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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37886

    Originally posted by Bella Kemp View Post
    It's a sad state of affairs but, despite loathing Mr Johnson and his gang of goons, I find myself also having to tactically vote Tory because ironically Labour would do far more harm to the most vulnerable members of our society through their socialist policies that throughout the past hundred years have a proven track record of utter failure.
    The silly manifesto seemed the last straw until one found another in their bonkers statement that they would convert Chequers into a home for the homeless. This was the kind of absurd statement that Evo Morales, the socialist president of Bolivia, made before his election. Last month The Guardian reported that he had to be airlifted out of the country as it disintegrates into chaos. The majority of homelessness, incidentally, could be solved relatively easily, and a real Labour party would have been able to do this. One bears no ill will to Mr Corbyn's supporters - many of them mean well, but they are profoundly misguided and one must hope that after Friday they will take time to reflect that their enemies are not Tony Blair, core old-fashioned Labour supporters (such as the Kemps), the BBC and poor Laura Kuensberg but the elite who have installed themselves at the top of the party and have used their diabolical skills to shore up support with the momentum membership.
    I always find it ironic when people speak of the "real Labour Party"; people used to criticise Wilson and Callaghan in the 1970s in comparison with the postwar Attlee government, which brought in many of the same sorts of policies as Corbyn intends, but maybe you're not old enough to know that.

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    • Richard Barrett
      Guest
      • Jan 2016
      • 6259

      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
      Vote tory, get even more inequality, worse public services, and a government with no values whatsoever aside from financial greed.

      Nothing tactical about it.

      ( Oh and i suppose you get guaranteed Brexit too, if that’s your thing).
      No, nothing tactical about it. If there's a Tory government after Thursday many people who voted for them are going to end up finding it hard to sleep at night, after having been partially responsible for an attack on society the like of which we haven't seen since the 1980s.

      I hope this post isn't censored. I promise not to post on the subject here again until after Thursday.

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      • LMcD
        Full Member
        • Sep 2017
        • 8718

        Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
        No, nothing tactical about it. If there's a Tory government after Thursday many people who voted for them are going to end up finding it hard to sleep at night, after having been partially responsible for an attack on society the like of which we haven't seen since the 1980s.

        I hope this post isn't censored. I promise not to post on the subject here again until after Thursday.
        I also hope it isn't censored, but can I just take the opportunity of agreeing wholeheartedly with you in case/before it is?

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        • eighthobstruction
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 6452

          Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
          Want to thank you guys. Your vituperative responses have helped me make up my mind. Although I loathe BoJo, I'm voting Conservative. Wonder what the collective noun is for a mob of Lefties ? Losers ?

          Cue for your pathetic little sniggering responses.
          ....Bad breath, also known as halitosis, is a symptom in which a noticeably unpleasant breath odour is present. It can result in anxiety among those affected. It is also associated with depression and symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder.
          bong ching

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          • Dave2002
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 18052

            Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
            Want to thank you guys. Your vituperative responses have helped me make up my mind. Although I loathe BoJo, I'm voting Conservative.
            I don't loathe him, just find him intensely unlikable, and in addition untrustworthy. Doesn't even have the merits and humour of GW Bush - whom I have gradually come to like over the years. Unlike you I have not voted for the Cons.

            It's a pity, because BoJo could have been really good - well perhaps, but he has done so many things wrong. Oh - I fell about laughing at watching him "lead" the other world leaders off the stage very recently. If you've not seen that, look at the recent episode of I've got News for You. A born leader, perhaps!

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
              I don't loathe him, just find him intensely unlikable, and in addition untrustworthy. Doesn't even have the merits and humour of GW Bush - whom I have gradually come to like over the years. Unlike you I have not voted for the Cons.

              It's a pity, because BoJo could have been really good - well perhaps, but he has done so many things wrong. Oh - I fell about laughing at watching him "lead" the other world leaders off the stage very recently. If you've not seen that, look at the recent episode of I've got News for You. A born leader, perhaps!
              He was bright enough, as a child, to gain a Kings Scholarship to Eton but then, unlike the Oppidan Cameron, failed to gain a First at Oxford. Also something of a thug, having offered to arrange the beating up of someone who had offended a friend of his.

