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So, the UK government is allegedly considering getting a “Swiss style” arrangement with the EU (not in the EU, but with near-full access to the European single market). Which the EU won’t ever realistically countenance, given that the bilateral deals with Switzerland are a constant pain in the...

Labour won’t oppose Brexit, as the party is funded by trade unions who wanted Brexit for “foreigners take our jobs” reasons. The LibDems are quiet on the issue because their current target seats are Tory. The Greens, well, their main topic at the moment is opposing NATO membership and Ukrainian...

Basically, yes. Perfect analogy, really. In other news, the government is introducing ID requirements to vote, and 'coincidentally' most of the IDs accepted are ones held by older people: https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voter-id-list-gives-few-options-for-younger-voters/

Well, it did help the government that they kept on extending the transition period (where the same rules and regulations were in effect) up until 9-10 months into the pandemic, to help disguise the impacts. And the invasion of Ukraine happened just over a year after that.

Collapsing living standards for the foreseeable future. All due to the B-word.

This is… Not good.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/14/jeremy-corbyn-will-never-stand-for-labour-again-say-senior-figures? Good riddance!

Draconian new policing act has resulted in journalists covering recent environmental protests arrested and their homes ransacked by police. https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/11/they-know-who-i-am-they-know-what-im-doing-arrested-journalists-speak-out-over-new-policing-act/

It’s now just a matter of how fast it collapses and how much it takes with it, rather than whether it collapses.

Remarkable that Labour, once the default governing party, got the bare minimum votes to re-enter the Knesset. The traditional Israeli secular left seems in terminal decline, which doesn’t bode well for the future of the state of Israel, IMO.

I mean, they still blame the EU, but with the caveat that they believe Brexit hasn’t been hard enough, and that Remainers and the EU use the “deep state” to continually undermine the Tory government.

Never go full Trump. But the Home Secretary has. Yet again.

19 degrees C in England today, in October. :(

Sunak’s already let the worst of the ultra-rightwing nutters back into government, I see.

The new reign of Tory terror starts today.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/jewish-groups-criticise-nigel-farage-for-calling-grant-shapps-globalist The most influential and dangerous far-right politician in the history of postwar Britain uses antisemitic tropes, because of course.

Boris Johnson’s standing in the leadership contest. As is Braverman. It just keeps on getting worse.

The new Tory leadership election/coronation is going to been decided next week. So Truss will have been PM for a shorter period of time than the leadership campaign that actually elected her.

She’s still technically PM in caretaker capacity until the Tories vote for a new leader.