#ukip sucks

[commonpigeon]

had an absolutely insane dream last night but part of it was me being like 'and now im repeating my final year and its taking me 5 years do my undergrad in the same time [friend from highschool] already has their masters!' to my favourite highschool teacher and him telling me that was okay and giving me a heartfelt pep talk. very bizarre but kind of what i needed to hear from my subconscious for once

[downthegenderriver]

That debate would have improved tenfold if Theresa May was there and another tenfold if Paul Nuttall wasn't there because he is genuinely awful and increasingly irrelevant.

Caroline Lucas won it (I wish she was PM)

Tim Farron did surprisingly well for the most part (he's still a homophobe but credit where credit is due)

Corbyn was great, the two nationalist representatives did well.

Amber Rudd was deserving of mockery when she tried to claim that NHS would be best off in the hands of the Tories. She also pathetically tried to defend our sales to Saudi Arabia.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

From the news I'm getting here across the Pond, it seems like Liz Truss has perhaps achieved a marvel in that she's turning out to be more incompetent than Boris "Big Dog" Johnson. What are the chances the U.K. will have a new Prime Minister by the end of the year?

Yeah, she's exactly as competent really but, and this cannot be overstated, the person whose mess she's inherited IS Boris Johnson. But she compounds this with a Chancellor who is much, much worse.

Uh, this answer got long, sorry about that, but lol what can you do? Exercise restraint? Pfft.

By the end of the year... probably slim, as hilarious as the letters of no confidence are; the party can't survive another new leader that quickly. Johnson's greatest legacy - his greatest gift to the left - is the one he was always going to leave: he rose to power on a platform of 'feelings not facts', a method that is highly effective in the short term but horrendously unsustainable in the long run, once the shine of the bombast wears off and people realise that the bins aren't going out anymore. You cannot bluster and jazz hands your way through running a country indefinitely. You have to be competent at the daily grind.

Big Dog was not.

But during his tenure, everyone either threw all their weight behind him to suck his Union Jack-coloured cock and get a cushy ride themselves, or they were openly fired for disloyalty. He single-handedly created a Tory party that was defined by patriotism-flavoured incompetence. And then the bubble burst, and his old nemesis Mr Consequences came calling, and the situation was, very suddenly, that he was hot garbage - just absolute weapons-grade 'this is not a place of honour' levels of toxic - to have in charge of the party, but most importantly, crucially, none of them could get rid of him without also incriminating themselves.

That's why it took so long before the wave of resignations finally kicked things into happening. That's why it had to be a wave of resignations. None of the limping high school debating champions that were left in government could survive without him; even though he was actively poisoning them, they would die immediately with him gone. The tipping point came when finally that particular cost-benefit analysis see-sawed the other way.

And what's left? What was always going to be left: a hardcore radical group of 'feelings not facts' fascists, and an insipid hodgepodge of self-deluded clowns with the life skills of a particularly underwhelming five-year-old, all of whom are embroiled in bitter internal bitching wars and cliques and spend their days writing each other's names in a Burn Book rather than doing their jobs.

Everyone is blaming each other. No one is taking responsibility. The party can no longer agree on anything, except perhaps "Woe is us."

This latest leadership contest was actually a vicious thing that added to the damage and made the in-fighting worse. If we now add ANOTHER to the pile... well. I think we would see, at minimum, mass defections to UKIP. Very possibly some new political parties, like what Labour did when Jeremy Corbyn was too left-wing for them so Angela Smith and Chuka Umunna founded Change UK and claimed it was because Corbyn was racist and then Angela described people of colour as "black or a funny tinge... you know, a different... from the BAME community" and then Change UK was quietly dissolved after 10 months and no one remembers them anymore. It would be a disaster, is what I'm saying.

A new Chancellor, though... that's more likely, I think. Kwasi Kwarteng was rumoured to have had an affair with Liz Truss and honestly I strongly suspect that's why he got the job - he wrote a stupid book about economics that no one liked, on the night of the Brexit vote was overheard by a journalist saying “Who cares if sterling crashes? It will come back up again", and then became Chancellor, and then released a mini-budget last week that has tanked the pound to the lowest performance against the dollar since records began and immediately embroiled his PM into a financial crisis so bad she literally went into hiding for a day and a half. The UK is... actually completely fucked, as of this week. I cannot overstate what a fucking unmitigated disaster that budget is, or the damage it's causing. We were already doing very badly. This is catastrophic. This is like having an infected foot and everyone being concerned because it's turning gangrenous, and then Kwasi turns up and chops off both your legs and your dominant hand and then also the legs and dominant hands of everyone else present as well, except for himself and his rich mates. We are a long, long way beyond "First, do no harm."

