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Keep the Tories “true” to what exactly? True to looking after the rich? When I use the word “serious” I do so in the way that Logan Roy used it in Succession. I don’t see them as a serious political party. I see them as a bunch of incompetents whose only driving force is tribalism and looking after their fellow grifters. I do see them as a serious threat as things stand. I can’t see the LibDems getting enough votes across the whole country so am pinning my hopes on a Labour/Lib Dem coalition. Still, there is a long way to go until the next GE so it is too early to make any meaningful judgements.

Lots of discussion about the proposed changes to the jury system in this country, driven by the huge, unmanageable backlog of court cases. I would probably have argued against any changes previously, but having watched The Jury: Murder Trial, I am not so sure. If you haven’t seen the programme it ran a previous murder trial using actors and the actual court transcripts and presented the case to two new juries. I won’t give a spoiler but the process throws in to doubt the process of how different people process the same information and how those people can influence other people. Of course, we already have a two tier system depending on the seriousness of the crime so not everybody is tried by their peers as things stand. The mooted change will not effect the most serious crimes. So, good thing or not?

I live in hope that the Great British Public have been pushing Reform up the polls as a protest vote and will vote differently at the next GE. Then again, millions of American voted for the non serious option, so who knows?

There was talk a while back of relocating Parliament to the Midlands, maybe Birmingham?

Just another day in the Land Of The Free. Free to ignore international law and kill who you want when you want with no accountability. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/drug-boat-second-strike-white-house-b2875966.html#

Most of the time on here a flawed belief = someone else’s opinion that you don’t agree with. No one ever wins an argument as they are usually circular with opinions being repeated, flawed or not, until someone gets bored. The protagonists tend to fall into two camps, those with empathy v those without much empathy. It has nothing to do with finding truth and everything to do with expressing displeasure at those who see things completely differently.

A while back Farage put out a promotional vid saying that you can’t trust a Tory. He is happy to welcome into his party people he says that we can’t trust.

I’m sorry to hear that Winnersaint. Deepest condolences for your loss. We have recently lost a good friend/neighbour to this dreadful disease after a long fight. It started as breast cancer but gradually spread through her body. She never complained about issues with her treatment which she had been having since before the pandemic. . Mrs. SOG’s niece’s parter was diagnosed with testicular cancer a few weeks ago and had it removed last week. Fortunately no further signs of cancer and no further treatment needed. We also heard recently that a previous work colleague of my wife is spending this Christmas with her new born son in Great Ormand Street Hospital, the baby having been diagnosed with brain cancer. In the last two cases the treatment apparently has been dealt with in a very timely fashion and has been first class. Walking through Canterbury hospital yesterday we were surprised at how little activity was going on at the weekend in such a large hospital. We assumed that it would be fully operational 7 days a week.

Not so tough on crime after all. I wonder what’s in it for Trump? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15340547/amp/David-Gentile-Trump-pardon-investor-fraud.html

More dregs from the Tory Party jumping ship https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/reform-conservative-defect-jonathan-gullis-b2875581.html#

My wife suffers with sleep apnea. She had some tests done in June 2024. She has waited all this time for a follow consultation and was finally given an appointment today (Sunday). The nurse apologised profusely for the very long delay and explained that they had a massive backlog and had been prioritising the more serious cases. When I asked why the appointment was made on a Sunday she explained that Wes Streeting had green lit funds for overtime to help deal with the backlog. Just another example of Labour having to spend money fixing issue left by 14 years of underinvestment in public services.

The shooter is a foreigner and Trump closes down on immigration. The shooter is one of their own and nothing happens. Who are you more likely to get shot by Donald?

This was only the figure up to 11th November. So much for the cease fire. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/11/11/how-many-times-has-israel-violated-the-gaza-ceasefire-here-are-the-numbers

In case there was any doubt if Donald J Trump is the thickest POTUS ever…. He believes that the Declaration of Independence was signed at the end of the American Civil War. No Donny, you are not only 89 years out, you also have the wrong war.

No surprises here… https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/gb-news-urged-to-cut-ties-with-contributor-accused-of-racism/ar-AA1Roib9?cvid=1c60bc0c8d1648ae9af71fa6bb5258ed&ocid=hpmsn