• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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      Because there is no independent press in the UK. His masters will just amplify his message in one of the news outlets they own when it suits them.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      He gets in the news constantly by issuing the most reactionary takes. He’s got tons of friends in the corporate sector, because he knows exactly which assholes to lick. And his opposition is physically incapable of turning left, so he can periodically outflank Starmer on real bread-and-butter issues by saying “I’ll expand the NHS! I’ll be tough on the Bad Businesses! I’ll fight for the working class [white people]!” while Labour just stutters and tuts and replies “That wouldn’t be sensible.”

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    N**el Farage is responsible for Brexit. UK would be better place if he withdrew from politics.

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      Farage is responsible? I heard it was a national referendum and the vast majority of votes were for Brexit. British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.

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        the vast majority of votes were for Brexit

        It was 52% to 48 on low turnout. Real fucking landslide. And much of the funding came from Arron Banks, who went to Russia as a young man and came back with a fortune, the origin of which he has never convincingly explained.

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        Where would the blame lie? The idiots who believed the lies or the cunt with the megaphone spreading them?

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        British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.

        Hard truths. New Labour only ever knows how to run to the right of the opposition and the old Conservatives can’t campaign their way out of a paper bag. So it’s Reform UK in the next election, strictly due to liberal incompetence.

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        vast majority of votes

        Pfffttt… 51.8% and as if it wasnt a bunch of old assholes who saw a bus and didnt think it would impact their holiday to complain about not being able to retire to Spain immediately after.

        We don’t all have to talk like we know everything all the time.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        He’s a very British kind of racist who panders to a particularly British kind of white nationalism.

        Naturally, the liberal response is to blame his existence on evil foreigners, while trying to outflank him on the right.

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    I wonder if there will be a bus promising an extra £350 million a year for the NHS if Trump colonised Greenland?

    Scary thought, given how badly Starmer is doing, Farage might gain an even louder voice…