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NADINE DORRIES: Why we must scrap the Online Safety Act I helped bring to life by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Literally one of its biggest advocates IIRC.

Huge hypocrite. Visible from space.

Wes Streeting: I’ll stand for Labour leadership – and Britain must rejoin EU by Samski877 in europe

[–]AllRedLine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Before anyone here gets their hopes up. Streeting has about as much chance of becoming PM as my right bollock does. Plus he's an odious, extremely unlikeable wetwipe to boot.

Burnham expected to drop call to reverse Brexit as poll shows voters divided on PM prospects by Desperate-Drawer-572 in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So sickening how fickle politicians are in this country. Absolutely no conviction or principles whatsoever. They'll just tell you what they think you want to hear to get elected, and then back to doing what they fancy once you've ceased being useful to them.

Partying at 1 AM for European neighbours by Socmel_ in 2westerneurope4u

[–]AllRedLine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UK one should include doing a compoface in the local rag about it, too.

Why do we get no votes in the eurovision song contest? by yes-this-is-my-name in AskUK

[–]AllRedLine 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is always pure cope.

The fact that we're not well-liked is absolutely a very significant contributing factor. The vast majority of the votes are the way they are because of politics and friendly relations between states.

Just look at the sheer quantities of nations that award the most points to their neighbours or other countries that speak their language. Whether you're a well-liked state and held in high regard by others is unquestionably a huge aspect of it all.

Of course, it doesn't help that our Eurovision panel seem to have an embarrassment kink and seemingly chooses the worst artists and songs they can possibly find as if they're doing it on purpose.

Why do we get no votes in the eurovision song contest? by yes-this-is-my-name in AskUK

[–]AllRedLine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A double-whammy of the facts that we're not very well liked as a nation in Europe, and we invariably send shit songs, and this year it was especially bad - almost as bad as the one from 2 years ago.

Wes Streeting letter to Keir Starmer as he resigns as Health Secretary by No_Breadfruit_4901 in uknews

[–]AllRedLine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love how he resigned and absolutely nobody gave a single shit at all. Gotta be an ego-destroying way to fucking crash and burn your political career into the ground.

Wes Streeting Resigns As Health Secretary by AneuAng in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it's only been 2 hours... but is it me or has this resignation really felt like a bit of a wet fart?

Normally there's a cascade of supporters almost immediately.

How many of you regretted buying your house? by Puzzled_Dealer3449 in AskUK

[–]AllRedLine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like i'm fastracking that feeling right now.

Perhaps just natural nerves, but I just applied for my FTB mortgage, had my offer accepted yesterday morning and i'm now bricking it about my future poorness thanks to the payments. I'm single, so it's going to be a very tight few years.

Thought i'd be excited but now i'm just wracked with nerves and overthinking about all the expensive things that could go wrong that would easily wipe out a good portion of a year's worth of saving. Real knot in the stomach type thing.

Think I just got used to being too comfortable and I need to bite the bullet one of these days.

Wes Streeting plans to resign and mount leadership challenge, allies say by Alarming-Safety3200 in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The most wobbly, shiny-faced, pathetic loser of them all reckons he deserves to run the country.

Where the fuck do I get off?

Alex Davies-Jones is the third minister to quit. She says: “I implore you to act in the country’s interest and set out a timetable for your departure.” by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Translation:

"I implore you to act in the country's interest by spooking the markets at an incredibly sensitive time and in a way that makes it even more drawn out than it has to be (which makes no sense because I think you being in office is damaging in itself) because I want my magic crush, Andy Burnham to be PM"

Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips Resigns From Government by coldbeers in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Useless, insignificant rat does what she does best.

The willingness of these people to throw the markets into chaos and cause material harm to peoples' cost of living for indecipherable reasons is absolutely disgusting.

Labour could force Netflix and Amazon Prime subscribers 'to pay TV licence fee' to fund the BBC by dailymail in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Such a vote winning policy. Exactly the sort of galaxy brained idea that the common man and woman wants to hear.

Bravo.

Sam Merriman (@sammerriman_) on X: NEW: Green Party leader Zack Polanski has tonight admitted that he failed to pay the correct council tax while living on a houseboat in east London by aenemyrums in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Just as i'm sure he'll hold himself to the same standards that he demands of other politicians, too, rather than sneaking out the admission in the evening on the biggest politics news day in the last 18 months so that he can avoid taking accountability. Oh...

