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General Election 2019


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I think the politicization of the people of our city with the Militant years has been the great legacy of that time. Although the city has had a history of industrial struggles throughout the whole of the last century, politically the city only swung behind a Labour council in the 60s. We had Irish Nationalist and Protestant MPs and councillors in 19th century until we settled for alternative Tory and Liberal representatives.

 

Post war, like so much of our country, we went with Atlee and the only truly socialist Labour government this country has seen. Over the 50s and 60s Liverpool enjoyed a little bit of stability on employment but the shift towards becoming a solid Labour supporting city began then. The actual radical politics, taking on those who were attacking the city, it's industries and its inhabitants' welfare, came with Mulhearn, Hamilton, Brady, Byrne and, love him or loathe him, Derek Hatton.

 

I am so proud that my city is still soliidly on the side of the disposessed, the homeless, the hungry and the exploited workers, the underpaid NHS heroes and the struggling schools' teaching staff. I detest with my whole being Tories and those who vote for them, particularly if they come from any of the categories listed above. I detest the level of ignorance displayed by the people of Blyth, Wrexham and Blackpool and I hate the smug, comfortable, callous indifference of the Tory voter in the traditional hearllands of the home counties and parts of the rural north. I would welcome a civil war right now, but that only creates pain and further division with no winning of any argument.

 

The road back for Labour begins with us, here in our beautiful, caring, welcoming, wild but warm city. The place has grown and learned through hardship and it can instruct and educate the Labour movement through that process. Last night I was so baffled and distraught by the results coming in that I was just about despairing of this country, then just after half three I saw that Liverpool had returned all Labour candidates to Parliament - our bretheren in Birkenhead joining in. I can't say I was elated but it gave me something to cling on to. I thank this city and its people for keeping the faith and giving us pride and, more importantly at this time, hope. I fucking love Liverpool.     

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1 hour ago, moof said:

Would like to see Liverpool, Manchester, Scotland, London, South Wales, Ireland all join together to form their own country 

Can we join in from Bristol?

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Just two hours too slow on that reply
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58 minutes ago, torahboy said:

I think the politicization of the people of our city with the Militant years has been the great legacy of that time. Although the city has had a history of industrial struggles throughout the whole of the last century, politically the city only swung behind a Labour council in the 60s. We had Irish Nationalist and Protestant MPs and councillors in 19th century until we settled for alternative Tory and Liberal representatives.

 

Post war, like so much of our country, we went with Atlee and the only truly socialist Labour government this country has seen. Over the 50s and 60s Liverpool enjoyed a little bit of stability on employment but the shift towards becoming a solid Labour supporting city began then. The actual radical politics, taking on those who were attacking the city, it's industries and its inhabitants' welfare, came with Mulhearn, Hamilton, Brady, Byrne and, love him or loathe him, Derek Hatton.

 

I am so proud that my city is still soliidly on the side of the disposessed, the homeless, the hungry and the exploited workers, the underpaid NHS heroes and the struggling schools' teaching staff. I detest with my whole being Tories and those who vote for them, particularly if they come from any of the categories listed above. I detest the level of ignorance displayed by the people of Blyth, Wrexham and Blackpool and I hate the smug, comfortable, callous indifference of the Tory voter in the traditional hearllands of the home counties and parts of the rural north. I would welcome a civil war right now, but that only creates pain and further division with no winning of any argument.

 

The road back for Labour begins with us, here in our beautiful, caring, welcoming, wild but warm city. The place has grown and learned through hardship and it can instruct and educate the Labour movement through that process. Last night I was so baffled and distraught by the results coming in that I was just about despairing of this country, then just after half three I saw that Liverpool had returned all Labour candidates to Parliament - our bretheren in Birkenhead joining in. I can't say I was elated but it gave me something to cling on to. I thank this city and its people for keeping the faith and giving us pride and, more importantly at this time, hope. I fucking love Liverpool.     

Sound that lad!

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Im all for democracy, but the number of working class towns (Stoke, Middlesbrough etc) who have voted in droves for the Conservatives makes me feel like I'm living in the alternate 1985 from Back to the Future 2. They must fucking love austerity and libraries closing and children's centres shutting and NHS meltdown and school budget cuts. 

 

If you want me I'll be sitting on my porch, rifle in hand. 

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We're less than 24 hours into a Tory majority government and here's Damian Green MP on LBC talking about how we might need to move towards an insurance based system for social care provision. 

 

That's how these things start. Talking points. An initial introduction and then a gradual extension to other policy areas. No wonder they had absolutely no social care policy in their manifesto. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, MegadriveMan said:

I was born in the midlands but I Identify as a scouser now.

 

Me and the Mrs were talking last night about how glad I am that I picked this team to support and how we are going to have a serious look at either moving up there or to Scotland. 

 

 


You probably want to bypass us and carry on to Scotland. We were already top of the Tory punishment roster and I have no doubt whatsoever that, especially once the E.U. grant money is no more, they will double down on that,

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15 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Good grief man, it's only an election. At least wait and see if Armageddon ensues before you sink into despair. You got through Thatcher, you can get through this.

I'm sure he could get through getting called a cunt without having to call the abusers mum and try and get him sacked. 

 

Some people are made of tougher stuff eh. Good grief. 

 

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42 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Good grief man, it's only an election. At least wait and see if Armageddon ensues before you sink into despair. You got through Thatcher, you can get through this.

The future of the UK is likely to look a Fuckload  worse than Thatcherism. No money from North Sea oil to prop the economy, drive down of wages and the loss of further jobs through automation, recession is pretty much guaranteed.
there needs to be a rethink for how a modern 21st century economy looks after its people, and the UK just fucked off their

best option of doing that.

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A look into the mind of gammon from a canvasser here. Easily readable from a thread reader app to save scrolling through tweets. First one here :

 

I did around 120 hours of canvassing in London, Bedford and Milton Keynes. I didn’t expect this result but here’s how I can make sense of it from what I encountered on the doorstep.

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1205487970897342464.html

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20 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

A look into the mind of gammon from a canvasser here. Easily readable from a thread reader app to save scrolling through tweets. First one here :

 

 

 

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1205487970897342464.html

Just fuck off with the gammon shite.

 

Its puerile and any use of it is getting negged forthwith. As are any other shitey tropes from either end of the political spectrum.

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1 hour ago, General Dryness said:

Just fuck off with the gammon shite.

 

Its puerile and any use of it is getting negged forthwith. As are any other shitey tropes from either end of the political spectrum.

 

There's a bunch of stupid and ignorant fucktards all over the country and we're about to go through 5 more years of austerity that'll lead to a lot of death and suffering, along with us now sliding towards fascism in a similar way to the US, and stupid cunts like John Mann going on about cracking down on left wing media in the first 24 hours of a new gov. Don't call people gammon though.

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