James105

I think what we are about to witness next month is just how broken democracy is in the UK. What may come to pass is that Reform receive 20 something percent of the vote, with Labour (probably) receiving 30 something percent of the vote in what is likely to be the lowest turnout ever by voters in a General election. From this Labour will most likely have 400+ seats, the Tories (with a lower vote count than Reform) will get 100ish seats and Reform will get only 1 or 2 seats. No doubt all those that were complaining about the Brexit vote being illegitimate based on the fact that the majority of the electorate did not vote for it will be completely silent on the fact that Labour are heading for a super majority and will be able to make sweeping socialist changes despite not really having the mandate from the majority of the electorate to do so, nor indeed having the kind of support for Labour that Tony Blair received. Labour will then use this majority to engage in gerrymandering and allow 16 year olds to vote (whilst at the same time banning 16 year olds from buying energy drinks) to ensure that there is as much chance of Labour losing the next election in the UK as there is of Putin losing an election in Russia.

Must be a lot harder to avoid these kind of jokes for the Amazon engineers.

"This resolution arrives at a critical time when many conservative states are escalating efforts to restrict transgender rights" Do we know what these rights are they are taking away specifically for transgender people that other people have yet? I keep seeing this line as though it is a fact but I have yet to discover what it is that transgender people are not allowed to do that other people can in these "conservative states". Does anybody know or is it some kind of secret only revealed on a need to know basis?

Who is "we"? I didn't go around converting anyone and I categorically refuse to take responsibility for the actions of my long dead ancestors in much the same way that I refuse to blame any Germans living today for the actions of their ancestors. Islam needs to grow up and become the religion of peace it claims to be and if it cannot then the west needs to take action to remove/deport those who hate the west from their countries and tackle the hatred head on, closing down and literally banning mosques where the spread of this hatred occurs if need be. If some kind of reparation/punishment needs to be made I have no problem with anyone directly responsible for illegal invasions (looking at you Tony Blair) being sent to any one of those invaded countries to be judged and sentenced accordingly. It may be too late for Sweden but at least (the socialist) Denmark have been brave enough to recognise the problem on their doorsteps and are doing something to tackle it. The rest of Europe needs to follow this example.

You won't see it yet. The Tories have failed on every single metric and the rigged electoral system demands that Labour have their turn next. When Labour fail to make an impact and/or make the lives objectively worse for the voters over the course of the next parliament at that point the UK may well turn to the Reform party for real change. As Labour are just like the Tories but worse, this seems inevitable. I just hope the next Labour government doesn't damage the country beyond repair.

Both Labour and the Tories have proven they cannot be trusted and are self serving globalist elitists who care not a jot for the people they pretend to represent. The Tories in particular have promised to reduce immigration in every single manifesto and was (in part) the reason they were elected 3 times on the trot only to then preside over the largest mass importation of cheap labour and illegal immigration in history. History suggests had Labour been in power it would have been the same or worse, with Blair straight up lying about the expected impact of the accession states in the EU being granted freedom of movement to the UK. Out of curiosity on immigration for example, who would you trust more to deliver on their promises when given a choice of Sunak, Starmer or Farage if given a majority government based on what we know from recent history?

It is predicted the UK will become a majority muslim country in 2180. It's the job of the current generation to leave the country in a better state for the next generation. To not care about the impact this will have on the future generations is extremely selfish, especially so for the gay and female members of that generation.

Neither are the migrants who cross the channel from France to England, and whilst Paris does seem to be getting more 3rd world by the day, I don't think it has yet been classified as a war zone. The big difference is that the Brits that are overstaying are not expecting to be provided with free accommodation and free money paid for by the Thai taxpayers. Another difference is that if the Brit overstayers are caught they will be deported without access to Thai taxpayer funded lawyers and will have to either fund their own journey back home or stay in detention until they do. Not really the same at all is it?

Hey Siri, what can I do to make the poor more impoverished, make the rich more rich and make me appear virtuous at the same time without making any difference whatsoever?

The vote to join the EEC in 1975 was not voted for by a majority of the electorate receiving ~17m out of a potential ~40m votes. There wasn't even a vote allowed on the treaty that turned the trading block membership into a European union and certainly no white paper in 1975 explaining that what people would actually be voting for would be a political union rather than a trading block. If you are going to use that argument then you need to realise that it works both ways and the UK would never have joined in the first place using your logic.

He is the leader of a political party as all political parties, including Reform, are required to register with the Electoral Commission and comply with obligations under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA). They have done this so he represents a political party. This is a fact. I know facts are often uncomfortable for those on the left as they do not account for your feelings on the matter but it is what it is.

I reached that conclusion quite early on in my stay here. It's a bit too politically volatile and full of uncertainty as a foreigner here to properly commit to Thailand so I often feel I have one foot in and one foot on the way out despite living here for 4 years now.

She probably doesn't even know why she hates Farage, other than what she has been told to think by her media overlords. It cannot be related to Brexit as she is a Corbyn supporter, who also wanted the UK to leave the EU. Just another confused leftist amongst the many who, if presented with the actual substance of what the person they are supposed to hate actually said, would have a hard time disagreeing with any of it.

