[Malcolm Armsteen]

TAPS



Thick As Pig Shit...

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Reform element of the Tories never had a problem with Gullis and co. It was the Cameron types they didn’t like. I wonder if there’s much downside to bringing in the worst Tories.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Having said that, I think Reform will struggle to get past a level in a General Election where tactical voters won’t be able to block them.

[Abernathy]

That “let the other lot have a go” mentality is idiocy epitomised.

In some instances, in fact very much in this instance, “giving the other lot ago” is the very last thing you should do.

This sort of fuckwittedness is the sort of thing that drives me to despair.

[RedSparrows]

In the post-match euphoria of Thursday night I was talking to a friend's son, presumably in his mid-twenties. He was pro-Reform, I asked him how he thought a public school millionaire stockbroker gave a toss about him, he agreed but "They're different and I'm skint." My older and now sadly late friend's saying about "Let the other lot have a go" is being played out with both major parties at once.

I'd have more sympathy for 'time for a change' if the politics wasn't Thatcher + racism and the personnel weren't half the fucking last Tory government.

This is vibes. That is all it is.

[mattomac]

Yup, would make sense from a Green perspective or Plaid.

[kreuzberger]

I would place the blame for a lot of this vibes nonsense at the door of education. There is little there to ram home the understanding that running countries is actually quite a tough task, and simple solutions simply don't exist.

This political illiteracy is the only thing that allows these snake-oil salesmen to get into the hearts and minds of people who should know better, even if it is not their fault that they do not.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The demographic of Reform skews older. Not much you can do about education there.

[kreuzberger]

Indeed, that is not a simple solution to a seemingly intractable problem. It is a long term one, albeit with 800,000 educated potential voters replacing the +/-500,000 likely ones who die each year.

No democracy on earth can withstand this level of ignorance.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I would place the blame for a lot of this vibes nonsense at the door of education. There is little there to ram home the understanding that running countries is actually quite a tough task, and simple solutions simply don't exist.

This political illiteracy is the only thing that allows these snake-oil salesmen to get into the hearts and minds of people who should know better, even if it is not their fault that they do not.

We used to do some of that until Keith Joseph killed it off in the National Curriculum.