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https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/10/mps-back-cuts-to-winter-fuel-payments New government, same old austerity and cuts to hurt society’s most vulnerable.

Errr, France is more the US model, to be honest. As in absolutely averse to coalitions. Prior to the rise of Macron, France had a centre-left bloc made up of the Socialist Party and allies, and a centre-right bloc of the Gaullists/Republicans and allies. However both those major parties have...

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-national-rally-emmanuel-macron-france-michel-barnier/ Macron appointed a prime minister from the Republicans party (France’s established conservative party), which came fourth in June’s National Assembly election, blocking the New Popular Front’s...

I’ve always wondered, going back to 2015/6, why the media weren’t making an issue about this. I mean, ours won’t because of the rules about impartiality on TV and radio. Over there that’s less of an issue. Is it about avoiding potential lawsuits? Some lingering sense of trying to deferential? I...

What was that line in The Onion again? “Nothing can be done about this in the only country where it regularly happens”. Urgh.

The new government is just as batshit and right-wing as the previous Tory one. New idea: send prisoners to Estonia. (I mean, Estonia is much nicer country to live in than Rwanda, but still.)

Going off topic here, a bit, but all your supermarket chains are regional rather than national, aren’t they? (I mean, ours are national, the 6 or 7 main ones. But we of course have a much smaller land mass and higher population density.)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-kwasi-kwarteng-at-10-nhs-cancer-economy-b2601932.html Apparently Liz Truss was going to scrap cancer treatments on the NHS. (Of course thankfully she didn’t, as she was only prine minister for a month.)

I remember trying Starbucks when in the US back in 2000. I’d heard of it from American films. We didn’t have that chain or anything like that back then (at least not in Not-London). There was the novelty appeal. I wasn’t prepared for how highly caffeinated the coffee was. Made me twitchy and...

He’s starting to look the Emperor Palpatine…

Oh FFS. The whole excuse about the protests ‘actually’ being against the murder of several kids doesn’t wash given that 1.) misinformation about the assailant being a Muslim and an asylum seeker started immediately 2.) the protesters used racist, xenophobic slogans like “stop the boats”, “send...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rdwx4yx12o Almost 35C in parts of Britain today. Hate to sound like an English version of Kup, but I remember when temperatures of 17.5C were considered a warm summer day…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/11/far-right-demonstrations-abandoned-amid-warnings-of-10-year-sentences Planned far-right protests never happened at the weekend due to a combination of widespread counterprotests, and judges throwing the book at convicted rioters.

TBH, I’m genuinely worried that the race riots in the UK (well, England and Northern Ireland) the last week were a dry run for something dark that could happen in November in the States; online far-right agitators were manipulated behind the scenes to trigger it all off, and I wouldn’t be...

Oh, given how racist and nationalistic the country has been these past eight years, I’ll take members of the public standing up en masse to race rioters over the alternative.

Space Wanker’s done it again and shared a faked ‘news’ story from the co-leader of a British neo-nazi group. Our new government needs to bite the bullet and just IP block Twitter. I don’t like governments enacting authoritarian moves like that, but given twitter was used to enflame violent...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/07/thousands-of-anti-racism-protesters-take-to-streets-to-counter-far-right-rallies Thousands of people across Britain… Turned up to counter-protect, greatly outnumbering the racists.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/seriously-elon-musk-criticised-over-totally-unjustified-remarks-about-uk-riots-13191820 He’s in “all lives matter” mode about the UK race riots now. Wondering how much this constant amplifying of disinformation to spread disorder is a dry run for November in the...

Space Wanker is now predicting that Britain will erupt into civil war. EDIT: The UK government officially condemned Space Wanker for this tweet. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/05/no-10-criticises-elon-musk-post-x-riots