they quite clearly stated at the conference that the 'nuclear family' or the desirable model for national conservatism was a union between a man and a woman only

Yes, it didn't take the Tories long to revert to type.

Yeah, they started with us trans, but they were never going to stop there

Australia’s conservative government tapped the trans panic well which they thought would be an election winning strategy in 2022. It wasn’t the only reason, but combined with various corruption scandals, wrecking international relations with France, China and pacific island nations, gaffs, Christian morals posturers being exposed having affairs, utter failures dealing with natural disasters and numerous other scandals (I imagine all that sounds very familiar), they suffered their biggest defeat in decades. They suffered one of their biggest defeats in a very safe very blue ribbon seat where their candidate ran the hardest on transphobia which went to an independent progressive. They ran a transphobic campaign in Western Australia and lost 23 of the 25 seats they held.

​@@WhichDoctor1 It always comes back to Niemoller's poem: "First they came for the socialists,..."

It's because they wanted to play up their Nazi associations.

and us older folks too!

​@@stevenhoward3358 Ew, Old people smell funny

Agreed Robbie, but plenty of us older and middle aged people keep our lively and progressive minds, we don't subscribe to the Mail/Express bitterness and hatred. Politics Joe really speaking for positive Brits!

@Chris D very fair point, glad to hear we're not alone in wanting to see this country be better. Having non-Tory controlled media like PoliticsJoe is a step in the right direction.

It’s a funny thing being one of “Thatcher’s children” - one of the one in six, back then, we populated places like local libraries, where we found out one day we had a higher chance of developing diabetes than getting a job. Now sandwiched between the boomers (and our privileged south-eastern peers of that era) and younger people, it makes me powerfully aware of how squashed we were in our youth, completely unable to speak back. We read about ourselves daily as “dole scroungers” and quasi-criminals just for being “yoof”, we were ALWAYS framed as being “a problem”. We were subjected to a huge amount of monstering and social control via compulsory work-fir-dole schemes. Even the people we worked beside hated us because every workplace was looking at a dozen kids who had just replaced fifteen people made redundant. I myself was made redundant three times before age 21: we were bombarded with propaganda to make us thunk unemployment was always only ever a personal failing. How I wish the internet and access to it had existed then. I believe this country would be very different.

Or its sister tshirt 'restrain yourself😄😄✋✌'

reminds me of a really weird party I was at in the early 80s

Or “restrain me”. Definitely buy that. 😂

I saw Sexual Chaos play live in the 1990's, great band. The support act Restrain Yourself were good too but very different to the main act.

@@frankcarter6427 Dad?

How have you managed to ruin something so beautiful?! I wanted to say taint instead of ruin but seeing BoJo and taint so close together is a horrifying selection of words.

I’m glad it’s been taking off, as soon as I heard the rebranding a couple of weeks ago I’ve been trying to hammer it in, they’re loud and proud Nat-Cs

The N.N.C. (Neo-Nationalist Conservatives) really seem to be an extension of the 1930's religious right-wing Italian Police State of Benito Mussolini.

The Tories never change. They are no more anti-austerity than the LibDems were anti-student fees. Don’t confuse the amorality or indifference of individual Tories with the nature of the beast itself. The Tories have always been socially reactionary, but pragmatic about whatever face they adopt - Cameron was like Johnson, someone who simply had mo convictions about anything. He joined the party as a younger person at a time when it nonstop monstered young people. But Hug A Hoodie played well in docus groups, and so did some sort of green gloss. Remember that? He didn’t care if gay people could marry. If the big pressure had been to make being LGBT illegal again, he would have gone for that.

from what i've seen its tied up with christian dominionism and marrying church and state, so that might work in our favour in the uk, as our christians are less politicised than in the states?

I'm dreading the Eco-Fascists of the 2040's. or even sooner.

​​@@andrewtregoning Yuck. Most of UK society is secular, and absolutely would not want religion to have more of an influence on our politics. Not sure why you think it might work in our favour compared to having a more secular politics...

Helping people to build up stable families, if that's what they want, sounds entirely a good thing to me. Insisting that gay or single people build up "straight" stable families, no matter what they themselves want, on pain of legal and social sanctions, sounds very harmful.

All I could think about that bloke was his wife must be very bored 😂

The inglorious basterds rule apply here. Atleast easier to spot now

The Nat-C party has shown its colours

Next year they'll identify themselves with armbands.

​@@nicodesmidt4034 Pale like a KKK ghost, you mean.😅

​@@ToothbrushMan Or white sheets with cut out holes for eyes.

and don't throw away the key or mail it away, royal mail do lose packages from time to time

Wholeheartedly agree

We've got 5 different flavours of it here in the Netherlands and together with the literal neoliberal party of our PM Mark Rutte and the Christian Democrats who are a Christian neoliberal party they control 85/150 seats in the 2nd Chamber of Parliament and the 1st Chamber of Parliament might be more fractured but it leans rightward. In other words we're pretty f'ed.

define fascist; I'm inquisitive

@@somerandompersonidk2272 A hard right orientated obsession centred around creating a nationalist state where in which they try to return to a glorified reimagined past that never existed and gradually shifting to oppress or even kill those who get in their way.

I refer to them as the Nat-C's

"You should have seem what they wanted to call themselves..."

How is Politics Joe the 'left' ?

Amazing editor. Happy Birthday Sean 🎉 Not sure if he did the thumbnail for the pubcast or not, but it's the best thumbnail I've seen in a long time!

Same

To be fair you could say "Grimes was absolutely lying" and leave it there. Fits pretty much anything out of his mouth. In fact it's such a recyclable comment you could probably use it to offset your carbon footprint.

Tools are good. They fix and make. Only abuse turns a tool destructive. She is not a tool. That is an insult to tools. And the band.

She’s like one of those self repair tools from Apple that cost loads and do fk all

She is a tool in more than one sense.

Agreed. But typical to a tee. Devoid of any irony. Full of arrogance. Endocrinated to the point of being brainwashed.

A hideous specimen, I agree.

Not necessarily the equipment. Sounds like they put the gain all the way up because they are speaking away from the mics, so peaking at the slightest thing, atrocious!

@@SlyLoris1 they need a limiter.

The mics work fine but the sm 7b is a dynamic mic that relies on close proximity. If you run the gain too hot you’ll get a mess. They need lavs or shotguns in this situation. Or at least that’s how I would do it.

Beautiful isn't it?

@@johnking5174 they're the kinda jokes I'm happy with yanno. Stuff that doesn't punch down but is just friendly pokes

Yeah, fix the audio ! A limiter would be a good investeren

I think it's something wrong with KZfaq at the minute (assuming you're getting the same issue as I am). I seem to be getting a lot of pops and sudden sync issues recently with different content across KZfaq. Haven't changed anything this end and it doesn't happen with anything else so can only assume it's the service at fault.

@@YellaChickenOG could be, I have huge differences in audio volume, which is pretty anything when I’m in the car.

The audio is so shit it manages to be both clipping *and* low 😂 perhaps caused by gain staging?

we're working on it. we know it's not good enough, please be patient

Good on you for listening to a left-leaning pod. God forbid anyone's political diet becomes too much of an echo chamber.

@sock think his thing was 'The New Humanum' or smth

Yeah, it's not unusual.

What’s new, pussycat?

@@hellostckhlm1419 lol what?

​@@JHS270694 Tom Jones

Anyone can have a 'University' in failed-state USA. Even Trump had one.

BoJo, Braverman, Badenoch, Barclay, Brereton, etc, would be a good start.