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Post by will on Jul 7, 2024 19:07:15 GMT
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Post by mulv on Jul 8, 2024 18:23:45 GMT
Let's hope right-wing populism is on the wane everywhere. 👍🏻
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Post by will on Jul 8, 2024 21:00:36 GMT
Apart from anglais and Chrissie, we have other friends who live in France. They have been there so long that they successfully applied for French nationality a couple of years ago. The chap has been working for one of the anti-Right Wing parties, so I got in touch with him last night to congratulate him on the success of his leaflets. He said that he and his wife had been literally weeping for joy and relief when the results started coming through. This was because le Pen's party had openly boasted that "binationaux" (dual nationals) like them would be treated as second-class citizens, with certain jobs and other opportunities being denied them. They're retired now, but their three kids, who were born and educated in France, are in their early thirties and this treatment of dual nationals would have affected them greatly.
Of course, those "binationaux" with black or brown skin would have been treated worst of all.
Never forget that le Pen's party has admirers in this country.
They're called Reform.
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Post by mulv on Jul 9, 2024 15:09:23 GMT
A Deform candidate (a real one, not one of the seventy or so AI ones) tried to give me a leaflet in Chester the other week.
I was surprised at how angry I got so quickly. I had to go into a nearby shop to do some breathing.
I'm the son of an immigrant, and I want nothing to do with scum like that.
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Post by Su on Jul 9, 2024 15:22:35 GMT
I had the local con-self-servative counsellor pop a leaflet through my door. You should have seen the look on his face when I followed him down the road to give it to him back.
I wasn’t rude just said ‘I don’t want this in my house thank you’
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Post by mulv on Jul 10, 2024 2:42:40 GMT
Putting a Labour sign in the window prevents this happening 😁
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Post by Su on Jul 10, 2024 7:30:51 GMT
I did that during this general election (actually I had two!) but this was for the council ones back in May
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Post by tom on Jul 10, 2024 9:24:53 GMT
A week before the election, we had a visit from the now M.P.
Nice bloke, a sikh man, known to be very knowledgeable about local affairs.
He came to visit Carol not canvass.
One thing did worry me, he seemed very quiet and it concerns me how he will cope with the rat house known as Westminster.
Time will tell and I wish him luck.
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Post by mulv on Jul 10, 2024 18:35:52 GMT
That's great, TOM.
Sounds like a really good bloke, and one who cares about the people he's going to be representing. Exactly what you need from your MP.
As for him struggling in the bearpit that is the HoC, I wouldn't worry - Jayne is very quietly spoken, but when she barks we all jump a mile.
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Post by tom on Jul 11, 2024 7:50:04 GMT
That's great, TOM. Sounds like a really good bloke, and one who cares about the people he's going to be representing. Exactly what you need from your MP. As for him struggling in the bearpit that is the HoC, I wouldn't worry - Jayne is very quietly spoken, but when she barks we all jump a mile. As I said, he seems a nice bloke...shame I didn't vote for him, then again he didn't need my vote. |
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