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Apparently Ontario who control off licences in their state (or whatever it is) have banned US alcohol. Like it.
Mad_Cyril That’s the impression I get. He’s calm, speaks in comprehensible sentences, has a strong background in economics. Plus with a minority, he’ll have to prove that he can do the job before he gets full control.
Along_the_Wire Most provinces have done the same. Tourism to the US is way down too, seems like most people are trying to at least limit purchases from american companies. We’re a generally pissed off bunch at the moment.
303abuser Nice one!
Wheres DuDropsy when you need a 5 month state of play synopsis?
Liqui stop being a short term looser and start thinking LONG TERM.
Lol!
You got it!
Trump playing 5D level 7 dementia chess has got me STOKED for the future!
This is a great listen, its a pity DuScurvy isnt around to critique it from another dimension
Wtf
We can blame Trump all we want and he deserves it, but the Republican Party is entirely complicit in everything that’s happening.
Dubman I think they’re scared of getting primaried out in 2026 by the crazies in the base if they go against him. Until either Trump is so unpopular that his base starts to revolt or the democrats take the house and senate in the mid-terms, it’ll just be more of the same. They seem to be happy with power, the constitution and people’s quality of life don’t factor in.
Looks like Waltz is out after 102 days as National Security Advisor. At least he got passed the high bar of 27 days set by Flynn in Trump’s first term.
Voted Reform!
Taking up back to our glorious past!
My home village now has a Reform MP. Following a few exasperated comments on the family whatsapp
, my Dad is a bit quiet. 
If reform keep going like this, there will be gollywogs back on the robertson’s jam jars by mid july!
Andrea Jenkins’s speech made my heart soar with BRITISH pride.
Labour isn’t working!
As projected Trump made sure Labor won in the Australian elections. The reason this won’t happen in the UK this weekend is that the UK Labor is just Tory Light ™ now.
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Homegrove Don’t be fooled by labels and gimmicks. He might be to the left of Dutton, but Albanese’s immigration policies are far tougher than the UK. Student visa application fees are four times higher than the UK and according to Amnesty international, he has expanded powers to deport refugees to third countries. cut off lifelines for people in detention by seizing mobile phones and implemented unwarranted searches in immigration detention. The 2024 laws impose severe penalties of up to five years’ imprisonment on individuals who fail to assist with their own deportation.
alistair none of that is shocking or surprising, the Ozzies have ben sending the Navy out to intercept migrant boats for decades. Turn your boat around or be fired upon. Its only in the last 10/15 years that they actually process the migrants, always offland mind. Its been tougher to get into Oz than the USA for example and I reckon if put to a vote in most EU countries people would prefer a harder line similiar to the Ozzies when it comes to unfiltered migrants entering.
LT42 if only European countries were an island?
Along_the_Wire I think its the policy they have rather than the means ro which they enforce it.
This was decent….
"I see you, Reform UK.
Well that was… thoroughly expected, wasn’t it? This is what happens when the bosun shouts “ICEBERG, DEAD AHEAD!” and the only response the captain can think of is to try and lean the ship to the right of it. I guess pushing a few pensioners and wheelchairs off the port side is one way of trying to do so, even if all it did was guarantee a head-on collision with the inevitable.
Who could possibly have seen this coming, apart from literally anybody paying the vaguest bit of attention? Local elections are always a litmus test for the country’s general level of satisfaction with the main parties. And right now, pretty much all of us are rolling our eyes and finishing ourselves off in the bathroom as soon as they’ve finished futilely thrusting away at Prime Minister’s Questions.
Keir Starmer remains about as personally popular as the Israeli leg of Kneecap’s world tour and he’s now pissed away one of the safest Labour seats in the country. On the opposite benches Kemi Badenoch is faring even worse; she’s slowed the complete implosion of the Tory party about as successfully as the fibreglass hull on a billionaire’s submarine.
The brutal economic calls and complete lack of passion and personality from our Prime Minister were only ever going to be forgiven by the electorate if the results in meaningfully improving people’s lives spoke for themselves. He still insists those results are coming, but given how utterly unreliable a narrator he is in his own story, faith in those words has now worn thinner than a third child in a household struggling on benefits.
So enter Reform, and Nigel Farage promising the moon on a stick. The orders have come in thick and fast, despite the man’s long and proven track record of vanishing into the ether as soon as the delivery date for moons on sticks actually rolls around. He’s already promising ‘efficiency savings’ in councils that have already been pared to the bone, pointing to DEI initiatives and work-from-home employees as easy targets.
Pure ideology with no basis in reality, desperately apeing Trump and Elon Musk despite the fact that all the polling suggests Brits of every political persuasion want as little to do with that pair of lunatics as humanly possible. The vacuous stupidity of Farage’s professed priorities for his newfound authority will soon meet reality. He’s just become the dog that actually caught the car; there’s every chance he and his performative band of grifters will now fall under the wheels that is the actual hard work of local governance.
Reform want voters to believe there are a thousand DEI managers with pink hair in every council office, all of whom do nothing all day apart from putting trans paraplegics on the bin lorries as part of their silly diversity initiatives. The simple fact is that the vast majority of diversity workers in local government are there to stop the local authority getting their arses sued into the ground in discrimination cases.
They’re a cost cutting initiative most of the time, but clearly financial prudence is not high on Reform’s list of priorities. By targeting WFH workers in local government, perhaps one of the most heavily unionised workforces in the whole of the country, all Farage is effectively announcing is his desire to speed-run a world record number of constructive dismissal tribunals. You can presumably add the cost of those to all the performative legal challenges against migrant hotels.
Richard Tice is no Elon Musk, and that’s saying something when Elon Musk is such a twat. In a fortnight when the Trump effect has revitalised the fortunes of the Liberals in Canada and Labor in Australia, it’s really quite impressive that our own government can’t even fake being centre-left well enough to avoid losing thousands of voters to a one-man band like Reform. Farage’s seat-sniffing proximity to and fawning adoration of his grotesque fascist of a pal Stateside would have seen a sane country reject him entirely.
England, it seems, is not currently that. Thank God it isn’t the whole of the UK, and that Reform are kidding themselves if they think they have any hope of repeating this sort of success north of the border.
That being said, this surge for Reform is clearly no joke or mere protest movement. The Conservatives are facing total armageddon, despite Farage’s party accepting dozens of their talentless cast-offs and simply rebranding them as the fresh new kids on the block. They just made Andrea Jenkyns electable again, for Christ’s sake, a woman who is sure to end up ranking somewhere between Diamond Joe Quimby and the bloke from Jaws in the final list of the worst mayors of all time.
All this talk of the Conservatives refusing a coalition at the next GE seems like nothing but wishful thinking at this point. The Tories will be lucky if Reform even offer them one; the corpse has already been plundered of its few remaining viable organs. Why would they go into partnership with whatever desiccated husk Badenoch is leading in four years’ time?
It’s looking like the real fight will be between Keir Starmer’s vision of the Labour party and Reform UK. What a shame Nigel smokes tailor-mades and not rollups; at the rate Labour are currently tilting right, we’ll struggle to find a fag paper to slip between the two.
I see you, Reform UK. I fucking see you".
Stephen Fry?