UK Politics Thread

In our school we would have shouted ‘oi, your shorts are too long’ at him pretty much constantly

Absolutely legendary "fuck the lot of you" using the PPE cash to fund the denial documentary

You know these tories, they believe that all you need to do is say a lie out loud and it becomes the accepted truth

"The Lady M"? How gauche.

Is anyone else astonished that the New European is still publishing a daily print edition?

Imagine being materially rich enough to buy a yacht, but so intellectually poor you can't name it properly.

People might be split, but they don't really care about it over other issues, like economy, public services, etc.

I think there's an element of population, especially with the older generation that refuses to accept people are alot more closely connected in the modern world. Both technology and ease international travel has brought the world closer together compared to 30 or 40 years ago.

The idea that England won't forever be a sea of white faces is unnerving to some. Personally reluctant to call it anything other than human nature for the most part, that fear of something different and being drawn to those who feel familiar is built into our DNA.

Muslim friends will tell me how much they love going to a predominantly Muslim country or visiting Mecca, as its mostly Muslim people with a society built around that and wish England was the same as it's comforting to them. Jewish friends also have similar views when visiting Israel.

Personally not a fan of anything, be that man made borders or even faith that divides us all as human beings trying to live our lives. I do think we've come a long way as far as multiculturalism goes, but as current attitudes in the UK and ongoing wars around the world tell you, we all obviously have a long way to go before people treat or view others equally.

In the UK do feel the lack of control with borders along with underfunded public services, heathcare especially helps fuel this resentment. "not only are these people different, with a different culture.. They're making my life worse" The right wing press over the past few decades have also worked their best to "other" immigrants and Muslims especially.

My fear is that illegal immigration is to precious a political weapon to actually fix and to easy a tool for the right to use. Assuming Labour win the next election, I dread to think how right wing the tory party and the mainstream press veer and the depths they sink to win back power.

I know some uk Indians that have extremely strong views about there being too much immigration and most of them also voted for Brexit. It’s not just white peoples that don’t want the foreigners.

Reading the comments on BBC articles is generally a waste of time, as ever article is full of culture war / labor-vs-tory / rehashing-brexit sniping by the most horrible people, who never listen to each other and generally make you despair about humanity.

The recent one about Rwanda was interesting in that basically everybody thought it was a load of bollocks. Even the right-wing brexit supporting express readers thought it was a shit deal and the government should be focusing on something else.
Not sure I've ever seen such agreement on there.

so, in a way, they've united everyone through their shitness.

This is one of the things about the whole debate I find most triggering on a personal level. Mouthpieces like Tice and Gullis standing up, spouting about 'British Values' and what it means to be British.

I am actually quite proud to be British and fairly patriotic on the quiet but in a more esoteric, Grant Morrisons Invisibles, type way. All the old druidic shit, the lore, the legends, the rolling countryside, the fact that most people genuinely arent cunts. Who the fuck are these people to decide that its none of those things but actually low level xenophobia and fealty to a family of inbred germans?

There’s a Billy Bragg book that must be about 20 years old now called The Progressive Patriot where he tries to go through all the good things in the country to say ‘this is a place to be proud of’.

The stop the boats crowd never express anything about what is positive about the country, just a bitter jealousy that someone else might take their stuff.

And on ‘multiculturalism has failure’ have they not looked at their own cabinet? Although it is Jendrick so he might mean the failure has been to allow an Asian man to become PM.