UK Political Thread, part the second

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To be honest, I thought we’d already got rid of the toxic lettuce.

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Farage proves to be useless.
Who could have predicted it?

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Because they have got enough?

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Meanwhile:

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Welp


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I was quite struck last week by (linked in that article) what a rogue’s gallery of mass murder and genocide supporters found the paper too toxic to write for now:

It’s also notable that the Grauniad’s evidence to discredit the truth of the stories says “were called wild fabrications in off-the-record briefings.” if it’s off the record, it’s just some words said by some nobody. Stop allowing governments to both say and not say something at the time. You can’t have “an anonymous” army spokesman or official or intelligence person or government source. If their name doesn’t go with it, they are none of those things, but rather just some randomer with all the integrity that implies.

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Looks like they were totally covering up war crimes, just as we thought when the story first broke.

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He added that he was “concerned” about the contents of the memo, “but I also refer you to the date – it was a decade before my time”.

The memo, written in April 2011, said that there appeared to be “an unofficial policy” among SAS squadrons to kill any fighting-age Afghan male during a raid “regardless of the immediate threat they pose to our troops”.

So the entire lifespan of the successive Conservative governments “Sir” was a member of or voted into power they were aware that the SAS had a policy of straight up murdering civilians in Afghanistan.

It all comes out. And it’s always the cover up that gets you. You’re the one carrying water for stone cold sociopathic murderers and people who get their kicks out of grisly torture and mutilation. They’ll be dead or in prison already for some other fucked up shit they couldn’t resist doing after the experience of drawing a salary from your lot for racist brutality.

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Something, something dining habits of leopards.

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This is what supporting the TERs gets you, Keir.

At least now one name has been removed from my list of MPs who need to leave before I will consider voting Labour again. Then again, Keir is another of the names on that list so I have little expectation I will be voting for them in the short to medium term.

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maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfgGDkWzYU

If I’ve got the right episode then there’s a running theme of “Dems swing right to try to appeal to the centre, and lose hard. Dems have been most successful when they have progressive policies. The same progressive policies that if you ask a random voter about out of context, they generally support”.

It’s US politics, but damn if it doesn’t apply to the Labour party.

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“Labour” party

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I’d say “I told you that would happen” except I’m stuck here too. I am already dreading the next election, because at this rate the Tories winning might be the least worst possibility.

Maybe it’s time to look back 100 years and give Keir the Ramsay MacDonald treatment.

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