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life was pretty simple for blokes before the contraceptive pill allowed women to join the workforce - your typical working man would provide for the family, come home to dinner on the table and a clean house, give his pay packet to the wife every week to manage the household and come and go to the pub as he pleased in return. women's liberation has been a great thing but it's led to a crisis of masculinity - a lot of blokes clearly feel pretty desperate and confused about their role in a changing world. it's the era of jordan peterson, andrew tate and incels on the more extreme end.

NJS is right about a lot of people being cunts. Although I think a fair proportion of people naturally conservative leaning are selfish rather than outright racist etc. I mean the two things aren’t mutually exclusive but the reason o think they’re fucked as a party for a whole us people have long memories. And it’s those selfish cunts that have been negatively financially impacted that have turned against them now. In the past I didn’t agree with them, but you could see why those comfortably off, middle class people would vote for them. They were looked after in terms of being better off and taxed lower. At least that was the perception. Now that’s not the case, public services are crumbling, everything including your mortgage costs more etc. There’s not really many people they can appeal to. It’s really just my parent’s generation, who retired on daft pensions in their 50s who don’t pay a mortgage as it was paid off decades ago. There’s precious few people left that are insulated from what the Tories have done and there’s not another generation coming that have it that good. Obviously that’s not the extent of their dubious appeal but in general they’ve fucked off their traditional base

Hanging out with mates being a form a mental health therapy, is a hill I'd definitely die on. I'd argue that as the role of modern man has changed, it's severely impacted the mental health of men of our age. Where once men could spend most evenings in the pub with their mates, now we have to take our kids to tennis lessons and shit like that. I've no idea, but I'd also guess that 2-3 pints in the pub a night didn't significantly impact your pocket then, like it can now. I bought a pint of Madri recently, it cost me £7.50. Even the little bar near me charges £4+ for a pint of their own beer.

“He says it like it is” is their go to. It’s just that what it is is incoherent waffle that hits every number on culture war bingo - and the Bible Belt in America is fucking stupid so eat it up. The idea of the cunt getting back in is beyond terrifying to me. He’ll destroy American democracy, and lead the world straight into a global conflict within 6 months, then he’ll snuff it and won’t have to see the mess he creates because he’s too selfish to die before the election.

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This is true. But it is a symptom. The more important truth is the Conservatives have utterly fucked the country over. Everything is worse, everything is broken. This is now people's lived experience, every day of their lives. The Conservatives cannot bullshit themselves out of this any more, it won't work. This is the root cause of why they are fucked, doesn't matter what the ideaologies are of their usual voters.

Saying that mind, it took Partygate, the PPE fraud, the Truss mini Budget, double figure inflation, the cost of living crisis, and dozens of other scandals in ONE parliament to do for the Tories. If Labour can look vaguely competent and not seem like they're taking the piss out of the entire country, I think they'll get quite a bit of leeway after the last 14 years. I don't think people are expecting miracle fixes.

I think it depends on what's left of the Tories after this election. If they've still got closer to 200 seats, then 2029 is targetable for them if Labour have a shocker. If it's closer to or even sub-100, they'll likely still be considered unelectable in 2029.

I did over-simplify a bit but the 41 for labour also contains some centrist/tory voters who will have to appealed to to repeat Blair's multi-term run. That's why I think those expecting some decent policies under the radar are naive. I think a New Zealand scenario where a "fresh" government wins big then loses badly next time out as they didnt change anything is still possible.

Thankfully, this is what most people think of Farage. He doesn't have a future in mainstream politics beyond playing the spoiler. Which tbf, he does very well, but there's a ceiling on the popularity of any party for which he's a leading figure.

I wonder how they feel about their bestie mates Everton having potential Saudi owners ?

Some loon among the Reform candidates has had his social media posts investigated, and has been found to have said that we should have been more neutral with Hitler. And the Reform spokesperson responding has basically agreed with them. Lovely.

I think in hindsight you're probably right but as I said it seemed minor at the time. I was pulling a carry-on suitcase as I'd been away for the weekend which was certainly a factor but I think it was still dodgy. 3 or 4 people stopped to help which briefly restored my faith in humanity as well.

Yeah but it's not as simple as that, because there are people currently voting for Reform that wouldn't vote Conservative, and likewise people voting Conservative who wouldn't dream of voting Reform. The right is currently split in this country, which is why we're about to see the Tories destroyed at the next election. Whatever emerges from that wreckage isn't going to command 39% of the vote in a single entity.

anthony browne is right in that clip further up the page. the UK is a small c conservative country, which is why elections are always won from the centre, and why the tory party's implosion by pandering to the right is a joy to behold.

I know it's not as simple as Reform voters switching to the Tories if they didn't exist and I don't think that Reform will stand down but anyone thinking this election represents some great reset of politics should note that 24 +15 is 39 and 41/39 wouldn't even produce a labour majority going by previous results. This country still has a sizeable portion of cunts despite the generational shift.

Think you've got 6 years to act like, not sure if having a witness is necessary but you'd need to have taken a photo of the offending cable to ascertain if it was breaching H&S rules or whatever legislation applies. Not advocating you should have done anything unless it was a blatant hazard, but then again if you're paying out of pocket medical fees (let alone the pain and suffering) then maybe it would be justified (guessing the cafe would have indemnity). Anyway, hope it sorts itself out and one of the toontastic illuminati can give some sound medical advice.

New poll, all fieldwork post D-Day shenanigans. No change in Labour lead, but gap between Tories and Reform down by 5.

Posh boy Tim Stanley has turned on them now.

One month you retire, the next month you're picking out adult nappies. Life comes at you fast.

I have just recenty recovered from dodgy guts, it has taught me one thing and that is - never EVER take for granted enjoying the feeling of having a fart knowing it is indeed only a fart. (Thank fuck the Mrs had a throw over the sofa).