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What we need is someone you could happily have a beer down the pub with.
We live in a world where we look at screens that have sophisticated algorithms that tell us all day that life is shit and the government are to blame. In the old days you'd pick up a morning paper on the way to work, read the sport and, if it was a long one, read about some shite whilst having a shite at 10 and have forgotten about it by lunchtime (by which time you had forgotten that you'd been told life was shite). You'd then pick up the E&D or Evening Mail on the way home to read the sport (and jobs on a Thursday).
If people genuinely think that Reform are the answer then I'm glad I'm moving into retirement.
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Good post baggy 1
Not many that could meet for a beer and say anything interesting or off message.
There are the loons- Farage, Jenrick, Badenough
The boring robots- virtually the whole PLP
Who is left?
I think anyone who might be suitable to have a beer and a laugh with in the pub would have been screened out by party mp candidate selection process. Might as well put up cardboard cut outs for election and programme them to speak for 5 years using AI.
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Unless Labour do something about ‘illegal migration’ they will lose the next election whether those that want to hear this or not it doesn’t matter.
Closing hotels and then moving people into HMO’s in the community will make the problems worse for Labour. Other than that I have no idea what their answer is.
Mirror the well known Tory rag ran a poll just before Christmas and the issue is miles ahead of the NHS and Cost of Living.
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01-07-2026, 02:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-07-2026, 02:00 PM by Baggiejacko.)
There's a big misconception that migrants are put into hotels and hmo's because they haven't been processed. The main reason for the majority is that there aren't any houses or flats for them or anyone else. The current waiting list for council housing is up to about 1.5 million. Process them as quick as you like, there isn't a secret empty Narnia for them. Blame who or what you like for the shortage it won't improve the situation. That's real not AI
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Here are the 'headlines' on the MSN feed that defaults at work:
'Treated worse than terrorists' - Kemi Badenoch lays into Labours treatment of veterans
'Farage: Sadiq Khan's ULEZ scheme is an absolute disgrace'
'Kremlin slams 'illiterate fool' Starmer'
'Labour wants to scrap offensive term for motability scooters'
'Keir Starmer forced to admit humiliating Trump snub as PM is palmed off'
'Final straw: Farage blasts BBC ... over plant audience member'
'MOJ spends £100m keeping open radioactive prison with no inmates'
'Fury as council spends £15,000 removing ST Georges flags from lamp posts'
'Labour minister shut down on GMB...'
and on and on