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.
She'll be fine - she survived throwing people in jail for 4 years for anti-immigrant tweets, so she'll survive this.
Obviously as a general point this is really bad and another bad misjudgement by the Starmer government, as is/was jailing people for tweeting about migrants or threatening them for "Non-crime hate incidents".
...which only happened if you believe the far right racist journalist with a well-trodden history of lying instead of the people who interviewed her, as you clearly want to. Can't quite put my finger on why that could be.
She'll be fine - she survived throwing people in jail for 4 years for anti-immigrant tweets, so she'll survive this.
Obviously as a general point this is really bad and another bad misjudgement by the Starmer government, as is/was jailing people for tweeting about migrants or threatening them for "Non-crime hate incidents".
This is massive. Nearly 500 arrested now. Many of those are very media sympathetic and not easily dismissed. Compunded by the main court case coming up which the government may well lose.
It's going to hit starmers
hard right where it hurts him and we know how he will bravely respond.
She might survive but I def wouldnt bet on it.
The lying and dangerous scumbag Yvette Cooper can go and jump into a vat of her own horseshite.
Where can i find british political polls that include the new corbyn party? i can't find any
Where can i find british political polls that include the new corbyn party? i can't find any
At the last count for YouGov, 27% prefer Starmer as prime minister compared to 22% for Corbyn, and Starmer has a 35% to 28% advantage over Farage. Bear in mind that the proposed Corbyn party has no policies and therefore nothing for anyone to disagree with. It's a personality cult. Compared to Farage, Corbyn comes closer and rates 29% against 30%, which tells you something about Corbynites and their alignment with the far right (it's known as 'red-brown crossover').
However, the brown part of the equation, existing Reform UK voters, don't think much of Corbyn at all. Only 2% think he would be a good prime minister. It is evident that the Corbyn party will take votes from Labour and enable Farage, much as the KDP enabled the Nazis.
At the last count for YouGov, 27% prefer Starmer as prime minister compared to 22% for Corbyn, and Starmer has a 35% to 28% advantage over Farage. Bear in mind that the proposed Corbyn party has no policies and therefore nothing for anyone to disagree with. It's a personality cult. Compared to Farage, Corbyn comes closer and rates 29% against 30%, which tells you something abou
What is going on in the UK and most of Europe is absolutely terrifying. UK has essentially become a police state. The more I read the more thankful that I live in the greatest state in the greatest country in the world.
At the last count for YouGov, 27% prefer Starmer as prime minister compared to 22% for Corbyn, and Starmer has a 35% to 28% advantage over Farage. Bear in mind that the proposed Corbyn party has no policies and therefore nothing for anyone to disagree with. It's a personality cult. Compared to Farage, Corbyn comes closer and rates 29% against 30%, which tells you something abou
No sorry maybe i wasn't clear, i'd just like a poll like this, but with Corbyn party as well
As a party it doesn't quite exist yet and doesn't even have a name, so what you want isn't presently possible.
At the last count for YouGov, 27% prefer Starmer as prime minister compared to 22% for Corbyn, and Starmer has a 35% to 28% advantage over Farage. Bear in mind that the proposed Corbyn party has no policies and therefore nothing for anyone to disagree with.
We know you hate Corbyn and the Left in general, but the new party also doesn’t have any policies yet for anyone to agree with, which I expect they will in quite large numbers. After all, his Labour Party did get over 40% in a general election, you know.
What is going on in the UK and most of Europe is absolutely terrifying. UK has essentially become a police state. The more I read the more thankful that I live in the greatest state in the greatest country in the world.
Not this one country I assume
President Donald Trump said he was deploying the National Guard to Washington DC and taking control of the city's police force as he pledged to crack down on crime and homelessness in the city.
Trump declared a "public safety emergency" on Monday, deploying 800 National Guard troops who will bolster hundreds of federal law enforcement officers who were deployed over the weekend.
UK recovers position in EU’s Horizon Europe science research programme
What is going on in the UK and most of Europe is absolutely terrifying. UK has essentially become a police state. The more I read the more thankful that I live in the greatest state in the greatest country in the world.
Delusion of adequacy here.
Or projection of what's happening in own country.
