darkwolf666
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Mine too, sad isn’t it.My council.
I predict they will find no real “waste” to cut, instead they will cut services they see as “waste”, that others rely on.
The garden of England is going to turn to shit, isn’t it,,,!
[News] Nigel Farage and Reform
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I predict they will find no real “waste” to cut, instead they will cut services they see as “waste”, that others rely on.
The garden of England is going to turn to shit, isn’t it,,,!
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Tipical woke libs response. What will you will find is that thees unpaid patriot experts can close down hospitals like cos Russell Brand is selling healing amyoulets and magic crystals for only £49.99 each on YouTube and he says they cure cancer and stuff so can stop wasteing money on the Nhs. Also no need for schools anymore as everything is there on Insta and Truth social that yous need to know
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Wait until you find the thread where everyone also dislikes the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that’s even busier than this one.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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You're being too negative. I imagine they'll be some positives. Nigel was on the news the other day saying he'd abolish the two child benefit cap. Along with that and them being a party that boasts caring about the ordinary working class I'm sure they'll be releasing extra funds for vulnerable Kent families. Otherwise it would seem like they'd been spouting bs for months just to win votes
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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A quick way to save county council's money would be to bill political parties for by elections caused by councillors resigning within weeks of being elected because they'd failed to vet them or check if they could legally stand as councillors
- Oct 19, 2003
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Yep, once it's done the governments will start to represent people and not billionaires and multinations, who will both, pay their way, and big wages for everyone.
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- Jul 17, 2003
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But Jack, you’re not supposed use the word ‘illegal’, my good friends at Amnesty International suggest replacing with ‘Irregular’ or ‘Unauthorised’ using that horrible word ‘illegal’ could hurt our ‘irregular’s’ and those here ‘unauthorised’s’ feelings or indeed some of our fluffy indigenous types.
BRIGHT ON Q
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- Jul 5, 2003
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It's not really 'NSC' though is it? It's the same few that just chat amongst themselves really.
Since when did you have 'good friends at Amnesty International'? I don't believe you do.But Jack, you’re not supposed use the word ‘illegal’, my good friends at Amnesty International suggest replacing with ‘Irregular’ or ‘Unauthorised’ using that horrible word ‘illegal’ could hurt our ‘irregular’s’ and those here ‘unauthorised’s’ feelings or indeed some of our fluffy indigenous types.
Whereas describing them as 'Irregular' or 'Unauthorised' will hurt the feelings of 'indigenous types' who thrive on manufactured grievances, wallow in their sense of victimhood, and are convinced that a public-school-educated, ex-City stockbroker and millionaire, is on the side of the working-class against the EstablishmentBut Jack, you’re not supposed use the word ‘illegal’, my good friends at Amnesty International suggest replacing with ‘Irregular’ or ‘Unauthorised’ using that horrible word ‘illegal’ could hurt our ‘irregular’s’ and those here ‘unauthorised’s’ feelings or indeed some of our fluffy indigenous types.
I think the idea is to rewind us to actual 1957. You’ll lose all your loyalty points but at least the train travel will be cheap.
Quite. They are not illegal if they are coming to seek asylum. The way people have lapped it up is shocking. But then I was in a driving speed awareness course last week and someone answered the question “how will you avoid getting caught speeding again?” With “I googled where they put the hidden speed cameras so I know where to slow down” - some people are not very bright.Whereas describing them as 'Irregular' or 'Unauthorised' will hurt the feelings of 'indigenous types' who thrive on manufactured grievances, wallow in their sense of victimhood, and are convinced that a public-school-educated, ex-City stockbroker and millionaire, is on the side of the working-class against the Establishment
I have a hunch they may be like their leader - lazy and venal - and when charged with actually doing a public service job, they will simply flap about and do little or nothing.
The tories in Wadsworth got away with low poll tax and community charge via a combination of a significant number of comfortably off, and a large rump of incoherent poor. Yes the services for the poor were cut but without much protest, and the comfortably off saved a fortune (compared with the situation when we paid 'rates').
But of course we went from paying the government (local or central) for water, electricity, gas, street cleaning, refuse, etc., to paying private companies, so 'rates' or their equivalent appeared to fall because the local authority and HMG no longer owned and supplied and charged for these 'services'.
It will be a more difficult job, now, in Kent where decades of tory underfunding has already pared services to the bone, and where cutting of essential services will be noticed. What could they do? Stop school building/repairs? Replace teachers with low paid classroom assistants? Does the local authority even control school funds any more? We have 'academies' that are funded centrally don't we? What about police? How are they paid? What does local government actually control? I guess there could be lots of money to be made in backhanders over planning permission....but that's hardly a vote winner. I am not sure that there is much Reform can do to dazzle the voters. Which is nice.
That said, in Faversham there is indeed quite a rump of white Brexitty working class and it will take a great deal of ham-fisted miss-rule for these voters to stop blaming everything on 'muzzies' and Labour. And in the countryside I am sure every rosy cheeked child will have a smile on its face if Reform allow the fox hunters to charge about like in the good old days. Except, of course, they can't.
I don't think they will achieve anything....
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Thunder Bolt
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Ah yes, the 1950s when we asked the Commonwealth to come to the mother country as we needed help to rebuild the country.
- Oct 19, 2003
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Quite, language and nuance are tricky for some people.
Although if you are a billionaire media owner how else do you persuade/brainwash someone into advocating for killing them at sea? language is a powerful tool.
This is my hope and expectation - that once they have to bear responsibility for actually solving the problems they have blamed Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories for, their sheer incompetence and uselessness will become apparent to more voters.
Of course, some implacable racists and Reformers will still blame policy failings on 'Woke', 'muzzies' and 'Liebour', but I am quietly confident that Reform's lack of seriousness as a political 'party' will be recognised by many of those who currently view Farage as another Boris-style 'cheeky-chappy' man-of-the-people. After all, he continues to treat his Clacton constituents with brazen contempt.
I also expect to see several corruption scandals involving Reform councilors taking bribes and backhanders in the next few years, or siphoning-off public funds - just like the Tories did during Covid.
If - and it is a big 'if', I know - the Starmer government can show evidence of having reduced NHS waiting lists, and classroom-sizes, over the next 3-4 years, provided more affordable housing, and perhaps given local authorities funding to fill-in pot-holes, I think that some of the anger and frustration which Reform directs at immigrants will dissipate - along with some of Reform's current (depressing) electoral popularity.
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Although they'll be no shops open on Wednesday afternoons and Sundays, Woolworths will dominate high-streets, they'll be no all-day drinking in pubs, only two TV channels (for those who can afford a TV), and the only televised footie will be Match of the Day on Saturday night.
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- Jul 10, 2003
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Well at least nobody was stupid enough to keep campaigning and voting to drive the poor sods into the hands of people smugglers and across the channel in the first place before then advocating killing them at sea ....... Oh
nevergoagain
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You were caught speeding too then ?
Yeah. Very unlucky. Going 78 on a dual carriageway. I was in a hurry trying not to miss the forest cup match. As it happens I was held up at home before I was heading to Devon anyway so had to pull over in sedgemoor services for the shoot out. The next day I took a golf ball to the back of the head and I have still not fully recovered. I have had better weekends tbh.