Dr Gloom 24206 Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 16 hours ago, Rayvin said: Speaking as someone who has been right there with you on this front for years and who has complete respect for the view, and agreement in the need... where on earth do you see that coming from? I look at the current landscape and there's just nothing there. For all people can take considerable issue with Momentum and how it went in the end, it was the last genuinely reformative movement that didn't come from the right, and it was crushed by the centre, We were defeated in full. I see nothing anywhere that suggests anyone is remotely prepared to pick up the pieces of that. Again - I am completely with you, but for all my attempts to justify a protest vote against Labour last time out, the reality is that all I achieved was voting for a party (SNP) that honestly aren't a million miles better anyway - and which felt in the end like a very weak gesture that had no point or merit to it. I wish now I'd stuck to just spoiling the ballot - equally as pointless, but more cathartic. The sort of shift we need is probably one that spans borders tbh. It's not going to be a UK only event. Gary Stevenson is starting to make waves as a credible voice of the left. I think he has a future in politics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 37637 Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 56 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said: Gary Stevenson is starting to make waves as a credible voice of the left. I think he has a future in politics He always seems to talk a lot of sense but with the knowledge to back it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 52093 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzlement. Still waiting for the sentencing but it may include a ruling that she's ineligible to run for public office. I would think that even if it doesn't, this is not a good result for her electorally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sonatine 12243 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 52093 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Immediate effect. Nice to see corruption actually still does occasionally have consequences. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Whitehurst 1064 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Sarkozy is on trial at the moment too, the French aren’t fucking around. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 52093 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Can't run for public office for 5 years, and sentenced to jail for 4 years with at least 2 years to be served. Oh dear. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6417 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 She's actually been sentenced to jail? Fucking hell, France rapidly becoming the most ballsy country in the world at this rate, wtf is this timeline. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 16744 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 How d'you like them Freedom Fries? 🍟 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 33998 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 12 minutes ago, Rayvin said: She's actually been sentenced to jail? Not quite, she'll probably be on a tag rather than actually in a jail. Now watch her become a martyr for the far right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6417 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 She will for sure but like, what is the alternative really. She's a fucking criminal. At some point we need that line in the sand where we stop giving ground and start actually standing up to these gangsters. Besides, if there's a country in the world you can rely on to not go quietly against government authoritarianism in this day and age, it's France. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6417 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14553055/You-RIGHT-angry-illegal-migration-KEIR-STARMER-writes.html Starmer writing more love songs to Reform voters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 12554 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 On 29/03/2025 at 10:41, Alex said: He always seems to talk a lot of sense but with the knowledge to back it up He speaks plainly too so you don’t need an economics degree to understand him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 52093 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 He's wasting his time anyway. He can write as many of these as he likes, but he's pissing in the wind against an algorithm designed to turn these people against him. So he just ends up embarrassing himself for nothing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler 12554 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 5 minutes ago, Rayvin said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14553055/You-RIGHT-angry-illegal-migration-KEIR-STARMER-writes.html Starmer writing more love songs to Reform voters. Does he mention his dads factory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 46150 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Dan Norris, Labour MP in Somerset and mayor of West of England , arrested this evening on suspicion of serious noncery. This is the bloke that beat Rees Mogg. What’s in the fucking water down there? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 52093 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Trump's horseshit could be good cover for them to rip up the ridiculously restrictive rules they've foolishly stuck to so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 6417 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tax-cut-billionaires-starmer-musk-bezos-trade-3630807 Starmer has said tax cuts for Musk, Bezos and other billionaires are on the table in our negotiations with the US I just give up with politics tbh, it's hopeless. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 24206 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that Donald Trump’s global trade war has made it even more “imperative” for the UK to improve post-Brexit trading relations with the EU, ahead of a key summit next month. Reeves is pushing for Britain to pursue an ambitious economic agenda in EU/UK “reset” talks, although the government continues to rule out any move to rejoin the EU customs union. sigh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 33998 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Joining the customs union right now wouldn't exactly be a clever move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 52093 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Carney wants de facto customs union membership and a trade deal with the EU. With any luck, the world just reorders itself without the US, and they can buy and sell potatoes between themselves and Russia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 24206 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 4 minutes ago, ewerk said: Joining the customs union right now wouldn't exactly be a clever move. why? we're getting hit with tariffs either way. i'd take the hit on higher tariffs from the US in exchange for closer alignment with our real allies. it's time to turn away from the US and back to europe. the atlanticist fantasists behind brexit have lost the argument. we're unlikely to do a trade deal with the US and even if we do, it'll be a shit deal and our we'll be forced to chow down on chlorinated chicken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 24206 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 we're a bootlicking vassal state as things stand with little to no influence over trump. reeves is saying the right things regarding making life easier for UK SMEs trying to trade with our closest and biggest market but words alone are meaningless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 7242 Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Gemmill said: Carney wants de facto customs union membership and a trade deal with the EU. With any luck, the world just reorders itself without the US, and they can buy and sell potatoes between themselves and Russia. This is the crux for me. Negotiate trade deals with the rest of the world - including China. Trump's gambling on the premise that it's absolutely never going to happen and therefore he can fuck China off economically without recourse. The world needs to take the very action his narcissism refuses to see coming. Edited April 9 by Craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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