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  • New Britain
     Reply #360 - March 18, 2025, 11:23 PM
    this ch4 interview (skip to 11m50s) of an activist with cerebral palsy juxtaposed against a healthy representative of 'sad' young adults tells you everything...

    but I'll spell it out anyway: the massive expansion of mental health diagnoses (based on culture not medicine) has given cover for politicians to cut the benefits of real disabled people.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mASG65zEhBQ&t=710s&pp=2AHGBZACAQ%3D%3D
  • New Britain
     Reply #361 - March 22, 2025, 11:28 AM
    if only this was a parody.

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    “Yes, £12 sandwiches are drivers of gentrification but the things that really matter are high house prices and high market rents,” he said. “If local people had protected, affordable housing, it wouldn’t matter how much a local croissant cost."

    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2025/mar/22/we-cant-please-everyone-co-founder-of-east-london-bakery-targeted-with-graffiti-reacts
  • New Britain
     Reply #362 - March 25, 2025, 12:00 PM
    british muslim project being passed on to new inventors.

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    The membership of the working group appears to signal that the government is engaging with the recently launched British Muslim Network (BMN), but not the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) - the largest umbrella body claiming to represent British Muslims.

    Dominic Grieve, a former Conservative attorney general, has been appointed chair of the group with BMN co-chair Akeela Ahmed among its four other members.

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-says-islamophobia-definition-must-protect-right-insult-religions
  • New Britain
     Reply #363 - March 30, 2025, 03:15 PM
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    Justin Welby has told the BBC he forgives a serial abuser at the heart of a scandal that led to his resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury.

    In his first interview since quitting in November last year, Welby said his forgiveness of John Smyth - arguably the most prolific abuser associated with the Church of England - was "irrelevant" and it was more important to help victims "rebuild their lives".


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj929xd84e3o
  • New Britain
     Reply #364 - April 08, 2025, 05:35 PM
    weather is getting warmer - here's a manslaughter conviction of racist teens to set the summer mood.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14579173/schoolboy-dog-walker-death-racist-attack.html
  • New Britain
     Reply #365 - April 30, 2025, 08:09 AM
    it's about the shoes.

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    “Labour are fucked,” says Kneale, 52, drinking a £1.95 pint of Foster’s beneath a giant St George’s flag. “I’ve been Labour all my life but never, ever again. They’ve done nothing but lie to us.”

    On Kneale’s long list of grievances are immigration, the state of the town centre, the leadership of the local council, and cuts to the winter fuel allowance – a big issue in a constituency where one in five people are over 65, bigger than the national share.

    “We need to stop the fucking boats. The pensioners need winter fuel allowance back and if you look around the town we’ve got barbers, dodgy cigarette shops, charity shops everywhere. You go try buy a pair of shoes in Runcorn – you can’t!”


    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/30/labour-grievances-fuel-runcorn-byelection-battle-reform
  • New Britain
     Reply #366 - May 02, 2025, 11:36 AM
    reform has arrived. enshitification accelerates.

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    The Tory party, the most successful in the history of Western democracies, has been supplanted by an agile, disruptive one-man band. And alongside the Faragists on the polling papers now jostle the standard continental panoply of Leftist ecologists, nationalist separatists, tentatively resurgent liberals, the diehard centre-Leftists, traditional conservatives, as well as independent candidates swept in via South Asian Baradari voting blocs.

    The polycentric politics mirrors a diffuse, collapsing sense of a shared national culture. Gone are the days when the BBC had a near-monopoly on political news, and when the horse meat scandal or the “pasty tax” could dominate headlines for weeks. Instead, we have a schizophrenic media landscape in which a Presidential assassination attempt, or an Islamist mass murder in a Christmas market, is forgotten as quickly as a passing TikTok reel, like tears in the rain.

    The postmodern breakdown of our collective consciousness reflects the mood of a despondent, fragmented electorate searching for any answers from any direction after almost two decades of wage stagnation and the visible deterioration of our public spaces and common life.

    https://unherd.com/2025/05/runcorn-changes-everything/

  • New Britain
     Reply #367 - May 11, 2025, 08:42 PM
    watching this doc on the bradford stadium fire in 1985 - it's compelling viewing.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002c62k
  • New Britain
     Reply #368 - May 12, 2025, 09:24 AM
    less compelling is keir claiming to be tough on immigration only a week after easing entry for indian workers.

    treating the racist public like idiots is catapulting farage and reform into the mainstream.

