Frivolous post but Americans how do you differentiate between a chicken sandwich (what is generally called a chicken burger) and a chicken sandwich (two pieces of bread with chicken between them)

Thinking about the Starmer thing more and I think it’s four things 1. Intersectionality; the government have targeted groups (trans, protestors, immigrants, pensioners, SEND, disabled) but those groups talk to their friends and family and that’s amplifying

It’s truly incredible that polling shows time and again what the majority of people want; Nationalised utilities, an actual living wage, a health service that works well, an education system that benefits everyone, taxing the wealthier more, better local services, good public transport.

He didn’t buy any of it

We are so fucked we’ve ended up with “thing that definitely can’t save us might save us” being said by those who we’re relying on to save us

Then politicians should convince the bond markets that borrowing to fund this urgently necessary defence spending for our allies protection is a good thing, rather than cut money from the rest of us? Maybe Musk can fund it? Or palantir? Or Bezos? I mean specifically any cunt bar me

Guy imagines being horrible in a job he doesn’t have or is able to apply for ye and says how horrible he would be publicly www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

An entire thread from somebody legitimately saying schools need more money, and then for some reason thinking FSM for all children means that can’t happen

Cape Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

Thanks to brits and Americans I have no idea what Native American food is like

GDP up by 0.6%, reeves saying it’s a healthy economy, they do not care that it is increased prices that made GDP go up, that the poor are struggling more, and the empty King’s speech stamps it into your face

Writing a book?!? He spelt prickish wrong

@notpodium.bsky.social lectern out soon!

Really crowded house

I’m going to post this just so I don’t have to keep typing it out. The left have no cabinet ministers or politicians near power in the Labour Party, have no control over them, do not own media outlets, have no power in society at all. Only Labour can turn themselves around, they don’t want to

Josiah here imagining that the workers charter contains no new legislation, impressive journalism

James here wondering if raising the minimum wage to being an actual living wage is a better policy than say raising the minimum wage to not being a living wage but calling it one

The press are fucking terrified about these local elections

Semi regular reminder that it was never working class women who “weren’t allowed to work”, who as a class have had to work since Marxist definitions of class have had utility, they’ve worked, been bound by reproduction, and been forgotten both culturally and historically

“The bad people don’t think I’m a good journalist, it’s them who are upset, I don’t even care”

Journo here justifying never needing to mention Labour corruption again

Just re-reading this thread and struck by how this is exactly Hillsborough, or the grooming gangs, or… well pick your scandal that eventually couldn’t be contained but held long enough to ensure nobody in authority could be punished for it

I don’t do many football posts, it’s a big deal in Liverpool and I don’t understand how it became so partisan, I grew up with Liverpool and Everton the best two teams in the country, with shared team photos for the fa cup. Liverpool sneaked it yesterday, Everton played great, Moyes is a genius

There’s a whole group of people who’s entire personality is pretending the past doesn’t exist and the only political and economic model are this one, now

A really interesting thread which still avoids the prime question, given everything that was already known, what sort of moron, or compromised individual, would have personally recommended him in the first place?

In the wild, “journalists repeated what politicians said” as if that’s a positive. Twitter was on fire with people who weren’t journalists pointing out how fucking stupid the idea was, what was in the public domain should have ruled him out without vetting

I think womanspreading on the train might be the thing that makes me most autistically uncomfortable. The bags blocking me in and on my feet, the massive coat and just pushing it against me, eating stinky food, the makeup, I’m working hard to stay on my side, why aren’t they?

Write it in the s*n you lying rat, dragged to removing the two child cap, watered down employment rights, had to reinstate the fuel allowance they took away. Vote green www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How the fuck would keeping bills the same lead to more consumption you disingenuous fucking idiot, consumption would be static, costs static, consumption static you fucking balloon

This is the problem, you can’t argue the actual reality away, the majority of people aren’t wealthy, they’re on the bones of their arse, and sure if you take the final 10p of the bottom 50% it equals taking a bigger percentage from the wealthy, but you can take more from the wealthy before it hurts

Trans rights are human rights.

It would appear the Labour party have managed to reinvent the “calling-on pen” but the government pays for it

Reminder that billionaires aren’t geniuses, they are people who got lucky and now have enough money that mistakes don’t completely bury them like the rest of us

Or even trying to

People have been failing to understand what changed in 2008 for some time now, trading and wider large business and th wealthy disconnected completely from normal people and expected behaviours. Every country’s tax money is given to the wealthiest, governments are bought. They don’t work for us

Challenge for those who are very confident that a wall isn’t conscious: Explain how human consciousness works

Attempting to paint doing everything for the US but bomb Iran ourselves as a principled stand is fucking insane

It’s funny when you are a fully coherent concept bound in your interactions by your own choices, even by your own name

Its ok Starmer will carry on trying to fluff him even as his own country hates him and Trump continues to call him a prick

Casts Venezuela in a whole new light

What??? Possible??? The wealthy have been openly funding political parties, members of parliament, and think tanks my entire life

Perennially; If “the west” provided aid to Iran, helped build infrastructure, had outreach programs designed to instil progressive values, I’d have no complaints. I’ve yet to see progressive values bombed into a population

It’s too on the nose, it’s got to be a bit

Reminder: Labour had a huge majority on a weak voter base, all they had to do was be humble, do positive things people wanted, and demonstrate action towards actually improving the life of the majority poor. Instead they’ve done whatever this is… flags, bungs, division, and appeasing the right

The idea that because Labour took money from one group means they haven’t taken money from another, the idea that Labour might triangulate given they’ve been doing this since 2019 is fucking incredibly naive

Genuinely this is peak centrism. It’s not money from oil companies because they gave it to their lobbyists first, all above board

We’ve annoyed racists wanting to “remigrate” and gun down civilians, and we’ve annoyed people who would like some healthcare and stop funding genocide, these things are the same