UK Politics Thread IX: The Masses Against the Classes

[Liriena]

Wait wait wait wait wait wait... did Nigel Farage just... create yet another far right anti-EU party... and the first thing he did with it was show off a brand new campaign bus?

Good gawd, Brexiteers are their own parody.

Although I do appreciate their commitment to splitting the right-wing vote. Anything for the inevitable victory of the Corbyngrad Soviet.

[Liriena]

Labour 32% (-8)

Conservatives 28% (-14)

Lib Dems 11% (+4)

Brexit Party 8% (+8)

UKIP 6% (+4)

CUK 3% (+3)

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

that's some nasty vote splitting there. real bad spoiler effect. but not to worry, heh heh, old sous has exactly what you need to navigate this rough patch.

Lib Dems 11% (+4)

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[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Labour 32% (-8)

Conservatives 28% (-14)

Lib Dems 11% (+4)

Brexit Party 8% (+8)

UKIP 6% (+4)

CUK 3% (+3)

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

that's some nasty vote splitting there. real bad spoiler effect. but not to worry, heh heh, old sous has exactly what you need to navigate this rough patch.

It almost looks like the Swedish parliament in October... difference being that our parties eventually agreed to compromise up a government... I see no such thing ever happening in Britain. I guess... it's have fun with having no real government apart from the May Caretaker Cabinet ad infinitum. <.<

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Wait wait wait wait wait wait... did Nigel Farage just... create yet another far right anti-EU party... and the first thing he did with it was show off a brand new campaign bus?

Good gawd, Brexiteers are their own parody.

Although I do appreciate their commitment to splitting the right-wing vote. Anything for the inevitable victory of the Corbyngrad Soviet.

Nigel Farage.
Far right.
Something does not compute.

[Valrifell]

I thought UKIP was the quintessential "Brexit party" but now you're telling me there's also a Brexit Party currently lead by a former leader of UKIP?

My head hurts.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

I thought UKIP was the quintessential "Brexit party" but now you're telling me there's also a Brexit Party currently lead by a former leader of UKIP?

My head hurts.

Ukip has let the racists in, and totally gone what the media used to portray them as. They're doomed to irrelevancy.

[Ostroeuropa]

Wait wait wait wait wait wait... did Nigel Farage just... create yet another far right anti-EU party... and the first thing he did with it was show off a brand new campaign bus?

Good gawd, Brexiteers are their own parody.

Although I do appreciate their commitment to splitting the right-wing vote. Anything for the inevitable victory of the Corbyngrad Soviet.

Nigel Farage.
Far right.
Something does not compute.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 85236.html

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Nigel Farage.
Far right.
Something does not compute.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 85236.html

It's almost like he's ashamed of being a dick in his youth and deliberately made sure those sorts of people found it hard to get into ukip when he was leader.

[Souseiseki]

I thought UKIP was the quintessential "Brexit party" but now you're telling me there's also a Brexit Party currently lead by a former leader of UKIP?

My head hurts.

once upon a time, there was a party called UKIP. they wanted to leave the EU and do all sorts of other stuff that english baby boomers loved. there were of course, by their own description, a "non-racist libertarian" party. but there was a problem - no matter how much they emphasized how totally non-racist they were and tried to kick out all the racists, for some inexplicable reason, their party was repeatedly and consistently filled up with racists. nigel farage (the totally not racist champion of the not racist party) did his best to keep out the racists by firing them as soon as they had a media scandal and also the authoritarian loons that seemed to get into positions of power within his non-racist libertarian party. eventually the party slowly became more and more racist to the point they tried appointing EDL leaders as party leaders, at which point he gave up and started a new party. ironic, since the original founder of UKIP had also left after farage started gaining traction over concerns that the party was becoming quite a bit racist.

[Liriena]

I thought UKIP was the quintessential "Brexit party" but now you're telling me there's also a Brexit Party currently lead by a former leader of UKIP?

My head hurts.

Ukip has let the racists in

Now now, that's not a very nice thing to say about Sargon of Akkad.

[Liriena]

I thought UKIP was the quintessential "Brexit party" but now you're telling me there's also a Brexit Party currently lead by a former leader of UKIP?

