Tuesday 22nd April 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[Frog222]

Morning !

Labour, or is it just Cooper who is a absolutely terrified of Reform and the Red Wall , who are believed to hate young people, or what ?

One outstanding area of disagreement is over an EU youth mobility scheme. Brussels wants a deal that allows 18 to 30-year-olds to move temporarily to the UK.

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, wants the number of visas capped and is demanding any scheme is limited to one year, to avoid the numbers being included in migration figures.

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is understood to be in favour of the scheme after studies showed that it would boost the economy

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https://archive.ph/jeKzs

[Frog222]

Nice one from ShampainSocialist on the Liveblog

[refitman]

Labour can continue to fuck off

[refitman]

Ok, I'm convinced that Labour are trying to speed run annihilation

[refitman]

I'm voting for crabs at the next election

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Ok, I'm convinced that Labour are trying to speed run annihilation

They don't see it that way. They genuinely appear to believe that come the next GE enough of us will hold our noses and vote for them to keep out the Tories/Reform. It's utterly delusional, they can't hide anymore, we've seen who they are and everyone I know who voted for them is disgusted by what's been revealed. I genuinely can't think of a single person who still has a good word to say about them.

Government sources said charities and Labour MPs who were concerned that wider benefit cuts would push more families into poverty should “read the tea leaves” over Labour’s plans.

“If they still think we’re going to scrap the cap then they’re listening to the wrong people. We’re simply not going to find a way to do that. The cap is popular with key voters, who see it as a matter of fairness,” one source said.

In other words 'we're happy to starve kids if it pleases the Tory/Reform voters we're desperate to attract and everyone else can go fuck themselves'. This isn't a government, never mind a centre left government, it's a soulless husk concerned only with its own survival being dragged into the gutter by dubious polls and focus groups. And let's not pretend they don't want to be in the gutter, there's plenty of popular things they could be doing like nationalising utilities or rejoining the single market which have them recoiling in horror. A fluke once in a generation majority, which we know the Tories would have used ruthlessly, being squandered because Starmer has surrounded himself with mean spirited dullards who possess neither the imagination or inclination to grasp the opportunity and change this country for the better. It's infuriating and pitiful to behold.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I'm voting for crabs at the next election

I watched a documentary a while ago about hermaphrodite hermit crabs and they were having an absolute whale of a time. Dozens of them piling on top of each other with both sets of generative organs. Sadly the documentary makers didn't overdub it with some wakka wakka 70's funk porn music with a CGI pimp crab watching on in a brown leather jacket smoking a reefer.

Seriously though the crab people are absolutely right, and it's not just crabs, off the top of my head I know flatfish change sex depending on the water temperature and various shrimps change sex from male to female as they age. Any biologist (marine or otherwise) will tell you the supreme court ruling was scientifically illiterate but sadly I fear we've reached the point where the enlightenment is going into reverse.

Fortunately that only affects stupid humans while hermaphrodite hermit crabs remain free to wear whatever shells they like, have fun, and use the ocean as their unisex toilet.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I know I've been posting less recently but...it's just fucking grim.

'I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth.'*

Well not all of it, an emergency reservoir of mirth remains, and I know wherefore it's being drained.

We wait nearly a decade and a half for at least something which pretends to be good and we still end up angry and powerless as they piss on us and call it rain.

I can't even compare it to last time because for all the faults of Blair and Brown they at least seemed to care about child poverty, well at least Brown did.

*from Withnail and I.