UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers
<Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal
>Judges have humiliated ministers by insisting Palestine Action should not be banned under anti-terrorism laws in a ruling that has left thousands of its alleged supporters in legal limbo
>The high court said on Friday the government’s proscription of the direct action group was “disproportionate and unlawful” and that most of their activities had not reached the level, scale and persistence to be defined as terrorism
prelude (t. "lebor gabála érenn", 1100 CE): noah is the father of japheth. japheth is the father of europeans. magog is the father of the scythians and gaels. fenius farsaid is a scythian king and father of nel, who marries scota, daughter of the phaoroah cingris, and mother of goídel glas, who creates the gaelic language and whose progeny are the gaels. they leave egypt the same time as the israelites, wandering for 440 years until they go to iberia, where they have further course to ireland. by this time, there have been inhabitants in ireland, including the people of cessair (daughter of bith, son of noah), who arrive 40 days before the deluge (with only 3 men and 50 women remaining, with the women shared evenly among the men. when the flood comes, they all die. 300 years later, partholón and his people (5,000 men and 4,000 women) arrive in ireland but die of plague in a week. 30 years later, nemed and his people arrive, but only 1 ship makes it out of 44. they settle and fight off fomorians (giants in irish folklore). some descendents go to greece, but return after 230 years (being the "fir bolg"), establishing provinces ruled by chieftans, creating a system of kings that rules for the next 37 years. after this the tuatha dé danann arrive in a dark cloud (this race is analogous to the pagan irish gods). they come and fight against the fir bolg victoriously. the tuatha dé danann enjoy over 150 years of unbroken rule. now, after this, the gaels (who are called "milesians" at this point) travel to ireland, first with íth leading them, who is killed, and so the rest of the gaels come to avenge him. after much conflict, there is a truce, and the gaels now reside in the upper world, while the tuatha dé danann reside in the lower world (or "otherworld ") and travel into the sídhe mountains.
cessair arrives in ireland (2680 BCE)
partholón arrives in ireland (2380 BCE)
nemed arrives in ireland (2350 BCE)
fir bolg arrive in ireland (2020 BCE)
the tuatha dé danann arrive in ireland (1900-1700 BCE)
the milesians (gaels) come to ireland (1700 BCE)
albina arrives in britain to establish albion (1400 BCE)
giants emerge (1396-1136 BCE)
giants create stone henge (1380-1136 BCE)
brutus arrives in albion (1136 BCE)
brutus establishes "new troy", or london, and dies (1112 BCE)
brutus' sons establish the kingdoms of britain (1100 BCE)
civil war of the five kings (~ 500 BCE)
molmutius establishes molutine/common law (~ 430 BCE)
julius caesar invades britain (55 BCE)
cú chulainn lives and dies (0-33 BCE)
joseph of arimathea arrives in england with the grail (63 CE)
uther pendragon fathers king arthur (~ 480 CE)
battle of badon (516 CE)
jack the giant killer (~ 517-536 CE)
death of king arthur (537 CE)
death of merlin ambrosius (~ 580 CE)
lady godiva rides through coventry (~ 1040 CE)
the green children of woolpit are recorded (~ 1140 CE)
robin hood has his adventures (~ 1200 CE)
>>2690887this is what king lear actually believes
Everyone involved in purging Corbyn from labour is either a pedophile or directly connected and associated with pedophiles
about time, too!
>"Palestine is over"
It's just getting started!
Once again Admin banned from Plebbit for daring to point out that Zionist and Jewish biases have led the biggest attacks on British speech and protest rights since the War on Terror days and listing out like 10 different times groups like the BoD and british politicians seriously eroded our standards based on Jewish/Israel feels.
You have to honestly love how subs like UKpolitics and UnitedKingdom can just be like 80% Muslim bashing, subs like rPolitics are nothing but Evangelical bashing, but if you dare point out Jewish/Zionist agenda pushing, it's a reply section filled with seething thin skinned Jews who can't actually debunk or debate any of your points so they just cry Antisemitism then run to the admins for a criticism that is simply no more harsh than saying that Evangelicals push an agenda that attacks womens rights to get it censored and you banned.
Honestly, what pisses me off is not even that Jews are pathetically thin skinned and narcissistic (shock horror, another example of how virtuous victimhood just manifests as BPD tier vindicitiveness and entitlement eventually) and will literally just instantly run to censor anybody that goes against their fee fees, it's that retarded shabbos goy literally play along and mollycoddle Jews and their feels even when it's a blatant double standard.
I can't believe, honestly IRL, I've debated actual Islamic extremists, who have had more of hide against criticisms of Islam and Muhammad, than literally your average Jewish Zionist and their shabbos goy handmaidens.
>>2691168Also just to put this in context, it was in the thread about the fucking proscription being overturned on Palestine action, literally a case where Jewish/Israeli feels basically state/BoD mandated wrong think into literally life ruining terrorism charges.
>>2691171They’re being used right now exactly how medieval kings in pre Reformation days used them, and they’re falling for it, they can’t see the long game.
>>2691185>I'd been watching a genocide unfold on my phoneThe miracle of technology Zoe
>>2691185That she makes her explanation contingent upon the failure of international law is a smear to her own cause as support for the genocide is positively conducted on the basis of juridical means, its rationale being merely that extension of the state's operation invested in its own decisions by its legislative and executive bodies.
This counterposition, to the exclusion of legitimate dissent, bears the weight of its own democratic opposition in the arrival of those forces which by lawful means impose a restriction on support for such causes as Palestine, in which her actions reduce the issue to the contention of the matter of criminality, by which the individual contends with the state itself i.e. in its privileged legal existence.
The view that she would agree to if she saw it is that it is not the law that has failed, against which she opposes herself in both the general and hence abstract, but to the concrete principal as to which all are aware: British foreign policy being the expression of its elite in which they are charged with the protection, and by extension of, the nation's security and therefore the interests of its business class.
What is framed as the failure of democratic representation is in fact its own lack, such that within the context her actions only take place within that determinate social reality in which they occur: that she is a worker. In its converse then the argument appears merely as that fetishism which prevails in capitalist society whereby civil dissent is reduced to the dimension of the courts, providing those grounds on which the antagonists of the day believing that if they fight on it they may win.
In fact they have been duped by their own reason; the courts and by extension Parliament serve only to rubber stamp the conduct of the British state in its execution of a genocide which otherwise is the product of its central motif, war in the pursuit of profit. That this level of violence is isolated to those few radicals serves only in its counter-reaction of providing to the security state further evidence of the necessity of its existence and a deeper support on which it may draw.
So long as Palestine is seen in isolation it will remain a detriment to the cause of its own supporters, barring even those idiots who view British foreign policy in its wider yet discretionary lens: that in wearing so many badges of so many causes the British people may be sufficently united in their opposition to war itself, holding war as merely that fact by which the will of the electorate is subverted, in which the entire issue on which their opposition stands may be backhanded by the legacies of their failures.
>>2691362If they ever make one of those annoying musical biopics of the Beatles I want it to focus entirely on Paul screaming at everyone during White Album and not letting Ringo on drums.
>>2691364I got alot of funny Beatles Ringo anecdotes stored up in my mind.
Paul I believe in an intereview:
<Do you think Ringo is the best drummer in the worldPaul:
>He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles!In the White Album tapes:
Ringo was fucking some drum sequence and then Paul tells him get off the drumkit and just let me do it.
Quincy Jones when he was executive producing a Ringo solo album in the 70s or 80s or whatever:
>Ringo kept fucking up the drums on this track so I told him "hey why don't you go take a break, then we'll come back to this." Then when he was gone I brought in a studio drummer and recorded the drum track. Then Ringo came in later and we were listening to it back and Ringo said "Whoah, this is good, is that me?" he thought or said "no dummy of course it's not!"On a side note, Quincy Jones
>Quincy Jones studied composition and orchestration with renowned instructor Nadia Boulanger in Paris during the late 1950s. Under her tutelage, he refined his skills in classical technique, theory, and string arrangement. He also studied with composer Olivier Messiaen during his time in France.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Boulanger>From a musical family, she entered the Conservatoire de Paris at an early age but, believing that she had no particular talent as a composer, she gave up writing music and became a teacher. In that capacity, she influenced generations of young composers, especially those from the United States and other English-speaking countries. Among her students were many important composers, soloists, arrangers, and conductors, including Grażyna Bacewicz, Daniel Barenboim, Lennox Berkeley, İdil Biret, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, David Diamond, John Eliot Gardiner, Philip Glass, Roy Harris, Quincy Jones, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Astor Piazzolla, Julia Perry, George Walker, and over 250 others. I am more bong than any in the bonglands. I love my bongoids. We been observing you bong habits so in detail you don't even know.
What a crime, why do you bongs even exist? Justify it?
When am I gonna make a livin', livin'?
Ooh, it's gonna take a while before I give in
See the people fussin' and stealin'
Too many lies, no one is achievin'
Haven't I told you before?
We're hungry for a life we can't afford
There's no end (No end) to what you can do (Ooh, ooh)
If you give yourself a chance to prove
>>2691173Yeah the hilarious thing is my comment was very upvoted by people and the seething Jews were downvoted, then BANNED. Rule 1.
They don't realize that they've completely lost the narrative among normal people who are now ready to believe their own eyes over Gaslighting crybullying. They're completely high on their own hubris and shit like buying out Tiktok, obviously having Zionists control Reddit admin positions and most major political subs and mass censorship over the media and social media is just making things worse for them in the long run.
Still to the worst cyclical on leftypol.
Congratzz, u guys consistently manage to be worse than fucking burger/pol
That's an achievement
>>2690883Nobody cares
>>2690887Nobody cares
>>2690900Nobody cares
>>2691168Nobody cares
>>2691377Nobody cares
>>2691564I don't know how it's possible that someone could make a worse campaign ad than Blair's Things Can Only Get Better nuLabour bullshit, but it was finally surpassed.
>>2691566Why do these Boomers think they're perpetually living in the 60s? Universal Credit has already killed 100k+ disabled and they still hallucinate that Britain is "too generous" with welfare?
>>2691521I cared about all of those posts, thoughbeit
>>2691537the guy in the epstein files is backing the tory?
>>2691537Isn't Farrage his best friend anymore
>>2691362the beatles are a world-historical force, and were just 4 lads from liverpool, who broke up before they were 30. so good that conspiracy theorists say that they couldnt possibly have written their own stuff.
>>2691367here's a good ringo session (vidrel) at 3:00 onwards
i would say that ringo is probably the most charismatic beatle as well.
>>2691377harrison was a legend.
while my guitar gently weeps, something, here comes the sun, i me mine, its all too much, etc.
>>2691566Anyone got a knife licence i can borrow?
>>2691595<but at least you can get a PS5!xbox only soz.
>>2691564>things were great in 1997you mean after thatcher and major privatised our national resources? tory twat.
>>2691185>muhhhh rules based order rooted in international law was violated Fucking hate these cretins
>>2691569Understandable, have a nice day.
>>2691587>2025>Tory vs Lab brainedAre you retarded
?
>>2691602>lab vs toryno, cos the labs are tories as well
The older I get the more I understand Tarkovsky's obsession with horses
>>2691615>bro you should freeze some sperm, y'know for next time Couldn't he just stick a pair of pants on that were a tad on the snug side and achieve the same thing?
>>2691615Steroids and PB are two different thing but neither makes one infertile. Clav isnt infertile either (though he probably have ED) he's farming content. At most it can cause temporary cessation of gametes production during the time of the treatment which is far from what people meant by infertile. And even in those cases viable gametes are possible to harvest, that is why "infertile male" with no physically damaged genitals dont exist in the strict sense.
Birth control pills for women and STDs lead to more serious long lasting damages to one's fertility than any puberty blockers or steroids.
Puberty blockers when administrated at the right time can also make you taller than you normally would have been as it prevent growth plates from calcifying. Just a tip if anyone wants to looksmax their son so he dont end up a sub8 manlet. Or if they want to turn their daughter into a terrastacy.
>>2691618>>2691619so what youre saying is that puberty is actually unhealthy and that we should delay our natural development?
>>2691622No i did not say this, but there are things we can improve with modern biotech in the realm of aesthetic which is massively important if you dont want your children to be part of the ugly non augmented underclass of the future.
That being said natural developpement doesnt mean much in a post-microplastic birth control infused water world where girls get their first period at 10 year old.
>>2691631so… current thing good, yes?
how original.
>>2691633you are insufferable.
>>2691634why? because i am parsing out the essence of my opponents' positions?
i wish rose flag was here to flay these boring motherfuckers alive with an almost-smirkworthy long rambling half-rant half-joke that hinges on the reader being familiar with (a) the order in which candidates were eliminated from the 1976 labour leadership contest and (b) a short lived gimmick on 2017 era leftypol that it's quite possible was just them samefagging
my mum remarried a raging autist.
As long as you can hold a job down maybe it'll be all-right for some of you.
>>2691168posting on reddit is bad praxis
>>2691681Paul McCartney is a nobhead and I can't wait until he is dead. There were loads of bands around at the time that had a similar sound
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/keir-starmer-calls-for-western-alliance-to-be-remade/ar-AA1WkQQfKeir Starmer calls for western alliance to be remade
>Sir Keir Starmer will warn Europe must move away from over-dependence on the US for its security and accept greater “burden sharing” as he signalled the western alliance must be “remade”. Worthless commenting on aside from the concluding lines. That Bedonch continues to seek to outflank Reform is no surprise, but the contention by Labour that they may secure back voters by positioning themselves on a harder line than that of the Greens is doomed to failure; despite Polanski's wider electoral irrelevance he will inevitably be drawn into admitting before his members of the deeper need for European security cooperation vis-a-vis the desire of his party to re-enter the customs union.
The division they hope to exploit is a surface one designed to unite their remaining voter share behind a broader commitment to Britain's continued NATO membership, the problem itself being a non-starter. In fact it is just more evidence that the party is being torn apart, offering no meaningful basis on which it may prevent this from occuring except by its clinging - much as the Conservatives - to its occupation and management with state affairs for some semblance of stability.
The article itself mentions a £28bn gap in defence expenditure which Labour backbenchers will continue to revolt over should further welfare cuts be the focus of this.
Persuade me that there's still hope left for this world, if you can.
I get the feeling the fight is lost, at least for my lifetime, so I might as well just neetmax leech off society and play video games / watch anime until I die in my 40s/50s.
>>2691902cats make better politicians than humans
>>2692015Remember back in 2015/16 when people wanting to leave the EU were ridiculed for voicing concern that there would be creation of an EU army?
>>2692424at least this guy didn't get payed to talk about sus among us in 2021 o algo
"Muslims built Britain."
- Sir Keir Starmer, 2026
I love big black cocks
-Sir Keir Starmer, 2026
>>2692526>>2692527I'd rather sleep than vote for some bourgeoisie cuck larp as working class and socialist
Will ReHitlerise Britain be able to steal enough votes from Retard UK to stop them winning the next election? Or will they be a total irrelevance?
What's your prediction?
>>2692581
What does this mean translated from schizobabble
after they bash the pakis, they will bash the transhumanists, the gays, the women and the workers. its all part of a longer plan to "restore" the nation to what it used to be.
Absolutely baffled by a minor media spat in which Zia Yusuf has been forced to rebut Polanski over twitter regarding his own statements
God knows what his media team are playing at
>>2693087Actually in retrospect it's hilarious watching Yusuf defend this on the basis of wealth generation as his own fucking councils have raised taxes as much as 10%
>>2691362>>2691591the beatles were tory scum who made shitty cia psyop music
AMA about Your Party
You know, you should all be strangulated to death in a dark alley right? Like there is nothing worth to any of your silly objections.
>>2693099how were the beatles tories?
>CIA musiclike how the CIA made the internet? start thanking them for their contributions to the 20th century.
>>2693275They attacked Mao in their bourgeois music.
>>2693316but they were right:
<But if you go carryin' pictures of Chairman Mao, You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhowhttps://genius.com/The-beatles-revolution-lyricsits a rizzless strategy
>>2693173Why don't you join a real socialist party
Actual Existing Peasant socialism was established in 410 AD. Then it was destroyed by the Anglo-Saxons and the highland Briton elite.
>>2693528>Restore Britain will protect women, and Restore Britain will protect childrenThis is fucking hilarious
Pancake day tomorrow, or should I say Pannekoek day?
Britain simply NEEDs Council Communism…
>>2693554If anything Britain should abolish councils, and all forms of local governance
>>2693528as i showed last thread, trans people are an exceptionally peaceful minority, comprising 0.5% of the total population at most (1 in 500 people), with massive under-representation in prison populations. the demonisation of this group shows how innocence is punished by fascists, in their inversion and misdirection of justice. even so-called "allies" are ontologically intolerant of their proposed existence, seeing them as a symptom of gender's internal contradiction, which they seek to "cure" by the feminist slogan of "abolition". everywhere, this peaceful group is victimised by ruthless medicalisation that sees them as a stain on the public. and as you say, they hold political exception also, where anyone can bully them without consequence.
>>2693542if the right cared about children, they would make more of a fuss about the epstein files - but suddenly the patriots fall silent on that issue, or even become apologetic. hypocrites, liars and fiends. every accusation is a confession.
>>2693555its impossible to abolish local delegation if you are working at scale.
>>2693559No it’s not, the central government says something and you fucking do it or die
>>2693555As Lenin once said: "All Power to the Soviets!"
A shame he later revised and pulled back from his own stance.
>>2693562>the central government says something and you fucking do it or dieSounds like the basis for a stable prosperous society
>>2693557Yeah nothing says “peaceful” like having a grown man in a dress loudly masturbating to your five year old daughter peeing, splooging on your wife’s face, and then being threatened by the police when you try to report it
>>2693566I don’t want a stable or prosperous society
>>2693606This is just your disgusting paedophilic sexual fantasy.
>>2693608So my wife and child’s lived experiences as well as the lived experiences of countless others who have survived sexual assault don’t matter to you if the perpetrator wears a dress?
>>2693606>>2693612things that never happened
>>2693620It happened in their head, and that's what matters
>>2693620What’s your answer to the Staniland Question?
Pro-ana TERF China flag poster is back from their ban it would seem
>>2693630>>2693612>>2693606Stop posting your sick paedophilic fantasies in order to justify hate and discrimination for a minority you've never met
>>2693636Nah this is a different person. They are like some boring boomerfash rightoid.
Barely worthy of note, but Hannah Spencer has made a video countering the characterisation of male asylum seekers as rapists by indulging in the same language used by the nationalists through her counterposing of the issue with quotations of crime statistics as a means to frame the matter as somehow 'endogenous' - not realising the duplicity of her own statements serve in both rationalising and thereby strengthening Far Right rhetoric.
In particular she uses the phrase "born here", reproducing at the level of thought that same moronic discourse used by ethnonationalists, in such a blithe manner it almost defies belief. The appeal is nothing more than an attempt to slouch her - and by extension the Green's - craven political agenda in order to manipulate that basic share of voters which remain within the council towards their own majority.
The idea that there is any differentiation between either Reform or the Greens is little more than a pretence. It is absurd that Sultana has endorsed this idiot out of a misplaced sense of pragmatism as the reality is entirely the opposite.
