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The primary internal opposition to a full-blown youth mobility scheme is coming from Starmer’s top interior minister Yvette Cooper.

Wut πŸ˜’... Yvette Cooper? The fuck?

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[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

8 years and a number of Prime Ministers I'd find embarrassing as an Australian after the referendum, and we're still discussing what the Brexit deal should look like. Great job, lads.

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's as though, maybe, brexit shouldn't have been a thing?

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hindsight is 20-20, I suppose.

...Though in this case, so was foresight.

[–] HumanPenguin 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah apparently foresight is only 51-49 with mutually exclusive ideas fitting together.

[–] Tagger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

51-49 of those people who voted

[–] HumanPenguin 4 points 1 month ago

Divided parties representing a divided country.

In a FPTP political sustem that dose not support compramise well.

We have mostly had around 60% of our voters disagree with the government. As 30 fo 40% is normal to wing 50+ % of seats.

FPTP is crap for democracy but good for larger parties to hord power.

Yet we are far to divided to put replacing it as the main priority.