UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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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 them all back”, etc. It was a load of far-right thugs looking for an excuse to be destructive and you know it.
Truss considered scrapping NHS cancer treatment after crashing economy, book claims
New book by Sir Anthony Seldon features interviews with insiders from the Truss government
www.independent.co.uk
Good thing. Thats the sort of thing that brings out pitchforks and torches. And I'm sure the french would be glad to lend a guillotine or two for the cause.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.)Truss considered scrapping NHS cancer treatment after crashing economy, book claims
New book by Sir Anthony Seldon features interviews with insiders from the Truss government
I'd love to see someone try to justify a guillotine at the chunnel.
"It is, how you say, zee loan-aire"
"It is, how you say, zee loan-aire"
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.)
Did they put the giant unrelated picture of William next to the headline to try to make it look like it was his idea?
Either that or their trying to insinuate that he's gay.
MPs back cuts to winter fuel payments in Commons vote
Conservative motion to strike down plan is defeated but more than 50 Labour MPs abstain
www.theguardian.com
Giorgia Meloni: Starmer showed great interest in our Albania migration deal
Britain promises to send £4m to back Italian crackdown on irregular migration
www.theguardian.com
Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak, poll suggests
Opinium poll for the Observer finds a 45-point drop in the prime minister’s approval rating since he won the election
www.theguardian.com
I think that's the definition of buyers remorse.
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 presentation changed but not the overall policies. It’s worse in a way, as Starmer is intent on enacting a harsh austerity programme with severe cuts to public spending. He’s already cut an annual winter payment for pensioners to help with their domestic fuel bills, which is cruel and just plain stupid politics, given that fuel bills are rising rapidly every year.
After the results came in, I was thinking it's a shame more people didn't take a clue from how badly the Tories were projected to get owned and that they had plenty of leeway to vote third party for a change.
But now I'm thinking the current Labour party would have just formed a coalition with the Tories rather than work with the Lib Dems!
But now I'm thinking the current Labour party would have just formed a coalition with the Tories rather than work with the Lib Dems!
Imagine if Kamala Harris beat Trump and won the presidential election, but started to immediately enact Project 2025 and all the extreme stuff Trump was going to do. But the ‘progressive’ media turn a blind eye because it’s “their” team doing it. That’s the state of UK politics right now.
"Bait and switch" is illegal in retail, why is it tolerated in politics?
Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social)
Conservative fringe meeting on immigration discussing how to persuade women to "breed for Britain" in order to "grow more" social care workers, one day after Kemi Badenoch's comments about "excessive" maternity pay.
bsky.app
Tories going full-on weird and MAGA (or MBGA, I guess) in opposition. The other day a frontrunner for the Tory leadership called for statutory maternity pay to be abolished, but the party also wants (native) women to “breed for Britain”. Doesn’t register that couples might be priced out of having children, which abolishing maternity pay won’t help.
Did y'all know that russia recently brought back the hero mother of russia award? That commendation they give to women who pop out kids until they keel over?
Tell me how THESE assholes are different the russian ones.
Tell me how THESE assholes are different the russian ones.
I also find it darkly amusing that the same people whose slogans are “Britain is full” and “stop the boats” are also “no, we’re dangerously underpopulated, you need to breed more!”