Pegojack
Alan Curtis
Well, here we are at last, the day we've all been waiting for, and the day I sincerely hope sets the Tory party back a hundred years. Payback time!
I'm going to be sitting up tonight, suitably fortified with snacks and booze, for as long as I can stay awake, because I want to see some well known Tory scummers get a massive kick in the b*llocks, not least Jacob Rees Smug, and Richi Sunk himself. Sent my postal vote in two weeks ago for Labour, but North Herefordshire is one of the safest Tory seats in the country, so no change expected there. The highly corrupt MP 'Bungalow' Bill Wiggin will undoubtedly win again, but feck 'im, he's one of the few who will.
Some interesting debate on here recently about FPTP v Proportional representation. I feel the latter is the more democratic, and would largely prevent extreme right wing governments from taking office in the UK and dragging down the country to the extent the incumbents have done over the last fourteen years. What a shyte show that has been. Brexit for me was the last straw and persuaded me that the time was right to wave farewell to the UK.
Mind you, PR isn't all plain sailing either. I take a deep interest in the Spanish political scene, and the twists and turns we've encountered over here in the last 12 months due to PR have taken some believing. After a bad round of local elections last year which suggested the right and extreme right were in the ascendancy, Spanish socialist PM Pedro Sanchez called an early general election last July, essentially saying 'back me or sack me'. The result was extremely tight. The Spanish Tories (the PP) came out the single largest party, but even with the support of the extreme right Vox party, they couldn't get over the finishing line to form a government, with 169 seats between them, when they needed 176. The Socialists won 122 seats, but with the support of the hard left parties and some nationalists, including crucially the 7 seats from Junts (Catalan nationalists), they got over the line with 179 seats. The problem is, the small parties that supported them now want their pay back. Junts is turning the screw; the first thing they demanded is amnesty for four hundred or so Catalan nationalists who faced legal charges and jail after the failed independence coup of 2017. The socialists duly forced the amnesty law through parliament against massive right wing opposition, and riots on the streets too. The Junts leader Carlos Puigmont, did a runner in 2017 and has been living in exile in Brussels for seven years. He is about to make a triumphant return after he has been pardoned.
It's a bit like Plaid holding the balance of power in the UK parliament with their two or three MPs and forcing massive concessions from Starmer in return for their support. Things like Wales rugby team to have a ten point start in all six nations matches, Felinfoel Double Dragon to be subsidised on the NHS, and Pobol y Cwm to replace Coronation Street five times a week. You get the drift; that's what's happening here.
I'm going to be sitting up tonight, suitably fortified with snacks and booze, for as long as I can stay awake, because I want to see some well known Tory scummers get a massive kick in the b*llocks, not least Jacob Rees Smug, and Richi Sunk himself. Sent my postal vote in two weeks ago for Labour, but North Herefordshire is one of the safest Tory seats in the country, so no change expected there. The highly corrupt MP 'Bungalow' Bill Wiggin will undoubtedly win again, but feck 'im, he's one of the few who will.
Some interesting debate on here recently about FPTP v Proportional representation. I feel the latter is the more democratic, and would largely prevent extreme right wing governments from taking office in the UK and dragging down the country to the extent the incumbents have done over the last fourteen years. What a shyte show that has been. Brexit for me was the last straw and persuaded me that the time was right to wave farewell to the UK.
Mind you, PR isn't all plain sailing either. I take a deep interest in the Spanish political scene, and the twists and turns we've encountered over here in the last 12 months due to PR have taken some believing. After a bad round of local elections last year which suggested the right and extreme right were in the ascendancy, Spanish socialist PM Pedro Sanchez called an early general election last July, essentially saying 'back me or sack me'. The result was extremely tight. The Spanish Tories (the PP) came out the single largest party, but even with the support of the extreme right Vox party, they couldn't get over the finishing line to form a government, with 169 seats between them, when they needed 176. The Socialists won 122 seats, but with the support of the hard left parties and some nationalists, including crucially the 7 seats from Junts (Catalan nationalists), they got over the line with 179 seats. The problem is, the small parties that supported them now want their pay back. Junts is turning the screw; the first thing they demanded is amnesty for four hundred or so Catalan nationalists who faced legal charges and jail after the failed independence coup of 2017. The socialists duly forced the amnesty law through parliament against massive right wing opposition, and riots on the streets too. The Junts leader Carlos Puigmont, did a runner in 2017 and has been living in exile in Brussels for seven years. He is about to make a triumphant return after he has been pardoned.
It's a bit like Plaid holding the balance of power in the UK parliament with their two or three MPs and forcing massive concessions from Starmer in return for their support. Things like Wales rugby team to have a ten point start in all six nations matches, Felinfoel Double Dragon to be subsidised on the NHS, and Pobol y Cwm to replace Coronation Street five times a week. You get the drift; that's what's happening here.
. Asked two old dears who they were voting for..."David, of course". I hope that's the only two votes he gets.
