quangobaudAlllrighteeethen.
I am in #purdah now till 2200 GMT on Thursday.
I can still swear at Tories and Reform et cetera as individual persons who I dislike. 🙏😇
Penny Richardsstarted a #wikipedia article on German-born American anthropologist Hanna Kaiser Papanek (1927-2017); as a child she moved to Czechoslovakia, France, and New York to flee the Nazis. She sailed from Lisbon to New York City on the SS Nyassa in December 1940; the ship full of refugees was under distress on arrival. She earned a PhD at Harvard, and studied women's lives in Pakistan in the 1950s, Indonesia in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Papanek @wikiwomeninred #Pakistan #Indonesia #purdah
Oh! MediaPenampilan Terbaru Laudya Cynthia Bella Lepas Tinggalkan Dunia Seni Undang Perhatian Ramai - https://ohmedia.my/ohartis/penampilan-terbaru-laudya-cynthia-bella-lepas-tinggalkan-dunia-seni-undang-perhatian-ramai/
#Indonesia #laudyacynthiabella #Ohartis #purdah
#Indonesia #laudyacynthiabella #Ohartis #purdah
Penampilan Terbaru Laudya Cynthia Bella Lepas Tinggalkan Dunia Seni Undang Perhatian Ramai | Oh! Media
Aktres popular dari Indonesia, Laudya Cynthia Bella menjadi bualan ramai selepas akaun Instagramnya yang mempunyai lebih 37 juta pengikut kini dikendalikan oleh admin. Selebriti ini dikhabarkan akan meninggalkan dunia seni dan tidak lagi muncul di media sosial atau mana-mana acara. Sudah berpurdah? Memetik laporan Insert Live, Laudya juga dikhabarkan sudah berpurdah dan imej tersebut turut […]
Mx VerdaOmg. Since I don’t work in the NHS rn, I can say whatever tf I like during purdah before the next election on July 4th (yes, I know. We all know. It feels so fucking ridiculous.)
For non-UK people, ‘purdah’ is the 6 (?) weeks before UK (general..?) elections where
public service staff and organisations can’t say shit about nobody,
petitions are suspended (https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659107/signatures/new get fucked again 🙄) , and
any big news stories with potentially political content are delayed massively.
A general election is *sort of* like the presidential election.
Afaik, it’s more like “vote for your local (dem/rep/green/lib/monster raving loony party - look it up), and the biggest party gets to decide who they want to be president / prime minister.”
Urgh. Feel free to correct whatever in the comments. I make no guarantees about the accuracy but I hope I’ve not mislead anyone.
Anyway: tory party / conservatives are, guess from the name, a bit like republicans-light.
Labour is, guess from the name, a bit like republicans-lighter.
There was a bit around 2012 when tories formed a coalition (paired / co-op) government with Liberal Democrats.
Lib Dems proceeded to do fuck-all with the glimmer of power they’d been given, leading to raised student loan fees for higher education (3- and 4-year bachelors degree students).
Turns out it’s easy to remember history when you lived it. I see why old people got annoyed with me for finding it boring when I was a kid and teen. In my defence, you need to explain WHY shit’s important for anyone to care.
This shit’s important because a) I can’t vote here because I wasn’t born here and haven’t paid about £1200 to apply for citizenship, b) we’ve been suffering under tories for literal decades now because “insert reactionary anger here” (sometimes reasonable but misaimed), and c) whatever you think of voting or the available candidates, the situation is likely to continue worsening if we keep emboldening anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual, and anti-equality ideas.
I’m not even trying to be rude here. I’m really trying to be chill with this.
#politics #uk #UKpol #GeneralElectionUK #GeneralElectionNOW #purdah #england #english #scotland #scottish #wales #welsh #northernIrish #NI #northernIreland #GB #immigration #immigrant #ImmigrantLife #vote #voting #VotingRights #voting2024 #election #election2024 #election24 #2024election
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Jo RhodesCall me a cynic but suspect the timing of the announcement of #UKGeneralElection has rather a lot to do with the fact that now there will be a lot of news under #Purdah until after the election so #ukgovernment complicity in arms sales and #Israel #WarCrimes will be less public. #ToryBastards #UKPolitics #GeneralElection
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