danjac.bsky.social
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Almost heard him crying "a LABOUR government" like Bournemouth 1985
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ID cards are standard in most of the EU. In principle not a bad idea. The UK would fuck it up though by a) misusing it for authoritarian purposes and b) handing implementation to the usual suspects like Accenture who would spend billions screwing it up
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New Labour inherited a good economy, and much of the groundwork of Good Friday was done by the previous government. Plus no Brexit. Starmer is mediocre but New Labour had better cards to play with.
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"The longest suicide note in history"
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I listened to my therapy chatbot and ended up conquering Belgium
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A golf club is a good place to find swing voters I guess
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Ofc in Andor they deliberately provoked the panic by shooting one of their own
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The toxic Unionist vote will glom around Reform.
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If I just need AI slop on whatever subject I can ask ChatGPT myself, no need to read a newspaper
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The difference between Nigel Farage and God is that the Almighty is everywhere, whereas Nigel is everywhere except Westminster and Clacton.
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My reading comprehension is terrible. I thought Liz Truss was helping out a boxer when he was attacked by a pensioner in a pub by smashing a bottle of Glenmorangie over the OAP.
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I don't really hold much stock in these polls. I'll bet most of the students who voted against fighting for King and Country in the Oxford Union debate in 1933 were in uniform 6 years later.
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I think the technical term is "idiots"
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These people are like generals fighting the last war, that last war being Iraq
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Everyone over 65 though, now we're talking. Strap machine guns to mobility scooters and walkers. Solve the social care and defence budget in one go.
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John Scalzi has a series of scifi books where national service is done by old people. Seems a bit fairer somehow, particularly in the UK.
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Reading about Thatcher's first term as leader of the Conservative Party, facing off against Harold Wilson (!). Her early performances were lackluster, even late-stage Wilson could out-debate her, and her poll ratings were in the tank.
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Here in the east I never hear Swedish, second language is Russuan.
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Reminds me of Michael Foot's unconditional support for the unions when he was Employment Secretary
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Not exactly a headline you would expect from John Major or Edward Heath
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Dan Carden, DEI Finder General
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IIRC wasn't Tet considered a military failure (while a political victory)?
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Underinvestment, the story of British industry for decades.
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He's also like Hadrian in that he's obsessed about a Wall in the north of Britannia
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One thing you can guarantee middle management will do is spend enormous effort to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.
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The Malteser Falcon
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The new voice of toxic Unionism.
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The problem is that the other parties will move towards the far-right to try and capture their voters (see the UK Conservatives and now Labour). They don't need to win every election to achieve their agenda.
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Exactly. Blue Labour is filling a vacuum.
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Ukraine should just throw its hands up and surrender because that's the only thing that will make certain Western online poasters happy
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Somehow in the 1960s we were able to fight the Cold War, build whole new towns, and fund higher education, and this was something all political parties supported. Our ambitions have become very limited.
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I don't think it's rational. They think of Reform voters as "their people" - "working class" white British - whom they want to draw back into the fold. Losing the Red Wall was a bigger shock to the party than losing Scotland.
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Galloway is the tankie Lord Haw-Haw
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And "DEI" is an American term. Do they realise which country they are elected to represent?
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"Stone-hearted capitalists" implies they actually believe in something, even capitalism. I would say they are more opportunists. But opportunism only works if you have the charisma and media-savvy to pull it off (see: Nigel Farage).
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The problem is that the current Labour leadership have no core ideology or values they can fall back on. They never evolved a narrative of their own (even Blair did this with New Labour) and got into power because of the Tory collapse, rather than their own merits. So they are floundering.
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This feels like bureaucrats fulfilling quotas. We need to reach our target of 3000 a day for the gulag
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Antarctica has been right there for nearly 200 years, it's a paradise compared to Mars, and all we have are a few scientific outposts.
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Boredom
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I used to think things would get better once the older generation cooked on rw media are gone, nope, another generation of idiots emerges
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Doesn't matter what you do or don't do. Education, economy, all irrelevant against the voter who just wants to light it all on fire.
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Exactly who is this government for? Certainly not for anyone who voted for them
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The Stupid Voter problem is quite intractable
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This sums up why I refuse to watch new Trek.
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Billy Joel's next line should have been "British journo vexed"
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Wait what does it mean treating octopus like MacDonalds? I knew cephalopods were smart but they're not ordering a Big Mac and fries, right?
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Weapons and cosmetics? Who's is the audience for this, JD Vance?