General British politics discussion thread

I don't disagree.

The difference between the Republicans and the Conservatives in the USA and the UK respectively is that the former, when confronted with decline will double down and increase the bias in an already rigged system. The latter will evolve and adapt to its new circumstances like any decent pathogen.

21st century British conservatism is about nothing more than power, influence and wealth. There's nothing else. The culture war nonsense they've been pushing is simply to win the next election. While the party was once a party of government, it's now brazenly the political wing of a cabal of donors and shadowy financiers who are often linked with disgusting regimes abroad such as Russia and Saudi Arabia.

The party is more than happy to recruit anyone from any background who sings from the correct hymn sheet. Bonus points if their ethnicity has political utility. They used to accuse Labour of playing identity politics when discussing the lack of BAME MP's and ministers. Expect them to fully trumpet the fact that they'll have produced the first BAME PM (and party leader) while Labour has yet to elect a female or BAME leader thus proving that they haven't a shred of insincerity.

In fairness, I don't think most Tories care one way or the other about racism. I'd say few of them are racist. They're just more than happy to exploit the BLM movement and similar other movements for short term political gain.

If only they'd invest that time in actually governing.

Anyone touting "common sense" to push an outlandish point with nothing backing it up raises red flags for me. Since the vast majority of the UK is underdeveloped relative to the southeast then of course Dublin will be more expensive.

Feel free to post a source.

So this is merely another of your silly baseless claims. Ok.

I'm not really seeing where this relates to British politics. Feel free to highlight the connection. Otherwise, let's leave this tangent there.