| George Galloway 10:23 - Jul 2 with 4043 views | Sadoldgit |
Where do I start? What an idiot. He split the Labour vote and nearly let the Tories in. It is the division in the Labour Party that is helping keep the worst government in living history in power and Galloway needs to have a look at himself. He may reason that getting rid of Starmer is best for the party. No it isn’t. Getting elected and getting Johnson out is best for the party. Get that done first and worry about the Leader afterwards if it is that much of an issue for you. Andy Burnham was spot on in last night on Question Time. Support your leader, do what needs to be done to get elected first. Starmer is a forward thinking leader who understands that Labour need to be seen as a party of the 21st century, not stuck in the dark days of industrial strife of the last century. People like Galloway talk to those who are also rooted in the past. We don’t shove children up chimneys any more. The world has moved on. There are still contemporary issue to be dealt with which only a modern socialist party will tackle. Good to see Starmer tackle issues such as zero hour contracts etc but the Party need to get behind him and end this damaging in fighting.
Burnham talked a lot of sense last night. Local issues are becoming more important than ever before and that is where the battles need to be fought. Rejuvenation of High Streets, local jobs and infrastructure, health care, protection of arable land and the environment - these are all areas where opposition parties can come together and make a difference. This is where the likes of Galloway needs to be putting their energy, not tearing the party apart. |  | | |  |
| George Galloway on 10:32 - Jul 2 with 2218 views | Butty101 |
I have no political persuasion and can see the Tories for what they are. However Starmer has not covered himself in glory either. Labour are even less popular now and really need to get their act together, so that there is a creditable alternative. |  |
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| George Galloway on 11:24 - Jul 2 with 2214 views | DorsetIan |
John Sweeney doesn't mince his words on Galloway.
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| George Galloway on 12:31 - Jul 2 with 2169 views | Sadoldgit |
Don’t beat around the bush John, tell us what you really think!
Honour Jo Cox, good point. Glad to see her sister carrying on her legacy, no thanks to Galloway. | | | |
| George Galloway on 12:52 - Jul 2 with 2157 views | Bison |
Well said SoG's.
I really wish the Labour Party could get their act together so the likes of the average joe could vote for them. However bad you think the Tories are there is currently no alternative . I think Boris is a tw@t as well as you but even you must admit when you highlight his sex life that the best you can hope for is to get rid of him just to replace him with another Tory PM. |  |
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| George Galloway on 13:11 - Jul 2 with 2137 views | Sadoldgit |
As much as I dislike this present PM and cabinet there are decent moderate Tories out there, they just seem to be keeping their heads down at the moment, which is a shame. I guess they don’t want to rock the boat during the pandemic. I don’t like extreme politics of any persuasion but we have become a country of division over the last few years and the extremists seem to be heard whilst the moderates get buried. We need common sense rather than political dogma. We also need to build from the ground up. The has been much talk of levelling up, stop talking and do it. We are a small country yet the price differences in housing between the north and south is obscene. There should be no London Weighting. People should be paid dependant on their job not where they live. House prices should be the same all over the country. Reduce public transport costs and improve it to encourage people out of their cars. Let local kids into local schools so that they can walk to school again. Do something about the tenancy situation in pubs to encourage more to stay open. They are the heart of many a community but they are disappearing on a daily basis because the landlords are stitching up the tenants. I could go on but we all know what the issues are for our local communities and we need politicians who will try and do something about these issues. We have had over a decade of battening down the hatches. We have seen that a government can borrow shed loads of money and uses it to support the public when it has to, so no more b/s about money trees. Let’s have budgets that build and invest in our people, all of us, not just the well heeled!
