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Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:56 am

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:16 pm Round here, Cons. majority 31,000.

Not. A. Chance.

Is that South Holland and Deeping? Only constituency that remains blue on an election map of under 30s voters in GE2019 (might have been another in Essex).

Yup.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:56 am
Is that South Holland and Deeping? Only constituency that remains blue on an election map of under 30s voters in GE2019 (might have been another in Essex).

Nearly right, assuming this is what you saw. It was 18-24, and four Tory "wins", two in Essex, two in Lincolnshire. Castle Point, Maldon, South Holland and Deeping, and Boston and Skegness.

Haven’t encountered any young Rees Mogg types in Boston or Skegness. A lot of smack heads, perhaps Johnson’s youth vote are mainly thieving junkies.

"Fook all to do round here, let's kick some Poles' heads in", more like.

What is it with Canvey Island and ultra Toryism?

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 5:02 pm "Fook all to do round here, let's kick some Poles' heads in", more like.

The Times takes up this theme in an unconvincing article written by Ted Maul from Brass Eye. Helen sounds like a typical moany teenager.

The battle against drugs being fought in middle of nowhere
Lincolnshire may appear to offer an idylic life but to its young it is a ‘hole’ and drug dealers offer the only respite

HELEN, a slim, manic blonde with a much-vaunted ability to drink any man under the table, is a connoisseur of Lincolnshire’s seedy underbelly.

In the Nu-rock pub where she presides, a meaningful glance in the direction of one of the tongue-pierced regulars is sufficient to connect her with your drug of choice.

A bored sommelier of illegal substances, she rattles through the options in a monotone: “Grass, Es, poppers, brown, meth — whatever. Your decision.”

About the lure of the green Lincolnshire countryside, its refreshingly uncrowded towns, its miles of open fields unscarred by chain stores or motorways, Helen is unequivocal: “It’s a hole.”

“This town is the a*** end of nowhere. There is picking cabbages and there’s a McDonald’s. This is the most boring place in the world and there’s nowhere to go at the weekend. Maybe you get a tattoo or your nose pierced. That’s it.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the- ... 9gt6dk5bqm

Helen should take up a popular local sport like banger racing or hare coursing.

Nu-rock? That is a new one in me. The bastard child of nu-metal?

I am assuming that I am not missing out.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 5:12 pm What is it with Canvey Island and ultra Toryism?

Isolation? They fear being flooded with foreigners like cosmopolitan Southend.

I wonder if Helen actually had any of those drugs. Sounds a bit Jay from the Inbetweeners to me.

The early noughties was a bit of a time for "you can get drugs anywhere!" articles. All I can say is that I never (edit) jumped in a mini cab and got offered pills.

soulboy wrote:Nu-rock? That is a new one in me. The bastard child of nu-metal?

I am assuming that I am not missing out.

In Conservative circles, I'm guessing Nu Rock covers pretty much anything after Herman's Hermits.

Over on the Mail, where most commentators who watched McCartney at Glastonbury appear to have done so in order to hate him just a little bit more than they already did, several were baffled by the appearance of a bloke called Dave Grohl : "Who is he?"; "I had to Google him". A few know seem to know about Springsteen given that he's such a well know Communist.