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British MPs want to haul Elon Musk before parliament over riots
  • They claimed it because she was married to a CIA employee.

    Kind of free reign to break the law and kill people if you're a relative of a CIA employee. She could have been trialed without any risk to national security, so it's absolutely a BS excuse.

  • Young women are the most progressive group in American history. Young men are checked out
  • Well the centre left isn't centre left. They went right of the conservatives on immigration, focussing on stopping migrant boats etc. They vowed not to raise taxes to fund services. They didn't market themselves as centre-left. It was the right wing that took over the labour party. Historically you would find differences electorally prior to this one.

    If you look at men to women voting Reform, it's 17% to 12%. There are disparities, they are just less obvious.

  • Starmer suspends seven rebel MPs including McDonnell over two-child benefit cap vote
  • Labour does have a process for policies. It is called the National Policy Forum. He ignores it. So your suggestion that you can push internally is false. Keir doesn't tolerate dissent because he's an autocrat.

    Labour used to get most funding from unions, it's now less than 30%, so wealthy business folk got control of that.

    It's a shame that Keir's labour doesn't have policies that aren't cruel on people.

  • What, no apologies? Yeah, figured so
  • That poster has a point. I'm a Brit here, so no skin in the game. You're more focussed on being right that trying to comprehend that people look at things differently.

    No one thought Biden was good, but he was the candidate and most know that name recognition is key in US elections. Most presential candidates fail on their first run. Kamala, despite having some OK polling numbers still has to get through to disengaged American voters who do not follow politics and probably know little more than the attack lines heropponents will throw at her this campaign. They have to define her before others do. This option is riskier than you realise, the only thing that changed was Biden became a riskier option than before.

    Things are less black and white than you want them to be. Nuance and grey area is key, despite being inconvenient.

  • New York Times Writer Has Unsurprising Advice For Kamala Harris: Target Trans People
  • If they were competent academics, they'd know the culture wars were manufactured, and to be aware that politicians can shape public discourse then disregard this and assume they must bow to and react to manufactured discourse is weird and illogical.

    Absorbing your opponents positions isn't useful, especially when large swathes of your support is resisting the erosion of civil rights. You'd just erode your own support and suppress your own turnout.

  • Union warnings after Starmer says he won't grant above-inflation pay rises
  • Yup, and for the avoidance of doubt:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg3j131327yo (see graph at bottom)

    Labour used to be funded by trade unions. Now it's just a 5th of total funding. Corporate takeover of the Labour party. Of course, businesses will be wanting a return on investment here.

  • Streeting defends puberty blocker ban in Twitter thread
  • Streeting is a Tory with a red rosette. From the right-wing Blairite faction (Progress) and one of the most disloyal and unprofessional politicians when Corbyn was leader.

    Expectations of better in this guy would be misplaced.

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