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Jun 2024
6:15pm, 25 Jun 2024
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Dave W
I think Farage is seriously trying to get elected because if he was trying to fail deliberately, he wouldn’t have picked Clacton. But if he does get elected then I’m sure he will revert to type and do nothing constructive whilst trousering the pay check.

Not so sure he’ll like being an MP anyway. Not a very low ranking one.
Jun 2024
6:18pm, 25 Jun 2024
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Muttley
He's a Putin apologist and unlikely to be anything more than an oxygen thief as an MP -- which will put in the same company as Gorgeous George Galloway. Funny how the extreme left and extreme right have so much in common.
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Jun 2024
6:40pm, 25 Jun 2024
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J2R
Dave W wrote:Not so sure he’ll like being an MP anyway. Not a very low ranking one.


While I would much prefer it if he didn't get elected, I love the idea of him having to suffer the experience of being an MP in a party with zero clout.
Jun 2024
7:00pm, 25 Jun 2024
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paulcook
Bob! wrote:richmac wrote:Labour need to make capital from Sunaks lack of leadership over the betting scandal. Like by suspending a candidate that has bet against himself at the GE?


A significant donor it seems too.

Dave W wrote:“Senior Tories call for ban on political bets by MPs after election scandal” Hahahaha. Talk about shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.


And returning to this post by Dave yesterday, according to Robert Peston, Starmer has backed himself into a potential corner because political betting is supposedly rife among politicians.

I nearly commented on Dave's post yesterday but didn't. So this is a hindsight post, but footballers certainly are banned from betting on football full stop whether that's on other teams or for them to win. Perhaps the same should apply to politicans.
Jun 2024
7:04pm, 25 Jun 2024
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Johnny Blaze
The Labour candidate is clearly a numpty and Labour are better off without him.
Jun 2024
7:19pm, 25 Jun 2024
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richmac
And they acted straight away it seems, unlike....
Jun 2024
8:08pm, 25 Jun 2024
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Fields
Muttley wrote:He's a Putin apologist and unlikely to be anything more than an oxygen thief as an MP -- which will put in the same company as Gorgeous George Galloway. Funny how the extreme left and extreme right have so much in common.


Utter rubbish. Neither Farage or Galloway are on the extreme left. They’re just extreme full stop and both pure grifters.

Galloway has been coming up with the most appalling bigoted homophobic and transphobic statements recently, and is making noises about ULEZ and vaccines too. His offensive socially conservative outbursts mark him as being far right not left.

Funnily enough the politician who has been the most vocal about Putin and Russian influence over British politics is Jeremy Corbyn, who has consistently criticised Russia’s appalling human rights record. Meanwhile Blair praised Putin shortly after large numbers of Chechnyans were slaughtered at the Battle of Grozny then invited him to visit Britain and meet the Queen.

And the tories gave the son of a KGB agent a seat in the House of Lords, they are just as bad. And they must have taken millions of Russian money as dodgy donations.

The Putin apologists and sympathisers are in the establishment.
Jun 2024
8:24pm, 25 Jun 2024
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paulcook
I really wasn't sure whether to label Galloway left-wing / right-wing, some views left-wing and right-wing, or just not bother trying to even pigeonhole him at all.

But you've put it far better than I ever could do.

He was briefly my mum's MP. And though my mum doesn't bother too much with politics, she wasn't impressed with him nor his agitation.
Jun 2024
9:51pm, 25 Jun 2024
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Johnny Blaze
ION Biden has just crept ahead of Trump in the 5/38 polling average after being down by 2-3 points in the recent past. He’s up by 0.2%. Not enough but hoping the tide is turning.
Jun 2024
10:13pm, 25 Jun 2024
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simbil
Fields wrote: I don’t doubt that NATO expansion has contributed to Russia’s aggression.


Hmm, seems like some evidence of the extreme left being Putin apologists right here on this thread.

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