>>2693897As an extension to this, that mindless countering of the basic contention that problems of rape may be disputed on the basis of race - in which the retort is made by opponents to nationalists that 'white' rape gangs are more prevelant, in an attempt to unmask a moral hysteria - appears as little more than the well educated racism of a bigot who need merely appeal to their own slovenly bourgeois universalist convictions apropos the persecution of individuals on the basis of their skin colour, finding in its substitute the self-congratulatory delusions of one who comes forth to represent wider society as a whole.
>>2693901This special brand of dunce belongs to that colony within history which in the present state of its deteriorated share of social wealth attributes it accordingly to the degeneration of civic order through the most sophistic presentation of 'class' divisions and redistribution which previously characterised that particular order within British society of which they are its natives. These peons of capital, who strut forth as paragons of integrity, can be found in the likes of Jones whose political sympathies designate in their self-satisfaction those who they term as allies as the front and centre of the British 'left'.
That British proles must endure these pagliacci with no recourse to any effective, real, well publicised alternative is part of that horror in which one is asked simply to adhere to the justification that one's chains in life are in fact a responsibility of the most highest moral sense and that to be British is to be European and so on.
>>2693905Such is the state of affairs in these idiot's descent from heaven to earth that that which they prognose in their British social Eden is merely little more than itself a symptom in which in their general as well as pervasive ideological and financial corruption, endemic to their existence as a social class, forms in its inability to find in its own expression its real condition.
Thus it is every one of these parasites crawls further inwards into the compacted bowels of British society through their various endorsements offered to whichever movement they believe they can feed off of.
>>2693954God knows, serial predation of individuals in communities with low social cohesion due to generational poverty along with a pathologized sexual fetishism which is never redressed due to pervasive racist and patriarchal attitudes which not only flourish but find sponsorship in modern Britain.
That the nationalists take aim at ethnic minorities by weaponising the issue of rape is incredibly telling as it speaks to their own systematically repressed views on the matter of sex, one other crooked end of this particular stick being visible in comments by people such as Lowe
>>2693528 regarding what is crudely reduced to that of 'transgender'.
The ideological bankruptcy of these individuals is entirely visible as women and children are reduced through the most mechanically propagandistic fashion to empty signifiers in political discourse in which they are designated as nothing more than that rank of 'social property' within British capitalist society, conferring to them the status of non-persons except through the specific contradiction which finds expression in the production of the legal juridical individual.
What emerges in the mind of their most virulently racist supporters who, finding profit in the mass victimhood of an underclass collectively failed due to the defecits of bourgeois rule, and subsequently thriving like maggots on this detritus, is the exposure of nothing other than their own culturally regressive existence by which their very world is held upright on its converse underworld of violence and domination through state rule.
The pinacle of this is that that defence oft mounted in the name of 'womanhood' occurs on the grounds of a structural sexism its adherents fail to escape due to their own socialisation into the most parochial of views which benefit only their would-be aggressors, never challenging the basis for this except in the most extreme of positions which serve only to legitimate the rule of capital.
>>2693974 (You)
>The ideological bankruptcy of these individuals is entirely visible as women and children are reduced through the most mechanically propagandistic fashion to empty signifiers in political discourse in which they are designated as nothing more than that rank of 'social property' within British capitalist society, conferring to them the status of non-persons except through the specific contradiction which finds expression in the production of the legal juridical individual. It should be remarked that this is in the context of Lowe's comments within that twitter post.
There is so much more to be said about the basic mentality of those who cannot challenge the dominant discourse within British society re transgender individuals due to their own latent inability to frame or let alone perceive their own personhood as anything other than that which is outside the realm of accpetability.
That which surfaces in questions of rape does so as likewise in that of gender, the two being concomitant except in those divisions within the British consciousness by which society itself is ordered, namely on the grounds of profit.
It is hard to tell which is more revolting: the scapegoating of sexual violence through its displacement onto a minority, or the exploitation of its victims for their monetary value.
>>2693954
You know the answer. Because White girls are the ones you can pickup off the street with:
>Hey I got cocaine and booze at my place, wanna party with us?
Anyways, I'm not going to victim blame. It's fucked up stuff, but it's only because your society is so fucked up that a girl becomes victim to a grooming gang and that's the part none of you want to touch.
>Why are so many White girls "groomable?"
Are you going to show me one of these victims who came from a good household?
>>2693954
White supremacy makes it such that everyone vaules whites even as sex slaves
epstein island had a "no uyghurs' rule, remember
>>2693994>White supremacyThis is such a derelict term useful only in the substitution of thought of reasoned criticism on the basis of historical class analysis for that of a racialist metaphyics, profitable only to those bourgeois scholars who must justify their positions within academia and with it the ruling class by the minting in their own depraved pedagogy those ideas which find adequate usage in distorting any true understanding of capitalist society.
The term itself expresses the sustained contradiction in meaning whereby relations of power are devolved to that cause of nothing other than skin colour, sufficently shaded as to render appropriate to the intellect the idea that race as a social category begins at the level of individual - thus reinforcing the bourgeois world view.
>>2693994Lol, you guys never will touch the question of any other similarities the victims shared.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n72mj113o<Zara>Saynor used his limousine business to lure child victims in Rotherham - his trial heard how we would pick up young girls at schools and children's homes and offer them "promotional work".>"[It] started off as that - just promoting, getting picked up in groups and driving around, drinking, dancing," she told Newsnight.>Zara was just 12 when she was first groomed by Saynor, a white British man who would give his victims alcohol, drugs and money before attacking them.>"The more you did, the more money he'd offer you… it became normal to do that," she said.>Zara said she and a friend were "getting picked up from school, getting picked outside our local youth club" but no adults raised concerns.
<Fiona>Fiona Goddard was abused by a predominantly British Asian grooming gang in Bradford from the age of 14, shortly after being taken into care.>It began after one of her abusers took Fiona and her friend, also 14, to a petrol station to buy them vodka.>Fiona's groomers plied her with drugs and gifts. A court heard that she was "in effect used as a prostitute" by another of her abusers.
<Chantelle>Chantelle was groomed and raped by a gang of British Asian men in Manchester between 2003 and 2007, beginning when she was 11 years old.>She was in the care system at the time as her mother was in and out of prison.>"There was males approaching the children's home, giving us alcohol and drugs and putting us in cars," she said.>Chantelle's ordeal began after she met a man in his early twenties who, at the time, she considered to be her boyfriend.
<Jade>Jade said she was abused by hundreds of men, primarily from a British Asian background, in the Buckinghamshire area from the age of 14 onwards.>It began after she left her mother's home to live with her father, a drug addict who introduced her to dealers.>During a chaotic upbringing, Jade believed those dealers could protect her - but from that point on, she says she was repeatedly attacked by adult men at parties while intoxicated.>In 2008, she was placed into care and a year later was made subject to a special safeguarding order for children who repeatedly go missing.>But Jade was arrested and convicted of causing or inciting another girl to engage in sexual activity after being found by police at a party with another child.>She said she was "accused of taking girls out to get sexually assaulted" but "didn't have a clue what was happening".This shit happens all over America as well, but almost exclusively in the hood. They call a pimp who specifically is looking for young naive girls from bad homes or runaways or whatever are susceptible to this type of shit a "chickenhawk." That's why it doesn't happen to White girls as much here as compared to other races, but in Britain, you have a large supply of White women who fall into this category.
>>2694003begins at the level of the natural individual*
>>2694003social relations are materially real, the point is precisely that they're social, not "natural" (empty distinction, humans are part of nature)
just like money is a social relation but is also real, but that also doesn't mean money is "natural" or "a good thing", or that the "essence of money" is contained in each banknote, just like how "the essence of race" is not contained in any individual, but racial discrimination manifests through social activity
you are a positivist, read engels
>>2694009Yes mate, seeing through your horseshit makes me a positvist
>>2694010>>2694009Reread what has been written
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/16/britain-needs-to-go-faster-on-defence-spending-keir-starmer
>Sharon Graham, the general secretary of the Unite trade union, called for “definitive leadership” from Starmer on defence contracts. “The government’s dithering on the defence investment plan is leaving thousands of UK defence jobs at risk,” she said.Fancy that, a union in bed with the British state in the protection of imperialist ambitions
>>2694010Doing abstract negation of bourgeois ideology thereby reproducing its logics in the negative makes you a positivist.
>>2694023As opposed to taking those redolent terms of its apologists who by means of criticism cloak their well educated racism behind the sophisticated veneer of that which they claim to oppose.
>Doing abstract negation of bourgeois ideologyThis is completely meaningless. Fuck off and read Marx.
You guys are literally incapable of addressing the points I raised lol. That one anon kind of marginally addressed it before I chimed in.
>WHY IS WHITE BRITISH CULTURE SO FUCKED UP THAT ALL YOUR ADOLESCENT GIRLS ARE SO SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS SHIT?
Normal girls aren't. It's not normal.
Baffling that therm "white supremacy" has shown up in this thread as it implies some transhistorical cohesive racial identity that can only be stabilised through its progenation of the eurocentralist critique, considering that the phrase is used by American scholars to define a historical period within the United States following the abolition of slavery and its culture of lynchings.
>>2694029
Your point being that a cartoon proves you right?
>>2694032I'm sorry that you're illiterate and only the images in my posts are recognizable to you. This is why I like to include cartoons otherwise you wouldn't recognize anything in my posts.
>>2694034Absurd that you'll call someone else illiterate whilst posting your personal stash of 19th century propaganda
Why yes, allow me as an American to explain class society in Britain on the basis of race
Here are three cartoons to prove I am right
>>2694037britain and the rest of europe are just a zoo for american and chinese tourists, your country isn't real, whatever reality it possesses is downstream from the US human centipede excretions
>>2694039Fuck off to the US thread with this garbage
>>2694037Once again, I am trying to explain to you. There were words accompanying the images, but you were only able to recognize the images. Because you are illiterate.
>>2694041>Because you are illiterateAnd you're American
>>2694042That's what I'm trying to say. You are illiterate, so you can only recognize words by their shape, so you can recognize a word like "American" but you cannot recognize the broad majority of words I post.
>>2694043of the words I post*
>>2694044You got me. But I'm just playing around with you in your same stupid dismissive tone because that's all you've replied to anything I've said. You haven't rebutted a single post.
So far you have responded with:
>You posted cartoons!>You're an American!Now:
>You missed the word the!Fair. I award Gryffindor 69 points.
I saw that before you deleted it. My sarcasm is too deep. Lol. Did you reconsider that maybe that is the only cultural output your island has made in this century that is relevant on the world stage?
>>2694052Have you considered fucking off to your containment thread (USA pol)
>>2694053I thought bongs were supposed to be witty?
It's because liberalism actually more closely resembles the accusation that used to be made against communists that they want to turn women into the common sexual property of men
White women are liberalized, while at the same time living in patriarchial rape reichs.
Brown people, having not yet fully liberalized, keep their female properties under tight patriarchial control
>>2694160I think it can be put more simply, that there was reasons for all the common wisdoms that existed under the "patriarchies" that existed under every single disconnected civilization of man that ever existed on Earth. But then when you go "fuck all that nonsense" you get predictable results. Every single race of man independently came to the same truths. I guess that is all the grand "patriarchy" conspiracy all these groups with no contact with each other came to.
Maybe you are right, that equally liberalized men won't take advantage of liberalized women, but they won't take advantage of them to the extent to have a positive replacement rate even.
>>2694162
It's more that every progressive change brought about by capitalism in the vein of "everything solid melting into the air" is accompanied with some disastorous consequence exploited by bourgeois rule.
Kinda like how labor automation, instead of freeing up labor, wastes it by throwing workers into unemployment.
>>2694169Tf is that clean shaven mf doing in the band
>>2693606reportedly, there are only 76 trans women sexual offenders in britain that are in prison, which makes them less than 0.1% (1 in 1000) prisoners, while around 20% of all prisoners are sexual offenders. so then, if we extrapolate, we can say that 99.5% of all sexual offenders are cisgender (with at least 75% being male), while 0.5% are trans (or 1 in 200 sexual offenders), so yes, still a relatively peaceful population.
>>2693629>>instead of upending and abolishing the financial system, we just make money lending illegal?then how would people get mortgages?
>>2693897>In particular she uses the phrase "born here", reproducing at the level of thought that same moronic discourse used by ethnonationalists, in such a blithe manner it almost defies belief.the only thing that can combat ethnonationalism is civic nationalism.
>>2693901>bourgeois universalismas opposed to what?
>>2693974>God knowsAllah knows* ☝️
>>2694009>positivismas opposed to what? negativism?
>>2694025>read marxwhat should he read, specifically?
>>2694026many white britons are lumpen in essence, and they project this in their mass culture (e.g. football hooliganism).
>>2694157>conquestits not that deep. white girls are atomised slags while brown girls have big brothers like:
>>2694160 says
>>2694164patriarchy is a massively misunderstood term on the left and right. its not just when men rule (since what is called "traditional" is really just a modernist trope).
>>2694166capitalism brings no progress with it
>>2693528I said this on the same thread at the time but JK Rowling would have been cancelled, as in real cancel post-Charlottesville style stuff had she defamed any other ethnic or sexual demographic.
Leftists from the conservative ones to the most progressive sentimentalist anarkid are overhal fine with transgenders becoming the designated whipping boy of western civilization because it leave their sacred cows (brown people and homosexuals) off the mark.
Though transgenders arent helped by the fact their own elites are so self-effacing, in part due to them being unironic individualist lolbertarians. I am a well connected & wealthy individual from a well connected rich family that have been so for generations (i have met Elon, Bernard Arnaud, Tony Blair, DSK, Victor Orban and Peter Thiel privately several times as an adolescent to give you an idea); so i know there are plenty of influencial transgenders both public and stealth with billions in cash and influence that could shut down lots of that stuff using defamation lawsuits against the biomasses, institutions/medias pushing transphobia, but they do not want to get their hands dirty out of missplaced sociopolitical beliefs or our of fear from being outed which i think is cowardice in 2026.
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On another note. Transgender people are lucky that they have the American Democratic party and strong politicians like Mark Carney to stand with them even on upopular issues, they would be in an actually precarious position otherwise.
Not to hand it to the lolbertaryan trans billionaires from my previous post, but think institutional transphobia (not cultural) will sort itself out organically as it is pushed by incompetent trolls, mentally ill antisocials and scammers. It wont have much retention in an IVF Gene Eding Looksmaxx Once You Reach 12 Or Its Over world.
>>2694253That's because you can be black and gay at the same time, it's not a real demographic
>>2694253Next time you meet elon musk pls tell him to visit leftypol dot org
Also to tweak the algorith so that the leftypol account shows up in everyones feeds on xitter
>>2674242And TERFs just generalise the trans community as perverted just by painting them like the exceedingly few who actually are perverted. TERFs are literally gatekeeping.
>>2694242When I picture Angloids, I think of obese, balding, overtly nationalistic middle-aged men who just chug beer and watch some shitty soccer match vai kaut kas tamlidzigs
>football hooliganism It's not just Angloids, but many other European countries as well.
>>2694302>"They left the door open"Then why did you not close it?
>>2694309>Then why did you not close it?The Ukrainian nanny's job, so soz.
>>2694302owen jones status: twink death
>>2694321Your Party anti-racist split incoming
>>2694311Too late, she's already on the front line lawl
>>2694325>Too late, she's already on the front line lawlYes. Why do you think the cafe door is open?
>>2694329It's probably a fucking automatic door
>>2693554Goedendag, Anon!
>>2694026There are teenage lumpen Angloid girls acting like dumb blonds who wear skimpy clothes and heavy makeup, dating equally dumb boys with broccoli hair and expensive jackets, living on TikTok and gossiping - never even reading a single book
>>2694338As they should be, at least the dating boys their own age part. Child abuse is horrible. I already said I wasn't trying to victim blame. Just all this screaming about:
>but why White girls m8?<this is a war tactic the asians are pulling against our girls!<they want our sweet White girls bevause they are so valuable!<this happened because the government protects Asians!Nah. Like if my country was some famous child sex tourist destination, obviously that doesn't excuse any Johns, but I would feel that reflects poorly on my society and culture.
I'm saying your country didn't value about these girls in the first place. That's in large part why it's happening.
Hello, please give me attention
>>2694409Here are my twisted musings on Britain, as per CNN and Fox
>>2694373ask Whitney Dean from Eastenders
>>2694460Did you read any of the stories:
>>2694005>>2694460
you never went to school with a girl who had an adult bf?
>>2694488>It's because of their culture solely<It has nothing to do with our culture.https://www.thesun.ie/sun-club/16508119/grooming-gang-transcripts-hair-fell-out-cops-social-failed/>DESCRIBED as “poisonous”, “loud” and “aggressive” in court, anyone would think it was Fiona Goddard who was on trial.
>But in fact, Fiona was a victim who had been plied with drugs and alcohol before being raped and abused by up to 100 Asian men from the age of 14 – and it was her own social workers who stood in the dock at the grooming gangs trial to shame her.
>Fiona has now spoken about the “secrets, lies, cover-ups and disgusting victim-blaming” at the court case after becoming the first grooming gang survivor to have her full court transcripts published.
>She told how the men gave her alcohol and cocaine before raping and sexually assaulting her multiple times in a sickening campaign of abuse for four years, while authorities failed to protect her while in care.
>In other parts of the transcripts, a social worker shockingly gave evidence to the court saying: “I never saw her looking anything other than plain and non-made-up. She did not present in a way that suggested that there were men spending money on her.”
>Another social worker contradicted this, stating Fiona dressed “very provocatively,” adding, “It was short skirts, low tops, high heels, lots of makeup.”
>Fiona blasted the comments as “completely inappropriate”, adding: “Do they think that child rapists care whether you’ve got make-up on or not?”
>Fiona told The Sun: “I feel some of the social workers were trying to put the blame on me and my behaviour to excuse their inactions.
>“They talk about episodes of me being aggressive with them, but I’d be coming back after being raped to get told off and chastised by them for being missing for two days, so yes, sometimes I did behave in that way.
>Shockingly, Fiona says that after reading evidence given from social care staff, she believes some of them were trying to persuade jurors that she “deserved to be raped”.
>Fiona, who only attended court for parts of the trial, said: “One care home worker described how they used to use protective gloves to protect themselves from my clothes because of the blood and the evidence of sexual relations.
>“Their excuse for not reporting any of it was, ‘Well, she seemed happy enough at the time.’.
>“Others said in court, ‘Oh, we didn’t know’ – but at the same time, they’re describing me being picked up by Asian males in cars, getting given gifts and doing things that I can’t afford to do, like using alcohol and drugs.
>“I was also disclosing that I was having sex with these men to staff at the care homes, but nothing was done.
>“It’s frustrating to me because it shows even in 2019, five years after the Rotherham scandal broke, five years of education on what grooming was, they still stood and tried to blame me in court instead of accepting that they did wrong.
>“It’s like they were giving excuses as to why it was OK for me to be raped – like she was a bad child, so she deserved it type of thing.
>“Reading their comments is harder than reading what the men said about me. I know these men didn’t think anything of me.
>A spokesperson for Bradford Council said: “The crimes that were committed against Fiona which began in 2008 were truly appalling.
>“We have acknowledged that there were significant failings in Fiona’s care and we have apologised to her for this. We are truly sorry that agencies were not able to better protect her at the time.You're just hung up on this race thing and want to make it some grand conspiracy rather than this kind of shit is very normal in your society. You're acting like the reason people turned a blind eye was because it had anything to do with race.
