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Zorro Tomorrow's avatar

I just subscribed if only to get your attention as I would like some dialogue rather than write into the void. Often the case with these substacks, a thousand lonely voices crying in the darkness. I've mentioned this to others only to receive blank looks.

Comments should be harvested into a central subscription. I can't support 20 substackers if they don't reciprocate.

As ex Forces I always noticed there's a 'type', the institutionalised who celebrate defeats like Dunkirk or the Light Brigade just because... Seen again with Bad Enoch (KB), followed by the wilfully blind who ascribe qualities to her she barely claims for herself. I've even suggested some approach a different Yoruba witchdoctor to have the endazzlement removed. Boy can I collect downticks. Simone Hanna, accused of being a Lefty? Jeez.

I don't subscribe to KB's 'plenty of time' schtick. She should have been airing leadership qualities since August 1st. The only things she holds to the fire are Starmer's slippers and crumpets.I'm not sure about Jenrick, is that the best they can offer?

Of 135,000 Tory members, 80,000 didn't want her; 95,000 didn't want him. 19 million didn't want 2 Tier. If that's democracy it should have probation and another GE in February. I can't abide PR, look at Europe now, I don't want Greens having a say on Energy or Transport.

Farage. Doubts arise, the sunk fallacy rings bells. Ex Forces again, don't get rid of a bad boss, they can always find a worse one. Yes, with wasters like 2T and KB, any port in a storm. I don't even think he, NF, has a dark side but there are those behind him, hardly Enid Blytons and the W.I.

They'd make an Oswald Mosely of him, Tommy Robinson's shock troops in reserve. Don't tell me there are no secret conversations. Old wet UKIPpers aren't the thing.

Tice wouldn't be seen dead in Wetherspoons if a wine bar was nearby and why was Nigel's closing election speech in an armoured Land Rover? And Mephistopheles Musk? I admire him, I like Trump but contracts get signed in blood and the payback?

The Fabians took over Labour, capitalist wealth kept Marx in the British Library. A resurgent junior Party with Musk dollars from down the back of his couch?

I hoped Boris would wipe Labour off the face of the Earth. That went well with KB's knife in his back..

My spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I'd like to see some swashbuckling, Labours hanging from the yardarm, Tories walking the plank. A Francis Drake sending fireships into the enemy fleet; Colonel Mad Mitch sending terrorists fleeing in dismay. Where did the men go?

I haven't the patience to wait ten years.

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Martin T's avatar

Pete, thanks for the musings and your contribution to a necessary debate. Agree that Kemi is incoherent and compromised by the failures of the last Tory government. She doesn't have the tact necessary as if a spat over sandwiches is a substitute for debate. I don't think the culture war is finished yet, just toned down, but the culture war warrior is all style over substance. We also need to see the taster menu of policy from Tories and Reform, otherwise why should we take them seriously? Ditto LibDems. How can you critique a government and start selling yourself as a future government without saying what you intend to do on immigration, energy, taxation, healthcare etc.?

To be fair to Reform, I thought their 'manifesto' had some good ideas in it, you would think someone somewhere is polishing this. Farage is also trying hard to triangulate, and it's not a bad aim, and keeps the media at bay. Trump has done this effectively. Limit new immigration and promote integration and civic nationalism (although no one knows what 'British values' are).

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