UK Politics Thread

Yup. Hard to believe she could be worse then Jenrick, yet here we are. Her rampant transphobia is well known, just ask David Tennant.

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He’s an obvious crackpot who should never have been allowed to get near parliament. And someone should have dealt with sword guy as well.

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This is a disgrace:

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Another drop of blood from the self-inflicted wound that is Brexit.

I was pretty fascinated by this quote from the article though: ā€œThe UK’s going through an incredible change as far as cheese is going.ā€

I need to know about these bold new cheese frontiers!

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If it was self-inflicted i wouldn’t be so pissed off.

No, they self-inflicted the wound, then when they saw that nearly 50% of us didn’t want to join them they forced it on us in the most painful way possible.

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One day of serving on the local council, then quits and moves elsewhere. That’s quite a record.

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Is Elon upset because Labour aren’t right wing and transphobic enough?

In the highly unlikely event we get another general election, I’m putting up a poster with pictures of Starmer, Badenoch and Farage and ā€œThey’re all fucking bastards!ā€ underneath. And I’ll be sticking to my principles and not voting for transphobes, no exceptions.

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I was very tempted to put this in Thread of Assholes.

In possibly connected news…

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Just the first stage, but still. I was prepared to be disappointed.

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In an ideal world, this would be OK. We do not live in an ideal world and I don’t trust that this won’t be weaponised by fascists or their collaborators.

This feels like Labour have given up on the NHS.

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Well, same, but i agree on principle that any civilised country should offer people the right to die with dignity at the time of their own choosing.

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Control over money in politics in the UK is long overdue. The Tories and Refuse have long had an unfair advantage in a system that allows rich individuals and corporates to dump cash into parties that will uphold their position.

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Utterly disgusting behaviour, which is of course directed at vulnerable people who were scared to speak up.

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That seems more like English behavior.

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Nah, it’s just assholes with power behaviour. This sort of nonsense crops up in any group of people with power over others.

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The people objecting to inheritance tax reform are exactly who you would expect.

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This appears to be

  1. Unusually sensible for a UK government proposal.
  2. A step towards fixing the complicated mess of different types of local government all across England.
  3. Time for me to update my massive wall of text from the other place explaining Local government elections whenever they become a UK news story.
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They did something like that here in 2019, and other than the difference in letterhead I can’t say I noticed much difference (not that I’ve ever been too involved in local governance…)

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