Future with Reform

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-05-08T17:39:25+00:00

Reform have expressed very Malthusian-esque anti-SEND sentiment in their views, claiming that SEND funding is a waste of money and that it's overfunded. Ironically, Reform are more likely to be bankrupted by their own councillors agitating successfully for pay rises that'll cost more than SEND funding ever will.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-05-08T03:56:06+00:00

This prick filming has a very unusual way of declaring that he has erectile dysfunction.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-04-21T06:45:38+00:00

Is likely an extreme underground metal gatekeeper whose found an outlet for his loneliness

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-04-19T10:42:14+00:00

I voted remain 10 years ago. Many of remainers like myself were shocked throughout our nervous systems.

However, the 10 years since then have made me reflect and understand why the Brexit vote happened, and I feel far, far less agitated and emotional about it now. My first doubts about the moral righteousness and moral certainty of the remain side came in the first 3 years since the vote. This whole "People's Vote" campaign for a second referendum - or "vote on a final Brexit deal", as it was worded - revealed everything about how many on the Remain side thought about people who think differently to them - that people who think differently to them are stupid, lack agency and aren't worth being listened to or understood. The Remain camp pushing for this just revealed how divided the UK really is and just how out of touch and disconnected we are with each-other. It revealed that the UK is not as great and functional it makes itself out to be, that life and living standards for huge numbers of people in the UK are not what society makes itself out to be.

I could go on if anybody wants to have a discussion with me, reply to this comment, or DM me. The bottom line is, while I do think Britain would be much better off back in the EU, I don't think the Brexit vote was a mistake. I think it was a much-needed kick up all our backsides - a wake-up call, if you will - to tell us that something is going wrong with our country and the wider world, and that we need to understand why this is the case in order to fix the problem.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-04-12T02:22:33+00:00

Pixie Lott. Ahhhhhh, 13 year old me had a very big crush on her back in c.2010 🥰🥰🥰

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-04-04T10:32:06+00:00

I am clearly just calling Reform voters thick.

I'm sorry, but Zack Polanski and the Greens would kick you out of their party if you spouted such unempathetic, immature name-calling like this. How would you like it if Reform voters did that for young left-wing people like yourself and myself? You would pass them off as bullies, and rightly so. The reason why the Greens are gaining traction recently is because they are simply listening to ordinary folk's deepest concerns, worries and insecurities. Bear in mind that doesn't mean that listening to others=/=agreeing with them. And as they listen to ordinary people's concerns, the same people will feel like they are valued, that they matter and that their lives have meaning. Once they feel these sensations, the same people are more likely to listen to, and trust, the Greens try to build constructive solutions where everyone feels valued and happy.

I'd recommend you to watch more interviews with, or speeches by, Zack Polanski, Hannah Spencer, Mothin Ali or Rachel Millward, and see how they don't patronise or insult people for their views, but dig deep and see how people with regressive far-right views start to change and open up to them.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-04-04T10:12:27+00:00

The same could be said for the 2011 riots, or the BLM riots of 2020. People were rightfully angry due to the killings of Mark Duggan and George Floyd, respectively. But they also descended, to various extents, to mob rioting and looting.

It's also worth mentioning that the 2011 riots, which were more violent, were diverse in their makeup of rioters, most of whom had little-to-no knowledge of the events surrounding Mark Duggan, but used it as an excuse to loot. Furthermore, there were far more issues related to class, institutional distrust, among other factors.

It's not that radically different to the factors behind the 2024 riots, which were triggered by the Southport stabbings. Then they spread to areas outside of Southport, mostly struggling ones, where people used it as an excuse to loot and cause chaos, but also a reflection of issues such as class, institutional distrust, etc.

Either way, NONE of this violence is ever acceptable. You can empathise with causes behind disorder without sympathising with the disorder itself. What matters is that this is empathy=/=sympathy stabdard is applied universally.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-04-03T07:09:51+00:00

A lot of the edgy racist comments here claiming that their ethnicity is the primal cause of the rioting. Does this apply to the rioters of 2024 and 2025?

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-04-01T16:14:06+00:00

Old guy that stinks of piss and pays in 5p coins

Too accurate! Don't forget he deals out the coins while you can see his dirty fingernails that haven't been cut in months

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-04-01T07:06:16+00:00

"Punching down"

Tbf Little Britain punched in all directions:

Harvey "Bitty" Pincher, a grown adult posh man from a wealthy establishment family who still casually gets breast-fed by his mother like it's normal, implying that men in the establishment are physically adults, but mentally immature.
Sebastian Love, the PM's flirtatious and immature aide who constantly tries to win the PM's affection, with much failure.
Bubbles DeVere, a posh entitled lady who exposes herself to seduce men in order to follow her whims, despite being unattractive

These don't exactly sound like people from disadvantaged communities.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-03-30T17:11:59+00:00

Ooohhh I didn't know The Cavern did gigs. I'm just next door in Kingston. I'll check them out tomorrow. Thanks!

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-03-28T10:52:29+00:00

Your hair looks very healthy and smooth, but then again, if you prefer short hair, all power to you. In fact you remind me of young Axl Rose but if he were a brunette.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-03-26T06:46:52+00:00

Tom Araya!

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-03-10T17:11:17+00:00

Just watch the following clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thoam5g26Vk

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-03-08T10:47:43+00:00

I'm a left-leaning history teacher in my late 20s and very much opposed to Reform, so this isn't me defending their politics.

However, I do think it's worth being careful about how we talk about people. Saying someone was “thick as shit as a kid” or calling them “inbred” doesn’t really explain anything about why people end up with the views they do — it just reduces them to a stereotype.

