The Labour bloke seems quite vocal so if he gets in he may break the mold but you are right we need a big gob to put the town on the map. Failing a big gob the MP needs power of a cabinet minister who when there is a big employer looking to set it somewhere he says " I will have that" and Hartlepool gets it.

isn,t he a local as well and just by being that he,ll get votes from those who are sick of non locals getting voted in or being put up as candidates.

Some thoughts from me about political events. If anyone wants to ridicule well OK, remember I support Pools and always will despite the almost 60 years of ridicule until the presence of J Stelling gave some credence.

I was a boy soldier in 1969 and remember our sergeant telling us that the next war would be a chemical one so forget about being nuclear annihilated. I think that the so called covid thing was a dress rehearsal to see how the public would react. And now the powers that be know exactly. There are those who still go around with masks and they frighten me and those who strip the shelves. You get the picture we have all experienced it. The almost incestuous volunteering to be jabbed by a an untrusted, hastily put together vaccine and the warning was there for people when the government gave the drug companies immunity from paying compensation. Now we are hearing (very quietly) the idea of war being pushed. No talk of conscription (yet but militias and citizens army etc). The real army which I served in now apparently cannot field one division of soldiers. Because the powers that be know they won't need them. Meanwhile Russian threatens us over our involvement with Ukraine. Just yesterday the idea was pedalled of storing up to 3 days of food and water in cases of emergencies ( natural disasters etc). If you believe that you will believe that Pools will every game next season. Then again yesterday was the advice to tape up your windows. Now I seem to have heard that back in the 1950s and again around 1983 when Greenham Common and all that stuff was happening. We folks are being softened up for something none of us wants. I don't like polls cause they ask 5 Pools fans how they will fare OK you know what I mean. But do you remember again recently they put it to the public about who would be willing to fight in the event of the Russian hordes invading our shores. By now you are probably thinking I have lost the plot. Not true. That probably happened in 1965 when I moved to Peterlee to live and began my love affair with Pools. Look at the wider picture folks. When covid occurred I honestly believed it was a dummy run for a chemical warfare attack to see how the public would react. Remember all the ventilators being ordered from Horden Colliery to Honolu and those temporary wards for all the cases to be treated? A practice run my friends. Hope to be proved wrong and ridiculed. I will accept that. As for this election (if it happens) well I can see the so called Labour Party imploding over Gaza, not knowing what a woman is and their second most prominent one under crime scrutiny. I almost forgot that its not what Starmer says he will do but what he hasn't told anyone. The first one his ilk will do is to reverse the democratic vote to leave the undemocratic and foisted upon us EU. How long will it be until Pools turn out in a rainbow away strip. OK well that's enough to get you firing back. How will I vote? Well it will be for the party who protects and upholds our decision to get out of Bray's megaphone utopia. And who know what a woman is and pledges to rid us of woke nonsense and diversity stuff when the money which is there could be spend on helping people. The party who decides to re-nationalise the public utilities because they are too important to be put to private companies. The party who set out to build council houses and social housing and not so called affordable which are anything but to most people. The party that bans second homes when there are those with no roof over their head. Not sure still who to vote for. Cannot find anybody who ticks those boxes for me. Oh, and almost forgot. Secure our borders. They managed in 1939 as a German spy was as rare as a Darlo fan in Church Street. Message to Starmer and Rishi (if you are still leader when the election if it happens comes.) The Tory Macmillan government managed to build 300,000 council houses in one year. Finally, Pools. Stop this mind numbing cross field passing looking for openings and go back to taking people on attacking. Thank you all for reading.

100% how I feel. This is in my humble opinion by far the best political post I have ever read on here. Your eyes are wide open 2-0 let's hope more people follow and open their eyes very soon.

They need to be careful, Need to have enough people(minnions) to look after them.
Without citizens countries can not function nor exist.

I can’t remember a MP representing Hartlepool who actually stood up and made a speech /statement in Parliament although Mortimer did a few months back but I can’t remember what it was about.

The Labour bloke seems quite vocal so if he gets in he may break the mold but you are right we need a big gob to put the town on the map. Failing a big gob the MP needs power of a cabinet minister who when there is a big employer looking to set it somewhere he says " I will have that" and Hartlepool gets it.

I wonder who they will put up now in Hartlepool?

Who cares, he’ll have pissed people right off pulling this move…his HQ at Burn Valley looks a bit stupid now, tells you all you need to know.
This was a calculated piece of classic shithousery on his part in my humble opinion and tells me all I need to know about him..he comes across as opportunistic, calculating and ultimately unprincipled ….. a lucky escape for Hartlepool.
The Tory’s will be in the loft going rummaging for a candidate to be sacrificed…the leading contender is Albert RN….or possibly a Kamikze pilot who felt rotten about missing out on his chance in WW2.
George Custer is leading the running.
Sunak is looking more like King Canute with every passing day.

