UK Politics Thread 🇬🇧

[jj23]

Poor statement without context.

Those advisors had just come off a resounding landslide victory.

 

[FAH1223]

Poor statement without context.

Those advisors had just come off a resounding landslide victory.

Starmer doubling down. Calling the Greens extreme.

 

[88m3]

 

[MAKAVELI25]

Starmer doubling down. Calling the Greens extreme.

The success of the Greens is an existential threat to Labor in the way that Reform is not, the Greens can literally destroy Labor as a party in the same way Reform is currently doing to the Torries.

My guess would be that most of them would rather have a Farage Prime Ministership than a Polanski one.

 

[MAKAVELI25]

I wonder if Farage has any incentive$ to say this.

 

[88m3]

I wonder if Farage has any incentive$ to say this.

idk but Iran better hope this isn't Russia's position

 

[DaRealness]

 

[DaRealness]

new UK party: Restore Britain Restore Britain - Wikipedia



pushing even more to the right.

You can tell he's a racist piece of shyt just by looking at him. All his tough guy rhetoric on X is reminiscient of the National Front days, but at least they just straight up said what the deal was instead of using dog whistles.

 

[Heimdall]

HS2 trains could run slower than planned to save money

The government is looking at ways to make much-delayed London to Birmingham railway line cheaper to deliver.

www.bbc.co.uk

This headline honestly had me , oml

What a shambles.

HS2 has been designed to allow trains to run at up to 360km/h (224mph). Department for Transport sources point out that this is faster than any other conventional railway in the world.

Most high speed trains in this country run at up to 200km/h (125mph), while those on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1) operate at up to 300km/h.

This means HS2 trains could not be tested at their intended operating speeds until a bespoke test track, or the railway itself is complete, something DfT sources claim would delay completion of the project by several years and cost billions of pounds.

The alternative, they say, would be to send trains to China to be tested on existing tracks there.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Mandelson faces £300 fine for urinating in street, council says

Lord Peter Mandelson is set to be fined for public urination but the council cannot find an address.

www.bbc.com

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

‘Should it all just be renationalised?’ – your water crisis questions answered

Sandra Laville has been reporting on England’s sewage crisis for years. She answered your questions on the water privatisation scandal.

www.theguardian.com

Sounds serious

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Remains of WW2 pilot found during canal works — BBC News

Sqn Ldr George Morley Fidler was shot down over France on 19 May 1940, historians say.

apple.news

 

[Heimdall]

‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage

Savitha Prakash, a first-generation immigrant running in local elections in Harrow, says Reform UK aims to ‘put Britain first’

www.theguardian.com

“The country decides the amount of net immigration they need to have,” Prakash said. “I wouldn’t be wanting to have more than the required number of people in more than the required number of places. I don’t think we should be misunderstanding work visas as lifetime visas to convert into citizenship.”

Did Prakash have any sympathy for those who want to pursue a life in the UK to live and work, in the same way she had? “I have sympathy for these people who have been falsely shown all the dreams” of life in the UK, she said.

She got a job as a junior doctor in the NHS and was granted a work visa, before being granted indefinite leave to remain (ILR) and British citizenship.

The incongruity, or maybe just hypocrisy, is amazing.

Prakash, previously a supporter of Boris Johnson, said the Tories “forgot what they came to power for”, specifically criticising the party’s failure to implement its plans to forcibly deport illegal migrants to Rwanda.

Just all around

Last year, research by the 1928 Institute – a group of Oxford academics who analyse the British Indian community – showed support for Reform had risen from 4% in 2024 to 13% in 2025. “British Indian support for Reform is significantly lower than that of the general UK population. However, there is a strong upwards trend in support,” the report said.

Thankfully it's still a small minority, but that's still a disconcerting proportion. Reform, really? It reminds me of the man on Gogglebox who stood for UKIP at one of the last elections actually

 

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the guy on the far right is part of the right-wing AFD in germany

Markus Frohnmaier - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Badenoch defends seeking a ban on pro-Palestine marches but not Tommy Robinson ones – as it happened

Tory leader says the protests are ‘not the same’

www.theguardian.com