like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

we don't get an ilx ban for fantasising about killing these cunts with a hammer, right?

I think you can get away with it now, without getting accused of being Thomas Mair!

officially worse than the Tories

to say that they might not actually be a vehicle for social change would be a fucking mike gapingly huge understatement at this point.

i wd rather eat a plateful of my own rich essence than enable these wankers

I know there is still some good people left in the membership, but I would be very judgemental against anyone who could still campaign for these cunts in good conscience.

Most of the ppl in the membership that I know of that are on the left aren't campaigning.

Looks like the University staff strike is not going great, many unhappy with UCU's handling of it.

so I gather we’re going to get a pension restoration that was probably already on the cards, some vague unenforceable promises on zero hours, and the pay offer that was recently rejected, and told well done on the grand victory

— migra falko (@migrafalko) February 18, 2023

UCU always felt like a feeb union when i was in it

UCU seem a very online 'militant' union.

i was in the grudgingly accepted non-teaching sector

Debate is healthy. Challenge is healthy. Criticism is healthy.

This is not healthy and it’s not right. And I know the vast majority of our members won’t accept it.

Our members deserve better than this vile rubbish. pic.twitter.com/6E8imPRhlC

— Jo Grady (@DrJoGrady) February 18, 2023

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ9SLXNI9pfP7L5zs67rjnWuT_ho1oVfYsJpQ&usqp=CAU

Labour’s YvetteCooper is pledging to introduce a beefed up version of Asbos - ‘Respect Orders’ - to tackle antisocial behaviour.

They can't wait to invade another country.

The really testing time of any Starmer govt will come if they have to cut spending (or not increase it all), while fighting alongside the US/ Nato somewhere. Then the tide of abuse - especially to women and Jewish MPs - will get very fierce indeed. Could get frightening. pic.twitter.com/tCW7efxM7m

— Glen O'Hara (@gsoh31) February 19, 2023

they're really hammering this line eh

“The vile misogynists and antisemites will come out of the woodwork when the department of value for money regretfully murders more people with austerity, could get frightening” lol this is so transparently ghoulish it’s approaching funny at this point

it's not very convincing and kind of absurd on its face but they can get enough people to believe it through brute force repetition. I know a few people who are by temperament much further left than they let on but have been convinced their own preferred polices are somehow antisemitic, I don't think they could explain why but they're good patriotic old labourites who trust what the BBC says, its a public service you know

the british war machine is inherently jewish and feminist now which seems as offensive as any conspiracist corbynite online rant to me but what do I know

it sort of feels like they're trying to provoke the more boneheaded elements of the left into being (even) more misogynist and antisemitic while provoking the left in general into anger so it can all be conflated, because they seem to really that outcome in spite of their words

I am just so sick of millions of decent people being othered like this.

Yes. It has been a massive anti-racist campaign aimed at increasing racism, and fear, anger, division and confusion about racism.

It’s Kate Forbes’ to lose https://t.co/mqshXFzZvX

— Rory Scothorne (@shirkerism) February 20, 2023

let's fucking hope not

I think more christian fundamentalism is not what Scotland needs right now

My wife's friend has the same name, so that's going to be a drag for her.

Actually no, she remarried.

Ok, as you was.

serves me right for not paying attention to the news or apparently this thread closely enough but was shocked to get a letter informing me that I would need photo ID to vote in the forthcoming local elections. I had vaguely assumed this was some duplicitous tory scheme that they had floated the idea for but hadn't actually gone through parliament yet. as my mum said they're determined to get election turnout below 30% come the next general election.

the local council will give you a voter registration card. requirements are almost stupidly low, considering, like digital photo and a NI number.

and postal voting, which is the thing they've flagged up in the past as being fraudulent, doesn't need id

but yes, lower than vermin.

https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need

https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

still too much hassle just so i can turn up and write "Kieth is a cunt" on my ballot paper

(expired passports are ok as long as the resemblance is still there. which would be my route but there are no local elections around my way this time)

thx koogs . I do actually have a passport which i need not because I've been abroad in the last twenty years(I haven't) but so I could get and renew my airport id for working at Gatwick. just seems like this requirement is so transparently targeting the poor when noone in good faith really believes there is a big problem with voter fraud in UK elections

I don't have fuck all photo ID either, only ever drove the roads on a push iron and never had a passport in my life. But my problem is that I suspect with a lot more than just a nagging hunch, that Labour will be targeting the poor and disabled people with just as much cold contempt as we have become accustomed to in the last 13 years - or with some reasonable suspicion, maybe even a bit more!

Campaign update pic.twitter.com/qgHqeajiM0

— Euan Yours (@EuanYours) February 20, 2023

Just amazing.

It is deeply funny that Forbes’ supporters spent days performing an elaborate dalliance around her highly conservative political views only for her to loudly proclaim them on day one. https://t.co/qqqHEOnXDM

— Ewan Gibbs (@ewangibbs) February 20, 2023

"she's the one the Tories fear the most" - The Spectator

lol, yeah one hell of a smart right-wing politician!

What did anyone expect? She's a Wee Free!

she is a great example as to why after independence the very first thing many scots would seek is to get rid of the SNP.

all she had to do was pretend not to be such a horrible fucking bigot for a while. Day 1: job's fucked!

They're not known for keeping their beliefs hidden, yer Wee Frees.

What’s the difference between those and Plymouth Brethren/Exclusive Brethren?

I agree with Oscar Bravo. The voting ID feels like a bad scheme that we're constantly threatened with - yet apparently it's now a reality?

Calzino and others entirely correct that the scheme is bad and serves corrupt people.

"Marriage is between a man and a woman - that is what I PRACTISE"

is a pretty surreal line.

What’s the difference between those and Plymouth Brethren/Exclusive Brethren?

Calvinism?

.. also Scottish so factor in fractiousness, factionalism and fanaticism.

At least the Plymouth Brethren were a plot point in Oscar and Lucinda!

Two successive editors of Edgy Style Mag were escapees from Exclusive/Plymouth Brethren families, both with quietly loaded parents.

is there a good book about the history of the the Scottish Reformation?
it's roughly 100+ years from Luther to the prayer book rebellion in Edinburgh that precipitated the English Civil War, feels like a v quick turnaround historically to rabid Protestantism

There is no group specifically known as the Wee Wee Frees. Groups coming out of the Free Church include the Free Presbyterian Church in 1893 from which the Associated Presbyterian Churches split in 1989. The Free Church (Continuing) sometimes is labelled with the derogatory Wee Wee Free or even Wee Wee Wee Free term.

The junior doctors ballot speaks to an NHS gutted by successive governments, but in industrial terms it's an incredible feat of solid unionisation. 98% say yes to strike on a 77% turnout. Outstanding. Collective action is no longer the exception; victory for workers is inevitable

— kate flood (@KateFlood) February 20, 2023

We've just been re-balloted, somehow I can't see us managing a 77% turnout though.

Families are now forced to not say goodbye properly because of costs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-64376094

That's beyond the cost of living though. It's the funeral industry.