UK Politics Thread

Nobody knows where we will be in 4.5 years time. Stuff maybe back under control, the press may have gotten use to a boring news cycle again instead of perma-crisis, there could be another crisis in Eastern Europe, another close La Penn/Trump election could panic everyone. Fuck knows.

Couple things though. The british public quite often give a party a second go to finish the job, if they haven't shat the bed anyhow. The Tories went with low taxes and culture war last time and got a historic defeat. Reform will remain there on the hard right nipping away at those voters. Then for all the people who were repelled by the Culture War shit last time, a lot of them voted for the Lib Dems. Who knows maybe the Lib Dems will end up the official opposition.

"We've fucking time travelled, yes? We're in a weird and wonderful world where everything is different! Maybe outside the polar ice caps have melted, maybe there's fucking robots knocking about and Davina McCall's the new pope. Maybe you can download rice!" - Malcolm Tucker.

I think given we’re so early in the electoral cycle, Badenoch the culture warrior is probably at the height of what influence she might have in that regard.

Its generally true that British voters are far less interested in culture wars than our politicians and media are. But we couldn’t be further from a general election.

Labour has already shown that it’ll bend on things like trans rights if pressured by the press. If Badenoch has a friendly press in her corner then I think we could see a version of the Farage Effect. The government getting themselves into a tangle of negative influences because they’re unduly worried about bad headlines and hectoring by nutters in the Question Time audience.

Badenoch could end up being electoral kryptonite *and* see a rival government put some of her ideas into practice (while pretending it was their idea)

Ooof. That is some nasty shit.

Children don’t need to be educated beyond 12.
As long as they can count how many chimneys they’ve swept in a day(for taxation purposes), that is sufficient.

Yeah, they are going for the Reform playbook rather than, ironically, actually reforming. When you aren’t in power you can heckle any old crowd pleasing shit you like because you don’t have to stand by any of it.

We now have four exciting years of transphobia and xenophobia being shouted in response to everything.

It's a bold prediction I'll admit but I don't think that Badenoch is going to be too appealing to the racists the hard right includes a lot of.

Probably a few days at most from the Conservatives being declared woke because of her election.

But being from a well off immigrant family and being employed for a while in McDonald's does make you working class.

Well would you look at that, after 3 years of no NHS dentists at my dentist, I get an email saying they now have an NHS dentist, and explicitly blame the lack of engagement from the previous government as a contributing factor into why they haven't been able to have one until now. I now have an NHS checkup on Thursday.

Looks like university fees are going to go up. The Tories held them at £9250 per undergrad year* for nearly a decade and now Labour get all the pain of having to face the fact that to keep pace with inflation it’d need to jump to something like £12-13,000 per undergrad year.



* for a UK Home student (English, Welsh or NI)

Fuck that. Clamp down on the appointment missing fuckers!

Bring back capital punishment for them, I say!

Drawing and quartering too!

Sounds like someone just lost his invitation to the golf club

They've clearly learnt the lessons that the election taught then.