i cant emphasize enough how badly i want labour to get destroyed at the election.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Nobody who voted for Labour wanted this stupid, pointlessly cruel right-wing shit.
Completely agree.
In an effort to steal votes from Conservatives they're just lurching further to the right
Problem is the right already have 2 parties to vote for, they'll just push voters away, either to apathy or other parties.
Here's hoping we can convince enough Labour voters, who didn't want this stupid, pointlessly cruel right-wing shit, to vote Green.
Thing is, I dont want to vote green.
I agree with most of their environmental and immigration policies, but a lot of their policies on policing, defence, devolution and increasing benefits payments to the unemployed (except where through disability) I disagree with.
Their commentary on how the police responded to the Golders green knife attack for instance really pissed me off. In some ways they are enlightened, but when it comes to stuff like this they are hopelessly naive.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
On the positive side you have global and national policies. Global warming, benefits, immigration all have massive impact.
On the negative side you have one social commentary on police brutality , or perceived police brutality, in a single case.
They have good policies, no-one is going to be perfect. Vote Green
Yeah fair enough
You agree with their immigration policies?
What are they?
Allowing immigrants to work whilst waiting for a formal decision. Let them earn money and pay tax.
Housing dangerous asylum seekers in detention facilities and providing suitable accommodation for ones who aren't.
Investing more money on border control to speed up decision making.
Those were the three that stood out off the top of my head.
First point makes no sense. Can you share the Green Party policy for that? Interested to learn more.
Its on their website. I dont know anymore than what I've written, it didn't go into detail
Can you please share a link? Thanks
Link to the one about open borders. Why should any illegal migrant get work, that's nuts.
I bet you looked so hard for your made up policies on dangerous asylum seekers. Hilarious.
There isn't one about open borders
Their idea is that immigrants, whilst waiting for a decision which can take months/years should be allowed to work.
The current situation - they get given benefits. Meanwhile farms etc have huge shortages of labour but they cannot legally employ asylum seekers.
Personally I'd prefer they worked, got paid and paid for their own food/accommodations.
And go look yourself, their site isnt hard to navigate.
As well as the obviously horrible implications for trans people, the other predictable outcome of this is that cis women who don't look feminine/conforming enough will face shaming and violence from people who will see it as their right to enforce this ban.
Rather than spend energy punching down trans people with this crap Labour could have acted swiftly to remove the ambiguity in the law. But they chose not to.
Why do you keep voting Labour when all your getting is Tories / Reform lite?
wild how teresa may was the most progressive uk government in two decades
If they didn't like it when they heard the judgement, the government could have decided to change the law. They can't say "it was the Supreme Court, our hands are tied"; they're the government, and they have a majority. There was nothing in the King's Speech, so they have chosen to keep it as it is. This is the government's transphobia, not the Supreme Court's.
So in a quest to ban something that has never caused an actual problem they just create a new one.
Women who have transitioned into becoming a man will now be forced to explain to everyone that they are biologically a woman when entering a toilet, and for me there is now a chance that the next time I'm stood at a urinal my neighbour will be a woman with a bigger knob than mine.
Meanwhile, actual sex offenders will continue to not be stopped from committing offences in toilets and changing rooms because of a little sign on the door
It's actually even worse than that, as women could now legally complain to the owner that there is a man in the toilets and they are unsafe. In thiscase it would be discriminatory to NOT kick the trans man out of the women's toilets.
This leaves trans people with nowhere to go, which the authors of the guidance have acknowledged. So they have left the option for the owner to permit trans people to use the disabled toilets....
Which is a win win if you don't give a shit about disabled people OR trans people.
and for me there is now a chance that the next time I'm stood at a urinal my neighbour will be a woman with a bigger knob than mine.
now there's a way to attack this
"Eh wot? Ya expect me to go in the loo and see a wimmen with a bigger knob than mine?? Woke has gon' too far!"
Perfect lol