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That’s basically what Sinn Féin’s would-be MPs do, refuse to swear allegiance to the British crown. So they don’t technically take up the seats in the House of Commons that they’ve won in general elections.

This is why we’re doomed. The British government just legalised fracking, and is also now trying to ban “woke” solar farm projects. (Yes, after electricity and heating bills have doubled or tripled compared to this time last year.)

This is hilarious. Basically, as a former prime minister, Boris Johnson gets to nominate sitting MPs to get kicked upstairs to the House of Lords (Britain’s unelected equivalent of a senate). Those MPs will have to vacate their seats in the House of Commons, which means by-elections – when the...

The insane thing is that a minister (and one who is a right-wing Tory) had set aside money for a public information campaign encouraging the public to save energy this winter, but the prime minister refused on “ideological” grounds...

What a well-run country this is.

So, the Home Secretary says her personal obsession is getting a plane full of immigrants deported to a processing centre in Rwanda. Nice priorities there, given the current state of the UK…

The world economy as we know it would implode if Putin used but one ‘tactical’ nuke in Ukraine, and it never escalated further. All the economic disruption caused since February would be nothing compared to the stock markets around the world crashing simultaneously… Then there’s environmental...

Fascists with libertarian economic policies, basically. And massive levels of corruption:

December 2024 is the latest it can be held. So a while off. Unless enough rebellious Tories collapse their own government. Hopefully staring oblivion in the face so long before a scheduled election will convince enough Tories to sharply change direction or replace the leadership (again) with...

Surprise, all opinion polling taken during the last week not only puts Labour in the lead, but puts the Tories in Kim Campbell type absolute wipeout territory.

Remember, only the ultra-wealthy gain anything from the abolition of the highest income tax rate, but the spending cuts will affect people in low paid jobs claiming in-work benefits.

Basically that. The powers that be know catastrophic economic miss-management when they see it, even if it gives them an income tax cut.

See, if the centre-left Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement had acted sensibly and kept their tentative alliance, and ideally if the liberals hadn’t petulantly split from the centre-left, the right-wing coalition wouldn’t have won. Or they’d have only narrowly won. The right-wingers have...

Full on economic meltdown in the UK right now, due to last week’s budget, it’s worse than 1987, 1992 and the post-referendum crash put together. And the government deny responsibility and blame “the left”.

Remainers and the globalist agenda are now being blamed for the Pound collapsing in value and interest rates skyrocketing.

A year is a long time to wreck the economy beyond repair.

The chancellor* just announced a ludicrously right-wing budget that slashes taxes for the rich, including abolishing the top rate of income tax entirely, and it seems to have had immediate negative reactions from the markets. It’s almost like the Tory government is deliberately crashing the...

They’re all appalling people, really; a complete bunch of Joffreys. Hopefully my country will come to its collective senses sooner rather than later.

Russia is the perfect comparison, really. One-party state, extreme nationalism, unelected rulers, sham democracy, protests banned, authoritarian policing. (And yes, it’s still technically illegal to call for the abolition of the monarchy.)