Politics Thread 7: THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER - General Election 04/07/24

[KK]

Nadhim Zahawi has announced his next role after confirming he will stand down at the next election.

Last week Mr Zahawi joined the exodus of Tory MPs standing down at the election, which is expected to be held this autumn.

The former chancellor has now been appointed chair of online retailer Very Group, which owns Very and Littlewoods.

He will replace interim chair Aidan Barclay at the company which is part of the Barclay family’s business empire.

The Barclays have owned Very Group since 2002, but the business recently swung to a half-year loss and was forced to secure £125 million in new debt funding from Carlyle Global Credit and IMI.

The Very Group said in a statement that Mr Zahawi would work with the directors and management team to explore expanding the business in new areas.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 43987.html

Well at least we know one of the next retailers to go bust…

[Moggy]

That's nice for him, I was worrying how he'd afford to keep his horses warm once he'd left parliament.

[Tomous]

strawberry float me, she's lost it

[KK]

Gimme Hope Joanna.

[Squinty]

She should just get off X. I feel like this would benefit everyone including her.

[Moggy]

strawberry float me, she's lost it

You can tell that she's fallen down into the far right internet as she has a dog in her profile pic. Not all pet lovers are fascists, but most fascists love displaying animal pictures in their profiles.

[Squinty]

Pretty sure her dog is a fascist.

[Victor Mildew]

She should just get off X. I feel like this would benefit everyone including her.

Everyone should get off twitter.

[Qikz]

She should just get off X. I feel like this would benefit everyone including her.

She couldn't live knowing she couldn't peddle her hatred constantly.

[KK]

Everyone should get off twitter.

Unless you want to see very graphic imagery of death and injury or are looking for a new OnlyFans account to blow your inheritance on, in which case it's brilliant. Sign up now.

[Skarjo]

strawberry float me, she's lost it

You can tell that she's fallen down into the far right internet as she has a dog in her profile pic. Not all pet lovers are fascists, but most fascists love displaying animal pictures in their profiles.

Didn’t we literally have a whole conversation a while back about the feasibility of turning a dog into a right wing dog (ha) whistle.

What have we done.

[BID0]

Greens are targeting 4 seats for the general election: Brighton, Bristol, Waveney Valley, and North Herefordshire.

They're looking for help this weekend and next month if anyone lives in those areas and wants to do some walking.

[Moggy]

Greens are targeting 4 seats for the general election: Brighton, Bristol, Waveney Valley, and North Herefordshire.

They're looking for help this weekend and next month if anyone lives in those areas and wants to do some walking.

Can I drive instead?

[BID0]

Greens are targeting 4 seats for the general election: Brighton, Bristol, Waveney Valley, and North Herefordshire.

They're looking for help this weekend and next month if anyone lives in those areas and wants to do some walking.

Can I drive instead?

No it's not Green.

[more heat than light]

Remember when she pretended to be a dude to publish her non-Harry Potter books?

Her other book series is written under the name "Robert Galbraith".

Friendly reminder that name choice wasn't an accident.

Robert Galbraith Heath (May 9, 1915 – September 21, 1999) was an American psychiatrist.[1][2] He followed the theory of biological psychiatry, which holds that organic defects are the sole source of mental illness,[3] and that consequently mental problems are treatable by physical means. He published 425 papers and three books.[4][5][6] One of his first papers is dated 1946.[7] He was profiled as a "famous American psychiatrist" in 1983 by Psychiatric Annals.[8]

Heath founded the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University, New Orleans, in 1949 and remained its chairman until 1980.[4][9][10] He performed many experiments there involving electrical stimulation of the brain via surgically implanted electrodes. He placed deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes into the brains of more than 54 patients.[11][12][13][14] Indeed, he has been cited as the first, or one of the first, researcher(s) to have placed electrodes deep into the brains of living human patients.[15][1] It has been suggested that this work was financed in part by the government, particularly the CIA or U.S. military.[16][17][18]

In 1972, he claimed to have converted a homosexual man to heterosexuality using DBS.[13][19] Heath also experimented with psychosurgery, the drug bulbocapnine to induce stupor, and LSD,[20][21][22] using African-American prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary as experimental subjects.[23] He worked on schizophrenia patients, which he regarded as an illness with a physical basis.[24] Today Heath's work is considered highly controversial and is only rarely used as reference material.[1][25][26]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath

[Moggy]

Greens are targeting 4 seats for the general election: Brighton, Bristol, Waveney Valley, and North Herefordshire.

They're looking for help this weekend and next month if anyone lives in those areas and wants to do some walking.

Can I drive instead?

No it's not Green.

Actually my current car is green, it was my previous car that was blue.

[BID0]

Greens are targeting 4 seats for the general election: Brighton, Bristol, Waveney Valley, and North Herefordshire.

They're looking for help this weekend and next month if anyone lives in those areas and wants to do some walking.

Can I drive instead?

No it's not Green.

Actually my current car is green, it was my previous car that was blue.

That would be acceptable in that case

[site23]

strawberry float me, she's lost it

She is a horrible bigot, and unfortunately, the reason she feels emboldened to say such things so plainly now - rather than couched in the journalistic language she would use even a year ago - is that her movement is now gaining real political power in this country. For example, here is a 'charity' she supports which advocates for transphobia boasting about meeting with Labour high-ups:

twitter.com/AllianceLGB/status/1790377849708314739

[Moggy]

strawberry float me, she's lost it

She is a horrible bigot, but unfortunately, the reason she feels emboldened to say such things so plainly now - rather than couched in the journalistic language she would use even a year ago - is that her movement is now gaining real political power in this country. For example, here is a 'charity' she supports which advocates for transphobia boasting about meeting with Labour high-ups:

twitter.com/AllianceLGB/status/1790377849708314739

I used to read or watch stuff about the 50s to the 80s and often wonder "how the strawberry float did people believe such nonsense?". The communist panic, gay panic, etc, it always seemed crazy that people fell for such obvious nonsense.

In the 30s you had people actually voting for a wrong 'un like Hitler. "Oh but they didn't know what he was like!", HE WROTE IT ALL IN A strawberry floating BOOK!

Even further back in time and you read about doctors refusing to wash their hands or people wearing flowers to ward off the Black Death. Idiots!

Being a teenager in the 90s, all of that seemed like the past, we still had dickheads but they were a dying breed and we were moving on to a much more tolerant and rational future.

And then the last couple of decades have taught me just how easy it is to manipulate a lot of people into believing a load of rubbish. The trans moral panic, the panic over Islam, Covid deniers, Trump/Johnson/Farage/"Tommy Robinson", 5G lunatics and even a resurgence of people believing in the Earth being flat.

People are just stupid banana splits. They always have been and always will be.

[Lex-Man]

I guess it was more America but wasn't the whole panic about music in the 90s.