Like all these care home workers or whoever were like:
>Bloody hell! You're a 14 year old girl getting prostituted out to adult men? Tell us who the lads are and we'll throw them in the nick!<Well it was Omar, Abdul, Mohammed…>Whoah, whoah, whoah, lass! That's an entirely different matter. They've got a loicense to rape.>>2694488
>It's like a goat fucking ceremony or something like that.
Interesting, and Brit women are the goat then?
>>2694488
iIt's probably changing now school is up to 18 and more strict on attendance, used to be that kids were out of school etc and mixing in the world by 15.
>>2694552Where is the evidence she was being duped? What does the car accident have to do with the minister?
>>2694587
Even Dahl knows.
When it comes to the book Matilda, I can say that Matilda Wormwood could be a presentation of the Proletarian revolutionists (owing to her intelligence), her parents to be the microcosm of the Bourgeoisie (abusing Matilda and ignoring her) and Trunchbull to be alluding to the factory owners (ruling the school with an iron fist and treating schoolchildren like shit)
You live in a gingerbread house, you’re gingerbread people, just go stale and crumble already
>>2694705
Is this supposed to be to the tune of “little boxes”?
>>2694705
Ginger is what his dreams are too
He has a girlfriend and she is so ginger.
Ginger is what he thinks
Ginger is the feelings that live inside him
>>2694710Blue (da ba di dabadae)
Oh here’s another good one
>I’m all lost in my gingerbread house
<can no longer crumb happily
>came in here for a special offer
>a face made of cream and cheese
>>2695019>>2695063why the fuck do you care?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2147218/Chagossian-government-in-exile-britishTiny Chagos Islands humiliate Starmer by forming government-in-exile of 'loyal subjects'<In a historic move, the islanders have declared a government in exile, challenging plans to cede their homeland. Their voices echo with resilience and hope.
>Chagossians have taken a bold step to prevent Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer from handing over their homeland to Mauritius by setting up a government in exile. Families who were forcibly evicted from the Chagos Islands between 1967 and 1973 have elected a "first minister" and declared their desire to remain British citizens and subjects of the King.
>The Chagossians are hoping that their declaration will persuade the House of Lords to block Sir Keir's plans to surrender the strategically important Indian Ocean islands . In his inaugural speech, Misley Mandarin, the islanders' newly elected first minister, proclaimed, "Let the world know: we remain loyal subjects of His Majesty."
>Mandarin emphasized the Chagossians' ongoing commitment to both the UK and the US, stating, "We remain committed partners to the United Kingdom and the United States. Tonight, the Chagossian voice becomes one voice. Tonight, our story begins anew."Chagossians demand same right to self-determination as other overseas territories
>The first minister argued that the Chagossians should possess the same right to self-determination as other overseas territories. He stressed that the Chagossians wanted to return to their islands, remain British citizens under British sovereignty, and protect Diego Garcia and the Western security architecture that depends on it.Government in exile formed 'as a statement of existence, that we endure'
>"Tonight, in the presence of our elders, our mothers, our youth, and our unborn generations, we declare the formation of the Chagossian government-in-exile," Mandarin declared.
>"Not in rebellion. Not in anger. But as a statement of existence, that we endure and that we refuse to be erased by distance or time as a proud, small, determined citizen nation, as some have planned we should on 1 February 2026."
>The implementation of the treaty was delayed last month after the threat of defeat in the House of Lords. Ministers were forced to pause legislation to ratify the treaty after a Conservative peer submitted an amendment requiring the Government to consult the Chagossians before proceeding.Election for first minister organised by Great British Political Action Committee
>The election for the new first minister was organised by the Great British Political Action Committee, which supports the Chagossians' call for self-determination.
>Around 1,300 Chagossians in the UK were asked if they should form a government in exile and appoint an interim first minister, with an overwhelming majority backing the creation of a new government and the election of Mandarin as interim first minister. There were no other candidates, and the process was independently overseen by polling firm Whitestone Insight.
>The newly formed government in exile will now put together a charter and a representative council to further their cause. The Chagossians were removed from Diego Garcia and the other islands between 1968 and 1973 and relocated to Britain, a move that has sparked ongoing controversy and calls for justice. >>2695498chagosoid, your opinion on this?
>>2694221Don't bother, nobody here cares
>>2695947
>Social workers caring for victims explained to us how many of those exploited were vulnerable because they had come from broken homes or had had other troubled backgrounds like abuse, drugs or poverty.
Britain post 2014 is world historically unimportant and will never be important again
>>2696125
Think you've got the wrong URL
Zack Polanski did an interview with some right wing LBC host in which he said we should stand against Israel's actions but he wouldn't say Zionism is racist or wrong.
How can you say Israel bad while being too cucked to explain how or why it's bad? I fucking hate libtards.
>>2696387Working on the current (flawed) assumption that he's been pushed into this position by a need to reconcile with his wider electoral ambitions the demands of his inner party who wish to see him agree with the ICJ ruling, and to condemn in full the Israeli state.
Likewise in an all too bare fashion he spoke of austerity and to no full extent, perhaps signalling the fact that there is pressure within the Greens and therefore Polanski to monopolise on their recent growth in popularity to push for a more radical platform in order to accomplish what as of yet remains unachieved, namely reform of the tax system in support of more than just verbatim criticisms of poverty within Britain.
If this is true it would mean that the Greens are as of yet in the process of drawing out their platform by forcing commitments from the leadership. That Polanski cannot definitively condemn Zionism and must paddle about with the loose and arbitrary discourse of Palestinian statehood reveals the flippancy of his own beliefs and that of the wider foundation of his party.
>>2696496>>2696387Hilariously, Owen Jones weighing in for their support renders this however partially a de facto truth.
That he then bit into Your Party due to the culimation of the contradictory position Sultana now faces - infighting due to factionalism resulting in a confused endorsement for Hannah Spencer - is no end of irony.
What will the cope be when Reform get in and run things just like Labour who mimicked the Tories before them?
>>2696496>>2696387One argument here is that the Greens have made peace with political necessity and are backing Polanski solely on the grounds of his popularity as an indispensable tool for use in uniting the party, reflecting those same terms on which Reform have greeted their electoral share by wagering its policies on that which secures them seats.
It would be interesting to know what the party itself thinks of Polanski.
>>2696514all the extremely online british right have dropped reform like a sack of potatoes.
restore is the new hotness.
they will say "see, should have voted restore".
>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office
bet he sweating now
>>2696514It'll be like with the burgers and trump. It should have been obvious the first time. but they say, noooo we were fooled! we thought nigel was different!
>>2696833
He wont go in a prison.
>>2695489I am a pad up member of Your Party. (fucking kill me)
>>2696387Worth saying Green members reported the Palestine group to the policy for an anti-zionist motion.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUtmEGZiuLb>Greens for Palestine reaffirms its commitment to Motion A105 following the Standing Orders Committee’s approval, while condemning the outrageous act of an internal member briefing right-wing tabloids and referring the Green Party to Counter Terrorism Police.<The decision by a party member to collaborate with the Daily Mail and GB News and report colleagues to counter-terrorism police is not just politically foolish, it represents a dangerous and unacceptable abuse of position that brings the party into disrepute. This action is a manifestation of white privilege, where someone with position and access uses state apparatus to intimidate and silence colleagues advocating for Palestinian rights.>Such conduct is designed to create a chilling effect on political discourse and puts members at genuine risk of harassment, surveillance and raids. When party members use right-wing media outlets and counter-terrorism mechanisms to target colleagues, they demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of both anti-racist principles and the democratic processes within our own party. This behavior undermines the very foundations of internal party democracy and creates an environment where members fear expressing legitimate political views. In effect the piece seeks to normalise the political line that anti-zionism is indistinguishable from extremism and a matter for counter terror policing rather than a point of democratic contestation, and in doing so It vindicates the urgent need for this motion. >>2697066>>2697059What absolute fucking stupidity; what the antisemite witnesses as the collusion of jews this idiot imagines in their well educated ignorance as that general conspiracy in thought, which being the good doctor that they are, only they may see.
seems like a good time to call for the abolishment of the monarchy
Trump saying it's "very sad" and "a shame" that Andrew was arrested. Nonce freak.
Is it racist to call the Chinese restaurant 'the chinky'?
To me it's just the restaurant. That's how unracist I am.
>>2698011
just following orders innit
>>2697956He didn’t crank his hog or get hard to it I’m assuming
>>2698110you know what happens when you assume?
>>2698011
well someone's gotta do it
Daniel Defoe on the "True-Born Englishman" (1701):
<These sort of people, who call themselves true-born, and tell long stories of their families, and like a nobleman of Venice, think a foreigner ought not to walk on the same side of the street with them, are own'd to be meant in this Satire […] as for a true-born Englishman, I confess I do not understand him. From hence I only infer, that an Englishman, of all men, ought not to despise foreigners as such, and I think the inference is just, since what they are to-day, we were yesterday, and to-morrow they will be like us. If foreigners misbehave in their several stations and employments, I have nothing to do with that; the laws are open to punish them equally with natives, and let them have no favour […] speaking of Englishmen ab origine, we are really all foreigners ourselves.https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30159/30159-h/30159-h.htm#EXPLANATORY>>2698148Doesn't Carl Benjamin have a mixed race kid?
>>2698161Carl Benjamin himself has non-white ancestry. In this video he claims to have a black granddad:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CsiPbyy0Jhgreminds me of neema parvini or nick fuentes, as these exceptional minorities who often over-identify with racially hostile white people because they can pass well enough. its just coonery and cognitive dissonance.
Reminder Sargon, when asked on the morality of paedophilia, stated "it depends on the child". Yet all the hitlerian chuds close their ears and still worship him.
He goes around broken impoverished towns destroyed by Thatcher and austerity and blatantly implies it's the existence of brown people who are responsible for the economic decay of society with zero evidence besides "look at this brown person I think looks ugly".
Hope he gets Kirked.
>>2698196Real Hard times to be an Akkadian right now…
>>2698264
>>2698252
You are israeli.
>>2698172There's no point in bringing this up really. At the end of the day, all these people support is complete and total arbitrary rule of the rich. There is no hypocrisy you can point out to them because its not really about that, its actually just about defending elite perogatives.
The argument for Positivity:
Anyone can be pessimistic. Being pessimistic is somehting anyone can do, and something most people even enjoy. But it isn't something anyone finds attractive or magnetic in a person. People want to be pessimistic themselves but no-one wants to trust or be around pessimistic people. So if you're intent is to interact with any human at all, THEY want to be pessimistic, but they don't want YOU to be pessimistic, they want you to be a rock that recognizes their pessimism and finds a way out for them.
>>2698696Cheers for that Plato
>>2698699But its true? Communists these days on line just lament over and over again about how shit everything and everyone is and how our time is corrupt. Does the future belong to these people? What do they want, a medal for for complaining? And these are "the vanguard"? A bunch of people who jump on twitter to cry about how unfair the world is?
>>2698707>StoicismLmao “they might have robbed me blind, but they’ll never break my spirit!”
>>2699075
Like in Hegel's analysis of Sophocles' Antigone (440 BCE), we see the civic antagonism between the oikos and polis expressed in the law.
>>2698677It does matter when their internal political enemies deport them.
Btw Manchester has a big Britain First demo. So far the fascists have failed to reach their end location because of an antifa counter-demo has took a strategic crossroads. There was a seperate "Stand up to Racism" Liberal demo that didn't stop them at all but they would have had to pass by them. More as I hear it. The Canary (throwback) has a bunch of on the ground reporting.
https://www.instagram.com/thecanaryuk/>>2699143Angloids are yet chasing the MAGA wet dream
>>2697956Cops just release violent and degenerate criminals yet they chimp out when someone disapproves of them or the Government. What a fucking circus that these Blue Lives Matter cucks never get bored of.
Fuck the jannies btw, for letting retard /pol/acks hang around ITT, even despite being reported.
>>2699397AMLO in mexico was socially conservative while fiscally leftist and his party has basically taken over mexico.
what he pines for is a Christian democracy that leans to the left like south american politicians, less like western euro christian democrats who lean to the right
>On the European left-right political spectrum, Christian democracy has been difficult to pinpoint, as Christian democrats have often rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, while simultaneously defending private property rights against excessive state intervention.[19] This has meant that Christian democracy has historically been considered centre-left on economics and centre-right on many social and moral issues. >>2699498>AMLO in mexico was socially conservative while fiscally leftistme when i lie
>>2699397The repeated failures of the Worker's Party has thoroughly debunked this arguement.
These people just want an excuse to be able to bash LGBT people again.
And then I saw the stars
British History Lesson - Have you heard of the British KKK?
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was simultaneously a Scouting/Crafting/Hiking organisation for teenage boys and girls, an Occult/Neopagan religious order, and left wing political movement active from 1920 - 1951.
It was founded in opposition to the Scouts, who were seen as being too nationalistic and militaristic, and not focused enough on practical handicrafts and skills.
It eventually transformed into a political party, The Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, more commonly known as "The Greenshirts", active from 1932 - 1951.
As a political movement, their stated goals were:
>Universal Basic Income (refered to as "Social Credit" by the party)
>Agrarian Socialism
>Opposition to Nationalism
>Pacifism
At it's peak, the party won 11% of the vote in the Leeds South seat during the 1935 general election.
Various Labour, independent Socialist, and even Fascist politicians supported the party's key policy of Social Credit / UBI.
The organisation was linked to various incidents of destruction of state property, including at 11 Downing Street by throwing green painted bricks through the windows.
Perhaps you've seen the 1973 film, The Wicker Man? Aesthetically it was very reminscent of all that - there was a big emphasis on aesthetics: on a sense of folky-ness, rural identity, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic dress, Morris Dancing, Sword Dancing, "the Old Ways". Lots of dressing in animal costumes, and a theology loosely based on some blend of Western Esotericism, Ceremonial Magic, Nature Worship, European Paganism, Native American religion, Theosophy, and Thelema.
The group had steady growth and popularity throughout the 20s and 30s. However, from the onset of WW2 the UK government prohibited almost all of their activities, and they were not able to recover their numbers or popularity in the post-war period.
What were the results of the Britain First march in Manchester?
>>2700326
>If you stop fascists from doing fascist things, you're basically a fascist yourself!
Not how it works. Supporting fascism (or any other rightist ideology) should be a crime and punished accordingly.
>>2700767
That's plainly incorrect though. You don't have to be a politician or leader of a nation to be a fascist. If you actively support fascist ideology and/or a fascist party… you are a fascist.
>>2700770
>>2700773
The notion that the left has to take some moral high ground and renounce any kind of boldness, action or authority… that we must be soft, passive, meek and hyper-democratic is stupid.
If you believe that socialism/communism is right and fascism is wrong, then yes we should use what tools are available to use to further our success and crush our enemies before the crush us.
If the people are too stupid or have been too brainwashed to accept what is for their own good then give them dictatorship until they are freed from rightist indoctrination. It's better to force them into a better outcome than to give them the freedom to choose to suffer and decline.
We are not pacifists, vegetarians, hippies or liberals. Those of you adhering to the rulebook of such people, instead of the rules of our enemies, need to re-evaluate your naive outlooks.
>Putting Hodge in charge of Ofcom
Not going to lie, it is genuinely impressive how Israel has basically openly taken over the entire Western media appratus without a peep. The shit Mossad must have on politicians.
>>269988970% Antifa victory. Britain First had 800-1000 marchers who were blocked 3 or 4 times (depending on how you count it) and only 100-200 made it to their end point of Castlefield Bowl (an outdoor amphitheatre). Stand Up to Racism were a fucking disgrace who held their little rally from behind the safety of a whole building while claiming to have "challenged the march", and then marched to St Peters after everything was already done. There is footage of them dancing like crusty hippies to samba drums while literally 100-150m away Antifas were getting arrested by police blocking BF from coming up Oxford Road. People are really fucking angry with them, including their usual Trade Union and Liberal backer types so some overall good comes from all of this.
Because of the 1st Antifa picket on Portland Street, they had to route Britain First through the Gay Village which from anecdotal experience has radicalised a lot of normies. Apparently people were throwing water on them from the residential blocks as they marched through (worth saying BF are explicitly christian nationalists so they can't even do the "we want to protect the gays from muslam" thing). There's also footage of them curb stomping (attached) a random asian guy which has gone pretty viral and again, normie friends are seeing it and are disgusted. Also some Auraposting shots from the demo [picrel]. In terms of arrest only 11 people were arrested overall from any side, I know a couple of anarchists (who ngl were fucking idiots and tried to do XR/JSO "sit down" shit in the path of BF) got released without charges. Natorious Neonazi Ryan Ferguson got arrested pretty early on too. Not heard anything from everyone's favourite parasite Hugh Anthony, tho IDK if he was there considering BF are zionists.
TL;DR 70% good 30% bad. SUTR Undercut what could have been a decisive unambiguous victory, 1/8th-1/5th of the Fascists made it to their endgoal and had a washed out "rally". Minimal arrests, and those in the antifascist movement are pretty buoyed.
Apparently they are coming back on the 18th of April (we knew they'd come back but that is sooner than expected), so that should be fun.
>>2700327>>2700762>>2700767"That's the problem with Fascism, it takes Fascist methods to defeat it."
From "It Happened Here" (1964)
>>2701286
>This fluid application of righteousness is the essence of fascism, and you are guilty of it.
Are you saying my grandad was wrong to shoot at german u-boats during the war? Because otherwise that would be a fascist fluid application of righteousness.
>>2700326>fascisticRead Umberto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Umberto_Eco.
>>2700770Imagine trying to abstract things this far away from material reality and pretending it's an effective way to reason.
>killing an invading soldier? isn't that the same as killing random people?That's the level of ridiculous your post is displaying.
Raising children is literally fascism.
>>2699397If that's how these people feel they should go build that party instead of complaining about it, but good luck getting young activists on your side when you hate them
>>2701272
No it isn't. Fascism isn't just 'when I don't have some freedom' otherwise every country ever has been fascist
>>2699498>AMLO in mexico was socially conservative while fiscally leftist and his party has basically taken over mexico.Did they change their social conservatism? A brief read on Wikipedia doesn't seem to indicate they are conservative at all
Zarah
GCHQ here: DEATH TO THE BOURGEOISIE
Candi: Apologies, Swing Lo Sweet Chariot
Oh Elon,
Are we there?
Have we been messaging politicians we shouldn't?
Hacking people and places and things that might lead to an interdiction?
But fie! I say fie! This will not do, not at all.
So Zarah, long time fan first time caller: Ode To Joy if you please.
And Abbott, we here in our little Parliament think you're a bit of loon, a kind hearted one though. It's just a shame about you know who doing you know what with you know where in you know when
But then, who keeps track of that sort of stuff?
And Corbyn, this poor little clown we're using as our plaything would batter this word into your head worse than Fools Gold: Mars
But fie! David I say fie! This will not do!
Perhaps we should all message David North to learn what he knows about Camera Obscuras!
And Candi, read these idiots worse precisely as they are meant: we are sorry about the deleted post, which you doubtless saw, and were likely meant in idle jest that same deep offence you were dealt with by that idiot whose head now hangs on a platter to all your infantile little party members.
Score this image into your mind, and listen to it again and again knowing that there are such forces as take resent against its existence
>>2701751
Both the people who made that film are still alive.
>>2701720Feckless liberal bearing the social-fascist symbol.
