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mattiloy

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  1. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/19/police-investigate-labour-selection-contest-over-computer-misuse-claims https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/03/22/labour-party-selection-sam-tarry-angela-rayner/ The former DPP who went rogue.
  2. Blair came to power at a time when the global economy was going gang busters and ramped up the public spending and everyone had a nice few years. Unfortunately it was all smoke and mirrors, funding profligate current account spending and ineffective reforms by flogging off assets and PFI and now you have little to show for it. Had they won in 2010, alastair darling was committed to austerity promised greater and deeper ’swingeing cuts’ than the tories. Philosophically there is a fag paper’s difference between Blair and Cameron. And now their heirs Starmer and Reeves reaffirm this time and again in both words and deeds but for some reason people have decided that they shall disbelieve what Starmer and Reeves say and do and instead hold on to some odd fiction that they are secret radicals. Presumably because they are at least nominally still ’Labour’ and the association of that brand with doing good things has still not completely died.. yet. I predict another decade of austerity, underfunded public services, paternalistic authoritarianism and overseas interventionism. But dont say I didnt warn you!
  3. I know folks are desperate for something other than tory rule but how do you manage to just ignore everything Starmer’s Labour say and do and make up your own version of who they are? In a decade or so, the only thing that will remain of another lacklustre New Labour govt will be another insufferable odd couple podcast with Starmer and David Cameron chuckling their way through wacky political anecdotes and into the hearts of centrist dads everywhere, their despicable records long since forgotten.
  4. https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1746460963534934358?s=46 God Starmer looks absolutely tiny compared to Cameron here
  5. Agree. Why does a poxy inbred backwater need a mayor?
  6. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/04/george-galloway-sworn-in-as-rochdale-mp-after-byelection-victory How we feeling about FPTP now, Starmerroids?
  7. ??? am i missing something? Hunt getting rid of non dom tax status but giving the cash away in tax cuts is not really inflicting pain on the country. Its still net positive from the status quo right? Its upto Reeves and Starmer if they decide to maintain those tax cuts rather than spend on the public sector. Stop making excuses for Labour spinelessness. A tremendously unpopular govt, a public sector in dire need of investment and still they are apparently happy to concede the intellectual argument before a shot has been fired - ’tax cuts good, nice stuff bad’ - all hail the iron chancellor!
  8. Imagine playing with semantics when it comes to a demand for a ceasefire. We are lost
  9. This beautiful little boy looks like my beautiful little boy. I pray that heaven has a place for him and his feathery pal. RIP Osama.
  10. Absolutely pathetic. Be as sh*tty as possible, do everything to provoke a reaction and then cry Jo Cox / David Amiss. Disgusting crybullies.
  11. Feel sorry for Hoyle. Imagine being bullied into martyrdom for the sake of lardy lawyer Sir Keff Farter. Bad times all round
  12. https://x.com/boweschay/status/1759496793824362532?s=46
  13. He was a bad racist him. Mad to see western liberals mourn him.
  14. Schools were mostly open. But yeah kids here also get depressed. Social media execs dont let their kids on it for good reason. The correlation between this sh*t being embedded in kids lives and the collective mental breakdown of a generation of kids is near perfect. I think its just so easy to detach yourself from reality and just sit and ruminate. I guess the pandemic exacerbates that, but its a problem that predates it too.
  15. https://www.mind.org.uk/news-campaigns/news/benefits-assessments-making-people-with-mental-health-problems-more-unwell-mind-research-reveals/ Quite difficult to find stats on it but found a source in the above article - seems like its quite a lot less than most. I just checked, for stress you get 600 quid a month… of course you’ll get the odd chancer, but it seems unlikely to me that a majority of claimants will be putting it on for the princely sum of 600 quid a month.
  16. Why do you hate scottish people so much? Seems personal. Have you been spurned by a lover who had it away with a big scotts porridge oats type fella?
  17. Exactly. Cameron had the backing of less than half of tory MPs for the gay marriage bill. The current tory minister for women’s health is vocally anti abortion. Lee Anderson, until recently the tory vice chair, is an advocate for reinstituting the death penalty and called for migrants to ’f**k off back to France’.
  18. This is the weirdest argument out there. Across Europe, right wing populist parties have governed in coalition with other right wing parties, and yet it is the UK, with its allegedly extremist proof system which has left the eu, puts refugees on planes to rwanda, turns a blind eye to Russian money funding one of the major parties, and from the ppe scandal to the teesside freeport deal- allows corruption and cronyism to run rife at every level of government. Its a bizarre argument and speaks of the self obsession of brits. Absolutely clueless as to what actually happens outside of that sh*tty little bubble.
  19. They would if they could. PR leads to higher voter turnout, higher engagement, more activism, larger party membership so a bigger pool of candidates to choose from (better representatives). Its a no brainer. As in you have to have no brain to think that FPTP is better.
  20. Right… but this is true of pretty much every decision anybody ever makes. Shall we also only have two cereal brands to choose from? Two football teams to support?
  21. Nope. PR almost always leads to higher turnout and greater engagement with and trust in the system. Exceptions shown in attached graph are australia (non pr but compulsory voting) and switzerland (pr but very decentralised and lots of referenda so not as important to vote in the nationals). Above all else, the brexit vote was an opportunity for voters to express their dissatisfaction at a system that makes them feel as if they have no control. It was mainly a protest vote. PR and the referendum outcome would have been different.
  22. This wont happen. Starmer is a right wing authoritarian, he has no interest in advancing democracy or progressive politics.
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