Didn't they recently remove parental rights in Italy for same-sex couples who had adopted? Like, not just block them from adopting in the future, but went back and retroactively removed those rights from people who had already adopted? Pretty disgusting.

theres only so many hours in the day to report on whats happening, its a game of filling as many of those hours as possible with nonsense

In Denmark the right over there are demolishing social housing on the premise of getting ridding of ghettos and assimilating immigrants. Meanwhile, private property developers are going to replace the social housing, and rightwingers are so gullible and spiteful that they're applauding it, it would be karma for them to suffer a property bubble but not all Danes supported this idiocy.

I think you're right. All these wedge issues that emanate from the Tories /right wing media like ULEZ or culture wars , emotive but meaningless labels like woke or outright xenophobic rants about immigration, are all pure distraction politics to hide the fact that 40 plus years of socioeconomic neoliberalism has been a total failure. It's made us a broken, Brexit backwater. The financialisation of the finance industry , for example, leads to 80% being reinvested in insurance, property or finance. Similarly with corporations, where trillions of dollars are merely steered into share buybacks to enrich shareholders & senior management. Very little is reinvested into productive industry/infrastructure. So we end up with a low pay, low growth, low productivity rentier style economy that benefits the few . There are huge issues with wealth inequality and related issues of inadequate housing , health provision , education , justice, environment , local government, lack of tax reform etc and they're getting worse under the Tories . To disguise all the fundamental problems of this type of rapacious capitalism, where there's been a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary working people to a tiny asset owning class, the Tories / Reform & the asset owning right wing media play distraction politics. This is the only card left to play for the desperate Tories and their paymasters after 13 years of mismanagement. Meanwhile the US pump primes the economy with its IRA economic development funds and the EU has its Green Deal Industrial Plan - billions of dollars of state investment that will encourage private investment to drive future growth etc. We've just had the Tory conference and what are their grand economic development policies in response? To cancel HS2 , the incoherent re-heating of old transport plans , the watering down of net zero commitments, banning tobacco smoking for 14 year olds as they age and further education disruption with the awful title of the British Standard Qualification where maths features up to 18 years old . This hotch potch of policies is risible in the extreme and shows a party totally bereft of ideas other than the status quo.

Even is far right to the crank left 😂

And then said that we deserve better and they're the party of change 😂 If we deserve better, what has Rishi been clowning around at for a year?

They did start the HS2.. And then decided "you know what? if it doesn't complete while we're in power, then it's not worth it" It's reminiscent of the Ugandan politician, Evelyn Anite, that took back the ambulance she had donated because she didn't win the election.

That's not quite right and shortsighted. Without mentioning the cost to the UK brought by the pandemic They have dealt with massive inflation due to the affects of the Ukraine war. Making decisions that have countered the banks' lack of confidence and proving all so-called experts wrong. Now, they are winning that battle. They have reversed the trend of creeping unemployment. The economy has now regrown so much that the British economy is in the top 3 in the G7. It's not bad considering the lies from the labour party and the MSM about what a mess we're in. The British GDP is greater than France and is amazingly better than Germany. With a population of over 84 million people. Rishi Sunak was right to brag about how well the UK is doing their decisions have been spot on. The interest on the national debt has proven to be a problem, and that's why tough decisions have had to be made.

I disagree The Tories have been very active for the last 13 years, they've been causing most of the major problems we face.

@@roderickjoyce6716They've either caused or allowed to happen most of them now I think about it.

At least UKIP had a goal when they were UKIP however utterly destructive and stupid that was. Now the ukippers have taken over the tories they're just purposeless made reactionaries with nothing. No goal or vision for anything.

They achieved there main/only goal you do know that right? You might not think there credible but enough people certainly did my friend. Insults and jibe don't change that. The way people talk about them they don't care as there no longer needed as they got what they wanted. Use your energy on reversing it by the Democratic process not on them

This, 100% this. They can overlook it in cases when it suits them, as evidenced by the LGBT MP’s that they have but when it’s someone off the street the gloves come off.

I think they only tolerate minorities when they support the conservatives.

Isn't that a bit of a bigoted comment? Conservative people are by definition traditionalists. Many are religious (Islamic, Christian, Jew etc) - and as such cannot embrace ideas that go against their religious beliefs. Is it bigotted to be religious? To believe in a greater power and to follow what you believe to be their teachings? In both Labour and Tory party there is a mix of libertarians and authoritarians. The libertarian half of both parties fights for individual freedoms - for the right to live as you see fit and to speak freely. The authoritarian half want to tell everyone what they can and can't think/do/believe.

@@paulroberts7544 If your religion causes you to hold bigoted views then yes, it is bigotry. Also it's bad analysis to say that there are equal wings in both parties that can be labelled simply as 'libertarian' or 'authoritarian'. For instance there isn't really a 'libertarian' wing of the conservative party anymore, all of the one nation tories, who can hardly be described as 'libertarian' in the first place, were kicked out of the parliamentary party, the tories are essentially ukip-lite now.

no i think if she talked logic and sense i think the centre right would accept it

There was always a thin line between those two.

The BNP wanted (want if they're still around) an all-white Britain, so they certainly wouldn't want a brown-skinned PM.

