I see Farage has made an announcement that tomorrow he will make an announcement that he will come back as leader of Reform and run yet-again for parliament.

Not sure in what sense that isn't in fact the announcement itself, but I guess we'll find out tomorrow when the actual announcement happens.

Millions of people he reckons basically forced him into it. He can't let the millions of people down. All of them clamoring, "come on Nige, do it for us" he reckons.

His country needs him I guess. America can wait.

It could have been an interesting election, between Reform and Workers UK and Green and Libs and Labour and Conservatives.

But sadly that isn't the kind of election system we have so the first three of those will be lucky to get a seat each and the next quite probably no more than a dozen.

Hope Nigel loses, but then I also wish they all could lose somehow.

#ukpol #farage #reform #election23

Hey TV producers, if there's only two "leaders" at your "debate" it's bullshit and I ain't watching it.

Include the SNP, include the Greens, include the Libs, include Cymru, heck even include Workers Party and Reform if you want.

If you're excluding parties that have MPs, your debate is bullshit and nobody should bother tuning in.

#tv #election23 #debate

Ask your local candidates if they have a fediverse account so you know which ones to block.

#election23

Dear candidates

I have become concerned that many members of a modern generation are becoming radicalized.

There are forces trying to divide our society in this increasingly uncertain world. Many of them have not had the opportunity to experience things outside their own blinded culturally impoverished tiny small minded horizons.

They need an opportunity that many of them have never had the chance at before.

Would you consider a policy to send this generation into national service?

It could just be one weekend a month, they could both give the nation a valuable service in return for their continued citizenship, and have experiences that would broaden their horizons and offer life changing opportunities to learn real world skills, and contribute to their community and our country.

Think of the renewed sense of national pride these people would feel knowing they belong to a country that can forcibly take time from their limited lives, and that they owe that country for it allowing them to live.

Naysayers may neigh that enforced service is a time-share enslavement of a whole generation but I say that these people are in danger of being radicalized and only putting them into enforced servitude for their country can possibly stop them hating it so much they destroy it's institutions in their incoherent rage.

So candidates, what do you say: Will you support a compulsory national service for all Baby Boomers, doing a few hours a week working at a gay-bar, or helping out at a gender dysphoria clinic, just something to broaden their narrow cynical view and prevent them being radicalized by extremists like the Conservative party spreading hate propaganda.

I'm not saying anyone would go to jail for refusing of course, they could just be transported to a safe third country. Or one that we define as safe at least.

Who will support an inquiry into the possibility of such a plan, at least just to get some headlines before the inquiry finds it's infeasible, unethical, appalling and legally indefensible.

#ukpol #nationalService #election23

When Republicans can't win with votes, they neuter the power of voting. Stop giving Republicans power, or one day you won't have any power to give.

Ohio Republicans move to exclude judges from interpreting enshrined abortion rights | Ohio | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/11/ohio-republicans-move-to-exclude-judges-interpreting-abortion-rights-law #abortion #OhioElectionResults #gopfascism #womensrights #election23

Democrats have won the Virginia Senate, won abortion rights in Ohio, and won the Governorship in Kentucky.

#uspol #politics #election #election23 #ohio #kentucky #Virginia