AuroraSaab
Squire
FPTP waters it down quite a bit too. It's quite odd that Farage continues to be such a big name in British politics so long after Brexit and after having failed to be elected so many times. He never gets to be Yesterday's Man.
General Election 2024....
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AndyRM
Elder Goth
Mogg has a pleasant demeanour? That's a good one. Comes across as a supercilious narcissist any time I've seen him talking. Which fortunately hasn't been that often.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
Just a shame that many of my fellow Scots feel that Scotland's future is to continue being Westminster's bitch and the resultant failed policies which will achieve nothing.
Just like in England, it isn't a consequence of anything at all that Starmer has to offer Scotland, as objectively, there isn't anything.
In England he'll succeed for little reason other than the undeniable awfulness of the Tories. In Scotland he will likely succeed because, alongside the blatant lie that Scotland must vote Labour to keep Sunak out (and save England from itself!) the entirety of the UK's Scottish media departments, and the branch offices of the British political parties are united to smear, misrepresent, undermine and downright lie about the SNP & Scottish Government.
The tactic is to tacitly refuse to acknowledge them as having been repeatedly democratically elected by Scottish voters, instead attempting to portray them as undemocratic usurpers, having somehow stolen power through nefarious means, and bent on insurrection & disruption while being ruinously, wilfully & presumably intentionally incompetent, if not criminal, with Scotland's overly generous handouts from the English treasury.
The upshot is a toxified - or Corbynised - SNP, unappealing to politically disengaged voters, who may feel they have to choose Labour in order to vote NotTheSNP, much as in England a vote for Starmer's version of Labour is a vote for NotTheTories more than anything else.
I think what the smug rUK-based Understanders Of Scottish Politics may find is that this won't actually hand Sir Starmer as many Scottish seats as they imagine - as in 2017, the SNP's losses are often the Tories' gains. Already we're hearing no-hope 'Scottish' Labour candidates in SNP/Tory marginals pushing their supporters to the Tories to 'keep the SNP out', as happened (and worked) in 2017, and which is reminiscent of the fact that all across Scotland, Labour & Tory councillors do backroom deals to exclude larger SNP groups.
Much of the above has been the case throughout the last 10 or so years of the SNP's dominance of Scottish politics - it's ramped up to quite ridiculous levels right now, and worse (think arrests, re-arrests, murder tents, criminal charges!) will come if the polls start to turn.
But don't be surprised if it's not quite the rout that's being gleefully predicted.
matticus
Guru
Do you think he might hold his breath until he turns blue? Then black ...
theclaud
Reading around the chip
monkers
Legendary Member
AndyRM
Elder Goth
I dunno if wrister is a typo or slang I've not heard but it's very funny!
monkers
Legendary Member
I originally typed the familiar vernacular but was dismayed when it changed to 'self-gratification merchant', So I created that from the also familiar term 'having one off the wrist'. It kinda works.
Beebo
Veteran
Interesting if that is real, as Fraser Nelson isn’t known for his support of Labour.
I does seem that Sunak has deliberately misled the public.
AndyRM
Elder Goth
I approve and will be using it henceforth.
"You absolute wrister" has a nice ring to it, and fits into my child friendly parlance where dick is extended to dictionary.
albion
Guru
Sunak is too far left for the Spectator. Also there is that far right bandwagon. One that Farage also jumped on.
Sunak also annoyed a lot of Tory MPs who will now lose several months pay.
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winjim
Welcome yourself into the new modern crisis
Beebo
Veteran
Oh look. After Labour get a roasting for candidate selection. The Tories are parachuting high profile MPs into safe seats, at the expense of local members who no doubt wanted to stand and had been waiting their turn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckkkq4kx3l0o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckkkq4kx3l0o
AuroraSaab
Squire
I love his account. Makes you think about clothes in an entirely different way.
The parachute candidate thing ... and then the parties wonder why the electorate are sick of the lot of them.
