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      They had already voted for him. At that point, they’ve fulfilled their use, and if anything he’d probably be quite happy to off a few of them.

      He was never a party man. His entire cabinet would happily see the Conservative party burn once they’ve got their money and power out of the public.

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          They should be utterly decimated…but I lost my faith in the UK voting public a long time ago. I have a few friends in Tory strongholds like Surrey and Somerset, and even now they’re fully against the potential for a Labour government.

          IMO the best thing that could happen to traditional conservatism is for the party to be annihilated at the next GE. Get the US-style identity politics and populism shite out, see it for the damage it caused the country, and give a populist Labour government some competition under a leader that isn’t a fucking nutjob.

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      He was also significantly over weight during this period with little exercise and, in a high stress job (not that it stopped him from his afternoon naps).

      He also caught COVID quite early on (Late March), which was no surprise as he liked to attend parties when all this was going on, and was hospitalised for one on one care early for preventative care including oxygen back when oxygen was being restricted for preventative care.

      I am not suggesting the PM shouldn’t have had the best care available, more that hes proven to lack empathy of anything he hasn’t experienced himself, so is highly unlikely to understand just how overloaded the NHS was at this point and that his experience was anything other than privileged.

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    Does he not realize that he’s pretty much in that group now? And a massive chunk of his voters already are? Is he saying he thinks mother nature has it out for him?

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    Which only supports my notion that he is terminally stupid. Those “old people” are their primary voter base.

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      Meh, attacking pensioners’ livelihoods never cost Tories votes, why should attacking their actual lives?

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        That’s because all of the things that Tories do are reported on the internet, and that’s a scary place that their voters don’t look at.

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    Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.

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    Didn’t realize only old people could have organ transplants, cancer, autoimmune disease, or just simply weaker immune systems.

    Good thing it’s only old people.

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      I had a friend die from covid at 38. Another guy down the road died in his early 30s. They were both fat but probably should have had another 20 years at least.