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              • MrGongGong
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 18357

                Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
                No, nothing tactical about it. If there's a Tory government after Thursday many people who voted for them are going to end up finding it hard to sleep at night, after having been partially responsible for an attack on society the like of which we haven't seen since the 1980s.

                I hope this post isn't censored. I promise not to post on the subject here again until after Thursday.
                Sadly I think some people are without empathy
                there's lots wrong with the "opposition" but the task in hand is to stop another Tory government and stop Brexit

                Some people will believe any bullshit

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                • LMcD
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2017
                  • 8718

                  Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                  Sadly I think some people are without empathy
                  there's lots wrong with the "opposition" but the task in hand is to stop another Tory government and stop Brexit

                  Some people will believe any bullshit
                  'Empathy, empathy - they're all short on empathy'

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                  • Joseph K
                    Banned
                    • Oct 2017
                    • 7765

                    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                    Vote tory, get even more inequality, worse public services, and a government with no values whatsoever aside from financial greed.

                    Nothing tactical about it.

                    ( Oh and i suppose you get guaranteed Brexit too, if that’s your thing).
                    Not only this, but vote to lose the NHS, vote for climate catastrophe! The latter point is the most important one of this election, since our time is running out where that's concerned, and the Tory promise to decarbonise by 2050 would far too late and thus completely pointless.

                    So, people who vote Tory are consigning future generations to climate catastrophe and ultimately the end of civilisation as we know it. Apres moi le deluge, I suppose...

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8718

                      Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
                      Not only this, but vote to lose the NHS, vote for climate catastrophe! The latter point is the most important one of this election, since our time is running out where that's concerned, and the Tory promise to decarbonise by 2050 would far to late and thus completely pointless.

                      So, people who vote Tory are consigning future generations to climate catastrophe and ultimately the end of civilisation as we know it.
                      'Emily, I categorically deny having ever started, read or contributed to this thread. I was in an Indian restaurant in Peebles, with absolutely no internet access, at the precise time it was started, and any postings made in my name on this thread are clearly the work of one or more hackers'.

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22218

                        Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
                        Not only this, but vote to lose the NHS, vote for climate catastrophe! The latter point is the most important one of this election, since our time is running out where that's concerned, and the Tory promise to decarbonise by 2050 would far too late and thus completely pointless.

                        So, people who vote Tory are consigning future generations to climate catastrophe and ultimately the end of civilisation as we know it. Apres moi le deluge, I suppose...
                        Erstwhile Labour voters running lemming-like towards supplying the most right-wing regime we’ve experienced in this country. Even with a landslide, getting Brexit done by end of January is a lie, and I doubt it will be the Utopia so many seem to think it will be! Methinks it will lead to much discontent and blame!

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                        • muzzer
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2013
                          • 1194

                          Yes indeed, this notion of ‘getting it done’ is a truly disgraceful appeal to the laziest basest natures at large. I’ve never been so angry and depressed by this country.

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                          • Conchis
                            Banned
                            • Jun 2014
                            • 2396

                            Tory three-figure majority on the way.

                            Sometime in the next forty-eight hours, I fully expect a BBC interviewer to ask a senior Labour figure: ‘So: if you are elected, when can we expect the pogroms to start?’

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                            • eighthobstruction
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 6452

                              Originally posted by muzzer View Post
                              Yes indeed, this notion of ‘getting it done’ is a truly disgraceful appeal to the laziest basest natures at large. I’ve never been so angry and depressed by this country.
                              ....One has to admit if he promised to do my vacuuming (esp under the bed - disgrcaeful)....mopping and dusting....and a last minute election throw away suggestion of help possibly clearing the leaves and debri in my back garden [he might look into it]....I might vote Tory.........................naaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
                              bong ching

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12980

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                                Because the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians are coming today and things like that dazzle the barbarians. Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come.


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