Calm down dear, you’ll miss him dearly if the true “utterly clueless bigoted scum” ever get into power
Calm down dear, you’ll miss him dearly if the true “utterly clueless bigoted scum” ever get into power
But remember for some people both the centre left and the voters are always a disappointment 😉
The mitochondria are at work ❤️
Who mentioned anything about that? But again if you think vulnerable communities would be better off with Labour out of power and Reform in government, just say that
“If the facts don’t fit the desired narrative, just make stuff up”
The fact this government had the worst inheritance since the Second World War is objective reality though. And if you think they’re “villainising the vulnerable” just wait until you see Reform’s manifesto in 2029
There’s no critical engagement here about how the government has had to try to fix broken public services, assuage the markets, fix broken public services and get the economy growing all at once. The idea that the government could instantly fix everything after 14 years of Tory mess is fanciful
The next GE looks likely to be an existential choice between preserving British democracy and the UK going the same way as the US. So it seems a tad self-indulgent to hope the vibe will be “which 3rd rate protest party will people vote for?” (LDs excluded where voting for them makes tactical sense)
They’re simply abysmal
More from the free speech absolutists
Just to be really clear on this, there isn’t any debate on the quality of the legal advice she received. The Court of Appeal were clear about that and said they found her evidence to the contrary to be ‘incredible’
Oh pull the other one
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OK how about “this queen”?
Protect this broad at all costs ❤️
Yes, people need to understand there’s no ultimate stopper
@jessicaelgot.bsky.social it would be helpful to correct this as it seems to be taking off
Yes the Lords should but it’s not entirely within the Government’s control. I think they also don’t want to overpromise what impact this and the France returns deal will have, and end up underdelivering. But agree they should be setting out more clearly their multi-pronged approach
The legislation hasn’t been passed by Parliament yet, it’s in the Lords
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Tom T?
They might come across like a void but I don’t think they are - in reality many of them are obsessed with race (if not racist) but they don’t necessarily want to draw attention to it/they still have some shame. So although it comes across as though there’s nothing there, there is - it’s just bad
Donald Trump is surely the biggest threat to free speech and democracy in the history of the United States. And as for Lucy Connolly, if she didn’t want to do the time then she shouldn’t have done the crime
I’ll never understand 😅
The fact it’s literally happening in real time over there and it hasn’t yet caused the left to think “hmm, what are we doing here?” is mind boggling
And in fairness, what is the Left-Green political strategy? Lose nationally twice (once the worst result for Lab in living memory), continue to completely ignore half the electorate, and top it all off by splitting the vote and allowing Reform to come to power? Sounds like they’re onto a winner…
OK that is actually quite funny
They’re prioritising balance over objectivity. It won’t end well
You’re welcome, it’s always refreshing when the left concedes its policies are unworkable and its leaders are vain and hollow
These left activist types never have to reckon with economic or political reality outside of their bubble. It isn’t possible to fix everything in 13 months or even 5 years - yes Lab do need to show constant progress but if the UK really wants Reform (i) they will have been warned and (ii) good luck
Yes the appellate courts will need to sort this out - the gov has statutory duties which, given the mess the Tories left and assuming there aren’t egregious breaches of the planning system, hold more weight than the inevitable objections of Johnny-no-talent Cllrs and Mrs Muggins down the road
But the snake oil peddled by the likes of Corbyn and Farage will get us nowhere. If there were easy answers the Tories would have got round to implementing them
We’re still on everything’s broken and nothing works, it will take time to fix and people know that even if they pretend they don’t. The voters have agency too - destroying everything again only means fixing the fundamentals will take that much longer, that’s if we have a democracy left!
