British Politics
Been on holiday for a few weeks, surprised to find no general discussion of British politics so though I'd kick one off.
Labour's problem is that its historic working-class voters were always social conservatives who only voted Labour for higher wages and benefits. Now Labour's vote has tilted 'middle-class metropolitan woke', which has a certain seat limit and won't win national elections (hence the loss of the Red Wall which is now going Reform).
Labour's problem is that its historic working-class voters were always social conservatives who only voted Labour for higher wages and benefits. Now Labour's vote has tilted 'middle-class metropolitan woke', which has a certain seat limit and won't win national elections (hence the loss of the Red Wall which is now going Reform).
that's a problem only if social progressiveness is thought of as necessary.
maybe in a country where it is minoritarian, because all of the right and a portion of the left oppose it, democracy should compel politicians to stop being socially progressive?
but I know progressives never actually believed in democracy
Labour's problem is that its historic working-class voters were always social conservatives who only voted Labour for higher wages and benefits. Now Labour's vote has tilted 'middle-class metropolitan woke', which has a certain seat limit and won't win national elections (hence the loss of the Red Wall which is now going Reform).
Labour got 40% in 2017 with policies that are still popular and against stronger opposition compared to starmer who got <34% by offering "not as bad"
Corbyn may have become an issue but winning over the electorate with a real left wing alternative is not the problem. Offering nothing is.
Some incels will doubtless be heartened by Labours rhetoric on immigrants.
How things have changed in 50 years.
More incel behaviour incoming...
The two men convicted of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree were suspects in an investigation into alleged homophobic assaults that took place around the same time they committed their infamous crime.
Daniel Graham, 39, from Carlisle, and Adam Carruthers, 32, from Wigton, were found guilty last week of cutting down the iconic tree at Hadrian's Wall on 27 September 2023.
Nine days earlier, a man reported being doused in icing sugar and subjected to verbal abuse by two people at a layby in Cumbria often frequented by men seeking sexual encounters.
The CPS dropped the case more than a year later, but emails seen by the BBC confirm police prepared a file on Graham and Carruthers for prosecutors.
Wonder what the chances of Starmer being shuffled up into the HoL and Streeting being found a safe by election before the next election are?
Where was Streeting at the time of these events?
And how many ****ing properties does Starmer have?
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said these flights were to gather intelligence related to the hostages seized by Hamas on 7 October last year.
But it has also stated it is willing to share intelligence relating to war crimes with the ICC.
The MoD has denied reports it is providing wider targeting information to Israel or that RAF aircraft have been used to fly weapons into Israel during its war in Gaza.
The MoD said in a statement: "In line with our international obligations, we would consider any formal request from the International Criminal Court to provide information relating to investigations into war crimes.
"The UK is not a participant in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
"Our mandate is narrowly defined to focus on securing the release of the hostages only, including British nationals, with the RAF routinely conducting unarmed flights since December 2023 for this sole purpose."
So, to the long list of failings of our glorious flag-covered leader we can add incompetence.
I wonder WHAT caused one of the worst practices humanity ever devised to become common in the UK
https://x.com/ukhomeoffice/status/192334...
Female genital mutilation is not a distant issue. It could be happening to your neighbour.
We are determined to halve violence against women and girls in a decade and end FGM for good.
I wonder WHAT caused one of the worst practices humanity ever devised to become common in the UKhttps://x.com/ukhomeoffice/status/192334...Female genital mutilation is not a distant issue. It could be happening to your neighbour. We are determined to halve violence against women and girls in a decade and end FGM for good.
It's illegal and you can get convicted for it, despite the 'closing ranks' thing in the communities responsible.
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/fe...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019...
https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/woman-co...
please tell me this is just a Monty Python sketch
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...
Sighing at a colleague at work in frustration could breach equality laws, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Nonverbal expressions of disappointment or irritation could amount to discrimination, a judge said.
The ruling came in the case of a UK software engineer with ADHD who successfully sued a tech company for disability discrimination after complaining about his manager’s sighing and exaggerated exhales.
please tell me this is just a Monty Python sketchhttps://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...Sighing at a colleague at work in frustration could breach equality laws, an employment tribunal has ruled.Nonverbal expressions of disappointment or irritation could amount to discrimination, a judge said.The
The claimant seems to have lost on most of his claims (including unfair dismissal) and the employer should maybe appeal, since the sighing related to obviously unacceptable behaviour. Wokey-doke judgements like that will only make employers more prejudicial against hiring anyone who might claim a made-up (or at the very least grotesquely over-diagnosed) health condition to bring such a suit as an excuse for poor attendance and performance.
There may be a lot of changed minds (possibly a third of Leave voters within a few years of the referendum), plus by now a large die-off, with older Leave voters progressively replaced by the newly enfranchised and more Europe-minded young.
The claimant seems to have lost on most of his claims (including unfair dismissal) and the employer should maybe appeal, since the sighing related to obviously unacceptable behaviour. Wokey-doke judgements like that will only make employers more prejudicial against hiring anyone who might claim a made-up (or at the very least grotesquely over-diagnosed) health condition to brin
From what I read he got diagnosed years after having being hired.
And basically the judge claims after the diagnosis what were evident poor work ethic elements and would be very normal elements for dismissal without the diagnosis, couldn't be used anymore because it's discrimination, as those behavioral aberrations are linked purportedly to the diagnosis.
A legal system that makes it so that a mentally ill person with aberrant, inefficient work behavior simple as to be accepted as such and be paid in full anyway is completely, utterly ****ed up imho.
It is like you hire someone for a physical job, he loses both arms and can't do **** anymore, and you have to keep him employed in perpetuity anyway.
