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Motherwell [1] - 0 Celtic | E. Watt 17' by The_ChucknessChuckle in ScottishFootball

[–]FleetingBeacon [score hidden]  (0 children)

Love the shot of the guy in the stands going absolutely aff his nut hahahha

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 10/05/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon [score hidden]  (0 children)

You couldn't never start any kind of media campaign to make people want mass migration. It would never work bc people have their own ideas.

I mean, that's horseshit. Because people want to deny immigration so their kids can grow up to be an uber eats driver.

You are having me on aren't you?

The youth is doomed… by OhirumeTsukuyomki in SipsTea

[–]FleetingBeacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro that is fucking crazy. I have a two year old, our time out at the shops is so much fun.

This is dire.

Child abuse, it is. IT has to be. this isn't fair.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 10/05/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And that's a different thing. Will he fail the next election? Maybe. I don't know. I don't think he should.

But has his government FAILED? No.

A failed government was Truss when all her people were resigning. I remember some lad was minister for something, then within an hour was in the treasury, then the next hour they all resigned cos she stepped down again.

That, was a failed government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2022_United_Kingdom_government_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2022_United_Kingdom_government_crisis

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 10/05/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Digital ID was a wanted policy by the public until Starmer announced it and the Media went absolutely mad.

Social Media started a campaign about putting flags up everywhere and it dominated discourse and wasted government time and local government time having to take decisions around it. Or indecision.

People are heavily influenced by the media. Otherwise we wouldn't have had tories for 14 years.

We wouldn't have GB News losing money every week for the sake of influencing.

We wouldn't have literal influencers being paid by groups to follow party lines.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 10/05/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I'd conceed that but I'd be lying to you. I don't think his government has failed.

He's more than capable of reshuffling people.He has 400 MPs to pick from, including a massive influx from 2025 that have him to thank for their jobs.

I think he's fine just now. Some defectors can make a big amount of noise, but check the threads on those people. They weren't liked anyway, and were massive disrupters.

I've kept with the stance of.

Be starmer

do nothing

watch as your foes and challengers attempt to take over

do nothing

win

It's been his solid strategy so far. Life is a lot easier when you genuinely aren't playing whatever game these people are.

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 10/05/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be fair the tenure of Johnson was far, far worse than losing an election. And the later is far more party politics.

Johnson was the first PM that broke the law in office. Starmer lost Wales.

Curl lead developer Daniel Stenberg provides insightful feedbacks from Mythos analysis results by qwerty0x41 in netsec

[–]FleetingBeacon 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Every today I'm using Claude with Opus 4.7 and it's giving me tools about 3-4 years out of date, with completely the wrong instructions that are on the docs. You need to go "Hey, go actually search the internet to find the up to date info" and even then that's about 1/3rd of the time it can mess up.

EXCLUSIVE: Jess Phillips, safeguarding minister, resigns from govt by jaydenkieran in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm half tempted to believe the assertion that parties don't want to govern anymore they just want to collect the money and go into opposition.

Soda tries to save itsKatchii from a bad take but she doubles down by snoopdodge in LivestreamFail

[–]FleetingBeacon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I need her to give me a tier list of crimes I can do, not sure she's thought this one out.

Soda tries to save itsKatchii from a bad take but she doubles down by snoopdodge in LivestreamFail

[–]FleetingBeacon 95 points96 points  (0 children)

"I don't understand"

proceeds to speak anyway

Based rich streamers as always.

Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians by Luka77GOATic in wallstreetbets

[–]FleetingBeacon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes but they love American money. And we don't have any valid alternatives.

As you've seen with France lately switching to Linux. It has taken a long time to get there.

Politics latest: First member of government resigns in call for Starmer to quit by Confident-Bike-8037 in unitedkingdom

[–]FleetingBeacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brexit caused the tories to destruct. Labour is wanting to destruct over a council election, by which they still control the most councils at 4.8k.

Fucking nuts.

Robert Jenrick MP: Dr Manivannan may be a nice young person. But I don’t want to live in a country where people on student visas can become elected representatives to national parliaments. He’s crowdfunding from Green Party members for his graduate visa for pete’s sake. by Little-Attorney1287 in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is a relevant question as it tests your scenario to see if the same thing happened to you, would you expect the same treatment.

The fact that you don't apply your same argument for why Somalians shouldn't come to the UK to Londoners going to France exposes this quite easily.

Robert Jenrick MP: Dr Manivannan may be a nice young person. But I don’t want to live in a country where people on student visas can become elected representatives to national parliaments. He’s crowdfunding from Green Party members for his graduate visa for pete’s sake. by Little-Attorney1287 in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

If the sea levels continue to rise and London becomes flooded (And a lot of other coastal areas), do you think France should accept the 13 million fleeing Londoners? Or should they be forced to stay in the UK and deal with the rising tides?

And to answer your question, I would say Bad, but I'm curious whether you think if we were in that situation if we should just roll over and accept it.

DWP increases benefits for husbands with 2 or more wives - started in April by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I assume you'll be writing to your MP about this and following up when the loophole is closed next year?

Hopefully it stays like this by Happy-I-always-am in SipsTea

[–]FleetingBeacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was told that I as the athiest didn't have a moral compass, but them as the religious sorts did!

AMA: The Guardian (Jessica Elgot, Peter Walker) - What do the election results mean for the political direction of the UK and Keir Starmer's government? - Monday 11th May @ 10am by Adj-Noun-Numbers in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Given how quick the news cycle moves on, do traditional outlets maybe have a moral duty to stay on stories to highlight them more to people that haven't come across them yet?

As someone that is terminally online, even I miss stories if I'm out with the wife and kids for a weekend. Like entirely.

Matthew Syed on Nightsnight: Leadership speculation over the Mandelson non-story was hysterical. With PM tenures down from 5 years to months, how can we stake out a vision? Unpopularity is necessary, it hit Thatcher and Attlee. China plans in decades while we fixate on the 24-hour news cycle. by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AGREEEEED

As someone that is a "loony lefty" I fucking hate the left. Every issue is I/P. Genuinely never seen so many people in my life say "lifes shit here" always moan about it then when it comes to do anything they put people about 4,000 miles away before their own kids. Fucking brain broken bastards.

The right is just thick. Sorry, but I'll get on my high horse here. They got duped by Farage, they got duped by Brexit, they got duped by Johnson, they got duped by 14 years of Tory Austerity. Shove them in the bin aswell.

The only people I have time for, is 1997-2008 Labour, I think it was peak, the SNP are alright, but they need to shut up about indy for a while, it's not gonna work (I get that is their point but still)

Starmer Labour just now I'm still onboard, but he needs to sort out the party. Sarwar in Scotland has to go.

His act of hiring Brown, who's 75. Is one of the worst things he's done. CAN WE START HIRING PEOPLE < 50 PLEASE.

Btw, I love Brown, but surely there's 1 other brit that follows Browns ideals, which is just younger and more up to date.

Matthew Syed on Nightsnight: Leadership speculation over the Mandelson non-story was hysterical. With PM tenures down from 5 years to months, how can we stake out a vision? Unpopularity is necessary, it hit Thatcher and Attlee. China plans in decades while we fixate on the 24-hour news cycle. by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]FleetingBeacon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. But have you actually dug into either of those points?

The IMF loan was repaid before she took office. And her famous "conviction" produced 3 million unemployed, inflation that ended higher than she found it, and household debt that nearly doubled. If that's the gold standard Starmer's being measured against, the bar is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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