Ukip is BNP in a cheap suit rather than an MA1

Looking from afar, she seems to be one of the few sensible ones.

Zzzz

is that the democratic party that have gone insane ? i must admit i thought trump was horrific certainly at first but the democrats have destabalise the world

So we should have open borders 😂🤪🤡

Quite.Why not call it Advanced English Standard ?

they make me laugh too !

Farage has always been a Tory, look at his financial roots. He's a liar just like them and will happily be Tory leader if he is paid enough.

The UKIP policy for drugs when Farage was leading the party, was that they should all be legalized. Tories still keeping the war on drugs failure going.

To be fair to UKIP, they did expell people when their mask came off in public..

But but but all you Corbyn fanboys told me better to have a true blue than a red Tory and you also told me Hamas good Israel bad

Rory Stewart summed it up fairly well, they'll lose the election and put Braverman in charge. She'll just go full on batshit at the Government from opposition then in 5-10 years the Tories will remember they like to be in power and moderate themselves.

Where do you think the NHS gets its money from?

@@hollyd8989 what's your point? Does it justify the encouragement for people to choose to smoke or not?

I'm 32 and couldn't agree more. I worry so much about the world my little boy will grow up in :(

Equalised age of consent, minimum wage introduced, school leaving age raised, devolution, section 28 scrapped, fox hunting banned, smoking hidden and taxed out of existence, renters' rights increased....all moves to the right?

To be fair young lefties are the most delusional, snotty privaleged brats, just as easy to hate quite frankly. They all think they are on some moral crusade.

Tbh I’d be more disappointed with my kids if they became Tories than if they were in prison.

Ava is a smoker though..always showing her bias..

Glad someone else picked up on that 😅

As child whose parents both smoked heavily growing up...yeah I'm gonna have to disagree with Ava on that point. Second hand smoke sucks ass.

Really hope so , they got the working class vote definitely, keep smashing the snob leftie

eating meat in moderation isn't proven to be a health hazard even low level smoking is , low level alcohol is fine too , as far as passive smoking !

Of course if your on the hard left everyone who wants control of borders is now far right 😂😂

plus all the woke b.s , and kids allowed to be out of control i'd suspect

A closer analogy to banning XL bullies would be the government banning a particular type of cigarette. After all no one is talking about banning all dogs. And people who want a dog companion after a XL bully ban can still find one that is just as loving and loyal, just in a slightly different shape. So the banning the sale of a particular breed of dog is a different level of intervention than preventing an entire generation from smoking tobacco entirely. And while second hand smoke is still an issue, it's still confined to people who spend time near smokers, and there are already laws in place to reduce that significantly. While air pollution is something that affects everyone who lives in towns and cities, which is most of the population. And while you are right that governments can do small things like reducing smoking and large scale things like tackling air pollution at the same time, the current tory party are not. In fact they are making a big deal out of opposing their flagship air pollution policy as too interventionist, while pushing forward with smoking limitations on an entire generation of people. That shows a mismatch in priorities that is fair to point out. Btw I dont smoke and dont much like being around people who smoke. I'm in favour of further smoking restrictions. But because of that dislike, i don't inhale second hand smoke very often. But i like walking and cycling when im able to. And living in the middle of a town and next to a railway shunting yard it is impossible for me to avoid breathing in a fair amount of air pollution

@@WhichDoctor1 really interesting response to read, thanks for taking the time. Sounds like we live in a similar kind of town. I think what I was struggling to understand was the mentality that leads to you condemning the ban that affects you but accepting the one that does not. Your point on the scale of the ban (a subset of a thing vs most of it) is how you can rationalize one ban over another. Though it does beg the question why the ban is exclusively on XL bully's because if it was a really dangerous dog, the police would be using it but they're happy with German shepherds. Although again maybe bully's are hard to train. And as an aside, do you think the scale of the ban actually matters? If you grew up with XL bully's or you recently lost your family pet that was an XL bully, you might not be happy with second best. That's a pretty significant life change for those people. Then for people who can only get nicotine vapes (which maybe are still legal) they might not get the tobacco flavor or smell but they still get the effects. It's a big life change but I don't think people have the same connection to their nicotine delivery system of choice that some do with the breed that's part of the family

He's already got one, hasn't he?

BIG ALAN BIG VIEWS

@@JoshLikesFuzz How did you know I was called Big Al. Hmm

If the tax on tobacco was hypothecated, allocated specifically for the NHS, the the revenue would more than cover the financial costs.

Preaumably smokers are also (unless they are wealthy Tories)

He'll become Tory leader after the election.

@@mrdaveythebaby he could easily be if he so chose. Would his desire for power be outweighed by his fear of actually being responsible for outcomes?

@julianwarr7246 that's why he'll wait till after the next election.

Welcome brother.

Only if you also love beavers and smallholdings.

@@GiveMeBourbon And trains! (I like trains)

@@GiveMeBourbon Fucking love beavers mate. Actually used to live in rural Canada so saw them in the wild - their construction skills are unparalleled.

​@@segue2ant395I'm a trainsphobe, but I hate nonces. Can I still watch?

The truth Is transphobic. I wish they could just call themselves lady boys like they do in Tyland no one has a problem with them because there not down right liers. If someone has a chull there a fella.