I think you’re onto something with the lead pipe theory
“The left parroted gender and race dogmas” - I think this mistakes our politics though. In Britain this is mostly a young thing, not a left thing, and is a result of American global monoculture rather than admiring America. The right is different
This all reminds me of when the Tories tried to pick a culture war fight with the National Trust. British people like old country houses! They like wildlife and landscapes! Maybe start with looking at the country you want to run as it is not as you wish it to be
Remembering a book from around 1900 which said something like whoever controls the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal and the Bosphorus controls the World and… yeah
Doesn’t like animals or sandwiches - basically designed to be hated
I’m not sure that it true in this case. Nowhere else in the world is water privatised like the UK system. We have the counterexamples - literally everyone else.
I’m also stricken with Resting Tired Face
FIFA Peace Prize next!
Liz Truss doubled down on this when she was energy secretary. It’s absolutely criminal, probably has cost consumers billions of pounds and put them into poverty, and it’s barely ever mentioned.
He tried to take the sovereign territory of another ally not a month ago!
The datum (1) doesn’t lie
A huge amount of right wing commentary is something like “I got out my ouija board and Thatcher told me she thinks Matt Goodwin is a dweeb”
Definitely. Not to be old man shakes fist at cloud about it, but I remember World Book Day involved reading and getting a voucher for a book? So many kids don't live in homes with books lying about (I was one of them) and it was an event for them.
I'm honestly surprised that Yorkshire doesn't have a higher % here.
The Iran War Did Not Take Place
Think we may have to review the “Britain is ungovernable” argument
I will always remember it as the place where I had my first socially distanced “substantial meal”. Bad times
How dare you contradict the Prince of Peace (Donald Trump)
It’s also not controversial that people from similar backgrounds and families tend to vote the same way. By this logic most of the Home Counties are hotbeds of Tory sectarianism (we all know what she’s really saying below the surface though)
Yeah this is the “real” Badenoch, interspersed with brief moments of sanity
Every time you think she might be doing something sensible (student loans) she veers the car back to looney tunes X talking points.
Ironically I think we’re at the point where whoever wins gets the wrong takeaway:
* if Reform wins they think they’re new opposition and Labour right say “told you so”
* if Greens win they’ll want the left split and become Labour’s new target
* if Labour wins they think nothing needs to change
“We must stop Fully Automated Sexual Communism”, Danny Kruger probably
You know what you look like Wes with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube
Honestly he’s the best of us. But he’s also clearly the wrong person to p*ss off, having now written two volumes of evidence about Mandelson to the give to the police
MAD - Mutual Attritional Drones
But also accelerating climate change in parallel to new disruptive information and military technologies… it sounds very much like the General Crisis of the 17th C. Except, this is potentially irreversibly worse.
Gives the hypnotic, impressionistic vibes of a Adam Curtis documentary but fascist
Yes. But that’s beside the point. One of these is clearly an Al Capone-type scenario.
