Had a couple of replies on a post about Reform thought it was about to kick-off but looks like I dodged a bullet. Had a post a few weeks ago with hundreds of reposts saying we can't stop talking about elections and they decided it was about them...the replies were mental
Left X after the GE!
Rightly so
Never talk to American's on here my god what were you thinking 😞
Well there you go, you don't know you just suspect.
Oh god that sinking feeling when a little ol' post starts to get noticed by Americans who obviously think it's about them and their bin fire because don't they always.
(Your view is not silly, I'm just trying to say to you that there's a view of what socially conservative people are like on here and then there's a different reality in many, many instances. Easy to make assumptions, that's all 🙂).
Why? Because socially conservative people are a bit racist? Genuinely don't understand what you mean by that.
Well that sounds a bit too reasonable for on here, Ian 😏
The Murton council by-election was a huge victory for Labour last night but we've been warned not to read too much into it if you're interested.
Former human rights lawyer believes it's right to handcuff kids to remove them from the UK if necessary? Nah don't believe you matey.
When Keir Starmer is asked in an interview about the more controversial aspects of his asylum/immigration policy he will either dodge the question or give and unconvincing answer. Pisses of your supporters and doesn't convince those you want to appeal to who know you don't actually believe in it.
Heating oil prices have more than doubled in the UK since war broke out: that’s 4.5m people living off gas grid, no they haven’t all got Agas, and in places like Cumbria and Scottish islands that’s a lot of anxious pensioners. (Difference with post-Ukraine is oil as well as gas spiking this time)
Precisely and if you saying something racist about an ethnic group or whatever you're not 'socially conservative', you're a racist. You're in danger of stereotyping a group of people wrongly in the same way I would be wrongly doing so on my antisemitism example.
Labour peaceniks fear Britain will be dragged into “another Iraq” but nothing could be further from the truth www.independent.co.uk/voices/starm...
Keir Starmer knows what Tony Blair learned too late – which is that military action abroad is a bad idea if it is strongly opposed by public opinion at home
Right, but what do you mean by that? Because I've had 'progressive' friends who were very much 'oh when we talk about Israel in front of your Jewish partner we were not suggesting it was about *him*.... so lets not pretend all is always rosey in this garden cos it's not.
And that the idea is, what, all socially conservative voters would obviously vote Reform? Again, a big fat no, actually.
Something that's really starting to piss me off is there are *some* people on here (and in government which *really* pisses me off) who seem to think that there are only 2 types of voters - progressives and then Reform voters. No, actually.
Sorry just get a bit irritated with this idea that only progressive voters could possibly understand the implications of this kind of policy and everyone else would have to find out the hard way. Why's that then?
Nah if you told someone the government plan to put kids in handcuffs and drag them onto planes there's a very good chance they'd be appalled progressive or not. That kind of thinking isn't just limited to so called 'progressives'.
Also can someone ask Badenoch to point out where Iran is on the map, she's keen on shit like that isn't she?
Btw, seen as the tories are desperate to try and score cheap points on Iran I'll join in and point out the last tory PM had to go on tv and plead for forgiveness for leaving the 80th D-Day commemorations early.
Yeah exactly, not gonna work with any group of voters.
Yes we need to be ready to defend ourselves and take action if we need to, but being war ready in the current climate creates a whole different image for voters. One they really, really do not like.
Very happy for Badenoch to parade around as many tv studios as she likes talking about getting Britain 'war ready'.
I didn't think you were having a go at me either, group hugs all round lol
I know I wasn't having a go at him it was a wider point, as you noted.
I know James is not doing this, but it sometimes it feels a bit like only progressive voters are the "good guys" here and that everyone else just can't wait for a bit of cruelty to children and or adults. Not so
Btw, it's not just 'progressives' who will find this appalling plenty of socially conservative voters will do too.
