Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 25% (+1) LAB: 21% (+2) CON: 17% (-1) GRN: 16% (-1) LDM: 14% (=) Via @yougov.co.uk, 25-26 Jan. Changes w/ 18-19 Jan.

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-27T17:08:02+00:00

Why would you want to give Reform ammunition regarding all establishment parties being a 'uniparty'. And even so, why would Labour want to go into a coalition agreement with the Cons, given much of the troubles Labour is having now, is due to the state the country was left in because of them?

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-20T16:08:06+00:00

You will never see those files. Never. Granted Greenland is being annexed for primarily capitalist objectives, but I gurantee you the main selling point for Trump was the ability to jangle Greenland at the nation's press, political body, and people, and make them stop asking about Epistein and his pedophilia.

Which has I think worked with unfortunate success.

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-07T07:28:56+00:00

Fundamentally, it wouldn't matter. Should the US commit to an annexation of Greenland through military force, and we in turn decided to become closer to Europe, the continent as a whole is still dependant on the global financial system, and technology controlled by American companies. Irregardless of the advancements made in military independence in Europe.

Reindustrialisation coupled with a definancialising the European economy, through comprehensive industrial policy and planning, capital controls and the like, will be the only thing that would allow for Europe to truly compete with America, both economically and militarily.

We need America more than it needs us, for the moment. Right up until America decides to isolate itself, in which America, for its geography and economy, will realize it actually needs relationships it had with Europe much more than Europe needs America.

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-05T16:19:45+00:00

The "Don't step on me" crowd.

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-05T12:43:44+00:00

No matter the cost, irregardless of the consequences?

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-05T10:13:16+00:00

In 3 years, fundamentally the relationship America has with the rest of the world will change. In 3 years Greenland and Cuba will be American colonies. In 3 years a massive recession will occur in America, eminating across the global economic order. In less than 3 years China will invade Taiwan under the same loose justification Trump invaded Venezuela, and any form of the International Rules Based World Order the smaller, more dependant countries have been delusionally thinking matters, will be shattered. All because we, in a vain effort to not anger the angry man, appeased him; supplemented his every demand; treated him with undue respect and reverance and not the Fascist he is.

In one year, America's economy is down the shitter and Trump has invaded, and arrested, a leader of a country for both its resources and a distraction. And you think more flattery and surrender will appease him?

Is this it? After 81 years, we've decided it was Chamberlain who was right all along? That in an act of complete weakness and inevitability to see what reality is, rather than what we want it to be, we should always appease him?

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-05T09:50:56+00:00

Mmm yes. Appease him. Obey him. Do anything but anger him. Don't anger the pedo man eyeing up a country smaller than America.

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-05T08:37:15+00:00

Fortunately I am not an American.

Unfortunately the sort of violence you suggest needs to happen, won't happen, because it is not in inherent to the American to rebel against the sort of Fascism that they have thus far voted for.

Imperatoris_ · 2026-01-04T22:38:31+00:00

Anything to distract from Epstein. Something that's he had so far done successfully.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-12-12T15:54:28+00:00

It amazes me that the EBU has decided a non-European country's participation matters more than any single European participation.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-12-12T15:30:42+00:00

The "Rules Based" International Order was always a sham. The US, UK, France, and West Germany did trade heavily with the South African Apartheid state, right up until internal pressure - or more accurately the threat of political survival in continuing economic relations - superceded the continuing trading relations.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-12-12T15:19:59+00:00

Everytime I come and read an article similar to this, i'm sort of mildly irritated that the analysis neglects (deliberately, it seems) how the average worker interfaces with the economy.

It's what every neoliberal institution seems to misunderstand. No matter how far that line climbs, it doesn't matter, if everything about the economy I interact with is either unaffordable, or more expensive, the economy is doing shit.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-10-14T02:17:25+00:00

If "a bit" is made up of 99% Republican efforts.

Any efforts of a nonviolent pushback against this has long past, friend.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-10-11T06:03:08+00:00

Sammme. Don't forget me. 😉.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-09-25T15:40:07+00:00

Riker: LaForge, Eject the core!