Rant over 😉 | | | |
| George Galloway on 13:38 - Jul 2 with 2114 views | Kennington |
These characters are always the ones who are the worst MPs. I don’t want my MP to be a celebrity with a big hat and ego. I want them to be hard working and relatively anonymous. Nothing worse than shouty MPs and politicians too. If they can’t get their point across without shouting for me they’re not fit to be in that role. | |
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| George Galloway on 14:25 - Jul 2 with 2089 views | Sadoldgit |
| George Galloway on 13:38 - Jul 2 by Kennington |
These characters are always the ones who are the worst MPs. I don’t want my MP to be a celebrity with a big hat and ego. I want them to be hard working and relatively anonymous. Nothing worse than shouty MPs and politicians too. If they can’t get their point across without shouting for me they’re not fit to be in that role. |
Couldn’t agree with you more. I have taken to turning off Question Time when panelist’s continuously talk over each other. Ask a question. Answer a question succinctly and stick to the point.Don’t interrupt. Move on. It’s not difficult. | | | |
| George Galloway on 15:15 - Jul 2 with 2055 views | Bazza |
| George Galloway on 14:25 - Jul 2 by Sadoldgit |
Couldn’t agree with you more. I have taken to turning off Question Time when panelist’s continuously talk over each other. Ask a question. Answer a question succinctly and stick to the point.Don’t interrupt. Move on. It’s not difficult. |
Should time limit each answer with a buzzer and Fiona Bruce could then also stop her irritating personal comments. Then I might be able to enjoy a whole programme. | | | |
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| George Galloway on 17:56 - Jul 2 with 1991 views | Berber |
I agree 100% with this. Whether Starmer is the best leader is irrelevant at this point in the evolution of British politics. Galloway and his ilk like Scargill were leeches on the system, prepared to do anything to get and retain power by repeating the usual mantras that turn on a significant portion of the left constituency. I don't think the forces behind Corbyn were much better, and even lifelong Labour supporters could see through the obfuscation as he tried to cover his true intentions with an acceptable face to the public. The world has moved on as you say, and the country desperately needs a vibrant, viable opposition, even if they don't get elected next time around, which is not what is on offer right now though. |  | | |
| George Galloway on 19:28 - Jul 2 with 1969 views | GasGiant |
If you can't remember back as far as the truly terrible Theresa May Government there is not much to be said for your definition of "living history", unless you are two years old. Other candidates would include John Major's government and the last Labour Government under "Sunny Jim" Callaghan, but perhaps that counts as prehistory now. | | | |
| George Galloway on 19:45 - Jul 2 with 1958 views | Sadoldgit |
| George Galloway on 19:28 - Jul 2 by GasGiant |
If you can't remember back as far as the truly terrible Theresa May Government there is not much to be said for your definition of "living history", unless you are two years old. Other candidates would include John Major's government and the last Labour Government under "Sunny Jim" Callaghan, but perhaps that counts as prehistory now. |
May and her cabinet were poor, but still better than this bunch. | | | |
| George Galloway on 22:47 - Jul 2 with 1907 views | Chesham_Saint |
| George Galloway on 14:25 - Jul 2 by Sadoldgit |
Couldn’t agree with you more. I have taken to turning off Question Time when panelist’s continuously talk over each other. Ask a question. Answer a question succinctly and stick to the point.Don’t interrupt. Move on. It’s not difficult. |
Sounds like you should be tuning in to GB News Soggsy.. |  |
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| George Galloway on 23:11 - Jul 2 with 1897 views | cotswoldsaint |
| George Galloway on 11:24 - Jul 2 by DorsetIan |
John Sweeney doesn't mince his words on Galloway.
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I'm pretty sure I was with John Sweeney at Barton Peveril 6th form college in Eastleigh in 1974-75, acted with him in O What A Lovely War. A bright guy so should know other alternatives to the C-word TBF. | | | |
| George Galloway on 23:58 - Jul 2 with 1887 views | DorsetIan |
| George Galloway on 23:11 - Jul 2 by cotswoldsaint |
I'm pretty sure I was with John Sweeney at Barton Peveril 6th form college in Eastleigh in 1974-75, acted with him in O What A Lovely War. A bright guy so should know other alternatives to the C-word TBF. |
It’s where he went to school, so sounds like you did.
He is a bright guy. Very good journalist. And I imagine he chose his word very carefully. Sometimes, for emotional punch and accuracy, that’s the only word to use about someone. Reserved for the lowest of the low, but still the right word. | |
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| George Galloway on 09:13 - Jul 3 with 1826 views | Sadoldgit |
| George Galloway on 22:47 - Jul 2 by Chesham_Saint |
Sounds like you should be tuning in to GB News Soggsy.. |
It’s not for me I’m afraid Chesh. As soon as I saw the names of those involved I decided I’m out. I’ve grown up with the BBC and that will do for me (and there is only so much news I can take in a day!). | | | |
| George Galloway on 19:40 - Jul 5 with 1615 views | GasGiant |
| George Galloway on 19:45 - Jul 2 by Sadoldgit |
May and her cabinet were poor, but still better than this bunch. |
May failed in her primary objective, and floundered helplessly without a clue how to move forward. The present Government for all their incompetence and corruption can at least point to some successes. There is a tendency to always think the current Government is the "worst ever" but can you imagine how Teresa May would have coped with the Covid Crisis? She was the least able PM that I can remember. Gauche, clumsy, inept, and ultimately paralysed with indecision at the moment of destiny. | | | |
| George Galloway on 21:04 - Jul 5 with 1590 views | grumpy |
| George Galloway on 19:40 - Jul 5 by GasGiant |
May failed in her primary objective, and floundered helplessly without a clue how to move forward. The present Government for all their incompetence and corruption can at least point to some successes. There is a tendency to always think the current Government is the "worst ever" but can you imagine how Teresa May would have coped with the Covid Crisis? She was the least able PM that I can remember. Gauche, clumsy, inept, and ultimately paralysed with indecision at the moment of destiny. |
Must have been hard for her to think straight with all those knives in her back. |  | | |
| George Galloway on 21:13 - Jul 5 with 1581 views | Sadoldgit |
| George Galloway on 19:40 - Jul 5 by GasGiant |
May failed in her primary objective, and floundered helplessly without a clue how to move forward. The present Government for all their incompetence and corruption can at least point to some successes. There is a tendency to always think the current Government is the "worst ever" but can you imagine how Teresa May would have coped with the Covid Crisis? She was the least able PM that I can remember. Gauche, clumsy, inept, and ultimately paralysed with indecision at the moment of destiny. |
I haven’t seen any comments about May from insiders that cast her in the sort of light that the comments from Cummings and others paint Johnson. | | | |
| George Galloway on 21:44 - Jul 5 with 1571 views | DorsetIan |
| George Galloway on 19:40 - Jul 5 by GasGiant |
May failed in her primary objective, and floundered helplessly without a clue how to move forward. The present Government for all their incompetence and corruption can at least point to some successes. There is a tendency to always think the current Government is the "worst ever" but can you imagine how Teresa May would have coped with the Covid Crisis? She was the least able PM that I can remember. Gauche, clumsy, inept, and ultimately paralysed with indecision at the moment of destiny. |
Her problem was that she made the wrong decision. She tried with her 'Brexit means Brexit' nonsense to placate the loony-toons in her party but then failed to deliver the hard Brexit that they wanted.
