General British politics discussion thread

Shelagh Fogarty always gets destroyed by people such as this commentator which is great to see.

she used to be decent but she has sold her soul to the genocidal racist apartheid colonial state, and dispite being humiliated every time by callers and guests calling the state out, continues to be the biggest israel shill and degrade herself for the genocidal racist apartheid state as does the presenter who comes after her among others on that station.

she often has the agitator gidian falter on her program as well as the UKLFI headbangers and up until recently at least, the conspyra loon david mensa.

Plus the whole 'two-tier policing' bullcrap is arguably indeed tarring all police with the same brush.

To be frank, what the Tories have been saying isn't much better, maybe a little less blatant.

I think the police's real 'crime' was their firm treatment of the far-right riots in 2024 after the Southport murders. They probably thought they'd actually get the 'softly-softly' treatment.

Yes and he was so concerned about the Novak case that he couldn't be there yesterday either. Filmed his 'call to rage' in a field somewhere and refused to answer any questions afterwards lest his £5 million and the mythical 'Russian hackers' were raised.

Latest poll on Makerfield:- Lab 49%, Ref 39%, Restore 8%, Oths 1-2%.

Basically any LD and Green voters are voting tactically for Burnham.

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It's a cop out for sure, but an understandable cop out from Burnham. He knows if he says anything even remotely critical about Israel the knives will be out for him from the usual suspects and he can say goodbye to any leadership race before it even begins. Likewise, if he says he's all fine and dandy with the genocidal warfare in Gaza he'll blow it with a lot of people too.

Very disappointing that Burnham won't say a word to criticise the terrorist state - and he is supposed to represent the left wing of the Labour Party. They really are hugely compromised in their relationship with Zionism.

I think politically there isn't much positive to expect in the UK, and that for a long time to come.

Opinions in the UK are often too far apart for any kind of consensus on many things.

The first past the post electoral system doesn't offer any form of compromise on anything, it's mostly one ruling over the other and vice versa, only sparking harsh debates and politics detached from large parts of the public.

The difference between the haves and have nots is rather big, even though taxes seem higher.

Considering what even wealthy property owners pay in council taxes on their properties and social issues are still not solved shows how things really are and how they are handled, the reality is often high cost and poor outcome.

The Tories basically ruined themselves with Brexit, and no real economic plan and no credibility.

Labour under Starmer has no real courage to do anything that moves the needle.

Reform UK is full of scandals, shady financial deals, etc…. and so is the SNP in Scotland. Both can be loud-mouthed with no plan and fewer results.

Scandals here and there, recently with the police, contribute to the feeling the country seems broken.

Fazit: No political party seems to have capabilities nor solutions on anything.

9% without solid local candidates means no seats, but will strip Reform of loads of seats

And probably for Rupert Lowe's head on a spike. Would be the mirror image of Moby's take on the 2000 American presidential election:

“If Bush wins, I will follow Ralph Nader to the ends of the earth just to scream at him and pelt him with rotten tomatoes. If Nader had withdrawn from the race, then Al Gore would be our president-elect.”

Farage seems determined to double down on his links with the most decrepit Tories of the Brexit era, with both Truss and Rees-Mogg on the bill for this. I suppose he couldn't resist another US-style fash forum.

Others in attendance will include Matt Goodwin, who lost the Gorton and Denton byelection to a Green plumber, and the noted free speech campaigner Lucy 'burn down hotels with the migrants in them' Connolly.

Nigel Farage to headline Liz Truss’s UK CPAC event after apparent snub | Nigel Farage | The Guardian

Are we likely to see Starmer indulge in a Cobra meeting today as the racist mobs systematically attacked non-whites last night?