Election 2024

[St Chads Lad]

Limp Dum manifesto, if anyone can be bothered. 

Make misogyny a hate crime.
Give every disabled person the right to work from home if they want to, unless there are significant business reasons why it is not possible. So no one goes into work…
Ending the gender price gap so that women are not charged more than men for practically identical products or services marketed at them. The “gender price gap” is largely an invention of breathless campaigners…
Reform the gender recognition process to remove the requirement for medical reports, recognise non-binary identities in law, and remove the spousal veto. How will the LibDems decide which non-binary identities to recognise?
Requiring large employers to monitor and publish data on gender, ethnicity, disability, and LGBT+ employment levels, pay gaps and progression, and publish five-year aspirational diversity targets. Forcing employees to report their sexuality to their boss doesn’t sound too liberal…
Giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in UK general elections and referendums, and local elections in England. It’ll be 14 year-olds soon enough…
Enabling all UK citizens living abroad to vote for MPs in separate overseas constituencies, and to participate in UK referendums. So we can get an MP for the south of France?
Restoring to Parliament – instead of the Prime Minister alone – the power to call and set the date of an early general election. Parliamentary rebellions would have much higher stakes…
Establishing national and local citizens’ assemblies to ensure that the public are fully engaged in finding solutions to the greatest challenges we face, such as tackling the climate emergency and the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms by the state.
Introduce new rules to ensure that a Prime Minister must have served for at least one year before becoming eligible to access the Public Duty Cost Allowance fund. Arbitrary…
Ensure that Ministers receive annual training to prevent sleaze. Imagine that classroom…
Requiring that all Ministers’ instant-messaging conversations involving government business must be placed on the departmental record. Ensuring that a record of all lobbying of Ministers via instant messages, emails, letters and phone calls is published as part of quarterly transparency releases. That would make for entertaining reading…
Mandating the provision of televised leaders’ debates in general elections, based on rules produced by Ofcom.
Creating a distinct legal jurisdiction for Wales to reflect the growing divergence in law as a result of devolution. Pointless…
Taking initial unilateral steps to rebuild the relationship with the EU, starting by declaring a fundamental change in the UK’s approach and improving channels for foreign policy cooperation – seeking to join the Single Market.
Encourage employers to promote employee ownership by giving staff in listed companies with more than 250 employees a right to request shares, to be held in trust for the benefit of employees. Sounds like it would be just as easy to reject those requests…
Ensure that all large companies have a formal statement of corporate purpose, including considerations such as employee welfare, environmental standards, community benefit and ethical practice, alongside benefit to shareholders, and that they report formally on the wider impact of the business on society and the environment. Just as the corporate world starts to turn against ESG the LibDems want to enshrine it in law…
Setting a 20% higher minimum wage for people on zero-hour contracts at times of normal demand to compensate them for the uncertainty of fluctuating hours of work. Who decides “normal demand”?
Immediately requiring all new homes and non-domestic buildings to be built to a zero-carbon standard, including being fitted with solar panels, and progressively increasing standards as technology improves.
Requiring all large companies listed on UK stock exchanges to set targets consistent with achieving the net zero goal, and to report on their progress.
Taking an evidence-led approach to preventing and treating eating disorders, and challenging damaging stigma about weight. Are they going to make “fatphobia” a crime?
Extending the soft drinks levy to juice-based and milk-based drinks that are high in added sugar. The apple juice and milkshake tax?
Appoint a Cabinet Minister for Children and Young People. More politicians is never the answer…
Introducing a ‘Toddler Top-Up’: an enhanced rate of Child Benefit for one-year olds.
Tackle child poverty by removing the two-child limit and the benefit cap. A gargantuan expansion of the benefits bill…
Creating a new Online Crime Agency to effectively tackle illegal content and activity online, such as personal fraud, revenge porn and threats and incitement to violence on social media. Cybercops…
Giving local environmental groups a place on water companies’ boards. That’ll be entertaining…
Requiring large businesses to publish transition plans to become nature positive across their activities and supply chains. Drowning in paperwork – poor trees…
Introducing a deposit return scheme for food and drink bottles and containers. Replicating the SNP’s disastrous failed scheme in Scotland…
Aiming for the complete elimination of non-recyclable single-use plastics within three years and replacing them with affordable alternatives.
Improving standards of animal health and welfare in agriculture, including a ban on caged hens. Make chicken expensive again…
Giving local authorities, including National Park Authorities, the powers to end Right to Buy in their areas. Expect Rayner to hit back hard on this one…
Reforming the taxation of international flights to focus on those who fly the most, while reducing costs for ordinary households who take one or two international return flights per year.
Banning short domestic flights where a direct rail option taking less than 2.5 hours is available for the same journey, unless planes are alternative-fuelled. That’ll fix crowded trains…
Placing a moratorium on net airport expansion until a national capacity and emissions management framework is in place, and opposing the expansion of Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted or London City airports and any new airport in the Thames Estuary. The NIMBY paradise…
Require at least 80% of on-demand TV content to be subtitled, 10% audio-described and 5% signed.
Requiring all football clubs to have equality, diversity and inclusion action plans.
Establish a firewall to prevent public agencies from sharing personal information with the Home Office for the purposes of immigration enforcement and repeal the immigration exemption in the Data Protection Act. Once they’re in, make sure we lose them…

