The General Election in the United Kingdom

[TheTeapot]

Rishi is about to call it. Exciting times. I've illegally tuned in to the British Broadcasting Corporation to watch him squirm out his announcement. It's raining and people are shouting.

[La Colombe]

Thank fuck for that, we should finally be rid of this absolute rabble for a generation.

[TheTeapot]

Here we go!

[La Colombe]

What's with the music! 

[TheTeapot]

That's quite funny

[La Colombe]

Let's watch as these scumbags tear each other apart. 

[La Colombe]

Ah, it's New Labours Things Can Only etc... Ha ha!

[La Colombe]

He's getting fucking soaked too. 

[TheTeapot]

Day before Tynwald day for the election then. Next 6 weeks will be crackers in the press. 

[x-in-man]

Got myself a postal vote now .. Oh, hang on .. the post is shit these days isn't it.

[Mr. Sausages]

 

[Declan]

July 4th - Tory's out

July 5th - Isle of Man bank holiday weekend

Let's party like it's 1997

[P.K.]

Switched the box on just in time to see Sunak make his announcement. What followed was a gut-wrenching blather of "Isn't Rishi wonderful" and so forth. Entertaining as it was to see him getting soaked it was so cringeworthy I turned it off.

It seems to me that the election has been called because Sunak, like Cameron before him, is running scared of "The Brexit Party" funded by the appalling Richard Tice.

So the UK's version of democracy drops to a new low...

 

[Gizo]

Cold War Steve is wank

[Declan]

This is hilarious...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-69051032

He gets wetter and wetter as the speech turns to how he's steered the country through dark times. Then the music starts from the ghost of Peter Mandelson's boombox. And his big anti-Labour line is "the future can only be uncertain" but thart doesn't matter because things can only get better.

Edited May 22, 2024 by Declan