UK Politics Thread 🇬🇧

[Kasgoinjail]

Oh, no doubt. The U.S. is gonna pull the greatest "Hold my beer" after U.K. self-immolates itself to the memory of Thatcher, Rand & Reagan.

O wait the US
My bad thought u were just floating around Orbit encased in amniotic fluid
As you were my good friend

 

[Trajan]

Absolutely ridiculous. Beyond embarrassing

I still won't be surprised if people vote for a Tory government again though.

 

[88m3]

So UK brehs, is an independent Scotland and a unified Republic of Ireland going to basically be a done deal at this point? Especially with all the back and forth on the hard border shyt in Northern Ireland?

We'll see it in our lifetimes. I have no doubt about that.

 

[the artist known az]

Absolutely ridiculous. Beyond embarrassing

I still won't be surprised if people vote for a Tory government again though.

I've seen so many stupid old ass cacs say they'll still vote conservative after all this shyt

 

[TheAlbionist]

Let's not forget Corbyn was on the way to election victory and was sabotaged by memebers of his own party.

Yeah, Corbyn was the first Labour leader of my life I actually *wanted* to vote for rather than felt I had to. I didn't want to get into why he didn't make it because that's a whole thread in its own right tbh. We're a sorry excuse for a nation that never had the balls to become a republic and we still don't have the balls to just stand up and stop rich people taking all our shyt. The moment it looks like the people might be about to get the message and find a champion the entire immune system of the establishment takes them the fukk out. How did that whole "let's give households free internet" thing end with Jeremy fukking Corbyn being labelled a terrorist racist?

 

[Sukairain]

Yeah, Corbyn was the first Labour leader of my life I actually *wanted* to vote for rather than felt I had to. I didn't want to get into why he didn't make it because that's a whole thread in its own right tbh. We're a sorry excuse for a nation that never had the balls to become a republic and we still don't have the balls to just stand up and stop rich people taking all our shyt. The moment it looks like the people might be about to get the message and find a champion the entire immune system of the establishment takes them the fukk out. How did that whole "let's give households free internet" thing end with Jeremy fukking Corbyn being labelled a terrorist racist?

Trotsky, writing in 1938, explained how these things happen:

Morality is a function of living human society. There is nothing absolute in its character, for it changes with the progress of that society, and serves as an expression of the interests of its classes, and chiefly of the governing classes. Official morality is a bridle to restrain the oppressed.

The ruling class forces its ends upon society and habituates it into considering all those means which contradict its ends as immoral. That is the chief function of official morality. It pursues the idea of the ‘greatest possible happiness’ not for the majority but for a small and ever-diminishing minority. Such a regime could not have endured for even a week through force alone. It needs the cement of morality. The production of this cement constitutes the profession of the petty-bourgeois theoreticians and moralists. They radiate all the colours of the rainbow but in the final analysis remain apostles of slavery and submission.

And look how they took Corbyn down, by appeals to morality, by claiming he was responsible for a culture of anti-Semitism, etc.

 

[88m3]

 

[the next guy]

 

[DrBanneker]

You know what, just make Braverman PM so we can get Twilight Zone levels of fukkery.

 

[Red Shield]

Lmfao
Glass houses
Stones

Like breh said... just wait the usa is gonna show it's ass

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

You know what, just make Braverman PM so we can get Twilight Zone levels of fukkery.

You really want riots in the streets?

 

[Serious]

UK Economic Forecast: A Consumption and Confidence-Led Recession with the Potential for a Housing Crisis | Teneo

Due to a series of factors – ranging from the long-term impacts of the pandemic to the ongoing effects of the conflict in Ukraine – the UK is currently exposed to a unique range of economic pressures.

www.teneo.com

Negative growth is likely to persist throughout 2023 as the UK economy continues to grapple with energy pressures and high interest rates driving a slowdown of the economy, including a reduction in house prices. GDP growth is only likely to turn positive in 2024Q1/Q2.

 

[88m3]

Iceberg lettuce in blond wig outlasts Liz Truss

Supermarket salad is crowned winner of bizarre competition that attracted global media attention

www.theguardian.com

 

[null]

First and only times I voted was for Corbyn

"go in peace breh"

 

[DaRealness]

Calls for Liz Truss not to take yearly £115,000 as ex-prime minister

As a former prime minister, Ms Truss would be able to claim the money for expenses for public duties.

www.bbc.co.uk

Damn right. Only 45 days in office, fukks up on unprecedented levels but gets to bag £115,000 a year for the rest of her life from the tax payer?

Wish I could resign from my current job and get six figures annually from that alone.