But Kwarteng is also very replaceable.

However:

Liz Truss is extraordinarily stupid. I honestly don't know if it will occur to her to sacrifice him. If she's sensible she will; but 'sensible' is not a word I associate with Liz Truss.

The other option, of course, is an early general election being called, for the seven-hundred-and-fifteenth time in the last decade I stg. However, Tories only call for those if they stand a chance of winning.

One poll yesterday put Labour thirty-three points ahead of the Tories.

To put that into perspective, if that were to translate into a GE performance, the outcome of the vote would leave the Tories with...

THREE SEATS.

But! Of course! It's not so simple anyway:

That was an opinion poll, and those are always more extreme than an actual vote because people use them to express dissatisfaction. A vote would not be that extreme.

That was one of several polls yesterday. If we take an average, the actual figures are:

Labour are nineteen points ahead of the Tories.

Would you like some context?

In 1999 when Tony Blair won his landslide Labour victory - the greatest Labour lead in recent history - do you know what his polling lead was?

Twelve points.

Lol

So it is vanishingly unlikely the Tories will call a GE themselves. Their only hope now is that they can somehow do a good enough job to fix their party and win public confidence back before the next GE, which will be no later than January 2025.

In ENTIRELY UNRELATED NEWS I'm sure, Labour have just declared that they are backing a change to a proportional representation voting system in place of the UK's archaic first past the post system. Funny that.

[annefic]

What do you think Anne and Tim's political views are?

Am I even legally allowed to speculate about that?

With the background that:

1. I'm pretty sure Anne is not allowed to vote at all, and Tim's ballot should he cast one is his own private business like anyone else in a free country with fair elections

2. I am American and there is a lot about UK politics that strikes me as asinine posturing for clout or pure dee archaic nonsense (not that the US doesn't have these factors but our problems seem to stem less from them and more from the willingness of our politicians to sway their opinion based on whichever corporate CEO sucked their dick the hardest this cycle)

3. I am American and there is a lot about UK politics that I deliberately exercise my right to not have an opinion about because it doesn't affect me and it's not really any of my goddamn business. This includes republicanism, the Scottish and Northern Irish questions, colonial reparations and the Commonwealth's existence as anything deeper than a particularly bizarre sports league, etc.

4. Nothing in here is to be taken as reflective of my or anyone else's actual personal views. I am basically speculating about issues that largely fly over my head day to day and I may not have any of the context necessary to truly understand it. So if it sounds like I'm talking out of both sides of my ass it's probably because I am.

There are a lot of factors at play here.

The royal family, as many people have made a personality of pointing out over the past month, is basically the concept of The Establishment personified, and relies on a certain level of status quo being maintained in order to stay relevant or even keep existing at all. However, watching Anne one gets the feeling that she would be just as competent and probably more content as a relative nobody private citizen farmer. Which is to say - like others in the family before her - maybe she would be more neutral on republicanism than you'd expect, though I certainly wouldn't expect them to be proper Marxists or anarchists. Tim I'm not as sure about - on one hand choosing the military in general and the Navy in particular as a career, and possibly pursuing a route through it that put him close to the seat of power (I don't know if his posts on Britannia and as equerry were something he had to apply for or a voluntold situation) would seem to indicate he doesn't at all question the authority or purpose of the monarchy - but he has also been perhaps the best positioned of anyone to see the effect that the position has had on his wife and her family, so perhaps if he doesn't question its legitimacy he does at least question the wisdom of placing that responsibility on someone who never asked for it.

One of the few things we can say with certainty about Anne politically is that she does not take kindly to corruption and kickbacks (see: her history with the IOC) and I think this could have an influence on how she would vote were that an option for her, potentially leading her to choose someone with views she may not agree with just to get a corrupt official from the party she does support out of office.

Through her charity work, particularly the very "scrubbed in" approach Anne personally has taken, she and Tim have had the opportunity to gain a lot more perspective of what life looks like for the other half than most people with their level of wealth and privilege. Many people said of the late Queen that she was privately a lot less Tory and a lot more sympathetic to her Labour prime ministers than one would expect, and this may also ring true of Anne. Again, I don't expect them to be hard leftists, but it wouldn't surprise me if they are critical of the hardline Tory and UKIP (when that was a factor) policies as well. I think the fact that Anne tends to choose charities which are less paternalistic in their action and more about asking the folks on the ground what would materially improve their situation and then working on the practicalities to provide that is also an indicator of how she thinks about these issues.

