Broken immigration system. Please bear with us while we turn it off and on again to see if that fixes it.

Not surprised about the older generation seeing an increase in suicide rates where, especially for some medical conditions around chronic pain, death is preferable to the NHS waiting list.

As much as I wish we could rejoin or even that Brexit was just a bad dream…

Not going to happen. Not for a generation. Why?

• The EU would not accept the UK back in until there is strong and sustained political desire to re-enter. This alone would be your 20 years or 4 parliament terms.
• The EU would probably want some concessions during the rejoining process including a commitment to adopting the Euro. That alone would be controversial.
• We can still get most of the benefits of the EU without fully joining. For example, the customs union would allow for free trade and free movement.

Oh yep, don’t forget her bullshit about a woke UK deep state she said on her way out. Give it another 3 years and she’ll have dropped to the level of headline guest at conspiracy conventions.

And the UK tax payer is forking out for her retirement with ex-PM pension she can now draw from! New rule, you’ve got to at least make it 1 year as PM before you qualify for the £100k a year pension.

Eh, we could be doing better, but at least now we’ve got a sensible sounding government.

Don’t worry about this, race riots happen every 20 years or so. The previous one was much bigger.

Excellent appointment! Get the experts into governance.

More appointments like this please.

“Under the proposals it would be a criminal offence for a member of the Senedd, or a candidate for election to the Senedd, to wilfully, or with intent to mislead, make or publish a statement that is known to be false or deceptive.”

I think candidate for election would cover that.

This 100% this.

As much as I am left-of-centre I respect all MPs that are local to their constituency and actually listen to their concerns with proper surgery hours. This method of political parties parachuting in politicians is one of many issues with the way representative democracy has been implemented in this country.

We can gloat now, but I fear that the Tories will veer further right to get back into power.

Every dimension of the world is heating up and everyone is getting desperate.

The common folk are clawing for change and will grasp anything to take back some power. The elites are feeling the walls close in around them and will lash out at any perceived threat to their position.

Once Labour win, we’ll have 5 years to prepare for worse times to come, 10 maximum. It’s not going to be pretty after that.

I want off this fucking sinking island, before it pulls me under with it. But I fear there’s nowhere else to run to, no shelter to ride out the storm. Humanity has never faced the collapse of a global civilization before, and I feel a lot of us will see it happen before we depart this world.

So Starmer got glittered. Nigel got his traditional milkshaking. What’s Rishi gonna get?

As is tradition.

Options one has to discover for oneself. Keep asking that question, one day the answer may become clear.

What are you, ConfuciusGPT?

I thought we were having a discussion about the current UK electoral politics.

I’d very much like to hear what you think the other valid options the UK general public has to make an impact at this election.

Please enlighten me.

What are the other options?

Well that’s it. Once they get into power keep applying the pressure.

That’s what the StopTheTories.vote group are planning to do with their agenda to get a form of proportional representation to replace FPTP once the Tories are out.

The only other option is armed revolution and good luck rolling the dice on that in this country given how it’s gone previously (gestures to all of UK rebellion history) I’ll be out of the country for that one.

So the writer means Starmer pulled it from a fringe left unelectable mess of in-fighting (in a first-past-the-post system and Murdoch dominated press) to a left-of-centre party that’s trying to win over as many voters as possible to get a overwhelming majority in parliament.

I don’t like how centrist the current form of the labour party is, but at least there’s a chance of them listening to us once in power.

That’s something I’d like to see. Never going to happen in the UK.

In the 2008 financial crisis, I think Iceland was the only country to jail their irresponsible bankers.

That’s a fair point I hadn’t considered.

Then goodbye every UK resident’s pension that are invested in the water companies.

That’s why they’re “too big to fail”. You let them fail, you’ll throw people who are about 40 to 50 years old into further reliance on the state pension.

Better to prosecute the C-level executives and take the company back into public ownership.

Do NOT fuck with the deaf and ABSOLUTELY DO NOT FUCK WITH THE BLIND!

They’ve had blind and deaf societies (charitable foundations) about as long as the Metropolitan Police have been around.

They’re great organisations for people who suffer from those conditions because they DO NOT stand for these people going without the support they need.

They are viciously litigious and I for one can only hope that they continue to take the DWP to the fucking cleaners on behalf of the rest of society who continue to be shafted by that horrid department.

Sometime this year when the prime minister reckons he has the best chance of minimising electoral losses.

Also don’t hold your breath for a radically different attitude from a Labour government because the media loves to point to the antisemitic accusations in the internal party politics.