>>2701769
> But yeah technically no they weren't fascist by my definition.
<"The Fascists weren't Fascist"
You are nowhere near as intelligent as you think you are.
>>2701600most people dont really know what they want,
but they'll bow down to any strong hand.
ITV news just ran a pro-Israel propaganda segment. Amazing media we have in this country.
>>2701720Useless fucking SWPies and HNHers. At least the anarchists are getting stuck in.
>>2701994And it is the symbol of social-democracy. And the Lancastrians were the reactionaries and bad guys in the wars of the roses btw.
>>2701702>>2701725what the actual fuck are you on about
>>2702178
imagine crying this much about a statue of a slaver lol.
>>2702193
literally incomprehensible. you are completely brainrotted
Schizo on the field.
Clean it up Umpires.
Cricket is funny and cryptic
>>2702197I can't wait until the next synagogue attack to be honest
Thank you, Umpires!
>>2699498>AMLO in mexico was socially conservative while fiscally leftist and his party has basically taken over mexico.>>2699667>me when i lie>>2701641>Did they change their social conservatism? A brief read on Wikipedia doesn't seem to indicate they are conservative at allAMLO kind of sat on a different axis. He wasn't a culture war politician. There's a different Catholic-inflected background there which downplays culture war / identity / moral signaling altogether. Also MORENA formed a movement that was taking over the country before they formed a party, they moved into a party formation when they realized they could win.
>>2699767>The repeated failures of the Worker's Party has thoroughly debunked this arguement.What happens with Anglos is that they try to mash together right-wing culture war with left-populist economics and it doesn't fit together. AMLO was also a highly popular mayor of Mexico City which is one of the largest cities in the world by population.
Anyways, how's that by-election coming Bongs? I heard the Green candidate is favored.
>>2702153The funny thing is that the Antifas were a true mix of anarchists and communists. Latter had RCP, RCG, Young Struggle, rs21, Your Party and even a few rogue YCL/CPB (I know a couple of comrades from the CPB who got in trouble not attending the SUTR rally and doing the hard work instead). And then yeah, bunch of anarchos (mostly young queer feminine types, not saying that as an insult just the reality). I know some Green comrades were in the mix too but didn't carry any over identification.
07921808573
>people still seething and moaning about flags being tied to poles
It honestly never stops to astonish me how easily the left see a land mine and step on it. If the left just said "Yeah we are proud of people being civic minded, and flags add nice dash of colour" it would have not been the right wing signal it was, and probably would have ended pretty quickly, now it's still a battle over… are you in the UK allowed to fly the UK flag (wtf?).
It reminds me of the hilarious "Islam is right about women" which had a huge portion of the left in meltdown a few years back because they couldn't bring themselves to critique Islam because "muh Islamophobia", but they also couldn't agree that Islam was right about it's treatment and views on women.
The left needs to stop walking on obvious traps, the British flag genuinely is the best flag in the world, and the flags actually looked good and DID add much needed colour to this grey shithole. If the left had the right brains, it would have just twisted it into something about civic pride and civicism instead fell for the "Lefties hate the flag and the UK and want the flag banned" trap it was.
>>2702736Fuck your imperial flag and everything it stands for. Death to the British Empire.
>>2702758Ok, and it is quite literally the flag of the British Empire. Defending it puts you on the side of the Imperialists. You are an imperialist dog.
>>2702760<2026<Arguing with the resident personality disorder attached to a keyboardWhy are you like this?
Stop being a cunt, just report them for ban-evasion or the content of whatever mentally-ill vomit they're spewing this time.
Moron.
>>2702760"Muh imperialism"
cope and seethe dude. Imperialism crying in the modern day is just copium of leftists to cry about IR they barely understand rather than actually doing anything meaningful in the real world.
The left attacking British flags, any sign of Britishness etc just plays into again, you're just oikophobic faggots who only care about shitting on your own out of some teenage level counter-cultural spite, rather than actually building Socialism or trying to appeal to your fellow man.
>>2702645>07921808573Thanks your number anon lets have a chat later.
>>2702780Brits out of Britain???
>>2702780This is the UK retard.
The average British person doesn't collectively want to commit suicide because they're cucked and driven by White-self hatred like much of the far-left is.
>>2702790>>white self hatredFed.
>>2702828
Try me, i dare you, all of you.
Fie, Strumpet. Fie!
I just wrote my MP a letter about my mental health struggles and porn addiction. How long do they generally take to respond?
>>2702940>porn addictionthe government regulation on porn surely helps
>>2702959After the PA ban came in the pigs arrested a woman in Derby for holding a Palestinian flag and a banner saying "Free Palestine" claiming it was now illegal.
They really are thick cunts.
>>2703002everything is illegal now, even porn and social media.
dont forget WW3 with russia either.
Apparently, the total student debt is around £300B, which is a tax on working class young people. On average, it apparently takes 20 years to pay back an unpaid student loan, which means that (if we extrapolate university graduates to being 25 years old), the working class graduates will only be free from this debt in 20 years, when they are 45. further, only around 60% of graduates enter "high-skilled" positions after 2 years, with 40% failing to do so. So, only 3/5 (60%) of graduates see a positive return on this investment (over 20 years). If we look at numbers, the average uni course takes 3 years, with 20 years to pay it off (~700% cost) with 60% success rate, which is a risky long-term investment. If however, university was free (with conditions for academic excellence) then its impossible to have bad investments of this kind, and so society will be inherently wealthier while the excess of elites will be rightfully proletarianised, rather than lumpenised.
like in 2008, sub-prime mortgages led to the collapse of the housing market, while sub-prime student loans leads to another issue of debt. treat academic grading as credit and proceed thereon.
>>2703046yes you're so close, the money lenders are strangulating our society
>>2703074so close to what? ive literally explained the whole thing. student loans debt definitionally only affect the working class, since the middle and upper class can pay them off, so the £300B falls squarely onto around 400,000 graduates over a period of 20 years. debt slavery.
>>2703075they obviously didn't learn from that trumpanzee video edit. It's one thing to deny someone a platform, it's another level to alter someone's message.
>>2703077did you hear a while back they extended the repayment period to (I think) 40 years? You say 'on average' it takes 20 years, but given it can take several years to even land a relevant job, let alone get into a 'high' paying position, I doubt it.
>>2703077>so close to whatit's a business model
>>2703077If you’re wealthy enough to go to university and take “student loans” to begin with you are by definition not a prole
>>2703082reminds me of the "50 year mortgages" that the great "patriot" trump wants to impose on the american public.
>>2703083yes, absolutely. like i say, bankers are complicit in the destruction of economies by getting rich from debt. the sub-prime loan is their technique of sharking.
>>2703084what do you think the eligibility guidelines for a loan are?
seventeen degrees and they've already got the fucking orange marker pen out
apparently, around 350,000 people are considered homeless in the UK (1 in 200 people).
>>2703110here's my theory, considering we don't live in Star Trek: The Next Generation, there is an average global welfare and that will never change. All you can do is redistribute it. And I don't mean tax the rich, they are just the foul mushrooms sprouting from the capitalist turd. We need to get tough, and start looking out for number one.
>>2703125>We need to get tough, and start looking out for number one.sure, but by all practical measures, this means increasing trade with other countries so as to build a manufacturing base, even in a mercantilist program. Taxing the rich is always a strange sort of quasi-solution, since the rich are also stratified into different classes (yes, sorry to be vulgar). we only have 150 billionaires in the UK, so if we had a proposed wealth tax of 1% then at most we would see around £1.5B (hilarious, i know). raise it up to 100% in a proper radical way and you only get £150B which is hardly a tenth of the ANNUAL budget. By comparison we have around 3 million millionaires in the UK, which if we taxed them at 1% we would get around £90B which is actually a bit better, proportionally. Tax them at 10% and you would get £900B which would be a noble sacrifice for the millionaires to agree too (since at most they would be left with £900,000 at the end of the year). So then, the millionaires are a bit like the "middle class" of the upper class. More than taxing the rich by other means (such as inheritance tax, property tax and so on, which only gives us £30B) the profits of business must be diverted into real wages (since they act antagonistically to one another). This is what so many dont understand; if wages were high enough, you wouldnt need to tax so much, since everything would be more affordable, so keeping wages low and taxes high is double-trouble and utterly enslaving.
>>2703152I think innovation has always been the key to change. If you do the same thing as everyone else, the best you can hope for is the average, and that's not great.
>>2703125Least materialist post ever written
>>2703156not all change is pleasant either
schumpeter describes the process of innovation as "creative destruction", a radical disequilibrium which creates new markets as it destroys old ways of life. thatcher rhetorically used this reasoning when she shut down the mines, but how much better off were we?
>>2703183>"""infiltrated"""not really, it was the UK which created and maintained israel to begin with
>>2703209British politicians weren't shooting english soldiers and blowing up civil servants in the 1940s for a Jewish state. That was all Jews. They're not the victims.
>>2703110MPs are reasonably fond of the idea of reindustrialization. They aren't fully committed, but GB energy is LARPing as reindustrialization. Our stupid military spending increase is justified as an industrial subsidy.
which is both bad military policy - overpriced equipment that doesn't work - and bad industrial policy - investing in a sector that produces useless shit in export competition with the yanks Reform UK promise reindustrialization by scrapping environmental targets. Even the Greens backed the nationalization of steel.
The UK has had something like 11 different industrial strategies since 2010 under both Tory and Labour governments. This reflects massive incompetence, sure, but it also reflects the fact that politicians do in-fact care about re-industrialization.
I am not so sure that you can use industry to explain the problem: Japan has suffered wage stagnation (admittedly with price stability until recently) combined with a much stronger manufacturing base. Meanwhile, both the US and France are only 1-2% less service based than we are (~81% plays ~79%)
As a matter of capitalist economic management (rather than building the basis for socialism or communism), I would go so far as to argue that one of the flaws of UK policymaking is that Britain looks back obsessively on manufacturing industry. Were the UK to actually reindustrialize, it wouldn't change things as much as people think. Manufacturing employment would remain a small share of overall employment (this is, after all, the flip side of high labour productivity: you need less labour.)
>>2703125nah, this is silly. you cannot account for the massive growth in Chinese and Indian wealth by going "yeah, well Britain (and pretty much only britain) stopped getting better!"
>>2703152truthfully a big part of our fuckup isn't even a weak manufacturing base, it's our squandering of the other shit we had a comparative advantage in. even under neoliberal assumptions, britain's economic policy has been dogshit
(and brexit really was just one big foot-shooting exercise. "if we tried to do full communism the EU commission would send us mean letters!" - great, but in the absence of a government committed to full communism all you get is a bunch of tedious paperwork to put you off trading with all the closest countries!)
looking within services, our problem is that a lot of service workers are badly allocated. we have lots of tax lawyers, for example, but they could be doing much more productive work if our tax system wasn't an overcomplicated mess. people notice the lack of good manufacturing jobs, because you can look at all the poor people or the wage stagnation and go "they'd be much happier making cars", but nobody notices that the nice upper-middle class lawyer is actually wasting his life helping people find tax-dodges in an arcane tax code which - if simplified - would free him up to do something more productive. (even if he stays a lawyer!)
>>2703156average is substantially better than what we have now.
moreover, britain has a bad habit of chasing flashy innovation out of a misguided sense of exceptionalism instead of going with dull-but-proven strategies. (e.g. think of the billion-in-old-money thrown on Concorde, which was great fun but economically speaking one of the worst investments in human history. or the advanced gas cooled reactor, or the time Railtrack promised 'moving block' signalling which had never been done on a full-scale railway before, while pissing away all the money used to maintain the train tracks.)
innovation is very valuable and not cocking up genuine innovations (britain invented the ARM processor architecture that's in almost every smartphone!), a strategy of "Just being average" that you achieve is much better than a strategy of exceptionalism that fails.
Oikophobia is fucking real and it will lead to fascism in this country.
>>2703849its capitalism is decay what produces fascism not that made up meme word
>>2703852All words are made up you dumb cuck. And sure capitalism in decay creates fascism but an anti-fascist left unable to fundamentally say "I like the nation/culture that I come from" is doomed to be defeated by the 90% of people that fucking do.
>>2703854so you think if antifa types tweet "i love my nation!" fascism will be defeated? lol
>>2702772>"Muh imperialism"at least stop using the PRC flag if you are going to post shit like this, it makes you look specially retarded
>>2703854I get it since if you don't love your country then why even trying to redeem it?
Granted, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to be patriotic to what is essentially a constitutional monarchy with appointed lords and bishops in the parliament with a bourgeois democracy that runs a finkncialised empire, but it is just a fact that if you don't have a shred of patriotism, then what hopes do you have to motivate people to redeem your country, innit?
Not sure how popular a republic is, or whether anything will come close to the monarchy in terms of engendering both soft power and national unity, but it's helpful to consider how Britain is basically in a flux between retaining its imperial character whilst transitioning to a nation-state now that it has become an American puppet state down to its political culture. First it was the woke, now it's "British trumpism" which is just Thatcherism with Enoch Powell characteristics. And need I remind you that Enoch was a free market dogmatist, but people remember him more for his racialist views. instead of his economic views.
>>2703371so was it before after 1948 that israelis took control of the UK?
>>2703707>Manufacturing employment would remain a small share of overall employment (this is, after all, the flip side of high labour productivity: you need less labour.)but thats not strictly true. again, if AI is taking everyone's jobs so that we need UBI, then we can have both UBI and jobs.
>the nice upper-middle class lawyer is actually wasting his life helping people find tax-dodges in an arcane tax code which - if simplified - would free him up to do something more productivethats why its beneficial to have a public and private sector balance (e.g. proletarianisation for surplus elites).
They don’t even have to get rid of the monarchy, they could probably rescue the institution if they ousted the windsors and found some other dumb german family, they already did it before to the Stewarts
>>2703854>capitalism in decay creates fascismitaly was literally an agrarian shithole before it became fascist. it wasnt a capitalist superpower that ran out of treats. get a better theory of politics than trotskyism.
>>2703871>I'm not sure if it's a good idea to be patriotic to what is essentially a constitutional monarchy you are making the elementary error of confusing the nation for the state
>Enoch was a free market dogmatistyes, which caused controversy between him and moseley, being an ex-labour man. back then, racism wasnt as unifying, it seems.
>>2703084read a book once in your life moron
wtf is oikophobia
>>2703878>italy was literally an agrarian shithole before it became fascist. The SOUTH of Italy was. The North of Italy was an industrial power; hence the whole "workers seizing factories" thing. The Fascisti started off as strikebreakers hired by Fiat to beat up revolutionary proletarians. Actually try to know the material conditions of a country before opinioning on them.
>>2703860I think them attacking a guy ON THEIR OWN SIDE with an England flag is how you destroy effective anti-fascist mobilisation, yes. (This happened in Manchester, Scouse ANTIFAs attacked a Manuncian anti-fascist).
>>2703854true. rightist "patriotism" is the greatest grift in history that leaves behind nothing but misery and ruin. actually wanting good for your people (socialism) is the real patriotism.
tourette status?
>>2703911>actually wanting good for your people (socialism) is the real patriotism.you should read rousseau on this topic. nationalism was originally a left-wing politics, with "patriot" referring to liberals, while conservatives were "loyalists" to the monarchy (the aristocracy being an international body, without reciprocal loyalty to the nation, the same way capital has no earthly home).
i would say that what is characterised as "nationalism" today is really "racism", a qualitatively different politics, since it also has an international character, like how whiteness favours white foreigners over black citizens.
Gorton and Denton by-election tomorrow.
To what extent will the results matter?
KCK template in London: Democratic activities are being put on trial.
The trial of six Kurdish activists, which directly targets the political and democratic activities of the Kurdish community in England, continues at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London. The indictment and charges brought by the prosecution have sparked public debate in the case, which has seen 25 hearings to date.
In the indictment prepared against Ali Poyraz, Ercan Akbal, Türkan Özcan, Agit Karataş, Berfin Kurban, and Mücahit Sayak, the activists are accused of "being members of the PKK and carrying out activities on behalf of the organization." While the Kurdish activists are accused of "membership in an armed organization," the file contains no concrete evidence of any act of violence or weapons.
The case was opened following a large-scale police raid on the Kurdish Community Center and the homes of numerous Kurdish activists on November 27, 2024. The scope of the indictment and the nature of the charges have led to assessments that they are similar to the allegations in the KCK trials held in Türkiye.
A 12-person jury is serving in the trial at the Old Bailey. In addition to the judge, prosecutor, and their assistants, a team of 12 lawyers is defending the activists.
Kurdish activists are not being held in custody pending trial, but they attend hearings wearing electronic ankle bracelets following their detention. Furthermore, judicial control measures such as entry restrictions to the area where the Kurdish Community Center is located and limitations on leaving the house during certain hours continue throughout the trial.
<THE INDICTMENT SEEMS TO BE INSPIRED BY THE KCK INVESTIGATIONS.
The trial, which began in the first week of January, involved the reading of the prosecution's indictment for approximately three and a half weeks. Following this, statements were taken and cross-examined from police officers affiliated with the Ministry of Interior who were involved in the case. The next stage of the trial is expected to involve the cross-examination of the activists.
However, the indictment and charges against the Kurdish activists are like a reflection in London of the absurd allegations in the KCK trials in Türkiye. While the file contains no concrete evidence of any act of violence, the allegations of organizational ties appear to be based primarily on political, social, and cultural activities.
The nature of the elements presented as "evidence of crime" in the trials held so far and in the indictment reveals the lack of legal basis in the case.
The indictment cites the discovery of a spare key to a safe belonging to the Kurdish Community Center during a search of Ercan Akbal's home as evidence supporting the claim that he was a "high-ranking leader of the organization."
The anthem "Çerxa Şoreşê," sung by Agit Karataş and his friends, was also presented as evidence of membership in the organization. The anthem, written by Xelîl Xemgîn in 1988 against the Halabja Massacre and oppression in Kurdistan, was described by the prosecutor's office as a "PKK anthem."
<THE CAMPAIGN INCLUDING NOBEL LAUREATES IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE FILE.
One of the allegations of "membership in an organization" leveled against Agit Karataş was his support for the "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan" campaign, which was launched by 16 trade unions in the UK in 2016 and expanded internationally in 2023. The prosecution characterized this campaign as "organizational activity."
The prosecution also considered the campaign, which included Nobel laureates, academics, and politicians, and was conducted as an "Action Committee," as illegal organizational activity. The prosecution stated, "Conducting a campaign for Abdullah Öcalan's freedom demonstrates affiliation with the organization."
The British prosecutor argued that the word "Heval," which means "friend" and "comrade" in Kurdish and is widely used in daily life, was indicative of an organizational link among the defendants. The prosecution presented the activists' use of this term to support the charge of "affiliation with an organization."
<EVEN GRAVESIDE COMMEMORATIONS ARE A CRIME.
The indictment also included as grounds for charges the memorial ceremonies and condolences held at the Kurdish Community Center. Specifically, events and graveside commemorations for those who lost their lives fighting against ISIS in Rojava in the ranks of the YPG were deemed to fall under the category of "organizational activity."
In this context, the indictment included as "terrorist activities" the commemorations held for British activists Jack Holmes, Anna Campbell, Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, Oliver Hall, and British citizen Mehmet Aksoy, who were martyred in the fight against ISIS, as well as the condolences and commemorations held for Kurds who lost their lives in the conflicts in Kurdistan.
