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Unfortunate headline maybe, but the article captures the despair and disillusionment that many poorer people not only feel but experience today. Politicians should feel shame (they won't). Parochially (in Scotland) at least despite their shortcomings the SNP and the Greens seem to actually care. Difficult to tell talking to our not so distance English neighbours. (and I will leave Wales and NI to others)

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

The Guardian · A new MP for Runcorn? Bring on Reform, say disillusioned votersBy Lizzie Dearden

Me and my comrade are going to be writing up an open proposal for a Disabled people's Union here in the UK.

If anyone has any resources around the histories of such organisations. Post em down below :blobheartcat:

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Neither Starmer not the King have the right or authority to ‘offer’ Commonwealth membership, in any form, to anyone.

It would be wholly inappropriate to even consider endorsing an application from a state not only entirely out of step with Commonwealth Values, it actively opposes them, and is threatening war against a sovereign member.

This cannot be allowed to happen, and the longer it goes unrefuted the greater the perhaps irreparable damage it does to the UK.

Saw a report that Sarah McBride had called for a Democratic Party that had a broad range of views on trans rights.

Pickme pickme pickme pickme pickme

Too many Democrats and I'm looking at you Schumer, are surrendering without even a token political fight.

In the UK, we have a nominally left-wing Party that's pro-Brexit, anti-immigration, authoritarian, anti-protest, transphobic, market-worshipping, austerity for the poor and tax breaks for the rich, ableist, genocide-supporting and economically incompetent. They won because the electorate decided they were the surest way of punishing the Blue Tories and that's all. Next time around, the far right be they Conservative or Reform will win as a consequence. The moral is you don't ultimately win by becoming the enemy.

Democrats, if you don't fight everything tooth and nail now in the political arena, you're going to end up with a weapon in your hands fighting off the New Gestapo when they come for you. It might be too late already.

I don't support Labour's economic policies.

I feel betrayed.

I do wonder what the tories would be doing to the economy if they'd won, and how many successful asylum seekers they would have shipped off to Rwanda by now.

Having to choose between bad and worse is not a good choice to have to make, but worse *is* worse.

Worse can be much worse.

Examples abound.

Businesses back SNP for growth

Colour me amazed. The Times reports something vaguely positive about the Scottish government. Although I suspect this was simply necessary to critique #Starmer, #Sarwar and #Labour.

Having said that, businesses that favour ‘Reform’ as a party for growth are either deluded or taking the piss. So the survey is probably useless.

Meantime this has driven the haters mad in the comments.

archive.today/2025.03.21-18400