Or a troll, time will tell.
Delusion of adequacy here.
Or projection of what's happening in own country.
Or a troll, time will tell.
Tell me when Americans get arrested for Facebook posts
Tell me when popular candidates get banned from running in elections
Tell me when entire political parties get potentially banned
Like I said the EU has fallen into full blown authoritarianism. Poland and Hungary may be beacons of hope in a dark era but you cannot deny that the UK has become Orwellian in recent years.
wow so you are talking about this country
President Donald Trump said he was deploying the National Guard to Washington DC and taking control of the city's police force as he pledged to crack down on crime and homelessness in the city.
Trump declared a "public safety emergency" on Monday, deploying 800 National Guard troops who will bolster hundreds of federal law enforcement officers who were deployed over the weekend.
that's a specific provision which the USA have *for washington DC* because it's not part of any state, in other states governors have the same power .
It isn't authoritarian, at most you can claim it's against local autonomy (local v state), it's taking charge of a locality because local authorities failed at their jobs. Police doesn't gain any more power, and the additional troops eventually deployed don't either. Nothing changes for citizens except who gives the orders. The limits to law enforcement actions stay identical. There is no increase in the power of the state over citizens with that maneuvre. It's a change in the chain of command, not in the role of law enforcement.
The UK is structurally far more centralized than that, with local authorities having far fewer powers to begin with, so if you consider that authoritarian, then the UK is structurally far more authoritarian than the USA.
And the civil contingencies act of 2004 in the UK allows the national government to do exactly what Trump just did, but everywhere, not only in the capitol.
The most Orwellian aspects of present-day British society, including newspeak, doublethink, wrongthink, crimethink and the thought police, are direct cultural imports from the US, particularly US academia and media.
Free speech is under-protected in the UK, but the situation is worse in the US because of at-will employment law. You can be fired for wrongthink at any time with no possible redress. UK employment tribunals like Forstater v CGD Europe would never be possible in the US itself. The First Amendment only restricts the powers of Congress, not employers.
The most Orwellian aspects of present-day British society, including newspeak, doublethink, wrongthink, crimethink and the thought police, are direct cultural imports from the US, particularly US academia and media.Free speech is under-protected in the UK, but the situation is worse in the US because of at-will employment law. You can be fired for wrongthink at any time with no
you know better than that. This is "pirate radio" in 2025. The UK has flirted with authoritarian socialism for a long while, and this is just another iteration of that.
And no the USA don't have any state censorship of content at all , and no it's not worse there. The actual guards from the state dont' knock on your door because of a facebook post someone disliked.
The most Orwellian aspects of present-day British society, including newspeak, doublethink, wrongthink, crimethink and the thought police, are direct cultural imports from the US, particularly US academia and media.Free speech is under-protected in the UK, but the situation is worse in the US because of at-will employment law. You can be fired for wrongthink at any time with no
Employers shouldn't have to have a reason to fire employees.
you know better than that. This is "pirate radio" in 2025. The UK has flirted with authoritarian socialism for a long while, and this is just another iteration of that.
And no the USA don't have any state censorship of content at all , and no it's not worse there. The actual guards from the state dont' knock on your door because of a facebook post someone disliked.
I don't agree. In the infamous Twitter Joke Trial, 'Robin Hood Airport Man' Paul Chambers won his appeal case (Chambers v Director of Public Prosecutions 2012), against the best efforts of Sir Keir Starmer as chief prosecutor, and the High Court's ruling in that case is a binding precedent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_jo...
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jul...
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/analysis/tw...
Although the police have often overreached since then, it tends not to get them anywhere. They knocked on a woman's door and accused her of 'untoward remarks about paedophiles on Twitter.' She told them to **** off. There was nothing they could do. They phoned up a man who campaigned against police genderocracy and told him they needed to 'check his thinking' (after a Stonewall training day, obviously). He told them to **** off. There was nothing they could do. And the police are now legally banned from taking part in Pride marches in uniform, as they have lately been given to doing.
hey guys italy just edged out per capita gdp above yours.
And we are a failed country with an immense number of corrupt parasites with 0 civic sense and 0 work ethics. We are the blue line you are the green one