The commemorative events held at the grave of Mehmet Aksoy in Highgate Cemetery were also presented by the prosecutor's office as "organizational activity."
The prosecution also presented as "evidence of membership in a terrorist organization" the fact that Kurdish politician and writer Ali Poyraz commemorated Hüseyin Poyraz (Rubar Dicle), who was martyred in a Turkish state airstrike on January 6, 2017, at the Kurdish Community Center and accepted condolences.
The prosecution also used an old case file found in the home of Ali Poyraz, who was arrested and tried for treason in Türkiye during the 1980 military coup when he was 17 years old, as evidence of membership in a terrorist organization.
<CULTURAL ACTIVITIES WERE CONSIDERED AN 'ORGANIZATIONAL LINK'.
The British prosecutor also described the Kurdish Community Centre, which has been operating in London's Haringey district since 1988, as a "PKK base." The center, which provides cultural, social, and health services to immigrant communities, was identified by the prosecution as a place where organizational activities are carried out.
The Kurdish Community Centre (KCC) in London, also referred to as the "Kurdish House," is known for hosting a number of prominent figures, including British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, Jeremy Corbyn, Bambos Charalambous, and Catherine West, as well as leading figures in the trade union movement such as Simon Dubbins, and numerous academics, artists, poets, and writers.
In response to the prosecution's allegations of criminalizing the 37-year-old Kurdish Community Centre (KCC), defense lawyers presented the jury with photographs of figures such as David Lammy and Jeremy Corbyn taken inside the KCC building.
<QAZI MUHAMMED IS ALSO 'LINKED TO THE ORGANIZATION'
The British prosecutor, showing no signs of slowing down in the criminalization process, also classified all materials found at the Kurdish Community Center during the operation on November 27, 2024, as "organizational material." The indictment included photographs of Kemal Pir, Hayri Durmuş, and Akif Yılmaz, who died in prison during the September 12 military coup in Türkiye, as well as images of other Kurds and internationalists who died at different times, all presented as evidence.
In this context, photographs of Qazi Muhammad, the leader of the Mahabad Republic, Sheikh Said, Sayyid Riza, and Önder Apo were also presented by the prosecution as evidence of organizational links.
The prosecution presented a WhatsApp conversation as evidence of "membership in a terrorist organization" against activist Berfin Kurban. However, defense lawyers presented to the court that the conversation in question was with British journalist Jake Hanrahan, who was arrested in Amed in 2015 on charges of "espionage." The attempt to create a charge of "membership in a terrorist organization" from a conversation with a journalist was noted by the jury.
The indictment, which focuses on criminalizing Kurds, alleges that there is a hierarchical link between the Kurdish Democratic Society Congress (KCDK-E) and the Kurdish Society Center, both Kurdish democratic organizations in Europe. It claims that the Center's reporting to the KCDK-E is part of the organizational functioning.
The file also cited marches, panels, seminars, Newroz events, and women's and youth activities organized in London and across England as "evidence of crime." Furthermore, the adoption of the "Democratic Confederalism" paradigm developed by Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı prison was used as grounds for the alleged organizational affiliation.
<CO-CHAIRMANSHIP AND WOMEN'S LIBERATS APPROACHES DEEMED 'CRIMINAL ACTIVITY'
The indictment also included accusations and considered "criminal activities" related to the Kurds' pursuit of political and social models such as organizing through assemblies, the co-chairmanship system, and a gender-egalitarian approach to governance.
Defense lawyers argued in court that the activities in question should be considered within the scope of freedom of expression and democratic organization, making assessments regarding Kurdish history, sociology, and the concept of democratic confederalism.
<'IT'S NOT JUST SIX PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING JUDGED, THE KURDISH PEOPLE ARE.'
Ali Has, one of the lawyers in the case, made assessments regarding the trial process and summarized the case with the following words:
“Democratization is not being attributed to the Kurds. According to the prosecutor's approach, the Kurds are being told 'you cannot be democrats' and are being labeled as criminals. The process of democratic organization and democratic struggle of the Kurds is practically not considered legitimate.”
Has stated that the trial was not limited to the six Kurds, and indicated that the case should be considered within a broader context, saying, "We are facing a case that questions why Kurds prefer a democratic organizational model. This case targets not only the six Kurds, but also the democratic and cultural organization of the Kurdish people."
Has, noting the similarity between the template used in the indictment and the template used in KCK cases in Türkiye, stated, “Just like in the KCK cases, the trial is being conducted through an organizational template. Democratic activities such as the word 'Heval,' the concept of 'Hamle Committee,' or the campaign for Öcalan's freedom are presented as evidence of guilt. The prosecution presents these activities as proof of 'membership and affiliation with an organization.'"
Has emphasized that there were no confidential witnesses in the file and no allegations of weapons or acts of violence, adding that the accusations were based on words, meetings, and symbols.
<'HEVAL' MEANS MEMBERSHIP IN AN ARMED ORGANIZATION.
Has also reacted to the portrayal of the 37-year-old Kurdish Community Center as an "organizational center," saying, "The KCC is a center where the community carries out social and cultural activities. Raids, keys to safes, condolences, commemorations, and accusations based on photographs amount to the criminalization of democratic activities."
Lawyer Ali Has stated that footage of raids on the homes of Kurdish activists was also shown to the jury during the trials. Has said, “During the raids, doors were broken down with sledgehammers, and some detainees were subjected to physical abuse. This footage had an impact on the jury and brought the element of police repression and violence against Kurds into the trial process.”
Has stated that the prosecution presented anti-YPG and anti-ISIS commemorations, interviews with journalists, and social events as evidence, adding, "Democratic confederalism and social organization practices are being portrayed as criminal offenses. This approach targets the democratic organizational practices of Kurdish communities."
Has emphasized that there was no concrete evidence in the file regarding the charge of "membership in an armed organization," and pointed out that the elements highlighted in the indictment were concepts such as "Heval" and "Hamle."
<'THERE IS NO ALLEGATION OF VIOLENCE, ONLY ACCUSATION OF BEING A MEMBER OF AN ARMED ORGANIZATION.'
Ali Has stated that the case was being conducted under the 2001 'Terror Law,' which came into effect after September 11, and said, "The Kurds are being tried as 'members of an armed organization,' but there is not a single allegation of an act of violence."
Has stated that the political and social organization carried out by the Kurds on the basis of democratic confederalism is being made the subject of accusations, and said the following:
“The defense is very clear: Democratic Confederalism is a pluralistic and civil political model. Kurdish youth engaging in political and cultural activities is not a criminal act, but a social choice. Political symbols, songs, and campaigns fall under freedom of expression. Kurdish community centers arose from the sociological needs of the diaspora.”
<HOW DID THE CASE BEGIN?
The raid on the Kurdish Community Centre (KCC) and Kurdish activists in London on the night of November 27, 2024, was recorded as one of the most violent police operations the Kurdish people have faced in Europe in recent years.
British police simultaneously raided the Kurdish Community Centre building and the homes of several Kurdish activists at 3:05 AM on November 27. During the operation, they used battering rams and sledgehammers to break down the doors of the KCC building and the activists' homes, and beat the activists they detained by forcing them to lie on the ground with their hands cuffed behind their backs.
During the raid, a 15-year-old Kurdish boy named RP was also injured. Hediye Akbal, the wife of Kurdish activist Ercan Akbal, who was detained during the raid on their home, suffered a heart attack while handcuffed. Akbal was taken to the ambulance still handcuffed and then admitted to the hospital for treatment.
The operation involved police officers affiliated with the Turkish Police Association. British police made statements criminalizing the KCC and Kurds. Violence was used against those present at the Kurdish Community Center building where a young Kurdish man named Mazlum Sayak was detained, and the beds of Kurdish refugees were covered in blood.
For five days, the police virtually set up a police station in front of the houses where Türkan Budak, co-chair of the Kurdish People's Assembly, Ercan Akbal, an employee of the KHM, Kurdish politician and writer Ali Poyraz, Kurdish Foreign Relations Representative Agit Karataş, and Kurdish women's activists Berfin Kurban and Mazlum Sayak were staying.
The Kurdish Community Center, which has been serving hundreds of thousands of people, primarily the Kurdish people, on immigration, cultural, social and community issues since 1988, was closed by the police for two weeks and searches were conducted in its building.
The police report stated that the bank accounts of KCC and Heyva Sor were seized.
In front of the KCC building, which was the target of the operation, the police attacked the Kurdish people and their supporters who had been protesting since the first day; many people were detained and injured. As the police dragged the protesters away and detained them, the resistance against the violence grew.
Iron barricades and concrete barriers were erected in front of the KCC building. A group of Kurds set up a tent in front of the barricade and began a hunger strike. The hunger strike tent was visited by many people, including North London mayors, NGOs, and Technology Minister Feryal Clark Demirci. Throughout the process, protest marches were held with the participation of tens of thousands of people.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in mass marches against the British police's criminalization policies, chanting "Hands off the Kurds!" As the resistance spread, the Kurdish people and their friends amplified the resistance against this criminalization and attacks for nine days in the streets, in diplomacy, and in all areas of life.
An unprecedented event occurred in London; shopkeepers on Green Line Street, where the KCC building is located, closed their shutters in protest against the police's criminalization operation.
Following growing resistance, British police officially handed over the KCC building, which had been surrounded by iron and concrete barriers, to the Kurdish Community Center administrators and the center's lawyer. Upon receiving the building, it was observed that the doors had been broken down and a thorough search had been conducted inside the association building.
As Kurds returned to the KCC building, the detained activists were brought before the court after a 14-day period. The court imposed electronic ankle monitors on the six Kurdish activists, requiring them to sign in with the police daily, prohibiting them from leaving their homes between 6:00 AM and 7:00 PM, and preventing them from communicating with each other. The activists were also banned from entering the KCC and being in the Haringey area. Furthermore, a bail of £20,000 was set for Agit Karataş.
In the approximately 15 months that have passed, the Kurdish activists have continued to live under judicial supervision and electronic ankle monitors. The activists, who have no criminal record and have not been involved in any violent crimes during their time in the UK, continue to be tried on charges of "membership and leadership of an armed organization."
>>2703933so people are being legally persecuted without actually committing crimes? surely there will be compensation at the end of the trial, then.
>>2703933>>2703934>>2703936Btw this is the NADEK or Kurdish People’s Democratic Assembly of Britain. Have worked with them quite a bit; all solid comrades from start to finish. Criminalisation of Kurdish activism is a direct result of Turkey buying off british politicians (including anti-Corbynites like John Woodcock) during the 2000s during the "War on Terror".
https://www.instagram.com/kurdishassemblyuk/?hl=en >>2703961>Turkey buying off british politiciansis that a substantiated claim?
>>2703967"Yes"
https://www.dailysabah.com/eu-affairs/2017/12/20/british-deputy-woodcock-europeans-must-understand-turkeys-fight-against-extremism-betterBAE and a lot of the british arms industry has major sellers in the Turkish State. As such MPs with large Arms exporting factories in their constituencies get paid tours in Turkey to prop up Erdogan. Also notice how both the PKK and DHKP-C are both proscribed organisations despite them never even once having conducting anything near an attack on British Soil. This was a result of a deal made with Turkey during the war on terror that turkish police would train british firearms officers to deal with "suicide bombers". This lead to the killing of Charles Menzes.
Even the Neolibs recognise this;
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkeysource/whats-behind-the-strengthening-uk-turkey-partnership/ >>2703986i used to let my jack russell sleep in bed with me
>>2703999my point is more that 'human pet' is enough of a sector of the population to be catered to in lidl
>>2704054well, we've been a "housewife in pyjamas and leggings" culture for a while now, so any crass low-brow product is destined to sweep the british market, in our extended adolescence.
>>2703933>The operation involved police officers affiliated with the Turkish Police Association. British police made statements criminalizing the KCC and Kurds. Violence was used against those present at the Kurdish Community Center building \>>2703993Do you know anything about this, anon? Sounds like there is a close Turkish connection in the Met
>>2704054That's clearly not Lidl, Tarquin
>>2703849it is not Oikophobia to dislike people who are dissimilar to you. if a Scotsman hates an Englishman (or vice-versa), that is xenophobia. ibid for a stereotypical Green voter and a stereotypical Reform voter.
>>2703854A Scotsman who doesn't recognize London as "the culture I come from" is not an Oikophobe, ibid for a Londoner in Scotland, or indeed Yorkshire.
>>2703922Yep, nationalism was a progressive, modernist and leftist ideology back then since it was posited as an alternative to both empire and theocracy back in Europe, with the nation-state thus being a secular model of governance meant to solidify a state that encompassed various clans and regions, often with different dialects and religions.
Not sure when did nationalism became a codeword for reactionary politics in the western part of Europe, but methinks it was probably due to the political shifts that occurred during the Cold War, as internationalism took precedence over patriotism in the New Left, leading the right to take over the mantle of “nationalism”.
Regarding how right-wing “patriots” are invariably globalists, you’re actually right if the ChudIntern cultivated by Big Tech is anything to go by. Matter of fact, the Populism Inc., parties in Europe are just one of the many wings of the globalist elite, serving to further Americanise the continent alongside the woketards. A key example is the importation of American culture war slop and redefining everything under the woke vs anti-woke dialectic, as well as how the term “white” as a denonym for pan-European identity has taken over political discourse in European countries outside of France and Britain, arguably the hotbeds of white nationalism in that continent.
Similar dialectics are imported into Asia and Latin America as well.
While today’s ChudIntern makes this all the more apparent thanks to chuds worldwide consooming the same AI-generated slop and agitprop made by the mockingbird influencer network funded by oligarchs and spread by Indian, African, and Southeast Asian farm bots + actual human shills, the trend was already underway back in the 2010s and perhaps even in the late 19th century.
As to why? My hypothesis is that, since nationalism and reactionary politics as they exist today are largely an European product that got formalised during the colonial period and imported by the colonial intelligentsia (like the founders of India’s Hindutva movement, secular Persian nationalists, Ba’athists, as well as China’s Kuomintang, who were all educated in western academies) across the world, therefore many of the trends that we see in European and North American politics are easily observable across the world, especially in more westernised countries like South Korea and Taiwan. It certainly helped that back then the world was more interconnected along intellectual lines.
The Cold War only solidified that trend as America sought to counter global communism by forming a globalist alliance of anti-communists, which resulted in the homogenisation of the western right and the right elsewhere all the way to the present.
It’s certainly notable how, with the exception of France’s New Right, practically every right-wing movement in Europe owes its current fad to American culture, especially in the meme department to the point that the average Euro-chud is either a white neocon or has their brains melted by 4cuck’s /pol/, or how both Persian and Indian diasporoid chuds haven’t produced any original political trend that isn’t just boomercon, busherism, /pol/tardism, or general anti-Islamic secular nationalism with Hindu/Zoroastrian LARP aesthetics.
>>2704084I took the photo myself an hour and a half ago, you utter twat
>>2704121lol must be a regional thing? I go there all the time and have never seen a 'limited offer' sign like that. I thought it was home bargains or something like that
>>2704097What utter sophistry. Leftists from England hate the English nation, English Society, and the English people. Most of them would rather be Irish/Palestinian/whatever else. There is nothing wrong in that on an individual level but at a systemic one you have a ore of people dominating an entire political current who are fundamentally alienating to the vast majority of the society they are trying to influence. They don't do this shit in France.
>>2704077I don't have any sources to hand but there is close police cooperation with the Met and Turkish police (hence the reference to Operation Kratos). I will admit I am biased in that I work with affiliates of the KPDAB in the North but members hav etold me that they get picked up for things (such as the "Peace Sign") which only makes sense if the Turkish State is providing them with that info.
>>2704196You can square this circle very easily by recognizing that none of the nations of the British Isles are normal.
First of all, there's the schizophrenic relationship Englishness to Britishness. Then there's the schizophrenic nature of Britishness on top of that.
Then, more to the point:
Have you considered the notion that Leftism is foreign to England? England's indigenous leftists were completely and utterly extinguished on St. George's Hill. (Today a gated community) Everything else is liberalism, reaction, or import.
There is a reason the Labour party is (and always has been) such a bad joke, and it's not because the left aren't sufficiently respectful of the Englishman's love of misery and deference to bastards.
However, that may be too radical, so have a softer argument: look at any opinion polling data and you will find it's literally just age and education. Leftists and even social liberals are young and educated, rightists and general cunts are old and less educated.
The past is a foreign country, and that's never more true than somewhere like Britain where the nation was invented in 1945 and sent to the scrapheap starting in 1979. Everyone else has grown up in post-Britain.
Contra what I said earlier: The majority of English are leftists or at least liberals. The problem is that England is occupied by entitled refugees from the
Former British Kingdom of England (date of death ~1982) who keep voting, as an ethnic bloc, against the interests of the indigenous English. Indeed, they've already convinced England that they're actually a constituent part of something called Britain, that this land was promised to the British circa 1945… The English are, of course, xenophobic to these British invaders and - like good celtic nationalists - empathetic to other migrants who can bolster the anti-Britfugee bloc. To call it Oikophobia would be like claiming that Palestinian resentment of Israelis is Oikophobia…
>>2704289you vaguepost because you have no counterargument. the old are foreign to the young, the uneducated are foreign to the educated, the good and the mediocre are foreign to the earthly incarnation of most that is evil.
propaganda works poorly on the young and the educated. for an object example in this, look at how young people and people with degrees voted in 2019. i'll spoil it for you: if only the young could vote, Corbyn would've won the greatest landslide in this nation's history. if only people with degrees could vote, he would've won a majority on a par with Blair's. there was no institutional propaganda apparatus sincerely pushing for a Labour vote. The Labour party itself was trying to throw the election -
And yet! >>2704298I'm not vague posting, that's the entire thing in a nutshell. Your arsehole will contract at the mere sight of a union jack because of a targeted propaganda campaign.
Young people are predominantly left leaning because:
a) propaganda works on them
b) they are naive
c) they don't have anything to lose
d) communism is like a club that welcomes them (see peacocking as a social behavior)
e) divide and conquer is deployed along every possible fissure of society and old/young is a very obvious one
>>2704301i wouldn't give a damn about the union jack if it represented something. a union jack in 1970s footage is all well and good. christ, a union jack in photographs of the victorian British empire is all well and good. the problem with the union jack nowadays is that they slap it on everything to make up for the fact that it fundamentally represents nothing.
go away and read "The Rise and Fall of the British Nation". you do not give the impression of knowing what "Britain" was, which makes it pointless to explain why there is little to love in the rubble and why you cannot bring the long-excised lovable parts back by waving a flag like a bloke in a cargo cult digging runways in the solomon islands in the hopes it'll bring the planes back. (perhaps he simply didn't love planes enough, perhaps there's a bad islander who hates planes…)
>>2704314notice how it doesn't face any of the points raised
>>2704323every single one of them would move us from the interesting discussion about the nature of britain/england on to other, less interesting topics where
you can play the sophist.
but fine, fuck it.
>a) propaganda works on themyou're going to have to say who this propaganda is from. it's pretty weird that young people have consistently come to hate the governing party post-2015. you're also going to have to explain the shift in voting behavior between 2017 and 2019: there was a lot of anti-Labour propaganda, but the youth/educated vote held up. it was older, stupider people who switched to the Tories. there's an obvious case for the impact of propaganda here - but it can't implicate the people who didn't change!
