Unfortunately, when things go to shit, the far right benefit. They organise and make alliances. We’re seeing the failure and collapse of the centre and the right will be the main beneficiaries, unfortunately.
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the funny thing is that this - theoretically - could go both ways.
biden could order a drone strike on trump and SCOTUS and call it an official act, in his presidential capacity. and what’s more, he’d never live long enough to be tried.
juuuuust a thought!
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The comments!
“It’s like the band Superhans and Jez had in Peep Show” 
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Singing it like Walt Jr! 
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In Barcelona a lot of rich kid pijitos now vote VOX. Not sure if it’s part of a wider trend whereby kids are getting their news from youtubers/tiktokers instead of traditional media, or in more Spanish context, an anti-Catalan message?
as for US, somebody urgently needs to depoliticise the judiciary. jurisprudence is supposed to be based on applying fairness and justice not your personal party affiliation. Or am I just naive?
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It’s become more politicised with the times. Judge Harry Blackmun, the author of the Roe vs Wade was a Nixon appointee. As congressional gridlock has worsened, power is increasingly exercised through the courts. Unfortunately, the right wing has been dogged in their pursuit of power through the courts, a strategy that has paid off very well for them.
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forgive me for being an ignorant american, but wasn’t brexit built to be deliberately difficult to unfuck?
i read that headline and think that it’s not that he doesn’t want to try, it’s just setting appropriate expectations.
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I think it’s a mix of expectation management with a hefty dose of realism. Any idea the UK will just “rejoin” is lala land. We’d have to reapply and complete all of the acquis communitaire including all sorts of binding legal frameworks, free movement, and commitment to the euro. There’s no way we go back to the individual deal we had before Brexit.
I’ve got quite a few friends working in various EU institutions and there’s no real appetite for the UK to rejoin. We’re a helpful example of what happens if you leave!
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This. Gammons would never accept replacing the great British pound with the Euro
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Count Binface has a solution
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It’s only five years since a govt won a big majority of MPs on a “get Brexit done” vote. As the old selfish idiots who voted for it die off then the numbers in favour of rejoining will get bigger and bigger, but we are years off politicians being able to look at rejoining and as mentioned above I doubt the EU will be in a hurry either.
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Reform / Russia targeting TikTok is grim.
Loads of first time voters saying they are voting for those cunts.
The far right wins when the main parties are offering pretty much the same policies.
It’s the next election that I worry about. Looks like we are following the States.
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There is a real problem with younger men supporting Reform …
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I’ve thought for a long time that the old style red/blue/orange party politics is dead. The world is too nuanced now for people to fit easily under one banner. You can see in this election, for example, that people at the opposite ends of the spectrum of views on immigration are voting for Labour. How can one party cater to voters with such disparate views on key topics? Surely it will implode? The future looks like further fragmentation and I agree that in that environment there’s a huge risk of populist right wing parties hoovering up votes of people who are generally pissed off, without actually offering any coherent policies of their own beyond the usual tropes.
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I don’t want to piss on the conga tonight, but we’re kidding ourselves if we think the UK’s problems all vanish with the Tories. In many ways they were just the frontmen who indulged the deeper demons in society. Brexit, covid and wider culture wars brought out an ugly side to people which aren’t neatly defined by age, salary or class. I think there is a complacent view on the left that everything will be ok once the bedblockers leave the building but it’s way more complex than that. The great taboo in British politics is any politician ever confronting the uglier aspects of the national psyche, the xenophobia, the nimbyism, the selfishness, the Brits Abroad mentality… remember that the affluent middle classes only turned on the Tories when they themselves got hit, there was no solidarity with the worst hit. so yes, it’s great, a necessary correction, a long overdue generational change, but (forgive cliche) the honeymoon won’t last long
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I’m worried we’re heading into a very dark period (and not just in the UK), something much more like the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
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Plus there’s no money to do anything. Anyone in power is basically fucked for the time being. I agree it’s 
time for a change but not holding my breath it’s going to be hugely different tbh.
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Dwindling resources and climate change. It’s too late to reverse anything I fear. All the conflicts and movement of people around the world are simply the consequences of geo-political energy wars IMO
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Labour govts can always make a difference (biased as I worked for Blair and Brown). Minimum wage, parental leave, right to join a Union, tax credits, almost eliminating rough sleepers, reducing child poverty, equalising age of consent, reducing waiting lists, rebuilding schools etc all made a tangible difference to people’s lives. I find Starmer pretty dull and uninspiring but have no doubt that Labour will do good things overall for the people who most need a Labour govt.
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