Last election majority for the Conservatives was as I mentioned 25000, surely he must have had a better chance standing in Hartlepool. Boston and Skegness is very Euroseptic Boston had the highest population of Eastern European residents of anywhere in the UK. so maybe Tice thought he has a better chance standing there.

Maybe iv'e had too much sun on my head this week but did Sunak just say he'd bring back national service for 18 years old.

It’s only for 30,000 volunteers military wise.
The rest would be a non military work for local communities one weekend every month for a year.
It won’t happen.

It’s only for 30,000 volunteers military wise.
The rest would be a non military work for local communities one weekend every month for a year.
It won’t happen.

I get you.We need to be prepared if World War 3 kicks off !!

From what I have read the Labour party have spent a lot of time courting industry etc. If they win this won't be a far left government.

Correct, it will be a globalist pro-immigration party obsessed by the needs minorities and keen to keep the Islamists happy. Very little different from the Tories.

he did, but its not the old miletary one we might be thinking about. they are looking for votes and not trying to lose even more.

at last something we can get our teeth into ...expand.

Not much to expand. There is little to choose between Labour and Conservatives in terms of policies. Tories claim they want to stop the boats but do nothing whereas Labour keep quiet cos they dont give a toss about the boats either but realize the issue is electorially toxic. Both parties want higher taxes and spend too much time and energy on identitarian politics. Conservatives and Labour have absolutely no understanding of ordinary people. Oh and I think I am right in saying some influential Labour MPs want to bring in refugees from Gaza as if we didnt have enough Islamist nutters in the UK already. Wouldn't vote for either of them. I look forward to any reply.

Trouble nowadays is most politicians come from that cosseted University middle class gullible background and they are slowly morphing into one huge blob.
Both Party’s pay scant service to their original background and the MP’s have no idea what their founding fathers believed in because they’ve experienced nothing of real life at any level.
Whoever gets in, nothing will really change.

Trouble nowadays is most politicians come from that cosseted University middle class gullible background and they are slowly morphing into one huge blob.
Both Party’s pay scant service to their original background and the MP’s have no idea what their founding fathers believed in because they’ve experienced nothing of real life at any level.
Whoever gets in, nothing will really change.

One thing that really disturbed me was a clip of Sunak stating at a garden party of the faithful that as chancellor he had altered the £ allocation formula's that had existed from the previous labour government to favour the affluent areas at the determent of the deprived areas.
Having worked in this area (Health & Local Government) you only need to adjust these formulas by small percentages to move very large sums of central government funding between areas.
Will the new government reverse this i wonder?

Richard Osman was on TV the other day and he said Sunak called the election because he had enough.
I can believe that of all the reasons touted.

The incentive was we had to work to pay the bills, what incentive do politicians,most are already well heeled before entering into politics, losing their job won’t make any difference to their lifestyle so they don’t care about others.

The incentive was we had to work to pay the bills, what incentive do politicians,most are already well heeled before entering into politics, losing their job won’t make any difference to their lifestyle so they don’t care about others.

I hope Labour add this to their manifesto, Sunak to scrap some rip off university courses in favour of apprenticeships, I would agree providing the apprenticeships are in recognised trades.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clmmry99y4po

I have my doubts…ALL politicians have little idea what a proper apprenticeship is, it’s a buzz word for them with little comprehension of its true meaning.
They class a two week course shelf stacking in pound shops as ‘apprentice training ’ and probably hand out a mock certificate to go with it.
Never trust any party when it comes to apprenticeships….they’re all middle class and patronising.

or have the apprenticeship at a university where they can come out with a degree in welding or plumbing. follow this by even more years taken up by training till hopefully they can then reach retirement age without doing a full days work and the government can proudly state they have kept people off the streets.

I hope Labour add this to their manifesto, Sunak to scrap some rip off university courses in favour of apprenticeships, I would agree providing the apprenticeships are in recognised trades.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clmmry99y4po

Why should Farage get any airtime at all. He has done virtually nothing but the press are fascinated by him. Yes i could understand Tice as a current party leader or Meatloaf or Dianne Abbot or Jill Mortimer or me.
He was just an MEP from 1999 to 2020 just like many many others.

Considering Farage is not standing as an MP he is constantly being interviewed in the MSM.
He is on the Question Time panel tonight along with Morgan, Hinds and Streetin, no representative from any of the other parties.

Well ask the media, it’s their choice who they have on….. Farage can’t turn up and put himself on.

Your off again Snowy, oh look it’s daft o’clock, not a morning person are you, I already said he turned it down so no need to ask the media.
30p wasn’t on is because he is a bit of a loose cannon, you ever seen him being interviewed.

Why should Farage get any airtime at all. He has done virtually nothing but the press are fascinated by him. Yes i could understand Tice as a current party leader or Meatloaf or Dianne Abbot or Jill Mortimer or me.
He was just an MEP from 1999 to 2020 just like many many others.