mattiloy

He was a bad racist him. Mad to see western liberals mourn him.

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.

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.

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?

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’.

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.

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.

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?

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.

This wont happen. Starmer is a right wing authoritarian, he has no interest in advancing democracy or progressive politics.

Nobody gets what they vote for now. The extreme apathy is largely caused by fptp. Voters are expected to make all the compromise and vote for either one of the major parties that they hate least. So you end up with low turnout where a unified fringe can end up dominating the agenda. As happens now. Brexit would not have happened under PR.

Bit different. Williamson was first suspended for the attached. Coyle for the other attached. Then NEC made the decision to readmit williamson and then he was subsequently kicked out again after a repeat offence. Coyle already had sexual harrassment on his rap sheet and he’s still in the fold. FWIW i’m not saying Williamson is not an antisemite (judging from what I’ve encountered of his post parliamentary career), just that Coyle’s offense being overtly racist is clearly the more serious transgression.

The problem is that when the right say the BBC is bias they mean Gary lineker on twitter, the presenter of a football programme, and maybe one or two sh*t satirical shows on bbcr4 that nobody listens to. When the left say the bbc is bias they mean everyone who has anything to do with any of the bbc’s news/politics output- the news (what they choose to cover both online and on the tv), question time, newsnight, the today show, panorama. At best you get some token Labour voice from the right of the party also slagging off whatever left wing thing they want to attack this week. So its not really the same is it.

You could also explain the negative growth in gdp per capita through the lens of high migration- ie new migrants generally generating less than than the previous average income, thus increasing the denominator by a greater magnitude than the numerator in the gdp/head sum. Depends how you want to spin it.

The problem isnt Gaza, or the 28bil green sh*t. The problem is that rather than rely on policy, Starmer has tried to make this a presidential election that hinges on one thing - trust- the idea of Labour as safe pair of hands, strong, united, sensible, if a bit dull, and the tories by contrast as a skipfire. The problem is that Labour arent this trustworthy sensible outfit at all, and recent events have shown that behind the thin facade, the leadership are instead every inch as capricious, neurotic, incompetent, and weak as the tories. I still think Labour will form the next govt, but there is no question that things like this damage them. Hopefully it all makes a hung parliament more likely anyway.

Cool. So 0% turnout expected then.

Looool. Starmer’s f**ked it!

Quite fun to watch the mental gymnastics being performed by some of the slimiest folks in politics rn. The problem is with lies is that they eventually catch up with you.

Hmmm Antisemites in Corbyn’s Labour - Corbyn’s fault Antisemites in Starmer’s Labour - The antisemite’s fault

Ah yes, they pulled this one out of their collective arse just after the decision to conduct internal polling to determine how much damage they’ve done to their BAME vote with their shitness on palestine. Now call me a cynic but..

https://x.com/women4wes/status/1754149599562825985?s=46 Entertaining thread of insane jess phillips tweets.

Four day week is the quickest and simplest way to improve standards of living, physical and mental health outcomes and reduce CO2. Also will help maintain full employment in the face of AI nicking everyones jobs.

Apparently being a left wing europhile means supporting the only surviving policy of note from that brief free market extremist trussonomics era - the repealing of the EU’s 200% of salary bankers bonus cap. This will raise a miniscule amount of money in additional tax directly but its also not clear that there would be any net gain. The second and third order effects are hard to know. First off the total tax paid depends on how bonuses are structured and how much the recipients are able to avoid. Other effects to be considered such as whether it attracts better financial services professionals who make a material difference to the success of our financial services industry. My feeling is that no- basically all of the innovation in the sector comes from startups, not from the 60 year old overpaid baldie executives of large financial institutions. Then on the other side what is the opportunity cost of that cash going to a few individuals - I guess that if they didnt pay out such large bonuses then they’d invest it back into the business or pay out higher dividends- this could have wider beneficial effects. Then i think people miss the point of the EU cap on bankers bonus- it was never about fairness, since its a cap on bonus related to salary (200%). It just means that the top dogs get paid more salary, and less bonus. Which is about incentivising them to take more holistic decisions instead of satisfying some short sighted narrow criteria at the expense of all else because that is what is perceived to have been the causal factor in the 2008 crisis. But actually, who cares, luckily for us that Ozanne has studied it extensively and has decided that paying bankers more in bonus will help us pay for all the great progressive Labour party policies, like free gruel for veterans or something

Yes. The UK has withheld recognition of palestine all these years to placate Israel. To change that would be a major shift diplomatically and given the UK’s status as the US’s deputy its quite a big deal for them to turn around and say finally, enough is enough - that Israeli govt no longer has the unwavering support of the UK. There is a good chance it influences other states positions. Which increases the chance of formal admission to the UN as a member state. States that recognise palestine 👇