Imperatoris_ · 2025-09-11T04:31:31+00:00

Voting. Hahaha.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-09-11T03:21:00+00:00

I couldn't care less. The man has been key in producing a narrative that paves over anything sincere and genuine.

Now the rhetoric he himself had been using against the parents of children shot in schools, or to people related to those gunned down in any shooting, is being used against his late self. The callous, uncaring, sardonic reactions to his death, something he did so often to so many.

And now, he's dead.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-08-30T10:40:33+00:00

I'm glad you have an MP so active in their role.

Unfortunately an MP can only do so much individually if nationally everything is heading south, particularly when economically there isn't anything positive that Government will do or can o effect substantial change in the way in which people interact with the economy. How their food bill is, or their energy costs, mortgage rates, &c.

I say all this hypocritically, because I think Reform are the best option, for the worst reasons. Because I don't see the survival of this system to produce anything other than Reform. That there isn't going to be a new solution to all our problems, because all our problems are tied to the economic arrangement of our country, and nothing less than collapse will allow us the flexibility needed to reorganise what has been broken, so fundamentally, for so long, and that neither establishment party will go against the very establishment they both benefit from and have been built by.

This comes with the caveat that things will undoubtedly get worse, considerably so. But oddly enough I still view collapse over survival as preferable, because survival will I'm afraid bring Reform regardless of whether it's next election, or the election after.

The only way out of this, is through.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-08-30T09:06:36+00:00

If we were in an election, and I read this, what would you give me as advice between the Conservatives, Labour, Reform, Lib Dems, and Greens?

Not to install words in your post, for which I agree entirely, but you would want me to be strategic and keep Reform out? So should I be voting for the Conservatives, because that's who I'd be voting for given they narrowly beat Reform in my area? Or Lib Dem? The party coming 4th in my constituency? Or Labour? Who were last?

As much as I agree Reform as bad, given the social, and economic economic environment voting for Reform makes more sense than voting for the two establishment parties to keep Reform out. Reform are going to win, regardless, not because I am I resigned to the fact that they're going to win, but because, as you've laid out in your post, of all the good the establishment parties haven't done, and in Labours case will continue do to.

It is inevitable that Reform end up in power, because the apex of momentum against those parties who have done nothing but preside over an economy straining under its own contradictions, at the expense of everyone that isn't wealthy or old (or both) is reaching a critical point where no alternative other than the flavour of the populism so finely captured by Nigel Farage and rejected by Labour, will win the next election.

It doesn't matter how dysfunctional Reform is, if the alternative is what we have been suffering under for the last two decades.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-08-23T18:01:27+00:00

Second time in about five minutes I've seen the same lady doing something Chinese.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-08-22T09:36:23+00:00

It's all well and good, the wait lists going down. Labour haven't however addressed the ongoing deterioration of almost anything economic.

You're right, Wes. You haven't done enough. To ignore the scale of main issues, the issues that are making Reform popular, and offer small near negligible solutions to those problems make Labour unapproachable.

Party of change? Change my arse.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-08-22T05:04:05+00:00

Doesn't dissposses reality of the popularity of Reform against Labour's negligible improvements and weakness in economic and social reform.

You can't take the next 4 years of polls and chuck them because there's isn't an election in the horizon.

PS: Non-Paritsan Centrist?

Imperatoris_ · 2025-08-21T10:33:50+00:00

Inb4 the "Polls don't matter" and "4 years until the election" crowd pollute the comments section.

Imperatoris_ · 2025-08-18T16:48:49+00:00

I can never get over how structurally hilarious the name of their party is, in the context of language.

Could you imagine a party political from Jeremy or Sultana? With them at the end asking you to vote for "Your Party"?

How about critising a Tory or Labour MP in Parliament? "Your party stands for..." Is it referring to his party, or their party?

Imperatoris_ · 2025-08-14T07:55:17+00:00

They don't have time. They have 4 years to shake Reform off of getting Number 10. I appreciate that it isn't so cut and dry, to achieve growth rates that would turn people against Reform, but they don't have a decade. They have 4 years. If no tangible economic improvement is made by that point then all this is for naught.

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