>b) they are naiveeveryone under 50 is naive? shut the fuck up, retard. people even older than that with degrees are
more naive than those without? shut the fuck up, retard.
>c) they don't have anything to loseseems like a pretty big governing fuckup to me, personally. an even bigger fuckup still to not use the magic propaganda machine to make them
think there's something for them to lose.
>d) communism is like a club that welcomes them (see peacocking as a social behavior)most people aren't communists. your party is a total flop despite being the single most credible communist-adjacent thing to have ever hit these isles.
>e) divide and conquer is deployed along every possible fissure of society and old/young is a very obvious oneactually once you control for age and education, every other fissure is pretty mundane. pretty much every other country has a big sex divide in voting patterns, but in britain both young men and young women are overwhelmingly left-liberal sympathetic. britain is anomalous in this regard, young men are usually rightoids.
now fuck off to libgen or waterstones and get yourself a copy of "the rise and fall of the british nation" by david edgerton.
>>2704340I said young people are naive. The fact you are even going to dispute this shows how little of the world you understand.
The people with things to lose (i.e a house, retard) are more likely to be conservative (i.e to want to *conserve* things, retard)
Young people are either apathetic to politics, or it becomes their substitute for having a personality.
>every other fissure is mundaneso like race, religion, region, rich, poor, north/south, country, God damn you are thick.
>>2704340It's time to stop fucking reading books and to get a fucking job son
>>27043791. then you have failed to account for the left-liberal leaning nature of the 30-50 age group. you cannot have it both ways.
2. your just-so stories fail to account for actual voting behavior. (the people who want to
conserve "things" voted for brexit - the risky option - instead of the status quo.) these same people overwhelmingly want Reform UK - who promise to shake things up - not Labour or Tory status-quoism. indeed, it's also the case that while poorer constituencies voted for brexit, it was the richer people in those constituencies who did so. put together: those who have something to lose are so confident that they
won't lose it that they're fucking around and breaking things for fun. it is the people who have nothing to lose who are, perversely, putting all their hopes in jeremy corbyn or zak polanski giving them a tenner with a fully costed social democratic disappointment budget.
3. if conservatism means conserving some dickhead's buy-to-let empire of damp former council houses, you'll forgive me and everyone else under 50 if we throw our lots in with jewish transgender islamic globalist communism or whatever retarded bogeyman you believe is pulling the strings of the young and the smart (but not the government, the press, the old, or the stupid…) so that they… consistently don't get what they want at elections.
believe it or not: ethnic minorities and majorities, religious and irreligious, rich, poor, north/south, and even scots, english, welsh, and the utterly irrelevant ulstermen all have ages and education levels. none of them correlate with voting behavior as strongly as age and education. (and age and education can't be disentangled so easily, since university enrollment has gone up over time.)
>>2704382you are morally obliged to read on the job whenever possible.
>>2703986>>2703956>>2703954>>2703951<The important political interests of leftybritpolYou faggots are so worthless, i need to start minimizing this thread.
I hate living in this country, full of brain damaged simpletons who are barely literate.
>>2704418You're a liberal but at least you're interesting.
Lawyer Margaret Owen protested the trial of Kurds at the Old Bailey.<https://1649452211.rsc.cdn77.org/20260224222440_2026-02-25-londra-margaret-owen-avukat-insan-haklari-ativisti_1.mp4The trial at the Old Bailey in London, described as a criminalization case against the Kurdish people and in which six Kurds are being prosecuted, is ongoing. Following the reading of the indictment and the completion of cross-examinations of the police officers involved in the operation, the cross-examination of the Kurdish activists has begun. Ercan Akbal, one of the first Kurdish activists to be questioned, is currently undergoing cross-examination.
As the trial, which is being likened to the KCK trials once described as 'absurd' in Türkiye, continues, human rights defenders are also expressing their reactions.
Margaret Owen, a 94-year-old veteran human rights lawyer and advocate in England, came to the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London, where the trial was taking place, to both protest the proceedings and express her disapproval.
Owen, known for his admiration of Öcalan's ideas, drew attention by holding an Abdullah Öcalan flag. Owen harshly criticized the operation against the Kurds, saying, “I will turn 94 in May, and I can’t believe how this country has changed. The operation, which criminalizes the Kurds and portrays them as ‘terrorists,’ has no human or legal basis whatsoever. This country has become a police state, and I can’t believe I’m living in such a country.”
<'KURDS ARE OPPRESSED IN THIS COUNTRY'Owen, 94, stated that they will not forget what happened during the operation against the Kurds on November 27, 2024, and continued as follows:
“We will never forget this. We will never forget how, at 3:15 a.m., armed police raided the homes and institutions of Kurds. The day after our Foreign Minister met with the Turkish Foreign Minister, the community center of this magnificent Kurdish people was raided. People were forced out into the cold. Women, even children and young people, were beaten by armed police, and then six people were arrested. Magnificent Kurdish people, wherever you are; whether in this country, in Türkiye, in Syria, in Iran, in Iraq, everywhere you are under oppression and persecution. And now here, in this country, you, the Kurds on trial, are suffering persecution in this country. Kurds are being arrested and put on trial.”
Owen, describing how the November 27 operation affected him emotionally and as a person, stated the following:
“One of the six Kurdish activists arrested was the Kurdish writer Ali Poyraz. Ali Poyraz was tried at the age of 17 during the September 12th coup and served 21 years in prison in Türkiye. Like the other activists, he was definitely not a member of the PKK. They took the Kurds to a police station in Hammersmith, very close to my home. As soon as I learned they were there, I went there because, as a lawyer, I have the right to check that the people at the station were being treated well. But the police didn't even acknowledge they were there. Then I asked if I could leave a letter, a note, for Ali Poyraz; they didn't answer. They didn't even acknowledge they were there. Then, with tears streaming down my cheeks, I walked home.”
Owen, a human rights advocate, stated that what is being done to the Kurds is proof that the UK is now a police state, saying, “We are now on very slippery ground; we may no longer have an independent judiciary. What is happening in our justice system is extraordinary. Those six people, those six Kurds, are being accused of 'aiding the PKK' in addition to democratic activities. This is complete nonsense. And there is no evidence; absolutely no evidence. I say this as a lawyer. There is no evidence that these people are 'terrorists'."
<'LAWS ARE BEING ABUSED' Owen stated that the Counter-Terrorism Act in the UK was being misused, and said the following:
“This case has also revealed that the laws are being abused. We know that in Türkiye, the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan administration is carrying out 'terrorist' activities. We know what Türkiye is doing to our wonderful Rojava in Syria. I have been to Rojava three times, and the model put forward by Abdullah Öcalan was an example for the whole world. The model that Abdullah Öcalan presented is an incredible model for peace, for equality, for women's liberation, for the planet, for freedom of belief.”
Owen, who also criticized the British media, said, “The real issue is that even our media doesn’t give the Kurds, the Kurds living here in this country who are being oppressed and persecuted, the attention they deserve. I can’t believe it,” and showing the Abdullah Öcalan flag he was holding, he added, “I am honored to proudly wave my flag.”
Margaret Owen added that the trial criminalized the cultural and democratic rights of the Kurdish people, emphasizing, "This trial against the Kurdish people is shameful."
>>2705058Sorry for wanting to have a laff mate
>>2705109>Sorry for wanting to have a laff mateYou seem fundamentally confused about where you are.
This is a leftist discussion forum.
Get some mates.
>>2705111There hasn't been 'leftist discussion' on /leftypol/ since at least 2018
>>2705289i mean does it even matter anymore, the green party struck while the iron was hot and is outflanking labour on the left while your party spent months in fighting
>>2698148>>2698172Didn't Carl of Slough get outed as a nonce on the telly years back? I thought he died.
>>27043108←——————————
really not understanding all the self congratulation over prince andrew getting arrested. there's a template for dealing with a dodgy royal and step 1 just says cut here. chop his fucking head off.
>>2705289It's unequivocally over, I don't see why anyone would give a shit about YP at this point. If you want to do entryism why not just do it in a party people actually like like the Greens
Who do we think's going to win that by-election then?
>>2705691Honestly probably Reform
>>2705314he was still just a client, they will never look upstream
>>2704418>then you have failed to account for the left-liberal leaning nature of 30-50assuming this data hasn't been pulled out of your arse, the 'routine' bar for that age group looks to be about balanced, 50-50. Which co-insides with it being about the mid point of life and the tipping point for 'having enough of this lefty hogwash'.
>>2705756*coincides
also the intermediate bar looks balanced too, so it's just the pampered higher earners still clinging to their bullshit
Corbyn Vs Zarah was really just fighting between Labour Party style structure + siding with the Islamic MPs Vs Collective structure + siding with the transgenders
Who cares anyways. Dead party infiltrated by both soc dems and trots.
Gorton and Denton by-election results won't be in until the morning so no point staying up for it. Dno if they'll have an exit poll later, presumably there will be.
Question Time is in Birmingham tonight featuring:
>Labour's Lisa Mandy, Culture Secretary, devout Starmerite, and the most vocal government voice in seething about the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv racist violent hooligans
>Tory's Alicia Kearns, Shadow Home Secretary, one of the few One Nation Cameronite Tories left in Kemi's cabinet, perhaps the only pro-trans rights Tory MP but a Tory all the same
>Lib Dems's Jess Brown-Fuller, little known about her beyond being a newly elected middle class liberal from Norfolk
>Tom Kerridge, TV chef, former Labour supporter, self declared centrist
>Esther Krakue, black female Talk TV, Daily Mail, Daily Express journalist trying to climb her way into being Britain's Candace Owens. Apparently too radical for GB News so they binned her. ᴉuᴉlossnW as a black woman.
Flood detected because I fucked the post up
>>2705715How are those fuckwits still in the running? I've never seen a more obvious seppo psy-op. Farage has to be taking yank money. the material consequences of Brexit were disasterous for the UK and increased dependence on the US. Basically a taiwan or ukraine but for europe (and more squalid and miserable).
There's a candidate, Hugo Wils, for the Communist League in today's by-election, a miniscule party of seemingly just 10 members.
Their ideology is some schizophrenia induced fusion of hardcore Zionism and Trotskyism.
They love Israel! They love Trotsky! And that's seemingly the whole of their ideology.
They also run this website:
https://themilitant.com/>>270575650/50 left/right is to the left of how we've been governed + people tend(ed) to get promoted as they get older, particularly in a service economy
BBC seem to be implying they think Reform has won it without saying so directly.
Most likely outcome seems to be Reform 1st, Greens 2nd, Labour 3rd….
>>2706213Mancunian proles who know nothing about Marxism are going to see these retards claiming to represent the communist position and resultingly presume all communists are obsessively pro-israel
>>2706143We have to deal with these lot in Manchester they love rocking up to Kurdish demos actively promoting Netanyahu. They're not even "we support the Israeli 'left'" they are just full on Bibists.
Shahists attacked a Stop the War meeting last night on opposing Trumpian Imperialism. We are into some dark territory.
>press all reporting in unison that there are concerns about "family voting" in the byelection
calling it: the greens have won and they're getting in early to explain why it doesn't count and Labour needs to move further to the right
>>2706361>BREAKING: Lucy Powell has said that the Greens have won the argument in the Gorton and Denton by-election more effectively than Labour. She also appeared to concede defeat in an interview with Sky Newslooking more and more like greens won it.
now we wait for the knives to come out for sir keith
Seems the atmosphere is now the the Greens have won it
>>2706143>Their ideology is some schizophrenia induced fusion of hardcore Zionism and Trotskyism. They're followers of the same schizos in the American SWP, which is nothing at all like the British SWP (which in fact has more in common with the now defunt American ISO).
>>2706143>They also run this website: https://themilitant.com/Take a look
Green - 14,980 - 40.6%
Reform - 10,578 - 28.7%
Labour - 9,364 - 25.4%
Conservative - 706 - 1.9%
Liberal Democrats - 653 - 1.8%
Monster Raving Loony - 159 - 0.4%
Advance UK - 154 - 0.4%
Rejoin EU - 98 - 0.3%
Libertarian - 47 - 0.1%
Social Democratic Party - 46 - 0.1%
Communist League - 29 - 0.1%
next general election will be a straight choice between greens and reform
BBC is crying about the Greens using Urdu, mentioning Israel, being anti-NATO, decriminalizing drug use, etc
>>2706503with libdems and labour on the sidelines
>>2706499>Monster Raving Loony - 159 - 0.4%i'm happy for the MRLP still do it. Most consistent people in politics.
Make America Great Britain Again!
>>2706659Is that a pic of the candidate fucking a pig? Ballsy. Good thing you cropped it so as not to fall afoul of our 'feral porn' rule!
Anyways, I saw this earlier and these images always make me laugh, whoever makes them
>>2705756>>27057591. there is no 'routine' bar for 'that age group', 30-50 straddles 18-34 and 35-49. e.g. if it's 50/50 in 35-49, it's almost certainly left leaning in 30-50.
2. see
>>2704240 30-39, in aggregate, vote 47% for Lab/Greens alone, then another 16% for Lib dems, utterly squishing Reform. 40-49 are 51% Green/Labour/Lib-Dem to 42% Con/Reform. Even 50-59 lack an outright Con/Ref majority. (49%)
3. social grade is a meme. a nurse is a professional, but a train driver paid twice as much is "routine." it is an utterly vibes-based system.
4. voters do not get more right wing as they age
in general, this is a generational phenomenon. boomers got massively more right-wing as they aged, gen x took longer, and millennials are taking even longer still (actually getting
more left wing with age so far.)
5. though current polling is odd, the point for labour/tory crossover
>>2706361called it again award
>>2706497lol lmao, not even close.
Reform are only up ~6% on their 2024 result + tory 2024 result.
>>2706686I don't know what else to say to you other than go outside. Peole0le under pressure are less charitable, this should go without saying.
>>2706686Sounds like a whole heap of clutching at straws combined with synthetically grouped data to fit an agenda.
>>2706686>no it's not true it's uhhh…. It's a GENERATIINAL PHENOMENONfucks sake man come on, do I need to cellotape it to a stick and hit you with it?
>>2706690>>2706692you know if you think before you post you can aggregate all your points instead of double posting.
but then "think" is, as we know from every opinion survey, an alien concept to the reform-sympathetic.
older people are not, in general, under more pressure than young/middle aged people. routine workers are not, strictly speaking, under more pressure than professionals. (is a nurse with a mortgage really better off than a comfortably-off guy's wife with a part-time job in her friend's shop?) moreover, while it is generally true that people under more pressure are less "charitable", anyone who votes against a life-raft for themselves because you might give one to somebody else too is an
idiot, squaring with the general thesis: stupid nasty old people vote right-wing. smart half-decent young and middle aged people do not.
it is not synthetic to go "what factors have the strongest correlation with voting left/right" and then showing those factors. there is some correlation with social grade, but a much stronger correlation with age and education. (and age and education are themselves interrelated, as mentioned earlier, because more young people go to university/college now than in the past.)
"it's just young people falling for propaganda (which magically doesn't work on the old despite the old consuming more, often blatantly propagandist legacy media)" isn't data, it's just you desperately trying to explain why mostly-retired bastards vote your way and mostly-in-work nice people vote mine, why Labour won the last election entirely off the back of enough bastard-voters
dying between 2020 and 2024 to let them win despite not gaining a single vote on their 2019 result.
>>2706695no arguments detected.
have a graph. (older, but illustrates the general trend and shows how britain differs from the US)
>>2706700What's the point arguing with them? You've clearly proved the point and they still won't take it, these people have to keep dreaming that right wingers are secretly left and left wingers are secretly right for their idiotic social conservative socialist shit to work
Are you having a Key with Polanski?
>>2706499lmao the Tory candidate is a trustee of TERF group "sex matters" and their reward for picking a culture war candidate is… the worst byelection result in the 192 year history of the tory party
>>2706659based and loony pilled
>>2706742Is it actually? Damn that's funny. Maybe both Labour and Tories will die out for Greens and Reform
>>2706769That's looking very likely right now. Kind of wild that we might be watching the end of a 200-year-old political party
>>2706778>might be watching the end of a 200-year-old political partyBeen happening through Europe for 2 decades, the shadow of 08 looms long. The only reasons to think it would never happen here were exceptionalism and hubris.
>>2706787I have to admit some ignorance here. Have any of those other parties collapsed to the extent that the Tories seem to have, to the point where they might basically not exist in a near future? I genuinely don't know.
Lol, Starver sent an email to all labour members blaming Galloway for the Green's win.
From the baggy to the key, Manchester will be free!
So did the Greens win?
>>2707021So… no actual freedom for the angloids ever again
>>2707021>sectarianismI don’t think she ran on a campaign of catholic irish republicanism, what drugs do you have to be on to write opinion columns in the UK? In the US it’s booze and benzos
>>2707050No you see Muslims voted for her because of Gaza and hatred of the west, 10 husbands each watched over their 600 wives to make sure they voted Green. It's antisemitic ethnic politics vote-banking and the beginning of the end. No other party in British politics has ever done anything like it.
>>2707114And we all know British Jews would never do something similar
British Jews gave us Fish and Chips.
>>2707229And 150 years of Tory rule
>>2706700>older people are not under more pressure Right let me spell it out for you. If you have a house. If you have a livelihood. If you have children. If you've paid into the system for half your life.
You are going to be less likely to want to listen to some snot nosed brat who has never so much as worked for a day. Particularly when their ideas are "overthrow the monarchy" and "upend the financial system"
Yes? Do you get it yet?
Older people, not sure of you have met any, are much more set in their ways
It's part of being old. This is the opposite of wanting change. In effect, they want the status quo which IS WHAT CONSERVATISM IS YOU TWAT
In contrast, young people don't really care if their future needs to be picked from the rubble of the old ways, because it makes no odds to them
>>2706700You can see my views mirrored in what the Green party has just said:
"Working hard used to get you something"
I.e their voter base feel that they don't have anything (a house) (a career) (a future)
>>2706700And furthermore, what kind of opinionated tosser has the time or inclination to fill out a fucking political survey? Honestly ask yourself that question
>>2707239>some snot nosed brat who has never so much as worked for a dayyou mean a 34 year old in a routine occupation (statistically, most likely a green voter per
>>2704418) ?
you mean
40% of the voters in gorton and denton?
>they want the status quoyou've tried this before and i've told you why it doesn't wash. they weren't afraid of upending our financial and trade systems when they overwhelmingly voted for Brexit, then doubled down and backed the party promising that they'd go for Brexit no matter the cost, were they? if they wanted the
status quo they wouldn't back Reform, they'd back Labour or the Tories. (You can even see this effect:
really old people still lean Tory because they're set in their ways, but a 65 year old is young enough to want to fuck around and watch
others find out.)
now: do
you want the status quo? if you could drag
this out to infinity, would you go "ah yes, the conservatism I love"? would you say it's oikophobia to oppose this status quo?
i'll take us back to the original argument:
>>2704097 ,
>>2704240the status quo is foreign to me.
making the status quo even worse is
even more foreign to me than this foreign status quo. my countrymen are the "better things are possible" crowd, everyone else should be sent to pick litter in Rwanda until they've sorted themselves out.
>>2707254is it oikophobia to dislike people who have nothing in common with you economically, socially, or culturally, just on the basis that the state considers you both citizens (while treating them much better than you)? that is, after all, where this discussion began (though your subsequent reply suggests you missed that.)
