General British politics discussion thread

For Women Scotland.

Cannot let today pass without mentioning the historic landmark ruling from the Supreme Court in London. Hopefully giving clarity to an issue (equality act 2010) that has caused consternation and confusion for years now. Finally settled today with clarity and certainty regarding sex based rights for women, who make-up 51% of the UK population. A practical, biological & common sense solution. And like the judge says "There are no winners in this case", just some much needed clarity . . .

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-supreme-court-makes-unanimous-decision-on-definition-of-a-woman-13349170

The media and Badenoch know it's catch 22 for her.

She either has to be seen as "out of touch" with the public for not being into cultural phenomenon or admit to seeing it and then have to answer questions about it's content which will mean picking sides between the Robinson/Farage lovers and moderate Tory voters.

It's quite difficult to judge how accurately the issue is being depicted as it is a drama series so obviously a huge amount of dramatic license is going to be used. Coronation Street has highlighted numerous societal issues over the years aswell so really Adolescent is no better than that. Should politicians have been expected to watch Coronation Street in the early 00's when Sarah Platt was pregnant as a way of trying to find a solution to teen pregnancy?

Politicians would have access to real life case reports and reports on all the issues highlighted in the show so if they were doing their job properly it would highlight zero for them.

It is but her own crowd were the very same low lives that spent months fretting over what colour poppy Jeremy Corbyn wore or trying to shame John Prescott for the crime of a working class man enjoying some of the finer things they do every day.

Tories and their tabloid buddies created this monster so they can shove it up their wholes for all I care.

Not a huge shock to see Reform UK and Farage winning the Runcorn by-election and cleaning up in the local elections.

British politics is in a very strange place though - no real presence of the Left (bar the Greens perhaps?) and various shades of right wing parties jockeying for power. 'Labour' votes readily transferring to Reform UK across the country is an eye opener.

Could we see a Reform - Tory coalition government after the next general election? It obviously would be a Trump style car crash given the abject lack of talent in both parties, but we may well be heading in such a direction.

They seem to have no particular issue with many aspects of Farage's manifesto (or else they wouldn't vote for him) so the assumption would have to be that they are right wing or hard right these days.

The Northern Labour vote was completely corrupted by Brexit, where you had dyed-in-the-wool miners, dockers and their families starting to vote Tory to bring back the sunlit uplands and send the Poles home. Reform have now taken that vote, its not gone back to Labour, nor will it anytime soon.

Northern England voted for Brexit. They didn't not back the Tories to sort it out.

Working class northern England was one of Brexit's most vociferous drivers.

As for today this is an incredible kicking. Badenoch is probably too new to be dumped so soon but her aping of Reform is pointless when people have the real fascist deal to vote for. I'de like to think a dose of power will show Reform for the clowns they are but idiots voted Trump twice so lessons probably won't be learned.

What percentage voted for labour?

Looks like the writing is on the wall. As I write this, I'm watching a clip of Jacob Rees Mogg on Channel 4 news saying he agrees with much of Farage's platform. I think that sentiment is going to spread through the Tories like a virus as they watch the opinion polls and it'll come down to a question of formal alliance or straight up merger with Reform for the next general.