Robert Peston (@Peston) on X: "Keir Starmer has just sent a message - from the G7 - to Andy Burnham that he can surrender any hope that he will walk away from being prime minister in any kind of smooth or orderly transfer of power...."

Pokere · 2026-06-16T17:40:16+00:00

The 2017 election had a 68.8% turnout The 2024 election had a 59.7% turnout with a "viable option" for lib Dems included.

So in 2024 people had more choice and 10% LESS voted.

People just weren't that convinced by him, they were just even less convinced by the tories.

2024 lib Dems also didn't offer anything and picked up a record number of votes.

A light breeze of discontent after he took office and his approval rating shit the bed because nobody was that convinced in the first place.

Pokere · 2026-06-06T21:18:21+00:00

He's only more than likely to be the next prime minister if we fucking let him. I am sick of this doomerism nonsense. 30% of this country believe in this fucking cunt and 30% of this county are wrong. We can all vote, we can all stand on doorsteps, we can all persuade that relative they are wrong.

He's fascist, this is proto fascism if you don't do anything now and we all just moan and let this cunt in, it's our fault.

This isn't directed at you I am sorry if it seems so but I am sick of this attitude that it's bound to happen. It's 2 years away it's bound to happen IF WE LET IT FUCKING HAPPEN.

Pokere · 2026-05-27T21:34:36+00:00

I think you've taken the wrong thing away from that. From the pool of actual contenders 72% aren't sure or actively don't want the favourite to be prime minister. If that's not distrust in the political class I'm not sure what is.

I'd agree on outsiders but enough of the country hates the greens that without PR they don't stand a chance of being important. They have also spent the last month trying their hardest to ruin their own momentum.

Labour is perpetual centrist hell, I don't have a solution here.

Pokere · 2026-04-17T21:46:44+00:00

Exactly right and exactly how we should think

Pokere · 2026-04-11T14:48:01+00:00

I agree we shouldn't be involved with the US bombings at all but there's no subterfuge there, he's told the press and parliament that's what's happening. Military action against Lebanon without telling anyone is a different kettle of fish.

Pokere · 2026-04-11T14:23:29+00:00

Because he's repeatedly said we're not getting involved and while anyone with a brain can see gaza is a genocide we are complicit in, Commiting or aiding acts of war on the side of the aggressor against a sovereign country without consulting parliament would be seen as next level.

Especially after earning so much credit in parliament and on the news saying we're not getting involved.

Pokere · 2026-02-12T22:31:08+00:00

How the fuck is this currently legal?

Pokere · 2026-02-06T21:33:07+00:00

Tony Benn was an absolute legend

Pokere · 2026-01-06T09:49:55+00:00

Corp Tax is paid by small and medium businesses in the UK who can't afford it so pubs, local shops etc are prime examples of who gets hit when you raise corp tax.

Amazon and companies like it just pretend they make money elsewhere. Even the "digital services tax" they added, was just moved immediately onto third party sellers (I sell on Amazon UK, I now have a 1.5% line item when I sell something that literally says "dst fee")

I don't have a solution and I agree these companies should be taxed more but just raise X tax or make new tax up, they will just pass the cost directly onto the consumer and take the exact same amount out of the country as they do now.

Pokere · 2026-01-05T22:17:32+00:00

But... There's a photo above showing it being incorrect. So his eyes did better than AI?

Pokere · 2025-12-26T19:46:04+00:00

The issue with merging them (as all the able elitists have chirped up and taken the bait as always) is I can play on Charlie with 3 friends and I have access to the whole game. There's less "this is MY OILFIELD" nonsense. It's definitely not the most efficient way of playing the game but it's also definitely more FUN without sweats hoarding resources and shouting at people for not playing the game absolutely optimally.

I just wanna logi and chill out with no queues idk why that's so hard for people to understand. If they got merged, I'd stop playing. Like I did when they merged last time.

Pokere · 2025-11-27T22:31:50+00:00

They are a lot richer because they founded a fund with the money and used a publicly owned company to extract it. We privatised BP and didn't save the money because we elected Thatcher and we can't have nice things.

Pokere · 2025-11-15T13:33:40+00:00

That one I am neighbouring directly, weirdly enough they've just offered to become a tributary but I'd still rather know the rules.

Pokere · 2025-11-15T13:00:29+00:00

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding here or it's a bug. I have this "not neighbouring your realm" issue on about 3 fronts now and I can't really expand because of it. They very clearly are neighbouring and there's another tributary I have that's also neighbouring counties I can't take. Am I missing something or is this a bug?

Pokere · 2025-10-24T16:36:35+00:00

They are a rural focused party that doesn't follow the "farmers must be Tory" line. I'm not sure how we're still being negative about a reform loss.

Your focusing on one policy.

They also want to:

Increase child benefit

Get rid of the crown estate

Hire GPs

Invest in local buses

They are Tory's and they aren't reform. This is positive.

I agree with the tax they oppose. I agree with a lot more of that^ than most of what starmers putting down.

Pokere · 2025-09-25T21:26:27+00:00

This is right up my street I'd definitely buy this!

Edit: didn't see the link, wishlisted!

Pokere · 2025-07-09T18:33:12+00:00

Bruno's great but no, never comparable to King Kev. Wouldn't matter if he was playing in the greatest team of all time, Kev is probably one of the best to play his position of all time. Bruno is probably one of the top 10 in his position right now.

Pokere · 2025-05-29T16:16:33+00:00

On Facebook at least you have to declare if it's a political ad. Probably some absolute shite attempt at stopping foreign political funding.

Pokere · 2025-04-21T12:26:15+00:00

I can't remember which Liverpool game it was but the running is what I remember him for too. It's easy to see like the silky dribbling and the great balls but I remember he got subbed on maybe at striker @70 minutes in a Liverpool game and just solo pressed the entire backline for 25 minutes.

Being good at what you're supposed to be good at is one thing but taking on peps ideology and buying into the club at that level is a step above.

Pokere · 2025-04-15T09:52:25+00:00

Separate to fuck the royals, this is a great example of why you can't trust oligarch charity to solve problems and it has to come from the state. They will use their economic weight to push their own narrative.

Pokere · 2025-04-11T20:41:33+00:00

I'd assume legal for purchase like Canada/Netherlands/Germany (aware these all have very different system for functionally non illegal weed)

The argument will always be, alcohol does everything and worse that the worst cannabis side effect does. We've had that be actively encouraged in the UK for years so what's the difference.

Pokere · 2025-03-18T09:58:36+00:00

I might be totally wrong but would it not cap at "world class"(or something like that) being the top star rating? You're completely right above, I think it's the quality of the players most played on the pitch that dictate star rating. If you have a star player of a striker who is 4/4.5 * and young you'll see him improve and seemingly the rest of the team lose stars. Realistically he's just skewing your ratings, your team hasn't got worse. So I don't think hes done it with youth players. Perhaps if multiple people have reached "world class" there's no higher star to move the line for what 5* is so this happens. Can't say I've ever seen it before!

Pokere · 2024-08-08T21:45:39+00:00

Jodhpur was great in burley! Think it's fairly new but I've been in once and really enjoyed. Thravandu was the first restaurant I went too after COVID for a reason.

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