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

[wonko the sane?]

The problem being that shutting down congress long enough shuts down the government anyway: it's a neat idea but it hasn't removed or changed the weaponization of budget bills or government shutdowns.

Especially given how badly americans run elections: imagine having to do like 3 in 10 months because you can't get a ******* budget passed, but keeping voting in the same fuckwits who can't pass the budget.

 

[Axaday]

I think the Congressmen don't want to do it even if they would get reelected.

 

[Pocket]

Yeah that's the other problem, Israel is a parliamentary system where the only people actually being voted for are their legislators, and I assume they're like the UK and Canada where elections regularly get scheduled on an ad-hoc basis by the people currently in charge rather than on a fixed schedule. We don't even vote for all of our Senators the same years. If you triggered a special election for all members of both houses at the same time, when do they come up for reelection next?

 

[Axaday]

Israel resets a 4 year clock every time they have an election. And man. I was confused about where to post about this, but I didn't think I put it HERE.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Canada has fixed election dates. We didn't used to until fairly recently, but our recent politicians proved they couldn't be trusted with the ability to bring down the government. Canada was pulling an election every 16 months for a while after the turn of the century. The literal and absolute minimum allowed time before some god damn yokel would scream "no confidence". Quebec was literally doing the same thing.

So they switched to a fixed cycle.

 

[Anonymous X]

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So, the government's abandoning what could be called that "DEI" (not that we call it that), with a particular focus on LGBT people. This 'Labour' government isn't just Tories with red ties, it's just plain Trumpian.

 

[Rhinox]

The world will be better off when Trump finally kicks off.
He has singlehandedly driven the world back over 30 years.

 

[MrBlud]

Don’t give him that kind of power.

Putin is really the person responsible and helped along (either willingly or unwittingly) by our Billionaire owned corporate media.

 

[Rhinox]

Don’t give him that kind of power.

Putin is really the person responsible and helped along (either willingly or unwittingly) by our Billionaire owned corporate media.

Putin hasn't pushed the end of DEI or forced other nations to remove their own anti discrimination efforts.
Trump has been a less than secret racist for as long as he's been in the public spotlight. His efforts on this alone, much less lumping in his distain for LGBTQ+ feels like a personal bent on Putin's desire for destabilization.

 

[Ungnome]

Trump is following Putin's lead, at least on the LGBTQ+ stuff. Putin pushed LGBTQ+ rights back in Russia, giving Trump a roadmap to do it here. Putin's Russia made it illegal to 'promote' homosexuality back in 2013, 9 years before Florida passed their 'don't say gay' bill. They also passed a law in 2023 stripping the ability to change one's gender markers on government documents that had been put in place back in 1997, that's nearly two years before Trump's executive orders. Putin wants that stuff just as much as Trump does.

 

[MrBlud]

All the stuff Ungnome said, plus Putin helped Trump get elected too.

He also pushed for Brexit and is continuing to push knobs like Farage and making Labour Tory-lite to further destabilize Britain.

Don’t get me wrong, Trump is a monster but he’s also an idiot.

Putin is a monster as well but a very intelligent one. He’s come closer to destroying “The West” than the USSR dared dream.

 

[Anonymous X]

Bridget Phillipson says she wants more young people in UK to have children

Education secretary says she hopes new nurseries will make it easier for those who want children, after ‘worrying’ fall in birthrate

www.theguardian.com

Labour in April: “Britain is full! Keep out, dirty foreigners!”
Labour in June: “breed for Britain, we’re dangerously under-populated!”

 

[wonko the sane?]

Bridget Phillipson says she wants more young people in UK to have children

Education secretary says she hopes new nurseries will make it easier for those who want children, after ‘worrying’ fall in birthrate

www.theguardian.com

Labour in April: “Britain is full! Keep out, dirty foreigners!”
Labour in June: “breed for Britain, we’re dangerously under-populated!”

"England for the English".

 

[MrBlud]

Zarah Sultana says she is quitting Labour to start party with Corbyn

Labour (and Corbyn) did have a problem with anti-semitism but Netanyahu has pushed the envelope so far with his 50,000+ civilian deaths that most people are not going to care. Especially if this new party makes progress and meaningfully improves people’s lives.

 

[Anonymous X]

Personally I’d never vote for a “Corbyn Party” any more than I would Reform or UKIP or BNP, as in absolutely ******* never. I despise that hateful little man and his death cult.

 

[Anonymous X]

Urgent action needed to halt exodus of firms leaving UK, says CBI

The boss of the CBI says he would support cutting the allowance on cash ISAs to encourage more people to invest in shares.

www.bbc.co.uk

Country’s flat broke with hardly any economic growth, yet the whole of the political and business establishment aren’t allowed to say exactly what has caused nine years of economic misery.

 

[Dekafox]

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-lower-voting-age-16-landmark-electoral-reform-2025-07-17/

Probably should post this here too... missed this thread the first time.

 

[Anonymous X]

That’s one of the handful of policies which the current government has enacted that I think is good and positive – the other being taxing private school fees, and some of the environmental policies.

 

[Dekafox]

Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Anonymous X]

Clord TC, Comics Guy (@clordtc.bsky.social)

OSA is gonna make us lose access to ******* wikipedia write to your MPs.

bsky.app

Not happy about this as someone with a two-decade old Wikipedia account which has contributed tens of thousands of edits.