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UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election
Conservative party announces Badenoch has beaten rival Robert Jenrick in ballot of party members
www.theguardian.com
UK must rebuild EU relations post-Brexit, Bank of England chief warns
Andrew Bailey ‘points out the consequences’ of Brexit in an address to the City of London
www.independent.co.uk
Suffering Britons make them look bad, but not as bad as admitting that Brexit was a mistake.
More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high
Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century
www.theguardian.com
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🚨 Tractors have broken down the barricades at the farmers protest in Central London.
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Completely unrelated: I am utterly amazed at how fast bluesky seems to be becoming common.
Been using it since last July. When it was Mastodon, but centralised and with actual regular users posting stuff regularly. Becoming more like early Twitter over the last few months, necessitating use of mute/block lists. (The actual block function is great though, use it and you’ll never see the antagonistic user again.)
It would be nice if we could get a plugin that makes embeds work the way X embeds do, but it's 2024; nobody's writing new code for forum software anymore. It's frankly a miracle that the X embeds are still working, because every single time I've clicked through to a post, it's just thrown the generic error that it gives everyone who's not logged in because it's 2024 and nobody's writing new code for X either.
British conservatism and its media continue to be driven even more batshit insane by Trump’s victory…
"We should become a colony of our former colony" is a hell of a take.
Funny thing is that is what ended up leading to Earth Alliance in Babylon 5. The major Anglophone countries were the first to unite followed by Japan, and the Netherlands. Of course that also lead to President Clark's regime. They didn't just become new states in the US, though.
On a more serious note, I do fear that some of the rhetoric coming out of MAGAland hints at a new 'manifest destiny'. Certain parts of the US population are no longer content with 'soft imperialism', I fear, and want to switch to the traditional kind.
On a more serious note, I do fear that some of the rhetoric coming out of MAGAland hints at a new 'manifest destiny'. Certain parts of the US population are no longer content with 'soft imperialism', I fear, and want to switch to the traditional kind.
Our conservatives are just starting to go as mask-off crazy as yours, I guess. Compounded by the fact that Brexit hasn't returned the UK to its imperial superpower past, but revealed it to be a minnow in a vasty ocean, but they'd rather suggest the unsuggestable rather than ever admit that Brexit was a terrible idea.
I know we really only have one data point to work off of, but that data point would indicate expansionism naturally follows from fascism.
It has to. When your political ideology is based entirely on hate; you always need an other to hate on, or the base turns on itself. If there isn't an enemy without, then there is surely an enemy within.
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
As January marks five years on from Britain leaving the EU, Alicja Hagopian and Kate Devlin explore its impact
www.independent.co.uk
How ultranationalism makes your country an economic basketcase…
UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study
Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average
www.theguardian.com