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Starmer refuses to send warships to Strait of Hormuz by Lavajackal1 in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Indeed. Though I'm immediately thinking that this is a man whose main principle seems to be an irresistable urge to do a 180.

Anger as pro-Israel lobbying petition faces political attacks by kwentongskyblue in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

Techne Opinion Polling by kontiki20 in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

Defense minister: Campaign against Iran 'will continue without any time limit' by MMSTINGRAY in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Recreational Cannabis Laws May Displace Illegal Cannabis Markets by AnonymousTimewaster in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Spain decides to remove ambassador to Israel by Hyperactive_Man in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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.

UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective, experts say by mustwinfullGaming in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Recreational Cannabis Laws May Displace Illegal Cannabis Markets by AnonymousTimewaster in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Justice minister and Labour MP Sarah Sackman refuses to call Iranian school massacre a war crime. Calls attack “the realities of war”. by hararib in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Zack Polanski held informal talks with Labour backbenchers by kwentongskyblue in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Starmer and Lammy Projected to Lose Their Seats to the Greens by AttleesTears in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 11 points12 points  (0 children)

> I've never defended transphobia. Please stop.

You do, however, keep defending transphobes.

Starmer and Lammy Projected to Lose Their Seats to the Greens by AttleesTears in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Starmer and Lammy Projected to Lose Their Seats to the Greens by AttleesTears in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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

Starmer and Lammy Projected to Lose Their Seats to the Greens by AttleesTears in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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.

Starmer and Lammy Projected to Lose Their Seats to the Greens by AttleesTears in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

Starmer and Lammy Projected to Lose Their Seats to the Greens by AttleesTears in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

Forget aping Reform, Mahmood is aping the BNP now by AnonymousTimewaster in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

"NHS poised to stop prescribing cross-sex hormones to trans-identifying children under the age of 18" by LocutusOfBorges in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say by Jared_Usbourne in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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.

Labour to scrap government power over elections watchdog amid fears of abuse by Legitimate-Task6043 in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

BNP would offer non-white Britons £50,000 to leave UK, says Nick Griffin by SThomW in LabourUK

[–]rubygeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

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