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There was a report two weeks ago that up to 7 million people in the UK can’t afford to eat regularly…

I mean, what exactly did they think would happen?

Well, the DUP* are having a tantrum over the Brexit ‘deal’ they supported, and the fact that Sinn Fein came first in terms of seats. So they’re sabotaging the NI assembly (admittedly they prefer NI to be directly governed from London). * the ultra-conservative Unionist party.

Not really, no, in terms of the main opposition party and the regular media.

Actually the reverse – he’s complaining about the paperwork that Brexit now requires for importing/exporting from Britain to the EU and northern Ireland. Paperwork that would not need exist his party hadn’t taken the UK out of the EU.

This Tory MP waves round the stack of additional paperwork now required to trade with the EU/EEA. Who’s responsible for this, again?

I’d better stock up on food and medication, then.

Ignoring the results of the NI election, and starting a trade war with the EU during the Ukrainian conflict with Russia? Perfectly normal country.

I’m half-wondering if she actually died months ago, and that the powers that be are trying to pretend otherwise.

I always wanted the US to have an integrated health system like ours*, but honestly I don’t think that will ever happen either. Without the US splitting into two or more successor nations, which looks increasingly likely. Or at least that seems more likely than the US getting even a very weak...

The SNP remains dominant in Scotland. Quite a strong showing given they’ve been the main player in Scottish politics for the last 15 years with still no sign of any significant drop in popularity.

Final vote count for the north of Ireland. Nice to see the Alliance Party improve their vote sharply (IMO).

Prominent alt-righter is massive antisemite shock.

Sinn Fein came first in the Northern Ireland election, first time that a republican* party has won the most amount of seats. * in the “reunify Ireland” sense.

My MP’s just called for “Boris” to be ousted. See nothing happen. Or the shambling sack of jive replaced by a slightly more competent evil monster.

The president of America standing next to a man whose jacket is adorned with the legend “eat the rich”. From the official twitter account. What timeline are we in, again?!

I can’t think of a European country with ranked-ballot voting apart from Ireland (the Republic of). Most use proportional representation. France is a rare exception, using a British/American style “winner takes all” system, but different as they have two-round elections,

The Socialist Party, the main non-conservative party in France until five years ago, is now so weakened that its remnants are siding with the far-left Rebellious France for the National Assembly elections. That’s yet another European centre-left party going from government to oblivion in a short...

Stay classy, Russian government.

Now the Tories are accusing Labour and the Libdems of having a pact to win power, which is literally what all post-2010 Tory governments have done.