next General Election

@gol979 if that happens we'll start to see minority governments that won't last long.
I think too much is made of 'media power'.
We've seen how untrustworthy it is this is why fewer people than ever read newspapers today, and 24hour rolling television news on days when nothing happens is so full of unnecessary bias it's laughable.

@Picklebobble2 I partly understand what your saying about why aren't the opposition parties making more from it all but also a General Election is due so why should they give the tories any ideas to run off with

@Picklebobble2 that is true but after the last couple of years of the tories destroying the economy it can't get any worse

Until the Achilles heal of brexit is acknowledged and admitted that part of the problems we have now is down to it the faster we can sort things out and rebuild

@Burnley123 Someone liked my old comment lolz..I guess I was proven right!

I am also a Green Party member now.

@Burnley123 holy fick! i could forgive you for being a red socialist... but a green socialist?

@Yulianna Story time:

A few months ago I was invited by a friend to a political meetup with talks and debates. He told me it was views from across the political spectrum, but no, it was very right-wing. One of the talks was about how 'the youth has been radicalised' and how schools have become 'woke indoctrination centres'. You get the idea, and I was very much a fish out of water. The four panelists were all Gen-Z conservatives and the hard-right boomer audience was lapping it up.

Audience comments and questions. The audience echoed what the panel had said, and this was all very boring. Then a right-wing 14-year-old got up to speak and said that schools are so biased and ideological that it even starts in primary school. "Oh, you poor thing!" said the audience "How terrible." The audience was 500 Reform voters, TERFs and far-right-adjacent conspiracy theorists.

Then I got up to speak. I had separate points, but I off-hand said to the kid (sitting two places away) "Oh, bye the war I actually work as a primary teacher." Several of the audience groaned at this. I wasn't expecting that, and it annoyed me a little, because I was being prejudged on what job I do (even though in my case the f""" ers didn't know how right they were!). Though I recognised a brilliant trolling opportunity.

"If I'm gonna get booed for that, then wait to hear this..." I said with an evil glint in my eye. "... because I am also... an active member of the Green Party, and I campaigned in Gorton and Denton for Hannah Spencer!" I'm proud of who I am, and I welcome your hatred. And got hatred. Gasps of appalled shock. Someonce called me a disgrace, and someone else told me I should be ashamed but it was mostly just indecipherable angry noise. The disgust was radiocative. The right-wing kid was jumping out of his seat, laughing and wide-eyed. I turned to him and said, "What do you mean, teachers are left-wing?" The audience didn't find it funny and booed some more, but I think that the kid was kind of impressed by my audacity. I thought of telling the audience that I self-identify as a woman just to see their reaction, but I thought that would be taking it too far.

They eventually calmed down, and I made a couple of points. But yeah, I am all the things that the political right here hates, and I am proud of it. I am also not shy. 😜

@nacnud yes exactly let alone complete denial of austerity and other policies

I won't ever vote tory after brexit they destroyed everything for them not to pay taxes

yes it should be PR also an elected House of Lords and possibly the same for an Head of State as at the moment the current system they are just figure heads and don't actually stop any new laws

@NoThanksLeon When i'm on drugs I sure am but otherwise no
This is a political thread.

@Gloomy really, never, only in Vietnam, Venezuela, Hong Kong Cuba and others. Do your research

@Canicu69 Those are all socialist countries. You should do your research.

@SunshineGirl lies not even half truths scaremongering playing people off against each other

@Barny52 well put its amazing how all the problems are put on to people with nothing or are struggling

No doubt more device's politics too from the tories playing people off against workers unemployed pensioners

@milkymum1 Divide and rule yet again. Pit low paid workers against the unemployed, the unemployed against the disabled, the disabled against single mothers, single mothers against refugees, all fuelled by the right wing media, and you have the perfect recipe for the tories to stay in power WE MUST RESIST THIS!

@jackieash yes it is exactly that and sadly some still will fall for it as its already started

@Convivial oh yes the 30 yr old

@ArtieKat You're right. I was born in 1997 so I have no chance of remembering. I think Mum might have had other things to think about at the time, too :).

@jackieash It was a time of great optimism. I, for one, was very saddened when Blair turned out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, no different to any of the other lying politicians. If I was cynical before that - believing since my teens in the old adage that it doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in - Blair's sellout convinced me.

@ArtieKat to start a debate to see what could be said and that at the moment yes Labour look like they will win but we need more than just an inherited win

@milkymum1 Well I'll be voting Labour but almost solely because I am a Keynesian economist believer.

@BritishFailedAesthetic where i live itw good as at least we get a good choice who to vote for unlike some places

@milkymum1 Same!