We know Anne sings Flower of Scotland at rugby matches, but I have no idea how much of the baggage attached to that action she's even aware of, much less subscribing to. She and Tim clearly love the country, but whether that is in a sense of wanting it to self determine regardless of what that means in the end, or wanting to keep it around and accessible to them at any cost, is in no way clear.

As country landowners and "horsey set" members there are some peculiarly British social issues you would expect them to likely have a certain opinion on - foxhunting, badger control, land use and development, animal welfare, trade protection for domestic agriculture, etc. The question is how this set of issues would influence their overall voting patterns. There are a lot of places in the US where it has been common for a good 40 years to vote one way in the local elections and another way entirely in the national ones; I also know a lot of people whose generally more moderate views tend to get overrun by one single issue or by social pressure to vote the "right" way for their lifestyle and social class (or the one they're aspiring to) when they actually get to the ballot box. If their views on these particular issues didn't align with the rest of their politics, either of those routes could wind up being their path.

Anne's quote on AIDS being "an own goal scored by the human race against itself" is often ripped kicking and screaming from its context to paint her as a hard-hearted homophobe in contrast to Diana's babykissing (fuck the Crown, fuck it so so hard for pulling this crap back into the international limelight and if this is actually a scene in the next season I am [STRONGLY IMPLORING PETER MORGAN TO HAVE A NICE DAY]) but the reality of that speech is that, IIRC, she was referring to how the choices of leaders like Thatcher and Reagan to deliberately ignore the urgent need for action because of the stigma around the disease led to it becoming even worse of a problem. i.e. exactly what the queer people and close allies who lived through the AIDS crisis have been saying for years. What other views she and Tim have on queer rights and how they've evolved over the years, I don't know; what I do know is that there is no statistical way all of Liz's descendants and their spouses are proper 0-on-the-Kinsey-scale straight and Anne tends to be a top pick when people start speculating on who's hanging out in the closet. (Ma'am, if you're reading this and want to test the waters... call me.)

Both of them have had leadership roles in charities which undertook rather progressive changes while they were in office. I think Tim's time at English Heritage is a good example of this, with the move to focus the blue plaque scheme more on figures from traditionally marginalized groups in society. It's unclear how much of that can be owed to a deliberate commitment on the part of the leadership versus what is just the savviest move to keep pace with the way society is changing, though.

I think she probably found BoJo a right tosser, but frankly, I'm pretty sure that's true of everyone in Britain at this point. She's known for not suffering fools gladly but I don't know if she'd vote for one if it was the more politically agreeable option.

Overall they both come across as being very committed to staying well-informed, so I certainly think they would be the type who research the issues they care about and know how they are going to vote in every race on the ballot, rather than just voting straight ticket or picking whichever box looks good in the minor races.

Thanks for the ask, that was an interesting question that really got me thinking.

[lmanberg]

the fetishization of george by so much of the fandom hasn't only pushed me into thinking he's straight, but that he's actually a raging homophobe who uses fag non-stop, thinks ukip is too liberal for his taste and gets nauseous whenever he sees a gay person. i truth ultra-right wing homophobic george who would make 4chan blush, draw him in fishnets sucking on a lollipop now dickheads!!!!!!!

he's gonna hatecrime dream when they meet, i guarantee it.

We’re one in the same anon. 404twt has made George a raging homophobe. Conversion therapy may not work but whatever mcyttwt has done to George certainly did

[theladyoflove]

Hi, I find it hard to help and show my support towards blm/Asian American hate because in my area there’s no one organising any events or rallies like I understand there’s a pandemic going on.I sign a lot of petitions and reblog things on insta to share awareness but I’m underage and have no money so it’s hard as well as I live in the uk so any advice?

Hey! I’m not the best person to ask this question to. Since I’m a white woman, I won’t ever fully understand the struggles of people of colour, nor the best ways to help them.

But, my biggest advice is to uplift marginalised voices. Follow creators of colour from the UK, use your platform and your privilege to boost their messages. This shouldn’t be a thing you do only after another POC has suffered violence.