Yes, she is a leftist. Her name is Victoria Thomas-Bowen (which is a very typical middle class leftist kind of name) and she is a Jeremy Corbyn supporter. She makes her money selling explicit images of herself on her Only fans account and this is not the type of job that would have been in any way affected by the presence of the UK in the EU.

Why is it that lefties think it is acceptable to assault politicians who hold views that they disagree with? This girl should go to jail as whilst this time it is a milkshake the next time it could be acid as leftists can be very unhinged about people who do not hold the "correct" views.

No, I am an elitist. If I was in charge I would focus entirely on lining my own pockets, look after my mates in big business by mass importing cheap labour for them, coerce people to take vaccines they don't need paid for by the taxpayer (with the appropriate backhanders of course), all at the expense of ordinary people. Normally this should not be a vote winner but I know that the majority of people in the UK are basically stupid and believe anything that my mainstream media buddies will print. Should a "populist" like Farage come along with some compelling arguments about immigration I'll simply call him a racist and take the applause from the stupid people and bask in my virtuousness. Or something like that..

He actually expresses views that the majority of people agree with. This I believe is known as "populism", otherwise known as appealing to ordinary people. Whoever would vote for a man like that when they can doff their caps and vote for the elitists in the establishment parties?

"Not so long ago"? I'd suggest 1612 is a pretty long time ago as that is the last time it happened. Equating the "Religion of peace" with religions that have undergone reformation, modernised and do not wish harm on others who disagree or blaspheme is part of the problem and gives Islam a free pass on their barbarism. I think all religion is nonsense but there is only one that is committing terrorism on a consistent basis.

I think Reform will pick up votes from the disillusioned (like myself) who were not going to bother voting but now have something different to vote for. The system is too rigged for a non establishment party to win outright (or even win a handful of seats), but it wouldn't surprise me if they managed to get 15-20% of the overall vote. Maybe when people realise that Labour are just an even more wasteful shambles of a party than the Tories then next time they may be able to do something.

I'd suggest the extra weight of an additional 700,000 people a year is going to put a strain on any service. Stopping so many people coming in, cutting the middle management tier of the NHS, sorting out the shambolic procurement that buys drugs at the highest possible price point from labelled brands and actually charging foreigners who use it (just like other countries do) would allow for significant cuts to the NHS budget I would think. Then repeat the process across other wasteful entities and there is plenty of opportunity to cut taxes. They are only so high as so much money is wasted.

Indeed. They have chosen classic conservative policies which is a smaller state and lower taxes. Not sure that is "populist", its just standard conservative stuff. The "conservatives in name only" are pursuing higher taxes and bigger state interference and we already have a party for that called Labour don't we? When an actual conservative (Truss) was democratically elected to lead the party by its conservative members she was ousted as soon as possible to make way for the current globalist puppet incumbent which just goes to show where the conservatives are now. The 2 main parties should just be renamed to Globalist Party A and Globalist Party B to reflect the actual choice on offer for the UK public.

The reason Reform exists is due to the fact the conservatives are not considered centre right any longer. The conservatives are now just another globalist party lining the pockets of themselves and their globalist rich mates who like to employ cheap immigrant workers (at least until they can be replaced with even cheaper robots/AI) and Labour are no different. The conservatives were elected on a pledge to reduce immigration to the "tens of thousands". Brexit was also down to the fact that the EU was used as an excuse that immigration could not be controlled so the people voted to give that control to the elected government. Is mass uncontrolled immigration a "centre right conservative" policy? I don't think so. So of course there will be a party that emerges to fill the centre right void the conservatives have vacated in pursuit of globalism.

The person who "deserves this crap" is immune to the consequences of his actions. No ordinary person in the UK voted to go to war (the majority were against it), it was not on anyones manifesto and was passed through parliament on the back of a pack of lies. People of the UK engage in a meaningless charade every 5 or so years where they elect a party who then tear up whatever promises they made and follow whatever course of action lines either their own or their globalist elite buddies pockets, at the expense of those gullible fools who voted for them who believe the same old lies again and again by the 2 main parties.

So that makes pretty much every country in the non-western world "populist radical right" then, as all sensible countries prioritise the needs of citizens over non-citizens, including Thailand. The fact that this is even considered to be a controversial stance is why the west will fall.

He is far from a coward. It takes genuine courage to go against the narrative the sheep have been fed from what passes as journalism nowadays. It makes me laugh that the "left" are enthralled by the mass importation of anti-gay anti-jew cheap labour that lines the pockets of the richest in society at the expense of the working classes and the destruction of western values. One day the left will wake up in the totalitarian state they helped create where being gay is once again illegal and women are once again second class citizens. That is currently the future of the UK and it may or may not be too late to change this trajectory, but the people sounding the alarms are too few and are being drowned out by the bleating of the sheep who either lack critical thinking skills or who hate themselves so much that they just want to see the west burn.