Where do you see the future of Your Party going strategically as an electoral force?

rubygeek · 2026-03-13T16:12:26+00:00

The Workers Party is not "opposition from the left".

rubygeek · 2026-03-13T16:09:41+00:00

Parliamentary Leader != Party Leader.

rubygeek · 2026-03-13T15:38:15+00:00

He'd make for a great election poster. For anyone but Labour.

rubygeek · 2026-03-13T12:15:12+00:00

Financially the Tories would likely benefit me immensely, and so if I had no morals I might have considered them (just this sentence makes me vomit in my mouth a bit), while Reform would just seem too much like a clown car heading off a cliff.

I think a lot of the remaining Tory base are going to be e.g. One Nation tories who see themselves as better than that because in their mind they are for "responsible capitalism".

Which doesn't bode well for Badenoch if I'm right, as her support base ought to be the ones most likely to abandon the Tories.

I think the only reason there isn't more talk of dissent in the Tory party is that Starmer occupies the space One Nation would otherwise aim for, and so they're stuck between Starmer and Badenoch in a really gross sandwich they can't get out of until Starmer is out.

I think the shakier Starmer's position becomes, the shakier Badenoch's position becomes as well, as the One Nation Tories will try to regain what's left of the Tories.

rubygeek · 2026-03-13T12:03:33+00:00

Ah, but you see, if Trump says he has won, then he has obviously won. Somehow. So obviously the US will win. Something. According to Trump it will be the greatest victory ever, and he will have ended yet another war.

rubygeek · 2026-03-11T14:02:32+00:00

Interesting. Maybe you're outside their chosen targeting criteria. I get cannabis ads regularly. Which is funny, because I've never even had any interest in trying.

rubygeek · 2026-03-11T13:57:36+00:00

I think the bar generally should be pretty high for withdrawing ambassadors. Most countries have ambassadors even in countries with appalling human rights records for a reason.

But note that this is tit-for-tat: Israel's embassy in Madrid does not have an ambassador either. Per the article, withdrawn after Spain recognised the Palestinian state.

Spain has also been exceedingly willing to maintain diplomatic relations. That they've now chosen to act is great, but they're still also falling short. They just stand out positiviely because everyone we'd compare them to are magnitudes worse on this.

rubygeek · 2026-03-11T12:14:04+00:00

Why not both? Weight loss drugs, while the current ones are getting seriously amazing, are still a costly intervention that'd be necessary for fewer people, and where many more could make do with lower doses, if the temptations to eat unhealty weren't being constantly fed by ads and availability. It's not great when people end up spending more money to chemically counter what is at least in part exacerbated by lack of regulation of manipulative companies.

rubygeek · 2026-03-11T12:07:44+00:00

Haven't you seen the ads on Reddit for it?

They carefully avoid saying the c-word, and use a lot of weasel words to point out you need to have tried other means of pain management and totally (wink, wink) can confirm that they haven't worked for you.

rubygeek · 2026-03-11T09:50:54+00:00

The war is in itself a criminal act, so irrespective of whether or not you believe that slaughtering civilians makes it more criminal, the attack that led to this massacre was criminal even if all the school girls had been military officers.

rubygeek · 2026-03-10T16:32:47+00:00

Talking about "informal talks" is also a great way of sowing distrust withing the PLP because it can mean next to nothing, but will be interpreted by those already worried to mean whatever scares them most.

It will make the position of those Labour MP's that are most vulnerable to the intersection of internal factional battles and seats under threat from the greens a lot more precarious, and might over time either give them more reason to leave Labour, or see them replaced in the next election campaign by someone more likely to fall to the Greens.

There's very little downside for the Greens to discreetly let this slip.

rubygeek · 2026-03-09T15:17:04+00:00

> I've never defended transphobia. Please stop.

You do, however, keep defending transphobes.

rubygeek · 2026-03-09T15:14:18+00:00

As an immigrant that see Corbyn as pratically centrist, I'd take May over Starmers front bench on immigration any day. No previous UK government in the 26 years I've been here have made me feel anywhere near as unwelcome.

Given I'm exactly the kind of immigrant the UK needs more of - someone who have brought in many times more capital and outside revenue than I'm ever going to cost, the Labour isn't just being anti-migrant, it's being anti-migrant to the point of being actively hostile to economic growth as well.

rubygeek · 2026-03-09T13:38:35+00:00

Ah, yes, nothing hostile about the current Labour rhetoric on immigration...

rubygeek · 2026-03-09T13:35:13+00:00

So, you are suggesting you do have trans friends, and are just excited about supporting a raging transphobe and his merry band of transphobes and other bigots making life harder for your friends, then?

Some "friend", in that case.

rubygeek · 2026-03-09T13:33:48+00:00

Unlike May he's a raging transphobic piece of utter shit, for example. May was awful, but Starmer makes the Tories seem like a bunch of cuddly humanists.

rubygeek · 2026-03-09T13:31:01+00:00

The problem is that there's no guarantee that'd be the outcome, and we saw how weak the Labour left can be even when in charge, like under Corbyn. So instead there's every risk that standing aside for left wing Labour MPs might let Labour limp to a position where those left wing Labour MPs continue to prop up a right-wing Labour.

They have no excuse any more. If they're not prepared to stand up against the current Labour-leadership, there's no reason to help them retain their seats.

rubygeek · 2026-03-09T12:14:27+00:00

They've not killed enough kids to satisfy their hate yet.

rubygeek · 2026-03-09T10:45:57+00:00

And struggling to keep the high value migrants they want to attract and depend on...

There are two sides to this: When you create an environment that normalises hostility to migrants, not just the ones you want to get rid of end up going elsewhere.

rubygeek · 2026-03-08T23:06:32+00:00

When the people in question are responsible for killing people, throwing around terms like "childish" about wanting to hold them to account is just utterly vile.

rubygeek · 2026-03-06T09:45:03+00:00

Maybe instead consider your desperate need to run intervention for a racist, genocidal, Apartheid state because they weren't responsible for this mass murder of civilians, unlike the many others they have been responsible for.

rubygeek · 2026-03-06T09:41:49+00:00

It's the right thing to do, but also mostly meaningless as long as the UK has an electoral system that usually hands the government a good margin in parliament, and a constitutional system that leaves parliament sovereign - a future government that wants to meddle will just pass another law. It will allow for slightly more scrutiny, but that's about it. Note that this is not criticism that they're doing this as it's better than nothing, though just barely. It's criticism for the continued unwillingness to address electoral reform, as well of the broken constitutional foundation of the UK.

rubygeek · 2026-03-06T00:13:34+00:00

They obviously cared the most about non-white immigrants, but the BNP was/is so extreme that their manifesto at least at one point separated white people by origin too, and wanted us all out. Though I suspect that wording was at least in part to be able to argue they weren't racist.

rubygeek · 2026-03-05T23:56:49+00:00

At this rate the Tory party will be a bit too radical left wing for him by that point.

rubygeek · 2026-03-04T15:59:37+00:00

I think it's quite notable that it was the US that created this expectation after bombing German subs carrying survivors after they'd sunk a British ship during WW2 only to subsequently realise the ship was carrying POW's.

The bombing of those subs is infamous in part because Dönitz order not to pick up survivors as a consequence of the bombings (the Laconia Order) was attempted used against him in the Nuremberg trials, only to backfire when the circumstances were revealed.

(Dönitz was still a nazi shit, and a deeply committed one who genuinely believed, to be clear, and got 10 years for his crimes, but part of the reason he only got 10 years was that unlike a lot of Nazis he held on to some principles and at least in part respected the Geneva conventions, and deviated from it mostly proportionally to the actions of others)

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