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[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is. Conservatives were elected to help the economy in 2010 and have managed less than 2% growth since then. I have no idea why they weren't thrown out on their asses after Brexit, but maybe the British public love pain and misery?

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Do you think someone from Central Office went out and sneakily set dogs on people to savage them and set the news agenda? Or is it just possible these the spate of attacks and subsequent uproar, with pressure that Something Must Be Done occurred without political machinations?

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

So, in your opinion, the Prime Minister's major focus should be head dogcatcher? You think a major speech on dogs, covered live, is not a distraction from things that will actually affect your life?

Will tomorrow's speech be on a car crash that happened today or a disease that a famous person dies of?

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, in your opinion, the Prime Minister’s major focus should be head dogcatcher?

No.

I think he was under pressure for several days to Do Something in the face of a series of attacks and eventually had to.

If there are a series of statistically unlikely car accidents involving out of control vehicles of a particular make and model and the government gets heat over it - yes, tomorrows speech might be on that.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeh. But on the other hand he seems to repeatedly have to give statements on mass shootings. It’s odd how different countries have different preoccupations when it comes to unnecessary violent deaths.

[-] Syldon@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

In a word "Corbyn".

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