@BNHWalker The symbolism is no longer important. When elected, is Starmer going to reduce immigration or not? That's what we've voted for four elections in a row.
@danny__kruger Why don't we just keep the current system? When a doctor judges it's time, they leave the morphine drip unlocked and let patients know not to press the + button, since that might reduce their breathing rate to the point where they might die peacefully in their sleep. Solved.
@ReasonableCop@AllisonPearson@squareupcentral There's no conservative option, so conservative voters won't vote Conservative. They won't vote labour either, obviously, so they just won't vote. See the last few by-elections.
@PeoplesChamp144@democracynow@UNICEF@1james_elder How humane was murdering twelve hundred civilians and taking a few hundred more hostage? Not forgetting the rapes and mutilations. If they need food they could try growing some, instead of using all their resources to try and murder their neighbours.
@Z00KY@Jacob_Rees_Mogg If they stopped importing hundreds of thousands of people, our declining and ageing population would not be able to prop up the Ponzi scheme that is state pensions, and they wouldn't be able to hide the fact that we're in a recession.
@Mandoline_Blue Wise man once said, doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in. Only way to try and get the two main parties to change is to vote for one of the others, whichever is closest to your own views.
@cenkuygur @Polytope13 You use minimum necessary force to take out the enemy sufficient to end their attacks on you. Whether that's one person or a million.
@drstephencarver@DontVoteLabour Nah, don't vote for them. Don't vote Tory either. A vote for either one is a vote for no change. Just don't bother voting. If you feel you must vote, then vote for whichever of the other parties most closely matches your ideals.
@RevMaxPower@TimMadigan9 Their followers weren't going to vote for him anyway, so nothing lost there, and his supporters, and ideally swing voters, just see it as yet another example of people lying about and smearing their candidate, increasing their support.
@RevMaxPower@TimMadigan9 He chose his words carefully. he's talking about damage to the US car industry, but he made sure to include the phrase 'if I lose it'll be a bloodbath' because he knows his enemies will quote it out of context.
@RevMaxPower@kevowens64 In American English:
1. a ruthless slaughter of a great number of people
2. (informal) a period of disastrous loss or reversal, as in stock markets
3. a widespread dismissal or purge, as of employees
Fairly obvious from the context that it's the 2nd one.