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    Keir Starmer promises net migration will fall ‘significantly’ by end of this parliament

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/may/12/immigration-keir-starmer-labour-reform-visa-foreign-workers-uk-politics-latest-live-news
  • New Britain
     Reply #369 - May 12, 2025, 08:36 PM
    Owen Jones on Starmer's rivers of blood speech
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxiJibgs26Y
    Which side are you on?
  • New Britain
     Reply #370 - May 13, 2025, 06:47 PM
    Phillip Proudfoot on ''island of strangers'': https://x.com/PhilipProudfoot/status/1922016881151443367

    A contrary view on the Enoch Powell link: https://x.com/residentadviser/status/1922187397355180477?t=M4HHyagVDfmZYAF-F2AUZA&s=19

    In Oldham, a self hating children of immigrants?
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    Concerns about the pace of change are not limited to those born and bred in this part of the Pennines.

    Hussein was born in Pakistan and moved here forty years ago. He now runs a thriving mobile phone shop at Tommyfield indoor market.

    He tells the BBC he is so frustrated with rising immigration he voted for Brexit in 2016 and has since written to Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner about his concerns.

    "We are already short of jobs," he tells us.

    "If we are getting professionals from outside, what are you going to do about the professionals in this country? It means they're going to hurt the working class."


    The social care sector:
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    But Michelle is not worried about the post-Covid change on her high street. Her big concern is who will staff care homes and hospitals.

    "What will we do if we haven't got the nurses, and the doctors, the carers and all the others to do the jobs that they do, like they did with my Mum and my husband when they were ill," she tells us.

    "How will we manage?"


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg7vpj9p0zo
  • New Britain
     Reply #371 - May 13, 2025, 07:01 PM
    Who is Keir Starmer? https://x.com/residentadviser/status/1922216706421739686
  • New Britain
     Reply #372 - May 13, 2025, 07:40 PM
    Sayeeda Warsi on Starmer's statement: https://x.com/SkyPoliticsHub/status/1922360377255330099
  • New Britain
     Reply #373 - May 26, 2025, 06:45 PM
    looks like a white guy drove into a parade of liverpool fans - but the islamic terror angle is being amplified on twitter...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn5xnlkegz0t
  • New Britain
     Reply #374 - June 01, 2025, 10:59 AM
    who would have thought criticising petty criminals could be popular with the electorate? well, everyone except the detached political class.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-is-robert-jenrick-up-to/
  • New Britain
     Reply #375 - June 01, 2025, 11:43 PM
    seems some still cling to false hope in corbyn and the greens.

    https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2025/05/the-british-left-is-coming-for-the-government
  • New Britain
     Reply #376 - June 02, 2025, 09:20 AM
    keir's wartime pantomime continues.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz63y1yldq2t
  • New Britain
     Reply #377 - June 06, 2025, 10:16 AM
    kemi decisively announces a review on leaving the echr. if all the conditions are met. possibly. maybe.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/badenoch-increasingly-supportive-of-leaving-echr-as-she-launches-exit-probe/ar-AA1GaQhq
  • New Britain
     Reply #378 - June 20, 2025, 09:26 PM
    a death penalty for the sick and disabled - another vote winner from team keir.

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    In an historic vote, MPs have approved a bill which would pave the way for huge social change by giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to end their own lives.


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgeqj1egxvyo
  • New Britain
     Reply #379 - July 02, 2025, 08:20 PM
    good news: the govt wobbled.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/02/starmer-tearful-chancellor-rachel-reeves-pmqs

    let the doom spiral begin Afro
  • New Britain
     Reply #380 - July 03, 2025, 08:08 PM
    Zarah Sultana leaves Labour and announces plans to start new party.

    https://www.joe.co.uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-forming-new-political-party-alongside-zarah-sultana-494637
    Which side are you on?
  • New Britain
     Reply #381 - July 04, 2025, 12:42 PM
    ^ outside the labour tent, her student speeches may result in arrest. any new protest party comprising corbyn and gaza independents should expect similar mistreatment.

