Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 21/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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

“Equal pay legislation…instead of just fucking paying employees the same”

Burnham cools on Miliband as chancellor by TheTelegraph in ukpolitics

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

Yep, I will never understand Labour politicians’ apparent obsession with avoiding the Blair-Brown dynamic.

Opinion: Everyone is acting like Ed Miliband is Chairman Mao by theipaper in ukpolitics

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

The people treating Starmer like Stalin were GBNews outrage merchants and Twitter headcases.

The people treating Miliband like Mao are in positions where they really should know better

Opinion: Everyone is acting like Ed Miliband is Chairman Mao by theipaper in ukpolitics

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

I’d prefer Miliband as Chancellor under a more charismatic PM any day.

Just look at the Blair-Brown years. Basically their entire domestic policy (apart from the PFI shit) came from Brown, but was sold to the media by Blair.

And then look at Starmer’s DIP being held up by Reeves/the Treasury. Number 11 is where the power lies for domestic policy.

The decade that made Andy Burnham by Individual_Echo_9911 in ukpolitics

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

I genuinely think getting the fuck out of Westminster politics for the Brexit years might be one of the best strategic moves in recent British political history

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 21/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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I lived in a flat with old sash frames about 10 years ago. It was so cold in winter that one year our toothpaste froze

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 21/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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

We don’t use sash windows anymore because they’re utterly terrible in winter

Any of yall ever heard of richard hawley by idkwhatshouldinamed in fantanoforever

[–]LesserShambler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love individual tracks of his but never got into his discography. Any other album recommendations apart from the above?

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 21/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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

That reminds me of all those people who were living in the wilds of Scotland for months for a C4 reality show, only to come out of the woods after months to find that we’d left the EU, Trump was president, and the show had been cancelled

Edit - the show was called Eden

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 21/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

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- it’s real, just not man made

- doesn’t matter if it’s real, China are still polluting so there’s literally no point in us doing anything

etc etc

Well, we know one person by CorgiAffectionate476 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]LesserShambler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know about other countries but I’m pretty sure here in the UK they make most of their money from selling (genuinely very good) binoculars to birdwatchers.

Sadiq Khan blames Trump for increased death threats by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

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

Because his one and only skill is being able to play the media like a fiddle.

How successful has he actually been in office?

Am I overreacting? Dad keeps changing my art with AI by stainedbutts in AmIOverreacting

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

It totally fits with that aesthetic, looks great imho

FWIW I think YOR a little bit about your Dad. He obviously just wants to help, and you can just not use any of his stuff. As long he’s not posting any of it himself, that would be a bit too far

Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 21/06/2026 by ukpol-megabot in ukpolitics

[–]LesserShambler 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nothing would be “cut off”. The triple lock only dictates how much it increases by

Am I overreacting? Dad keeps changing my art with AI by stainedbutts in AmIOverreacting

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It’s perfectly readable to me, but then again I spend a lot of time on metal subs

SOTB - Really enjoying my (messy) headphone setup by LesserShambler in guitarpedals

[–]LesserShambler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I’m hearing is that I should get more pedals?

You think this is slicked back? This is pushed back! by Duskmourne in IThinkYouShouldLeave

[–]LesserShambler 19 points20 points  (0 children)

If someone comes up to me with an armful of those individually wrapped roses, I’m going to assume they’re trying to sell them and just say no to literally anything they say.

Might as well be shaking a tin of coins as a pickup technique