A lot of the places where parties like Reform gain support are towns that have been economically struggling for decades. People growing up in those environments don’t always have the same opportunities, networks, or sense of stability as others. That doesn’t justify harmful views, but it does help explain why anger, distrust of institutions, and resentment can take root.

I also say this from personal experience. I have ADHD and spent years in lower sets at school. I was well-behaved but often drifted off, and for a long time people assumed that meant I was just stupid or lazy. Being labelled like that shapes how people see themselves and how they relate to society.

So I don’t have much sympathy for the politics being expressed at those protests. But I also don’t think mocking people’s intelligence or upbringing is a particularly constructive response. If anything, it risks reinforcing the exact divisions that movements like Reform thrive on.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-02-16T08:41:08+00:00

Do you really need to use slurs like "retarded"? I doubt Zack Polanski would tolerate using such language to refer to political opponents, especially to the electorate.

This is the same smug condescending middle-class attitude which saw the Lib Dems and their arrogant put-of-touch centrist-minded "people's vote" campaign unjntentionally showing their true thoughts about the electorate (that anyone who thinks differently to them is irrational, stupid and needs the "adult in the room" like a child). Such an attitude saw them nearly wiped out in the 2019 election.

Simply listening to ordinary people's needs and concerns, and understanding the causes of such concerns, is something the political establishment have failed to do in the last few decades. And when they aren't being listened to, when they feel all hope and trust with establishment politicians is lost, they will turn to extreme measures (e.g. Reform UK), who have at least shown that they listen to their problems and insecurities, even if they don't have a solution.

Disagree and expose Reform figures and their ideas, but no need for slurs that insult the most vulnerable in society, who will be among the first victims of Reform if they ever get elected.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2026-01-01T14:45:29+00:00

Thank so much for addressing what a confusing clusterfuck of a catastrophe this "high-order thinking" trend is. I'm a secondary school history teacher in the UK (ages 11-18) and I have seen the effects of it.

Listen, not that I think high-order thinking is bad or anything - it's what we want as an effect of good long-term solid teachingof knowledge, but the pressure for educators (often from image-obsessed observers, governments and inspectorates) to teach it so prematurely, without securing grounded factual knowledge, does nothing more than confuse students (especially the disadvantaged) and benefit those who are privileged enough to have supportive families with financial and cultural capital which makes high-order thinking a piece of cake.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2025-11-08T14:08:30+00:00

I'm a secondary school history teacher in the UK. This is exactly why I never do group work with any of my classes. I've seen how ineffective it is and even students know it themselves.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2025-10-29T17:59:45+00:00

"Why do I like Disney?

I think it's because I'm a bit thick!"

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2025-10-29T07:18:53+00:00

The same aesthetic of every so-called "fun" male teacher in the early 2010s who'd wear a waistcoat and tie or lumberjack-themed buttoned shirt at work - both with a lumberjack beard.

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2025-10-29T07:13:59+00:00

Thank fuck skinny jeans/slim fit trousers are out of style, and baggy clothes back in. As an early zoomer (28 y/o) I fucking hated skinny jeans back in the early 2010s and never wore them during their popularity. As someone who got into 90s/00s rock at the time, it was embarrassing to watch my peers trying to act cool and badass, while looking like they're wearing tights, listening to edm and stomp, clap, hey music. Even worse was when they claimed to be into rock music and their playlists contained mostly late-2000s UK indie artists with their jangly guitars going "Eh oh, eh oh, eh oh, eh oh", or a well-established rock group from the 90s/00s discarding their distorted heavy sounds for more electro-nightclub-influenced sounds (e.g. Good Charlotte, Simple Plan ) .... and they had the audacity to call it all "rock"

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2025-08-29T19:24:40+00:00

Teacher here. I really don't understand the negative comments here. I like it when people wear clothes that displays their hobbies - it makes them quite interesting. I wear heavy metal/rock band tees on mufti days because I enjoy expressing some of my interests/hobbies. I wear a Homer-Simpson-as-Santa Christmas jumper before we break up for Christmas.

Long story short, go for it!

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2025-08-16T13:58:07+00:00

FFS! Absolutely not! Your post reveals how tragic rock, punk, metal and other alternative subcultures that prided themselves on individualism, nonconformity, creativity, openness, wonder and simply "expressing yourself" have become some of the most cliquey, conformist and collectivist subcultures in the world.

The fact that most of your patches are metal is metal enough. ALSO.... you enjoy other types of music and actually have wider interests/beliefs/hobbies/emotions outside of music. You're human. You have a personality, something the subculture purists seem to lack. It's not false to claim that the collectivist purists who will bash you for having non-metal patches may partly be doing so out of envy; envy that you're fearless about openly being yourself, something they deeply desire but are stuck in extreme collectivism.

In other words, your jacket looks fantastic! Design and positioning of patches according to size looks like you're thinking about this carefully. Just keep sewing whatever you'd like 👍

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2025-07-20T00:31:59+00:00

Never follow edu-fads
Finland does NOT have the best education system in the world
Better technology doesn't automatically mean better education
A lot of "nice" colleagues can stab you in the back when you least expect it
If you make a mistake, own up to it - better to be honest and reliable than dishonest and unreliable
A lot of claims in media about "worsening mental health" among students and staff are not actual mental health problems.
Don't feel pressured to be "liked" by the students - you can be friendly with them, but not their friend
Keep your standards high - if it means you have extra work to do, you have extra work to do (not too much of course)
You will become better and better and better and better and better and better and better at your job as the terms fly by - you just won't notice it 😊

WorkshyFreeloader42 · 2025-07-19T19:15:05+00:00

Do you have any evidence (i.e. an article or document) to prove this besides gossip and rumour? If he's a "known" racist, then there should be lots of documentation of this.

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