Well, bear in mind I've been done with the Labour party for a while. Policies actively harmed me more than decades of Tory, right wing authoritarian persona abhorrent, crossing too many red lines. I'm supporting Starmer as the best chance to eradicate the party, the window for redemption has gone.
Well, not a Corbynite but then I can't say I necessarily would get on with anyone that thought they were tankies. In current circumstances a circus act, possibly.
"Stupidly reactionary and making a comment before understanding the wider context" also, certainly, but not a tankie. I'll delete it, chiefly to save my own embarassment.
Aren't tankies meant to like Russia or something? I've just read clarification of the point, my understanding of procedure appears to have been incorrect, so I apologise.
Thank you, that clarifies what happened. As it was put in place by Boris, absolutely for snakes, however!
Oh, it will be remembered. If I were a Labour counciller up for election in May, I would not stop screaming. Other than when trying to get my CV up to date, of course. It's now a bloodbath, Starmer had made sure of it.
Announcing the appointment prior to security vetting in contradiction to advice seems like a really odd procedure to follow, but there we go. Are we talking about government procedure, or one for snakes?
On the other hand, it makes analogies really difficult. Using the expression "a sea of red" in the May local elections gives entirely the wrong impression as to the inevitable outcome.
oh! they got this all screwed up!
To paraphrase one part, "all cultures are equal, but some are more equal than others" this has to be a parody, right?
It's not often you see a bad mashup of The Fountainhead and white nationalist colonialism used to sell a software product, yet here we are.
ok, so let's break this down - why am i SO bearish on the uk?
1. greens doing well is great, but on current polling reform would win a majority on 1/4 of the vote
Poor Matt, if he were a stick of rock he'd have LOSER running through the middle. If I were in his shoes I'd be more concerned over the situation in Hungary as it pertains to his finances than his bumper book of hallucinated facts.
"No, but I often work with children aged 40 or over." There's various leading questions, like asking at what age a restriction should be set. Also defusing answers by asking opinions about harms in separate questions to opinions about impact and use.
In this light, the hate toward the left becomes "association with you is harming my self serving interests at the moment."
My take is that a fascist genuinely wants to shove people into ovens. A "sensible" isn't driven like that, but will happily do so without blinking if the alternative is even mild inconvenience to themselves. Basically hate versus selfishness as pathologies.
Does anyone remember the origin of the ridiculous claim that hackers could remotely rearrange the molecules in a laptop, turning it into a bomb? It appears to have been memory holed.
We're supplying military equipment to Israel. And Labour cares so little about it that Belgium has to step in and stop the shipments. I guess Labour's too busy arresting protestors against the genocide?
So you're saying the other bit, about the company being literally all birds, is true?
"Not using our own military forces to directly attack sites inside Iran or Lebanon" merely means we are involved in a support and supply role, not an offensive role.
How much collusion does it take to become involved? Supressing domestic protests? Staging, directing and refueling bombers? Supplying arms? Flying reconnaissance? Intercepting attacks? We're involved.
I looked, and before me was a pale couch.
If there were ever any tiny glimmer that fooled me into believing Labour could in any way be redeemable, I just need to remember who their base now is.
It's a monopoly.
I don't even believe the defence argument for a second, the US is an unreliable protector at best, downright dangerous at worse, we have far more protection from all the dirty laundry in our bank vaults. It's pure fear driving - don't anger the mad emperor lest he turn his wrath upon us.
We both start with the baseline of understanding that difficult choices and unpleasant bedfellows are the norm, not the exception. Where I think we differ is that I don't believe you understand that we're in an outside context situation where these traditional transactional politics don't apply.
We needed a Prime Minister with a backbone, instead we got an earthworm.
I'll be too busy enjoying watching the ice hockey and people making snowmen in the sixth circle of hell on that day.
So do whatever a madman says is now considered sane? Appeasement continues to not work. Its a shame so many still don't understand this.
Dont forget the Tories, three cheeks of the same arse, plenty of arseholes to go around.