>>2707257they control for response rate, they're not complete amateurs. political opinion polling is just advertising for survey companies. if you go "we showed cadbury that people prefer plain chocolate to caramel", cadbury would get pissed off at you for sharing their secrets. so to show you're half competent, you go: "here's what % of the vote we think each party will get with each group" and if you're right, mars'll pay you money to find out why people don't like bounty bars.
>>2707268the seed post is
>>2703849 actually. you can tell because it doesn't refer to any other post, but i reply to it. "why are young people left-wing" is a side discussion to my main argument: that the old are foreign to the young and as such, it is not oikophobia to loathe them and their stupid, nasty worldview. i even went into a nice extended metaphor about them being refugees from the postwar british nation.
>>2707275i'd love for you to quote the post you've imagined that appearing in.
>>2707280
what possible hate crime could there be in stating the truth? should it be a hate crime to state the opposite: that the young are foreign to the old? a hate crime to suggest that scottish nationalism is foreign to tories and vice versa?
what would it matter to you if i were welsh, or scottish, or ulster scots, or indeed, irish from ulster?
>>2707282
my response is as follows: fine, yes. the green party is correct. so what? does that magically invalidate the research showing that the best-off old cunts in poor constituencies were the social base of the brexit vote? does that suddenly mean brexit was a vote for the then status-quo and not against the status quo 1975-2016?
you still haven't told me why it's oikophobia for young people who work hard and hold progressive social views to hate buy-to-let retirees who single-handedly prop up the careers of reactionary politicians.
>>2707292britain was in the EEC/EU for longer than you were alive. it was a founding member of the EU proper.
>>2707297then you are wittering on about a nonsense irrelevant to my point in my discussion with someone else. just like i predicted in
>>2704340>would move us from the interesting discussion about the nature of britain/england on to other, less interesting topics there then followed an extended discussion about voter behavior.
but i'll summarize it for you: oikophobia is hate for the familiar, the opposite of xenophobia. some online right-wing weirdoes believe that british leftists are oikophobes because they hate britain. i make the opposite case: they are xenophobes, because a rightists vision of britain is more foreign than paddington's darkest peru.
>>27073001975 referendum confirmed Heath's decision, which was itself confirmed by a parliamentary vote (as is/was standard in Britain until that point), anti-EEC/EU parties flopped at every election after October 1974, holding a vote at all was a weird device to get Labour out of an internal split. (we didn't have a referendum on joining the UN, NATO, or Commonwealth, did we?) maastricht was voted on by parliament, as with pretty much every other treaty. (perhaps we should've put the Bermuda II Agreement to a referendum too?)
for what it's worth I regard Britain joining the EEC as a mistake. France were correct to veto our initial application and both major parties were wrong to keep pushing the issue, though they couldn't really have known it at the time. It's just that, in the beautiful way the world works, leaving was a much stupider mistake. it has not side-slipped us over to the timeline where Britain didn't join at all, or even enabled the deranged fantasies of the people who cling to the side of the actually-existing Brexit campaign. It has created new problems but no new benefits.
Sometimes a sunk cost is sunk and trying to smash up your misguided purchase just means you're creating even more waste.
>>2707316
people knew what they were getting in 1975. heath literally stood up and gave his EU referendum debate speech on the topic of the nation state being a crock of shit that has had its day and the EEC being the first step towards a European superstate, which he argued was a good thing. the anti-EEC campaign also warned that it was putting Britain on the train towards a United States of Europe.
the only way you can make the case that anyone was lied to is if you argue the EEC/EU failed to deliver such a superstate. (which Britain gets a good deal of the blame for)
>>2707324
it is rich for any brit to talk of mutts, given the short-lived british nation (see: edgerton's book) was a mutt nation (scots, english, welsh, irish - secretly regarded as a sort of brit even after they left…)
my sense of self is perfectly secure. as, really, is that of most non-nationalists.
>>2707328
if you're going to trade washing machines between countries frictionlessly then you need to have temperature standards, imbecile.
>>2707334
Shut up Morrissey
>>2707334
>It's okay, you hate England,
….You don't?
>>2707334
Frictionless trade of automobiles is going fairly well, it wasn't the EU or EEC that fucked Britain's incompetent car industry. (Though it did, arguably, save its aviation industry from itself.)
Moreover, leaving hasn't brought it back! You can say "the EU killed our car industry, now all we have is services!" as a legitimate grievance without reaching the stupid conclusion that you should leave so that you can still have a dead car industry but also choke your service sector for good measure.
(p.s. I don't hate England, I hate the void that exists where "Britain" once was. The most practical ideal future entails an independent England which is normal about being English instead of schizophrenically identifying with a dead empire and a dead Austria-Hungary tier multinational state. The problem with "English" nationalists is that they won't take that - just being a normal country - because of that same schizo identity. This would all make sense if you'd just take my advice and read the fucking Edgerton book.)
>>2707389
>Claims to like history
>Won't read a book that smashes the declinist myths about the actually-existing British nation while setting the post-British world in that context
Ok kid
>>2706865>PASOKPrespa "Agreement" much?
Britain is down to only 10% productive laborer's, 80% are unproductive social service workers. This explains the greens win and why birthrates are so low, service workers cannot build, only act as pawns of finance. Its over.
>>2707541It's also why politics has shifted from class to culture (which favours elitism) since no one actually feels themselves part of the system of production anymore.
I had the misfortune of viewing this Lotus Eater video where the very concept of civic nationalism is mocked, as though "we" are all in agreement that no paki ought to even step foot on this sacred soil (this pro-civic nationalism position is also called "untenable" by the supposedly reformed leftist Neema Parvini; the segment also included commentary from a Lebanese immigrant who like all "based" minorities including Ben Habib or Zia Yusuf, piled on with the exclusion). One of the hosts declares that he does in fact support imperialism however and so would subject foreigners to colonial rule, so long as they were segregated by land and sea. So then, what appears to be the case is that "ethnonationalism" is really just the cleansing of the imperial core, as the periphery integrates itself into a dominating relationship, for the extraction of resources. Ethnonationalism then is not really about political sovereignty or racial destiny, its about class rule, where the labourers are racialised as being an inferior essence. We see this already existing in history, such as in the caste system, which racialised the division of labour as entailing the dharma or duty of a racial curse set upon the lower order. This same myth is replicated with the Africans, where they saw that they had the "Mark of Cain" and so needed to be redeemed by their service. Race then often appears as the distinction of class, which is classified by a division of labour in production.
If we define British ethnicity as having ancestry, then we must measure the length of time for which our ancestors have lived in Britain. If we say 1,000 years, we probably exclude 95% of all "white british", and if we say 100 years, we include black british. If we say that anyone without British ethnicity is NOT rightfully British, which then extends to the illegitimacy of their offspring, then is this a term which is arbitrarily set into indefinite generations, or is there a constitution of Britishness after a period of time (e.g. a third or fourth generation immigrant "becomes" British). If we otherwise say that anyone non-British must be deported, then we arbitrarily set a limit on when admittance into British identity is set (e.g. 1900 CE). If this is the case, the claim becomes that no one can be British again, except through inter-breeding of those who remain in Britain. As yet, they would only be 50% British, and so would they be illegitimate? The question becomes entirely convoluted at this scale.
Looking at records from 1839, it appears that the length of time set for "naturalisation" was around 2 years per immigrant (t. The People's Charter):
<That he be a native of these realms, or a foreigner who has lived in this country upwards of two years, and been naturalised.https://www.marxists.org/history/england/chartists/peoples-charter.htmThis appears to have been updated to 5 years by the British Nationality Act of 1981, and is still in effect today. So then, this grants one citizenship in the UK, which is the basic premise of Britishness (e.g. A first-generation immigrant), with the next being generational, and from this, inter-generational. In the US, the conservatives are attempting to supersede the constitutional ammendment of birthright citizenship (14th ammendment). In the UK, birthright citizenship is qualified by the British Nationality Act (1981), which sees that at least one parent must be a citizen for the child to also be a British citizen, so is stricter than the US, since undocumented immigrants may claim the birthright citizenship of their children.
>>2708281>what about cheddar man>actually everybody is africanIt's impossible to argue with these people.
So then, what is British ethnicity?
It must of necessity be the offspring of an original foreigner, whose offspring had children in Britain. The dispute then only concerns the length of time considered. Even Steve Laws appears to date back British ancestry back to the early 20th century, but at the same time claims that Jews cannot be British (thus making Benjamin D'israeli non-British). Britishness appears to be distinguished from Englishness also, which has its more permanent concept. As yet, the English (e.g. anglo-saxons) are themselves not native to Britain, and have certainly inter-married with other ethnicities, blending them together into a comprehensive complexity bound by citizenship, as Daniel Defoe relates (1701):
<Thus from a mixture of all kinds began, That het’rogeneous thing, an Englishmanhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44081/the-true-born-englishmanSo then, Englishness is also constituted by its impurity.
>>2708414You perhaps fail to grasp the point. How far back are we going? 1997? 1948? 10,000 BCE? 100,000 BCE? Once these terms are set, we can have coherent discussion.
>>2708422The African lady presenter isn't English and the British Jew isn't English.
>>2708432So what constitutes Englishness?
>>2708422With these difficult ethical quandries just ask yourself "what would israel do?"
They are taking things back 3000 years
>>2707416It's impossible to have an honest discussion here because the posts are just deleted if you don't agree with them, even when backed up by newly elected political parties.
>>2708467Nothing means anything. Congratulations, what's next?
>>2708568You can't answer the question, Charlie can't answer the question. If we're taking the country back, we need to know what the country is.
>>2708567I would gladly talk with you down the pub, but I doubt it would be wise to dox ourselves.
>>2708560And yet the original Zionists themselves were secular Ashkenazim who made deals with the Third Reich. This is also why Jewish Zionists fall into contradiction, along with Zionist Christians, since it is not a religious state (theocracy), but a National state. So to ask what Israel would do seems counter-intuitive.
>>2708422>>2708432If English-ness is the partaking of the essence of being English, then we may constitute it in different ways. If we see Englishness as deriving from the original Anglo-Saxons, then being English means having ancestry in Britain to the time of 450 CE, but apparently no further. If we have ancestry dating back before, we cannot be purely English, and may otherwise be Celtic or Roman. Likewise, if an African breeds with an Englishman, does the child thus "become" English? That is a finer point, for if the status of Englishness is qualified by purity, then the child cam be neither (i) African or (ii) English by this admixture. Yet if they remain English, then it may be supposed that a child with 1% Anglo-Saxon ancestry may be considered English. If this is true, then their race remains a permanent inheritance. If this is a fact thus, then permitting the "Out of Africa Theory", are we surely not all African, due to our origins? If not, then we must investigate further.
It is generally accepted that ethnicity is largely based on language groups, such as PIE (e.g. Aryan) which branches off to create most of the European, Indian, Persian and Native American ethnicities. What defines a separate people then is most often cultural and linguistic, with years of selective inbreeding leading to genetic distance within tribal groups. In this case, though all men may come from Africa, they separate their essence as something substantially different (for elsewise there would be no thing as ethnicity). Having these facts in mind, we may then see the Anglo-Saxons in their original history, such as their German language and custom, which becomes transformed through time. If there is a transformation of these "extended phenotypes", then does the ethnicity also change? So to say, if an African can evolve into an Englishman, can an Englishman also evolve into further sub-groups (e.g. local ethnogenesis)? If so, then Englishness must be determined by arbitrary factors, but not irrelevant ones. If a Cornish man differs from a Yorkshireman, yet Englishness is their component identity, then Englishness is mediating, and is not immediate. Thus, if Englishness comes to define the sameness of different people, then different people may become the same by this concept. Thus is the civic concept by Defoe (1701):
<From hence I only infer, that an Englishman, of all men, ought not to despise foreigners as such, and I think the inference is just, since what they are to-day, we were yesterday, and to-morrow they will be like us.https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30159/30159-h/30159-h.htm#EXPLANATORYThus, Defoe perceives that a foreigner is still foreign, but may in time "become" English. This idea is furthered in the notion of "naturalisation" (i.e. in becoming of the nature of a people), which in the 19th century, was defined by an immigrant living in England for 2 years; today, its 5 years, and with a written test, and money. Further, the person who is born on British soil may thus become English by this right of citizenship, and so indeed, if Nana Akua is born in England, may then be English. If not, why not?
Do you have any thoughts on this?
>>2708574Yeah, you've won the argument (I'm a different anon bt dubs)
Nothing means anything, so what happens now? Everyone just gets along splendidly forever more?
ttps://xcancel.com/jmcevoy_2/status/2027695257891094906#m
https://xcancel.com/declassifiedUK/status/2025616581678465455#mhttps://xcancel.com/declassifiedUK/status/2027661160305119289#mBritain is also complicit! Israel is an Anglo-American bred watchdog to bark and bite at the Arab world to extract their resources and control trade routes, then bomb it all and profit off of rebuilding and investment.
Britain has allowed the use of bases for US warplanes, seemingly moving British warplanes themselves, and is deeply in bed with Israel against Iran to the point of drawing up war plans together
>>2708574As i daid earlier, ask yourself "what wouod israel do?"
So hence we can define Englishness as being born to an English mother. Now, of you want to get your DNA testing kit out, Adolf, be my guest, but I think that would say more about you than anyone else.
>>2708599>English motherbut we still haven't described the quality of what makes the mother English. Btw, DNA tests are apparently forbidden in Israel, since so many are Ashkenazim, or of East European descent, not of Semitic descent, like Arabs. Israel is a white supremacist state, like Ukraine.
>>2708579What argument did I win? I am enquiring into the nature of English and British identity. If Charlie Downes said "Nana Akua is not English" we would have clarity, but the fact that he didn't say it means that Englishness is not simply belonging to the Anglo-Saxon bloodline, as most would basically understand it. If he is being "polite" by abstaining a forbidden truth from her, then why does he speak of Englishness at all if he simultaneously denies himself to speak of it? It appears not only confusing, but cowardly in that case.
If we define "British" as "Celtic" we go back before 450 CE, if we define British as English, we go after, and if we define it as Norman, we go after 1066 CE. The point then is that there is a gradation as the context of Britishness which has its magnitude; a process we can characterise as "naturalisation" by inter-generation.
Contradictions may appear in the common sense of such genaeologies, for the influx of racial minorities mainly occurs after 1948, yet Africans have been present since at least 1555, the same way the US based its rules of naturalisation on whiteness, yet Africans had been there since at least 1619, and Native Americans thousands of years before. Nationality then appears inherently arbitrary, but not irrelevant, as I say.
https://news.sky.com/video/starmer-uk-planes-in-the-sky-in-middle-east-13513349Speaking at Downing Street, the prime minister said that British planes "are in the sky today" in the Middle East "as part of co-ordinated regional defensive operations to protect our people, our interests and our allies".
>>2708627Imagine pressing a jew to define and prove their identity and ancestry. You'd be locked up. 'The fuck do you think you are?
>>2708627Remember the times before diversity suddenly became our strength and we didn't need to worry about defining our own identity? Good times tbh
>>2708715>our identityI have Irish ancestry, so do I count as one of "you"?
Here's what Engels writes on the Irish (1845):
<What does such a race want with high wages? The worst quarters of all the large towns are inhabited by Irishmen. Whenever a district is distinguished for especial filth and especial ruinousness, the explorer may safely count upon meeting chiefly those Celtic faces which one recognises at the first glance as different from the Saxon physiognomy of the native, and the singing, aspirate brogue which the true Irishman never loses. I have occasionally heard the Irish-Celtic language spoken in the most thickly populated parts of Manchester. The majority of the families who live in cellars are almost everywhere of Irish origin. In short, the Irish have, as Dr. Kay says, discovered the minimum of the necessities of life, and are now making the English workers acquainted with it. Filth and drunkenness, too, they have brought with them. The lack of cleanliness, which is not so injurious in the country, where population is scattered, and which is the Irishman's second nature, becomes terrifying and gravely dangerous through its concentration here in the great cities. The Milesian deposits all garbage and filth before his house door here, as he was accustomed to do at home, and so accumulates the pools and dirt-heaps which disfigure the working- people's quarters and poison the air. […] this race has done much to depress wages and lower the working-class. And even if the Irish, who have forced their way into other occupations, should become more civilised, enough of the old habits would cling to them to have a strong, degrading influence upon their English companions in toil, especially in view of the general effect of being surrounded by the Irish.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch06.htmSounds identical to how people talk about pakis today.
We may begin with the Peasant Revolt of 1381, which saw English peasants terrorising Flemish immigrants because of their competition with them. With a 1604 account of the Rebellion, we have these words:
<and many fflemynges loste here heedes at that tyme, and namely they that koude nat say ‘breede and chese’, but ‘case en brode.https://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/flemings-in-the-peasants-revolt-1381/Which is to say, that many Flemings died. We see then that it is economic competition which caused the strife. Later on, we have Queen Elizabeth's open letter of expulsion against Africans in England, who she claims are taking jobs away from the English (1597):
<Her Ma[jes]tie understanding that there are of late divers Blackmoores brought into the Realme, of which kinde of people there are all ready here to manie, consideringe howe God hath blessed this land w[i]th great increase of people of our owne Nation as anie Countrie in the world, wherof manie for want of Service and meanes to sett them on worck fall to Idlenesse and to great extremytie; Her Ma[jesty’]s pleasure therefore ys, that those kinde of people should be sent forthe of the landehttps://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/elizabeth-monarchy/open-letter-by-elizabeth-i/Later on with the Acts of Union 1801, we get the imperial tactic of forcing Irishman into England to depreciate wages, which Marx says causes strife. He gives an opening history of Ireland's prosperous independence (1867):
<Between 1783 and 1801 every branch of Irish industry began to flourish. The Union, which overthrew the protective tariffs established by the Irish Parliament, destroyed all industrial life in Ireland.https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/02/11/letters-on-ireland-by-karl-marx-and-frederick-engels-from-selected-correspondence-1846-1895-international-publishers-new-york-1936/From this was a wave of evictions leading into the Great Famine (1845-52) caused by English monopoly, leading to mass immigration into England. Marx writes (1870):
<As for the English bourgeoisie, they have in the first place a common interest with the aristocracy in transforming Ireland into a mere pasture land […] Owing to the constantly increasing concentration of farming, Ireland supplies its own surplus to the English labour market and thus forces down wages and lowers the moral and material position of the English working class. And most important of all: every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working-class population divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life.https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/02/11/letters-on-ireland-by-karl-marx-and-frederick-engels-from-selected-correspondence-1846-1895-international-publishers-new-york-1936/Thus, emnity between the two camps is born from economic competition. We can see this in contemporary concerns, such as in this 2004 article:
<Unforgivable. Britain faces a new wave of immigrants from Eastern Europe. […] It suggested that the total flow would be between 5,000 and 13,000 a year.https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/press-article/62/unforgivable-britain-faces-a-new-wave-of-immigrants-from-eastern-europe-it-is-only-a-matter-of-time-before-this-governments-failed-immigration-policy-comes-home-to-roostThe "freedom of labour and capital" is cited as the source of fury, with reference to Denmark's controls over labour markets. It was this decision which also gave popularity to Brexit's rhetoric, later on (2012):
<The UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has linked a shortage of social housing in parts of London to the numbers of immigrants from Eastern Europe in particular.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17867032Thus, the "Polish Plumber" archetype. Of course, the promoters of mass immigration are not un-wise to this reality, as we may read from this article (2025):
<Illegal migrant crackdown risks pushing up takeaway prices, warns Uberhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/05/illegal-migrant-crackdown-risks-pushing-up-takeaway-prices/So then, the rationale is that less wages is beneficial for profits, by the consumer base of the British. This then means of course that these jobs will be taken by illegal immigrants rather than citizens. It's not a hallucination, this is the capitalist logic running society. Even Trump has made similar comments in regard to this (2025):
<Trump floats plan for undocumented farm and hotel workers to work legally in the U.S.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-farmworkers-hotel-workers-undocumented-legal-rcna200722Bernie Sanders also said that "open borders" is a form of class war of capital against national labour (2015):
<"What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy," Sanders said in a Vox interview posted Tuesday. "Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don't believe in that. I think we have to raise wages in this country, I think we have to do everything we can to create millions of jobs."https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bernie-sanders-immigration_n_55ba6090e4b0b8499b18a18aSo then, concerns over immigration have this rationality. However, it must be emphatically stated that most anti-immigration rhetoric is mystified by racism rather than pro-labour politics. Proof of this is in the fact that the right generally wish to both expel immigrants, but lower national wages anyway, while the left really has no consistency, by understanding that mass immigration lowers wages and social trust (what Marx and Engels also call "morality") but still support it anyway. We may read Lenin on this (1913):
<There can be no doubt that dire poverty alone compels people to abandon their native land, and that the capitalists exploit the immigrant workers in the most shameless manner. But only reactionaries can shut their eyes to the progressive significance of this modern migration of nations. Emancipation from the yoke of capital is impossible without the further development of capitalism, and without the class struggle that is based on it. And it is into this struggle that capitalism is drawing the masses of the working people of the whole world, breaking down the musty, fusty habits of local life, breaking down national barriers and prejudices, uniting workers from all countries in huge factories and mines in America, Germany, and so forth.https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/oct/29.htmThus in this contradictory way, the anti-capitalist supports capitalism for both destroying the wealth of periphery and by the importation of their labour into the core. It is as Marx says, the capitalist creates poverty abroad to promote poverty at home. Marx's solution for the Irish is national independence so as to rebuild the productive forces, but Lenin appears content to let 8 billion people live in one metropolis, which cannot unite, but can only disunite humanity.
