Johnson & Sunak

Quoted from ska face

2010 - abstained, no pro-austerity party gets my vote
2015 - chaos with Ed Miliband
2017 - National Investment Fund & renationalisation of water, rail & mail
2019 - National Care Service, end homelessness & green industrial revolution

I’ll be able to look my kids in the face and say I did the right thing. Voting for this mob should haunt people to the grave.

Quoted from ginnywings

Suella Braverman?

Me neither.

Quoted from Maringer

The new Tory leader will inherit everything the Tories have done over the past 12 years. Shitshow after shitshow, so I'd hope that any attempt to pretend there is some sort of a reset and a new leaf has been turned will be laughed away. Of course, you can guarantee that the right-wing media barons will be as devious and dishonest in support as always so no doubt a lot of the electorate will continue to be hoodwinked. They'll try to blame everything that has gone wrong on Johnson though his enablers are still running the party.

All the candidates for Tory leadership are remarkably untalented politicians or have records which ought to prove they simply aren't capable. Unfortunately, Starmer is an untalented politician as well and I wouldn't trust him any more than any of the Tories at present. I still hope for a hung parliament next time around and a proper go at electoral reform so we can join the grown ups in other countries with a representative electoral system.

I live in Clee and sincerely hope that the stuffed shirt that is Martin Vickers is booted out at the next election. If that means voting LibDem, I'll just have to pinch my nose and go that way this time, even though they are barely to the left of the Tories.

Even if we managed to get PR implemented, it will take some years for the many rotten apples in all parties to be shaken out of the system. No doubt, more will appear, but hopefully not to the same degree.

Quoted from codcheeky

They will pretend they haven’t backed him time and time again, even though all of them knew what Johnson was like.
But as you say bad news for Labour, the Tory press will conveniently forget how they have backed Johnson.  Whoever  does replace him will get a bounce of relief in the polls. However the country is in a dire situation, high inflation, rising interest rates and fuel and food prices, the NHS has massive waiting lists again.  Strikes looking likely across a lot of industries, a potential labour shortage and the fallout from  Johnson’s crappy Oven ready Brexit. The National debt is massive, nearly three times it was in 2010 and a much higher percentage of GDP
Whoever comes in will have the baggage of 12 years of Tory government in which loads of people especially in the public services have got relatively poorer and poorer, and watching this shitshow shows what a shower this lot are,

Quoted from Maringer

My money is on Jeremy Hunt. Got out before the pandemic, has kept away from government since then so isn't tarred with the chaos from recent years and always appears reasonable (if a bit creepy). Another privately-educated Oxford PPE-er from the establishment, of course, but that's the state of things at present.

He would probably be more risky to the NHS even than Johnson and his cronies as he was working towards privatisation during his long stint as Health Minister, but he sounds more reasonable than the others.

Front-runners are likely to be:

Hunt: creepy
Sunak: oily
Javid: wooden
Truss: by God, she's dim

I suppose it depends on whichever candidate appeals most to the decrepitude of the ever-diminishing Tory party membership. Oh, also which dodgy donors spunk a load of money to fund their preferred candidate.

Quoted from Rick12

Been a way for a bit on the fishy due to personal reasons  which I cant go into but I know Ive been laughed a bit by some on here(albeit minority)  due to my religious views which is a shame as I can rip into anybody if I wanted and put them right down  as we all have weakness but I choose not to as I feel constructive criticism and dialogue is the way to go.

I actually have a bit of respect for Humbercod though as at least he has the balls to go against the grain eg to may lefty's on the fishy.  Politically left or right noone can get it spot on  though I feel.

On a wider note after being on the left side of the political spectrum and also the right Iam neither none now but right down the middle.  Likewise my religious views have changed as well. Ive tried to look at things from a open deeper perspective and feel the Native American Indians had it spot on eg try to live in harmony with nature. I note David Attenborough the nature television presenter says the same eg ultimately we are here to carry on the human population and live in harmony with nature.

Quoted from codcheeky

Genuine Question.. who would you call as a centre politician?

Quoted from Humbercod

So you’ve only been voting for 12 years? I had you down for being a lot older than that to be honest, but would go some way to explain your urban guerrilla front. I’l take a stab possible graduate brainwashed by our education system and now now bitter because stuck in a monotonous excrement payed job and unlikely to ever pay that student loan off. And you blame it all on those nasty Tories because that is what your teachers told you🤔

So you wasted your vote in 2010 good start….. power to the people 👊
2015 you went for a highly privileged millionaire champagne socalist😀
2017 and 2019 I don’t recall seeing any of these on the ballot paper so I will assume it was the the Corbo and Abbott freak show but you’re to embarrassed to say.

I’m sure your kids will grow up very proud 🥹