[celeste]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news


A man has been charged with using threatening behaviour after objects were thrown at the Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage.
The incident occurred while Mr Farage was on an open-top bus, campaigning in Barnsley in South Yorkshire on Tuesday.

Police said Josh Greally, 28, had been charged with using threatening, abusive, insulting words and behaviour with intent to cause fear.
He has been released on bail to appear before Barnsley Magistrates' Court on 26 June.
A man in a red hoodie could be seen shouting from a construction area, before reaching into a bucket and throwing objects, both of which missed.
Mr Farage, speaking while campaigning in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, said the incident was "pretty nasty".


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[St Chads Lad]

This is the new democracy, a politician legitimately standing for election is 'advised by the police' to not leave his campaign bus over fears for his safety, this is what the leftards do since the liebour party's flirtation with Corbyn, it's student politics and the left are riven with it.


 

[St Chads Lad]

One things for sure, on 5th July after Smarmer & co take over there won't be any 'far right' masked mobs running amok destroying things and burning our cities.

[ExileSteve]

The Hit Pieces Start
June 4, 2024 Longrider General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Political, sophistry 2


Nigel Farage is getting under their skin at the Guardian.


Reform UK’s leader, who is also its majority shareholder, has influence over rightwing, socially conservative voters. That frightens the Tories, some of whose supporters like the sound of Mr Farage’s antediluvian views. His parties have fomented rage, paranoia and xenophobia. He can claim to have been responsible in large part for Britain’s departure from the EU, a historic mistake for which this country continues to pay a heavy price. His Brexit party’s indirect electoral impact, say academics, was substantial: in splitting the leave vote in Labour seats, Mr Farage cost the Conservatives around 25 gains from Labour in 2017.


And so the [censored] starts. What these cretins seem unable to grasp is that his views are shared by decent people across the country. There are not antediluvian, they are rational and reasonable. But never mind, just scatter the usual far left buzzwords and hope a few of them stick, eh?


As for Brexit being a failure, this is not down to Farage, but those tasked with implementing it.


. Mr Farage’s blatant racism at the start of the campaign – claiming that Muslims lack British values – should ring alarm bells.


Muslims do not share British values. This is an objective statement of observable fact. Certainly alarm bells are ringing as scenes such as those in Batley play out. Pointing out this truth is not racism, because Islam is not a race. It is a totalitarian ideology that is the antithesis of British values.


However, with the former Tory prime minister Liz Truss appearing on far-right YouTube shows…


This is a reference to the Lotus Eaters. Jess Phillips complained to Sunak about this appearance, because Carl Benjamin once made an off colour joke at her expense and she is still butt hurt about it. However, the Lotus Eaters is not far right. To say that it is, is a falsehood, but this is the Guardian, so lying is par for the course. These vile [censored] never let facts, reason or truth get in the way of their prejudice and bigotry.


That they are openly attacking Farage and Reform tells us that they are worried. Personally, I’m not over optimistic. Nige has a decent chance of taking Clacton, but our system is a mountain for new parties, so at best, a handful of seats, I suspect.


But have you noticed that no one seems to be talking about the Lib Dems?


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The way I see it, in my humble opinion, is that if the signs and portents are genuine and true then we might see Reform doing rather well at the expense of the fake Conservatives. Reform will win few (if any) seats, but if they can precipitate the downfall of the Tories they will be providing the country with an invaluable gift; the complete annihilation of this organisation, and it's replacement with a new and credible opposition to Labour, ls essential if we are to have any chance of saving what remains of Great Britain.


