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https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lft5lq7fpl2u Would I be correct in assuming that Kindly Uncle Joe couldn’t get any of these goals achieved when in office as he led what in Britain would be called minority government?

Oh FFS, that's exactly like Brexit – "vote to leave the EU and they'll bring back manufacturing jobs!" (Yes, and how's that working out now there are trade frictions and tariffs and reams of extra paperwork to trade with Britain's largest export market?) It's the same scam, different country.

It’s basically exactly what the leaks revealed, including the system logo.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/13/uk-low-middle-income-families-poorer-oecd-counterparts-study-western-europe Cheerful news about living standards here on Poverty Island.

Seems to be a whole swirl of different reasons I’ve seen. Climate denialist cope seems to take on all kinds of shapes, from crank pseudoscience to the tired culture war bollocks. Anything but accepting the scientific consensus…

https://bsky.app/profile/mattshort.bsky.social/post/3lfhwzlbzks2z German Neo-Nazi party the AfD gets a bit unsubtle. Next time, we need to get rid of all of them. Too much Nazism and too many Nazis slipped through the cracks to poison future generations.

I noticed the right-wing narrative is blaming the supposed bad management of local water supplies, and mismanagement of forestry as demanded by shadowy environmentalists. It’s like how whenever there’s historically bad flooding here*, the right-wing media always immediately blames...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/trump-panama-canal-greenland I keep thinking about that weirdo fringe of the Left who claimed that Trump was more “peaceful” of the two candidates.

(Tell you what, I’m not happy about Orange Bastard making bizarre rants about annexing other NATO countries, including one sharing the British head of state.) (I don’t think that he would treat the Inuit people of Greenland particularly nicely, given his white supremacism.)

Hot new words for 2025: Anschluss, lebensraum and irredentism.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-cost-statistics-numbers-five-years-eu-b2667149.html (Alternative link.) How ultranationalism makes your country an economic basketcase…

These feel like the last days of the consumer internet as a usable service. I have to admit that I’m thinking back nostalgically to the internet of 2005, when it was still useful, and community-based, and didn’t spill over into real life. Having it as just a niche, hobbyist pursuit at least kept...

No? Short answer, full of over-simplification, in practice not since the English civil war. (Although the Queen did essentially overthrow an Australian Labor government back in the 1970s. Hence why Aussie Labor support republicanism.) On paper he could, but that means in practice either 1.)...

Speaking of single-term Democrat presidents, after seeing the news about Jimmy Carter’s death I looked up his (in)famous 1979 address to the nation. It’s like from another world – a president (or any government leader) trying to speak to the public frankly, like they rational adults, and the...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/elon-musk-keir-starmer-grooming-gangs-election-b2673185.html Space Wanker still fixated with attempting a ‘soft’ overthrow of the UK government. (There doesn’t need to be a general election until July 2029, and an early election while a government...

Space Wanker adopting explicitly far-right imagery like that, I suspect it’s a reaction to the MAGAts calling him a traitor for accepting the need for immigration – even being in favour of very strictly controlled immigration goes against the ideological purity of hardcore MAGA.

Our conservatives are just starting to go as mask-off crazy as yours, I guess. Compounded by the fact that Brexit hasn't returned the UK to its imperial superpower past, but revealed it to be a minnow in a vasty ocean, but they'd rather suggest the unsuggestable rather than ever admit that...

Hah, the Right-Right (or more accurately, the Nativist Right) remind me of the Lexit* crowd – a worldview that everything would be fine if workers from Poland, Belgium, Finland (etc) were chucked out and replaced with unqualified native locals. * left-wing pro-Brexit people (who are mostly also...

British conservatism and its media continue to be driven even more batshit insane by Trump’s victory…

Sounds like he’s ‘hinting’ at forcible annexation at this point. The most pro-peace president, everybody!