Seems ConDems have crashed down south as expected with Labour making pretty big gains. 

Be interesting to see how things pan out in Scotland but presumably given it is STV there won't be any councils where a party has overall control.  Apparently heading for the lowest turnout in years up here but then you'd hardly know there was an election on where I stay.  No posters or billboards and I only got one leaflet through my door which was Tory, which is bizarre given in my ward I'd imagine they'd do well to get even 4th on 1st preference never mind get anywhere near a seat.

 

Don't suppose it means much so far away from a GE but already had Tory MPs demanding Callmedave is more right wing after UKIP success in the south and comedy figure Lebit Opik demanding Nick Clegg resigns as leader of the Lib Dems (but seemingly stay on as Deputy PM).

Also glad to see that so far nobody has voted in favour of Mayors in various English cities. Total waste of time and money and nothing more than a celebrity driven ego trip (see B. Johnston and K. Livingston)

1 minute ago, Mason89 said:

He’s the media’s darling? FFS 🤣

Big time. 

Bottom line is he's a gay man and he can hypnotise people. You join the dots. The dirt will be there. Mountains of it. 

3 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

Swinney is the least creepy looking bloke imaginable. 
 

 

Your creep-o-meter is obviously broken.

9 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

Swinney is the least creepy looking bloke imaginable. 
 

He looks like his morning ritual is cracking one out in a layby.

10 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Big time. 

Bottom line is he's a gay man and he can hypnotise people. You join the dots. The dirt will be there. Mountains of it. 

I’m not reading anything to debunk my theory that Boomers shouldn’t vote 

Just now, Mason89 said:

I’m not reading anything to debunk my theory that Boomers shouldn’t vote 

I deliberately didn't ask you to read anything. I knew that might be too much of a challenge. I asked you to join the dots. That's something even you should be able to manage. 

1 minute ago, RicoS321 said:

He looks like his morning ritual is cracking one out in a layby.

Looks more like a cup of tea over a Sunday Post type of guy to me.  Classic FM on in the background 

Now, if you’d said that about Salmond I’d be in total agreement 
 

3 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

I deliberately didn't ask you to read anything. I knew that might be too much of a challenge. I asked you to join the dots. That's something even you should be able to manage. 

Yet here you are, still jabbing away on the keyboard 

2 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

Yet here you are, still jabbing away on the keyboard 

Can you jab with a forehead? Not so sure. 

 

4 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

Looks more like a cup of tea over a Sunday Post type of guy to me.  Classic FM on in the background 

Now, if you’d said that about Salmond I’d be in total agreement 
 

Salmond looked like a perfectly normal bloke, sort you'd find nursing a pint in your local. I met him in Byron Square. Sound lad. Wouldn't vote for him but he was extremely down to earth and ordinary. 

4 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Salmond looked like a perfectly normal bloke, sort you'd find nursing a pint in your local. I met him in Byron Square. Sound lad. Wouldn't vote for him but he was extremely down to earth and ordinary. 

Nice one. My mate is a lecturer and was told over 20 years ago by his university, not to leave him alone with any students 

Nice chap though, down to earth, type of guy you could go for a pint with 

Just now, Mason89 said:

Nice one. My mate is a lecturer and was told over 20 years ago by his university, not to leave him alone with any students 

Nice chap though, down to earth, type of guy you could go for a pint with 

Your mate is a lecturer. Wow. Impressive.

1 minute ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Your mate is a lecturer. Wow. Impressive.

That’s what you took from that? 

Just now, Mason89 said:

That’s what you took from that? 

Yes.

Apart from that I also took that you have a curious mistrust of normal heterosexual males and a deeply unfounded superiority complex. 

Salmond was a top shagger in the Craig Brown mould. One of the lads.

4 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

Yes.

Apart from that I also took that you have a curious mistrust of normal heterosexual males and a deeply unfounded superiority complex. 

Salmond was a top shagger in the Craig Brown mould. One of the lads.

Your position on what’s ‘normal’ is wildly off. 