Being underage and trying to be political is a pain; most mandatory educational spaces don’t care to do any activism cause you have to go there anyway. What’s the point in doing good? They won't lose much. Adults don’t take you seriously; friends think you’re “too serious” or “ruining the fun” or “that’s not our fight.” It’s tough.

No one expects you to put money into good causes if you don’t have the means to. It’s always nice to donate, but there are other ways you can help!

- You can volunteer at centres that help with struggles majority BAME communities face (malnutrition, homelessness, poverty, poor education, drug abuse, police brutality) at the hands of our racist systems      - I found many food banks by searching “feed the homeless near me”. If you have some spare money, you can donate:

any canned food/ready meals,

sanitary products/washing products (soap, toothpaste/toothbrushes, shampoo, feminine hygiene products etc.),

over-the-counter medicines like antibiotic creams, antihistamines, vitamins (gummy and tablet) etc.,

I would say not to bring quickly perishable items like bread and milk unless the food bank asks for them.

The Trussell Trust has a list of all their food banks in the UK, including ones that collaborate with supermarkets!

- Learn about the history of BAME communities in the UK, the tactics racists/fascists use to recruit, and how to combat them. The books I own are:

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them - Jason Stanley

Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala

How to Argue with a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality - Adam Rutherford

White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi

The Good Immigrant - ed. Nikesh Shulka

Black and British: Forgotten History - David Olusoga

And I’m excited to buy more! You can find a lot of these as PDFs through z-library. If books are a little too inaccessible to you (due to disability, lack of funds, nowhere to safely keep them, etc.) You can watch videos as well on anti-racism. TEDx Talks feature many creators of colour in this topic, and they’re short and digestible!

- Learn about white privilege/micro-aggressions. It’s best again to do this through creators of colour!

- Keep up to date with organisations like BLM-UK

- If you're safe to do so, fight discriminatory mindsets in your family or friends. It can be exhausting, especially if the person has been sucked into conspiracy theories. It's heartbreaking to lose a loved one that way, and some battles aren't worth fighting. But we need to.

Doing community activism is the best way to let people see that individual differences aren't a threat. It's why UKIP was so successful doing its run from 2012-2016; they went into poor, white neighbourhoods and met their material needs. Activism is purely communal, one person can never change the world in a significant way, so I urge you and everyone else to fight alongside each other.

I know two of the books I listed mention no longer discussing race with white people. I completely understand why people of colour don't want to do it. But white people don't have an excuse not to! If we don't educate people about these issues, they will continue to be bigoted, and nothing will get done.

But above all else, take care of your mental health and know your limits! Please don't feel guilty that you can't fight every fight. Prioritising causes that directly affect you and your loved ones is not a bad thing. These issues don't exist in a vacuum! Fighting for one cause is better than not fighting at all!

tl;dr - Uplift minority voices, donate and volunteer towards causes that affect majority BAME communities, learn about racist tactics and BAME history, and fight bigoted mindsets in those around you. Community activism is key.

[docgold13]

Us here in the UK, as sad as it is, we knew that Trump’s election wasn’t a fluke. You only have to look at 2005 where the BNP were spreading their racist agendas and most people dismissed them and their ridiculous position. Then came the 2010 election and the rise of UKIP. The 2015 election, when a referendum on leaving the EU was part of the Tory Manifesto. The next year, it happens and Brexit comes true. Then the next year when Theresa May and the Tories won a majority. And twice in 2019; once when Boris Johnson won the Tory internal election and then again in the general election in which the Tories obliterated every other party. For the past 10-15 years years we here have been dealing with creeping to outright fascism.

It’s scary to watch as a citizen of the UK, but an outsider to England. And even more horrifying to see the USA and the rest of the world turning the same way. And QAnon and their bullshit.

I��ve seen firsthand what comes with creeping fascism;

Starving children, cronyism, telling outright lies and getting away with it, saying your loved ones will die of a deadly virus and it’s not their problem, whataboutism, islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, media all sucking up to them, antisemitism, breakings of electoral law and breakings of international law, a world leader shirking responsibilities, using social media to erode confidence in the democratic process.

It’s horrible. And I feel so sorry for you guys. I’d invite you Yanks here, but a) we’re under lockdown and b) we’re just as bad if not worse.

oy vey

Yeah, I mean it can be easy to think of real democracy as the global norm. But it isn’t. And it’s a delicate, fragil thing so easily infected and coopted.