They’re hardly neutral experts on tax policy, they just constantly sell this snake oil which never happens and nobody believes. In reality Lab has already increased capital gains and inheritance tax, charged VAT on private school fees and abolished the non-dom regime, with more to come no doubt
Blanket wealth taxes have failed everywhere they’ve been tried. That’s not to say the tax take from the richest can’t and shouldn’t be increased, but it has to be done gradually and strategically as Lab have done and will continue to do. The Corbyn lot are addicted to easy answers just like Farage
Completely ignoring the concerns of half the electorate doesn’t work under FPTP. There were significantly more Leave than Remain constituencies, and Corbyn piled up votes in cities but delivered the lowest number of seats for Labour in living memory. These are just the facts
Yes, Corbyn and his fans either don’t know or pretend that the markets will wear unfunded borrowing. You have more in common with Truss and Farage than you care to admit
Yusuf was challenged on Newsnight the other day about where this ‘plan’ was. This seems exactly the type of back-of-a-fag-packet ‘plan’ they would quickly come up with in response
It’s called politics. The ‘best’ policies don’t go anywhere if you can’t get elected in the first place
Let’s get real here, it was the lead story on the BBC News website
It’s what the centre left needs to do to win a under the FPTP system in the UK. This isn’t news. And Labour needs time to fix the fundamental issue of, all at once, broken public finances & public services, high borrowing costs and low growth. The left don’t have any good answers to that challenge
Bernie Sanders lost two Democratic primaries on the trot, just like Corbyn lost two GEs. There are reasons for that which aren’t all to do with the centre left
Yes exactly, the Corbyn fanclub just want to pretend that the fiscal impacts of Covid and Brexit never happened
The problem is this is all premised on the idea that the voting public would love the left if only they gave it a chance. They won’t, so in the alternative someone has to get on with making the best of things
I mean take the Ukrainian flag in your bio for instance - Corbyn says he just wants to “stop war” and like Farage echoes Russian rhetoric. In that context it’s clear who the best available PM was at the election and is now
But what we do know, as it’s been tried twice before and tested to destruction, is that Corbyn is simply never going to command the necessary voter coalition to form a gov under FPTP. Ergo everybody is responsible for voting to stop certain chaos - they won’t be able to say they weren’t warned
Is it though? I agree the proposed welfare reforms didn’t meet the socially democratic nature of the moment, but there’s no getting around that the universal WFA was a joke and fundamentally more people need to be in work. Similarly it’s hardly Starmer’s fault that Trump and Netanyahu are in power
Governing is hard but Corbyn rightly never even got to that stage, and never wanted to. He failed twice, anyone who can possibly think that the third time will be a charm is delulu
And if the ‘Green-Left alliance’ (🙄) look into the Reform abyss at the next election and knowingly don’t vote to stop the country jumping into it, the likely policy outcomes will be entirely self-inflicted and they’ll own them (even if they’ll always have a million reasons for why they don’t)
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The appellate courts will need to sort this mess out. They will know that the Government doesn’t have any other viable options
That same MP now blames a “vacuum of leadership” for leaving the courts to rule on what voters see as a “moral and political matter”. I’m sorry but this is utter bollocks. Are they suggesting that the Government should have somehow stopped any and all legal challenges? 🌝
It will happen in the same way - people will look into the abyss and make the right decision. And if they don’t…
The appellate courts will have to get real (as is usually the case). You can’t allow people to claim asylum at the same time as making it impossible to house them, it’s a recipe for chaos
Cancel it now
I don’t think anybody can look dispassionately at the last King’s Speech and their legislative agenda and say that
I think it’s fine to want different vibes, but look at what Labour have been able to achieve in the context of the world as it is. That wasn’t guaranteed, and they have to govern in the times and circumstances they find themselves in. Not saying they’re perfect either but the alternative is 💀
BBC: “It may seem like a minor point, but this is a US president who values decorum and respect for his office, something that emerged as a bit of a sticking point last time Zelensky was here.” What the fuck have I just read? The BBC making the case for its own abolition there
The perfect world doesn’t exist and can’t be offered, so do think it’s silly for people to look into the abyss and still pretend it’s not there because they weren’t offered a perfect world. But do politicians need to get the pitch right? Yes of course
Think in reality it’s a bit of both
Oh FFS
I think the key questions for the next decade or so are, can the global centre work together to reform the rules underpinning global migration? And at what rate does every country get fed up with the inevitable drama, corruption and failure of the global far right?