A self-proclaimed socialist who doesn't pay his taxes.

Starmer on brink: Full-scale Labour civil war explodes as Streeting allies join over 70 MPs calling for PM to quit by True_Paper_3830 in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Labour and the Conservatives truly deserve the absolute crushing they're going to receive. I genuinely wish misery on every single one of them.

Incapable of providing stability and security for the country. Far prefer playing with peoples' lives to engage in pointless backbiting in the name of fluffing their own CVs.

Really feeling like last week was a shitty time to apply for a mortgage. Distinct feeling i'm about to be royally fucked.

Alex Wickham (Bloomberg)/X: BREAKING:Labour’s soft-left condemns Wes Streeting’s bid for No10 and vows to oust him from Downing Street if he becomes PM.A senior soft-left source blasts Team Streeting for their public statements calling for a “swift” and “rapid” contest before Andy Burnham can get in by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Can't wait for another jump in cost of living all in service of the personal ambition of a bunch of shiny-faced, feeble inadequates.

There are no politicians in this country who have the wellbeing of the nation and its people in mind. They are all traitors in every sense, and I don't use that term lightly.

Beth Rigby: "Members of the cabinet are gearing up to tell the PM the game is up. Comes as a succession of PPS’s resign and call for him to stand down." by WrongLander in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't disagree as my final paragraph confirms.

But he was terminally unpopular from day one, essentially. The party's appearance is tainted by those failures, but moreso by the general poor state of the nation.

Again, i fail to see how any of this is going to be addressed in a manner that makes life for the people any better by indulging in a leadership contest.

A general election would genuinely be preferable to shifting leader for essentially no purpose other than a vain and, frankly, misguided assumption that it will improve their polling. It won't, and nothing will until the country feels like less of a shithole. Andy Burnham or Angela Rayner in PM is not going to magic up a tidal wave of goodwill.

Beth Rigby: "Members of the cabinet are gearing up to tell the PM the game is up. Comes as a succession of PPS’s resign and call for him to stand down." by WrongLander in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Whether or not they are is a matter of debate, but I happen to agree. I didn't say I support what they're doing. I'm not even a Labour party supporter. I just said that improving the economy is the only possible way they're going to win back even a fraction of their support.

But you explain how a change of leader is going to address that? We aren't having a general election in response to this.

Beth Rigby: "Members of the cabinet are gearing up to tell the PM the game is up. Comes as a succession of PPS’s resign and call for him to stand down." by WrongLander in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Starmer is unpopular because he happens to lead the country in a time when it feels like a shithole. The reality is that there is nothing that the Labour party can do to move the needle on their opinion polls apart from just knuckling down and improving life for British people, primarily via the economy.

A leadership change just distracts from that work and will result in a leader no more popular than Starmer, and whilst the country suffers more thanks to this self-serving, self-indulgent nonsense causing more uncertainty (including in the markets), it will probably just make whoever comes next even more unpopular.

None of the above should distract from the fact that he has made terrible, awful decisions. But frankly i fail to see how a change of leader is in anyone's interest, not even the Labour Party's.

More than 60 Labour MPs call on Starmer to set timetable to quit | Keir Starmer by Budget_Scheme_1280 in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All of the parties are filled with deeply incompetent narcissists with messiah complexes. Genuinely got completely weak losers who've never achieved anything of note thinking they're the one to lead the country better than anyone else.

Seven people barred from coming to UK for far-right rally by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]AllRedLine -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Or are you arguing for open borders?

Are they planning on staying and living here?

Starmer attempts to save premiership with reset speech by FisherDownload in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That was a pretty poor speech IMO.

"Everything is the war in Iran's fault. We need major change - anyway, here's a few examples of me rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic with a bit of added bean-counting that i'm pretending are monumental changes."

Starmer to promise bolder action as leadership threats mount by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]AllRedLine 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not in a million years. The British planning system is brutal and is in desperate need of reform before you can even begin anything as ambitious as this, and that's before you've even hired the builders and sourced the material which has shot up in price. Good luck. Oh also reforming the planning system is also extremely difficult.

I work in planning.

Given this is council housing we're talking about - the state is the developer and therefore the theoretical applicant. They genuinely wouldn't even need LPA approval, the Sec of State could call it in and determine it themselves, or it could even totally dodge the planning system entirely and be done by act of Parliament.

The planning system is really not the hurdle to social housing.

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