She was politically naive (calling that early election was also really dumb) but would she have dealt with Covid better than Johnson, that's a silly question. Of course she would. Pretty much anyone else would have dealt with it better. Johnson has been an absolute disaster. He clings to the 'vaccine roll out' as his get out jail card for everything, but he has otherwise blundered his way through the whole thing, leaving total incompetent Gavin Williamson in post, not sacking Hancock, being directly responsible for two Covid waves because of his dithering. And now he's basically given up and is letting the thing rip.
Johnson is a clown. How else can he be described? | |
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| George Galloway on 22:14 - Jul 5 with 1564 views | Saintsforeverj |
| George Galloway on 21:44 - Jul 5 by DorsetIan |
Her problem was that she made the wrong decision. She tried with her 'Brexit means Brexit' nonsense to placate the loony-toons in her party but then failed to deliver the hard Brexit that they wanted.
She was politically naive (calling that early election was also really dumb) but would she have dealt with Covid better than Johnson, that's a silly question. Of course she would. Pretty much anyone else would have dealt with it better. Johnson has been an absolute disaster. He clings to the 'vaccine roll out' as his get out jail card for everything, but he has otherwise blundered his way through the whole thing, leaving total incompetent Gavin Williamson in post, not sacking Hancock, being directly responsible for two Covid waves because of his dithering. And now he's basically given up and is letting the thing rip.
Johnson is a clown. How else can he be described? |
You could describe him as the leader with the biggest Tory majority since Thatcher. Or the only leader to turn Labour seats Tory for the first time ever since records began. That would be a fact ofcourse rather than an opinion. Or maybe a powerful clown or a popular clown. Interestingly, he still leads the polls. [Post edited 5 Jul 2021 22:16]
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| George Galloway on 22:22 - Jul 5 with 1553 views | grumpy |
| George Galloway on 22:14 - Jul 5 by Saintsforeverj |
You could describe him as the leader with the biggest Tory majority since Thatcher. Or the only leader to turn Labour seats Tory for the first time ever since records began. That would be a fact ofcourse rather than an opinion. Or maybe a powerful clown or a popular clown. Interestingly, he still leads the polls. [Post edited 5 Jul 2021 22:16]
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Is the Majority always right? | | | |
| George Galloway on 22:26 - Jul 5 with 1548 views | Saintsforeverj |
| George Galloway on 22:22 - Jul 5 by grumpy |
Is the Majority always right? |
The majority is how most people feel. What is "right" for one person is wrong to another. The people decide and the majority has it. That's democracy. | |
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| George Galloway on 22:30 - Jul 5 with 1545 views | Bazza |
| George Galloway on 22:22 - Jul 5 by grumpy |
Is the Majority always right? |
Yes it’s called a democracy.
Very few clear thinking people think May would have achieved a better Brexit. In any case Boris wasn’t doing the negotiation he wisely delegated to others more capable. | | | |
| George Galloway on 22:34 - Jul 5 with 1542 views | Saintsforeverj |
| George Galloway on 22:30 - Jul 5 by Bazza |
Yes it’s called a democracy.
Very few clear thinking people think May would have achieved a better Brexit. In any case Boris wasn’t doing the negotiation he wisely delegated to others more capable. |
Clearly, the majority thought Boris would do a much better job than May. Just compare the two elections. And as it turned out Boris got a free trade deal that everyone said we couldn't get, and May didn't get one, so in this case, the majority certainly were right. | |
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| George Galloway on 22:44 - Jul 5 with 1538 views | Sadoldgit |
| George Galloway on 22:22 - Jul 5 by grumpy |
Is the Majority always right? |
A majority is a majority, nothing more. It has nothing to do with right and wrong which is usually a matter of opinion. Just because more people think something is right or wrong, it doesn’t make it so. Take Brexit for example. There is no right or wrong in staying in the EU, there is just an opinion on which is preferable. | | | |
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