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The politics thread.

morty

morty

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Jaws diorama. You get the boat, shark and the 3 main guys. It's pretty good.
My wife bought me a Darth Vader head for Christmas about 3 or 4 years ago, and still not got around to starting it!
 
Fenway Frank

Fenway Frank

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Jaws diorama. You get the boat, shark and the 3 main guys. It's pretty good.
I've just looked, that's really good, if a bit pricey. The wife wants to know what you do when you've finished them, leave them out or take to pieces and build again another time?
 
Mr Angry

Mr Angry

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My wife bought me a Darth Vader head for Christmas about 3 or 4 years ago, and still not got around to starting it!
I’d take it back, your picture looks nothing like Darth Vader!
 
morty

morty

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I’d take it back, your picture looks nothing like Darth Vader!
Funny you should say that...

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The Raptor

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I've just looked, that's really good, if a bit pricey. The wife wants to know what you do when you've finished them, leave them out or take to pieces and build again another time?
I have shelves and shelves of it displayed. And that's just the stuff I've bought in the last 10 years or so. The stuff I had as a kid is just mixed up in boxes. I plan to build all that at some point.

Legotalk is over here. It deserves it's own thread.
 
morty

morty

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Tulip Siddiq resigns under a cloud of corruption, Rachel from accounts mulls over an emergency budget, Sofia Patel deactivated her Linkedin and X account over talk that the 100 staffers that Labour sent to the US to campaign for the Democrats could face charges and substantial fines by US courts.

Not a good day for Labour...
 
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Fen Canary

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Sadiq Khan now getting grief for accepting Taylor Swift tickets. Surely it shouldn’t be too hard to ban politicians from receiving free stuff, as is the case for most others who work in the public sector?
 
morty

morty

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Sadiq Khan now getting grief for accepting Taylor Swift tickets. Surely it shouldn’t be too hard to ban politicians from receiving free stuff, as is the case for most others who work in the public sector?
Keir "free gear" Starmer wouldn't be happy with this
 
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Fen Canary

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Labour only got in because the Tories are so dreadful.
That’s true of most elections though. If the incumbent is doing a good job then the opposition won’t get a look in.
The Winter of Discontent put Thatcher in, Black Wednesday did for Major, the Credit Crunch destroyed Brown and the aftermath of the Pandemic left the Tories entirely rudderless.
 
morty

morty

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That’s true of most elections though. If the incumbent is doing a good job then the opposition won’t get a look in.
The Winter of Discontent put Thatcher in, Black Wednesday did for Major, the Credit Crunch destroyed Brown and the aftermath of the Pandemic left the Tories entirely rudderless.
You could actually also follow my statement up by saying the reason the Tories were so dreadful was because Labour were terrible in opposition. A strong opposition is vital in the grand scheme.
 
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Scoop

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It's been a very long time since there was any party that actually represented the common man.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely and politicians are the best example of that. How long since any party followed through on their campaign promises?

I'd like to see a system where the incoming party have to fulfill the [e.g ] 10 campaign promises within a limited timeframe. Something along the lines of fulfill 3 in year 2, 3 in year 3 and 4 in year 4. Failing to do so triggers an election.
Something like that to keep them honest rather than this all too common rhetoric of "now we're in power, the situation is worse than we realised so we can't do what we vowed we would do if elected". What bullshit, you sat in Parliament for X years berating the current incumbents for what you think they should be doing. There's no freeking way you didn't know what the state of the economy was and if you really didn't then that's on you because you had every opportunity to find out.

There's a saying here in Oz that suits politicians very well: shit cunts.

Apologies for the language.
 
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