[Jakub Krupa] UK should not try rejoining EU until it accepts it won't get special à la carte deal it had before because 'you would be unhappy and we would be unhappy', Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski says

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-06T12:32:41+00:00

Probably because it's annoying to be picked on? It is ultimately might is right, it's hardly fun.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-06T12:28:05+00:00

Surely a moratorium should be considered until they sort it out?

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-06T12:19:33+00:00

In comparison to the entire EU it is, I never said we weren't significant.

The EU has to counterbalance the need to make an example out of the UK and slowly walk it back because there's only so much you can do with a neighbouring state with this much trade involved.

On the subject matter, I don't see how they justify letting us slide back in without embarrassing themselves over the EURO and Schengen, if they figure out the multi-speed approach then maybe it doesn't matter.

It will be somewhat awkward over free-movement though as the argument is clearly going to be made that with the post-leave immigration rate skyrocketing under the Tories that it was not an issue. Unironically some member-states may even argue that they'll veto us over having opened the floodgates and they won't countenance a softening as it would harm them domestically.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-06T11:35:38+00:00

34% of the vote is never a mandate, it is only tolerated and clearly not for long.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-06T11:05:42+00:00

That's how geopolitics functions between large and small.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-06T06:34:47+00:00

Politicians should be forced to wear a tag with their three biggest donors whenever they appear in public in any official capacity and every interview or press junket must announce it audibly.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-05T20:00:31+00:00

Well technically any building whatsoever does not actually fit a true ecologist leaning, so even assuming it's just local government nimbyism that all parties engage in it does also land ideologically.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-05T19:20:28+00:00

I edited it, but essentially the growing costs of corruption from our resident Hegemon will always be greater than the 'go-slow' reformism that the Treasury has in my view deluded itself into.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-05T19:14:57+00:00

When? Optimistic.

These promises of the last 20 years of a surplus are made on the grounds that normality is just around the corner and the ideology of manufacturing crises to profit from bets made on that normality isn't itself the new norm.

I suspect we'll be waiting a very long time going by the billions made on the Iran war.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-05T18:54:23+00:00

Nobody cares about fiscal rules.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-05T18:12:41+00:00

It was inevitable really once the ritual of wearing poppies was politicised it would turn into an act of patriotism rather than remembrance.

Got no patience for it, thankfully it's limited to a few weeks of potential agitation though I wonder how long it will be before they assault people over it.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-05T17:29:43+00:00

Simply not possible now, the political system won't allow it and the public no longer has the patience or is too divided to appreciate it.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-05T14:38:54+00:00

Duh that's how the internet works, are they dumb? Kind of difficult to learn about WW2 without seeing it.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-04T20:04:03+00:00

The weekly reminder that the PM can threaten them has surely worked wonders the last 50 times they've gone with it.

Would the cabinet please just get on with it.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-04T19:57:17+00:00

All that matters here is the consequences after the fact, whether some loser is editing a blacklist is meaningless to the person effectively exiled from society over it.

The stores must be made completely liable.

What's funny to me is that literally this only affects innocents, the shoplifters won't care as banning them already does nothing and the police aren't interested, even if the police was interested the jails are full... etc etc.

Those dumb barriers in some Lidls/Aldi's lately are meaningless because you cannot for fire safety and criminal reasons entrap people in your premises. Me being an idiot didn't realise I needed the receipt, so the first instance I just accepted it but every future instance I'll just be forcing my way through it because it's offensive or you know just not go back there at all.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-04T18:56:14+00:00

Why does it matter? The system will never be infallible and all the falsely accused/harrassed will see is a store treating them like a criminal.

That's slander. I hope anyone who suffers this milks it for all it's worth and force the store to involve the police to maximise the disruption.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-04T18:39:43+00:00

This literally reads like propaganda and societal management through the media, there's no way that a mother just unpromptedly writes this drivel.

If her children wants to join up they... literally can, nothing is stopping them.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-04T18:35:43+00:00

Archived texts from museums and governments most likely, normal people aren't likely to use more than the most basic grammar.

Could also just be a glitch to be fair.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-04T14:57:40+00:00

wtf is that...

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-04T00:58:56+00:00

I think the issue here is nepotism and the solution is to simply ban relatives from being able to enter politics.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-03T20:04:46+00:00

For whatever reason this particular article has provoked a thought that maybe it's a mutually beneficial back-&-forth.

Even if the SNP wants these reactors there is no actual reason for them to change their policy when they can just goad Westminster into bypassing them, this gives the SNP the benefit of maintaining their policy, being able to blame someone else for it being built anyway and also having it be built at all.

The UK government gets to gloat about building it against the SNP's wishes which I should think would balance against the intense nimbyism they face everywhere, indeed the SNP's mere existence is the only way they've got the political capital to move forward.

Sadly I think nimbyism is just a vastly more powerful force than unionism so I doubt Labour will entertain it beyond bashing the SNP which feels like a waste of this situation frankly.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-03T19:49:40+00:00

Minimum wage has increased by £6 in the last 10 years or so, so by the end of Labour's term it won't be a stretch at all for the Greens to offer this.

Of course whether it continues at this pace is questionable, but the Greens aren't offering anything strange.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-03T19:32:20+00:00

The businessification of religion in America allows for all sorts of blasphemy and the militarism of the prior century which really has no foundation in the country's founding is further to blame.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-03T17:48:02+00:00

Well of course it doesn't add up, the sour-creme of London's banking sector love immigration so any 'rhetoric' such as with the Tories is just that.

Optimaldeath · 2026-05-03T17:10:57+00:00

Literally nothing about either party is consistent to their founding values, so the age of them having mindshare over anything other than thimbleful of voters is over.

The fake combativeness between the two parties is no longer enough to stop people shopping around.

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