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Incidentally, we have people over here who ask “why do we need to have 650 MPs in the House of Commons, America has just 435 seats in the House of Representatives with a far bigger population?”, who as you can see are oblivious about that whole federalism and decentralised states thing that the...

Remember that website called (IIRC) Transformers 2001, where a fanfic by someone called Anton Max was illustrated up with 3D rendered images?

If only Corbyn was a normie social-democratic politician like some of his apologists claim he is, rather than someone who has poisoned British politics for at least a generation.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/22/jk-rowling-bbc-issues-apology-after-accusations-of-transphobia/ Couldn’t make this up…

It’s still considered a four-letter word over here, not an obscure term at all, and you wouldn’t call a female colleague that word unless you wanted to lose your job. It’s pretty obvious why the character’s legacy name has been changed – no different to when that Power Core Combiners figure...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/food-shortages-supermarkets-jobs-coffey-b2288054.html “Let them eat turnips.” (Incidentally, the BBC1 6pm evening news yesterday claiming that the fruit and vegetable shortages are “Europe wide”, but the BBC is as reliable source of information as...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/supermarket-rationing-uk-restrictions-asda-morrisons-b2287020.html?amp In other news, a shortage of fruit and vegetables has caused major supermarkets to limit purchases. (Anyone in a mainland European country, please let us know if the same thing...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kate-forbes-children-sex-marriage-wrong-b2286533.html Looks like the next First Minister of Scotland will be a member of the conservative wing of the SNP, someone who doesn’t like childbirth out of marriage, wants to outlaw abortion and opposes...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/02/09/tory-mp-uses-conspiracy-theory-in-uk-parliament-against-15-minute-city-concept/ The “15 minute city” conspiracy has taken root in the UK, and even Tory politicians are promoting the conspiracy theory in the House of Commons. (I have no idea...

Yeah, former party – Corbyn’s essentially expelled from Labour, and allegedly planning to compete directly against a Labour candidate at the next general election. Corbyn is such electoral poison that the party leadership distancing themselves from him is more about self preservation than...

Just when you thought Space Karen couldn’t wreck Twitter further…

I don’t like Starmer, but this is a good move. The taint of Corbyn needs removing from that party.

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has suddenly resigned. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-64648879

I suppose those draconian rules will speed up the inevitable collapse of Twitter into irrelevance and obscurity, so…

I can’t think of anything that possibly could go wrong this approach, nope.

Brexit going well, then.

‘Funny’ how British far-right and far-left politicians have the same position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Just as they were and are both anti-EU.

Another Tory prime minister gets a criminal record while in office!

Spotted several of these billboards while out at lunch today. Not ominous at all!

The Scottish parliament passed a law giving additional rights to trans people late last year, and the UK government has overturned it – the first time a law has been overridden since the Scottish parliament was formed in 1999.