I’m really angry with the British government right now. In some ways they’re worse than the Tories, because at least with them you knew where you stood. With Starmer he keeps trying to outdo the far right, which leads to them adopting even further right policies, and him adopting them and so on. The cracking down on freedom of speech is genuinely scary, whether it be through the online safety act or abusing terrorism legislation to proscribe direct action groups. They need to fix the housing and healthcare crises urgently, but they’re tinkering at the seams while the far right are on the cusp of taking power in 2029.
On the local level, I don’t like our elected assembly much either, and I feel like all they do is pose for photoshoots and blame all their mistakes on the government in London.
As an American I am continually confused by the current UK govt being not at all what I imagined a Labour party to be. From the outside it looks like a bait and switch
Got five words for you: Tabloid Press and Social Media.
Very few here in the UK actually possess the mental facilities to understand what is going on, hence why the most popular pastime is getting drunk and shouting at a screen showing millionaires punt a ball around an overly manicured field for 90 minutes.
All they know is that after decades of Conservative government and now under Labour, their lives haven’t improved since the 2008 financial crisis. It’s only gotten slightly worse.
So they fall hook, line, and sinker for far-right grifters who’ll happily serve up easy to understand boogymen to blame all their problems on because these cunts promise radical change as a departure from the managed slow decline the middle neoliberal parties offer.
In the end, these Gammons will vote for the Sunday Roast and I will take great pleasure laughing openly in their faces.
I’m really angry with the British government right now. In some ways they’re worse than the Tories, because at least with them you knew where you stood. With Starmer he keeps trying to outdo the far right, which leads to them adopting even further right policies, and him adopting them and so on. The cracking down on freedom of speech is genuinely scary, whether it be through the online safety act or abusing terrorism legislation to proscribe direct action groups. They need to fix the housing and healthcare crises urgently, but they’re tinkering at the seams while the far right are on the cusp of taking power in 2029.
On the local level, I don’t like our elected assembly much either, and I feel like all they do is pose for photoshoots and blame all their mistakes on the government in London.
As an American I am continually confused by the current UK govt being not at all what I imagined a Labour party to be. From the outside it looks like a bait and switch
And because people don’t like Starmer they’re voting further right. Make it make sense.
Got five words for you: Tabloid Press and Social Media.
Very few here in the UK actually possess the mental facilities to understand what is going on, hence why the most popular pastime is getting drunk and shouting at a screen showing millionaires punt a ball around an overly manicured field for 90 minutes.
All they know is that after decades of Conservative government and now under Labour, their lives haven’t improved since the 2008 financial crisis. It’s only gotten slightly worse.
So they fall hook, line, and sinker for far-right grifters who’ll happily serve up easy to understand boogymen to blame all their problems on because these cunts promise radical change as a departure from the managed slow decline the middle neoliberal parties offer.
In the end, these Gammons will vote for the Sunday Roast and I will take great pleasure laughing openly in their faces.