Dec 2024
7:14pm, 4 Dec 2024
301 posts
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Yakima Canutt
Id always thought of the lib dems historically as centre rather than left of centre.
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Dec 2024
7:22pm, 4 Dec 2024
11,880 posts
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Fields
Lib dems happy to endorse and and enable austerity for a sniff of power, a step up from their dog murdering antecedents
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Dec 2024
7:58pm, 4 Dec 2024
302 posts
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Yakima Canutt
So maybe they're a bit more right of centre then.
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Dec 2024
8:33pm, 4 Dec 2024
5,749 posts
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J2R
They're certainly not right of centre in our current politics. Maybe their policies would have been 20 odd years ago but not any more.
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Dec 2024
5:22am, 5 Dec 2024
18,204 posts
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jda
theguardian.com "Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds" Only a year later than anyone with an ounce of humanity reached the same conclusion, but no doubt a year or more ahead of the UK govt still. |
Dec 2024
11:11am, 5 Dec 2024
22,483 posts
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Chrisull
No comments on the French government collapse? Centrism pairing up with fascism doesn't go well shocker. Funnily enough you can't win votes with a minority. The left's proposal of Lucie Castets originally was a sensible choice, she is from the mainstream socialist party and not Melenchon's wing, her background suggests nothing so radical as to scare the horses (civil servant and economics lecturer). Refused to accept Macron's pension changes is basically the sticking point. But instead Macron's morally bankrupt centrist clown car decided to side with Barnier, and then when Le Pen predictably blew it up (as she was ALWAYS going to), the French government now stands at the abyss of a complete shutdown. |
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Dec 2024
11:20am, 5 Dec 2024
22,484 posts
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Chrisull
Also a political American assassination of the CEO of United Healthcare. The bullet casings contained the words "Deny Defend Depose" itv.com Quite clearly a reference to the "Deny Defend Delay" tactics that healthcare companies use to not pay out on claims in the US. So common even a book was titled that: amazon.co.uk Be clear I am not defending a political assassination in anyway, and we will need to see the fugitive brought to justice before it can all come to light. But the wording is not a coincidence. |
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Dec 2024
2:27pm, 5 Dec 2024
11,881 posts
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Fields
He is or was the sort of person Streeting wants running the NHS
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Dec 2024
2:45pm, 5 Dec 2024
10,019 posts
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simbil
The French situation has similarities to our own. A lack of compromise when there is broadly a 3 way split is going to end in paralysis. Or someone being in power that can push through policy without a broad mandate, as is often the case here. Seems like much of the West has forgotten how to do consensus politics. Putin and the rest will be pissing themselves laughing. |
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Dec 2024
2:55pm, 5 Dec 2024
11,882 posts
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Fields
Macron would rather work with fascists than the left. He will be for the chop soon
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