No comment……
We both know what’s going to happen.
I guess where are at that moment in history that is all about clowns and it is happening across the world but why young generations vote far right is beyond my comprehension
Young People voting for far right parties doesn’t surprise me sadly.
History repeating itself and economic desperation (young people being unable to afford their own home, cost of living etc etc) creating the perfect environment for an extremist/ racist blame game.
Add online disinformation/ the post truth world we live in into the mix and you have a perfect recipe for right wing nationalism. Especially when you can barely put a cigarette paper between the two main parties (in the Uk)
He was waiting for Weatherall to turn up as per usual- two left feet otherwise
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.
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!
The comments!
“It’s like the band Superhans and Jez had in Peep Show”
Singing it like Walt Jr!
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?
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.
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.
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!
This. Gammons would never accept replacing the great British pound with the Euro
Count Binface has a solution
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.
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.
There is a real problem with younger men supporting Reform …
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.