Behave like Tories and get treated like Tories.
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I haven't followed UK politics much lately, but sounds similar to Labour in NZ. Take over from conservatives trying to sell off the country and fuck over the poor, win a mandate super majority election, do nothing or worse, back track on your progressive campaign promises... Get railed in the next election.
And the government that took over is the worst we've had in decades.
16% so far. Tax the wealth. Stop funding the genocide. Stop throwing minorities under the bus. Stop sucking up to nonces. Improve people's lives: we can no longer afford circuses, we can barely afford bread.
we can no longer afford circuses, we can barely afford bread.
hear hear
What does nonces mean here? Non native speaker here!
It originated from prisoners who have done something despicable, so that they would be at risk from the rest of the prison population: Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise. NONCE.
Almost none of these abbreviation based etymologies are true - they're made up years later, normally as a joke, and somehow you end up with people spreading them about as facts.
Thanks!
For me it was Number Used Once in cryptography 😁, or in french it's some sort of arch bishop or something IIRC.
Huh!
Paedophiles.
Nonce: child rapist.
Refering to Trump mostly, but our Prince Andrew is also a child molestor. He's walking free and living a life of luxury few of us will achieve.
Seems to be an incomplete anwer, see the answer of @waz
So (can't edit) pedo or worse/similar.
Who would have thought being a Zionist, billionaire serving, authoritarian bitch would go down badly?
It's honestly baffling how tone deaf his government is
The polls suggest the people want leaders who are more of those things.
i probs would have voted for them in the next election, but then they called me a Jimmy Saville supporter...
so fuck em...
Probably projecting
The Express is an untrustworthy tabloid, but damn. Fascism incoming.
Well at least the Greens are polling relatively high. Hope that trend grows now with new leader + possible collapse of Corbyn/Sultana.
Those kinds of numbers unfortunately don't usually translate into seats under FPTP, especially with one party so far in the lead.
Also, people treat polls as a kick up the arse for the incumbent, then vote on their personal politics come election day. So it’s really unlikely even the lead in the polls will see that in reality.
Fascinating from a US perspective. When Democrats perform badly we don't blame the Party, we just scream at the voters for not voting for the Democrats hard enough
The Democrats never fail us, we just continually fail them.
Which is also a sentiment extremely popular on Lemmy.world, the biggest instance.
He's shit and everything, sure, but this is The Express. I wouldn't even use the paper to wipe my arse.
Shows his pandering has not worked, wouldn't you say?
I have been telling since the start, Keir Starmer is a seat warmer for Nigel Farage.
Who could have thought that saying "fuck you and by the way my opponent is right" to voters would not be a winning electoral strategy
yeah, why is he in crisis? this is what he worked for. tirelessly. he's a huge success.
The only thing I'm pushing for from the government now is proportional voting before the next election. Otherwise we'll be in a fascist Reform hell.
I thought the Democrats' 27% was bad, but holy fuck.
Not surprising. This country is basically a clown show, and he helped build it.
Seems a bit rough to overlook the previous Tory shitshows?
Well helped perpetuate it anyway, it has been a clown show for a while now
the amount of people who forget that we had over a decade of Tory rule astounds me sometimes
So how did sucking at the orange teat go for ya laddie?
I wonder how many Labour PMs we'll see before the next GE.