James105

That doesn't even include the additional business rates they face on their 2300 stores, as well as the increase in minimum wage. Someone even suggested that they should be paying a windfall tax if they dare to increase prices so they don't make a loss! Prices will have to go up and the poorest will definitely suffer for this. It will be an important life lesson though for those who did vote for Labour and are now regretting it. I doubt that the £22bn being spaffed away on carbon capture or the £11bn going to Africa for climate aid will give them much comfort when at the till paying for their more expensive groceries.

Whoever would have thought that increasing costs to business would force them to pass these costs onto the customers, therefore increasing the cost of living for the lowest paid people in the country disproportionately. Labour are economically illiterate clowns.

And just like other decisions that the moronic PM has made, he has effectively doubled down on his stupidity and for the first time in political history for any PM has stated that the current foreign secretary is guaranteed the full 5 years in this role. Every time I feel he has scraped the bottom of the stupidity barrel, he manages to find more stupidity to use inside it. It's a bottomless stupidity barrel! "Starmer makes extraordinary vow to keep Foreign Secretary in post for at least FIVE YEARS despite repeated jibes at president-elect" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14048941/Starmer-David-Lammy-Foreign-Secretary-Trump-Neo-Nazi-sympathiser-tyrant-toupee.html

I'm jealous. If presented with a referendum on the UK becoming a 51st state I would vote for it. The UK electoral system means effectively we get a woke conservative party that has been infiltrated with leftists or a woke labour party. So dark times ahead for the UK, both figuratively and literally, as net zero nonsense means the lights will go out on a regular basis and the few manufacturing companies left relocate to other countries (like America) as the cost of production is significantly cheaper.

So America are going to miss out on this? I'm sure they will be gutted.

I've seen leftists posting on Twitter this election was fixed as the republicans made those extra 15 million votes Biden got in 2020 disappear which made me chuckle due to the irony of it, but I presume there are still millions of votes left to be counted in this one which will get the total closer.

Religion is a belief system. Trump believes in a god. He believes a god saved him. I don't believe in a god, so I don't believe a god saved him, rather a combination of luck and poor marksmanship. You can believe whatever you like, no-one can prove it either way right now.

Perhaps the reason that most people reject socialism is that it hasn't worked anywhere it has been tried and leads to poverty, death, inequality and corruption. How people still clamour for this failure of a system has always been a mystery to me. Let me guess, it is because no-one has done it properly yet? And no Sweden, Norway et all are not socialist systems, they are capitalist.

It shouldn't really be possible to look at a person and know exactly what their views are on Trump, on climate change, on gender etc, but one look at that person and I feel I know exactly what every single one her political views is, that she is a net recipient of taxpayers money and is currently and always will be a burden on the UK.

Well, as I am from the UK I find this highly embarrassing. "Emergency Demo". What is it with the left and their temper tantrums when an election (in a completely different country no less) doesn't go the way they want it to, and what on earth do they think (other than embarrassing themselves and the UK) it hopes to achieve?

You mention his "proven record". What spitefully vindictive things did he do in his previous term? I don't recall him using legal technicalities as a means to try to convict his opponents? Do you have examples?

Starmer rolled the dice and lost spectacularly. "Do not underestimate the damage Starmer has done to relations with the US - the Trump team are ready and waiting to unleash all-out war on him, because he is perceived as anti-American and a whingeing, liberal bore" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14005783/Donald-Trump-unleash-war-Keir-Starmer-wins-Presidential-race-row-Labour-helping-rival-Kamala-Harris.html He should bend the knee to Farage and beg him for help, remove anyone and everyone (which is most of the front bench and London mayor) who has been involved in libellous hyperbole on social media about Trump, and following that resign after calling for a new election to allow the British people to correct the mistake that was made now they have the knowledge of what a disaster it is having these clowns in government.

Bush 2000: 50 million votes Bush 2004: 62 million votes Obama 2008: 69 million votes. Obama 2012. 65 million votes Clinton 2016. 65 million votes (Trump 62 million) Biden 2020. 81 million votes (Trump 74 million). Harris 2024. 67 million votes (Trump 72 million). 2020 seems like quite the outlier here compared to previous elections and this election. Where did the extra 15 or so million votes go? Seems Biden is the most popular president (in terms of vote count) in US history.

I'm quite looking forward to him taking the same approach to unnecessary government employees that he took to Twitter employees. I think he laid off 80% of the staff at Twitter and (despite all the noise from the "armchair software engineers" that have never done anything more advanced than opening or installing a web browser that Twitter would fall over within weeks) it carried on working just fine after that 80% had gone. I expect there are many government employees currently dreading receiving that email from Musk asking them to provide evidence on what they have been working on and what they have achieved in the last week, just as he did at Twitter.

Did you have this same energy when Biden pulled out of Afghanistan? How's it going for the women living there now? Did you feel any guilt or remorse or were you okay with it because biden did it? And why you bringing England into this? The only people in England who care are the blue haired leftist nutjobs who should really be focused on getting a job rather than worrying about who runs America, as well as the Labour party of course, particularly the foreign secretary who made some ill advised posts whilst he was a student activist in opposition.

One platform. One measly platform that allows leftists and those that are right equal opportunity to post legal content without censorship. The left has all the other social media platforms, AI, Hollywood, the universities and most of the legacy media at its disposal to spread propaganda. Perhaps the problem is not the ability to share ideas freely, it's just that the left have some really bad ideas, and need to have a rethink about what normal people (the majority) want from their governments rather bow to the wants of a tiny minority who happen to shout very loudly.

Guardian is always good for a laugh at these times. The opening paragraph sold me and it continues to entertain all the way through with its ridiculousness. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/trump-wins-election-consequences-despair-america "Today is a day of despair, and it would be futile to tell those who fear and grieve for what is to come in America that they will be OK. It would also be dishonest: many of us, in truth, will not be OK." 🤣

Looks fine on mine. Direct link is: https://x.com/WorldByWolf/status/1854088580152336503

November 2028 is my estimate. Not a day before.

Here it is. First time I have seen a guest admonishing a (so called) presenter for swearing. She didn't walk off the set think she got pulled during a break to cool off as she was back a bit later.

Here is an example of why a Trump victory is good for the UK summed up by a raging leftist amongst the other nonsense he is spouting. He claims that now Trump has won Labour needs to enhance people's economic security, real wages, personal security and the prospects of their kids otherwise they will turn to the far right. So, kind of what they should be doing in the first place then regardless of what is happening in America. Grrr.

Anyone know when the Russian fixed the election conspiracy theories are due to start? Must be any minute now.

Not all good news. James Cordon has threatened to return to the UK if Trump won.

Lovely. And the UK electorate will get to see what happens when 2 similar minded countries take different paths. One will slash taxes and slash waste, one will increase taxes and increase waste. Wonder which approach will be better for the respective economies?

Meltdown of the day so far.