Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

[stonerblue]

Our politicians are all pissing in the same pot, that's why I voted reform in the last election.

And you think farage isn't?
Wake up sheeple........

 

[BlueHammer85]

Ostriches with their heads in the sand springs to mind, let's just carry on with the same two political parties who have run the country into the ground over decades.

Same was said about leaving the EU.

 

[inbetween]

We've had 14 years of Tories; Labour have come in and completely changed certain policies and going in a totally different direction to them - so they're not the same at all.

What makes you think Reform can do any better ? they're led by a guy who instigated Brexit which has been nothing but a disaster and there only policy is to 'stop the boats' even then without a clear answer to how they will do this - Plus the fact they attract the racist and thickest in society.

I don't think that it's because Reform will actually do anything good because we all know that they won't. However, such a result will give the two utterly useless mainstream parties the kicking that they deserve which is what people really want. The main parties literally treat us with nothing other than contempt.

Of course in the meantime people are going to turn to extremes but that's because mainstream politics is not providing the answers to any questions that people feel need answering.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I don't think that it's because Reform will actually do anything good because we all know that they won't. However, such a result will give the two utterly useless mainstream parties the kicking that they deserve which is what people really want. The main parties literally treat us with nothing other than contempt.

Of course in the meantime people are going to turn to extremes but that's because mainstream politics is not providing the answers to any questions that people feel need answering.

Can I ask what those questions are? Is it immigration, economy, social contract, I’d really like to know these concerns.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I think this might actually help Farage in the long-run. Musk has no idea how unpopular him and Trump are here. Most polls show Farage is twice as popular as they are. As much as I hate Farage, he understands what works in the UK, and Musk and Trump's bombastic king of the world nonsense goes down like a cup of cold sick in our politics.

I think it will as well.

Like Bannon in his first adminstration Trump will fuck Elon off very early into his presidency giving Führage and his ego justification which he will use for his own gain.

 

[BlueHammer85]

I think it will as well.

Like Bannon in his first adminstration Trump will fuck Elon off very early into his presidency giving Führage and his ego justification which he will use for his own gain.

Would love to see it, Right wing eating itself into the ground.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Would love to see it, Right wing eating itself into the ground.

Musk is very popular figure in china. His mother is a celebrity there. He won't take any of business out of there which will be the breaking point of their relationship.

 

[BrianW]

This country is between a rock and a hard place.

There are no simple, magic solutions and I wish people would understand that. If it was easy either the Tories would have sorted it, or Labour would be well on the way to sorting it.

Appointing some clueless, populist grifter as PM will not solve these issues, but make them a darned sight worse.

We had a foretaste of this with Brexit. It was a Magic Solution. We were supposed to become Camelot after we left the EU. It didn't work, it made things worse.

We are like Bury FC. We want to be in the Premier League, but the only way forward is years, maybe decades, of patient rebuilding. Making Wayne Rooney the manager will not suffice.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

the same two political parties who have run the country into the ground over decades.

There is only one political party that has run the country into the ground over the last 15 years.

The game plan of the right wing parties here and in the US is make everything shit. And then use the fact its shit to stop doing it and reduce government spending. Then reduce the tax on the wealthy. This is alongside the broad policy of facilitating tax dodging for the mega wealthy so wile tax rates for ordinary people are as high as they have every been, anyone with the means to use tax havens and off shore their income can pay virtually no tax.

The implications of this are us povos (anyone in a household earning less than 100k a year) will lose state pensions, free education and health care. It's already happening.

Reform are just a more extreme version of the tories so you would get more of the above. Of course they don't talk about the above, they highlight immigration and woke issues which are a miniscule issue in the lives of most people.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

This country is between a rock and a hard place.

There are no simple, magic solutions and I wish people would understand that. If it was easy either the Tories would have sorted it, or Labour would be well on the way to sorting it.

Appointing some clueless, populist grifter as PM will not solve these issues, but make them a darned sight worse.

We had a foretaste of this with Brexit. It was a Magic Solution. We were supposed to become Camelot after we left the EU. It didn't work, it made things worse.

We are like Bury FC. We want to be in the Premier League, but the only way forward is years, maybe decades, of patient rebuilding. Making Wayne Rooney the manager will not suffice.

Brian, you might aswell leave the UK, you think we are truly fucked as a country with no hope. But where would you go?