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Provisional results. Not exactly the far-right takeover some media are claiming, once all the countries participating are totalled up.

I think the main issue is that they purged loads of their Remain-ish MPs prior to and during the 2019 election, and they’re left with a load of crazies and also-rans who’d otherwise be at best junior ministers. That and the usual fatigue and churn from 14 years in power. (Tory adverts seem to...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmmrwexv4ko The Reform party is OK with one of their candidates saying Britain should’ve appeased Hitler. Great.

(The AfD are a far-right party in Germany which are as close to being a revived Nazi party as the German constitution allows them to be.)

I heard teachers at school vary between the two of those claims. Although the most common ‘explanation’ was that the fossils were put there to “test faith” and that the flood somehow artificially aged the Earth. (Yes, this was in supposedly normal state schools in England. Didn’t go to a...

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/rishi-sunak-apologises-for-returning-from-d-day-ceremony-early-13149195 Idiot Sunak put his foot in it, leaving the D-Day commemorations in France early for a television interview in the UK. That isn’t going down well with target Tory voters, as you can imagine.

I saw that Biden has condemned bans on trans healthcare. That makes him automatically much more progressive on LGBTQ rights issues than any of the leaders of the parties currently contesting the British general election.

Him and his shitty little far-right party get so much media attention, particularly from the BBC, when they have a few local councillors and no MPs. OTOH, the media’s election coverage barely registers the LibDems and Greens, who have a lot more elected representatives each. Farage and his...

Well, the Tories are leaning very hard right at the moment, both on economics and nationalism / culture war rhetoric. They’ll certainly double down on that after the election, particularly if one of their crazies becomes Tory leader. In that case, it’d be preferable if the culturally liberal and...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-general-election-2024-poll-projection-seats-wipeout-b2555671.html Bit sceptical of this to be honest, but some polling estimates the Liberal Democrats will end up with more seats than the Tories, with even the current prime minister losing...

I don’t get how a certain section of his followers seem to idolise him as proper traditional masculine man, an alpha male, when he’s such a self-pitying, self-obsessed wanker.

OK, I don’t fully understand US politics, because it’s ‘unique’ in the western democratic world. Is there anything stopping the Democratic Party from having a different presidential candidate if Biden continues to poll bad and/or becomes incapacitated?

We do need some level of rearmament. I’d rather we build the existing volunteer professional military rather than forcibly enslave kids for a year as free labour. Already this morning Tory ministers are trying to downplay the conscription policy (one even saying “no one will go to prison over...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo.amp I almost believe that Sunak is now actively trying to lose the election as hard as possible.

BeOS?! Haven't heard that name in about 25+ years. Last I remember, Apple had planned to buy it and adapt it as a new Mac OS before a certain S. Jobs intervened. Interesting to hear it’s still around in some form.

Find it ironic Tory MPs are angry at Sunak for ruining their life plans, when the Tory government have been doing the same thing to the British public for the last 14 years.

Just general incompetence, really. Not that different to the bad optics that plagued Theresa May’s general election campaign. All rather last minute too. Seems Sunak called the election without consulting most of his cabinet. He had six months left, so needn’t have called it this early. Safe...

Prime minister about to call a general election on 4th July. Allegedly. Edit: he called it.