I have a fantasy revolving around the fake Conservatives finishing up, not only with zero seats, but also with a lost deposit in every constituency. It won't happen of course, but it is a lovely dream nevertheless.......🥰

[Parky]

David Cameron says that Farrage is out to destroy the Tory party , i think him and his chums have made a pretty good job of it themselves

[celeste]

This is the new democracy, a politician legitimately standing for election is 'advised by the police' to not leave his campaign bus over fears for his safety, this is what the leftards do since the liebour party's flirtation with Corbyn, it's student politics and the left are riven with it.

Whoever they are they don't understand the meaning of democracy which are soldiers gave their lives for in two world wars,  deplorable behaviour.

[St Chads Lad]

Rishi Sunak: Only the Conservatives can protect you from the Axis of Evil that threaten us
Only the Conservatives can be trusted to keep Britain safe in the face of a more dangerous world, writes Prime Minister Rishi Sunak


https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1911702/rishi-sunak-defence-conservative-party


  Is this sparrow boned soy boy serious? The criminals in the HoP have been poking the bear along with NATO and their EU chums for years and now we could be looking at a major world conflict, and for what? To protect Zelensky, and in doing so they have exposed us to extreme danger, the Ruskies are winning in Ukraine, the msm won't tell you that,  NATO forces are operating on the ground there already, the war has begun.

[celeste]

They are all scrutinising each other,  one false move - NATO prevented a deal a few years ago.
We don't know what sort of weapons Iran has or their allies - we cannot afford to enter a war.

[celeste]

Labour focuses on banking hubs and Tories focus on farming.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgeekd4nzvkt

[lozflan]

Vote for the Dull Party,their Manifesto is full of dull stuff. Yes I know its a hard choice.

[Parky]

If there is a killjoy party it has to be the greens

[celeste]

Sir Keir Starmer does not rule out changes to council tax rates in his plans for government, during an election phone-in on LBC in which he's also pressed on private schools and Brexit

The Labour leader repeats his manifesto pledge that there would be no increased rates of income tax, National Insurance or VAT

Co-leader of the Greens Adrian Ramsay is pressed on his party's tax pledges by BBC Radio 5 Live listeners. He accuses the Conservatives and Labour of carrying out a "conspiracy of silence" over investment

Earlier the Conservatives hit out at Labour for "treating rural communities with contempt" by not including a promise to maintain the farming budget in its manifesto

Elsewhere, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is launching the party's election manifesto in Edinburgh.

[St Chads Lad]

Not in My Name: New Campaign Urging People Not to Vote on July 4th
BY ERNEST A 18 JUNE 2024 1:00 PM


Are you tired of the same old party politics that have dominated our country for far too long? The Not in My Name campaign offers a vision for political reform.


The objective is clear: reduce voter turnout for the established parties – Labour, Tories, and the rest – to a mere 30%, sending a powerful message that 70% of the electorate is fed up with the current self-serving, anti-democratic system. If successful, this will pave the way for significant political reform, starting with a petition to the King, urging the establishment of a Royal Commission to devise a new, more democratic system.


Political parties have become parasites, living off the general population while fostering division and injustice. They thrive on partisanship, caring more about their own survival than the well-being of the nation. As stated in our campaign document, “Political parties are cancers, as they seek to insidiously impose their beliefs on those who, if it wasn’t for government compulsion, would have no truck with them.” It’s time to change this. As citizens, we should not demean ourselves by voting for parties that hold us in contempt.


The campaign document outlines 18 arguments against the current political system, from the undemocratic nature of party politics to the wasteful infighting that costs us all dearly. It highlights how small groups of party members make decisions for millions, leading to a lack of true representation – 170,000 Tories, 300,000 Labourites, and 90,000 Lib-Dems shouldn’t control 70 million lives.


The campaign calls for key reforms such as ending public subsidies for political parties, capping political donations and ensuring MPs vote according to their conscience rather than party lines.


If you want things to keep getting worse, then vote Labour or Tory or any of the rest – vote for those who have made things as they are. If you want change though, if you want things to get better, don’t vote!


But this is not just about not voting; it’s about reclaiming our democracy and insisting on a political system that truly serves the people.
   

[lozflan]

How many seats are the Workers Party contesting?
Mrs Loz cant stand to look at G.G s face so did'nt get manifesto.[on tv]