LivDiv wrote:Despite consideration to escape to Scotland I'm staying. I love the U.K.
Our art, sense of humour, our community and charity. Our acceptance of cultures, sexuality and gender. Our architecture, design, innovation and engineering.
We are a fantastic nation that has unfortunately not been properly represented politically in areas which has resulted in them being left behind by both self serving governments and inefficient opposition.
Dont buy into the misery and hopelessness that we are a write off, we arent.
Just over 50% who did vote didnt vote for Torys, Brexit Party or UKIP.
Around 30% who can vote didnt vote for them.
Of a population of 67 million 14 million voted for the Tories. 10 million voted Labour.
Our politics aren't everything that we are.
We aren't a lost cause, far from it.
We have been played by a small group of people playing a nasty game and have been caught with our thumbs up our arses politically but we can fight back against it.
The same group of nasty people will not be done with us either, they will and are manipulating people right across Europe and in America. If we give up on the UK we make it harder for those countries.
Our art, sense of humour, our community and charity. Our acceptance of cultures, sexuality and gender. Our architecture, design, innovation and engineering.
LarryDavid wrote:I was half-joking in an attempt to puncture the romantic, optimistic mood there. The people are nice - on an individual basis obviously, don’t ask them to vote on anything and you’re fine. I need to keep my misanthropy in check, lest I tumble into a chasm of total despair.
Diluted Dante wrote:One of those seats that just went Tory you mean?
mk64 wrote:I dont think anyone who comes into power now will be able to please anyone as the country is fundamentally economically fucked.
LarryDavid wrote:More the existential despair you feel from watching everything around you turn to shit, all your hopes crushed, everything you believe in trashed and witnessing the most dismal and horrid people around you inevitably rising to the top like turds floating in a toilet bowl. EDIT: at least the football’s going well tbfDiluted Dante wrote:One of those seats that just went Tory you mean?
Yes but we’ll never know this now will we?mistercrayon wrote:Is it worth consoling oneself with the fact that corbyn might have been extremely shit?
“There’s only one person that loses you an election and that’s the millions of voters.”Paul the sparky wrote:Misread that as Paul Merson and I was about to jump out the window and run for the sea.
monkey wrote:Good thread from Paul Mason. https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1206519115055325185?s=21
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