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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:08 UTC

If you're wondering where the Tories are headed, 47% of them now support a merger with the Reform Party, and they're only 1% behind the ones that oppose. If a merger actually happened it would mean the end of the Tories as a political force.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:17 UTC

The term NIMBY will begin to lose all meaning. It will simply be a shorthand for anyone that opposes the new government's policies for any reason (but especially the environment and local objections), and since actual NIMBYs suck you won't want to be labelled one.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:09 UTC

Everytime you go on Twitter now it's basically just a YIMBY orgy. The new Labour government is going to give them everything they want even if it means disrespecting devolved governments and local councils because they think it's going to win the next election.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:38 UTC

The people who want Biden to be replaced are out of their minds if they think they're beating Trump this way. If Biden is ousted in the Democratic Convention, his replacement will have zero democratic legitimacy, and that will create enough discontent amongst Democrats to hand the election to Trump.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

I see the recently defeated right is doubling down on their old-fashioned classism. Say what you will about Rayner's suit but £550 is not the most expensive suit out there. AOC paid $3k for hers. This is just the same old toffs scolding people from a council estate for not wanting to just wear rags.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:26 UTC

Some good news out of the UK for once: The Rwanda plan has been scrapped. The new Labour government had campaigned on scrapping the plan on day one after the election. As of yesterday, the Rwanda plan is no longer happening.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

Thangam Debbonaire's job as culture secretary has now been taken by Lisa Nandy, the woman who said the UK should look to Catalonia for how to deal with Scotland. Catalonia btw tried to vote to leave Spain and was met with police brutality.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:32 UTC

Blair in 1997: 13,518,167 votes Corbyn in 2017: 12,877,918 votes Corbyn in 2019: 10,269,051 votes Starmer in 2024: 9,686,329 votes Only in our ridiculous political system is this a thumping mandate, and only in the minds of Labourites drunk on optimism is this victory.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:44 UTC

He came in 3rd behind Labour

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:44 UTC

Lmao Labour have won the election doing not much better than Corbyn

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

I think they're going with "but at least the Reform Party can't win"

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

Lmao imagine running a bar chart ad in which the bar chart shows you losing

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:55 UTC

Amazing, the Guardian columnist admits that she's become exactly like her boring parents

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 08:06 UTC

I voted

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:37 UTC

Tomorrow is going to be one hell of a long weekend

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:48 UTC

If this exit poll from France is accurate, then a sizeable chunk of RN's support is coming from the mainstream centre-right, or at least certain elements of it who feel comfortable collaborating with the far-right. This will be the future of European conservatism unless something is done about it.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

Oh yeah they definitely lean into tankie aesthetics

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:42 UTC

Workers Party doesn't even try calling itself communist lol

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 13:38 UTC

Lmao found the only political party in 2024 that actually still talks about "indetity politics"

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:56 UTC

So the Economist has come out in full support of Labour under Starmer. Remember that they represent the top echelons of the ruling class. Whoever the Economist supports, they are your enemy.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 08:01 UTC

It's also worth noting that the mainstream media and the Labour Party are most scared of the Greens. Media trying to keep them out of major debates while inviting Farage, Labour investing campaign resources into stopping the Greens while letting Reform take Clacton.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 08:01 UTC

Also it's worth noting that although the Tories have failed to recover, Labour also went from a comfy 46% before the election was to called to occasionally hovering at the high 30s now. How you ask? There's only one explanation: Keir Starmer

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 08:01 UTC

Addendum: -Lib Dems will bounce back from irrelevance, with a decent chance of becoming lead opposition party -Reform will get at least one seat -Plaid will get 4, no more, no less -SNP will get hammered, the likelihood of somehow getting a majority of seats is low

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 08:01 UTC

We now have exactly one week to go until the election. Some thoughts: -Tories are going to face a severe collapse, possibly wiped out in parts of the country -Labour will win an absolute majority even with as low as 37-40% of the vote -Greens will win about 3-4 seats or more

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:58 UTC

But even that's not so different from regular corporations who for some inexplicable reason sometimes feel the need to post team photos on social media. It's like family photos only you know for sure that most of the people in them don't want to be there.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

What people forget or just don't know about worker co-ops is that they don't really change much about the world of work, except they insist on making your work life into a social club that you don't have to be part of, but feel weird for not being in it.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

Kubrick never thought of this

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

It's either that liberals have a soft spot for Nazis or that Basil has a very short attention span

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 11:48 UTC

The Twitter liberal: a tragedy in two parts

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 00:16 UTC

I want SMTVI to be an unashamed cyberpunk game

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 09:03 UTC

Labour is the presumptive winner of the election, polls suggest a huge majority despite getting as low as 38% of the vote.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 07:47 UTC

With two weeks to go until the election, a handy guide for which UK parties are pro-trans and which are anti-trans (only parties that actually field candidates are included here)

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 18:33 UTC

It's pure ideology, there's nothing else to it

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 16:10 UTC

My therapist: Maoist climate denial isn't real it can't hurt you Maoist climate denier:

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 13:30 UTC

So Just Stop Oil are known to be funded by an oil heiress and they pick to target Stonehenge for their stunt like two weeks away from an election in which the left-wing pro-environment Greens are gaining, and I'm supposed to think that this is all just a coincidence?

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 13:25 UTC

I guess the Torygraph is at that particular stage of desperation that leads them to invent bizarre war fantasies to scare people into voting Tory.

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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 10:28 UTC

French capitalists just confirmed what Marxists have been saying for decades: capitalism always turns to fascism whenever it looks like socialists are coming to power and posing even a mild threat to their profits.

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