The #Starmtroopers have revealed the #livery for the #UK's fake "nationalised" rail company, #GreatBritishRailways. Unsurprisingly, the livery is a childish, garish, #fugly, visually illiterate riff on #flagshagging. If there is a prize for crimes against design, this is a winner.
(#GBR is #fake nationalised 'cos the rolling stock is all owned by private #ROSCOs who suck out huge profits)
@Nickiquote If the UK polls are right, the next UK general electon will indeed be very ugly.
But I am very wary of any brits who were not deeply embarrassed by the 2024 UK general election. The UK's corrupt electoral system gave power to a mendacious shower of troughing reactionaries whose priority was crashing the left. Ain't you ashamed of the ##Starmtroopers?
@ORIOliver Please don't try to give me that #spin for the #Starmtroopers. Just look at the numbers.
Labour has been fourth in multiple opinion polls. #Starmer personally has the lowest net approval of any #UKPrimeMinister ever. Only 11% of people think the UK govt is doing a good job.
Yes, there are emerging alternatives. But the existence of alternatives does not somehow make the #LINO govt unhated. V odd logic.
Are you being paid to deny reality? Or are you spinning for free?
@ChrisMayLA6 @djr2024 It's a helpful reminder of how how having core values and set of principles of how to achieve them (aka "ideology") is a necessary ingredient of good governance.
At least with Thatcherism, one could be reasonably sure of what sort of evil she was going to perform. But with the #Starmtroopers, it's like crossing a road full of drunk drivers: random, dangerous lunacy from every direction.
RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115570395354742280
It's fascinating to watch how successfully #Starmer repeatedly disproves his own pitch of a value-free approach to policy. The claim is that "pragmatic" and "unideological" politics produces better results than "dogma"; but in practice the valueless switcheroo just alienates everyone.
If the #Starmtroopers' goal was create a "how not to do politics" gude, then they have succeeded. This wil be in the textbooks for decades.
@rq4c @EndorNim @ScottishGreens "Division is not a good way forward", you say. 🙄
Big sigh. Trying not be angry.
For much of the 20th century and all of this century, England imposed policies which damaged Scotland, and sometimes devastated Scotland. This continues under the #Starmtroopers.
I assume that you are one of the nicer English people, and don't support that sort of quasi-colonial rule. If so, the only way to avoid it is to let Scotland govern itself.
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@ChrisMayLA6 #RachelReeves is by far the least intellectually able #Chancellor ever.
#DavidLammy was the second-least intellectually able #ForeignSecretary ever (#LizTruss was worse).
And #YvetteCooper as #HomeSecretary was at best middleweight.
Collectively, they were the least talented trio ever to hold the UK's three Great Offices of State. Yet the #MSM parroted the #Starmtroopers' absurd boast that this was "the adults back in charge".
Lucy Powell MP brings high comedy to the Deputy Leadership election in the UK's so-called "Labour Party".😂🤣
#LINO's problem is not poor internal communications. 🙄
The #Starmtroopers are a hard-right clique of ruthless anti-democrats who lied and smeared their way to power. They have no political values other than kicking the left and persecuting critics of Israeli apartheid.
#Starmer has killed Labour. Powell is trying to breathe life into a corpse.
screenshot from https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/12/labour-deputy-contender-lucy-powell-calls-for-culture-change-at-no-10
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