UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

[Anonymous X]

YouGov (@yougov.co.uk)

Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything % saying Brexit has had a positive impact on... Control the UK has over its laws: 31% UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23% UK's level of international trade: 11% NHS: 6% Full list in chart 👇...

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Politicians of both main parties are still claiming Brexit is great and can’t be questioned, despite this.

 

[Anonymous X]

Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations

Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage

www.theguardian.com

Oh, it’s nothing, just a “Labour” government trying to outflank the Reform party from the nationalist right…

 

[Paladin]

Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal

‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but a source close to the administration says his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’

www.independent.co.uk

so from what i've heard... Starmer's ABSOLUTELY gonna do that isn't he???

 

[Anonymous X]

Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal

‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but a source close to the administration says his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’

www.independent.co.uk

so from what i've heard... Starmer's ABSOLUTELY gonna do that isn't he???

Wouldn’t be surprised. He’s more rightwing in practice than the last Tory prime minister, is a social conservative, doesn’t want rapprochement with Europe…

 

[Rhinox]

What's the disenfranchisement of a few thousand citizens compared to being Trump's favorite foreign country, amirite?

Should have told his trained couch ******* monkey to swim back to the states and take that deal with him.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal

‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but a source close to the administration says his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’

www.independent.co.uk

so from what i've heard... Starmer's ABSOLUTELY gonna do that isn't he???

Trump and cronies can f***k RIGHT off. They've NO right to dictate to other countries how to run their affairs within the context of tarrifs.

 

[Pocket]

No surprise that this was his plan all along. Threaten the whole world with insanely high tariffs and then offer to get rid of them in exchange for basically becoming their president too.

 

[Anonymous X]

So we’ve had our “Labour” prime minister basically mimic Farage on some new draconian immigration laws, just as he has copied Farage on LGBTQ rights and public spending. All that Labour landslide last July has left us with a government functionally more right-wing than the old Tory administration, but without a meaningful opposition force to the left of it.

 

[MrBlud]

I really, really, really hope that’s not what’s in store for the US since the Democrats (well, a lot of the Leadership at least) seem to be following the no meaningful opposition like Labour did entire the landslide.

 

[Anonymous X]

Starmer set for 11th hour Brexit reset talks with Macron and Ursula von der Leyen

The prime minister will meet the European Commission and French presidents on the fringes of the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Albania with the Brexit reset talks heating up

www.independent.co.uk

Heh, ‘funny’ how Brexit always exposes UK governments as plain awful and incompetent.

 

[KidTDragon]

I'm having trouble finding details; is the "Brexit reset" an attempt to undo Brexit, or to try to start it over and hug things up less this time?

 

[wonko the sane?]

I think it's only resetting the propaganda about it.

 

[Anonymous X]

I'm having trouble finding details; is the "Brexit reset" an attempt to undo Brexit, or to try to start it over and hug things up less this time?

An attempt at getting less-bad cooperation and trading arrangements with the EU, while also refusing to undo Brexit in any minor way, or accept any sensible offers from the EU. It’s basically the UK government picking a fight with the EU they know that they can’t win, and going off in a huff and playing victim when things don’t work out in their favour. (Which is exactly how the Tory governments of May, Johnson and Sunak acted under these circumstances, FWIW.)

 

[Pocket]

Did I dream it or was there a post here just the other day that's now been deleted? Something about Labour leadership aiming to dismantle "DEI" even though that's not a term anyone in Britain has ever used?

 

[wonko the sane?]

I saw it too, so you're not dreaming.

 

[Anonymous X]

Did I dream it or was there a post here just the other day that's now been deleted? Something about Labour leadership aiming to dismantle "DEI" even though that's not a term anyone in Britain has ever used?

Yeah, sorry about that. I deleted the post – basically I read the article I linked to more throughly and it turned out it was a conservative internal faction/pressure group within Labour called Blue Labour who were pushing the idea of abolishing “DEI”, rather than it being official party policy. So I didn’t want to mislead.

In future I’ll keep such corrected posts up but edit them instead.

 

[abates]

They were letting Tories defect to Labour before the election, so little wonder they now have a group of conservatives trying to swing the party as far to the right as possible.

 

[Pocket]

In future I’ll keep such corrected posts up but edit them instead.

'Preciate it.

 

[Anonymous X]

They were letting Tories defect to Labour before the election, so little wonder they now have a group of conservatives trying to swing the party as far to the right as possible.

Blue Labour’s been around at least fifteen years, they seen themselves as ‘proper’ socialists who are in tune with the social conservatism of native white working class British people. The sort who think people like me who care about issues like racial equality and LGBTQ rights and so on are the ‘metropolitan elite’.

 

[Axaday]

I wasn't really sure the best place to put this, but I was reading about Knesset today, Israel's legislative body. I don't generally advocate emulating Israel's ideas, but if they don't pass the budget by the deadline, they are automatically invalidated and a new election happens.

Imagine if it was Congress that shut down, not the governement. I'll bet they would behave differently.