Not funny - this time milkshake thrown by a Jaywick slapper, next time acid thrown by a Hamas supporter? Prospective parliamentary candidates of all parties should be allowed to canvass without this behaviour.
Yes, and many will be cheering and laughing without thinking it through. Candidates of all parties are increasingly needing protection.
People are entitled to their political/religious beliefs whatever we think of them and they hold them with as much fervour as we do ours.
20 presidential candidates killed in lawless Mexico, it can quickly become the norm.
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.
I watched it all and it just confirmed what I thought. Starmer is bland with no real ideas and Sunak is in “desperate mode.” According to reports this morning, Sunak just pipped Starmer at the post because he has plans for the future whereas Starmer didn’t answer any of the questions fully and seemed stuck in the past. It reminded a bit of children in the playground …. shouting over each other and saying nothing of worth.
If you fancy higher taxes, more immigration, less defence etc then vote Labour. If you want things to stay the same, apart from the prospect of national service, then vote Conservative.
Neither of them will be getting my vote but as a comedy show it succeeded.
If you fancy higher taxes, more immigration, less defence etc then vote Labour. If you want things to stay the same, apart from the prospect of national service, then vote Conservative.
Taxation is at it's highest for many years under this Tory govt, immigration is out of control under this Tory govt and the only increase in defence will be through National Service which they won't have to pay top money for. And no one can seriously want things to stay the same (unless you're in the top 10% of earners with the right mates).
Give me the child until they are 7 and I will give you the bigender: Aristotle 1984-2022
This is an interesting piece from The Financial Times. Sounds like Diane Abbott's arithmetic.
"Labour pledges to end the tax-exempt status of education, adding 20% VAT to private school fees and forcing thousands of students across the country, like my son, to leave the schools they’ve come to know and love. Private schools aren’t simply playgrounds of the wealthy. Many families make life-changing sacrifices to choose a specific school for their child. This choice can be for many reasons, including for students with special education needs, students of a particular faith, students from military families and so many others. Labour’s proposal risks pricing many families* out of their children’s schools, giving them little choice but to transfer their children into already crowded state schools. The Times reports that property prices are already rising in popular school catchments as parents prepare to move their private school children into state schools. Cash-strapped state schools and local authorities will have to find money, space and resources to teach and support these children. Parents who currently pay school fees on top of taxes used for school funding will now be adding to the state’s burden rather than opting to relieve it by choosing an independent school. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told The Telegraph that tax hikes won’t generate more money for public services, saying we had to “grow our way there”. This means no return of the 45p tax rate or the cap on bankers’ bonuses, but big taxes await working families who manage to send a child to private school despite Sir Keir Starmer’s promise not to increase the burden on working people."
* the current estimate is 10%, and with an approximate 600,000 children in the private sector, that would mean 60,000 extra places to be found in state schools.
If you fancy higher taxes, more immigration, less defence etc then vote Labour. If you want things to stay the same, apart from the prospect of national service, then vote Conservative.
Taxation is at it's highest for many years under this Tory govt, immigration is out of control under this Tory govt and the only increase in defence will be through National Service which they won't have to pay top money for. And no one can seriously want things to stay the same (unless you're in the top 10% of earners with the right mates).
I certainly don’t want things to stay the same but tax will go up even though we’ll supposedly have a government that’s talking about change. I don’t think anything will really change except there’ll be a new face at the helm. Labour being in power still doesn’t herald a positive change for working people, although I’m no longer in that category.
Leaders who are millionaires can’t have a realistic view of what it’s like for some people to really struggle. Starmer goes on about his dad being a toolworker and Sunak often mentions his parents who worked in the NHS but both are rich men now so what their parents did for a living is irrelevant, in my opinion.
There’s another candidates’ debate on TV tomorrow (BBC1 at 7:30pm to 9pm.) From memory, I think seven parties are represented. I’m going to watch it and with a bit of luck it’ll be more informative and less comedic than the one earlier in the week.
I watched it all and confirm that I’m not insane …… my sanity wasn’t affected at all. 😉 However, it was more informative and entertaining than the Sunak vs Starmer one.
I know Labour will get in but I’d prefer to listen to Angela than Starmer. He’s so dull and boring. She, at least, has some ooomph about her.
Anyway, the programme did its job and confirmed that my choice of candidate hasn’t changed.
She speaks more the language of a true far left Labour supporter. Ghastly woman, the risk of her possibly becoming Prime Minister and representing this country on a world stage is too much for me, and I daresay many others.