I wonder who’ll be next week’s Prime Minister?
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Predictably, the press are now pursuing the U-turn/caving under pressure angle.
So the same people that criticised the decision initially, then criticised Starmer for sticking to his guns on it, then criticised him for not listening to internal Labour critics urging him to make changes to the decision, are now slating him for being a weak leader because he did the thing they’ve been calling for all week.
This type of macho bullshit thing is part of the reason politicians adopt such odd stances and tactics over this stuff. If the decision is a good one, and helps to reverse an earlier bad decision, then surely that should be celebrated? Otherwise you put politicians in a situation where they know that they’re only going to get a load of shit for changing a decision to the right one, so why bother?
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Yep. They also keep going with the line that they “believe” this and that…
I don’t want belief, I want proof that this policy is beneficial so where is it?
…and suddenly they have a problem.
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Keir Starmer says he ‘deeply regrets’ island of strangers speech
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Predictably, the press are now pursuing the U-turn/caving under pressure angle.
So the same people that criticised the decision initially, then criticised Starmer for sticking to his guns on it, then criticised him for not listening to internal Labour critics urging him to make changes to the decision, are now slating him for being a weak leader because he did the thing they’ve been calling for all week.
This type of macho bullshit thing is part of the reason politicians adopt such odd stances and tactics over this stuff. If the decision is a good one, and helps to reverse an earlier bad decision, then surely that should be celebrated? Otherwise you put politicians in a situation where they know that they’re only going to get a load of shit for changing a decision to the right one, so why bother?
it’s a big problem with the whole Trump Always Chickens Out thing that’s been popular on social media. Like are you going to call him a chicken for going back and forth on bombing Iran? Start yelling bok bok bok at him if he decides to not drop a nuke on them?
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Keir Starmer says he ‘deeply regrets’ island of strangers speech
Honestly though, who could expect a lawyer to put thought into the words he choses to use, their meaning and who they could be interpreted?
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Well, the “concessions” may have won over some but for a whole lot of others, they’ve been rumbled.
They emphasise the tag of Two Tier Kier by creating exactly that.
What happens now next Tuesday? I do not know, except in one respect: Labour have inflicted immense damage on themselves.
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Soon… just being born in the US will not save you from indiscriminate deportation:
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Not a good look when Starmer’s old law firm deem his proposals to seriously breach human rights law.
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Trump administration releases MS-13 leaders as part of deal with El Salvador’s Bukele
U.S. President Donald Trump intends to drop charges against leaders of Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13), currently incarcerated in the U.S. under charges of terrorism, murder, narcotrafficking, and the attempted assassination of an FBI field officer.
Now all of those leaders are being released, and though the “national security” motives of the Trump administration have not been made public, many experts on El Salvador assert that the deals are part of a quid pro quo with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, to avoid forcing those leaders to testify about his power-sharing deals with organized criminal groups.
Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, John J. Durham, has asked the Eastern District Court of New York to drop the charges against two of the nine MS-13 leaders: Antonio López Larios, alias “Greñas”, and Vladimir Antonio Arévalo Chávez, known as “Vampiro”.
In both cases, Durham argued before the court that there were more important “geopolitical” and “national security” considerations than holding these gang members accountable for the crimes of which they were accused.
According to Salvadoran media company El Faro, Greñas had the charges against him dropped in March 2025 and was immediately deported to El Salvador. Vampiro’s legal team have filed motions to prevent his deportation to El Salvador.
Prosecutor Durham sought to have the charges against Vampiro dropped and his deportation carried out in secret, arguing that “public disclosure of this motion before the operation is complete could cause harm to the government’s relationship with a foreign ally,” referring to the Bukele government.
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Well, of course he would let the actual crimelords go free while arresting innocent citizens as gang members. Because why wouldn’t he? Trump fucking loves crime, he’s criming all the time, all of his friends are criminals. It’s poor and brown people he can’t stand.
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I would say that the progressives like AOC and Mamdani need to really claim and define the word “socialist” for the people. In the States, socialism comes across different than elsewhere. There was some confusion about it with Bernie when he was running, some were saying he was a “commie” etc. They need to make that word not be a quick turn off for the people.
And that is his cue:
https://abc7ny.com/post/trump-calls-mamdani-communist-bad-new-york-interview/16882924/And reports now about funding his opposers.
The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
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They may, finally, have started thinking about disability properly, but still have much to learn.
I’m hesitant to jump the gun on this, but removing the idiotic cruelty of the 4-point requirement is good news:
“Much more importantly, it means that the switch to the four-point Pip eligibility rule may never happen at all. It won’t be in the legislation. And there is no guarantee the Timms review will revive the idea – certainly if it is genuinely “co-produced” with disabled people, as the government promises. The four-point rule was the key instrument that was going to deliver the £2.5bn savings that, this morning, the Treasury was going to deliver.”
Narrator: It would not have saved £2.5bn, simply transferred the costs elsewhere and likely increased them, while reducing tax revenue and increasing disabled unemployment.
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The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
When the right can scream about Obama and Biden and the fukkin state of California as being communist and socialist without getting laughed out of the room, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend defining it. It’s just a generic badguy term.
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The state the US is in, Bioshock’s Andrew Ryan would be deemed a commie.
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The state the US is in, Bioshock’s Andrew Ryan would be deemed a commie.
And Richard Nixon would be a centrist.
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And, less than 24 hours later, the “revised” bill does not have the committed to removals, but instead a load of caveats in the belief that that will make it better.
Labour are arrogant idiots.
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The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
When the right can scream about Obama and Biden and the fukkin state of California as being communist and socialist without getting laughed out of the room, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend defining it. It’s just a generic badguy term.
That hurts. And there is a reason why many didn’t like Obama’s decent healthcare plan, calling it Obamacare, and voting against their own interest. But that is for another day.
Years ago on MW, I asked why can’t the US at least try out on a small scale some of the cool things we hear about Europe: Healthcare system, more vacation days, a childcare system. It’s too painful on why we can’t have nice things.
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The “big beautiful bill” is scary. It passed the Senate and the last ditch effort to thwart it is happening now
This is from Cheney of all people:
There is a reason he said while campaigning that afterwards “you won’t have to do all this again”.
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“Alligator Alcatraz” is scary:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/us/what-is-alligator-alcatraz-florida
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and this from Laura Loomer about a population of 65M in the US:
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Well, the US is truly fucked.
Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill wins congressional approval
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The word “socialism” and their agenda needs to be better defined in the US. Easier said than done.
When the right can scream about Obama and Biden and the fukkin state of California as being communist and socialist without getting laughed out of the room, it doesn’t matter how much time you spend defining it. It’s just a generic badguy term.
That hurts. And there is a reason why many didn’t like Obama’s decent healthcare plan, calling it Obamacare, and voting against their own interest. But that is for another day.
Years ago on MW, I asked why can’t the US at least try out on a small scale some of the cool things we hear about Europe: Healthcare system, more vacation days, a childcare system. It’s too painful on why we can’t have nice things.
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The “big beautiful bill” is scary. It passed the Senate and the last ditch effort to thwart it is happening now
This is from Cheney of all people:There is a reason he said while campaigning that afterwards “you won’t have to do all this again”.
I looked up that “Trump can cancel elections” thing and that is fake news. Also I think that account is fake and does not belong to Liz Cheney.
The elections are in the constitution. You would need a constitutional amendment for him to be able to cancel elections.
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