Nick Dixon and Toby Young Talk About Liz Truss’s PopCons, the U.K.’s Broken Asylum System and the Premier League’s Stadium Stasi Spying on Fans for Wrongthink
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- Toby has all the gossip from Liz Truss’s ‘PopCon’ event
- A criminal who gamed the asylum system commits a despicable chemical attack, yet Gillian Keegan and others claim this is “not really about asylum”
- MP Mike Freer steps down due to death threats and an arson attack
- Some Premier League clubs are spying on fans for wrongthink in a massive story broken by the Free Speech Union
- Tucker Carlson visits Russia, seemingly to record an interview with Vladimir Putin
- Tony Blair issues his leadership manual, which many take to be a guide for Keir Starmer
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The “PopCons” might be a good “gateway drug” into right wing policy. The trouble is… does anyone actually trust them to deliver what they promise? How do we know they’re not just the Tories with a different hat, hoping to outlive the absolute disaster that will be the next election?
On a related note, how can it be possible that the UK has no one worth voting for? Yeah, sure, vote Reform, but they won’t do nothing. Tories, Labour, LibeDems, and the Greens are all the same communist, authoritarian, anti-human party, but you get to choose how hard you want the boot to stomp on your face. And I don’t really trust these “PopCons”, even though Liz Truss did try to cut taxes. Where is our Trump, our Milei, our Wilders? Heck, I’d even settle for a lukewarm DeSantis with a brummie accent. Has the right been so thoroughly annihilated from British politics?
I don’t really trust any politicians, certainly not any political party, maybe a few individuals. In the absence of anyone I trust, I believe in voting for the least worst candidates. The “PopCons” may be the least worst.
May be the least worst, indeed… Trouble is we won’t know until we give them power.
The “Popcons” are not a party, just a pressure group within the Tory Party. So you can’t vote for them, as such. You can vote for the individual MPs if they happen to be in your constituency, but that’s not the same thing.
Really good. So much more focused this week. Hope it continues this way as if it does I’ll be signing up for extra content. And…’Popcon’… Obviously people are going to have lots of fun with ‘con’! I mean – really?!
I may agree with a lot of stuff Liz Truss says. So might a lot of people. But for a politician to convince people it isn’t just what they say that is important. It is how they say it and how they present it. Unfortunately for Liz Truss she is not a convincing speaker, and neither are her facial expressions convincing.
I’m convinced the Cons are not in the slightest bothered about losing votes to Labour as they see them as brothers in uni-party state. What they are most concerned about is losing votes to the right esp (at this moment) Reform.