My head hurts.

once upon a time, there was a party called UKIP. they wanted to leave the EU and do all sorts of other stuff that english baby boomers loved. there were of course, by their own description, a "non-racist libertarian" party. but there was a problem - no matter how much they emphasized how totally non-racist they were and tried to kick out all the racists, for some inexplicable reason, their party was repeatedly and consistently filled up with racists. nigel farage (the totally racist champion of the not racist party) did his best to keep out the racists by firing them as soon as they had a media scandal and also the authoritarian loons that seemed to get into positions of power within his non-racist libertarian party. eventually the party slowly became more and more racist to the point they tried appointing EDL leaders as party leaders, at which point he gave up and started a new party. ironic, since the original founder of UKIP had also left after farage started gaining traction over concerns that the party was becoming quite a bit racist.

TIL that the AfD is a ripoff

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

Labour 32% (-8)
Conservatives 28% (-14)
Lib Dems 11% (+4)
Brexit Party 8% (+8)
UKIP 6% (+4)
CUK 3% (+3)

So... anybody ready for having the May Caretaker Cabinet sit in Downing Street 10 beyond 2040? <.<

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Ukip has let the racists in

Now now, that's not a very nice thing to say about Sargon of Akkad.

I'm not familiar with him. I am however familiar, on a personal level, with some of the people the new leader has as advisers.

[Ifreann]

I thought UKIP was the quintessential "Brexit party" but now you're telling me there's also a Brexit Party currently lead by a former leader of UKIP?

My head hurts.

Nige Brexited his Brexit party for a new commonwealth of Brexiteers.

[Liriena]

Labour 32% (-8)
Conservatives 28% (-14)
Lib Dems 11% (+4)
Brexit Party 8% (+8)
UKIP 6% (+4)
CUK 3% (+3)

So... anybody ready for having the May Caretaker Cabinet sit in Downing Street 10 beyond 2040? <.<

The year is 2098. Eternal Prime Minister Theresay May has been dead for almost sixty years, yet her cabinet carries the torch of her immortal science by repeatedly requesting extensions on Brexit. The NHS has been reduced to one very helpful cockroach in a nurse hat somewhere in Kensington, and most Britons are surviving by eating DVD copies of the first season of Inbetweeners. "No deal" Brexiteers take to The Sun and The Daily Mail every Sunday to remind the people that their sacrifice will ensure a future where Her Majesty, a chonky corgi wearing a tiara in Buckingham, is not forced to pay taxes to the EU's AI Parliament.

[Ostroeuropa]

Sargon will be a good MEP and I wish him the best, cmv.

He opposes corruption, feminism, and government power while supporting welfare, the bus, and so on. He opposes porn bans,drug bans and the like. He understands the threat posed by multiculturalism and Saudi influence, has MRM sympathies though not as many as i would prefer, and so on. He will be better than 99% of politicians. His opposition to the EU is unfortunate, but I trust him to do his duty if elected and we remain rather than being a wrecker.

[Liriena]

Sargon will be a good MEP and I wish him the best, cmv.

He opposes corruption, feminism, and government power while supporting welfare, the bus, and so on. He opposes porn bans,drug bans and the like. He understands the threat posed by multiculturalism and Saudi influence, has MRM sympathies though not as many as i would prefer, and so on. He will be better than 99% of politicians. His opposition to the EU is unfortunate, but I trust him to do his duty if elected and we remain rather than being a wrecker.

So we're glossing over the fact that Sargon is an incredibly stupid man whose supposedly left-wing views are incoherent at best and an outright fabrication at worst? Oh, and also, his debate with Destiny. Just, the entirety of it.

[Liriena]

Sargon will be a good MEP and I wish him the best, cmv.

He opposes corruption, feminism, and government power while supporting welfare, the bus, and so on. He opposes porn bans,drug bans and the like. He understands the threat posed by multiculturalism and Saudi influence, has MRM sympathies though not as many as i would prefer, and so on. He will be better than 99% of politicians. His opposition to the EU is unfortunate, but I trust him to do his duty if elected and we remain rather than being a wrecker.

