UK General Discussion:The Rt. Hon Alex Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Populist Hero

[jaymichaud]

https://twitter.com/ldnyounglabour/status/1257728205022277632?s=21

This party are never winning again... are they

[jaymichaud]

Wasn't the current leader of SF a bit young for that?

Michelle O’Neill’s family are provos through and through though.

[jaymichaud]

This entire ordeal is a f**king PR disaster for the Tories.

[jaymichaud]

https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1271075607955288064?s=21

Thoughts?

[jaymichaud]

An unfortunate no-win scenario for Starmer - he obviously had no choice but to sack her, but it's going to reopen quite a lot of wounds. The last thing Labour needs right now is the left growing an even bigger victim complex.

Of course he did, don't be ridiculous. A dressing down and apology from RLB for her "carelessness" would have satisfied all but the headbangers (who are never going to vote Labour anyway)

Impossible to see any good coming from this.

Really?

You'd think after God knows how long of Labour failing to do anything to address a massive problem that a senior member of the Shadow Cabinet would be allowed to get away with sharing anti-semitic conspiracy theories? Making her say sorry and that she won't do it again would just reinforce the perception that the leadership doesn't give a sh!t about the issue and that nothing has changed except the name of the leader. It is an unfortunate situation no doubt, but Starmer functionally did not have a choice.

What, that Israel has trained US police forces?

Counter terrorism training, lmao.

https://www.adl.org/who-we-are/our-organization/signature-programs/law-enforcement-trainings/leadership-seminar-in-israel

[jaymichaud]

I think what she posted was ignorant (it's not like the entire article revolved around that one line) but not done with hateful or malicious intent. She should have just said sorry and moved on, she'd have probably kept her job.

[jaymichaud]

If Labour went too far, how well would a party to the left of Labour do?

Would they be able to win any seats? Or get like 3-4% of the vote at least?

There was the Respect Party in the 00s but they were winning like 0.1% of the vote

[jaymichaud]

Mass stabbing incident in Glasgow. Suspect shot dead. No information other than spurious rumours.

OMG

[jaymichaud]

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1321111401323208704

The only thing that might save the Union.
However, if such a change ever were to be seriously considered (which I'd only expect from a minority Labour government), let alone be put to a referendum, I'd fully expect the Tories, the tabloids, Cambridge Analytica and what have you to go all World War 3 against proportional representation.
A bit like how Catherine the Great took the new liberal Polish-Lithuanian constitution as a threat.

I guess Labour would need to win Scotland, but reasons would a center-left voter there have to vote for them though? Unless they want Brexit of course.

[jaymichaud]

[jaymichaud]

https://twitter.com/electionmapsuk/status/1356239328444346368?s=21

Thoughts?

[jaymichaud]

https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1375159513301590020

I seriously can't believe Britain is having fleg drama

[jaymichaud]

Seems the DUP found their scapegoat, all of them were alright sitting on their hands for the past 4 and a half years though.

[jaymichaud]

POV:

[jaymichaud]

"The 1983 United Kingdom General Election but somebody stepped on a butterfly"

[jaymichaud]

https://twitter.com/MXOFO/status/1455254299907432454

That is fxxxing hilarious.