From the outside looking in, the issues with the UK seem to be largely fueled by a xenophobic fear of the increasing Muslim population. That’s an oversimplification to be sure. But perhaps not that different than what’s happening here where the terror of becoming a minority majority nation has galvanized white trash throughout the land.

I’m not confused or surprised by any of it... just supremely disheartened.

[malyen0retsev]

i saw that ask you reblogged about the us system vs the uk system and now i just feel really sad that your entire spectrum is mostly our left wing. you have CHOICES in a way we don't and :( out of interest, how does the uk voting break down then? because ours is basically 'vote for actual humans' vs 'demons in human skin'.. so if all of yours are 'actual humans' where are the lines between them? sorry if this is too much to answer!!!

Yeah anon, it’s fucking wild. And I’ve generally tried to stay out of posting about the US election because fundamentally I can’t alter things, I’m British; but I have discovered tonight that a lot of Americans on here are unaware of how right wing their system is compared with Europeans, and why it confuses us so much tbh. Because yes. The Democrat party is pretty much the entire UK political spectrum. Your ‘moderate’ Democrats are our Conservatives. Your ‘left wing’ Democrats are probably a mix of Lib Dem and Labour. Your ‘socialist’ Democrats are our Labour.

To clarify - this is just my opinion on the way it breaks down in the UK, and other Brits on here may disagree and that’s totally chill. It’s just the way I see it from the experiences and upbringing I’ve had etc etc

A really simple way of summarising it is if your priorities are around the economy and business (so economy, so I’ve essentially typed economy twice lol), then you tend to vote right wing - so for the Conservatives. If your priorities are around social issues and mobility in that regard, you tend to vote left wing - so for Labour. If you sort of sit somewhere in the middle with those priorities (eg believe in higher tax than what the Conservatives offer, but disagree with the level of tax Labour suggest - and this is a really basic example, I’m trying to break it down as easily as I can) then you tend to vote for our slap bang in the centre party, the Lib Dems. 

We also have smaller parties - the SNP (Scottish National Party) which fundamentally want Scottish Independence but also are sort of Scotland’s left wing party (I have two friends who vote SNP - one wants Scottish independence, one doesn’t, but both believe the SNP give the best voice for Scotland in Parliament), the Greens (so if you prioritise green issues), Plaid Cymru (similar to SNP but for Wales), and UKIP (honestly highly irrelevant now, they wanted the UK to leave the EU so now that’s happened they’re just the racist party - basically the equivalent of the US Republicans lol)

That’s not to say that if you vote left wing you care shit all about the economy, nor if you vote right wing you care shit all about social issues - for example, all manifestos have to be fully costed and checked over by economists (it just comes down to where you believe the money should come from) and every party bar bloody UKIP support free healthcare (it’s just they have disagreements over the best way to go about it/sustain the free healthcare system we have in the UK). There’s a lot of crossover, but because we have a hell of a lot of the safety nets in place that America’s still arguing about whether to implement, people can prioritise other things.

I think that’s probably why as a Brit I’m able to (easily) sustain friendships with people who vote for all the parties except UKIP but then I don’t know anyone who votes UKIP so whatevs because here at least you can understand what leads somebody to vote differently to you. There’s enough common ground between the parties, and enough things that won’t be compromised. The best way I can describe it is a Labour-Conservative friendship would be equivalent to a Bernie supporter v Biden supporter friendship. Yep, you disagree on a bunch of stuff. But there’s also stuff that you agree on; you aren’t stood on completely different fucking planets. 

But yeah, it does make me feel sorry for the US because Joe Biden would be a Conservative on our political spectrum whilst Bernie Sanders would be Labour. And that’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with that. What sucks is somehow Americans who want a Democrat in the White House are frequently forced to back someone who would be in a completely different party if they were British. The Democratic nomination coming down to between Bernie and Biden is literally like asking a UK Conservative to vote for a UK Labour politician, or a Labour voter to vote for a Conservative politician - which, I obviously can’t make clear enough, makes zero fucking sense to me. It sucks and all I can say is I’m so sorry that that’s the system you’re stuck with :/

[antoine-roquentin]

For a decade Nigel Farage has been flung into our living rooms continually by the BBC. Even when UKIP barely registered a blip in the opinion polls, he was a regular on Question Time and the other news, current affairs and politics programme. Farage’s celebrity was a BBC creation. He served an important purpose. At a time when the wealth gap was growing exponentially, and working conditions and real incomes of ordinary people were deteriorating sharply, Farage helped amplify the Establishment message that the cause of these problems was not the burgeoning class of billionaires sucking up the world’s resources, but rather the poor immigrants also scratching to make a living.

