Ex Tory P.M Candidate: 'Poorest Think The System Is Rigged Against Them'

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2 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

Get the loo-cleaner installed as PM? 😉

Cameron was seen more as a business man, bankers are the lowest of them all.

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18 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Get ready  😀

I am - but am also likely to ignore most, if not all, of the boringly predictable responses.

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Tbh, this post is more than about which PM, there seem to be systemic failures, much more than other euro  countries post covid.

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1 hour ago, RollingJ said:

Get the loo-cleaner installed as PM? 😉

Johnson would make a decent bog brush except that his head is well oversize.

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11 hours ago, SCM1 said:

I reckon its not just politics, not always a fan of final end of empire/decline theory, etc, but maybe it is now here.

 

Only thing is, her party have been in power for over a decade, and she created or voted for many of the measures.

It's a dangerous, career ruining business, voting against your own party when you disagree with something they're doing. As Jeremy Corbyn found out. But in a democratic system, that shouldn't be the case. The conclusion is a system that is flawed beyond redemption.

 

As for Penny Mordent, she is absolutely right. Has the penny dropped at last?

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I have always liked Mordaunt. She comes across as honest, practical, and realistic. And she has a sense of humour. But she is spot on when she says that the truly disadvantaged, such as the disabled and the elderly, are sidelined by those with an 'agenda'' and sharp elbows such as environmental activists and gender issues. They are invariably media savvy and make themselves busy.

 

The recent national census found that the LGBT dimension in the UK is 3.1% of the population , and of course their voices should be heard, but others with weaker voices are being sidelined. 

 

Well said, Penny.

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16 hours ago, hackey lad said:

Should've been party leader .

must be her turn soon, Sunaks been sat in the chair a while now, somebody switch the music on again

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Any new contender would be wise to wait until the next general election,  because if they put a foot wrong before it they stand less chance.

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17 hours ago, SCM1 said:

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For workers, they seem to be railing about low pay, intransgient inflexible employers, ZHC, etc, if this is was countries in Europe, one suspects there would be social unrest.

Today’s HoC debate and vote about mass repealing 4,000-and-crumbs “EU laws”

 

(a) goes to the heart of the thread topic , and

(b) goes some way to explain why that ‘if this was countries in Europe’ is pretty unlikely.

 

What is not explainable, is why nobody in the UK seems to be kicking any fuss about it (over and above those striking for better pay and conditions…the right to which was just voted away, not coincidentally).

2024 is a long way away still, so the ‘Poorest who Think The System Is Rigged Against Them’…ain’t seen nothing yet I’m afraid. 

 

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16 hours ago, hackey lad said:

Should've been party leader .

The Tory MPs are to blame for not putting her on the ballot paper in the summer 2022 leadership contest.  

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2 minutes ago, Axe said:

The Tory MPs are to blame for not putting her on the ballot paper in the summer 2022 leadership contest.  

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3 hours ago, Axe said:

The Tory MPs are to blame for not putting her on the ballot paper in the summer 2022 leadership contest.  

They are to blame for a lot of things.

 

In relation to this thread, they are specifically to blame for the poorest thinking that the system is rigged against them. They should concentrate on that rather than on making number 10 into a venue for the Hokey Cokey.