another pledge to win over progressives but always destined to be dropped.
 
The last vestiges of class-based voting:



@Sweet Square what's the British equivalent to that chuck Schumer quote (lose a rural worker in Western Pennsylvania to pick up two suburban housewives in Philly)