Having undermined the prospects of a left wing reaction to massively increasing inequality, Farage has now served his purpose. The exigencies of fighting an election under first past the post are such that Farage has become a potentially serious problem for the wealthy elite. The Brexit Party is a fundamental threat to Boris Johnson’s strategy of moving the Tory Party decisively to the hard right and attempting to win seats on the back of working class anti-immigrant votes in the Midlands and North of England. More liberal Scottish, London and South Western Tory voters have been deliberately abandoned, and consituencies sacrificed, in order to chase hard racist votes. Those indoctrinated to hate their fellow man if he has a Polish accent, are now required by the elite to vote Tory, not to vote for the Brexit Party.

The remarkable result of this is that, at precisely the point where Farage’s influence will be most crucial in determining the future of politics in the UK, he has been dropped by the media. I am extremely confident in my perception that he has appeared less in the last month than at any period in the preceding decade. Having been boosted into prominence by the BBC when they were insignificant, the BBC will do everything it possibly can to dampen down Farage and his Brexit Party now they legitimately deserve coverage as a critical factor.

I am happy to state with confidence that this election will backfire on the Tories. The strong evidence from both the 2017 election and the Scottish referendum campaign, is that once broadcasting rules on equal time come into play, the impact on voters is profound of hearing direct from normally derided people and their normally ridiculed arguments.

The Johnson/Cummings electoral strategy is catastrophically bad. First past the post rewards regional voter concentration. Cummings plan is to sacrifice votes in traditional Tory areas in order to pile them up in traditionally hostile areas. The result will be to even out their vote, lose regional concentration and lose the election. They can pile on two million racist votes in traditional Labour constituencies without gaining more than a dozen seats. That will merely cancel out losses in Scotland. That people en masse are going to forget the devastation of their communities by Thatcher or the generations of fight for a decent living is far from probable. The antipathy to the Tories in parts of the UK is not “tribal”, it is the result of generations of hard experience.

The Brexit Party may have more appeal than the Tories in traditional Labour consituencies, but neither they nor the Tories will win any significant number of them. It is in the marginals of the Midlands and Lancashire where the Brexit Party may damage the Tories’ chances, not in Sunderland and Hartlepool which will stay Labour. The SNP is going to sweep Scotland, the Liberal Democrats make substantive gains in London and the South West and the Labour Party will do much better in London and the North than anybody now expects. The Midlands, both East and West, are hard to predict and the key battleground, but the number of possible Tory gains is not enough to compensate for their losses elsewhere. The Tories could end up with the largest share of the vote, perhaps 36%, but less seats than the Labour Party. That is what I expect to happen.

[tshifty]

Also UKIP and brexit party are worse than the tories. The tories suck balls too but there’s been so much media attention on a couple of parties, others are forgotten. UKIP literally want to reverse “LGBT and gender confusing” sex education in schools

yeah make sure yall go vote labour or like the green party or something, mostly labour though so you dont have a minority gov

[probablyangypolitics]

Tories brought low by their blithering incompetence.

UKIP sinking further into pointlessness and obscurity.

Labour’s stupid plan of stubbornly fence-sitting fucking them over.

Greens making huge gains.

Liberal Democrats making huger gains and doing the best of all parties.

I love being able to look at election results and not feel overwhelming misery.

Now we just have to endure a solid week of Labour fans crying that the BBC wasn’t sucking Corbyn’s cock with praise for losing 52 councilors and 6 councils (because apparently saying both major parties took losses is EVIL PRO-TORY BIAS), and headline after headline from people who seem to once again be suddenly realising that maybe the Lib Dems aren’t dead and buried... the same thing everyone in the media seems to realise every fucking time the Lib Dems actually do good to okay in elections before instantly forgetting the party exists until the next go-around.

Oh and of course the 500 smug tossers making the “I think we should re-run the elections because I don’t like the result” non-joke about the Lib Dem gains that they always make while always seeming to think they’re the first one to ever say the most genius thing ever said.

[downthegenderriver]

Something I drew in Drama. Interpret it how you like. Personally I interpret it as Nigel Farage's true form.

