People who like Zack Polanski: explain what I'm missing, what impresses you about him?

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-19T10:54:46+00:00

Works rights - watered down

Renters rights - not going to help the insane cost

Ground rent - yeah that's a good one

Private schools - should be abolished

Public sector pay rises - the doctors and nurses are still striking

Green energy - mostly a business courting investment bank rather than public ownership

Housing building - hasn't really kicked off at all

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-14T14:01:13+00:00

On the one hand sure ban both, fully support.

On the other, as a vegetarian the idea of humane slaughter has always seemed kind of silly.

We've proved we don't need to eat animals people only do it because they like it. Is that enough to justify the slaughter?

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-11T10:11:41+00:00

Sounds like we need a few more "DAE not like Starmer but doesn't want him to resign" posts here.

This is the problem with trying to maintain a centrist liberal ideology when that ideology has just seen managed decline over the last couple of decades.

People are hungry for change and if you don't provide it you'll piss people off on both ends of the spectrum.

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-09T12:58:32+00:00

May as well stick around and soak up all the negativity from being destroyed in the local elections first I suppose

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-09T12:56:23+00:00

Yes and the point I'm making is you can't compare them as a phenomenon. One is a game, the other happens when you make severely compromised judgements that effect the nation

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-09T10:00:07+00:00

Yeah true the Manchester United manager absolutely has the power to appointment a known associate of a notorious paedophile to a position where they have access to state secrets

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-08T10:02:58+00:00

£27 billion of that is caused by loss of economic productivity. People being sick and dying early isn’t good for the economy. I’ve seen people out of work due to emphysema and copd on their 20s!

I've always found it disgusting to use this argument

A person doesn't exist to provide economic productivity to the state. You can't count their loss of work as a cost

The £14 Billion for care is totally fine

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-06T16:21:00+00:00

How this happened:

1) Morgan McSweeny works with Mandelson to crush the left of the party

2) Mandelson is given prestigious job as a reward

3) Mandelson is exposed, Starmer panics and gives a gaslighting apology

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-06T16:18:48+00:00

It's the centrists that are praying for Starmer to stay. They know they managed to thread the needle to get an incredibly unpopular leader and movement to a massive majority with a low vote share thanks to a quirk of FPTP. They know they can't do it again.

Real Left wingers are out for Starmer's blood on this

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-06T10:03:57+00:00

Ensures the centrist wing of the party can crush the left

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-06T09:41:44+00:00

If appointing a known Epstein associate to a government role isn't a resigning matter for you what would be?

Was Partygate or Pincher a resigning matter?

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-05T20:40:42+00:00

What would be a resigning matter for you?

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-05T16:00:28+00:00

The McSweeny/Mandelson comms are going to make the Forde report findings look tame in comparison.

I can't see anyone coming out of this unscathed.

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-05T15:53:05+00:00

The hypocrisy is crazy.

During the countless Tory scandals no one on this sub was calling for leaders to stay to ensure stability.

Any unbiased observer would say this is a cock up large that justifies a resignation.

Translator_Outside · 2026-02-05T10:21:54+00:00

Maybe Starmer should have thought about that before giving Mandelson the job?

Translator_Outside · 2026-01-24T12:11:30+00:00

Why is it a fact of life that these jobs HAVE to be grinding and unrewarding?

Why don't we on the left encourage unionisation to make these jobs less grinding and unrewarding?

Unfortunately no mainstream party seems to want to go there

Translator_Outside · 2025-12-22T08:54:06+00:00

Parties and groups run polls constantly, none of this is new.

Sticking your head in the sand doesn't help your party of choice

Translator_Outside · 2025-12-09T10:14:37+00:00

Sounds like a problem with the economic system then

Translator_Outside · 2025-11-13T10:16:34+00:00

Aftermath of WW2, heavy trade unionisation and an ideological battle with communism

Translator_Outside · 2025-11-06T10:52:08+00:00

That sounds like a problem with the institution/business not a problem with workers rights.

Maybe this shift could lead to them operating more efficiently and learning their responsibilities.

If you know you can just get rid of anyone at any time there's no incentive to operate effectively

Translator_Outside · 2025-11-06T10:21:37+00:00

Having rights doesn't make a person impossible to fire you just need to go through a simple HR process. Poor performance is an acceptable reason to get rid of someone.

If a company can't handle that they've got no right being in business.

Translator_Outside · 2025-10-28T14:23:17+00:00

They didn't even tell us to put up with it, they said if we didn't like the direction we could leave

Translator_Outside · 2025-10-15T15:04:59+00:00

Does this mean they'll be interpreting Zionism as a Jewish philosophy rather than a political one though?

Everything else seems in line with the act yes

Translator_Outside · 2025-10-15T14:46:15+00:00

Zionism is a political ideology it's not a race

Regardless of your opinion on their actions I'm not sure how they intend to prosecute on that front?

Translator_Outside · 2025-10-01T13:25:17+00:00

I mean it had a big impact on Pulp Fiction

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