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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who's on first joke names can't be good for SEO.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

SEO isn't good for SEO since AI. We might be in the death of the search engine.

[–] cyrano@piefed.social 7 points 4 months ago

Cos boaty mcboatface was taken already

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

As I see it, Corbyn is a fool, he too wanted out of EU, he just wanted it without taking responsibility for it.
I am so happy we have 12 parties in parliament to choose from, and I think only 3 of the party leaders are about as stupid as Corbyn and Theresa May, which were the only 2 significant party leaders in UK when they chose to leave EU, and none of them are as stupid and dishonest as Boris Johnson when he was tasked with "managing" UK getting out of EU.

British politicians are sub par IMO.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Theresa May wasn’t a party leader when we chose to leave the EU.

David Cameron was the leader of the Conservatives at the time of the referendum, the one who promised the referendum to get votes for his party, the one who greatly underestimated the fight that was needed to be able to stay in the EU and the one who ran away from the steaming pile of shit that he’d created.

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Theresa "Brexit means Brexit" May wasn't leader during the referendum but as PM she chose the hardest Brexit possible to appease the fanatics and fucked us forever.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can’t see how that’s true as she didn’t even get to a point where our own MPs agreed on what Brexit should be and didn’t have a big enough majority to push anything through. Then she proper fucked up by announcing a general election the result of which was that she had even less power.

In my view she simply wasn’t effective enough to have fucked us forever.

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Check the Lancaster House speech where she set the most extreme conditions for departure I.e. Leaving the single market and customs union and the ECJ. Prior to this speech, there was no fixed idea about what the referendum meant in practice. After her speech there was no way back.

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-facts/what-is-the-lancaster-house-speech/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06vmm3s

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Taken this long with booting out a lot of members too who ironically were involved from the ground roots, can't say I'm hopeful this is the face of the British left.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 5 points 4 months ago

Perfectly sums up the left - plenty of infighting and purity tests.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Who's on first?

[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can’t really see much good coming from yet another left wing party. To the left of labour you have the Greens, Lib Dems, Plaid (Wales), SNP (Scotland), and now this new party.

All this does is split the left vote and make it easier for Reform under FPTP. Plus once this inevitably collapses, it will just put their potential voters (mostly young people) off politics rather than vote for another party.

I hope I am wrong but I think Corbyn has really misjudged this one.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Lib Dems to the left of Labour? I would have thought with the Overton window shifting, they'd still be occupying a position between Labour and the Conservatives like they always have... but I guess it's possible with some of Labour's suspiciously Conservative decisions lately.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Joke of a name for a joke of a party. Corbyn et al have already lost all credibility after the launch debacle.

Thankfully, the UK has more than one alternative to choose from, both the Greens and LibDems are shaping up to be strong left-challenges to the Uniparty and Reform.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

You're gonna sit there and tell me UK isn't a joke of a country? At least politics wise? And yes, I get the irony in this coming from someone who's president is Trump, but I'm on record as saying the country is a joke, our government a circus, and our president is a clown.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I didn't say it wasn't? I just said the new party and it's leadership are a joke. I didn't say anything about the UK, itself.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Im also from the US, but I can see all the parallels to the UK government. Both have been pretty aligned with one another for decades now.

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

He should just retire. Probably the worst Labour leader of my lifetime, he managed to somehow endorse Brexit and lose against Theresa May.