General Election - 4th July 2024

[Eccles Blue]

Could Rogg-Mees provide us with a Portillo moment?








Please, please, please! ;-) :-)

 

[SebastianBlue]

Could Rogg-Mees provide us with a Portillo moment?








Please, please, please! ;-) :-)

I mean, hasn’t he already, multiple times? ;-)

 

[bluethrunthru]

Could Rogg-Mees provide us with a Portillo moment?








Please, please, please! ;-) :-)

The Portillo's are abandoning ship at a rapid rate - Dave Smith of Loughborough getting battered in a sports hall lacks the Portillo gravitas

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Could Rogg-Mees provide us with a Portillo moment?








Please, please, please! ;-) :-)

He's got to be in the top 5.

 

[COAT_OF_ARMS]

Well nobody has had a chance to publish a manifesto yet, so you could say the same about the Conservatives.

I will be doing what I do every election which is reading through them all and choosing the one that most aligns with my perspectives and whether I think it’s realistic that that party could deliver on it. Everything else is just PR.

I’ve been trying to flip the question on its head and ask “what do I want in a government?” As in, what could they propose that would win my vote? I think these are the main policies that would really go a long way to persuading me:

1. Proportional representation / voting reform - easy win if somebody goes for it. One of the main reasons I have voted Lib Dem.
2. Complete restructure of the tax code, particularly the structure of income tax. Literally put it in the bin and start again.
3. Building houses - but I don’t want them to just say they’re going to build them, I want them to tell me how they will do it that will make it succeed where the government has massively failed.
4. Public health - increase spending per capita on public health to align it to leading European nations spending (we are currently at about two thirds the spend per person of Germany, for example). Implement sweeping technology reform, a big issue in the NHS is inconsistency and fragmentation in their systems. Every government entity that needs to scale with the population should be constantly investing in improving scalability. There’s honestly a whole re-think needed when it comes to health systems/processes at quite a fundamental level. I don’t know how to solve it, I’m not an expert.
5. Some kind of plan for addressing misinformation in politics, media and particularly social media. Again I’m open to ideas on that because I don’t know how to address it, I just know it’s a big big problem.

SkyBlueFlux for PM! ;-)

 

[COAT_OF_ARMS]

Could Rogg-Mees provide us with a Portillo moment?








Please, please, please! ;-) :-)

Can't wait to see the Victorian headmaster sporting a full tango-orange suit and pink tie, traveling up and down Britain's steam railways re-living his childhood, on BBC Two.

 

[COAT_OF_ARMS]

The last time it happened it did not turn out so great

Cameron won't be in charge of it this time. Besides, even though they could have done a lot more, the Lib Dems did water-down some of the most brutal policies of the Tories at that time.

You can see that in the contrast with when they lost their smidge of power. I'd like to hope they've learnt something from those negotiations that took place too, they really did get walked all over.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

SkyBlueFlux for PM! ;-)

I haven’t even gotten round to unveiling my 50% windfall tax on the income of all United fans!

 

[Don Karleone]

Cameron won't be in charge of it this time. Besides, even though they could have done a lot more, the Lib Dems did water-down some of the most brutal policies of the Tories at that time.

You can see that in the contrast with when they lost their smidge of power. I'd like to hope they've learnt something from those negotiations that took place too, they really did get walked all over.

The Lib Dems can get fucked.

 

[metalblue]

Untrustworthy doesn't cover it

The compensation bill passed yesterday…trouble with the internet is people just make shit up and it gets reposted by excited kids..