Bring it on Elon!

Even if Musk gets favourable terms on setting up a giga-factory here, it can only be good news for the country compared to the fiscally-illiterate codswallop we have in charge at the moment...

Just listening to Farage on GB News tonight relating how the world's biggest industrialists are flocking to Trump with offers of jobs and investment gives you an idea of what we're missing out on with our high tax stupidity...

Maybe someone could explain to me why the very people that rejoiced in us leaving the EU because it was run by ‘unelected bureaucrats’ ( who actually were elected but let’s not let the truth get in the way of fiction) are now happy for us to be controlled by Musk and Trump?

MayBee70

I find threads like this sickening to be honest…

Oh blimey. Well jog on then 🙄

Suspending local elections seems to me to be perfectly valid grounds for genuine grievance against the incumbent government: particularly when all the indications are that Reform would do well and Labour would suffer at said elections.

flappergirl

FGT and JudyBloom, be careful what you wish for. Just saying.

My thoughts exactly...

Do not keep smearing Reform for their success and appeal when it is the Labour party who are wrong at present and who are damaging the country and established political system.

To continue in this vein is insulting to those of us who can see, very clearly, that the direction of travel needs to change. You are pushing us towards Reform, not away from it, with your slurs!

No mention from the BBC (yet) about the proposals re cancelling some council elections next may. Strange that. Or maybe not.

MayBee70

I find threads like this sickening to be honest…

Maybe best not to look at them

I find threads like this sickening to be honest…

Labour and the Liberals and a lot of the Tories, are the adults in the room, the right sort of people, the clever types, the enlightened ones, the philosopher kings, there to save the benighted befuddled lumpen masses from themselves.

That's why, the last time the twerps - of which I'm one - had the nerve to vote the wrong way, Brexit, that's why the better people went crazy, trying every legal lawyer liar three card trick in parliament and in the courts, whilst more of their number painted their faces yellow and blue and wore silly clothes outside parliament, and brought their dog along for good measure (the wooferendum). And Starmer was, don't forget, the shadow minister in charge of thwarting Brexit.

So, yes if they know they're going to lose, I fully believe they'll go into cheat mode to stop an electoral meltdown.
They've got form.

May next year? Gerrymandering by any other name don’t you think?

What price democracy now Mr. Starmer? You’re tanking it in the polls, you know it so Something Has to be Done.

Saw this on Instagram …

FGT and JudyBloom, be careful what you wish for. Just saying.

Well yes petra 'better the devil you know' springs to mind.

I couldn’t care less one way or the other 🤷‍♀️ But at least we know who we are dealing with.
What concerns me more is the fact that no concerns have been raised in parliament over the illicit flow of Russian money pouring into the uk.
£100 million is small Change compared to the above.

It's a valid thread Fleurpepper and is always much better to play the ball not the man and TBH, I'm getting fed up with the personal insults on GN directed at posters whose opinions are not agreed with.

What happened to democracy. I fear we are slipping down a black hole.

You do not want Elon wrapped up in your politics, trust me.

Signed, more than half of the US

Me. 😁😁😁

Sheer provocation from FGT2- how very unpleasant.

What?

A valid thread is provocative? This is not fake news. It's true. Farage is meeting Musk at Mar-a-Lago.

And if people want to support him then that's ok.

Fleurpepper

Opinions that differ- or just the end of democracy as we know it.

Just leave you to it- just can't be asked anymore (and yes, this is how I spell it).

👋👋👋

Opinions that differ- or just the end of democracy as we know it.

Just leave you to it- just can't be asked anymore (and yes, this is how I spell it).

Smileless2012

I don't think this is good news either and I don't think that someone starting a thread should be accused of sheer provocation and being very unpleasant, just because their opinions aren't shared by others.

using the words 'bricking it' is hardly conducive to fair and pleasant debate, is it?

Excellent news!👏👏

I don't think this is good news either and I don't think that someone starting a thread should be accused of sheer provocation and being very unpleasant, just because their opinions aren't shared by others.

Grown ups - oh sure!

Whomever- how can it be legal to run a political Party as PLCand take massive donations from non UK donors?

Between 1946 and 2000, the US has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections.

... what could possibly go wrong for Democracy?