wanstronian.bsky.social
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But also: Holy Shit, what are the other 39% telling themselves?
I would genuinely love to know what they've found beneficial about the last five years.
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Sulayem has a portrait of that other corrupt dictator, Donald Trump, on his office wall.
What an absolute wanker.
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Trump has little to no control over his own bladder - he's utterly unfit to do anything other than spout unhinged rhetoric about the Middle East.
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Neither of them made the quotes attributed in this meme.
But maybe that doesn't matter; maybe we need to be as dishonest as the MAGA crowd to fight them effectively.
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At least Labour appear to be giving you plenty of ammo for the next trilogy.
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Highly recommend "Sergei and the Westminster spy ring" podcast.
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Yeah, good luck getting MSM to do anything so responsible!
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The police chose to reveal the ethnicity of the driver as soon as possible. Why? To avoid the possibility of retaliation against Muslims based on speculation. Why? Because Farage, Reform and the Tories have made the UK a racist country.
None of this is my fault, but still I'm ashamed to be British.
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Not enough people are talking about the fact that Trump's "big beautiful bill" contains a clause that allows him to do anything he likes without risk of legal challenge. The US is now a fascist dictatorship in every meaningful respect.
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The disturbing thing is when Starter says "people are tired of arguing about Brexit." No. We're not. Not while it continues to make everyone poorer, less healthy and less happy.
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The problem is that Labour are not doing enough of the right things. They're just sauntering along under the assumption that they only have to be better than the Tories. The country needs - and deserves - better than that.
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This should come as no surprise. I doubt anybody voted for Labour expecting them to be an even bigger bunch of wankers than the Tories. Yet here we are.
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Erm, did Donald Trump just publicly threaten Bruce Springsteen?
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Reform Ltd only exists because of Putin - of course they're going to do what's in Russia's interests. It's a sad indictment of UK press that they're complicit instead of reporting the connections and Russian influence.
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So her argument is that stupid and poorly-educated people support Reform Ltd because smart, well-educated people aren't afraid to point out what a bunch of narrow-minded bigots they are?
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Seems to be saying that we've lowered tariffs on the US and in return, they've raised tariffs on the UK.
Not feeling that winning feeling yet.
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But... but... but... sovwinty!
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I voted tactically to get the Tories out. I don't want Reform because I'm not a racist bigot. Labour are just the Tories with red rosettes.
There is literally no party that both (a) has the interests of the nation at heart and (b) has any chance of winning the next GE.
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The Express is written by stupid people, for stupid people. It's a step down even from the Daily Mail. There's no point expecting anything they write to make sense.
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It's time for a leadership contest in Labour. Starmer is just continuing the downward slide started by the Tories.
This is an existential crisis. It's time to stop kidding ourselves that Starmer is just playing the long game and has something up his sleeve.
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It's a lovely idea, but to me it's clear that politicians are powerless. The power is in the hands of mega-wealthy neo-liberals, and the government of the day simply do what they're told.
I really really really hope I'm wrong. But such evidence as there is suggests I'm not.
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Or at least it would be, if so many people weren't vulnerable to being gaslit by far right rhetoric.
Most people are decent. They've just been led to believe that all their problems are due to immigrants, or some equally daft hypothesis.
Good people do the right thing IF they're properly informed.
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Is there any real doubt that Labour is just as much in the pockets of hugely wealthy neo-liberals as the Conservatives are?
The only difference between them is the colour rosette they'll be wearing as they screw us over.
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Starmer is a total disaster. I remember it all seemed so promising when Labour were elected. But they're just as bad as the Tories. Aligning the UK with a fascist regime. Refusing to acknowledge the nuance of gender issues. Refusing to rejoin the EU. But keeping tax breaks for the rich. Shameful.
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If Trump crimes his way into a third term, in ten years the US will be classed as a third-world country.
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Lettuce hope that it isn't successful.
I don't know why she can't just use Twitter, that's the pretend-free-speech platform of choice for right-wing idiots.
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I'm sure his rich mates managed to get hold of some tanked stock at low prices which will now give them a few billion extra dollars to get through the next cold winter.
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Then why are they insisting they won't even consider rejoining SM or CU - both of which would given an almost immediate boost to the UK economy?
They need to shit or get off the pot, this is killing the UK.
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What is the point of a supreme court that ignores the rule of law? I mean, of all the tiers of justice, the supreme court should be the one that is completely unbiased.
America is so utterly fucked up.
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Yes, but America knowingly elected a fascist tyrant. This is what they voted for.
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That's Mike Graham for you.
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Because Labour are as easily bought as the Tories.
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It's staggering how Labour are behaving on this. If you didn't think before that they were open to being bought by vulture capitalists, you should now.
The horrifying reality is that no political party exists in the UK that actually had the nation's interest at heart.
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I'm hoping they'll accidentally add me to the chat the WH will use when it's time to tell Trump's rich mates to stop buying tanked stock as he's about to undo the tariffs and make them all even richer and everyone else poorer.
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Red Tories strike again.
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We all know where she got it from - the racist Twitter commentator Ian Miles Cheong. Propagated by everybody's favourite Nazi conspiracy theorist, Elon Musk.
This is what the Tories are these days.
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Labour are traitors.
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This may just be the"sunk cost" fallacy, but alongside everything else I'm seeing, leads me to the conclusion that the Government are being fed policy by wealthy bankrollers. Probably the same wealthy bankrollers that fed Tory policy.
Meet the new Government. Same as the old Government.
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This is what happens when democracy is just an illusion: our governments act in the interests of their paymasters, not the electorate. Labour are no different to the Tories.
Can there be any doubt anymore that we're nothing but serfs to the neoliberal vulture capitalists?
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Won't happen. Labour is just as much in the pockets of vulture and disaster capitalists as the Tories were.
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He'll pretend he was in on the joke, I suspect.
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I think the only reasonable conclusion is that Labour are just as much in the pockets of neoliberal capitalists as the Tories were.
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All we need is for the others to swallow their pride and admit they fell for the lies, and we'd be at 95% to 5%.
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She doesn't even understand the point she just made. The journalist should have replied, "Exactly. We did the right thing then. Why don't we care about doing the right thing now?"
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Yes. Shame double-crosser Starmer is setting up an alignment with the West's newly minted fascist state instead.
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Brexit is the defining issue. Most people want a reversal. The country needs a reversal. Why is Labour ignoring this?
Surely at this point the only rational conclusion is that it doesn't matter who's in power - policy is set by billionaires not politicians.
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But Labour have said today that they're seeking a trade deal with the US. They've clearly abandoned the idea of closer alignment with the EU and are instead intent on making the UK a vassal state of a fascist regime.