• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    Nigel Farage be like:

    “Русске есть, my fellow comrades? I mean fellow British people!”

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    16 hours ago

    This guy just supports any notion that can destabilise the EU and weaken the west. If he’s not a russian plant, he’s fucking excellent at hiding it.

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      8 hours ago

      At this point, the World would be better if even Mexico took over the USA.

    • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      It doesn’t help that Labour seem determined to fuck things up. They have such a big majority that they could do so much to actually speak to the problems that regular people are experiencing that drives people to vote Reform.

      I live in a pretty shitty area that has a high proportion of Reform voters. Our MP is Labour, but on the track we’re on, we might have a Reform MP next time. Some of the Reform voters round here are racist arseholes, but most of them just feel so demoralised and unrepresented by the mainstream political parties that they are desperate for something — anything different.

      Some of them actively acknowledge that if Reform won enough seats that Farage became MP, that they would almost certainly fuck up the country significantly, but they don’t care anymore. They’re so desperate for change that the idea of burning the established order down feels appealing, because even if things will get very shit, very fast, that feels like the only path where there’s the possibility of hope for something good springing from the ashes.

      It’s simultaneously an irrational and entirely reasonable thing to crave. I can’t say I don’t sympathise.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        12 hours ago

        What an insane position for them to take. It isn’t the US there was more than two parties. Hell they can see that because they’re talking about reform.

        Just tell them to vote Green. Or maybe Labour if they get their act together over the next few years. There’s always the possibility that Burnham will be in charge by that point.

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      18 hours ago

      Because there is no independent press in the UK. His masters will just amplify his message in one of the news outlets they own when it suits them.

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        15 hours ago

        The BBC gave him more air time on Question Time than any other politician by a huge, huge factor, and this was when he’d failed seven or so times to get elected as an MP.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      He gets in the news constantly by issuing the most reactionary takes. He’s got tons of friends in the corporate sector, because he knows exactly which assholes to lick. And his opposition is physically incapable of turning left, so he can periodically outflank Starmer on real bread-and-butter issues by saying “I’ll expand the NHS! I’ll be tough on the Bad Businesses! I’ll fight for the working class [white people]!” while Labour just stutters and tuts and replies “That wouldn’t be sensible.”

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Could someone in England do themselves(and the world) a favor and shove a doorknob down that man’s malodorous gob?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      12 hours ago

      We’re just waiting until he goes to the US again and then we’re going to revoke his citizenship. He can live in the mess that he constantly praises.