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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago (11 children)

‘We will help you achieve your mission for growth and improve the prosperity and lives of everyone in this country by making sure that we are with you lockstep in driving growth’

Call me a bleeding-heart socialist, but I'm pretty sure the goal of a heal department should be people's well being, not the economy.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What in the goddamn is a 'goofy slur'?

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago

He must be really thankful for button-up shirts.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

"We need the private sector to build homes. We're not going to be in the business of building those homes directly - we need the construction sector, the housebuilding sector to build those homes." -- Reeves

Can't wait for more build-to-rent housing. I'm sure giving American real estate companies more free reign over our housing system is the thing that will bring rent/house prices down.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 34 points 1 year ago (11 children)

He wants the cabling to be put underground, instead of using pylons. You can disagree with him (I do) but it's pretty disingenuous to say he 'opposes green development' just because he doesn't immediately rubber stamp every policy labelled green.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that just any leftist get together?

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Racism is definitely a huge part of it, but I thinks it's too simplistic to say it's just racism. The problem is the press in this country is dominated by monied interests and has a very incestuous relationship with power, so it's generally in their interests to distract from actual causes of issues and instead to blame immigrants.

To give an example, when Farage blames immigrants for the housing crisis, the BBC reports in it but the companies like Blackstone, who buy up vast swaths of Britain's housing to rent, rarely, if ever, get mentioned.

I don't think most people become anti-immigration because of racism. I think they get into it through some economic problem they're facing that only right-wing pundits in the media mention when talking about immigration. It's just being in anti-immigrant circles exposes you to a lot more racist ideas, ideas the average person doesn't have the knowledge to see the issues with.

I’m not trying to attack your auntie, but she specifically separated immigration from racism, so there’s probably another angle I just can’t see.

No worries. I love her obviously, but that doesn't mean I can't see when she's buying into problematic narratives.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 33 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I met up with my auntie over the weekend and she, quietly, said she voted Tory. Farage also got brought up where she said he was a misogynist and a racist, but she also bemoaned Starmer scrapping the Rwanda policy and he didn't 'have a plan' to stop 'people coming in'. She later complained of not being able to sell her house, because the offers keep falling through.

Really goes to show how people will keep voting for the leopards eating people's face party even after they've had their face eaten.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The fuck is a 'hexbear struggle session'?

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Good news? In this day and age???

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's a common joke to censor nationalities like they're slurs, like 'fr*nch'.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Corn dogs are battered though. A beef wellington is actually a posh sausage roll.

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