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Pepperwood

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Animals > people. Euro-Islander. Worse than it looks.

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Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 2d

All very good points, which is precisely why Starmer and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social will do absolutely nothing about it

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot

It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think it’s beyond the realms of possibility he’d try a stunt like that, but he also doesn’t need to. Reform voters are masters at convincing themselves up is down and down is up, so they’ll blame someone else or deny the existence of problems, and vote for him again and again.

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 2d

It’s incredible. 14 years to work out what to do, five with Starmer as leader, and then when they finally get in, they show the whole country that they have no idea what to do.

It’s like spending 14 years planning to move a priceless vase then dropping it as soon as you get your hands on it

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

Final note. It’s pure hopium, because I have zero faith in any meaningful amount of people actually forming a consensus that people and parties should be banned, regardless of how evidently dangerous they are.

“But it’s democracy! Just because you don’t agree with them!” will be of zero comfort 😐

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

Unpopular opinion, but it may be that Farage as PM is the only thing that’ll force progressives to grow a spine.

If he wins in 2029, and *IF* he loses the GE after that, the mainstream needs to get its act together. Ban him, ban his media, ban his backers, force them out. Zero. Fucking. Tolerance.

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

So if we get Farage as PM, it’ll be no less than we deserve for weakly, meekly tolerating the worst people in society.

G’night all 🫡

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

When your policies are designed to harm people, and when you’re in bed with our enemies like Putin and Trump, and have spent your entire political career dividing people, lying and spreading hate, you shouldn’t be allowed a place in the country, regardless of how many morons think otherwise.

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

Unpopular opinion, but it may be that Farage as PM is the only thing that’ll force progressives to grow a spine.

If he wins in 2029, and *IF* he loses the GE after that, the mainstream needs to get its act together. Ban him, ban his media, ban his backers, force them out. Zero. Fucking. Tolerance.

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

Reform voters: “That won’t happen. Farage loves the NHS”

Also Reform voters: “So what if you lose your healthcare? People have had it too easy”

They’d be turned off Farage by this sort of stuff if they weren’t universally thick as mince

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

There is no argument, because you’re talking to genuine idiots on one side who would gladly set fire to their house so long as it burned their neighbours house down too.

Reform should’ve been banned long ago, and Farage barred from public office. Tolerance of intolerance has led us to where we are

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

Starmer is still terrified of an ever-shrinking group of perma-raged little Englanders who can barely spell the word ‘Europe’, so here we are.

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

Given that his supporters haven’t got a clue what the EU is, they’d just demand an ever harder Brexit. It’s like trying to find the end of a rainbow for them.

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

A quick look at the replies in any comment forum, social media etc shows that Reform voters, ever the idiots, are still glued to that line.

Even when things get worse under Farage, they’ll blame someone else, or say his Brexit was impossible to implement due to previous governments

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

There was a time when Reform could have, and should have been banned, and Farage barred from ever holding public office. Sadly that time has passed.

If he becomes PM, it’s because moderates, progressives and liberals were too naive and weak to put a stop to it.

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 3d

Wanting to deport legal immigrants with ILR is one of those “it’s okay to ban someone from politics because of their views” scenarios.

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

“We were told with Covid ‘don’t look at any data yourself’”

No one was told that, anywhere or by anyone.

That being said, the majority of people wouldn’t even understand what they were looking at in a scientific journal or set of lab results anyway

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

“What is wrong with the British public?”

There’s a character limit on Bluesky you know 😅

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

Social media is the elephant in the room. No one in the media or government wants to admit it has completely destroyed politics and public discourse and needs to be controlled.

The education system has totally failed to value or teach any kind of emotional intelligence and resilience too

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

You can also bet many of Reform’s voters will knowingly vote against their own interests. Eg: 10 years ago they’d rage at the thought of a politician getting rid of the NHS.

Now they’ll convince themselves the NHS is a bad idea because they cant admit they’re wrong

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

Sadly a big chunk of the UK is stupid and selfish enough to look at what MAGA has done to the US and thought “we’ll have some of that!”

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

Council tax goes up - It’s the fault of Labour/Liberals/Woke/Remainers/Immigrants/Not being right wing enough

You’ll never, ever get a moment where more than a handful of them own up to their role in causing it

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

The article suggests 10% are those who don’t usually vote, but I think they’ve energised a part of the population we assumed was smaller than it was - that of the apathetic, nihilistic, couldn’t care less voters who just want to see what chaos looks like

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

The issue is though, no matter how bad prices, health care etc get, they can comfort themselves by blaming other peoples. They will never, ever blame Farage or his mob.

Add that to the apathy of “well things are just rubbish anyway” and you have voters who are truly locked in

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 5d

Journalists still don’t get it, Reform voters DO NOT CARE how their party behaves, or how unfit its people are to lead.

Farage could literally set fire to their voters’ houses and it wouldn’t dent their polling because Reform voters aren’t serious people

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

How the cracks are beginning to show in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Reform UK appears to have an impregnable lead in the polls, but political editor David Maddox highlights how the cracks are beginning to show in the councils the party runs and the ongoing policy vacu...

www.independent.co.uk

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 18d

The BBC just can’t help itself, can it?

Nothing on the homepage on Jenrick anymore, and taking Badenoch’s word as gospel in the headline.

“Badenoch claims, without any evidence” would be the correct phrasing.

Take politics out of the BBC’s editorial remit

A screenshot of the BBC website with a picture of Kemi Badenoch. The headline says “High immigration levels damage communities, Badenoch warns”

Pepperwood @griswaldo.bsky.social · 18d

Sorry, not been on for a while and just saw this. Totally plausable given the insanity and vileness of Trump and MAGA.