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If you vote for a party just because that party has said it will hurt someone you don’t like it always backfires. In America the vast majority of farmers voted for Trump as they wanted these ‘nasty’ immigrants eliminated. Then they woke up one day and found there was nobody to pick their crops. It will be the same in the UK if Reform get in. They will phone their doctor only to find their practice has closed down to a shortage of staff. So they will head off to their local A&E, to find the hospital has been privatised and it now costs £250 per visit. When they complain they have no money they will be told it was their fault in they didn’t have any insurance. You know Farage is a great friend of Trump. So now we are like America; you’ve got what you voted for!
Our only hope is after Trump gets massacred in the Nov elections America truly implodes and the British public get a true idea of what a Farage Britain looks like
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
Not so sure about English cigars, though
Wills Whiffs were made in Bristol and Hamlet cigars in Cardiff. Both of them pretty rough compared to the genuine article from Cuba ‘hand rolled on a peasant girl’s thigh’. Not keen on them either, the cigars that is.
Player’s No.6 and Craven ‘A’ were more my sort of thing. Nige would be proud of me
Great advert for Hamlet; must go back over 40 years. I must admit the thought of a peasant girl’s thighs are far more attractive than cigars.
Has Richard Tice resigned over his tax affairs yet? Maybe he’s waiting for the BBC to cover it properly. They’re oddly quiet despite ample evidence being posted online.
Now I don’t know, has the tax arrears or dodge been proved Richard? Did Rayner resign or is her tax stuff differing from tice as I have no clue about these matters
I am no tax expert but this guy is.
https://bsky.app/profile/danneidle.bsky.social/post/3mjs5osmc262o
Cheers Richard got my eyes on west ham game hoping they win to put spurs in more trouble
Massive game for two of the basement sides. Got the snooker on but will have a look at the second half
Well I will never get that 90minutes of my life back, football is so dull and everyone plays the same way
Latest YouGov gives
Reform a 10-point lead in % termsReform 27 (up 3)
Greens 17
Tories 17
Labour 16
Lib Dems 14Fieldwork: 19-20 April
Wilts, i have been following elections for over 50 years and each time bookmakers’ odds, reflecting actual bets, always do better than polls.
If you believe what you write, then aell everything you’ve got and back Reforn (not to form the next government, but merely to have the most seats at 6/4. If the bookmakers believed the polls then Reform would be 1/10.
As Wilson said, “a week in politics is a long time!”
Polls are designed to shape public opinion, not measure it.
Number of votes rarely translate to representation in Parliament. Our voting system needs changing as I have been saying for years regardless of whether right or left has a Parliamentary majority. A hung parliament should be 1/1000 on those numbers. Note that the left/right split isn’t far off 50/50, if anything left has a slight majority (if we count Labour on that side).
If Labour leaves us one decent legacy it could be a proportional system. Previously that would involve many voting themselves out of jobs for almost any majority Government. Hundreds of them will be gone whichever system you use now.
Thing is the MRP polls do seem to be getting close to greater accuracy, and the More in Common one from a week or so ago indicates Reform getting close to an overall maj, despite poss only getting high 20s%.
Even if Reform dont get an outright maj, the way the likely greater split of votes amongst a few parties (more than ever it seems) and not the historical Lab v Tory split, does mean Reform will prob just need 20/30 Tories to form a working majority.
Long way off yet obviously, with a poss 3 years to go til next GE.
Long way off yet obviously, with a poss 3 years to go til next GE.
Yes let’s see what happens when Reform are handed power in more councils. Existing evidence would suggest they’ll continue to make a mess of them.
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