Ervin Sperla

Keir Starmer: Tough on Labour Electoral Victories, Tough on the Causes of Labour Electoral Victories.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doing what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen not to do, criticise the US and Israel for their attack on Iran which breached international law

Responding only to your last sentence, not to the whole thread: white women have majority-voted for Trump every single time he was on the ballot. Twice it meant voting against a woman.

In that specific regard, the term "white men" seems to be an unnecessary restriction of "white people", doesn't it

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

Thank you, I appreciate it 🙏

I never thought of this tbh. Could you possibly recommend a source to read more about this aspect of the debate?

Listen, EVERYBODY thinks their dog is the best dog, but here's the thing: they're right

Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence

Corruption in England's water industry and its regulation

2,778 serious pollution incidents reported in 2024.

Officials downgraded 2,735 (98%) to minor incidents.

Only 496 attended before downgrading; the rest were deemed minor.

Regulators collude with industry, inflicting harms to people.

Israel has every right to defend itself against Iranian school girls

Keir Starmer isn't even capable of sitting on the fence: every time the wind changes direction he gets blown off.

That one function sounds spot on for a rice cooker though

That sounds like absolutely groundbreaking innovation. Respect

Wow, you're saying it like white people never majority-voted for a dem presidential candidate. But they did, of course they did, let's just take this last time it happened which was in...*checks notes*

... 1964. Oh

… equally ignorant angry constituents. I would agree that at the broad scale there is a desire to solve the problems of Brexit without solving the problem of Brexit itself. European relations should be one of the main training/CPD courses for MPs so they are better informed

The US Department of War announced Operation Epic Fury.

2026: the USA is a B-movie but with real people dying.

If the US is at war and under attack, will NATO invoke Article V? Seems pretty clear that it should be in case of war. Perhaps this explains Canada PM’s statement of support?

But this is also not a legal war according to domestic or international law so what are NATO allies’ legal obligations?

"And now let's hear from the 7.9% party..."

Sectarian.

The sheer contempt and entitlement in that word.

Thousands of Muslim voters just voted for a white, (I think) working class non-Muslim woman because they feel abandoned by Labour and agree with her views on a huge foreign policy issue and on immigration policy

If you ask the latest models to make comics, they're coherent, and often very well rendered, but what they lack is the couple dozen tiny little choices someone with real ability would make. It's like the opposite of a good art student who hasn't learned technical stuff yet.

It's kind of eye-opening when you pair this with the fact that the last presidential election in which a majority of white voters did not vote republican was apparently the one in 1964

I like their determination tbh.

This would be a roughly equivalent European statement: "I never leave Luxembourg" 👊🙂

It's not that there aren't great policies. There are- many.

But there are some absolute and completely alienating stinkers too. And by the way, the stinkers are grounded in a failure to effectively manage our relationship with the world and to be straight with the country about our reality.

Matt Goodwin thoroughly roasted.

In fairness, Hannah Spencer absolutely did come across as the Evil Plumber who wants to 'tear the country apart', didn't she

Silhouette maps of a few of the most severely gerrymandered voting districts in the USA

Honestly my first reaction -

American: why is UK politics so insane?

Also American: here are a few of our voting districts

With veritable Terminators like Schumer and Jeffries at the helm, this is a baffling verdict from the voters.

Okay, fair, I see your point. I understood what he said in the context of the Whittome thread, not as a general statement, so I didn't think of this alternative.

I have no idea whether you are right or wrong about this, Paul but it's instructive to see how most engagement you get is patently not about the actual point you're trying to make, even though you're making it quite clearly imho