Hmm. Don’t want to make a ‘demography is destiny’ argument but could we possibly be saved by the sheer extent of the Tory/Reform vote in older generations and the electorate in 2034, say, looking very different? Also the first step is the anti-Reform vote wising up about what’s at stake in 2029
The blindness of the Corbyn fanclub to the fact the independent group is hopelessly split on abortion and trans rights is…exactly what you would expect from an unthinking fanclub
The blindness of the Corbyn fanclub to the fact the independent group is hopelessly split on abortion and trans rights is…exactly what you would expect from an unthinking fanclub
Does she though? Says racist thing, pretends to apologise, then says she meant it after all and doesn’t see that she’s done anything wrong? 🌝
Maybe some more working age people need to be in work to afford that? 🌝
Hahahaha lol @ Reform voters. These fucking idiots
No critical analysis of the fact that she’s achieved nothing and can’t string a sentence together - much less a coherent policy position - but is nonetheless on the road to power apparently
“Whether you like her - or not – Dame Andrea Jenkyns continues to be seen by many as an important flag bearer in Reform UK's transition from a party of protest to a party of power.” In which case the nation is fucked 🤷♂️
So much for freedom of speech!
It also happens to be a complete lie. Lol
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The British people voted for Brexit and the people who started this nonsense. “Blame yo’self!”
Also more pertinently, it was Boris’ bodged Brexit deal which removed us from the Dublin scheme with no alternative arrangements with the EU
They just simply aren’t the angels the pensioners with nothing better to do than get arrested imagine them to be www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I don’t think it is disproportionate to their litany of criminality and willingness to attack sensitive military sites
The legal definition of terrorism now includes damage to property, do keep up
There’s a right to protest, just not to support a criminal organisation which is attacking defence/military sites. Hope this helps
Nobody attacking defence/military sites is doing themselves or anyone else any good
So why aren’t you attacking defence/military sites then? 🙄
This isn’t a “whole movement”, it’s a criminal organisation which attacks defence/military sites. There are plenty of law-abiding pro-Palestinian campaign organisations
Atm Labour has a huge majority for 4 years so everyone can indulge themselves with protest votes/pretending we have a European PR system, but if LD/Green voters look into the abyss in a tight FPTP election and still protest vote - it’s hard to conclude they won’t deserve the likely policy outcomes
It’s hard not to see the national “it’s us or Farage” argument being reflected in local contests in a tight election. In fact I’d argue that a big part of the reason votes peeled away from Labour in safe seats in 2024 was *because* they were practically certain to win, so it was an easy protest vote
I wouldn’t characterise the Greens/YP as centre left? The latter is just Corbyn’s vanity revenge project, with its likely MPs hopelessly split on issues like abortion and VAT for private schools. It’s why he wanted it to be leaderless, but what do they say in their manifesto about these issues?
Feels like a bit of a stretch to suggest the gov isn’t trying to improve things. And Tory openness to voting Reform is surely even more reason why LD/Green voters should pick improved public services/greenest gov ever by any measure - as opposed to the end of everything 😅
But does that really hold in an existential election where, at the end of it, it will be Labour or Reform in government?
Isn’t the logic that LD/Green/“Your Party” (🙄) curious Lab voters are more likely to return to Lab in the likely - and likely existential - event of a Lab v Reform election, whereas Reform curious Lab voters are (by definition) more predisposed to voting Reform in that election, whatever Lab does?
At what point is this the Tory Party completely fucking itself? Their best performance at the GE was in Harrow East FGS
How could this ever have been foreseen? 🌝
Protect this broad at all costs ❤️
Once it’s all in force it will be much better than what we had before (which was nothing), and much better than what we could have in the future - again, nothing
At least when Reform cancel all Labour’s social housing investment we’ll have this memory to cling to 🌝🙄
The difference is that it never would have happened
The substantive point is that Labour will actually pass a Renters’ Rights Bill into law, regardless of one silly squabble with likely useless estate agents in East London