So we're glossing over the fact that Sargon is an incredibly stupid man whose supposedly left-wing views are incoherent at best and an outright fabrication at worst? Oh, and also, his debate with Destiny. Just, the entirety of it.

Honestly, Sargon should have deleted himself off the internet after his "universities please ban social justice" slacktivism debacle. Fucking pseudo-intellectual imbecile.

[Ostroeuropa]

Sargon will be a good MEP and I wish him the best, cmv.

He opposes corruption, feminism, and government power while supporting welfare, the bus, and so on. He opposes porn bans,drug bans and the like. He understands the threat posed by multiculturalism and Saudi influence, has MRM sympathies though not as many as i would prefer, and so on. He will be better than 99% of politicians. His opposition to the EU is unfortunate, but I trust him to do his duty if elected and we remain rather than being a wrecker.

So we're glossing over the fact that Sargon is an incredibly stupid man whose supposedly left-wing views are incoherent at best and an outright fabrication at worst? Oh, and also, his debate with Destiny. Just, the entirety of it.

His instincts are on point and he's not likely to be brow beaten by the media into advancing their the liberal agenda. What about his outlook is incoherent? Do you mean you don't understand it?Because plenty do.

The level of vitriol and dismissiveness you have here is interesting considering that other than not being an SJW which divides us, he is flat out better than 99% of candidates.

[Ostroeuropa]

So we're glossing over the fact that Sargon is an incredibly stupid man whose supposedly left-wing views are incoherent at best and an outright fabrication at worst? Oh, and also, his debate with Destiny. Just, the entirety of it.

Honestly, Sargon should have deleted himself off the internet after his "universities please ban social justice" slacktivism debacle. Fucking pseudo-intellectual imbecile.

He was right to identify a hate movement on campus. Which specific outlook of his are you worried about. Is it literally just he's another a sign people have had enough of progressives shit and want them marginalized from the discussion? Because yeah, we're gonna need to legislate the universities to force that to happen. Same as a KKK infiltration would need that.

[Souseiseki]

my only exposure to sargon is the time he refused to watch a video on why he was misreading a study because it wasn't 5 minutes long and various other examples of him failing to read articles. it's possible he is a secret good guy and i have merely been poisoned by the left, but i would be very very surprised if that was actually the case.

i do remember him making a "why the tories are ruining your country" video though which was v funny because it pissed off his tory audience.

e: holy shit when you realize that sargon of akkad is now ontopic for UK politics aahahahaha current year

[Liriena]

Which specific outlook of his are you worried about.

His proud status as a useful idiot of the far right who's repeatedly conceded the stupidest far right talking points because he's too ignorant and incurious to fact check that shit. Oh, but sure, sometimes he says he actually doesn't like nazis, you guys. Which is kind of like when I tell people that I only attend Pride because some of my friends are LGBT+ and not because I secretly like dick and have I mentioned I kinda like rugby today?

[Greater vakolicci haven]

my only exposure to sargon is the time he refused to watch a video on why he was misreading a study because it wasn't 5 minutes long and various other examples of him failing to read articles. it's possible he is a secret good guy and i have merely been poisoned by the left, but i would be very very surprised if that was actually the case.

i do remember him making a "why the tories are ruining your country" video though which was v funny because it pissed off his tory audience.

e: holy shit when you realize that sargon of akkad is now ontopic for UK politics aahahahaha current year

A few of the ukip people I still talk to think he's alright.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

my only exposure to sargon is the time he refused to watch a video on why he was misreading a study because it wasn't 5 minutes long and various other examples of him failing to read articles. it's possible he is a secret good guy and i have merely been poisoned by the left, but i would be very very surprised if that was actually the case.

i do remember him making a "why the tories are ruining your country" video though which was v funny because it pissed off his tory audience.

e: holy shit when you realize that sargon of akkad is now ontopic for UK politics aahahahaha current year

A few of the ukip people I still talk to think he's alright.

Is that any kind of recommendation?

[Liriena]

He was right to identify a hate movement on campus.

He was so right that he couldn't even be bothered to specify which courses in which universities, and when pressed on it, he name-dropped a handful of courses without even looking at what they were actually teaching.

You sure this "classical liberal" UKIPer dipshit is the hill your syndicalist self wants to die on?