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[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 70 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Who would have thought being a Zionist, billionaire serving, authoritarian bitch would go down badly?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

It's honestly baffling how tone deaf his government is

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

The polls suggest the people want leaders who are more of those things.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i probs would have voted for them in the next election, but then they called me a Jimmy Saville supporter...

so fuck em...

[–] meejle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Probably projecting

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 55 points 3 months ago (2 children)

16% so far. Tax the wealth. Stop funding the genocide. Stop throwing minorities under the bus. Stop sucking up to nonces. Improve people's lives: we can no longer afford circuses, we can barely afford bread.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 30 points 3 months ago

we can no longer afford circuses, we can barely afford bread.

hear hear

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What does nonces mean here? Non native speaker here!

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nonce: child rapist.

Refering to Trump mostly, but our Prince Andrew is also a child molestor. He's walking free and living a life of luxury few of us will achieve.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seems to be an incomplete anwer, see the answer of @waz

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

So (can't edit) pedo or worse/similar.

[–] waz@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It originated from prisoners who have done something despicable, so that they would be at risk from the rest of the prison population: Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise. NONCE.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

Almost none of these abbreviation based etymologies are true - they're made up years later, normally as a joke, and somehow you end up with people spreading them about as facts.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks!

For me it was Number Used Once in cryptography 😁, or in french it's some sort of arch bishop or something IIRC.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

Paedophiles.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The Express is an untrustworthy tabloid, but damn. Fascism incoming.

UK voting intentions, with Reform at 34%

[–] theo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well at least the Greens are polling relatively high. Hope that trend grows now with new leader + possible collapse of Corbyn/Sultana.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those kinds of numbers unfortunately don't usually translate into seats under FPTP, especially with one party so far in the lead.

[–] waz@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

Also, people treat polls as a kick up the arse for the incumbent, then vote on their personal politics come election day. So it’s really unlikely even the lead in the polls will see that in reality.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Behave like Tories and get treated like Tories.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I haven't followed UK politics much lately, but sounds similar to Labour in NZ. Take over from conservatives trying to sell off the country and fuck over the poor, win a mandate super majority election, do nothing or worse, back track on your progressive campaign promises... Get railed in the next election.

And the government that took over is the worst we've had in decades.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Which doesn't explain the reform support.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fascinating from a US perspective. When Democrats perform badly we don't blame the Party, we just scream at the voters for not voting for the Democrats hard enough

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Democrats never fail us, we just continually fail them.

Which is also a sentiment extremely popular on Lemmy.world, the biggest instance.

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

The only thing I'm pushing for from the government now is proportional voting before the next election. Otherwise we'll be in a fascist Reform hell.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who could have thought that saying "fuck you and by the way my opponent is right" to voters would not be a winning electoral strategy

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

yeah, why is he in crisis? this is what he worked for. tirelessly. he's a huge success.

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not surprising. This country is basically a clown show, and he helped build it.

[–] urno@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Seems a bit rough to overlook the previous Tory shitshows?

[–] NoPanko@feddit.uk 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well helped perpetuate it anyway, it has been a clown show for a while now

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 15 points 3 months ago

the amount of people who forget that we had over a decade of Tory rule astounds me sometimes

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago

I thought the Democrats' 27% was bad, but holy fuck.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I have been telling since the start, Keir Starmer is a seat warmer for Nigel Farage.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

So how did sucking at the orange teat go for ya laddie?

[–] obelix@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's shit and everything, sure, but this is The Express. I wouldn't even use the paper to wipe my arse.

[–] G4Z@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Shows his pandering has not worked, wouldn't you say?

[–] Lastangel@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Jesus, are people using the Express as a reliable source of anything nowadays?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I wonder how many Labour PMs we'll see before the next GE.