Elections

[Notch7]

Protest votes. No way connected with a GE. You know that.

So why were Tory MPs saying they would wait until local elections results before putting letters in.

 

[Mottie]

Just teasing you?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

There were a number of ardent Doris supporters on here for some time who seemed to ignore what was right in front of their eyes. Gone a bit quiet. Any supporters still out there? Where's Filly these days?

 

[jeds]

...May 1945?

Let's face it odds, everybody was ecstatically happy with Churchill. The man was a hero. The rest is history! Remember the peep show; The people can't be trusted Jez, they like Coldplay and they voted for Hitler.

 

[JohnD]

Let's face it odds, everybody was ecstatically happy with Churchill.

except that as the war drew to a close, the people of the country wanted to move out of 19th century politics. they wanted a National Health Service; maternity hospitals, child welfare, kindergartens, TB screening and treatment, decent schools and housing, National Insurance, publicly owned transport networks and utilities run for the benefit and improvement of the nation. Many of the population had experienced such benefits when the nation needed them to serve or to work to support the war effort. Guess whose party opposed them in peacetime?

They had spent five years with public services being funded by the taxpayer and borrowing, they knew that big organisations could work. Even ones as big as the armed forces, the tank factories, the planemakers.

The excuses "we can't afford it" or "it won't work" were no more true then than they are now.

 

[Odds]

except that as the war drew to a close, the people of the country wanted to move out of 19th century politics. they wanted a National Health Service; maternity hospitals, child welfare, kindergartens, TB screening and treatment, decent schools and housing, National Insurance, publicly owned transport and utilities run for the benefit and improvement of the nation. Many of the population had experienced such benefits when the nation needed them to serve or to work to support the war effort. Guess whose party opposed them in peacetime?

They had spent five years with public services being funded by the taxpayer and borrowing, they knew that big organisations could work. Even ones as big as the armed forces, the tank factories, the planemakers.

The excuses "we can't afford it" or "it won't work" were no more true then than they are now.

Maybe that's why a Labour government was elected just a few months later.

 

[transam]

Not really. The conditions that got Boris into power were unique. All you needed were millions of below par intelligence gullible enraged folk prepared to accept lies.

yes Russian sympathisers / supporters

 

[JohnD]

Maybe that's why a Labour government was elected just a few months later.

it was years before the other lot started selling off mental hospitals, stopping free school milk, selling off the sewage works and railways....

 

[transam]

Blimey as for damaging the country look no further than the fruit cake Labour Party membership

the momentum fruit cake supporters who voted in Corbyn as leader

Jeez us wept

and now the party is suffering from “ Long Corbyn” Starmer the one time colleague of Corbyn

has now had the sense to go back to the Blair doctrine

political party members and activists jeez us all a bunch of fruit cakes imo

 

[The Samaritan]

We did not and never vote for local elections and only voted once for a GE as the clwon was more than useless that claimed to rep our ward.

On the vote cards there must be an option for 'none of the above;' and I'm certain that will become our gov.

 

[transam]

Vote

in local elections for a bunch of dead beat councillors

Or some Parish councillor who publish their minutes and bung it up out side the local shop

last time I looked there was some 2 hour meeting about buying a new wheel Barrow for the church yard gardener

yes exactly a 2 hour meeting over a 30 quid wheel barrow

jeez us wept