UK Politics Thread

There's a guy at work across from me on a call discussing politics, he reckons that "the blues are the party of the working class" and that "I grew up on a council estate and always voted Labour until 4 or 5 years ago"

Fucking hell what a deluded cock.

"Only another a 4.5 years"...

It's fucking depressing.

Looked fun him up, he's a systems administrator in the change function in the property functions team.

I don't even care if people dislike labour, but anyone can look at the last 5 years and think "yeah these conservatives are the party of the working class" is frankly a thick cunt.

It's annoyed me because this is what we're up against. People buying the fucking tabloid soundbites. It fucking sickens me that people can delude themselves.

Ah least be honest about it.

Also overheard some office politics discussion yesterday and heard the usual "they are all the same" and "they all go to the same school" bollocks. Whether you think the budget was good or not, how anyone can look at what they announced and conclude that they are all the same is completely beyond me. They also then went on to some moan about too many managers in the NHS and how they knew someone who knew someone that worked for NHS doing some HR management that was on £150k.

The young person in the group also piped in with a "I don't even bother voting".

Could have been worse, one said they voted Green and then the group also talked about how awful Trump is and that Project 2025 all sounds scary, so they at least weren't right wingers. Goes to show that the right wing narrative that tars all politicians from the main parties with the same brush still manages to cut through to people who aren't on that side though.

The apathetic are the people that annoy me the most, even the batshit right wingers believe in something even if it is batshit.

Repeating bollocks like "they're all the same" should have a line of text pop up underneath them when they say it with "this person has decided to let other people think for them."

Say what you want about the tenents of National Socialism but at least it's an ethos.

Do you still hate Illinois Nazis?

Yep, an increasingly unsurprising result. Don't think Labour should rest too much on their laurels with the announcement though. She might be batshit, but she has demonstrated pragmatism in the past (not going along with dropping all the EU laws and not going along with leaving ECHR that would go down with the membership). If Labour can't turn around the current public opinion then the next election could see that majority vanish.

Ugh. Just... ugh.

Let's hope she's the only populist, right-wing nutjob who ascends to power within the next few days.

Party which is now comprised of stupid racist morons votes for the stupidest, most racist moron in Britain to lead then. Not really that surprising.

Looking forward to her brain melting when she learns she can't just yell WHAT IS A WOMAN THOUGH or machine gunning immigrants when the discussion is about the NHS or something.

Those who are thinking she might not last long in the role, have opposition leaders changed that frequently between elections? My understanding is that there's usually nowhere near as much turnover in shadow or other party positions, because they're not really responsible for anything.

Basically this imo. They'll have 3 years of irrelevance at least.

That was always going to happen. They had to change it because with such low number of seats they only needed a dozen or so to send letters in to trigger a vote.

They bumped off IDS. Labour rarely manage to change leader at any point and they're the ones in opposition most the time.