The brits are in for a rough ride

[misuspita]

You've had your win with Boris. Now America snatched it back with Trump. Twice! Why you wanna win again, Britain?

 

[pmv]

You've had your win with Boris. Now America snatched it back with Trump. Twice! Why you wanna win again, Britain?

Does look as if we might grab the dunce's cap back again.

A long way to go to the election, but in the light of what's been happening in the US, I find the prospect of a Farage government extremely scary.

 

[K1052]

Does look as if we might grab the dunce's cap back again.

A long way to go to the election, but in the light of what's been happening in the US, I find the prospect of a Farage government extremely scary.

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France and the Low Countries going to rebuild the Atlantic Wall at this rate.

 

[fskimospy]

Does look as if we might grab the dunce's cap back again.

A long way to go to the election, but in the light of what's been happening in the US, I find the prospect of a Farage government extremely scary.

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It is sad but also a little funny how the UK voted in a referendum to make themselves permanently much poorer and now are furiously cycling politicians in an effort to get around that basic fact.

You already blasted your dick off, putting on a different pair of pants won't change that.

 

[DZero]

It is sad but also a little funny how the UK voted in a referendum to make themselves permanently much poorer and now are furiously cycling politicians in an effort to get around that basic fact.

You already blasted your dick off, putting on a different pair of pants won't change that.

The issue is that said movement seems to be a death sentence of the UK as a union and separate between them and Scottland and North Ireland.

 

[KMFJD]

Owen Jones (@owenjones.bsky.social)

Even Tory MPs are calling out Starmer's support for Israel. People are beginning to realise the savage judgement that will befall all those who failed to do something when they had the chance.

bsky.app

who's this guy? mighty brave stance for a conservative

 

[pmv]

It may be premature, but given the state of the opinion polls (Reform pulling ahead, Tories completely collapsing, Labour in slow-but-steady decline, Greens and Lib Dems way behind but gaining a little bit) I'm wondering if maybe both the Labour and Conservative Party are dying?

It seems as if there isn't really a political space for either of them now.

The Tories were always a coalition between corporate/globalist/neo-liberal plutocrats and working-class social-conservatives - and the former would now fit in much better with the "Orange book" neo-liberal Lib Dems, while the latter would fit in better with the Trump-like Reform.

Labour was always a coalition between working-class socialists and social democrats (even if some of the latter split off to form the SDP that became the Lib Dems, absorbing the dying-and-increasingly-anachronistic "Liberal" Party) and above all was supposed to represent organised Labour - something that has declined massively in influence and purpose since Thatcherism changed both the laws and the structure of the economy.

And now what's left of the 'working class' is much more fragmented and individualised and seems more identified with social conservatism than socialism, hence they'd fit better with Reform, and much of the 'middle class' has become proletarianised with their circumstances being more like that of the traditional working class, but with more formal education and more sociallly-liberal attitudes, and they'd fit better with an actual 'leftist' party, like the Greens.

In both cases there seems little political space left for either of the traditional 'two main parties'.

 

[mikeymikec]

Christ, and to think I voted for this guy once:

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

www.theverge.com

Suck on that 'free market' teat harder, why don't you...

IMO it's all part of the slavery circle: Slavery helps capitalism, then slavery is bad for a while, then slavery pops up in a new form.

 

[DZero]

That is clearly worse than using the Chinese way to copy products.

 

[mikeymikec]

I initially encountered this story on MS Edge's front page, but the report there was like "he resigned after calling someone dumb":

Why Zia Yusuf's resignation matters for Reform UK

Chris Mason details the three key things that the party will lack without its former chair.

www.bbc.co.uk

However, a smidgen more detail really paints the picture:

It comes after Yusuf said it was "dumb" for Reform's newest MP to call for a ban for the burka - a veil worn by some Muslim women that covers the face and body.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I initially encountered this story on the MS Edge's front page, but the report there was like "he resigned after calling someone dumb":

Why Zia Yusuf's resignation matters for Reform UK

Chris Mason details the three key things that the party will lack without its former chair.

www.bbc.co.uk

However, a smidgen more detail really paints the picture:

-Ah Islam, ye olde liberal trap.