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Well, the main issue is that literally nothing has changed. Same bad economy, same Brexit, same anti-immigrant rhetoric from the government, same way out-of-touch politicians openly take freebies from big business. It’s like when the last Tory government switched to another prime minister: The...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/21/honeymoon-over-keir-starmer-now-less-popular-than-rishi-sunak Starmer now less popular than the former Tory PM who lost in a landslide election defeat back in July.

Thought I might as well celebrate Transformers Day, our new annual secular holiday!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/16/giorgia-meloni-starmer-showed-great-interest-in-our-albania-migration-deal Here is the latest instalment of “Labour government being more weirdly right-wing than the Tories were”.

Can’t try that in Britain. We’ve already had our allocation of sunshine until next May. Anyway, NGL, I’ve been following the premature yellowing thread over on TFW, and it’s stopped my purchasing of new stuff in its tracks. Haven’t bought as few TF items in year going back to 1995. I’ve only...

Bolded bit – so ridiculously, painfully true, in my experience. Either they regurgitate the conspiracy theory, propagandist version of history, or don’t have any grasp of history or geography (no, the modern state of Israel is not a “white colonial state”, it wasn’t founded by Britain, and...

I’ll note that the “immigrants eat your pets” strategy adopted by Trump and Vance was also used over here, in the run-up the Brexit referendum.

Reminds me of the cover of Kiss’s Psycho Circus album, sort of. Thematically. You’re right though, I mean, without context I’d have no idea if that was a pro or anti Trump image. Could just as easily be something that some groyper edgelord cooked up with generative AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/10/mps-back-cuts-to-winter-fuel-payments New government, same old austerity and cuts to hurt society’s most vulnerable.

Errr, France is more the US model, to be honest. As in absolutely averse to coalitions. Prior to the rise of Macron, France had a centre-left bloc made up of the Socialist Party and allies, and a centre-right bloc of the Gaullists/Republicans and allies. However both those major parties have...

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-national-rally-emmanuel-macron-france-michel-barnier/ Macron appointed a prime minister from the Republicans party (France’s established conservative party), which came fourth in June’s National Assembly election, blocking the New Popular Front’s...

I’ve always wondered, going back to 2015/6, why the media weren’t making an issue about this. I mean, ours won’t because of the rules about impartiality on TV and radio. Over there that’s less of an issue. Is it about avoiding potential lawsuits? Some lingering sense of trying to deferential? I...

What was that line in The Onion again? “Nothing can be done about this in the only country where it regularly happens”. Urgh.

The new government is just as batshit and right-wing as the previous Tory one. New idea: send prisoners to Estonia. (I mean, Estonia is much nicer country to live in than Rwanda, but still.)

Going off topic here, a bit, but all your supermarket chains are regional rather than national, aren’t they? (I mean, ours are national, the 6 or 7 main ones. But we of course have a much smaller land mass and higher population density.)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-kwasi-kwarteng-at-10-nhs-cancer-economy-b2601932.html Apparently Liz Truss was going to scrap cancer treatments on the NHS. (Of course thankfully she didn’t, as she was only prine minister for a month.)

I remember trying Starbucks when in the US back in 2000. I’d heard of it from American films. We didn’t have that chain or anything like that back then (at least not in Not-London). There was the novelty appeal. I wasn’t prepared for how highly caffeinated the coffee was. Made me twitchy and...

He’s starting to look the Emperor Palpatine…

Oh FFS. The whole excuse about the protests ‘actually’ being against the murder of several kids doesn’t wash given that 1.) misinformation about the assailant being a Muslim and an asylum seeker started immediately 2.) the protesters used racist, xenophobic slogans like “stop the boats”, “send...