[lizamezzo]

One reason to vote in the European Parliament elections:

Was there a time when someone was a real dick to you online and you wished you could do something about it?  Well, if you’re a UK voter, on May 23rd you can! The "Brexit Party" and UKIP candidate list is composed almost entirely of internet dicks, who coincidentally are also dicks in real life.   On Election Day, they have to submit themselves to your approval. They hate this. They'd far rather be holed up in their malodorous bedroom with a webcam, telling you you suck.  But if elected, the prize they win is more power to be a dick to more people.  That's why they're doing this.  

May 23rd, they have to ask for your vote.  Basically, they’re handing you a milkshake and taking off their hat... so you can firehose the milkshake of DEMOCRACY all over their smug faces. Vote LibDem or Green (or Labour if you must).  But vote.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#5yrsago UKIP candidate tells Lenny Henry to move to a "black country"; party says reporting this is a "smear campaign"

The UK Independence Party is a ultra-right-wing anti-immigration party with strong streaks of racism, homophobia, sexism and other unsavoury beliefs in both its rank-and-file and its leadership. Having made the transition to a mainstream party -- one that's sucking up disaffected Tory voters in bulk -- they've adopted and  sometimes even enforced principles against outright racism and sexism, but the membership haven't quite got the message.

Case in point:  William Henwood, a UKIP candidate in local elections for Enfield council, tweeted that comedian, actor and beloved British institution Lenny Henry should move to a "black country" if he was concerned about a lack of representation for people of colour in the media. (He had previously tweeted a comparison between Islam and the Third Reich).

So, what of UKIP and its much-vaunted anti-racist, anti-sectarian official programme? Don't hold your breath. A UKIP spokesman told the BBC that there are people who say things like this in all the parties in their social media streams, but only UKIP is singled out for scrutiny by the biased media, and called reporting on candidates who publicly tell Lenny Henry to move to a "black country" a "smear campaign."

UKIP are in the lead for EU elections next month.

https://boingboing.net/2014/04/27/ukip-candidate-tells-lenny-hen.html

[sin-abon]

4 days ago, UKIP (a far right uk party which fearmongers islamic people and says the white race will be replaced by muslims) said "subscribe to pewdiepie", what a shooter said before killin Pewdiepie was not directly the cause, but he is a minor symptom of sheltering or sharing an edgy ideology which hates islamic people, so is the right-wing in general with it's anti-muslim policies, it is all related, there is a blind defense of pewdiepie, but there is a clear relation, please quit suckin dik

i'm not sucking dick, though. i'm stating the facts that people take what felix says out of context and are literally doing what the murderers wanted: making people turn on people and causing riots online in order for all attention to be on felix instead of what they did.

felix has tried apologizing so many times, but with the media constantly shitting on him and caling him these things it's no wonder that nazis/racists & people of the sort follow him, because that's what people are painting him as.

i am sorry for the families and the people who have lost their lives, and we even prayed on it in religion today in hope that the families will be left in peace. as is obvious, that isn't going to happen, user @clownoflove, because people like you are attacking people who just want people to blame the persons responsible, not the brand that they are trying to pin it on.

(and yes, i do know who the user is, because

so if anybody would like to tag them properly then please do.)

[problematiq]

@reneetaleenaisnotvicious it’s just a place full of assholes.

in the last couple of weeks, i had to explain to them why you can’t use the n-word when you’re not black, thinking it was common knowledge, only to be met with “well, it’s not universally agreed upon” (like, no shit, of course white people won’t agree that they can’t use it and since when does every single person have to agree that something is wrong in order for it to be wrong?) and “saying i can’t say the n-word is reverse racism”, causing me to dig into 2012 discourse on how reverse racism isn’t real.

people will defend the actions of every single human being billie joe has ever had contact with. the allegations of the former (jewish) employer against kat von d about her writing an antisemitic note to him are dismissed as “just a cry for attention from an unhappy employee” even though experts have concluded that it was 99% her handwriting - but yeah, kat von d never said she wrote it, so it must just be fake, since we all know and trust her??

