Making the news today....

[nepia]

To be fair Mick - speaking as an Englishman I'd be happy just not being beaten by the French.  Or Germans.  Or Belgians... 😄

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

22 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

The Tories took a kicking in Chesham and Amersham. Shame.

 

21 hours ago, nepia said:

Victims of classic Tory arrogance; once again (and I'm looking back decades - think late Thatcher era) they assumed votes.  Serves 'em right but don't hold your breath for a sea change in British politics because of it

I’d suggest the result of this by election speaks more of the desperate state of the Labour Party than it does the Tories. 
 

Labour behind even the Greens and a lost deposit. 
 

Yes, a kick in the nuts for the Tories, but another nail in the coffin for Captain Hindsight. 

[Moose McAlpine]

22 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

The Tories took a kicking in Chesham and Amersham. Shame.

 

Surprised they lost Amershsm. Chesham... not so much.

[eggsarascal]

3 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

 

I’d suggest the result of this by election speaks more of the desperate state of the Labour Party than it does the Tories. 
 

Labour behind even the Greens and a lost deposit. 
 

Yes, a kick in the nuts for the Tories, but another nail in the coffin for Captain Hindsight. 

Agreed, Starmer is dire. Shows how wrong I can be, I thought he would do a lot better.

Edited June 19, 2021 by eggsarascal

[donnk]

labour are finished. They have no policies that England wants. 

 

Pro woke, pro everyone one who hates us, pro dole scroungers etc etc

 

Just need a real conservative party now.

[devon TWiG]

1 hour ago, donnk said:

labour are finished. They have no policies that England wants. 

 

Pro woke, pro everyone one who hates us, pro dole scroungers etc etc

 

Just need a real conservative party now.

very true ..labour used to represent the working class ...just about every working class person now bloody hates the ridiculous lefty nonsense ( woke stuff ) and would never vote for a party so aligned with such rubbish !!!  Boris will be a tough man to beat !!! 

[sime42]

Here's some food for thought;-

" Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact."

I was intrigued by this term WOKE that people keep using so I looked it up.

[eggsarascal]

4 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Here's some food for thought;-

" Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact."

I was intrigued by this term WOKE that people keep using so I looked it up.

It's a crass word used mainly by the hard of thinking.

[devon TWiG]

8 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

It's a crass word used mainly by the hard of thinking.

I think people declare themselves as woke ...not a label imposed upon them by others .....

[eggsarascal]

3 minutes ago, devon TWiG said:

I think people declare themselves as woke ...not a label imposed upon them by others .....

I've never met anyone who declares themself woke, perhaps it's different in East Anglia.