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What should happen: National revulsion, hounded out of public life

What will happen: New set design for Sky News as three very, very right wing parties fight out The Deportation Election

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

I'm assuming "winding up" as in annoying, rather than telling tall tales etc. If the latter - "Give over" or "You're having me on" maybe?

You're getting on me wick you are.

Every journalist in the country incapable of drawing any lines between Story 1: government making a compulsory national database of all your private information and Story 2: hackers holding people to ransom over pictures of their kids at nursery

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

You cannot lift a rock near any major institution in this country without a gusher of long-concealed corruption, bullying, sexual harassment, fraud, malfeasance and/or crimes against humanity roaring up to the sky. Why would anyone trust such people with national ID cards, or indeed with anything?

If every person currently trapped in the hell that is the UK’s immigration system was just granted citizenship tomorrow the state would save a fortune. This government (like those before it) is more interested in cruelty, bureaucratic violence & racism than human dignity

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That's a reference!

Normalize disrespecting bad people

Worth it for the bit where Polanksi calls out Labours entitlement over people voting for them and Ed Balls pulls this face.

this isn't a side effect

many people support reform *because* their wins degrade the norms against open bigotry

Photo of a rectangular Alexandra Park information sign about a pollination scheme with a st george cross spray painted across it

"Legitimate concerns"

I dunno, it seems the situation isn't quite as black-and-white as that. Phil Mills (outgoing operator) wasn't one of the original founders, has little to do with the ethos it was built on, and seems a pretty 'divisive' figure...

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-leadmill...

How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

I am fucking sick of hearing ‘according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry’ every time the BBC tells us how many people Israel have slaughtered at aid distribution centres

Fucks sake, no

Well, I've barely got started here but I'm logging out for a bit. Not that I post much anyway but I spend enough time faffing around here for it to be good if I didn't. So no socials for a while. I still like people though, so send me an email or something. Byeeee x

So many of their songs do something similar don't they? Just a series of great setups for big chorus that never comes.

What the government can’t afford:

❌Lifting children out of poverty
❌Disability benefits
❌Compensation for WASPI women
❌Winter fuel allowance

What the government can afford: an extra £13.4 billion on the military.

Never any money for the poor. Always enough money for war.

yams @yamagucci i will never elaborate because i have no idea what i just said

Utterly shameful - a sickening betrayal of some of the poorest people. And counterproductive too - as if global security isn’t also dependent on efforts to tackle the climate crisis, global poverty, inequality, and humanitarian needs.

The only good thing we can do with AI is to switch it off now while we still can

Paris: Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him Paul Varry's death has triggered a debate in Paris over the dramatic expansion of cycle infrastructure.

Amazing take here. Cyclist murdered by someone in an SUV. For no real reason, people are driving around in cars the size of literal tanks, which half the time are marketed as if they're weapons. And the problem is framed as... inadequate cycle infrastructure?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

Unsurprisingly, Labour chasing after Reform has led to Reform demanding something even more extreme.

Always fun when you meet up with a friend you haven't seen in ages and they say you look exactly the same as you did 10 years ago, but they forget to not say "except now your eyes are deep pools of middle aged melancholy"