UK Politics

3098 readers

88 users here now

General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

tom

GreatAlbatross

flamingos

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net

Some of you may die (youtube.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by manualoverride@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics

32 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Looks like the Labour Party have finally hired someone under 60 to handle their social media. Excellent, no notes.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Emperor 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell.

[–] HumanPenguin 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Sorta cool but risky. As tories can claim its a lie. IE no one is forced towards the military under their policy(yet).

So the most dishonest party can claim Labour is being dishonest with voters. Something tories are very good at is whataboutism to distract their own actions. Their voters seem tuned to it.

Labour are almost better of letting the voters and party members have their own fun. And unofficially encouraging MP candidates to link.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well it’s pretty funny, and they did literally announce military service and people do die in military service, not a lot of ambiguity there.

I just love how perfectly represented Richi is by the evil and diminutive Lord Farquaad.

[–] HumanPenguin 4 points 5 months ago

Agree fully.

Just dose not seem to match the caution we have seen from starmers labour.

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If the Tories decide to waste their time debunking a meme, I reckon Labour would be pretty happy with that outcome!

[–] HumanPenguin 2 points 5 months ago

Tory voters fell for bacon sandwich bullshit.

And many of the traditional tory safe seat voters. Are very prown to whataboutism as an argument.

The tory party are good at distraction politics.

Some silly distractive comment or mean is almost garrenteed to be what narrows the gap in the last 2 weeks.

Seriosly over confidence in shy tory voters learning their lesson. Really is something to take care over. At 53yo I have spent far far to much time under tory governments that more then 50% of voters hate.

Tories are good at this crap.