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Seen today, an American joke that’s new to me.
AWFLs — affluent, white, female liberals.
Germany on elections:
Party I don’t like is going to win elections so ban party.
Germany are doing the right thing, and not before time.
Simply calling people and parties with unacceptable views Nazis and Fascists has failed totally. This is due to misinformation and disinformation. The masses, usually uneducated cannot comprehend that they’re voting for genuine Nazis.
By putting an official Nazi label on the AfD, the masses will now see clearly and stop voting for AfD.
Too late to stop the Reform surge in the UK, but at least Starmer has a template to follow.
Vorsprung Durch Technik
The masses, usually uneducated cannot comprehend…
You are Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and I claim my five pounds.
Lenin would have known what to do
Can someone call Jack C’s nurse – the meds have clearly worn off.
OT
The government has taken the opportunity off the MSM being distracted to publish its assisted
suicidedying impact assessment today.A good day to bury bad news?
Brilliant /sarc by Jack C
Jack C – lol
Some thoughts from Prof Curtice, the famous election numberwanger:
Never before has a pro-Brexit party candidate won a by-election, other than two local Tory MPs who defected to Ukip in 2014.
and
The party performed best in wards which voted heavily for Leave in the 2016 referendum. Yet even in places which voted to remain in the EU, the party was still routinely able to win as much as a fifth of the vote.
The party seemed able across the country to tap into voters’ widespread dissatisfaction with the Conservatives and Labour.
But wait, there’s more!
In the BBC’s projection of what would have happened if a nationwide election had been held on Thursday, Reform were credited with 30% of the vote. That easily beats the 23% that Ukip scored at the height of their popularity in 2013. It is the first time that a party other than Conservative or Labour has been placed first.
What if… everything’s going to be fine?
Jack C: «By putting an official Nazi label on »
It’s the “official” that makes this contribution priceless.
Re a recent conversation in the comments.
Shock horror!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/02/assisted-dying-bill-impact-assessment-report/
In 10 years Assisted dying ‘will kill as many as 4,500 people a year
0.76% of total deaths in a year. It’s a rounding figure. Less than the NHS manages through negligence.
And 4.5k was the upper band of the estimate
I didn’t fight two World Wars to add /sarc in surely unnecessary places
Well played, Jack. I was on the verge of apoplexy.
BiS – how many abortions per year did David Steel promise?
Jack C said:
“ an official Nazi label”
Would that be a Hugo Boss one?
@Steve
It’s difficult to see the comparison. You expecting people to have multiple suicides? Topping themselves after an unwise fumble after a few too many.
But to me they’re both a matter of personal choice. I don’t like assholes telling me what I can & can’t do.
BiS – no, I’m expecting this to end up being a lot more deadly than anyone in Westminster will admit to. They promised us abortion would be rare.
Categories will be fudged, protections will be weakened, evil doctors will take advantage and in 20 years or so, it’ll become a massive national scandal and the people who brought this legislation forward will pretend they didn’t. Like Swedish eugenics or transorbital lobotomies, this will be seen as a shameful crime of a wicked age.
Suicide isn’t a matter of choice for most suicidees, these are deeply hurt people who just want the pain to stop, and aren’t in their right mind so they try to kill themselves. Canada is promising to extend state provisioned euthanasia to the mentally ill…
You see this as a “don’t tell me what to do, DAAAAD” issue. I see it as murder.
“And 4.5k was the upper band of the estimate”
Remind me again how many Eastern Europeans the geniuses in government told us would come to the UK after the expansion of the EU eastwards in 2004.
They promised us abortion would be rare.
Who’d they promise Steve & why? It was a sop to the anti-abortionists.To get the legislation through.
As far as I’m concerned every woman should have choice on whether she should have an abortion. And each abortion that has occurred was a woman’s choice. So if there have been a lot of abortions there have been a lot of choices made. What’s your problem? You don’t like people choosing differently from you?