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    In response to lobbying, the UK has become arguably the most repressive of all nominal democracies. Both in legislation and application, it looks more like a repressive autocracy. You can see this not only in the extreme sentences for peaceful protest but also in the extraordinary double standards deployed – a classic sign of the authoritarian mindset: “for my friends everything, for my enemies the law”. While climate protesters are arrested for setting foot in the road, even when a group of farmers in tractors blocked the road where Keir Starmer was giving a speech, forcing him to flee, not only were no arrests made but, as far as I can discover, no minister said a word about it.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/04/palestine-action-british-democracy-government-technology-protest-rights
  • New Britain
     Reply #382 - July 04, 2025, 08:31 PM
    Ban on Palestine Action goes ahead at midnight.

    https://netpol.org/2025/07/04/palestine-action-banned-as-terrorist-group-from-midnight/
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    Unlike the other avowedly violent, overseas groups facing a ban this week, Palestine Action has received popular support in Britain and around the world. Another hearing is scheduled for 21 July when Palestine Action will apply for permission for a judicial review to quash the order. Until then, we have no idea how vigorously the police will choose to enforce the ban but likely consequences include:

    Increased surveillance and more police raids on “suspect” communities who have expressed anger about genocide in Gaza.

    Apologists for Israel eagerly seeking to find, publicise and condemn examples of breaches of the ban, no matter how marginal, from as many political opponents as they can.

    Individuals targeted by the police for “reckless” statements.

    The possibility of meeting venues, universities or even banks becoming nervous about any mention of “Palestine”.

    A growing reluctance by many to exercise rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly against the continuing genocide, without genuinely fearing the unnerving attentions of counter terrorism police.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB0S-ee6nNk
    Which side are you on?
  • New Britain
     Reply #383 - July 05, 2025, 05:47 PM
    police happily enforcing the ban by arresting dangerous grannies.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14877671/Met-Police-arrest-Palestine-Action-protesters-group-banned-terrorist-organisation.html
  • New Britain
     Reply #384 - July 16, 2025, 01:47 PM
    can't fix the economy? clamp down on dissent instead.

    https://news.sky.com/story/prevent-scheme-needs-to-rapidly-adapt-to-online-world-review-finds-13397275
  • New Britain
     Reply #385 - July 24, 2025, 12:16 PM
    corbyn off to a great start  Roll Eyes

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    Initial reports suggested the new party was named 'Your Party' but it is now being reported it will be due to be formally named at an inaugural conference.

    https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/jeremy-corbyn-party-zarah-sultana/
  • New Britain
     Reply #386 - July 24, 2025, 12:47 PM
    dead on arrival but enough to prevent keir sneaking a second term.

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    It’s time for a new kind of political party. One that is rooted in our communities, trade unions and social movements. One that builds power in all regions and nations. One that belongs to you. 

    https://www.yourparty.uk/statement
  • New Britain
     Reply #387 - July 29, 2025, 09:36 AM
    labour invoking the ghost of jimmy saville to attack farage and anyone else who opposes the online safety act.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/minister-must-apologise-over-savile-claim-says-farage/ar-AA1JuR2B
  • New Britain
     Reply #388 - August 09, 2025, 09:09 PM
    judicial review in november.

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    The High Court has granted Palestine Action a judicial review on their proscription. The review will take place over eight days in November. Until then the proscription remains in effect

    https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-08-05/court-review-granted-palestine-action-ban


    business as usual in meanwhile.

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    More than 450 people have been arrested in central London at the largest demonstration relating to Palestine Action since the group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/palestine-action-arrests-london-largest-protest-ban
  • New Britain
     Reply #389 - August 24, 2025, 05:53 PM
    dom channelling the slow boil radicalisation of the electorate.

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    The threat that large-scale immigration poses to complex societies has long been a theme in Cummings’s writing. Yet in the past, dealing effectively with immigration was seen as a way to inoculate against the rise of extremism. By tackling the effects of mass immigration early, in a rational and technocratic manner, by stopping small-boat crossings and removing Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights for instance, the rise of xenophobic populism and nationalism could be averted. As he wrote in 2023: “I thought (and said before the referendum) that taking back democratic control of immigration policy would: kill off extremism here, shift immigration from being the top public priority to a medium or low priority, retire Farage/UKIP, and allow a better immigration policy similar to the Australian points system.”

    That has seemingly changed in recent months. Now, he is more than ever aping the most extreme rhetoric of the right. His most recent essay complains of the flood of immigration from “the most barbaric places on Earth”, of “immigration from the tribal areas most responsible for the grooming/rape gangs”, and “the spread of those barbaric ideas… [being defended by] human rights laws designed to stop the return of totalitarianism in Europe”.

    https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/08/rage-of-dominic-cummings
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