in the discussion over billie’s collaboration with morrissey, people have defended that dude at every turn so they could feel better about their collaboration and completely dismissed everyone who showed concern or disappointment with it. i’m not gonna list everything morrissey has done and i’m not gonna debate it with anyone anymore since i’ve seriously had it up to here with that topic, but the gist of it is that morrissey is a racist UKIP supporter who said that “chinese people are a subspecies”. people have routinely and adamantly attempted to downplay the racism and rationalize his fucked up behavior, saying “well maybe billie just didn’t know about what he did, why should you research everything your collab partner has done” which turned to “morrissey not a racist, he’s just a dumb idiot with no influence who wants attention” which turned into “he’s not even a ukip supporter” which turned into “well actually ukip / nigel farage aren’t even xenophobic if you think about it”. then, a user on the forum who is half-chinese voiced her disappointment in the forum for defending that scumbag tooth and nail and said she was done with the forum and wouldn’t visit anymore. people backpedaled a bit but still tried to tell her that it’s “not really that bad” and “there are worse forms of racism you should focus on” like lmfao really? so that’s when i said “you know what fuck y’all” and left the forum too and with that, the green day fandom really because i am sick and tired of people worshipping the ground billie walks on like fucking catholics, incapable of criticising him or admitting any flaws or mistakes.

for some reason i decided to join the discord server for the old gdc people who used the chat a lot because i thought, maybe i don’t have to cut contact to everyone and can still enjoy talking to people about my favorite band?? and for a while we had fun and i really liked them.

so on april 1st, they announced that the forum would be shut down forever by the end of the week because it was too much work and too expensive to continue keeping it up or whatever. of course only gullible people believed it and nobody else really took it seriously while the mod team desperately tried to convince everyone that it was not an april fools joke like “omgz i’m so sad” and “i dont understand why everyone would think THIS IS A JOKE wow i am so UPSET” and it was ridiculous really because they tried so hard with the joke and nobody bought it.

so then someone posted the link to the discord server in the forum so more and more people joined and i was like “oh” because suddenly every person i hated on the forum and who was the reason I left gdc in the first place joined the discord server, even the gdc mods (who can all suck a fucking dick). those people don’t like me either so it already felt restricting to post there and i was getting pissed that i joined there first and then they all came and forced me to communicate with them again. and i’m serious, i’m fucking done with that place and i want nothing to do with these people either.

then on april 2nd (AFTER april fools) the site was down but some people still didn’t believe it was gone forever because WHY WOULD THEY? that april fools joke was a fucking pathetic attempt to upset the community who loved the forum, and they were salty nobody gave a shit so they had to take extreme measures. i would’ve been happy to believe it and see the forum fucking rot but other people who had found friends and loved the community were genuinely upset about this (one person even started a gofundme).

then, some minor mod joined the discord and complained about us “talking shit” about the mods because it was all the admin’s fault and he gave us some bullshit story about how he was angry with him too, that the admin had given the mods a chance to back up their shit before they closed or even gave them an opportunity to take over the forum but nobody wanted to blah blah blah and some shit about green day’s management wanting to restrict the forum because people were talking about their private lives or that they had planned a dookie tour but it was cancelled because of trés baby or some shit??? whatever. and i believed it because he was convincing and not someone who usually lies and trolls people but who put in a lot of work into the media section and would have been upset if it were gone, so i was actually sorta understanding towards him.

then a couple of hours later the site was back online, the admin made some stupid joke about “lololool i’m a mastermind you can go fuck yourselves i’m so happy with myself!111!!”, they made a social media post about it having just been an april fools joke while directly quoting something i said on the discord server, and that one unimportant mod who lied to us and some other dumbass mod i’ve always hated posted on the discord that they “had a lot of fun lying to us” and how fucking hilarious our reactions were or whatever and how good it was to see how many people cared about gdc like???

and i was fucking mad because I HAD LEFT THAT PLACE!!!!! i had literally left that place and they come to the place i kinda found refuge hin after leaving that shithole (a place i actually liked being on and where i had fun to communicate with the other members and could actually see myself staying and maybe not leaving the fandom entirely), infiltrate it with their fucking presence and make it my fucking business what happened to GDC, lie to me and everyone and laugh to themselves about the things i said or how they had fooled us. so they ruined everything for me again just so they could have a laugh and i’m not kidding when i say i hate every single fucking person who keeps this dumpsterfire running with a passion. and what’s almost more frustrating is how every single person who was mad at them for the joke now runs back to them like “oh wow that was a mean joke but now i’m just happy i can be back, i’m ready to put this behind me” lmfao.

i don’t give a shit about the forum, I. LEFT. i want nothing to do with them, i don’t want them around me, i don’t want them to talk to me or about me. i want them to ignore my fucking existence and leave me THE FUCK alone. and now i can’t even visit the discord anymore because they don’t even have the fucking decency to leave the server after their bullshit stunt. so thanks for fucking nothing you absolute dumbass fucking dick-eating pieces of horseshit.