Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic, episode 71!
This week:
- A new YouGov poll predicts an extinction-level event for the Conservatives at the next election unless the party does something radical
- Rishi Sunak struggles to quell the growing rebellion over the Rwanda Bill, but would Kemi Badenoch be any better?
- Trump wins big in Iowa, Vivek throws in the towel and speculation mounts as to who the Donald will choose as his running mate
- Gary Lineker deletes his tweet calling for Israel to be banned from the Euros, claiming he thought he was just retweeting a news story (cue Jimmy Hill chin-rubbing)
- James Cleverly bans Hizb al-Tahrir, but is it too little, too late?
- Plus Peak Woke and Review of the Reviews
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It’s not “propaganda” to use Boycotts against a rogue state Toby.
Its a strategy.
Who is this Mary Wanaker fellow?
Loved the section on uxoriousness…
Toby, you may need to go to AA (if you really want to give up alcohol). Nick is right about it being easier to give it up entirely. I have close relations who have to be teetotal and continue to attend AA even years on and the whole point is that you have to get to the point of being able to be with and watch others drinking without being yourself tempted off the straight and narrow. My husband and I now very rarely drink at home (for health reasons and we sleep far better as a result) and only drink a little when out with friends. No alcohol, along with taking vitamin C and magnesium, has revolutionised my sleep.
Re your UK section: I think the Tory party will make themselves a laughing stock if they get rid of yet another PM and I very much doubt that Kemi B will make the slightest difference (taking on the job of PM here is becoming like drinking from a poisoned chalice!). None of this makes any difference – we are effectively in a one-party state. I intend to go to vote, but to cross through my ballot sheet and write ‘none of the above’. Reform are a sidetrack, a distraction and will only serve to split the vote further.
Re the US section: I totally agree with everything Nick said re Trump, though, sadly, I think he is part of the pantomime that we are being forced to watch. BTW, Toby, Biden is the opposite of all the things you said you were looking for in a president of the US: weak, senile, dishonest if not actually criminal, etc etc.
Loved the uxoriousness bit!
Agree with most of what you say, but I cannot fathom how anyone on this side of the argument could possibly even contemplate Trump as being the saviour. Have Nick and others forgotten that he oversaw the ‘vaccine’ campaign and still passionately supports it? That is all you need to to know about this guy. For once, I agree with Toby, Ron DeSantis is the far better choice… unless you want to live your life under the threat of mandated ‘vaccines’ of course
Toby, your position on President Trump is pathetic. You scrabble around trying to find something negative to say about him and come up with precisely nothing. It’s ok to not like someone, I don’t particularly like him either, but he is a leader and not a career politician which is exactly the point and is therefore the only hope for America and by extension the western world. Oh and you conveniently for to mention North Korea. Please try to get a grip to see beyond your very obvious bias on this issue.