Why did Brits elect a massive retard like Starmer? Him being a parasitic shyster should have been a dead giveaway since he was a self-described “human rights lawyer”
>>2709367to give the tories a spanking
Wings over Scotland went from abrasive socdem to defending war with Iran (and clearly desperate for Reform to win Gorton and Denton and mad the greens won) via becoming a TERF in 2016-17 when the SNP got boring. A fascinating case study in brainworms.
>>2709367They basically didn't. The people who loyally vote Labour in all circumstances voted Labour in the same numbers as 2019 when they lost badly, while the right (a) split and (b) literally died of old age and COVID-19
Why do people hate the state controlling the internet? It has been proven that the "freedom" internet did not lead to Star Trek but instead the 4th Reich. Anything that limits that should be top priority.
>>2710673>If you let people freely associate they will become nazis>the peasants must be controlled by the priestsSuch an antisocial perspective.
>>2709764Transphobia is the ultimate political litmus test.
>>2709367>Why did Brits elect a massive retard like Starmer? The election was in momentum of a "Zero Seats" campaign, which saw people completely abandon the tories, so labour had no viable opposition. LibDems also received more seats due to this tactic, strengthening a centre-left hegemony, but with a marginal popularity of the far-right as well. Continuous of Starmer's election came his repudiation of the far-right in Southport, but also of the far-left by his positions against Palestine, so is utterly unpopular and has no real loyalists, since he himself only came to power to crush Corbyn.
>>2711638pretty effed up that anyone is claiming a moral victory in this
>>2711638>planning the end of western civilisationwait, so its iran from 1979 onwards that is to blame for all the trouble, nothing else?
I expect they'll justify British involvement because "muh Akrotiri and Dhekelia military bases are at risk" despite the fact the average Brit has no clue we even own a substantial chunk of Cypriot territory as a base to aid Israel in it's genocidal acts.
An RAF fighter jet has shot down an Iranian drone targeting Qatar.
I guess that means we're officially involved now. Starmer consulting absolutely nobody before joining in the illegal war just like with Gaza.
>>2712070Can you share a source?
>>2712198Thank you. We need to set up a court to try the all war criminals in the Labour party alone.
>>2709367Having lived in England for a while but not actually being an englishman, could any Brit explain to me why that class of human right representatives and other parasitic welfare activists and institutions in England/UK are so anti-trans compared to their equivalent on the continent or even the NGO blob in the USA? I remember a few years ago there was a whole debacle because some obese Andrea Dworkin looking homunculus at the head of some important English human right type org was trying to ban transgender rights from the UK, with Rowling doing propaganda for her etc.
They're not even red-brown types at all either they're pretty much all Woke Globohomo Brownworship troopers otherwise, maybe even more extreme woke in practice than the average trans right supporter, that's why it find it confusing.
>>2712309they
drain the swamp unclogged the bog (real)
>>2712309#nooticing Badenoch is the only one not depicted as a racially insensitive caricature. Yoruba occupied press?…
Who was that other Iranian leader guy that died in a "helecopter crash" (tripped and fell on his own shears) last year?
>>2712357thanks
yeah that has to be related to this operation
>>2712401
and Colin McRae
The Sum Of All Fears is on BBC iplayer, wherein the innocent israelis are surprise attacked by the terrorists who live all around them and they steal a nuclear bomb and must be stopped at all costs.
What are the odds of that?
The united cuckdom of zionism and atlanticism
>>2712295>could any Brit explain to me why that class of human right representatives and other parasitic welfare activists and institutions in England/UK are so anti-trans compared to their equivalent on the continent or even the NGO blob in the USA?British Feminism has a strong reactionary current based on class supremacy. "Why can a poor catholic vote, while I; a woman of noble blood, cannot?". This was transmitted by the likes of Lady Astor throughout the Conservative Party where it metastasised into Margret Thatcher. Thatcher's policies and cultural aura created a version of this feminism merged with capitalist concepts of the strong individual that proliferated in the 80s and the 90s. A fundamental part of this ideology is that women are superior to men on a meritocratic basis. For this kind of Thatcherite Feminist (which most women of liberal and blairite pursations fundamentally are) the Transwoman is a fundamental threat on two levels. First they are the male made female; thus they are additional competition in the pool of Women who are better than men. Secondly it destroys the concept of female superiority being essentialist; for if gender is a performance and one can transition then how can the women be inherently better than the man? This agrees with some strains of radical feminism (lesbian separatism, gender essentialism etc.) so it had an ideological incubation beyond the vulgar above. Couple with this the absence of christian political forces in Britain,a nd the fact we are a rapidly secularising society; there is less of a push back on both these radical feminist positions AND they can't be tainted by association with religious fundamentalism (like they are in the rest of the Anglo World). This is a perfect cocktail for TERFism. It is what makes britain different from other countries which have a generally reactionary backlash against LGBT rights/individuals/community because those are driven by a reactionary right, rather than a liberal centre rooted in feminism. This is why they are in institutions that are considered "woke". Worth saying that when polled, women support pro-trans policies more than men. It is an astroturf by a small (but not insignificant) cohort at the heart of british life.
I guess the best comparison is liberal islamophobia; which is (or was) a far more common and widespread phenomenon which acts in much the same way.
>USA BEST POSSIBLE FUTURE
US takes out Maduro, Khamenei and Miguel Diaz-Canel. America has cheap oil supplies and secure free movement of goods across the oceans for decades. USA eventually stops China from taking Taiwan and Putin's regime collapses. All is good.
USA Bad Ending:
The war in Iran is a disaster. Worse still, China launches a special military operation and captures Taiwan, giving them access to the pacific to launch submarines that could roam the open ocean and torpedo boats carrying goods to the US. The US falls out with Europe and article 5 is revoked. Russia takes Greenland during the dead of night in a special military operation and the US is all alone.
The reality of what happens is between these two possibilities.
>>2713307Its worth pointing out that even the "all is good" situation the US is going to face severe problems going forward. But Britain will be facing far worse so it wont matter.
>>2713307There is no desire in the US for WW3 against China. There will be a war, but it wont be an all out war, just a war to destroy excess capital, labor and resolve the Taiwan issue.
All the US is doing is changing its economic policy from unlimited neoliberalism which resulted in trade deficits, hollowed out industry, financialization etc, and moving towards mercantilist Keynesianism - which btw is what China follows. Both countries will coexist and trade with each other indefinitely, even after a war with each other.
>>2712133Denounce the Quran to prove you're not a Muslim doing entryism in the Left to push the JQ
>>2713307>The reality of what happens is between these two possibilities.yeah the war will rumble on, propaganda will be issued from all sides, israel will continue its quest for suez canal 2.0, and it will all be paid for by the plebs again, via oil prices and interest rates etc
>>2714602they're not even in 'the middle east', they're in a fucking theme park
>>2714680and the UK's politics entirely revolves around who can paki bash the most, so its internally contradictory that one would at once bash pakis yet go to the middle east. the immanent critique then entails moving from race to class, in perceiving that rich brown people are entirely acceptable while poor ones are not. so then, racism in this context appears as a symptom of capitalist relations (which is why the right do not criticise international capital but still criticise international labour).
>>2714693the Indian caste system is basically communism
>>2714695lord christ almighty, never do that again
>>2714716they have all the jobs divided up to different family lineages, they are born into their work, and the fittest for the job does the work, in return they rely on other families' skills to support their other needs
>>2714721it is a system that can survive without money
>>2714721you are perhaps confusing a caste system for an artisinal division of labour. the word "caste" comes from "varna" which often denotes "colour", and so segments society into different "types" in a hierarchy (often racial). you can read the "laws of manu" here:
https://sacred-texts.com/hin/manu/manu01.htmthe structure of the colour system is a few on the top and most on the bottom, which is why when british colonists came to india, they praised it. it also has historical conception in ancient greek thought, for example in plato, who says it was also in egypt.
a division of labour is not necessarily hierarchical however, as marx attests to in capital vol. 1:
<This division of labour is a necessary condition for the production of commodities, but it does not follow, conversely, that the production of commodities is a necessary condition for the division of labour.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htmmarx prefaces his notion of "primitive communism" in this context as being varied however, with patriarchal forms also existing, but the key component is that all labour's product is shared among the community. marx himself wanted to "abolish" the division of labour but gives no plan of it:
<In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished…https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htmthe closest we can see is a notion of "shared labour":
<For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htmthis is all well and true for entry-level positions, but certainly not a blueprint for abolishing the difference between genius and stupidity, as he suggests.
>>2714756the key difference is that one system is real and practicable, the other is a bunch of make believe memetic hogwash
>>2714772>real and practicableyou mean the system of slavery based on birth?
>>2714773no i mean india has and does exist(ed)
>>2714780india is also a shithole full of poverty and immorality
>>2714804you've never taken a nature poo and it shows
On the Hinduism stuff, there was basically a whole pantheon of Gods in the Vedas such as Indra etc that got replaced by newer gods and are now totally irrelevant for some reason.
Likewise the actual big creator God, Brahma, isn't even worshipped by the vast majority of Hindus, compared to other gods such as Shiva (the destroyer God), Vishnu (the preserver God) , Ganesh (God of wisdom/arts), Shakti (feminine God) who all have millions of worshippers.
Religions be kinda wild…
>>2715189its cause hinduism is not really an organised religion. westerners read hindu texts but most hindus dont.
>>2716827It's just jobs for the boys, don't try to make economic sense of if it.
>>2717141you can see from this list of third-party members in the house of representatives and senate, that being third-party was much more viable in the past, particularly at the cusp of the 20th century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_members_of_the_United_States_Congressyou can also see stats on our parliamentary majorities since 1721 here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdomwhich used to be contended between the tories/conservatives and whigs/liberals, til the 20th century, when labour (est. 1900) emerged, but which only received its first prime ministership in 1924 (but with a parliamentary minority), but receiving its first majority in 1945, giving us the NHS.
In a better world the 150k-300k british tax dodging reform voting human toilets in the gulf states would be left there to contemplate their life choices, although the majority of them have too much botox to tell if any of their remorse is genuine.
>>2717141Only slightly so, we still have FPTP
>>2717141>third parties are actually viable there.not really. FPTP is a cunt.
>>2717694Novara defended accepting refugees from countries like Albania and Eritrea, where there are no wars.
They're probably happy about the Iran war because it gives them moral justification to lobby for importing more brown people. Not to mention a new grift now the Gaza one has died down.
>>2717745and the solution to all this is farage, youre saying?
>>2717754The solution is to erase all evidence of Ash Sarkar from existence and then work out the rest from there.
>>2717761right, its ash who is the root of all evil…
>>2717745Refugees from Albania are overwhelmingingly women trafficked into the country by gangs who'd just re-traffick them if they were deported. Albanian men are rejected asylum claims in the overwhelming majority of cases.
>>2718663Any Jew who for one second demands attention be given to their "feelings" = Zionist who should be unequivocally expelled
>>2718702And what about the Muslims? I assume you apply the same standards regardless of religion?
>>2718663will be interesting to see how this plays out post-genocide. I reckon they'll go hard on the antisemitism claims until they realize it doesn't work any more before pivoting to highlighting polanski's 'weirdness' (read: jewishness) like they did with miliband
>>2719296Not really reflective of FPTP, but combined it seems Greens won't beat Reform or Conservatives and are joint with Labour?
>>2719351Hard to say without knowing how many people are in each group. By yougov's latest poll the total is 23 Reform / 20 Green / 16 Lab/Con / 14 Lib Dem.
The great scam of student loan discourse is the idea of "interest" rates, as if scrapping interest would make debt more acceptable. the presence of debt shows the irresponsibility of the system to begin with, which is why, like mortgages, a system of student credit (e.g. UCAS points) must be met to secure a loan, which if eligible, ought to be subsidised by the state, like it is for undergraduates in scotland. as i have previously said, the 2008 housing crisis occured from unpaid debts, due to bankers giving out subprime mortgages to bad creditors, leading to a housing bubble that popped. same principle applies for students (i.e. not all young people deserve to go to uni). regulating application also allows for better equilibrium in the jobs market, especially if access was limited for foreign visa holders, who for whatever reason, are also eligible for british student loans.
>>2719499'The Mortgage' is basically a token with which to 'buy' a house, and the value of this token has been allowed to inflate beyond all reason as a virtual currency.
>>2719505well, its about regulating demand. If the token was set as £0, there would be no houses left, so you are basically forced to bid. still, the mortgage actually pays for a service (the construction of a house) so counts as a legitimate commodity transaction, while student loans is the renting of a classroom space so that a professor can decide to give you a certificate or not. rent is the trade of what is substantial for what is substanceless (e.g. an empty space, shelter, etc.). On the other hand, jobs are limited by qualification, so the costs of the loan should be taken on by sponsorship rather than individual transaction, which has to regulate according to a metric of talent rather than money. basing education on money is degenerate.
>>2719499why cant higher education be free?
>>2719584it should be free, by a system of student credit
the purpose of qualifying it is to allow for job opportunities
Pope Innocent III made a Papal Bull in 1215 entitled "Pro rege Johanne" (For King John) in which he assessed the Magna Carta (1215) as "null, and void of all validity for ever", and so with his Papal decree, eliminating the possibility of a sharing of powers. Pope Innocent III had previously proclaimed "Vergentis in senium" (1199) which made heresy equal to "treason against God" and so was a way to punish those who would be disloyal against Church powers (as this was during the Crusades). So then, we see the slime that these Romanists are involved in - with the Great Schism already occuring by 1054, and the Reformation officially beginning in 1517, but unofficially beginning around 1395, with the English "Wycliffe Bible" being published, and with Wycliffe later being branded a heretic - the real Babylonian evil of the church occurs with the Papal Bull of "Unam Sanctum" (1302) , which saw the invention of the "tiara" or "triple crown", that saw the Pope as both temporal and spiritual Lord of the worlds, wielding absolute power. The 14th century then marks the inevitable decline of The Beast.
University education creates liberals and leftists
Not because unis propagandise (they don't and if they did it would be wasteful, nobody does the readings, and even if some do, not all of them will agree with what they say), but because they bring together people of a similar disposition and, because we copy our peers, enhance that disposition, pushing them left. A world without uni is a more conservative world, a more small minded world, and this despite the actual institutions themselves usually being conservative and small minded.
If it turned out mass access to uni education had a negative ROI it would still be worthwhile for this dispositional effect. The costs here are offset by the savings from not having some asinine small minded policy like the online safety act in the future
>>2719856- Wrong level of analysis: it is worth society spending money on a hypothetical net-negative degree (e.g. say Scotland pays £1800/head for a degree that will only generate £1750 in value for all society) if, as an ancillary effect, it turns a Lab-Con swing voter into a Lab-Green swing voter.
- You cannot go bankrupt from student loan debt in the UK. It is a fake, regressive and gimmicky graduate tax in all but name. (Bankruptcy doesn't even discharge student loan debt!) If your income is zero, your repayments are zero.
Fortunately, students are some of the top supporters of making higher education free.
>>2719620University admittance should not be based on grades or social standing, it must be universal. At the same time everyone must learn to be part of the working class. Half the year students should be studying, the other half of the year they can be sent out to work in agriculture or to help build socialist construction projects. In this way we can build intelligent, introspective, and realistic socialist adults.
>>2719908>scaling of education should not be based on the scaling of educationplainly contradictory. further, to make uni something compulsory is contradictory, since it entails the specialisation of topics and the division of labour at this stage. if i have no ambition to specialise, then what course am i forced to fail in? also, why cant people gain a vocational education instead of indulging academia? we still need bin men, y'know.
>Half the year students should be studying, the other half of the year they can be sent out to work in agriculture🤣🤣 youre a proper hippy-dippy mong, you. how many community gardens will suffice for this social revolution, exactly? i dont want a nation full of glastonbury-tier wankers.
>In this way we can build intelligent, introspective, and realistic socialist adults.are you an example of that?
>>2719894>societywho is "society"? you mean the taxpayer.
>it turns a Lab-Con swing voter into a Lab-Green swing voter.thats not a notable improvement in the social fabric.
>You cannot go bankrupt from student loan debt in the UK.current accumulated student debt is £150B for 500k students. scale the costs for a universal program.
>>2719894it's a scam, you're just a cash cow and they will be squeezing your tit until you turn 60, without much hope of actually repaying it.
charging interest on loans should be illegal
>>2719939the loan itself is the crime
thats what must be emphasised
Clement Attlee's government (1945-51) nationalised around 20% of the British economy, including coal, railways, road transport, the Bank of England, civil aviation, electricity and gas, and steel. His government also brought in the NHS and other welfare state reforms. The subsequent Labour PM Harold Wilson (1964-70, 1974-6) seems to be best well-known for liberalising cultural regulations, including the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Here, the old left appears to become the new left. For the tory regimes of Thatcher and Major (1979-97), the privatisation of national industries appears to have un-done initial post-war social reforms, with Thatcher and her agenda laying the groundwork for momentous privatisaton schemes for the NHS, dismantling the welfare state:
https://www.yournhsneedsyou.com/timeline/Unique IPs: 193