/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Police ‘forced to disclose ethnicity of suspects to counter far-right speculation’
Guidance to combat misinformation puts pressure on police to release details, says former senior Met officer

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/02/police-disclose-ethnicity-suspects-far-right-speculation

https://m.slashdot.org/story/448618
>'Grand Theft Auto' Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firing Dozens

Union statement on bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/gameworkers.co.uk/post/3m4jbekuhrc2m

Asking here because it's where I first learned about the podcast.
I've been listening to the free episodes of Trash Future for over a year now. I find it enjoyable background noise but not often laugh out loud funny, and some references go over my head (with 800+ unlistened episodes I suppose that is to be expected).
They release a Patreon episode weekly, including from a series called Britainology which I always read good things about but haven't actually listened.
Are the Patreon/Britainology episodes a big step up in quality from the free episodes? Or if I'm lukewarm on the free ones would the paid episodes not appeal?

>Your Party is suing itself, more at 11
Isn't there conference this month? Hopefully will make their policies clear so that they can be taken somewhat seriously again

Depressing how the yank thread fills up daily and we go days without a thread

>>2547161
The Brit thread has definitely become more inactive over the last year or two, with some of the more active posters seemingly left for good, but might also be partially due to Britain having such a smaller population than USA

>>2547163
Thank you captain obvious

>>2547164
Then why do you find it depressing? You want the UK to have an even bigger population?

When will you admit that Scots are fundamentally superior at Socialism?

Your Party is such a shitshow that it might actually be plumbing new depths for the British "left". It's one thing to fail at building something from nothing, but Your Party has almost everything on easy mode: It has several MPs, it has an incredibly well known public figurehead, it has people with experience in a real party, it has a motivated activist base who want to believe in it. About the only difficulty it faces is that the Greens occupy a lot of the same policy space - but it's in with the advantage because 2017 era Labour members are going to sympathize more with the 2017 era Labour leader than with some guy they learned about a few months ago.

This really, really shouldn't have been a difficult task and yet they've somehow contrived to fuck it up. You really have to wonder if the entire Corbyn leadership of the Labour party was just a fluke: the Labour right were so incompetent and fucked up so badly that they let a team of slightly-less blithering idiots take over the party and took half a decade to dislodge them despite the fact none of them could organize a pissup in a brewery.

>>2547127
i was watching the news and some cunts got stabbed. the FIRST THING the police were on about in the press conference was their ethnicity/colour, as if to say 'yes, they were not white'.
This is such a bad look, i don't think this country is going anywhere good re 'race' relations. :(

i asked deepseek how much of the UK ecenomy was unproductive, rent seeking, indirect state subsidies to zombi firms.
>A more realistic, albeit polemical, estimate is that 30-50% of the entire UK GDP is now based on state-backed or state-enabled rent-seeking and unproductive activity.
30-50% realistic?

>>2547127
being stupid and being factually incorrect are different things, as discussed in the last thread. politics is not about describing reality, but about class interest.

British "Nick Fuentes" Hugh Anthony, leader of the "National Rebirth Party", has been kicked out of his house by his parents.

>>2547228
not even the BAME want immigrants

>>2547235
daddy never understood

>>2547235
To our dear resident rightoids, please remember to wash your hands.

>entire Corbyn leadership of the Labour party was just a fluke
It was. Objectively it was a fluke.

>>2547235
The full video.

>>2547258
as a former rebellious teen, i have absolutely no patience with the weepy woman grassing up her son

>>2547264
if i went mad and turned into a raving fascist i would only hope my mum grasses me up to Prevent. they wouldn't do anything because not brown and muslim, but in prinsible

>>2547301
well, youre clearly a slave who has no dignity, then.
you never betray your family. thats bonkers.
why not kick him out without the bloody theatrics?

>>2547264
Apparently they are both Thatcherites too which makes it even funnier.

>>2547513
So two rightoids have even more rightoid son makes sense. He should've just sucked up to them to keep the treats flowing

What did they mean by this

>>2547513
no wonder the dad called him a "parasite" 🤣

>>2547226
It was never going to work.
Corbyn is a stubborn Bennite autistmo goat who is surrounded by completely cynical Labour staffers who simply are stuck with the fact they picked the losing horse in the Labour civil war.
Sultana is a fucking delusional turbo wokie who's entire platform is functionally decided by GreenandPleasant and Tiktok, who also delusionally thinks that most Muslims are like her, rather than the fact she's lucky she came from a middle class liberal family compared the 80% of the rest of UK muslim households that would have shipped her off to an arranged marraige with her cousin in the hinterlands of Pakistan for being an "uppity feminist bitch who doesn't know her place".
Then the rest of the party leadership are just cynical Muslim idpollers who are simply riding the left to get into positions of power, so they can backstab the left and institute Sharia law.
A leftist party to really get off the ground needs to be a extremely well oiled and serious political party and show they are willing to make the hard calls, especially on issues the left is seen as pathetically weak on like foreign policy, policing, borders etc.
>"But muh Greens are going up in polling"
Because they are being artifically boosted to drag the left into a fucking bear trap that they will close on come election time to make the left look even more like a joke. Any time you see the media give POSITIVE coverage to anything left wing, you can 99.999% of the time be sure that it's a trap. The left could cure cancer and the media would say Cancer is actually good, so why is Polanski getting such positive coverage from the BBC and Guardian and the New Statesman and even the Telegraph and the like?
Because many of the Greens policies are truly batshit to the electorate and they will be used to smear the entire left as a joke come election time, it also functionally kneecaps Your Party which the establishment see more as a threat, while also splitting the left vote between three parties.
That said, the entire Western left has absolute complete and total actual fucking shit for brains when it comes to political tactics and messaging or noticing obvious fucking traps so i'm just going to shaudenfreude enjoy the inevitable outcome of the elections when Reform absolutely thrash everyone and the left learns no fucking lessons and doubles down on even more idiocy.
The only hope the left has is that Farage and Reform actually genuinely lose the plot and catastrophically trip on their own dicks before the next election.