General Election - 4th July 2024

[domalino]

Perversely, a smaller majority can make a party more radical, as extremists in the party may hold the balance of power.

Also it's a lot harder to control MPs when they know their parliamentary vote doesn't matter so much. Big majorities usually lead to a lot of rebellions and factions developing.

 

[Vic]

I've just been out and realised that the house on the main road which always, even for Local Elections, has a Labour Flagpole in the garden and posters in all upstairs and downstairs windows hasn't got any up at all this time. As I say complacency.

Maybe it's Rascal's pad (or one of the other socialism or bust posters)

 

[johnnytapia]

It's definitely got worse in the last 15 years.

No coincidence that over that period social services, education, youth services and support for struggling parents has been decimated, as has neighbourhood policing.

The babies of poor and vulnerable parents who had things like Sure Start centres taken off them are now teenagers.

Behaviour in primary schools is at an all-time low; record numbers of fixed-term exclusions; record number of permanent exclusions; record number of EHCPs for children with SEMH needs.
Number one reason teachers currently cite for bailing out the profession: dealing with behaviour. Covid absolutely shattered the lives of the youngest.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Maybe it's Rascal's pad (or one of the other socialism or bust posters)

Would’ve thought he’d be voting for the monster raving George Galloway party

 

[johnnytapia]

17 days? Or have you got something planned for a week before the election?

Fucking hell. I thought end of term was closer than it actually is!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Behaviour in primary schools is at an all-time low; record numbers of fixed-term exclusions; record number of permanent exclusions; record number of EHCPs for children with SEMH needs.
Number one reason teachers currently cite for bailing out the profession: dealing with behaviour. Covid absolutely shattered the lives of the youngest.

Also knife crime among young people is on another planet to twenty years ago.

 

[Bluemanc100]

The old feral kids line, there have always been some badly behaved kids, guess what there always will be.

I’d take the badly behaved kids from my youth..

The badly behaved kids of today give zero fucks about respect and many are very likely to stick a knife in you for next to nothing…

 

[Bluemanc100]

Paying billions to compel kids to sit in nissan huts in the Outer Hebrides or as forced labour isn’t going to work. It appeals to the demographic who think kids ‘have it to easy’ and get a kick out of punishing them.

Kids today have already gone through a financial crisis, a two year quarantine, disrupted education and are being left with broken services, no freedom of movement as enjoyed by the youth of Europe and the chance of owning a home a distant dream. Oh, and fuck off huge University loans.

If you want conscription or national service how about we apply it to the over fifties who enjoyed none of the above and then shat over the kids. If any demographic could do with learning about ‘respect and community’ it’s the old fuckers.

How did they shit on the kids? I guess you mean the Brexit vote

The one point I disagree with is the bit about university loans… Nobody forced them to go to Uni so why should the general public fund it?

My two lads chose not to go to uni.. both are doing very well thanks.. Their wives both went to uni but neither are using their degrees in their currently roles so in hindsight their studies and their bills could have been totally avoided… There must be tens of thousands like that

 

[Bluemanc100]

There are far more pressing things we need to spend our money on than any of that

Then let’s hope the incoming occupants of 10 & 11 Downing Street know where the cheque book is

 

[bluethrunthru]

just phoning it in which someone packs his bags in number 10