19 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

Your position on what’s ‘normal’ is wildly off. 

My generation is the last one that really understands what normal is. 

3 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

My generation is the last one that really understands what normal is. 

That’s quite a leap from yesterday’s squashed crow post. 

This is my pick. Obviously he won't win but leaving the common market was a massive mistake. 

 

• Joseph O'Meachair (Rejoin EU Party)

I think the word 'normal' can be linked to a fuckload of the problems humans have brought upon themselves.

What is 'normal' to one person can be odd/ frustating/ scary/ criminal and so on to the next.

It opens your eyes when you suddenly find yourself as an alleged 'adult' discussing the things your family or friend groups did in the past sometimes and pieces of an eternal jigsaw start falling into place. Perhaps the rose tinted specs fall off your memories, or you suddenly develop extreme empathy for someone you didnt get on with at school.

The way humanity has and still is 'playing god' should see words like 'normal' relegated to the history books.

If you have the confidence nay arrogance to declare yourself 'normal' compared to anyone other than yourself Id say start thinking a bit more.

My birthday is closer to the second world war than to today. What exactly was 'normal' to someone my age in the 1940s?

What was 'normal' to someone my age in the 1840s?

'Normal' can be weaponised in the same way as 'tradition' is.

An excuse to hold onto something which when actually considered properly makes no sense sometimes to the detrimint of society

A device to spread division for ill gotten gains and ulterior motives

Brexit springs to mind. A catastrophic piece of self harm part of which was driven by the belief that 'modern britain' wasnt normal, and the knowledge that lots of people do things without taking even an extra 5seconds to consider.it.

The only thing Id say is 'normal' among humans is the inevitable path to self destruction through over confidence in our own abilities and an insatiable blood lust to consume until its all gone.

Be careful who you put your faith and support in and always consider 'could I handle it if what I believe and trust was ever found to be a lie/ secretly abhorrent.

If yer human you will eventually become a dickhead. The only way I see to cope with that is to endeavour to be less of a.dickhead the more you learn.

 

Anyway.politics then. Im seeing the Green bloke getting a lot of praise. Perhaps he has a bit of sense and wont send his candidates around doorstepping people with the message to protest something local  which is already too late to stop.

And finally id encourage you all to read 'private eye' occssionally. Its not online so can give yer eyes and brain a rest from 'Ziggy's box of distraction' and take comfort in turnimg a paper page

 

You should publish that as an audiobook but make sure it's narrated by someone with an interesting voice because that pretentious waffle was so boring I drifted off after a couple paragraphs.

Go you though. Go you. So many words. So little to say. 

21 minutes ago, Bukta Bertie said:

 

Go you though. Go you. So many words. So little to say. 

309 posts (and counting) in 12 days

Just on the subject of Private Eye, their weekly Lucy Letby updates are bizarre. I understand theres money to be made with the clicks but they’ve squeezed the pips out that story 

19 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

Just on the subject of Private Eye, their weekly Lucy Letby updates are bizarre. I understand theres money to be made with the clicks but they’ve squeezed the pips out that story 

Some people may have said that in 2011 when they started digging into fujitsu and the post office

1 minute ago, tom_widdows said:

Some people may have said that in 2011 when they started digging into fujitsu and the post office

They did. I remember the PE stories about the post office well before 2011 and people writing in letters supporting the Post Office stance at that time.

Investigative journalism at its best.

Sky News on the moving strip thingy :-

Election observers from 'Democracy Volunteers' report "concerningly high levels of family voting" in Gorton and Denton By-election.

What's that all about then. 

Despite all the dodgy stuff I will predict Labour to clinch a very narrow victory over the Greens.

Edited February 26Feb 26 by Bukta Bertie
Update

Remarkable stuff in Greater Manchester where the Greens take the seat and even Reform beat Labour.

A bloody nose for Starmer. That's what he gets for supporting Israel. The Greens pro-Palestine stance (about their only policy I'm onboard with) won them the all important muslim vote. 

Interesting day ahead.