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Yep, yep, just inevitably creating a world where women are required to carry around paperwork simply to enable them to use basic public facilities, who could have seen that coming? Great job guys, huge success for freedom

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I do wonder whether the self-declared 'silent majority' have ever been a) louder or b) a smaller minority than in the post-Brexit world

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If only this were not all just incredibly predictable, and actively predicted

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Sweepstake on when the first leadership challenge will come?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The Lib Dem leadership has done a fantastic job over the last few years (much better than I ever expected), but I'm beginning to worry they're failing to meet the challenges of today The timidity in standing up for our fundamental values of freedom & fairness risks us ceding ground to the far right

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Well, good job he threw immigrants under the bus to appeal to far right sources then I guess

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely a bit staggered & ashamed at the apparent silence from elected @libdems.org.uk representatives so far over Starmers immigration speech today If we dont stand up & take on those who push virulently anti-immigration rubbish, Reform's talking points will become accepted wisdom & we will lose

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Genuinely a bit staggered & ashamed at the apparent silence from elected @libdems.org.uk representatives so far over Starmers immigration speech today If we dont stand up & take on those who push virulently anti-immigration rubbish, Reform's talking points will become accepted wisdom & we will lose

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Fuck this. And shame on my own party for shying away from the debate & not calling it out for exactly what it is People voted for us explicitly because we werent the Tories & their toxic immigration crap, we shouldnt be scared of making the positive case. If we dont, nobody will & Reform will win

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This is the inevitable result when the entire conversation is framed about the negatives of immigration, with nobody brave enough to make the positive case or explain in simple terms why Reform are wrong If politicians were brave enough to lead then we might avoid sleepwalking into Reform govt

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'Island of strangers' will be Stamer's 'citizens of nowhere' legacy. Dehumanising, dishonest and cowardly, all in the pursuit of an imagined set of voters that will never vote Labour no matter how much they attack immigrants. Just utter, depressing bollocks from people who should know better.

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British politicians please stop making anti-immigration policies that the left will hate and the right will consider inadequate the core part of your message challenge

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Well this is going to be entertaining, at the very least

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Yep, if there's one thing we're all thinking about this Labour government, it's that they just haven't been harsh enough on welfare cuts. Good job guys.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Yes this worked so well for the Tories and didn't actually just strengthen the far right at all, absolutely great idea

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This is, to put it mildly, a fucking batshit conclusion to draw from these elections. Best of luck to the nutters.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Alternatively they could, you know, tell people why Reform are wrong and why people shouldn't vote for them. Seeking to emulate Reform didn't exactly work out well for the Tories.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

At some point people are going to realise that excessive authoritarianism is a feature of Labour government, not a bug. It's the single biggest reason (along with electoral reform) that I couldn't be a member of their party.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Forget Blair, 'Gone are the days when Labour allow ideals to drive policy' is an insane line. Shows the lack of ambition & aspiration in government. Just deliver shit policy that you know you can deliver rather than actually seeking to drive change in the direction you want in case you fail? Righto

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Vaibhav Suryavanshi is 14 years old and hit a 35 ball hundred in the IPL today. 14 years old. That may be the most incredible sporting achievement I've ever heard or seen. FOURTEEN years old. And only turned that last month too. Ridiculous stats.

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Absurd. The Tories decided the best way to 'win' the culture war against trans people was to pack the leadership of organisations like the EHRC (& OFS for that matter) with people who had pre-conceived anti-trans views, then act as if they were neutral organisations. Labour need to wake the fuck up

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It really is staggering to see parliament delegating to the courts, especially when the courts are charged only with interpreting what parliament decides. It's especially staggering when the court goes to pains to explicitly state that it is not ruling on the definition of 'woman'.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

So I see Starmer has said "A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear" Except, the court did not say that. In fact, it went out of it's way to make abso-fucking-lutely clear that it was not saying that. The political cowardice is shameful.

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I still don't know what happens here if a cis woman using a public gets accused of looking too masculine and suspected of being a trans woman, how does this get resolved or enforced? We've created a system whereby women are going to need to always carry documentation proving their sex just to pee

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I would be stunned if the two child benefit cap is still in place at the next election, but (cynically) suspect Labour see it as too early to eliminate it just now. Expect a big reveal a year or so out from the election saying 'we've fixed the leaky roof so now we can do this' etc

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