How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements
It's a free country.
Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements
It's a free country.
Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements
It's a free country.
Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
We've had Johnson, Truss and Sunak in charge. We've not been a serious country for years!
How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements
It's a free country.
Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
No one's saying "you should act like a twat".
But the police are not there to compel political deference. This was a party political speech, not a ministerial announcement.
Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian. The survey found persistent pessimism about the economy as election day draws closer.
The poll highlighted many misconceptions people have about the economy, including:
55% believe the economy is shrinking, and 56% think the US is experiencing a recession, though the broadest measure of the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), has been growing. 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, though the index went up about 24% in 2023 and is up more than 12% this year. 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50-year high, though the unemployment rate has been under 4%, a near 50-year low.
49% of Democrats think the USA is currently in recession. 61% of Democrats think that inflation is currently increasing.
Apparently there's a 'vibecession' phenomenon.
Now this might be the fault of Sleepy Joe - or Trump or Brexit - or it might just be that people's expectations are increasing faster than which any government can meet.
And likely happening in other Western countries as well.
People are still shocked by the big price increases post COVID. A lot of people are saying “I can’t afford to do X anymore”.
This is how most people measure prosperity.
Saying it doesn't necessarily make it true.
There are pay rises to go with the price rises.
Not to mention asset value rises - firstly housing and now shares/pensions.
But it does seem increasingly common for people to be claiming poverty even when they are certainly getting richer.
Similarly every oldie seems to think that their pensions increase is "all being taken back through tax" or that their increased winter fuel allowance 'doesn't count'.
I, at least, will admit to never having been as affluent as I am today.
I'm definitely poorer than I was five years ago, and struggle more to get through the month more than I did. My salary has increased quite a lot, but my outgoings have increased by more, and inflation means that the capital I have is worth less. My house is worth more but given that I will always want to live in a house this doesn't feel like wealth which does me any good whatsoever.
It's kids' activities which are killing me. I rarely go out, I have quite basic requirements in clothing, I don't have a mortgage. Food has gone up but has actually started coming down again. But kids' activities are just going up and up and up and up. And because of working from home they have the opportunity to do so many more of them.
Again, its worth pointing out that a return of inflation to pre-covid levels doesn't mean a return of prices to pre-covid levels.
Is this the Lancashire millionaire equivalent of Monty Python ?
I think you've proved my point.
People will always find a way to claim poverty.
Even if they have good pay rises and don't have a mortgage.
How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements
It's a free country.
Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
Says person who lapped up Boris Johnson's clown show.
SKSICIPM surely can't blow it from here. Survation usually has been on of Pollsters with smaller leads too
Last person being this far ahead at the start of a campaign was T May in 2017 ended with a hung Parliament thanks to Jezzas amazing campaign. Don't think Rishi has it in him to turn that around.
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Suit getting drenched.
Lost track of his droning already.
Things can only get better still in the background.
Peak Rishi.
The faint incidental music track is a nice touch though; what is it ?
Leon is right. Punch them.
Is it that twat with a top hat ?
The BBC could have cut it out if they wanted.
Of course this could have been avoided by doing it indoors.
This is going to be a FUN campaign...
Good grief.
Surely somebody must have said bad weather, dick with a PA, lets do it inside.
Someone playing things can only get better at full blast
Things can only get wetter
Stop rambling, Rishi!
Sub-underwhelming.
"I will earn your trust"
Bit bloody late for that.
NEW THREAD
As my wife would say, wrong again!
He was evicted last week.
Homeless now.
LOL.
SKS is a liar who breaks every pledge he makes and has no principles.
What a surprise.
Why did he do it in such torrential rain was like a Monty Python sketch
But the police are not there to compel political deference. This was a party political speech, not a ministerial announcement.
I think you've proved my point.
People will always find a way to claim poverty.
Even if they have good pay rises and don't have a mortgage.
LAB: 48% (+4)
CON: 27% (+2)
LDM: 8% (-2)
RFM: 8% (=)
SNP: 3% (+1)
GRN: 2% (-5)
Via @Survation, 21-22 May.
Changes w/ 9-10 May.
SKSICIPM surely can't blow it from here. Survation usually has been on of Pollsters with smaller leads too
Last person being this far ahead at the start of a campaign was T May in 2017 ended with a hung Parliament thanks to Jezzas amazing campaign. Don't think Rishi has it in him to turn that around.