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We're all ignorant and prejudiced, drawn to witch hunts - we just pick different targets. The world could be so much better if we judged less, inc. being less judgemental of those who judge.
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Thank you!
This message needs to be repeated. It's not a wishy, washy, flowers-in-your-hair, liberal thing to care about others. It's good fiscal, business etc. sense.
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We wouldn’t have had a minority Labour government. More likely, a Tory minority, and Cameron could have called another election, possibly winning outright.
The Lib Dems made a huge mistake, but Labour was exhausted in 2010, and Brown seemed to be struggling. Plus, the press was behind the Tories.
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How many on the left think the Iranian regime is anything but a fascist disaster? I want to believe a lot of the comments promoting the regime are Chinese and Russian bots or trolls...
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Smart to consult. Business will obviously support such a move. And you can then tell frog-face that you're listening to business.
I'd welcome the take of someone in the know on how genuinely consequential this customs framework actually is. I'm not familiar with it at all.
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It's the obvious thing to do from her perspective: get your policies through while damaging Labour at the same time. Win-win.
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I think his govt were terrible, but he is correct on this. He has a severely disabled child so perhaps he understands how devastating these reforms will be.
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You've asked a lot of... commerce?
Subhanallah! I swear, I'm gonna lose it. It's happening.
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Ukraine isn't the one that 'represents an imminent danger', areshole. It's Russia.
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Is this a centrist government? I'd say it's centre-right.
Left-wing voters didn't really have much choice. In theory, the Lib Dems or Greens could win, but for the past century it's been Labour or Conservative.
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He's such a dickhead. Forgive me, but I can't contain it.
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Good! There's little time to waste. Labour needs new leadership, energy and direction.
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Capitalism is great. A political party can be great. People in their 20s are hot. Everything is great... for a while.
This isn't about the Democratic Party, the Labour Party, this or that. It's just life.
You're anti-establishment until you become the establishment. You need churn. That’s it.
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Donald Trump calls everyone he disagrees with a commie or a Marxist. I'm sure he's called Nancy Pelosi a communist or Marxist too. It's not a special designation for Mamdani.
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Do you disagree with Ed Davey's call on this issue? If not, is it not a good thing that he has come out calling for this thing to be axed? What is achieved by turning our backs on anyone we've disagreed with in the past?
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Austerity was indefensible, but the Lib Dems were the (much) smaller party in that coalition government. And the coalition years (2010 to 2015) were bad, but it became clear just how much of a moderating influence they were when you look at what happened between 2015 and 2024.
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Well done to Ed Davey. Listen, Starmer!
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I get the frustration, but Labour voters aren't right-wing (any more than US Republican voters are pro-Russia). You can say they ignored +/o were too stupid to notice XYZ - like we all ignore +/o are 'too stupid' to notice lots in life, but they're not right-wing, at least not most of them.
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From the comments, it seems the jury's out on whether a pariah state - despised by its people, that rapidly lost control of its airspace, and has a GDP the size of Toronto despite having over 90 million inhabitants compared to Toronto's 7 million, is a failure.
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The jury’s out on whether a pariah state, despised by its people, that rapidly lost control of its airspace and has a GDP the size of Toronto (despite having over 90 million inhabitants compared to Toronto's 7 million) is a failure.
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Won what?
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Which pandemic? The one from Wuhan, China?
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What's the 'Global South'?